Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1948 — Page 10

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| wearing a pith helmet wanted to { know how America felt about

‘he was against it.

: ‘wreckage for bodies. Some | '7athering tiles from broken roofs

1 .op and made their way to safety.

Eyewitness—

Fears of Flood Follow Japanese Quake Fires As Rainy Season Opens

City of ‘Good Fortune’ Lain to Waste

As Flames Break Out

By KEYES BEECH, Times Foreign Correspondent

FUKUI, Japan, July 2—What

{n this silk-manufacturing town of more than 70,000 souls, fire aims

10 destroy. Looking out of my window I

top floor of a nearby five-story building. My typewriter dances under the force of new tremors which cause children to cry and

tary government commander of Fuqui since the beginning of the

everybody to scramble for safety. Moreover, as Japanese officials count the dead the number is expected to exceed 5000—a new terror hangs over them—the fear of flood.

If rain comes—and this is Ja-|it was not much more than a heap

pan’s rainy season—dikes and) levees will likely let go. I walked into Fukui City late yesterday. I came from the, north by truck, horseback and bicycle, over virtually impassable roads. In some places it had already started to rain. = » = OUR JAPANESE truck driver moved at snail's pace through narrow village roads with drunken buildings brushing its sides. We passed a Buddhist shrine where people were praying. We passed another which had fallen in and killed 50 old folks. Their bodies made a funeral pyre nearby. Small children bowed politely. A woman's body floated in a stream nearby. The charred of a child hung skewered from a piece of splintered timber.

» - . TEN-YEAR-OLD Yoshio Watanabe told how he was riding his bike when the “road turned upside down.” He ran for a telephone pole and hung on. “The pole wrestled with me,” he said. Yoshio's mother were

missing. : An absurd, bearded little man

little brother and dead, his father

Communism. Personally, he said,

» » ” FUKUI CITY means “place of good fortune.”. The stench of Burning bodies clogged the nostrils. Old people lay on the streets with dazed

nd stacking them in neat and orderly piles. Only ‘the very young children whim) A six-story building that was ‘nce a department store tilted at roof had col-

nite are, they climbed to the

After Temblors

Inflation Hits Operating Cost Of Governments sere:

politician at the Democratic Na- R.

Billy , 79, Red Yi orl

Bis NEA Service Ind, July 2 —

‘Expenses Up 5 Times, yet Convention. although he's

y-been to one of them in his Trend Hard to Pare oy life, and that time.as an al-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Hoosier Dishes Out Politics Right Across Cracker Barre

if I didn’t get to work early I

the biennial state Democratic) convention at Indianapolis for the twenty-sixth time, a record no other Hoosier in either major party (and few in any other state) can match.

Clifford Townsend and Henry Shricker in all that time.

Runs a Grocery

ican air raids. He stayed on to see| ©

paired.

{one staff officer says, it's worth

By EARL RICHERT

Howard Staff W WASHINGTON, July, 2—When you're complaining about the high cost of food, give a thought to the Army's latest jet bomber and the corner policeman. It’s costing you just about as > ,» much to pay for

Monday's earthquake missed here

can see flames leaping from the

tics show there, #® has been muc ¢ more inflation in the cost of running the government than in food or any of the other neces-|

{67 per cent of the damage re-

Today Fukui is more completely devastated than ever. v There isn’t much Col. Hyland| * can say.

Plan New Drive To Pass UMT

Army Sees Better

Chance Next Session

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 2-— The Army has decided to make another—and final—drive for universal military training.

The general staff, which made the decision, is convinced it will have a better chance in the next Congress than in the present or|the previous one. The 1945-46 Con-|1929. gress listened, and did nothing.| Sens. Robert A. Taft, Harty The 1947-48 Congress got a uni-|Byrd and others long have been versal military training bill to|8rguing and working for lower the - House Rules Committee|8OVernment expenditures. where it died. But the - general Find Cuts Difficult staff expects a “healthier climate”| But the economy -advocates in Congress next year. At least, have found it almost impossible to make any real cuts in government spending. Sen. Byrd's joint economy committee estimates federal expenditures for the fiscal year beginning today at almost $40 billion, about 10 times as much as the government spent during the depression year of 1933. As an illustration. of the cost of government, Commerce Department figures show that the American people will spend about as for the armed services and rans’ benefits this year. as for

