Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1948 — Page 1

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Report Less Of Protesta

Regular Church Gifts

Dr. Frederick Shippey Announces City Survey At Conference; Sunday Schools Show Drop By EMMA RIVERS MILNER, Times Church Editor ’ Ess than one-half the members of the Protestant conJ gregations of Indianapolis make regular gifts of money

to the church. : Enrollments in Sunday than increasing. These two facts among surprising were stated in a report read by Dr. Frederick A. Shippey at the conference

on. the state of the church this in the First Baptist

conference, : Dr. Shippey gathered the data at the request of the Church Federation over a period of several months during which he maintained residence in the city. He took hij notes back to New) York and arranged them in readable form for presentation in the printed report. He is director of research and surveys for the Board of Missions of the Method‘ist Church. His services have been loaned to the -Federal Council of Churches: by the church.

” ” " “LESS THAN one-third of the Indianapolis Protestants are in attendance at worship on a given Sunday morning. Few churches have vital programs for men. Persons of high income and upper educational groups attend “church much better than those

fn the revérse situation,” the re- conference this morning. This

port states. “About 25 ‘per cent of the Protestant ministers here receive salaries of less than $2000 per year; 60 per cent receive less «than $3000 per year, and one out of seven is paid $4000 per year. Ministers are greatly under-

paid. “The Protestant minister of Indianapolis has a good educa-

tion. Fully three-fourths of the Church in the U. 8. A., will speak

ministers have received both college and theological seminary

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow, continued mild. Low. tonight, 30 to 37; high tomorrow, 57 to 62..

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schools ‘are declining rather

a long list of others just as a» » FIFTEEN LOCAL congregations are planning relocations: 31 expect to build new edifices, and 15 will remodel. For these (projects 55 churches have raised all or some of the funds necessary to finance the undertaking. “The Protestant church properties, buildings and land in Indianapolis are valued at million.” : After his summary of conditions

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Senate Group |D) 0K's Own Bill To Aid Europe

Backs $3 Billion

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffies

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Issued daily except Sunday = 3

Dip Into Surplus WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UP), ~The Senate Foreign Relations! Committee today approved the final draft of its bill for European aid but it stipulated that $3 billion of the initial appropriation for recovery must be drawn from the government surplus for - this year. | By dipping into the'surplus aid (tor Europe would not interfere {with Republican plans to cut |taxes. | The committee added that sur- | prise provision as it approved, 13 to 0, the cash draft of its bill to launch the 51-month European

jas he finds them here, Dr. Shippey offers a list of recommendations. He suggests a complete house-to-

exploration of religious opportunity among modest income groups of people; Also, increased attention to

tion of new churches; conferences on radio programs and newspaper publicity; effort to raise levels of financial gifts; more extensive pastoral counseling. . " »

HARRY WADE presided at ‘he

afternoon in addition to Dr. Shippey, Dr. Samuel Kincheloe spoke on “Building the United Church Strategy in the Growing City of Indianapolis.” Dr. Kincheloe is a member of the Federated Faculty of the University of Chicago. Dr. Jacob A. Long, secretary of the unit of city and industrial work, Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian

at the 7:45 p. m. session on “The Evaluation of the Urban Com-

training.

Cost of O

can be attributed only in part

* municipal agencies. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce estimates that the

city's permanent population inSeas since 1940 has been only

The Health Department added

new facilities during the war years and General Hospital service was expanded. The legislature

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to population increase and new

agreements concerning the loca-|

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» $5 Million During War = gher Prices, Wages and Trend 1° Toward Decentralization Major Factors =e "By RICHARD LEWIS a Cost of municipal government here rose $5 million during the

War years. . The increase from $8.600,000 in 1943 to $13,780,000 in 1047

i | Recovery Program, also known las ERP or the Marshall Plan, The bill would authorize ex|penditure of $5.3 billion for the 4 |first 12 months of the program !beginning April 1. i $3 Billion Earmarked | The plan to earmark $3 billion of this year’s surplus to help finance the program was spon-| sored by Chairmap Eugene Millikan, (R. Colo.) of the Senate] Finance Committee, He is in| ¥ charge of tax cutting plans. - The administration has esti- § mated a surplus of $7,482,000,000 for the current fiscal year ending, June 30. It had planned to use all of this for reduction of the public debt. The surplus for the year to date already exceeds $4

