Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1948 — Page 2
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Halleck Declines To Dismisses
Jenner ‘Deal’
Talk Lightly
Laffer “Satisfied”
With Times’ Poll
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 3-—Ma-jority Leader Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.) declined to comment today on an Indiana rumor that he is ready to cast a “courtesy vote” for. Hobart Creighton of Warsaw and then switch to Sen. William E. Jenner for governor in the Republican state conven-
tion June 11. Sen. Jenner, however, promptly | denied that there was any such a deal. He admitted that “Creigh-! ton is the man 1 have to beat” and added that he would “settle for the percentage lead given me
in the Indianapolis Tifiés pois
“That wéWid mean a landslide,” | Ben. Jenner concluded. _ ‘Mr. Halleck is on record for| Creighton. for governor as are| other second district Republican) leaders, including District Chair-
are included in the “switch” rumors, “Pormer' Jenner Backer. .. | Previous to Mr. Creighton’s entry into the gubernatorial race, -Mr-Halleck -had been listed with] Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R, Ind.) | as a Jenner backer here. Mr. Dixon, Mrs. Frazer and| Morrison Rockhill, Creighton campaign ihanager and former | second district chairman, all have| been here in the last few months “talking things over” with Mr./
Halleck.
Halleck did say today— “1 expect no end of rumors ad
all sorts to circulate in Indiana new rental construction is about charge rentals ranging from $105 volunteers and troops fought to from now until after the conven-| $82.50, The rents of rental bulld- to $122.50 for five-room units.
Semi-Basements Rent $60-$75
tion. But I certainly do not feel called upon to comment on them and I do not intend to do so,”
‘Will Settle for Poll’
second district delegate votes on the second ballot, if there is one, but to say there is any kind of deal ‘about that is just absurd,” Sen. Jenner sald. “I am in this thing to win and am confident that I will do so. Of course, the way things have shaped up,
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TONIGHT AND TOMORROW-—Clear weather and mild temperature will continue for the man Ira Dixon and Mrs. Mabel next 24 hours in the northeast. By dawn tomorrow the mercury will be in the 50's. Tonight it will Frazer, vice chairman. All three| be clear from Maine to Wisconsin and down through the Ohio Valley and the Central Plains to the
Gulf States and the Southwest,
Sharp Drop in New Homes New Flood Crest Seen Unless Congress Acts pociic Northwact
(Continued from Page One) - tion or have been recently completed, Except for low rent projects renting for $50 a month, like Bridges & Graves’ Hillside
Builders. say ‘the medium on
There , are several semi - basement apartments in Wallace Lane renting from $60 to $75.
cal apartment developments. All of them; incidentally, were oc-| cupied as fast as they were fin-| ished. { While Wallace Lane suites at poration. One distributor in this area, Kessler Homes, Inc., has 100, {
Creighton is the man I have 10, per cent GI loan financing avalil-
beat. But those Timea poll per-
landslide and I'll settle for that.” Sen. Jenner is going back to
Indiana again tonight and will
meet with a veterans group at the Columbia Club tomorrow he said. It was suggested that he might run into his political enemy, Gov. Ralph Gates, who it is reported spends considerable time at the club in conference with Mr. Rockhill. ‘Can Beat Schricker’ Commenting on Sen, Jenner's prediction that he can beat former Gov. Henry F. Schricker if
nominee, Sen. Capehart, who beat Mr. Schricker for the Senate in 1944, said: “I _am_ sure that Jenner can beat him . for Governor. Plenty of Democrats are ‘disgruntled at the way Pleas Greenlee was) ousted from the Democratic state chairmanship. They know that
able on prefabs now going up at) Kessler Blvd. and U. 8. 52,
Kessler Homes is now erecting! three prefab sizes ranging from! two- to three-bedroom homes, somé with garage, breezeway and full basement. The price range is $7900 to] $10,300. Although 100 per cent financing is available to veterans on these homes, the corporation {says half of the buyers are voluntarily making down payments, Contract ‘selling on -new dwell-| ings is becoming more in evidence) n this area. Some finance com-| panies are lending “down pay-| ment” money, In general, however, the buyer of a small home with limited sav-
Ter- block of Compton Dr., call for a River today, threatening to add 2 {race at 24th St. and Hillside Ave., $90 monthly rental. The Wallace More death and destruction to the In declining to comment, Mr. the average rental for new con- Lane Apartments of the Foster Pacific Northwest's greatest flood struction starts at $70 a month, | Engineering, Ltd. at Pleasant disaster.
