Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1949 — Page 1

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Shortage "of Homes For Low Incomes

Disrupts Families

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“The housing problem in In-

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cities in the nation is causing Just as much hardship as it did a year ago. Shortage of housing for low and even medium income famiHes is seriously disrupting family life. It is causing divorces among adults, and

Juvenile delinquency.

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These conclusions were made] To Death; Rivers o Mi public here ‘today in & report of | Start to Recede Ambulance Half Hour of America, nationwide social ~ Slight relief from the coldest = service agency. The report cov- weather of the winter was prow. Photos, Page Two ® ered 130 Family Service Associa- ised Indianapolis today th A flaming explosion of 3 tions stateg, Canada and the| temperatures expected to reach aint “thinner ‘and 8 Territory of Hawaii. 20 to 22 degrees this afternoon pain enveloped i Apote ne 83 DAN as those a Saeet gy Php Ag Kho ofl tually burned 28. 18-yeat-H major cities, somewhat worse Ck f winter po.) ad Pr old youth at an East Side than some, the report indicated. Tiny Peggy Ann Richmond lay in General Hospital last night |the mercury skidded to 4 degrees| shop late E Pressure the Same recovering from the effects of a of kerosene she drank |above zero at 11 p. m. and was ' two-Thirty-one per cent of the Fam-| of her home, 907 Madison Ave. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken- [to drop to slightly below zero by Tel Rr Yicrvice agencies, which deal noi} Richmond, watch at her bedside. Mr. Richmond had been (mOrning. The previous low was ‘ cases y conflicts : . 2, |B above. : economic f fam- using the fluid in the repair of an automobile. A swall quantity nly one advantage was to be B ilies apart, reported the need for remained in the container and Peggy Ann, age 1 yeers, .Iseen in the icy blast from the ! ag a tate today in| it unnoficed. - : : Noeth-it brought a : end to S their les Tan year. recen eavy rains ch were ! per cent, including In- broiling up the worst flood threat mason. a ers JOS Down 4 Per Cent ie hu wena") 2 w the housing shortage were about tragic high of 1937. 1 E the orgy last year. Only 17 * . The Indianapolis weathey 1 per cen the agencies reported i | o J station at Weir irport re- out improvement in their commu- n n ian ac ories rted the mercury would drop E nities. - Md 5 Je - . : fo zero or a little below by this from sevOne third of the agencies re- Indianapolis Feels Pinch Least; morning, Between 3 p. m. and 9 T ported ‘that more families were Alli RCA-Victor Still Hiri |p. m. yesterday it had dropped a in a fought Ins asking help solely because of son, . Wi 1iring degree an hour from 11 to 5 de- - — housing difficulties in 1048 than By HAROLD HARTLEY, Times Business Editor grees above zero. Boy fe Bo Bi e of several the year before. A mild unemployment rash is breaking out on the face of in-| Frozen to Death ther a suc- All agencies, the report said, gustrial Indiana. It is not an epidemic, but many plants are easing] But already the frigid blast had aring queer found housing problems disrupt-| yp, laying off, looking anxiously at piled up inventories. taken its toll in Hoosier tragenal creation ing family life, especially for The national catch-up with the appetite of the goods-hungry dies. rty depends clients in low income brackets. In| public, with the exception of the Calumet steel belt, is being felt| An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. and can be higher income groups serious by the state's lunch-carrying population. | . Levi Spivey, was found apparentPr gone strains and tensions were found.| Indianapolis, blessed with in- = “|ly frozen to death in a field near| ° newspapers Parted dustrial variety, next to the steel Frankfort and a| Behind riginal adds surveys own only 4 per cent since shortage of water conducted by hin agtncy eon-|November, 88d oul. 3 per Grand prevented them from saving the Jestivus, “Xt Ingaerof which Tngianapons 1 5] — a In Indiana [ polls | sun can Sieady $I of homes remained isolated tira counseling cases mercial loans in volume ($4 mil- as icy flood in Buren 1041 and 23% in 1948. In the rst fon lat rik) ile in ober Witnesses Confinues en Ag ville ond Police. Tater: children of 31 families wer sep. ventory loans. Vigorous, hard- Datley's probe ino. ~politiess ma-|Qropping a8 the ~rumoft con- 40 (© the fire arated from their homes, for the Biting retailing is clearing store|,ipulators” may be ready for|tiffued. patcher later ef most part because of parents in- ki vg BO oa We pubilie presentation to the Marion County a athe aliciale gt Sincinmatl lance a second a find ho ; » stage in t future, | ny Sing, housing. | the if-and-when lower price MAr-|ugs learncd last night. are stalled also Just. a traction over During this period, there ket. flood stage and was beginning 438 evictions, Mr. Graham said.| Allison's and RCA-Vietor divi-| Wor SeYersi Weeks = Sotelo upstream. “We find that housing fears/sion of Radio Corp. of Americal, ugh Mr. Dailey's office at the| State police reported highways are involved in 20 per cent of all/are still hiring. Allison is up tojr ul "a LT Une, Cori oe [haZaTdOUS in the vicinity of Eikcases of marital conflict we deal near 8000, RCA 4700. There have hart, due to snowfall yesterday.

