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Street Built By $10 Contributions Left Unrepaired for Seven Years
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1946
Entered as Second*Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
Assembly-Line Housing Projects Pushed By
eed
HINT BOWLES
WILL GET TOP
Truman Plans
Price Deadlock.
By UNITED PRESS Sweeping changes in the
ECONOMIC JOB
Report : ~ Shakeup to Break Wage-
This Bride Is Going the Other Way
To Help Of 2, 700. 00
Soripps-Howard
orphan of the home building as a government ward.
Wyatt are followed; the mass
ventional type dwelling,
Truman Asks Public Fund “ Speed Production
By NED BROOKS WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Prefabrication,
— A . ¥ What about some repairs? . . . Irving Seedorf, A festering health menace. spokesman for Albany st, residents, inspects one
of the many hazards on the street. for garbage and chemicals.
« « + This open-cut
ditch between Albany and Berwyn st. is a catch-all
immediate administration family were reported underway today as a means of
He proposed to the White
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Units by 1948
Staff Writer
rd industry, was adopted today
If recommendations of Housing Expediter Wilson We
produced, factory-built home
will take its place as a full-fledged competitor of the cone
House that 250,000 prefabrie
cated homes be built this year, 600,000 in 1947, He proposed also that the government guarantee &
- wash seeps into basements in rainy
Precinct Committeeman Collected Funds Back in 1938.
By SHERLEY UHL ‘Residents of ‘Albany st., west of Rd. 431, paid a precinct commit~ teeman $10 apiece in 1938 to have their street improved. It was improved in 1938 — but nothing has been done since. Several blocks beyond the city limits, the two-block South side stretch was graveled and tarred by county highway workers. The precinct committeeman, who lived there himself, promised his neighbors the county would maintain the thoroughfare from there on in. Dwellers say they haven't seen another county employee lo these seven years. The chuckholes are terrific. Shoulders have crumbled and caved in to such an extent that two automobiles overturned within the past year. Sewers Run Uphill Furthermore, property-owners lament, the’ area has a WPA-built drainage system which requires water to run uphill, It never does. | Consequently stagnant sewage back-
Seasons. An open-cut ditch between Albany and Berwyn sts. to the north is clogged with garbage and chemicals from nearby factories, consti- | tuting a health menace.
“It stinks . . . I wish you could | print the smell in the paper,” said Irving Seedorf, 133 Albany st.
spokesman for the remonstrants. Passed the Buck Albany streeters aren't piqued
about that original $10 outlay. But they are rankled over uninterested
county officials who, they charge, have booted their complaints from pillar to post.
“My husband called the court-| house about drainage conditions,” | said Mrs. Dewey Snider, 324 Albany |
st. “They passed the buck.” Citizens queried they never bothered to ascertair exact details of the $10 ante in 1938. Mr.. Seedorf estimated “from 20 to 30” chipped in (some on Berwyn st. @lso oiled-coated later). The money was turned over to Jack Walton, former Democratic committeeman in the fourth pre-
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yesterday said |
One of the receipts signed by Precinct Committeeman Jack Walton to get Albany st. repaired.
breaking the wage-price deadlock which has held up settle-
ment of the nation’s reconversion
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the
Staff of the Scripps-Howard N pr
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Don’t look for any immediate relief from confusion enveloping government. | apt to thicken before it lifts. Fumbling on wage-price policy has disclosed :
ONE: Fundamental diff
ministration men on economic policy, and Mr. Truman is
trying to reconcile irreconcil
TWO: Some top men don’t understand complexities
of problem they deal with.
a formula ready, they find another reason why it won't
work for everyone, as in lat cators can’t operate on same
Washington :
Fog is
erences exist among top adables.
(When they think they have |
labor disuptues.
said that President Truman had
Responsible government sources
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.). —C, I. O. President Philip Murray, conceding that the steel industry may have to increase steel prices if it boosts wages, today said he had reached the limit of his compromises on his wage demands. Mr. Murray, president of the C. I. O. United Steelworkers, told the senate labor committee that the Case anti-strike bill .should be scuttled and that management—not labor—“should be brought to bar of justice.”
decided to give the duties of Reconversion Director John W. Snyder to Price Chief Chester Bowles, The two presidential policy..ad~ visers had differed widely on the need for holding down prices, particularly in conneclion with the 19-day-old steel strike, accounting for approximately halt the nation’s, 1,460,000 idle workers.”
Cancels Vacation
Reports of the shake-up came, after Mr. Truman abruptly can-| celed a scheduled Florida vacation | because of what the White op termed “the immediate critical situation involving problems requiring | his personal! attention.” White Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, however, said re | situation did not involve any change in Mr. Snyder's post. “There has been no change in the directorship of the office of war mobilization and reconversion, no change has been . discussed and
e discovery that steel fabribasis as big steel.)