CRAPSHOOTER— "I'm innocent but public sentiment is against me,’ said Archie (Joker) Young. :

ToFog Hazard

SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE — A dense blanket of smoke rolled out of this strip of dump and paralyzed traffic on W. Raymond ‘St. today. »

e Dump Smoke Cars Crack Up

Smoke Adds

In Traffic Snarl

Motorists Forced To ‘Feel’ Way Along The sheriff's office and state police today planned an investigation of a West Side dump fire which caused $5000 {damages in multi-car aecci{dents in a few hours this {morning. The smoke hazard came on the

{heels of one of the worst fogs

|in Indianapolis history which par{alyzed early morning trafic all over the city, The worst traffic jam In the city, however, was on W. Ray-

For Joker Young i= Trial Starts Today Capehart Club Woman Routs ?

On Gaming Charge Hatchet. Wielder ;

Young, Indians Ave smoke snes FOr President N. Side Housewife Foils Intruder

owner, sat calmly in municipal!

. court today awaiting outcome ot Registered Here his jury trial on charges of keep- |

ing a room for pool selling. “ ; : “I'm innocent, but public sens, oat do Tema timent is against me." the 67-l;,, gecretary of State's office

year-old dice artist said as his; attorney, Sam Blum, carefully ex- Secretary of State Thomas E i " er with Bath approved the club's appli- truder, coming. tuward I

amined prosective jurors. Second Jury Trial a hatchet routed the stranger The case is the second to be sation PRAGA 1 mi as! with her screams early today. sociation. : ?

helird by a jury in the municipal Six Indianapolis men and a

courts at the police station In many years. Yesterday Chris I Ivanhoff, 54, of 519% W. Wash-| nar iaives ss botng vio eres St, was fined $250 and! , the Aalrs of pi Aanatintinys midnight. I Bp AMC CI ain 0 “Then I looked up avd. saw. THEY WERE Nathan M. Ely, [man J 3171: N. Pennsylvania St.; B. J, | way. "| Brown, whose was given pleted the selection of a jury + shortly before noon and court sees pari napolis: C. H. Webb, recessed. |" Testimony will be heard this| -.rve:G. H. Ingling, 336 Pros- which he was approachi afternoon before Special Judge Arthur Sullivan. Can't Understand Arrest

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Woman Screams

Ave, and George D. Fehr, 2142|couch where the woman lay, Lambourne Ave, in Salt Lake|ljce sald. However, before

accompanied by collapse in|colored tie, talked at some length

This, competitive bidding .in several major items of city expenditure such as gasoline and coal, driven up the tax rate. Wages increased sharply, too. {The records show, however,

has|places to get at mine,” he said, {referring to police who raided his| hart referred to was Sen. Cape-' him.

City. man could reach her, Mrs. GamThe application gave no pur- mon screamed and ran through pose for the society and did not|another door. specifically desighate U. 8S. Sen.| Then the intruder turned and Homer E. Capehart as their can-| sprinted through another door. didate for president. It was as- Police later searched the neigh-

Young, dressed in a brown business suit and flashing a multi-

concerning the charges. “They had to go by 50 other

sumed, however, that the Cape- borhood but were unable to find

smoker several days ago at 404 part

i t Indiana Ave. I he Investigating officers said entry

Senator could not

A 26-year-old North Side woman who awoke to find an in-

- : tor Ave. toid ponies “somehing| WANTED: One Pied Piper to eliminate the rats which

ke me” as she napped on the! 3 ¥ ity. awol $ ues 3 : are taking over the city

3865 Park Ave.; J. H. Wilson, 606 The ‘living room door through ng was : 14+, ANL inspectors. pect St.; R. L. Petitt, 5652 College within almost arm’s reach of the half the cost of the entire city

po \government.

