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Property Loss In 6 States

Priests Flee College Before Flames

BOSTON, Oct. 235 (UP)—Fanned by a southwest wind, fresh flames through Maine today,

There New Esgland for relief from fires that have taken 20 lives and caused perhaps $40 million damage. Wrapping their robes about their waists, 10 Franciscah priests and students at the Franciscan College!

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they direct in Biddeford, Me., joined firefighters in battling a blaze that) already had forced the evacuation, of 110 students from the Stella Maris Convent. Flames were within a quartermile of the buildings and there were unconfirmed reports that several hundred persons were being driven

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- Death Toll 20 As Raging For est Fires

Truman Launches War on Inflation

Also Calls for New Foreign Spending By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct, 25 — Administration supporters claimed Round 1 of the high price battle today as commodity markets sagged under President Truman's demand that Congress combat inflation and the high cost of living. He plans

people's incomes. The President told a radio audi ence last night he would propose to the special Congress session convening here Nov. 17 a program for dealing with living costs, inflation and high prices. He said com-

KINDLING — This abandoned tenement on N. West St., two blocks from the State House, is one of downtown's prime fire hazards. Doors and window are gone.

toward the sea at Biddeford pool by the insatiable flames. | Meanwhile at Falmouth, Mass. on Cape Cod a three-day-old fire got out of control and swept down on the town on a four-mile wide path. Sane : Nears Rail Station Flames were within a half-mile of the railroad station, garages, a factory and many homes. Numerous summer cottages were. in the path. Aid wes being hurried to the. area from Plymouth, New Bedford, Fair haven and several other commu- + nities, " Looting was reported in many of the Maine fire areas with one source indicating that an attempt was made to loot the Bar Harbor Savings Bank in the Mount Desert is~ land town that was ravaged by flames. { There were numerous cases where fires were being set in droughtplagued New England—two Connecticut youths admitting to police] that they set torches to the tinderdry woodlands so as to earn money

fighting the resulting fires. |

A Girl Beout crew at Portland Me., found still-warm- -oil-soaked

rags and sticks near one fire—grim |

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rich, nom en bet peaks and fire still thundering onward through the once-beautiful Arcadia National forest on stately Cadillac Mountain. : | Not to Rebuild Word had gone out that few, if any, of these stately summer places would be rebuilt and the “natives” faced both loss of their homes and! their incomes since many were de-| pendent on business with the summer folk for their livelihood. More than 1000 persons were homeless in the areas around Jonesboro and Machias where farms| and houses were reduced to piles of smouldering ashes. Gov. Horace ‘A. Hildreth of Maine was appealing for additional aid from neighboring states as the state’s own weary firefighters faced collapse from exhaustion. At least seven Maine communities were wiped out, their dwellers having fled for refuge in towns miles from their homes. 100 Smaller Fires Spawned in drough-dry forests, occasionally kindled by a firebug’s torch, more than 100 smaller fires, all potentially dangerous, scattered throughout the six-state area. Six - communities have leveled by flames. Canopy of Smoke A canopy of smoke from Maine and Massachusetts fires hung over the coastline. - Another fire-giant was on the loose in Washington County, Maine, Whipped by a constantly changing wind it twisted through the Machiasroque bluffs-Whitneyville area, menacing the ghost town of Jonesboro—which was evacuated late yesterday. Backfires form a dozen blazes in the blackened countryside south of Waterboro, Me., merged into one inferno and crept steadily toward the New Hampshire border. Only “light, scattered” showers were promised for tonight. Some $10 million worth of property lay in ashes in the rubblestrewn streets of Bar Harbor alone. The resort was two-thirds destroyed. Palatial estates, humble homes, three hotels and the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Research Laboratory with its records of 35 years of cancer research were a charred ruins.

Truman Orders Aid For Ravaged Region

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UP)— President Truman today declared the fire-wracked state of Maine to be a disaster area and directed the Federal Works Agency to take

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the state. Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, federal works administrator, said surplus blankets, clothing, medicine, housing and cots will be made available inrmediately to fire victims. Later food may be supplied where needed: Lumber and building materials required to reconstruct razed towns also may be supplied later. The supplies will come from stocks of the War Assets Administration. Mr. Fleming disclosed that representatives both of FWA and WAA already are on the scene.

{ Cheer Up, House Hunters WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UP)— | The National Association of Real Estat® Boards said today that the housing supply In many cities

should be normal within a year if| On hand to review the gala event, erected for Navy and Scout officials.| will be held in Scottish Rite| Indiana Stream Pollution Contrd the Federal Government ends rent | in addition to local personages, will] The Indianapolis Council of the| Cathedral, Adm. B| y and James| Board. controls .and adopts s hands-off be Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, com-|Navy League is providing gold cups| F. O'Neil, national der of| .Total estimated cost for all the policy. per of the U. 8. Pacific Fleet. |for winners 'pf the events. Partici-| the ' American Legion¥ will speak.'projects was $2,500,000,

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“HAPPY HOLLOW — Happy Hollow. has no water except in the spring, when it has too much water. City water lines have never been extended here. But water floods the neighborhood when Eagle Creek overflows in the spring.

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Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer,

CROSSTOWN ~ One of Our Falr City's main crosstown thoroughfares to northwest Indianapolis is 30th St. It bears the heaviest volume of traffic between 16th and 38th Sts. Will it be widened?

(Continued From Page One) |(Ind) has one. We want to see| Civic Leaguers located surplus

Rhodius Park. Outside of the park, how that works.” 'army chlorinators for the Park there is little in the way of public] The members, Haweves, io est | Board but the wading pool still replay space. But haphasard plap.the idea of 3 dispusal plant "| mained closed. They want the playning in the area has left plenty of backyards. vacant lots. | Here again, planning has not pro- ground operating full time, the Take the lot at the corner of vided drainage for a residential wading pool opened and a swimHoward and Reisner St. It used to area. Streets are ficoged A ming pool some day. 1 hard rain, Is this section 0 r . . School Board sod 1. Now it 1s just Fair City included in the city's Only Beginning? another vacant lot with a bottom- SeWer expansion program? NORTHWARD 1S the firmly established - residential, " neighbor-

less bushel basket nailed up on a : pole as a basketball net, Grade Separation hood of North Indianapolis, soed oY RESIDENTS WOULD like to See .o10q4 from the old trolley line Disposal Plant grade separation at W. Michigan | 0 used io serve it. ‘The North IN THE CENTRAL section of the St. and Holmes Ave. where children| yoo ont Civic League with 3000 West Side near the city limits, attending three schools must Cross| embers is the biggest in Indiana.

arm’s length a municipal disposal'not satisfied with ash and garbage ting through bus plant- in county territory at Olin collection. downtown to Golden Hill, but memAve. and W. Vermont St. | Nor are they satisfied with rec- pers feel this is only the beginning. The project is proposed by Speed-|reation facilities for the area's 2000, They would like to see 30th St. way City which has assured the In- children. These consist of 8 play- widened. They want a swimming dianapolis residents the disposaliground and wading pool. pool at Riverside Park to replace plant is so smokeless and odorless| Last summer, the League man- the 26th St. beach at White River. they won't know it's there, aged to get a part-time matron for| They want a community house “We're not so sure about that,”{the playground between 1 p. m.|of their own. And will somebody saald Mrs. William H. Owen, presi-|and 5 p. m. The wading pool was kindly clean out the sewer at 30th dent of the Tibbs Ave. and Eagle closed because the city felt it could and Illinois Sts.? Creek Civic League, Inc. “Golumbus| not keep the water clean. “| And clean W. 30th St. too?

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¥ pr 7 key” ? NAVY REGATTA AWARDS—Trophies for the regatta on White River tomorrow —one of the features of the Navy Day celebration—are shown here with (left toright) M. Dan Nickel, past commander of the White River Yacht Club; Capt. F. F. Knachel,

commanding officer of the Naval Armory; Harvey U, Gill, director of senior scouting, Central Indiana Boy Scout Council.

