Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1946 — Page 1

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LANDLORD, T00 Evictions Mount, Owners Closing Apartments’ as OPA Protests.

By RICHARD LEWIS The big squeeze is on.

Not that the veterans are squeez- :

ing into homes. They are being squeezed out of places they were lucky enough to find. “Strike” sentiment is growing among Indianapolis landlords who find themselves “squeezed” between OPA rent ceilings on the one hand and mounting costs of maintenance and repair on the other. Four landlords so far have informed The Times that they plan to vacate a total of 41 dwelling units. They report that other owners are following suit in protest against rent ceilings. Sharing Plan Fails Meantime, the rental vacancy rate continues at zero against the mounting pressure of a steadily increasing army of home-hunters, The share-the-home - program, which was promoted to get veterans a temporary place to live, has flopped,

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according to the experience of Homes Registry which handles the requests. x OPA finds the displacement of renters increasing as dischargees keep flowing back into town. Since last July, OPA noted 1032 rent violations, of which 25 to 30 per cent concerned veterans as victims, Evictions Mount

These grew put of 5009 tenants’ complaints, A total of 590 violations were rent overcharges and landlords’ failure to make refunds. During 19456 up until November, OPA handled five eviction cases per working day, As redeployment speeded *up in November, evictions rose ‘to seven per working day; to 10 a day in December; to 15 a day in January and to 20 a day so far this month. Thus the average number of monthly evictions jumped from 1300 in 1945 to 1700 in January, 1946, Reasons for Evictions a mal 1. Returnin fn who ownéd homes before the war want those homes back.

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2. Landlords want to house serv-

3. Some veterans rented at prices over their heads in desperation and eventually found themselves unable to pay. : 4 Striking industrial workers ran short of rent money. : 5. A minority of landlords who feel that the present situation is too good to pass up are trying to evict, then rerent, usually to a vet-; eran, at a higher rental. Rent control has blocked this in most cases! but in some, desperate tenants are slipping the owner a “bonus” on the side. Landlords on Strike Weary of rent control, landlords | who are either “striking” or plan include: C. E. Booth, ‘875 Middle dr. Woodruff Place, who already has closed three apartments he formerly rented, He says he cannot afford to maintain them for rental at OPA price ceilings. His vacancy sign, however, is still out. In the seven weeks his apartfents have been closgd, more than 300 prospective tenants have trooped in to see him. Arthur Carte, 2651 N. Harding st. Mr. Carte is suing for evictioh of 13 tenants in apartments at 2653-59 N. Harding st. and 1371 W, 27th st. His reasons are the same as Mr, Booth's, He intended to evict his tenants by March 15, but doesn't think he’ll meet that deadline now.

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EARLY-RISERS GET BUILDING MATERIALS

PORT HUENEME, Cal, Feb. 28 (U. P)~A few hundred earlyrisers who headed 5000 prospective buyers at a “department store” navy surplus sale today oarted off $3, 000,000 worth of building materials. Thousands of others were left empty-handed when the stock. sold out in two hours yesterday, and " planned to return for future sales of $50,000,000 more of surplus stock. Lumber, nails, doors, cement and other building supplies were displayed in the naval base yard with price tags and minimum and maximum amounts purchasable. Most buyers bought all that was allowed.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements ..20 Jack Kafoed., 15 Around. U. 8, 10|Ruth Millett,..15 * Around World 2|Movies

State Deaths, 12 Bob Stranahan 22

G. I. Rights...28

Hargrove ..... 15 | Troop Arrivals 11 Don Hoover ..16 | Washington ...16 In Indpls. .... 3 Whipple ..... 11

Inside Indpls...15| Women's. . 18, 19

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This 10-unit apartment building is to be vacated.

C. E. Booth . , . he heads new Landlords’ and Tenants league.

Apartment Buildings Going

at 2653-59 N.

Place, has been closed seven weeks

Out of Business

This three-unit apartment building at 875 Middle dr, Woodruff

FORECAST! Partly cloudy and ‘warmer

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by Mr. Booth.

BILLINGS UNITS T0 AID-HOUSING

Buildings ‘Ordered Con-

disclosed yesterday. The disclosure was made in reply to a request by William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, that the war department authorize this step. Mr. Book's request was made in behalf of the| mayor's emergency housing committee. . Mayor Tyndall pointed out at a meeting of the housing committee yesterday that this would free living space now used by these families for veterans and their families, In addition, the committee was notified by telephone late yesterday that 75 prefabricated homes on the site of the Kingsbury ordnance plant near South Bend are now available for the city. The committee must move these dwellings to Indianapolis, Then it will sell or lease them to veterans through a nonprofit corporation to be created for that purpose,

House 373 Families

Meantime, committee membe said they had been informed that barracks they have earmarked as emergency veterans’ housing at Stout Field will become available for relocation on city property tomorrow, as scheduled. Previously, some delay had been anticipated, i The committee estimated these would house 373 families. Approximately 77 more families would be housed in ,Quonset huts to be erected on city park property as soon as the committee can get the huts. ; Walter Evans, committee chairman, and- Mayor Tyndall jointly issued a plea to concerns which purchase residential properties and wish to clear the sites for commercial or industrial uses to preserve the houses if possible. In some cases, they said, houses could be moved to other sites intact, thereby preserving them as dwelling units during the present | emergency.

MICKEY WALKER’S 3D WIFE ‘GETS DIVORCE

NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Mickey Walker, former welterweight champion, deserted her in . 1942 telling her that art was his “only love,” Mrs, Eleanor Bell Walker, third wife of the pugilist, testified in djvorce court yesterday. She was granted a preliminary decree, $40 a week alimony and custody of their

0icontrols over the real estate indus-

Md uty ~Arhan or ecutive nt o "| the" 'Nationn! “Association of - Real Estate Boards.

T1to do is to help the veteran him-

6-year-old son,

G. |. Housing Grants Urged In Local Talk

A proposal to grant veterans a maximum of $2500 each for houspurposes as a substitute for

ing purpc further extension of governmerital

He told members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, at a luncheon-meeting in the Washington hotel, a bill incorporating | this proposal was to be introduced in congress today or tomorrow. The Washington man lashed at further governmental controls as “typically bureaucratic.” He referred specifically to the pending Patton bill, which he termed “tinkering with the teal estate industry.” The Nelson advocated bill would provide an outright grant of $500 for each veteran wishing to buy residential property. For each months service above six, an additional $50 would be added, 'the maximum amount being $2500. In order to receive the housing funds, a veteran would be required to waive his rights to educational benefits, the bill further provides. “Instead of twisting the economy to fit the veteran, the sensible thing

self,” Mr. Nelson declared.

CLOUDS TO ROUT SPRING FEVER HERE

Ideal Weather Is Enjoyed in Midwest Today.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am.....2 10am... 34 78. m.... 2 tam... 3 8am..... 29 12 (Noon)... 40 Sam... 31 ipom..... 40

Another epidemic of spring fever swept Indianapolis today as the temperatures climbed under brilliant sun. The fever probably will be short lived, however, as the weather hureau promises increasing cloudiness for tomorrow. But for a day spring weather was holding forth here, over the plains states and the Midwest. However, way up in Wausau, Wis., the residents still are heaping coal on the fire as the mercury registers 11 below zero.

MEETS MISSIONARIES WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U, P)). —President Truman today met 31 Baptist’ "missionaries here for “World Mission Week” from five consinents.