Mr. Richert

sities. Back in the boom year of 1929, the American people were spending slightly more than $10 billion a year for government, with well over two-thirds of it going for state and city administration Cost Up 5 Times This year, according to best estimates, we are spending $51 billion for federal, state and local government. And the federal government is getting over threefourths of it. : Thus, the cost of government has gone up five times. During the same period, total expenditures for food and tobacco have gone up only three times —from $21 billion to $64 billion. And this $64 billion is feeding ahomt 23 million more people than $21 billion was. feeding in

the gamble, Pre-Convention Decision The decision was made in advance of the Republican National Convention, At that time, it had to be conditioned. If . Robert A. Taft (R., QO.) had ed the presidential nomination, universal military would have been dead. Sen. Taft is ita’ Pitterest congressional foe. z But the Dewey-Wartén ticket clinched the argument, and the} general staff decided to contifiie clothing, shoes and recreation— the fight. about $23 billion. Governors Dewey and Warren|.

are on record for universal mili New Directory Shows rE tars take it tor| Catholics on Increase NEW YORK, July 2 (UP)—

granted the Democrats will reHomingte gent Truman. Mr. Catholics in the United States now number 26,075,697, an In-

has ‘been asking Congress ihe such a law for the last crease of 807,524 over last year, the official Catholic Directory for

three years, If he is oh Xt-tlected, his voice will be stronger. will be stronger

ternate. Hoosier state politics, however, Billy is sure he’s had Indiana's

biggest, loudest voice in naming governors for more than ‘half a

home precinct as a delegate to

«Doubles Reward

At 79, Billy (William J.) Finan’s cracker barrel description is literal. He runs a small grocery in Muncie’s industrial South Side, and takes longer to wrap an armful of groceries than customers anywhere else would tolerate. With their meat, potatoes and vegetables, Billy's Ftd is get

As a perennial delegate in

century. Last month he represented his

occupation, the city’s fate is a —federal, state, ; 9 an ‘abundant belping of Shai special kind of disaster. ‘ and local—as it Sugar s’ Owner aboyt the politica) stats. of £ When he first came to Fukui, 3 Qos 19 sat. gov Thinks He's Alive “1 sell groceries and “talk poli- % y - J year,” {of rubble as the result of Ameéri- . ernment statis Sica every oy of the i

insists. “I never make anybody mad, though, not even the Republicans. They all know by now I'm a Democrat and they've stopped trying to convert me.” In the 26 p! elections over the last 52 years in“.ywhich Billy Finan’s name has a as a candidate for delegate, he’s been opposed only five times. This year

EE ——————— A WEEK HAS passed and Mrs. John Jablonsky, 507 N. Alabama St., 1s still looking for her pet parakeet, “Sugar.” “Sugar” flew the coop last Friday night and Mrs. Jablonsky offered a $5 reward. The search was believed ended on Monday when Police Sgt. John Kestler, 1121 Reid Pl, reported his son

had discovered a dead parakeet in their yard. However, Mrs. Jablonsky said today she had seen the parakeet found in the Kestler yard and it is not “Sugar.”

» ” » WHAT'S MORE, she said, several persons have contacted her saying they saw her blue-gray bird alive as late as Monday in the vicinity of the Murat Theater. Today Mrs. Jablonsky issued another appeal for the return of “Sugar” and upped the reward to $10. “He's not expensive but I'll give that to have him back,” she said. She said she has no telephone but will accept a .collect telegram from anyones who has “Sugar.” :

He Makes Like A Freight Train

KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 2 (UP)—Clyde Paine couldn't sleep. Paine, 67, an old railroad hand, had been sleeping for years in cabooses, box cars and the like. His insomnia developed when he was put on the night shift and slept at home during the day. But he said today he had solved the problem by rigging up an electris fan to make a noise like a freight train. “I turn it on” he sald, presto, I'm asleep.” - COAT or O'COAT

positoni. Slim Victory “I almost lost once, though,” he says. “I only won by 10 votes.” The other four times he won by whopping majorities in a precinct that normally casts about 400 Democratic primary votes. An ex-glass blower, Billy Finan is in his grocery at 4:30 every morning. It’s after six each eve-

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‘nything to get away from that -ullding. Lt. Glen W. Fridell, of Cowrle, “ywa, a young military governwent doctor, was “thinking out” taking a shower when the ‘emors occurred. He changed his ind. “I beat my wife from the ouse,” he apologized, “but I was loser to the door than she and

‘was no time to stand on cere-

ony.”

American proposals that the Philippines resume commercial ties with Germany are responsible. The Filipinos are at loggerheads over whether to trade extensively with+ their country’s wartime occupiers. Even those who favor such trade want it restricted. President Quirino has recently stated that commercial ties must be on a baie SAvaniagens to the Philip-

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