Plans to accomodate some 15000 spectatdrs at tomorrow's navy pants are expected from all sec-!

regatta on White River—a feature of thé"three-day Navy Day celebration tions of central Indiana. —were announced today by Wilson Mothershead, general chairman of The Navy Day celebration will the celebration. Starting time is 2:30 p. m. The public will be admitted free to the. east and west banks of the hall in the Naval Armory. Adm. river between the 30th St. bridge north to 38th St. A public address Blandy will arrive at Municipal airformed of the progres of the il Cee OF he operation wil be port 3 2 p.m. lomartow sud wil boat and whale boat races andi... OPlomist, the Senior scout Ta | base opposite the Naval Armory, ner at the army at 5:30 p. m.

parade of power boats. |Here a reviewing stand will bel The Navy Day luncheon Monday

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prehensive legislation is necessary. | Mr, Truman also revealed stop|gap foreign and occupation-area | {spending plans which may hike the Ispecial session emergency ald cow {to nearly $1 billion—preliminary to

‘Marshall plan expenditures there. |

| after, GOP Reaction Cautious

| Immediate Republican reaction to the President’s 17-minute speech | was chill but cautious. Some Re-| | publicans objected that Mr, Truman, [made no specific recommendations| for dealing with the critical domes- | tic situation. | Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R. Vt.) suggested that the GOP leadership work out its own legislative program “so that we can be off and running when Congress reconvenes.” The President said the United States could lead the world to peace and plenty. But Republican response to the whole special session [project has been frosty and fre{quently hostile. It appeared that Mr. Truman and his congressional opposition were headed toward bruising collision on foreign and domestic policy. There were indications. Republicans may demand administration agreement to a 1948 tax cut as the| price .of voting the requested foreign aid. The President spoke only in general terms, leaving industry, labor and the ‘specualtors without a hint

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ce_and basic commodities, higher market margin requirements and renewed opposition to 1948 incom

Allocation of critical commodities was suggested by Mr. Truman to congressional leaders who met with him at the White House on Thursday, But Sen. Robert A. Taft

|operations, : | Protection From Inflation { Mr. Truman obviously intends ts

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or price reducing. He sald volun-| |

tary petion by all of our people was|

a main reliance of our private enterprise system. He then added: | “But the responsibility of government extends beyond aiding volun-, | tary action. The government must | | respond to the neeas of the people. | The American people now have & compelling need for protection from |the dangers of price inflation and! | the rising cost of ving.” . | The President sald government now “must assume a larger share”!

were | residents are engaged in holding at the Belt Railroad tracks. They are rp... nohed Jast week in get-| Of responsibility for dealing with

high prices. | Mr. Truman is not expected to recommend return of rationing and prices controls. He told a press conference last week that these war time impositions were police state methods. “We find that recent events have raised new and dangerous obstacles in our path,” Mr. Truman said last night. “Our domestic prosperity is endangered by hunger and cold in other lands.” These two emergency conditions, he explained, compelled him to summon Congress in special session to deal with them. He pegged the necessity of Instant emergency aid for France and Italy to the danger that their economies may collapse and their people be swallowed up| by communism. The President did | not use the word communism. He referred to “totalitarian pressures.”

Italy’s Broke Now

Italy and France must have $642 million immediately, the President said. Prance needs $357 million to carry on from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1948, he explained. Italy is broke now, She will need $142 million to carry hér until Jan. 1 and $153 million thereafter until the Marshall plan gets going. The President evidently believes Congress will| have enacted the Marshall plan by| the end of next March, The $642 million is not all. “Serious - difficulties have also been encountered in the occupied areas—Germany, Japan and Korea,” Mr. Truman continued. “Additional funds will have to be ap~

| us to maintain our position in these {areas. It can readily be seen that | congressional action to meet these

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{needs cannot be delayed until’ Jan- | uary. | “Even with the proposed ald] from this country, the people. of| | Europe this winter will be on short | | rations. They will be cold and they {will be without necessities. But our emergency aid will be definite as- | surance of the continuing support {of this nation for the free peoples

Approve ‘Sewer Projects Final plans for sewerage treat {ment facilities at Whiting, Colum|bus, South Bed and East Chicago were approved yesterday by the

BUTLER HOME-COMING SPIRIT — Putting up decorations at their sorority house to help convey the spirit of home-comnig for Butler grads and defeat of the Western Michigan Broncos are members of the Delta Gamma Sorority: (Left to right) Misses Peggy Maloney and Jacque Loser, both of Indianapolis, and Jean Essex and Dorothy Lincoln, both of Columbus.

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LUCKY BOY—This lucky jeep owner d emonstrates his popularity as an even dozen Butler co-eds climb. aboard following the’ freshman-sophomore fight during Homecoming activity on the Fairview campus. } — rw.