Wanted: A Pied Piper—

Rats Cause Damage

Estimated at $8 Million

| City's Rodent Population Estimated a 2 Million—4 for Each Man, Woman, Child

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By LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Whether you realize it or not there are four of the rodents for every man, woman and child in Indi-

[Their numbers are estimated at 2 million and they an‘ually do an estimated dam-|., + time assistance from 12 sanage of $8 million, more than itary inspectors and six restaur-

Two years ago the rats won a |decistve victory. They met and | They infest the basements of defeated five rat poisoners ‘hired {downtown buildings. They com-|by the City to eliminate the rodent {pete with pedestrians for space menace. The polsoners were let {on the sidewalks. They run wild (80 because they were getting no{in residential areas over the en-| re. {tire community, North Side, East] With the rat poisoners went {Side, South Side and West Side. /the theory that the only way to | Children in their sleep are eliminate the rat was to kill him. : The Health Department

/bitten. Tons of food stuffs 80 {changed tactics and began strik-

be had been gained by a back porch | down the rodents’ gullets annual immediately for com- window. They said the hatchet ly. and thousands of dollars in | which Mrs. Gammons kept in the property is chewed to destruction {basement to chop wood was by these violent animals each missing. year. Mrs. Gammons' Against

also created the Indianapolis Re-| wages did not rise as steeply as! “All I want is a fair and’ im- reached development Commission which prices reflected in the city budget. partial trial. There are 5000 | ment. otha $500,000 in tax funds an-| There a little Sung in others running around ‘town sell-| . . >=" ually from the budget. wage rales, for example, from ing tickets, but public sentiment is The most significant singlé 1947 to 1948 at City Hall. Buti against me,” Li said. Came the Flood item of increased expense. how-| major price increases, especially, ever, js. the general price rise.'in food, were pald.

Tren ard Decentralizatio ted d Toward eid liz n No | UP) Despite the critical fuel oil | bartender. Apart from economic causes,|: In the last feur ‘years, this] | shortage Charles F. Smith wasn't! nother factor in hiking cost of agency has assumed more and! very pleased with the large supply | Tard nent here te the rend to-(more the character of a private [ ge - his cellar today. Markets 1 oro major depart.| institution. The only control over { Mr. Smith's. home. is heated by| ’ pal agericies.. Two major depart-| ’ | gas; . ments have broken away from its spending is that exercised by| was

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“If.1 had one wish” he said, “it would be ‘that every home in Indianapolis had a good sturdy garbage can with a tight lid and

A panel of three lawyers

is trying to break away. When - departments cut loose from the Hall, they go beyond the pale of centralized control in purchasing and in some instances in policy. ‘

| The finanéial operation of the +n | Year ago but the outside delivery, hospital is, however, a major selectia . on vechal Judge Hi pipe was left there. A truck driver mystery to councilmen. Few ‘“orav " : mistook his home for a house two Without food, Mr. Hundley have ever been familiar with its Ee ame named doors away and pumped 200 gal- grain markets opened steady to- sald, the rat will quickly leave! needs. Few have ever inspected for the trial of Herbert Bruner, 10ns Of oil into the delivery pipe, day and appeared to have sta-|..~.... (or another where hel Decentralization has weakened the place outside of a conducted|26, of 821 Division St. charged = {bilized slightly above the bottom cay get food. And the rodent's in already inadequate central tour and luncheon in the staff| with murder in the death of Theo- Sense of Humor {hi" during last week's big price biggest source of food in this burchasing agency. It has weak-{3Ining room, |dore_Wolfe, 21, whose body was | break. |eity is from the housewile's garened the control exercised over| Last year, the Sanitation found in a gravel pit off W. Ray- Stretches Too Far At New York,” meanwhile, hage container ‘(or lack of con-| city finances by the Controller|Flant, another big municipal/ mond St. last July. { | stocks were irregular with smallitainer. Sa and stripped the Mayor of some|28ency, slipped away from City The first trial several weeks, LOS ANGELES. Feb. 17 (UP) | gains recorded by Youngstown! 1, the year and one-half Mr.| of his powers. ~{Hall. The record of its budget 280 ended in a deadlocked jury. College student William C. Kiele Sheet & Tube, ex-dividend; U. 8. Hundley has had charge of rat The" Af records of the|and tax levy is no longer In- The second defendant in the! Jr. was held - today “on - charges| Steel, Jones & Laughlin, General trol he has made some prog-| General Hospital, the city’s big-|cluded in the published municipal case, Robert C. Lynn, 28, of 631/of assauliing a burlesque thea-| Electric. fest budget unit, are no longer budget. This gives the illusion | HOLY St. has been granted a ter's chorus line with a rubber; On the Chicago Board of Trade, . vailable in the ing|of a decrease in total city ex-| Separate trial. band. . wheat was unchanged fo 1 cent ™ yo pave made headway but igent's office. They are kept at! penditures in the 1948 budget | The panel from which a special, The Burbank . Theater's man- 5 bushel higher. Corn was un- | ig :