Crisis may yet lead to walkout by Chester Bowles and most key |
men in OPA, on ground that price control is finished.
whether Mr. Bowles can be satisfi lead to similar increases in all ind
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It hangs on ed that steel price increases won't ustry. (United Press reports today
Star Explodes in Atom Burst; o World's Astronomers Excited!
WILLIAMS BAY, Wis, Feb. 9, (U. P.).—An atomic explosion mil- |
CHURCHILL 10 FLY TO! lions of times more powerful ‘than + CAPITAL TOMORROW! the bombs which hit Japan was
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8 (U | P.)'—Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will leave here
"by plane tomorrow at about 10 a. m.
(Indianapolis time) to visit President. Truman in Washington. Mr. Churchill and Col. Frank W. Clarke, his host here, will fly to the capital in the same converted army B-17 in which he returned yesterday from Havana after a week's stay. In a statement to the press Mr. Churchill said that he had accepted President Truman's invitation and would spend “a day or two” in Washington, living at the British embassy.
COOK BURNED
Helen Owens, 1408 N. Olney, a cook in a restaurant at 5113 E. 10th * st., today suffered serious grease burns. She was “taken City hospital.
POPE SLIGHTLY ILL
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 9 (U. P.).—|
Pope Pius cancelled a public audience today as a safeguard against a slight attack of influenza which developed*from a cold.
TIMES INDEX
Amusements.. 5 Jane Jordan.. 14 Eddie Ash ... 8|Ruth Millett. 9 Building ,.. 6, 7{Movies ...... Churches .... 4|Obituaries ... Churchill .... 10|H, O'Brien... 9 Classified .12, 13'Radio ....... 14 Comics ...... 14/Mrs, Roosevelt 9 Crossword ... 5|Robt. Taylor. 9 Editorials . 10|Science. ...... 9 Porum. ....... 10(Sports ....... 8 Gardening ... 7 State Deaths. 12 Don Hoover.. 10/Stranahan’ ... 8 In Indpls..... 3 Troop Arrivals 3 Washington. . 10| World Affairs 10 Inside Indpls. 9 Women's .,.. 11
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discovered today in an outburst of a star observed at the Yerkes ob-
iservatory.
Astronomers throughout the world were alerted to watch for the phenomena, which Yerkes Observictory Director Dr. Otto Struve said might prove of great value in atomic research. The discovery was made by Arman Deutsch, a member of the Yerkes observatory staff. Dr. Otto Struve, director of the observatory, immediately notified Harvard, which serves as the clearing house for world astronomical news, The explosion of the star—known as T Caronae Borealis—was geen
WALLACE INDORSES
CANDIDATE OF ALP.
son He's Demiral Only While It’s ‘People’s Party.’
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Feb. 9 (U. P.).—Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, who indorsed Johannes Steel, American Labor party candidate for congressman from New York's 19th district, said last night he would remain a Democrat only “as long as the Democratic party remains the people’s party.” Mr. Wallace addressed a meeting of the National Citizens Politica]* Action committee. He said:
for the things Franklin Roosevelt fought for, and supporting President Truman ‘in his fight for the progressive legislation that will continue to make the Democratic
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“I dm here tonight still fighting’
,by Arman Deutch, assistant in nel {University of Chicago department] of astronomy, which operates the! Wisconsin observatory. The outburst, under proper atmospheric conditions, may be seen with the naked eye in the eastern sky. It is essentially the same release of atomic energy, although magnified millions of times, which leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Dr. Struve said. He said the blast in the heavens results from the action of internal
of the star at a rate of 3000 miles per second. “Observations made of this new star may be extremely important in the interpretations of stars and the atomic outburst may aid in further atomic information,” Dr Struve said.
gases bursting through the crust]
{to Mr. Snyder's position only, |declined to comment on suggestions |
yon now held by John C. Collet.
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none is contemplated,” Mr. Ross | said.
He | that Mr. Bowles might be given the | post of economic stabilization direc- | me sources suggested that an, arrangement was being worked out which would make Mr, Bowles top an in wage and price policy, with | Mr. Snyder’s office divorced from {this phase of reconversion.
Shift Not Confirmed
Mr. Snyder has been exercising authority over Mr. Collet, and through him, over Mr. Bowles. The reported administration shuffle would turn Mr. Bowles’ job as price control chief over to Paul A. Porter, chairman of the federal communications commission. Mr. Porter formerly worked under Mr.
la Mr. Ross confined his statement | oe
3 LOCAL WOMEN . ON BUS INJURED
Vehicle Skids Over Bank
! Near Peru.
COUNTY ASKS SIGNAL.
AT SUMNER CROSSING
Marion county ‘officials today sent a letter to the Pennsylvania railroad asking that the railroad place “proper safety signals” over the grade crossing in the 1000 block of Sumner ave, The letter, signed by Sheriff Otto Petit, Coroner R, B. Storms and William Boson Jr., president of the Marion county board of commissloners, cited the deaths of five persons at that crossing in the last year and one-half as the reason for the action. The reguest was made to C. R. Uitts, division engineer for the railroad. BOY DIES IN CRASH Albert L. Thompson, 10, Edinburg, was killed yesterday in a truckauto crash near Franklin, state police reported.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Three Indianapolis women were; injured ‘today.
among six people when a bus en route from here to South Bend skidded over an embankment near Peru after a collision. Treated at Duke Memorial hos-| pital, they were Mrs. Marion Gigg: 47, of 1836 Barth ave, Mrs. Velma | and Miss Lucy Kantz, 38, of 1504 N.| Pennsylvania st. Twenty-eight aboard the Indiana Motor ‘bus but only six were injured, none seriously. The bus, driven by Earl Newman, 28, Peru, one of those injured, skidded down a 15-foot embankment south of Peru after a collision with an auto driven by Phil Banner, Peru. The bus driver told South Bend police he was unable to avoid hitting the passenger car after the auto passed the bus, then halted ‘before turning left off the highway. The bus hurtled onto the berm, then skidded down the embankment landing right side up. Some of the passengers continued on to their destination, while others were returned to Indianapolis. §
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| pairs in December,
v, { jumped from 7366 dozen pairs in
Minor, 38, of 3630 N. Meridian st., | vear,
go to E
DEMAND SHIRT ~ HOARDING END
U. S. Officials Al Also Act Nylon Shortage.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U, P).— The government took another step | to relieve the serious clothing shorttoday when it “cracked down’ manufacturers withholding | scarce shirts and nylons. The civilian production admin|istration ordered a group of nylon hose and shirt manufacturers to {reduce their swollen inventories to ‘a practicable minimum.” Until they do, the agency added, they must halt manufacture and they will not be permitted to accept delivery on yarns or fabrics which also are in short supply.
Public Promised Scarce Items CPA promised definitely that its anti-hoarding order would mean “that the public will receive more shirts and hose and other scarce apparel items sooner.” The justice department previously started proceedings against certain clothing manufacturers suspected of contributing to the clothing | shortage. OPA, meanwhile, has relaxed its, restrictions somewhat to encourage shirt production. CPA said its investigators found that two Pennsylvania nylon°manu- | facturers alone were holding a total of 2,100,000 pairs of stockings on Jan. 31, One had shipped only | 7716 pairs since it resumed’ produc- | tion. “These went to stockholders, employees and friends. | At the same time, thé National] of Hosiery Manufacturers reported in New York that 72,000,000 fewer pairs of stockings were shipped last year than in 1944 December hosiery shipments | totalled 9,106,806 dozen pairs as compared with 10504574 dozen 1944, production,
Nylon however,
December, 1944, to 1,551,000 this
{HOUSING PLAN
market for the manufacture ers, buying the units if they were not disposed of through
Mrs. Ruthmary Ivens and son Verne. , . , This war bride wants to
STUDIED HERE
Realtors Noncommittal,
By RICHARD LEWIS Veterans’ and labor groups here today hailed President Truman's $600 million dollar program to get the nation's homeless veterans housed within two years as one way out of Indianapolis’ critical housing shortage, - City-county realty groups plunged into an immediate study of how the plan would affect Indianapolis, Seeing it “loaded with dynamite” for private enterprise here, their spokes{men said they wanted to give the President's proposal plenty of study before making comment, Hostility to Plan Seen Privately, however, some realtors viewed the proposal which would
Hailed by Veterans, Labor; of
normal channels, A $200 million outlay of federal funds would assist the new industry
ities,
place rigid price controls on the realty market with open hostility. {They resented, in addition to the
industry. Mayor Tyndall said he saw no | immediate relief in the plan for the city's desperate situation, “What we need is something right now,” he said. ‘Can’t Splve Overnight’ The mayor—who said he has taken a keen interest in the househunting problems of ex-G. I,'s—sald the city’s emergency plan to house 450 families in Stout field barracks end abandoned prefabricated units once used for defense workers was “coming along.” “This is something you can’t solve overnight,” he said. Meanwhile, the number of veterans roaming the city for homes and combing the classified ads was mounting weekly with accelerated discharges pouring thousands back into Marion county and Indiana. The problem was illustrated statistically by the Junior Chamber of Commerce's survey which showed immediate need for 13,000 new fam-
ngland, y=
| Asks Padsage For England To Join Mate
ALL OVER THE WORLD war brides are trying to obtain passage to the United States, but Indianapolis has a war bride who is trying to obtain passage the other way—t0 her adopted land, England. She is Mrs. Ruthmary Ivens, 2321 Broadway, who last week made application to the British consul. in Chicago for visas for herself and her. 3':-month old son, Verne Trevor Ivens. ~ » n IN JANUARY, 1943, Mrs. Ivens, | formerly Miss Ruthmary Woodrow of Hymera, Ind, met Corp. Clarence Ivens in Algiers. She was a WAC, He was a British soldier. Both worked in the same office in Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters. Almost two years later, on New Year's Day, .1945, they were married by an American chaplain in Caserta, Italy, to where the headquarters had moved. Mrs. Ivens returned to the Unit-
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Adm. Spruance to Visit Indianapolis
MONROVIA, Cal, Feb. 9 (U.
meee vee LOcal Men in South America
See Vast Markets for U. S.