with,” he said. “It is impossible for any agency to give peace of mind to a father

been gentle letdowns in the apparel, furniture, chemical and

electrical machinery trades, but

when it cannot suggest where he no jolts. “In Indianapolis business can find a roof for his children,” is still in balance.

said Mr. Graham. “We are lim-

Unions are casting anxious

in the Hlinois Building. | up political interference into oper-| ation of the courts and the Po-| {lice Department,” according to {Courthouse observers. |

|P1 Goal of the probe is “to break | yin

outh reported a thermometer of zero yesterday morn. ing while at Terre Haute it was six above,

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away from parents and relatives.” announces a “temporary” layoff./it might be 60 to 90 days before| i « =.» Ads » - Marion and Evansville seem to|it could be completed and sub- toit [IVEROOl Ut TL SAS CE R h, Cold Flight! DE ~ preg . Is { ? Ml Deputies Aid ~~ - [have caveu much at he fores otimiied tor study by the Grand crest tommorrow night. * = ROUGH, Cold) Flight & _% Hot Sandwiches _ |u . . Wayne, Richmond and Columbus | Moch Evid btained At Evansville flood conditions (yop Rockies v i A and thin east Destitute Family [eng Ricimend snd Co uch Evidence O along the Ohio's banks were not re Fast Frozen [vai of the } and . No Danger Signals However, ft was reported last/threatening, authorities said. They : the roof eg Flames shot On West Side In no place were the danger|hight that the investigation is|added the swollen river probably, nN Lom B. WALTON Evans, which loomed up there NIE into the ar, signals severe or of threatened) MOVING fast” and that's great/would crest at 425 feet some TENTH AIR FO pre § right us. Hundreds of spectators gath. SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES came|length, — While. manufacturers deal of evidence has been obtained. time tomorrow. The 1037 record; ye gps DQUARTERS, DEN- 58 |, On the western slope; the pilor| "ted 10 Watch the fire and auto. to the aid of a destitute West Side lave lowered their pickup esti- Mr. Dalley has issued no state-(CTest was 53 feet. Reports wereiypp ;., 267 1 rode the ranges | I drought the. plane down to within yy ~ “logged family yesterday and with the mate, they still seé enough orders ment concerning the probe. that only farmlands in Vander- with the rough riders of the U. 8 Br F'/ 150 feet of the ground while" yunungton St. for blocks, help of Red Cross provided sub-(to keep jobs going. |Sources close to his office said|DUTEh County were partially in-i oi "mores today on Opers- | if Game Warden Jackman hunted|s J} SU, Polit, water: from the sistance to last until Monday. Here's a . quick look at the he prefers “that the front remain undated. tio Haylirt y 4 s for stranded deer and elk. hoses shot through the gutted What will happen after that state: : \quiet” in the cold war between, FIBh Water also continued to[tion Haylift. |, Some of the time we were fiy.|PUMING and sprayed many of i "fhe couple, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil] Marion: About 2000 out. of (factions in.the Democratic Party.| Prevail at New Albany but om- It was a rough, cold ride over .= ing through narrow canyons|'h® ghdctators Who stood In the ