Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1947 — Page 2
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re SG eRe vw eweraiar apked " Labor day be made an official state’ It pointed out that while the majority | of the city schools in Indiana ob-|{bama st, reported to police that ne company's financial structure by
serve Labor day by closing, or by while she was taking a bath last increasing the proportion of stock
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Anti-Taft-Hartley Act |P.&L.Co. Asks bron, Creve . Resolutions Swamp ~ State Labor Meeting
Special Committee Proposed to Handle Topic;
1000 at Opening of Federation Convention | ¢35 Million Building
Times State Service { ; TERRE HAUTE, Sept. 16.—An impending flood of Taft-Hartley law resolutions at the 62d annual convention of the Indiana Federation of proposal for a separate resolutions committee just|
Labor today led to a to handle that topic’
President Carl Mullen of the state federation said he would
seek approval by the convention An estimated 1000 delegates were on hand for the opening sessions. Even before the convention got fairly well under way at 10 a. m. about 30 resolutions were ready to be offered, nearly a third of them on Taft-Hartley. There were three other resolutions dealing ‘With Indiana's new utilities anti-strike law. Without exception, the early offerings condemned the two labor laws, Civil Service Setup Asked Other resolutions ready for the convention hopper ranged from a proposal for a civil service setup in the state labor division to a suggestion that the question of statewide daylight saving time be put on the ballot in the next general election. Total attendance at the four-day convention was expected to top 3000
of the separate committee.
plumbers, Hammond, secretary - treasurer; Oscar R. Burch, carpenters, Gary, first vice president; Bert Bartin, sheet metal workers, Evans ville, second vice president; Dustin McDonald, hod carriers, Bloomington, third vice president; Ralph Barry, Lafayette, fourth vice president; © Willlam Avery, electrical workers, Ft. Wayne, fifth vice president, and George Campbell, teamsters, South Bend, sixth vice president,
Speakers on today's program in-
cluded Terre Haute Mayor Vern
McMillan, Judge H. DeWitt Owen of Vigo circuit court, James A. Suffridge, secretary-treasurer of the International Protective Association of Retail Clerks, and Richard James, Indiana lieutenant governor,
as the session opened on the heels of a series of minor union conclaves. The main state federation convention will end Friday night. | A two-day meeting of the state building trades council ended yes-| terday. : Among 15 resolutions adopted the closing session of the construction. trades council were several pledging all crafts of the council to fight the Taft-Hartley labor regula- | tion bill,
Labor Day Holiday Urged
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holiday for all school children.
waiting until after the holiday to
open the fall semester, many coun-
try schools open on that day, OmMcers of the building trades council, elected at the closing session, included: State Labor Commissioner Charles Kern, steamfitters, IndianRE ——
Lafayette Boy Drowns
In Sewer Excavation
LAFAYETTE, Sept. 16 (U, P.) Four-year-old Ralph Eugene Lowther, son of Mrs. John Briscoe, was
home. George, 3-year-old brother of the
(victim, also slipped Into the waler improving transmission and distri{but managed to get out and notify hution {his mother of the that
accident
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Burglar Gets $60 Cash
Miss Gertrude Bach, 2122 N, Ala-
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night, a burglar entered her kitchen door and took two purses, one con{taining $60 and the other a check {for $14.
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PSC to Approve Stock Issue
Miss Norma G. Bauman, R.R.L., chief medical record Mbrarian at
Program Planned
Indianapolis Power & Light Co.| today petitioned the public service! {commission for approval of a plan|
Technology, has been at Methodist hospital since 1944. Bhe did
(to finance part of its four-year, 7 graduile work ‘at ($35,200,152 construction program. | seis Baumann 'S The company asks authority to the University of | (California.
[issue and sell 214.451 shares of its {no-par common stock and 50,000) She is vice president of the Indi-
{shares of preferred stock of $100 ana Association of Medical Record per share value. | Librarians, a former president of The commission will set a public Minnesota State association, and {hearing date and at that time de-~ former secretary-treasurer of the
icide whether the securities will be Northern California association.
offered for competitive bidding or! | whether the company may negotiate {with bankers for sale of the stocks. | '
Plan Two Issues
4 ; inder of th / 0.00 The remainder of the funds) A campaign to stop ¢ ive nol
for construction will come! o i : in Indianapolis, was begun today by Mayor Denny and the safety board. The mayor asked that police ‘ i break ‘up the practice of wedding The company's construction budget for remainder of 1947 parties and Soon Same selcbrunts through 1950 includes $13,820,504 for 9r'YIN8 aroun . naman _ the new White river generating sta- blowing horns and making hilarious tion and its transmission line to "OM€ Indianapolis, The station is located City schools will be called upon about 18 miles southwest of the city '0 aid in the drive. Mayor Denny
{from treasury funds and sale of ad-| {ditional securities at a later date,
{officials declare.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Drive on Excessive: . . | Sale of the stock; the «mms Strogt Noise 0 fis says, would bring approximately $0,-|
Proposed Smoke
spect a company’s books for violations of ordinance, and permit the sealing of heating plants which violate provisions of the measure.
and work is now in progress there, “Ad the parades were not only noisy, but added to traffic congestion since the games end at the|
Program Is Needed
veloping the four existing power Police were notified to keep an) plants: $13,443,860 for extending and ear cocked for motorists who use| their auto horns “needlessly and ex-| systems: $192,500 for Iim-| cessively.” provements to. steam distribution makes the practice a traffic viola-
laneols expansion needs The petition points out that the proposed financing will “improve
New Carlisle Woman Drowns in Hudson Lake NEW CARLISLE, Ind, Sept. 16.! {and decreasing the proportion of —Clara Rink, about 70, of. Route funded debt. to its total capitaliza- 2, New Carlisle, a deaf -mute, {tion ” drowned this morning in Hudson) The company claims the program lake, state police reported.
Rng In _the
William E. Garber Jr. president of Warm Air Heating Contractors
program chairman. Miss Mary Susan Singer is founder. The meeting will be open to the public.
Hinkle to Address Butler Alumni Club
Paul D. Hinkle, Butler univer-
lsity football coach and athletic di-
rector, will be guest speaker at the first meeting ‘of the year of the Butler university Alumni club to be held in the Canary Cottage at 6 p. m. next Monday. Seward Baker, '31, president of the organization, will announce icommittee appointments for the
"|year. Included in the program will
be several songs by Frank Parrish, '29, local radio performer.
Other officers of the club are Mrs.
dent; George Arnold, '37, treasurer,
and Mrs. DeForrest O'Dell, '26, sec-|
association, voiced the organization's retary:
at drowned yesterday in an open, wa-{ Included in the 1947-1950 con. time downtown afternoon traffic is /objections in a letter to the air pol-{ter-filled sewer excavation near his struction budget is $6,620,158 for de- the heaviest.
lution board and Mr. Wolf. The letter declared that authoriz-
ing the inspection of company Di®8 in Lafayette
books for violations is “we believe
ing towards fascism.” - letter Mr. Gs ‘believed Whe proposed ordinance “vests too much power in
the combustion engineer when tf% Shearer had lived in Battleground. power should be vested in the air, Services will be at 1 p. m. to] | morrow {funeral home, Lafayette. Burial will! be in Swanders, O.
pollution board.
Returns for Discharge Pfc. Robert Williams, son of Mrs. !
A present ordinance UgJust, unconstitutional and lean- resident of Indianapolis for
apber_slspbeth hospital In Lafayette. He was
| Williams, 616 E. Miami st, for- B. Shearer; must be cidrried out to “provide; The body, found 100 feet off shore merly stationed at Gifu, Japan, Shearer Jr. Crawfordsville: a sister, payments) in grain transactions.
Former Resident Here
Warren W. Shearer, former years, died yesterday at St. Eliza-
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For the “past seven years, Mr.
in Rogers
& Henderson Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anne & son, Warren WwW.
adequately for electric customers near the Hudson lake casino, was with the 24th infantry division, has Mrs. Edgar McCormick, Pittsburgh, |
prospect for subsequent years.” Carlisle
discharge.
Americans ate an average of 382 and the large load increases in/taken to a funeral home in New returned to the United States for Pa. and a brother, C. M. Shearer,
Minneapolis, Minn,
18" ONE:
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, i847 Drive for Lower Prices - Brings Decline in Grains
Wheat, Corn Off Sharply; Steers Hit 1947 High of $35.75 at Chicago
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today as the government began multiple campaigns to force prices down and still provide food for a'hungry world. bX At Chicago's big union stockyards, however, a new 1947 high 'of $35.75 a hundred pounds: was paid for two loads of prime steers. The National Restaurant association, meanwhile, reported that many of the nation’s eating places had, : been forced to strike high quality dence, R. I., heard pleas for return meat dishes from their menus be- of price controls and an end to cause so few customers could afford’ 8overnment support of farm prices. them. | FOUR: Clinton Anderson, ‘secreThe grain price decline was tary of agriculture, said the Presitouched off by a government re- dem#'s cabinet would meet Monday quest that the Chicago, Kansas City to discuss a price report and a re and Minneapolis grain markets in-|port on the American export pro cease their margin requirements to gram. prevent speculation.
Wheat, Corn Drop | On the Chic.go board of trade, ersonwheat dropped as much as 7 cents. a bushel from yesterday's closing]
* price. Com was off 6% cents + Sidewalk Asked bushel and oats dropped as much] as 5% cents. Minneapolis wheat dropped 3%| The Glenridge Civic league last cents a bushel, with oats off 3 cents. night took action to protect the At Kansas City, wheat declined as lives of* children of the community much as 2% cents. from traffic hazards.
planned a mass meeting for tomor-ajong Emerson ave. at 21st st. which
row to organize a fight against|js fanked by weeds and mud chilrising food prices.
Boston chapter of the National As-|j,ct night to appeal to the property
isociation of Consumers called for owners of the community to lay
i ‘an immediate special Lawrence Turner, '32, vice-presi-|congress to declare “a
session of sidewalks. If this fails, an official
on all further price increases.”
request the street commissioners’ Union Plans Store office to make a crushed stone walk, At Decatur, Ill, union labor! The league passed a motion to
pushed plans for a co-operative re- urge Thomas R. Jacoby, city eugi~ 7 in|neer, to resurface 21st before winter, * in bad, condition, ®
tail store to combat the rise prices. {The street is These were the new points of the residents report. government's attack: Playground to Be Surface Attorney General Tom Ts ol Clark asked the people to report _nrico. fixing. anu. arias. fixing, attempts. to local, a district ‘attorneys. He ordered his’ rn
district attorneys (Evans of the school
to campaign| board had
against price agreements which keep Assured her that the school play-
the cost of living out of range. lground will be surfaced before
TWO: The commodities exchange | Vinter. authority, launched a “pressure campaign” to reduce grain speculations, voted their opposition to a used It asked the nation’s big grain ex- car lot in the 4400 block of 21st st. changes to double margins (downiMembers wishing to express inai{vidual disapproval of the lot were Price Controls Urged |asked to appear at the zoning board THREE: A congressional commit- hearing. at 3:30 p. m. Monday in tee investigating prices at Provi- city hall.
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At Springfield, O, housewives | Because there are no sidewalks
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Mrs. Mary Beamon, president of : the parent-teacher association. of ' stated that William
Members of the civic league also |
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