the hospital. . book judge will be selected for the ager said Mr. Kiele, 23, in a front, changed to 3% cents higher. Soy- : P Ee | Bruner trial is composed of row vantage spot, was Shooting, penny 7098 the S-cent. limit. Program Without Benefit ark Department in Separate Quarters | Dewey Meyers, George Jeffrey half-inch metal staples with a| Grains at Minneapolis and Actually the present. rodent _ pak Department has been the elected representatives of the and Russell Dean. slingshot. .. |Kansas City were about the .,.,., program is operating 'ving to break away from City taxpayer. | same, {without behefit of any city ordiHall ever gince 1942, but has| Increases in operating costs in Jac nance. The last law dealing with

not entirely ed. Like the these units are partly invisible to rats was passed in 1913. It made hospital a nitation plant, it the taxpayer, unless he wishes it- unlawful to permit rats to run

CHICAGO, Feb. 17 (UP)—The cans and kept the lids on.”

Seven Highways in State

ing at the principal factor in the rat's existence , . . his food. Jay Hundley, the City's rodent

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— Lg ON | gap A: ~Gammons, was at- work | force - of waste -and..ravage isi It consists of convincing Indlan-|, . ‘And ‘He Y ells at the time at Tyner's Tavern, pitted one man . . , the City's|apolis residents that they should y | ers to | PHYLADELPHIA, Feb, 17/4170 College Ave., where he is a rodent control supervisor. He gets

Most Rats Fed by Careless Housewives .

Ibe good housekeepers, ;

it Is hard to see,” hie sald of his single-handed campaign.

“We now attack one block at!

A time and make the people clean up. their yards, replace old gar-

that. the housewives used the Dage cans where needed of MAK i rth.

them buy cans when they have none, ,

hard work to clean up one block and get It in shape. But we've found that when we leave the block the rats do, too, because

food and their place to live and reproduce,” he said. He contended the “preventive” system was fairly permanent. “We return to the block six takes one day to put the block back in shape,” he added.

of City Ordinance

being planned. He also announces that the Fish and Wild Life Service of the federal government - may step in and lend assistance to the City in fighting the battle,

e I “It takes about eight days of

finally achieved a separate head- personally to check their records. Quarters. 3 s This 1s no easy job, as this reIts purchase records are still porter cam testify. Some officials kept in the office of the city pur- have the impression the records chasing agent, but this official has they keep of public spending are no control over the de- their own private property. Phrtment. makes and ‘sims Y as its purchasing : The effect of decentralizatiSh not see Is Insurance on 0 create {mosphere of mys- pet Spending. It the taxpayer.

Blocked by Flood Waters |

Indiana Streams Expected to Hit Peak

Within 48 Hours; Threat Not Serious | Flood waters blocked seven highways in Indiana today as

Another increased item of ex-|streams overflowed their banks in the low places, ture which the taxpayer) v

| However, the Weather Bureau's high water readings indicated {no “serious conditions” would result from rising streams. Most, {rivers and smaller streams were expected to reach peaks in the next 48 hours without causing serious damage anywhere. | Thawing Weather that broke up ~ J

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in restaurants, Mr. Hundley uses sanitation laws to make people buy or re-

Shot in Row Man This year the Health Depart- . ment has approximately $4200 to N P spend in its rat war. Of that Ver 0ISY {place garbage cans. That Is amount $3600 is for Mr. Hundabout as far as he can go. ley’'s salary. That leaves $600 KOKOMO, Feb. 17 (UP) — A “We have to bluff our way for other expenses. Last year man was shot critically today through: the rests he aia, bik the SY Se about the same Dr. Gerald . Kempf, public amoun ut. the public lost mil Vin De fought a Tay health director, says an ordinance lions. a wos Ba Ket him awake. |governing the control of rats is' (Tomorrow: A Complacent City)

The victim was Joe Cavzos,|

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_ Weir Cook..Alrport and Stout Field officials said plane trafe

ress with his educational pro- months later and find it only was not hampered very much be-

[cause it was only a ground fog.