BUTLER LUNCHEON — Among the 150 alumni teachers attending the annus Butler University luncheon for educators attending the Indiana State Teachers Assg ciation meeting were (left to right) President M. O. Ross of Butler; Mrs. Howard West, '44, a teacher at Clayton, Ind.; Archie Chadd, '28, superintendent of schoo Anderson, Ind., and Mrs. Marcella Crabill, '43, a teacher at Indianapolis Publie® School No. 43,

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—You know Jim Williams’ cartoon, “Heroes! City-wide solicitation of federal, Are Made, Not Born,’ He meant me. state, county and city non-profit I am the poor, unfortunate, ink-stained wretch who had to invade organizations and schools, which the chintzy headquarters on Jackson Place of the National League of constitute the public division of the Women Voters and say: “Ladies, is it true that you are a bunch of |Community Fund's campaign orCommunists in skirts with the new look?” x ganization, will begin Monday. 4 The ladies exercised remarkable - | More than 300 volunteer workers ! restraint, Or else they were too|\f any. Théy promised to phone wii he seeking to raise $66.300— startled to start throwing crystal Me When they reached their de- (heir quota of this year's $1,279,200 paper-weights with buflt-in snow-|cision. Bo I guess we'll have to|gqq) storms. {walt a minute for the result. | “There is no doubt as fo the “Who,” they asked after the first| We might as well use the inter- gneolute importance of getting this gasp, “Is calling us Communists?” Mission for a look at the gray-|entire goal” L. G. Gordner, division 80 I had to tell 'em about Walt|Suited, black-mustached Disney chairman, said in announcing the Disney, the proprietor of Holly. under the spotlights of the in-|division activities. “Needs are defiwoods leading cartoon foundry, |Vestigating committee. He came all nite and necessary. Demands for sotestifying before the House Un. [the way from Hollywood to testify |cial service are great. This is a most { American Activities Committee on |8bout Communists in his business; !important year for the Pund and i pinkkos in Hollywood. He said that |In 20 minutes he was ready to re- for our community of Indianapolis when a Communist-inspired strike/turn to Donald Duck Boulevard. and Marion County.” was called in his Mickey Mouse de- That's the name of the street, Associate chairmen of the divigion partment, all the Communist front [Within his studio, where Disney drive are: Shirley Wilcox, in organizations, including the League maintains his office. It Is around! of government, coverage; Mrs. § of Women Voters, put him on their |the corner from Mickey Mouse Norris and Mrs. Meredith Nicholson smear list. | Drive. {Jr, non-profit associations; John

2.» » oo | Plerson, state offices; Louis Fletoh“GOODNESS” the ladies ex-| HERE IN A SERIES of air-con- = \e'ion County; Mrs. po

claimed. He must made a slip of the |ditioned red brick buildings, with : { tongue, He must have oars some- flowers out front and all streets ar hy + Wiam Vist Bem | body ‘else's league, or something,” | named in similar whimsical fashion, |... ~0 " } Oh no, said I, growing braver by | Disney and 600 helpers turn out a the minute. Disney said he means | never-ending stream of technicolor what he said in the first place. He |¢8rtoons for distribution all over the seemed a little exasperated. He said | World. look at the stenographer’s record. | in Sdeption oe Russian There it w black and white: |countries,” Disney said. | : The Folbig at ae | “Why not?” asked Robert. fitrip- |B ™. ini the Odd Fellow Hall, 26 “Well,” exclaimed the ladies’ | Ing, the committee counsel. { 3%, a Mrs. Francis Bus, spokesman, “shall we go over to| ‘1 don't really know,” replied President; will conduct the meeting. 'his ‘hotel and wring his neck?” | Disney, “bit we can't do business a question their creator did not 1 Bd she was kidding, but I|With 'em. Some years ago they attempt to answer. He .,.. {it ; am not one to foment mayhem. I bought ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ We | Bulletin! | 3 of Women 3 told her that that was a decision |5ent 'em a bunch of others to look | Voters just phoned. for the League of Women Voters; |® and they ran ‘em off and turned | had pon ‘the | that Othman was offering no advice. | ®™ all back to us, I guess they cided it was beneath their dig «ay, didn’t like 'em.” Stlence, they decided, would be LAST 1 SAW of the women voters,

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