“These are-cited -as fairly -typi- rather than &peculative building brace themselves for the swell. characterized
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= T ing under Title VI are based on,
tiation of. high-cost COR HORTLAND, Ore. June 3 (UP) Hall - Hottell's Broad Ripple ;—A new flood crest boiled through Colonial Apartments in the 6100 the upper valley of the Columbia
Run Parkway and Wallace 8t.,! The new threat came as weary
Lay Retreat
spiritual needs.
YMCA, Federation To ‘Sponsor Event
Churchmen will observe 20 hours of silence at the ‘Quiet Day” laymen's inter-church retreat tomorrow and Saturday at the YMCA Camp, St. Paul, Ind. The laymen’s retreat will "be sponsored by the Indianapolis “Y"” and the Church Federation. The Rev. Douglas MacLaury and the Rev. James Savoy, both Episcopal Clergymen, of Canterbury College, will conduct the two-day spiritual program. Begins at 6 p. m. The Rev. MacLaury will explain the plan and rules of the meeting at 6 p. m. tomorrow to
meditation will begin with a chap-
until 3 p. m. Saturday.
of. a OF any Compline Service A brief compline service will follow the first meditation period in the chapel the opening night. Holy Communion will be celebrated at 7 a. m. Saturday preceding breakfast. Devotions, meditation, noonday prayer, and a 2:15 p. m. meditation will ‘conclude the re~ treat.
I. Lynd Esch, president of In-
man of the Christian emphasis icommittee of the YMCA which suggested the retreat. Parker Jordan, general ‘secretary of the YMCA, and Dr, Howard Baumgartel, executive secretary of ‘the Church Federation, planned the program. Registration is by reservation and is open to laymen of all faiths,
(save ‘dikes which “were holding {back the old crest between Port{land and Astoria. predict that if Congress passes Residents in the area around long-range housing legislation, it Portland, much of which is still will emphasize rental construction under water, were warned to
which are the post-| The new flood raced down the war market up until now. |upper Columbia and its principal Meanwhile, some builders say tributary, the Snake, when hot they are finding it difficult to get sun melted a deep snow pack in the down payments required to- the mountains of British Columday, although in one case a de- bia, Idaho and Washington. veloper who said he cpuld sell on! Elmer Fisher, U. 8. Weather 100 per cent GI loan financing. Bureau forecaster, said the Cosald he found veterans preferring lumbia was rising from Coulee to make a down payment to re- Dam to the mouth of the Snake. duce their mortgage. |The lower Snake, after a brief Windsor Village operators have fall, surged upward again. set up a contract plan to help] This meant that the Columbia, the buyer over the hump of most after receding slightly from. its of -the down payment. Wednesday morning peak in the One hundred per cent loans are Portland area, will start climbing still available on some prefabri- again. . cated dwellings where .the devel-| The Columbia and other streams
Piano" Teachers: Meet Tomerrow
ers’ Association will hold the last business meeting of the season at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the DAR Chapter House, with Mrs. W. G. Patterson prestdmg. «me The following new off be installed: Mrs. Mildred Jarvis, president; Mrs. Georgianna Ritter, vicepresident; Mrs. Harriet Burtch, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Norma Kristian, recording secretary, and Miss Maxine Hodson, treasurer. New members to be initiated
are Mrs. Lyle Snyder, Miss Estelle Leonard and Lee George Blazer, ae
NEW TYPE GAS MADE
Sulfur and fluorine are used to make -a relatively new gas,
oper made his financial arrange- inflicted record-breaking devastaments in advance. {tion in which 100,000 persons were For example, Nation Homes, forced from their homes, 30 were Inc, of Lafayette advances con- killed, and $100 million worth of
ings is finding 10 per cent- the minimum down payment. When) the crop -of Title VI housing is sold, builders predict 20 per cent! down payments, unless Congresy! renews its easy mortgage aids,
8Schricker has been running for the governorship and that the Greenlee ouster was well organ-
ized and well financed on his be-|tied still to the apron strings of
half.”
Pastor to End Series The Rev... Donald - J. Dunkin, pastor of the Lynhurst Baptist
Today -— three years after the end of the war — the future of housing in this area appears to be
| congressional policy. The hous{ing shortage has become less {acute in those three years, but it [remains unsolved. . | $122.50 represent the approximate
sulfur hexafluoride; which has unusual properties as a gaseous in|sulator for high voltage elec|tricity and, perhaps, may be used
struction money to its dealers crops and property was destroyed as a fire extinguisher and a re-/sa! turned down the request and {through its own Acceptance Cor-'or damaged.
'frigerant.