Visibility was 3 tren or ood up around the

| Also the density out around the landing fields was not as great as Inside the ¢ity—no “buildings to obstruct air movements. All [planes were landing without nruch |diculty, ] | Greyhound and Indiana Railroad busses were coming into the |eity nearly on regular- schedules {Since the fog's density outside | WAS not enough to reduce speeds | much below normal. : Mild Weather to Continue | The worst of it began lifting | about 7:45 a. m. and by 8:15 a. m. {visibility was clear enough for {normal traffic. movement. Spring-like weather will cone {tinue today ‘and tomorrow. with | temperatures ranging from 30 to

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|as high as 60. The low tempéra-

City-Owned Car Mishaps ture ‘last night was only 37, five

| above freezing. : | Mayor Al Feeney today asked | Ty ——— i Frank A. White, publicity di-/the safety board (0 investigate] HOURLY TEMPERATURES rector of the Indiana American Auto accidents ih which uity-| go m.. 37 10 a m..'45

_and editor of the Hoosier |O%Wned vehicles, especially police) 3 4 wy’ 47 11 n me. 82

Le - pending against Mrs. Margaret puio Sun; 111, north of New| veloped most of the nation, melt-| . Am ts. 8; Movi 8/Colvin since August, 1946, 'n con- Boson) 108, orth of Patriot iI INE AWOW W63 158 WHE TATION where the shooting - ats. &fe Involved Eddie Ash ... uaries ... 4 nection with a raid on her nursing Switzerland County; 235, éast of tributaries o run-| " | [CATS, Are involved, wi 8 Be Mpa i Bridger. .+.13| FC. Othmah.11|home at 1828 N. Tilinois St. was| Medora and 256, west of, Austin. off waters. anid Mz. Cavane Jud {he Kitchen, |L46lonnaire many years, has “There have been too many of| § » m3 3 {aon}, px Classified .18-20| Patterns ....14|dismissed today. by the prosecu-| ~The Ohio River went more than, Most of the danger was down-| oo Troyer told police t h a t] Submitted his request to retiré these recently,” the Mayor sald! : . Comics ,....21{Radio .......21 tor's gffice in Crimindl Court 1. |a foot over flood stage at Cin-/stream from Cincinnati, [when he complained, Mr Cavzos [TOM active duty “Gecause of 1ll jas he asked the board to appoint Dies in oy _— Crossword ..10|Records ..... 6 Mrs. Colvin was arrested op cianati this morning. At Louls-| A flood wall was thrown up atl toned him with a butcher | . |& committee to study future mis- n Home Blast } Editorials ...12| Mrs. R'sevelt.13|assault and battery charges fol-| ville the stage was 53.5 feet, a Newport, Ky. but es and hit. him ‘with his fist. q Fi3 request was sent to Harold haps. . . { LA PORTE, Feb. 17 (UP)= Fashions '...,14 |Ruark "......11 lowing a raid e¢onducted by for- foot and a half-below flood stage warped residents that it could Mr. Tro 1d he fired & rifle | E Morris, Indiana Department, “If we find drivers who are Velma Masterson, 27, was fatal. Forum ....,.,,12| Side Glances.12/mer Prosecutor Sherwood Niue, and Evansville's reading was 35.0 not protect them. | Mr: Troyer 2a commander, who sald he wouldprone .to have accidents, we're ly burned today when Gardening ...14 Society .....13/who at that time described the feet, about six feet below flood Robert Elson of the Red Cross at Mr. Cavzos. Mr. Th recommend action by the depart- going to take them out of the exploded in. her Meta Given ..13 Sports ....16-17 place as “a house of horrors.” stage. Evansville expected,a crest regional office at St. Louis, satd Police did not arrest Mr. Troy- ment executive committee at its driver's seat” the Mayor ‘Porte apartmen Indiana News 3|Stranahan ..17| The prosecutor's dismissal mo- of 43 feet in the next two days he was keeping “tight liaison er. und Prosecutor Paul Hillis next meeting. : He said his attention had were seriously ned Inside Indpis..11 | Teen Topics..13 tion stated that “there was {or One foot over flood stage. |with Army engineers. in case an said a. review of the evidence, Mr. White has been afliated to the accidents by a re- said. subdued the Labor ......,22 | Washington .12 sufficient evidence to obtain a! Some persons already have left, emergency arose in the Little showed it was a case of self- with the Indiana a ye ot cent incident which left the City before it spread to other Mrs. Manners. 2 Weather Map 7 verdict of guilty in the case.” | their homes in ghe lower sections’ Egypt section of Tilinoisy . defense, ra : the Legion for the 20 years. with a $373 repair bill. ments, :

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