Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1947 — Page 9
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WAA sale to the Spartanburg nonprofit corporation comparable to the Ft. Harrison setup. “Camp Croft was a swell deal by comparison,” he sald, “It seems to me that Ft. Harrison is so vast that some sort of federal financing will be needed. We intend to study all such avenues, because the federal government agencies have first | priority on the property.”
Camp Croft Split Up The Spartanburg corporation took over only that part of Camp Croft |
which ‘¢#ild be subdivided for re- |
This transaction was WAA's first | test of a new program to speed up| disposal of surplus military installations designed both to provide sorely needed housing and to contribute to the economic development of ‘communities and regions’ ” WAA said. “Under this new procedure, available surplus land, buildings and utilities are disposed of in an average of six weeks as compared with
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GAS — One of the big gas storage holders at the Prospect st. plant of the Citizens Gas & Coke utility | shows that gas is still being produced there despite the strike of utility workers. When the cylinder is empty, | it sinks into the ground in its steel frame. When it is full, it rides near the top of the frame.
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Hugh McK. Landon
Funeral Tomorrow sticking together. They are strikServices for Hugh McK. Landon, |ing for recognition of the union and |;,.o ¢iiity, board chairman of the Fletcher reinstatement of discharged memTrust Co. will be at 3 p. m. tos | *™ morrow at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, %, died Wednesday. He is survived by two daughters, set up across the street from plant
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thanked City Council President | Leroy Dycus, 24, of 717 E. Southern
150 ‘strikers were told by their lead- [John A. Schumacher for his at-| ers they could win the strike by|tempt to seek reinstatement of dis- |
Mr. Schumacher was assured that stoned. the union would ehd the strike at Since today is payday at the once if the utility would agree to|at the Prospect plant. utility, the strikers were told to go |his peace proposal. Mr. Landon, who wes |into the plant to collect pay due for’ awaiting an answer from Thomas work before the strike. Tents were |L. Kemp, utility manager. While police investigated charges Mrs. David P. Sawyer and Mrs. gates and coffee and doughnuts of scattered gunfire and stoning in| shots. Margaret Delaphane, and a son-in-| were being served. * | the strike, vagrancy charges against
Those arrested were Howard Mc-~ | ducked behind a gas main and later Namara, 42, of 1256 W. 33d st.,, the found bullet marks on the main. international representativé; Charles |
Burris, 20, of 349 W. 16th st, and Ex-Hoosier Sought In Bank Robbery
Reports Home Stoned SPENCERVILLE, Ind. April 4 Charles Westmoreland, a non- | (U. P.).—Ralph Knox, a former
charged workers and an election at!striking worker at- the utility, said | resident of Spencerville, was sough:
| his home as 1730 Perkins st. was | hy police today for questioning in the $3000 robbery of the Farmers, Violence was reported last night| & Merchants bank. David Wil- A masked bandit entered the He was still|son of 3260 N. Pennsylvania st. a| bank near closing time Wednesday | watchman, told police he was fired | and robbed Miss Margaret Schaney, | on while making his rounds. Super- | clerk, of the money. He escaped visor William Jolly said he heard | in a car bearing Ohio license plates. A warrant was issued for Knox.! Manuel Rogers, 1711 Northwest- | Sheriff Prank E. Carpenter said he!
bw, Robert 8, Seott, Jv, The union in a formal letter/three union members were con-|ern ave, said he heard five shots' hoped to find him at Dayton, O. |
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