Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1947 — Page 5

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- MONDAY, JULY 2, ne... Housing Lack Worsens

As Birth Rate Soars, Survey Shows

Construction Stepped Up to 20-Year Peak, But Makes Little Impression on Big Demand

A survey of 0 American key cities Showed today that the nation's Housing Situation 1s beGEing wards i the Tace of 3 saring visas birthrate.

survey disclosed that in 14

of the 20 cities there was an actual| |

dha, vel distinct i le That figure did not include the wr thousands demanding quarters better than the hovels, makeshift homes | §

and old army barracks

they are living in.

Statistics of the National Health institute in Washington showed

that the nation's birthrate has jumped 0.5 berths per thousand aver 1039 when it was 17.3 per 1,000. Now it is 26.8 with 1,211,161 babies in the first four months of 1947, The pointed up urgency of the situation when’ set alongside statistics on how many new dwellings are going up. Rent Decontrol Hurts While home-building now is hitting a fairly fast clip, it actually

mands between the two wars were

taken care of at a much faster pace. | §Ted

Construction so far this year satisfied only about 15 per cent of the current shortages. . Further complicating the situation, few cities have enacted new rent control laws to meet the emergency. New York City's freezing of hotel and lodging house rents at the June 30 level may be followed in other communities.

The New York City law, just signed by Mayor William O'Dwyer, rolls back the rent rates for permanent guests in hotels, lodging houses and apartment hotels to the levels of June 30, when the old OPA regulations went off.

To classify as a permanent guest, a person must have lived in the hotel or lodging house for 30 days before: June 30. The survey showed that evictions were running into the thousands, and that the number appeared on the increase. Authorities in many of the cities said they saw no relief for years to come. One said “no

chance of relief until the next de-| : "

Some optimism in the long-range| £ Sl

future was read into an announce-

the| ment in Washington that home| § buflding in the Wrst six months of| | 1947 had reached the highest rate] %

in 20 years.

It was reported that 362,800 new| |

permanent homes were completed

in the half year, a rate just under|

that of 1928 when 753,000 units were built, The 1947 shortage, however, is far ter than in 1928 and the figures did little to ease the present situation, the survey showed. A congressional investigation was in prospect. In Chicago, the birthrate was up four per 1000; dwelling units construction in 1929, 18,837; in 1039, 4397; this year so far 2436. sShortage, 100,000.. One official] predicted no relief until “next depression.” In 8t. Louis, the 1939 birthrate was 16.5 per 1000; today, 30.3; shortage of homes 40,000. St. Louis reported it has no city rent control laws and none planned, Chicago has no rent control legislation, although the city council is expected to act on one this week. It includes hotels. The Illinois state legislature has passed enabling legislation providing for a three-man

board, but the bill has aot been

signed by Governor Dwight Green.

JAPS COMING NEARER TOKYO, July 21 (U. P.).—The Japanese mainland is “advancing toward America” as much as six feet a year in some places, the newspaper Yomiuri reported today.

START OF TRIP — Some of the 45 men ho partic ted in the life raft tests of emergency equipment on Lake Michigan are shown taki ing off from Sheaeygan,

Mass Raft Test Termed

Wis., on the trip.

Rothkopf to Attend Lutheran Meeting

- Edward Rothkopf, Indianapolis, will go as official lay-delegate to the Missouri Synod Lutheran Centennial convention in Chicago.

The convention, which opened yesterday and will close July 29, also will be attended by representatives of 5000 congregations in the United States. Local ministerial delegates include the Reverends W. L. Barth, William H. Bifert, Martin Kosche, H, L. Krueckeburg, Walter C. Maas, Theodore C. Meibohm, Henry Scheperle and Dr. H. M. Zorn. Approximately 100,000 persons are expected to be present at the cen-

tennial rally Sunday at 3 p. m. in{t Soldiers field.

‘Satisfactory’

gathered here after the crossing early Sunday morning, all agreed the journey had been “plenty rough.” Two of the rafts which left Sheboygan, Wis., Saturday morning were forced to turn back shortly after leaving--one because of a leaky walve, the other because a teen-age: passenger became seasick.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Flotilla Crosses Lake Michigan to Try Out

New Type Materials of Army _

LUDINGTON, Mich, July 21 (U. P.).—Authorities said today the life rafts in which 48 men battled terrific winds and frigid waters in a mass raft crossing of Lake Michigan had been proved “quite satisfactory.” Al Redlein, Milwaukee, one of the léaders of the 11 raft flotilla, said he had wanted a rough crossing so we could have a good test.” As the haggard, shivering sailors |<

1! other survival equipment designed

by Officials

The rest of them made it across, the first arriving here at 1:45 a. m (Indianapolis time) Sunday morn. ing, completing the 65-mile trip in 16 hours and 45 minutes. Four of the rafts came In unassisted. Five were towed the last few miles “because they were becoming too widely separated in the choppy water toward the end of the trip.” Brig. Gen. Walter Perk, commanding general of the second air force; Maj. Henry Mulberger of the Wisconsin Air Research association, and aero-medical . officials from

the crossing. Test Pressure Equipment * Gen. Peck said the army wanted to try out “under adverse conditions” the outboard motors which propelled the craft, sun burn lotion, a new “E” type ration which the army described as Letter than

sails for the rafts, radio sets, and

Wright Field, O.,, participated In|

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Give Up in Staying

LINCOLN, Neb, July 21 (U. P). A mother appealed to her young son today to surrender on a charge of murdering 8-year-old Charles Mulholland. , ; ~ Mrs. Murn Lee made the appeal from her home at Dayton, O.

In a message to newspapers and radio stations, she told her son,

{| George, 17: "a are, it would be better for |g

you ‘to give yourself up. There must be some terrible mistake. Mom." Mrs. Lee sent the ‘message to County Attorney Frits Wagener, who had obtained a first-degree murder warrant for her son. Young Lee was seen with the boy a short time before the slaying last Monday. ‘The child's mutilated body was found Tuesday night in the loft of an abandoned barn,

Weds Industrialist, ‘Quits’ Hollywood

a ——————— LAS VEGAS, Nev, July 21. (U, P.)~Blond Actress Martha O'Driscoll, “definitely through with pic tures, the stage and all that” "planned a European honeymoon today with Arthur I. Appleton, 33, wealthy Chicago manu-=-facturer, before settling down in his home town. The 26-year-old actress was Missd O'Driscoll married yesterday in the Little Church of the West, two days after her divorce from Richard Donald Adams, former navy commander, The Appletons will sail to New York through the Panama canal, board the Gripsholm for Sweden,

A necktie had been knotted tightly around his throat.

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Donald Neilsen, 38, skipper of “The Flying Disc,” the first of the

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it wag pretty wavy all the way.”

rafts to reach its destination, said the rafts encountered “13-foot

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