By NED BROOKS Seripps-Howard Stall Writer

CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—~The homebuilding industry prepared today to give qualified indorsement to the government's housing program, withholding its approval of such) disputed proposals as subsidies and! price-fixing, | Directors of the National Association of Home Builders scheduled a final meeting with Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt, .author of | the program to produce 2,700,000

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Builders Plan Limited O. K. Of U. S. Program for Houses

A policy statement to be issued later is expected to endorse Mr. Wyatt's goal as well as preference for veterans in buying or renting new homes and continued ailocations of materials to homes costing! $10,000 or less. Portions of the Wyatt program which the directors are expected to op are: ONE: Authorization for $600 million in government subsidies of “premium payments” to stimulate production of scarce materials. The

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DRINKING FOR AUTO DEATHS

By Reporting Licenses Of Drunken Drivers.

(Read “Traffic Deaths in U. 8, Mount,” Page Five.)

By LARRY STILLERMAN

Indianapolis citizenry was urged today to follow a three-point program designed to curb traffic deaths caused by drunken driving. In a statement to The Times, William H. Remy, safety board director, called upon motorists and pedestrians to follow these four rules: ONE: Do not drive while under the influence of liquor. TWO: Report to police the license number of any car driven by an intoxicated person. THREE: Back. the opinions of courts and the efforts of police in this effort fo stop automobile fatalities. :

Public Opinion as Aid

“It will take an aroused public opinion really to stop deaths due to drunkenness,” Mr. Remy as-

IN SENATE RACE

Conference With Sherwood Stirs ‘Rumors,

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staft Writer WASHINGTON; Feb. 28—A conference on’ Capitol Hill between Rep. Chacies A. Halleck: (R. Ind.) and Elmer “Doc” Sern, Indianapolis, caused a of political speculation here. Chief rumor, reported by Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind), was that Mr. Halleck may be “drafted” for the senate. Senator Willis is seeking renomination and now is openly opposed only by Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville “radical,” Republica. The latter also reported that he had heard the “Halleck for Senator” rumor. But “Doc” Sherwood protested that his call on Mr, Halleck was one of an old friend and that since becoming Americanization director of the American Legion he (Sherwood) is “out of active politifs in Indiana.” Mr. Halleck’s only political gesture thus far has been to announce, in a letter to 2d District Chairman Ira Dixon, that he will seek renomination for congress there. * Fx

Message from Gates?

Since “Doc” Sherwood has always been ye to his ears in politics, it was considered a possibility that he had brought some message to Mr, Halleck from Governor Ralph Gates. Mr. Halletk’s name has been outstanding among those mentioned as the next Republican national chairman, ' “I have heard that Republican State Chairman William E. Jenner, has decided not to make the senatorial race and Mr. Halleck will be brought out as a last minute substitute at the convention,” Senator Willis said in commenting on the Sherwood visit, “If I am to lose my seat at the Republican convention this year, I would rather see it go to Charley Halleck than anyone I know. I have been for him for the national chairmanship. But I understand be does not want that.” Mr. LaFollette commented that if his colleague in'the heuse-is to be the senatorial” Tominee it conflicts with predictions Mr. Halleck has been making about the Republicans winning the ‘houses. Might Be Speaker “For if the G. O. P. does win the house, Mr. Halleck is sure to be majority leader or even speaker of the house,” Mr. LaFollette said. Both Senator Willis ana“Mr, LaFollette have had “brushes” with “Doc” Sherwood in the past. During his last campaign Mr. LaFollette at one point charged that Mr. Sherwood was plotting to take away his seat in the Republican primary in the 8th district. “Doc” was then

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PERON LEADING IN ARGENTINA VOTE

BUENOS AIRES, Feb, 28 (U, P.. -~Fragmentary returns from five small provinces today gave Col. Juan Peron a slight lead in the Argentine presidential race, Peron had wiped gut the JAmo-te~ one advantage registered for Dr. Jose Tamborini in the first few ballot boxes counted. , Returns still were too limited to iriticate a national trend. When counting was adjourned early today Peron had 22419 votes

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to Tamporini's 21,741. Approximately 3,000,000 votes were cast.

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“With the continued co-operation of the municipal courts in their {vigorous punishment of drunken {drivers arrested by police, a sharp {decline in traffic deaths will be ‘noted within 60 days,” he preIdicted. * “When I say sharp decline, I don't mean 5 or 10 per cent reduction,” he averred. *I mean a 50 per cent reduction of traffic casualties.” — far this year, 14 traffic deaths

tests have indicated that either the driver or the pedestrian or both were highly intoxicated. Although the police have no notice that a driver is intoxicated until after the accident has occurred, they are particularly watchful for evidences of drunken driving, Mr, Remy stated. “When the public wakes up to the fact that it is the drunken driver and drunken pedestrian that cause high traffic death: ratés, then we are on the road to improvement,” he said.

Would Re-route Trolleys Admitting that nothing can be done immediately about the city's antiquated traffic light system, Mr. Remy said, “Accidents are not caused by congestion of trafic.” To reduce downtown traffic he did propose, however, rerouting of trolleys and streetcars in’ the downtown area, calling for & “loop” area with the street cars touching only the rim of the downtown area. “Most persons today walk séveral blocks to board their ‘cars’ and avoid passenger congestion at downtown street car stops he pointed out.

the bus swung in a lbop from Capitol ave. to Delaware st. north of the Monument circle,” he said. He further advocated that only street cars traveling east and west be run on Washington st. to decrease traffic tie-ups on the 1ational highway,

PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS PEANUT OPERATION

PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. 28 (U. P.). —Two-year-old Martha Hopper, rushed here by plane from Winslow, Ariz, today was suffering from pneumonia, contracted after fragments of a peanut were removed from her bronchial tubes. Surgeons. at a Phonix hospital used a bronchoscope to extract the peanut. The job was complicated because the fragments had to be removed separately, The haby and her mother, Mrs. J. G. Hopper, were flown here by plane which was 25 miles out of Winslow on its way here when it was. ordered back. Oxygen equipment was loaded aboard the plane to treat the baby in mid-air in an

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i al jing percentage of ‘fatalities scien-|every da; tific

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A friend on the picket line , ing in the picket shack outside the

By VICTOR Likening their strike to the day

picketing General Motor plants.

“We're going to stay out until we win if it takes another 100 or 200

picket line 53 days, The average is 35 days. But Mr. Flint's determination is obvious or he wouldn't drive 100 miles a day to walk the picket line. “Sure we all want to go back to work but we won't until the corporation accepts President Truman's fact findings and wage-price policy,” said Gene Obert, plant picket captain and vice president of local 933. “It is more than just a strike,” another picket said. “We are carrying on the long, old fight of labor for better conditions. What we

Mascot of the Picket Line

Roy C. Flint (left to right) play with their mascot,

Strikers on 100th Day Aim To Hold ‘Like Stalingrad’

United Automobile Workers (C. I. O.) today entered the 100th day of

“Stalingrad held out a long time,” one local striker sald outside the main gate at the Allison Maywood plant. tough to crack for management as the Russian lines were for the Nazis.”

« « Ancil Dedds, Gene Martz, Allison Maywood plant,

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“And we can be just as

gain now will be passed along to other generations. It is for our children as much as for ourselves.”

fatter, But if they give in now, they will have lost everything, they say. “But none of us is starving and nobody is going to lose his home. We have money in the treasury for

of a stray dog which has been patroling the lines with them. But ‘that is about the only di-

observed with a beer and sandwich party *at the headquarters of local 595.

Returns From Coast to Pay Debt to Law

At 1:30 a. m, today a neatlydressed, 29-year-old man wearing % snap-brim hat walked into police headquarters and surrendered himself after a year of freedom. . Thus ended the latest chapter of a depression era saga that began with an Indianapolis filling station holdup in 1937. In that year, a young man from a respectable near North side family picked up a gun and violated the law for the first time in his life. He took $22 in the gas station stickup. Later, following his arrest, he received a stiff 10 to 25-year sentence in Marion criminal court. This was commuted to 10 years,

Violated Parole

In 1043, the one-time offender was paroled. And in December, 1944, he violated that parole by taking a train to California. A 4-F in the draft, he became a ship welder in a Richmond (Cal. shipyard. On several occasions he considered giving himself up to California authorities. But each time, the chill revulsion against prison walls he'd acquired at Pendleton reformatory dampened his

ge. Finally, he returned to Indiana, arriving in Indianapolis yesterday. He went to the home of his sister,

effort to stave off pneumonia.