Times Foreign Correspondent BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 9—The| first post-war trade promotion cavalcade from the United States is| learning that South America’s import needs are extensive and im~ mediate. Sixteen Indianapolis business executives, stopping here on a 1600 |
By ERNIE HILL
say that they have been impressed | with shortages of many types of retail goods together with the vast] purchasing ‘power that has accumu-
lated through the war,
mile swing around the continent,| along the lin
They also have been struck, they say, by the need for speedy delivvery of U, 8, goods to cultivate permanent markets in competition with |other export countries, E. R. Krueger, spokesman for the group and president of Zimmerman paper products -of Indianapolis, says that touring business executives
Sunday to assume his new duties on duty in Italy. The admiral, who recently rea leave to England about March | at home with his family. Mrs. when he arrives, will visit at Indianapolis, their was graduated from Indiana while before joining the WAC in WAR ON CAPITALISM SHE ISN'T particularly worried ing a two years’ supply of cloth- : LONDON, Feb. 9 (U, P.).—Prewomen, she is virtually stockingond world war began as a result of extreme capitalism. election since 1937. He went on time). For more than five minutes ing. Russian elections, including the war, have received a reception all “The ‘question we are always and imperialistic forces, in turn as
P.) —Adm. Raymond A. Spruance will leave here by automobile ed States and was discharged in | as head of the naval war college May, 1945. Her husband is still at Newport, R, I., he said today. . ua linquished command of the PaciMR. IVENS expects to receive | fic fleet at Honolulu, is resting 1, so Mrs. Ivens is in a particular Spruance will accompany him on hurry. She wants to be there | the drive east, during which they Born in Hymera, Mrs. Ivens | old home. attended high school there and 2 : State Teachers college in 1941. STALIN BLAMES 0 She taught school for a short |W : October, 1942. ~ » » about the strict rationing in Eng- | : land, she said, since she is tak- Premier Gets Tremendous ing .. . all but one item. Like Ovation at Broadcast. millions of other American mier Stalin said in a broadcast less, from Moscow tonight that the secthe development of economic and imperialistic forces prompted by Stalin addressed the Soviet Union on the eve of the Russians’ first the air without previous warning shortly before’ noon (Indianapolis the transmitters blared applause and cheers before he began speakAt the outset he recalled the “tremendous events” since the last “The war began,” he said, “as a result of the developing of economic asked,” he said, “concerns how soon |8 result of extreme. capitalism. The deliveries of goods can be rushed new development of capitalism
| |p passes through crises and catas(Coniitlupt on “Page p—~Column 4) trophies,”
added onnisui, the. spectacle. of | milion government subsidy of the um”
for demounting, moving and reas sembling 100,000 temporary war houses and barracks and for using 50,000 trailers as emergency dwells ings, . In all elements of the program, veterans would have first choice in buying or renting the homes, 20 Per Cent of Cost The subsidy proposed for the pre fabrication industry would represent about 20 per cent of the estimated
$400 million proposed as premiums on conventional materials repre sents about 10 per cent. Previous estimates of the number of prefabricated units which could be produced this year have ranged fromr 125,000 to 200,000, but the
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100 STUDENTS HURT IN GAIRO AIRO RIOTING
‘Mobs Demand mand Withdrawal Of British Troops.
CAIRO, Feb. 9 (U, P.) —Af least 100 students were injured in a bats tle with police today during demons strations demanding immediate withdrawal of British troops from Egypt. ; One student was reported killed
in a fall from a bridge during he clash with police.
ing “evacuation or death” and “down with = England” paraded through Cairo streets, A large body of them fought a battle against police on the Abbas bridge connecting the university suburb of Giza with the center of Cairo. Police cornered off both ends {of the bridge while marchers wers fon it. A police communique said thas:
istudents attacked the Abbas bridge’
|as it was about to open for river traffic ‘and-police were forced to ins tervene. ; ,
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The living requirements of many people have changed consider ably in this reConVersion —Want to trade city for a farm . . . ér swap & home for a bungalow?
deat ot yr way to el Here is a typical example:
cost of new type materials. The
Several thousand students shouts a
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