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The Rev, Mr. Savoy will hold 3” who wish to consult him about a helpful -
idiana- Central College; is chair]
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el service at 8 p. m. The absence |” of conversation will be observed |.
dont i DEPARTMENTAL HONOR WINNERS — These Technical —High-School-pupils- have received awards for quality work in vari-_ ous departments. All are seniors. They are, left to right, front row, Anne Henshaw, Marie K. Binninger, social studies medal; Barbara Steele, music award; Elizabeth Wrancher, music.-award; Margaret Gamage, Esther Fay Shover English medal, and second row, Richard Frazer, Marie K. Binninger, social studies medal; Thomas Pratt, Dyer medal; Arthur Campbell, mathematics medal, and. third. row, Robect Highfield, Jatin medal; Willian Jenkins, science medal; David Thomas, mathematics medal; James Wiese, Harry F. Markus, electricity- medal. Not shown are Richard Shellenberger, French award winner: Theodore Hopkins, Spanish; Mary: Lou Stahl, commercial, and Marian Hurley, home economics.
Named to New Post at Butler |
Mrs. Naomi Whitesell, who for the last year has had charge of! production of the Butler Collegian, has been appointed instructor in the Butler " University Journalism D e part-
arts degree from i {the University | lof Michigan did free lance [publicity and {sales promotion iwork for ap-§: proximately g nine years. She Mrs. Whitesell {has written short stories for the Chicago Daily News. Mrs. Whitesell is a member of the Michigan Editorial Associaition and the American Associa{tion of University Women. She resides in 6050 Carrollton Ave, |
Comedians Suspended |
HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (UP)-— Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have been suspended by Universal-International studio because they asked for a raise, the studio announced today, Univer- .
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Due in Court
A number of suspected local gamblers were to appear in court today to face charges filed fol lowing a. series of police raids Police-who-have struck hard at pool ticket operations during the last week last night uncovered 44 books of tickets in a cigar store at 2178 N. Illinois St. Floyd Morris, 49, of 2214 N, Illinois St, was charged with keeping a room for pool selling, while David Krieger, 56, of 4458 College Ave. faced a charge of advertising a lottery scheme and gift enterprise, Police Get 71 Books Octa Durante, 32, of 548 N. Sen. ate Ave, didn’t grab quick enough and police found 21 books he failed to get hidden before their (arrival at a 425 Indiana Ave. cigar store. He was accused of keep-
the visit Tast night.
er, “40, Of “404 Minerva St was having trouble with another
St. He was held on a charge of advertising a lottery scheme and gift enterprise. Earlier yesterday, Ruban Bailey, 43, of 912 N. Sheffield Ave. was seen selling alleged tickets a moment before he ran out the
‘door at 2246 “W. 10th: St. police
said. He was later slowed down era enough to be accused of op-
erating a lottery scheme and gift
enterprise.
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Church, will give the concluding [upper limits of. rentals here, the lecture in the “Family Living rental would be. considered meSeries” tonight at Indiana State|dium in elties like Cincinnati and Teachers’ College, Terre Haute, Pittsburgh where construction’
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Columbia Fl WASHINGTON, J —Rallroad union les od today that Presid special train will be rallroaders “every t during his cross-cou They said the pl when Mr. Tr Bar, pecial train a tion here at 10:05, Time, tonight for C The union leaders of the three rail 1 threatened a natio strike three weeks ¥ their contract de: out was Stoppe on seized the a federal court a strike. “The picketing i ordered by us,” oné’ said. “From wha stand, the men pla on their own, but | plenty of it.” Covers 18 § He said the word the pickets will car ing such things as of the sirike-breake junction Harry.” Mr. Truman's tw political” swing thi more than 9000 mil 18 states. He will deliver th major speeches tor in the Chicago Stad. ject: Assistance for persons of Europe. Then will follow f0maha, Seattle, B and Los Angeles, wi a score of platform in between. Mr. Truman will his asnounced itine a special side tour stricken part of Northwest as he go tle to Portland. E nated the flood cou aster area and or possible federal aid.
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The presidential f long, will carry a pr photographic party 60—all paying thei The presidential the acme of railroa Truman's own quar the plush Ferdina his private car at tl train with its rich c tinted windows amd ters as comfortable day hotel suite—wi! The President, | and Margaret will private dining room There- will be of two diners for the staff and the repo rolling radio statio: President in consta: the White House.
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Install 500,
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In a farm home northeast of Mari millionth Bell tele diana has been in. sefiting an increa: telephones since th doubling of install last eight years, L. '¥ division manager & Bell Telephone Ci today,
The half-million Was installed in the v and Mrs. Ben Hix ceremony a new tel metal plate engrav casion was substi Instrument put in 8humiker said. Charles W, Pott. dent and general mn diana Re), said t Pany’s $50 million gram for 1947-49 w half-way mark in ‘In 18 months, ot of additional. faci Ceeded $24 million 8ald. “This includ buildings finished - structiohf and 18 present buildings el OF under construct} cludes increased eq central offices and 110.000 mijes of wi
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