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i "By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—When the “czar” of the union suit industry, himself, cannot get a pair of ‘drawers, then, my semi-naked fel[low citizens, the underwear crisis is at hand. It. is heartening to report in the face ot this desperate situation that {Senator John H, Bankhead of Alabama is’ an honorable’ man, He looked with covetous eye upon the “czar’s” old cream-colored drawers. That IT will admit, but Senator Bankhead did not confiscate those

Underwear 'Czar' Has Only 4 Ragged Pairs for Himself

their softness, but he gave them back. ; “I thank you, senator,” breathed President Roy J. Chaney of the; Underwear Institute of America as he folded his drawers and put them back in his suitcase. The sandy-haired Mr, Chaney

role before the senator's agricul-

ture sub-committee to protest what he claimed the OPA’ was doing to the union suit business. Ruining it, that's what, he cried. He said he could prove it. His ‘baldish

drawers. He held them, he fondled

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MILITARY STRICE

Indian Troops in Two Cities Join Movement.

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miles northeast of Bombay, 300 Indian soldiers went onsstrike to protest the sentence imposed by the British on an Indian officer of the Japanese-sponsored Indian national army. They also proclaimed sympathy for the defeated navy mutineers in Bombay.

Lahore, led to the stoning yesterday of the car in which Governor Sir Bertrand Glancy was riding. Sir Bertrand escaped uninjured. Royal Indian navy seamen marched through the streets. The strikers in Jubbulpore carried Congress party and Moslem League flags in a demonstration march. Frightened merchants closed their shops, thinking a revolt had begun. The strikers pledged themselves to non-violence.

WATSON IS NAMED WORKS BGARD HEAD

Retired Link Belt Official Succeeds Deming.

James 8. Watson today was| named by Mayor Tyndall to succeed Sherliec A. Deming as works board president after Mr. Deming asked that he be allowed to step down to vice president because of| ill health. Mr, Watson, 70-year-old retired vice president of Link Belt Co., will be assuming his first public office in the city since he came here from Philadelphia in 1921. He is

assistant brought|ter E. Hemphill, who resigned to

a Republican. Mr. Deming is taking the position vacated last week by Dr. Wal-

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BOMBAY, Feb. 28 (U, P.).—The [production speed also flurry of strikes and demonstrations | ject to discharge.” 3 by Indian military personnel and| The union wins 18 cents a British rule, | WAge increase, as touched off by the Bombay riots,|POunced, bringing average Ford broke out in two additional cities| Wages to $1.40 an hour, and the .

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SEIZE 2 SUSPECTED OF MOLESTING GIRLS

City police have arrested two men as suspects in the recent molesting

A bB4-year-old man was srrested yesterday afternoon at k chuseits ave. and Noble st. after a passerby had informed police 3 man had attempted to induce an 1le

year-old girl to go for a walk. : Mrs. Harriet Norton, 942 N, Alabama st, a drug store clerk, told police the man had been seen talk. nt to several Send itie. One <1 ran into the store, ‘ Another man, 45 years old, was

arrested for vagrancy av ing in connegtion with child tations near Rural Two 12-year-old girls lowed by a man. Fifteen molestations reported this month.

City Conveniences Plus Country Advantages Are oh Combined in the Suburbs :

The growing tendency for urban dwellers to get away from noise, dirt and the traffic danged ldren on city streets If in the ever-growing larity of suburban homes od all modern features.., = |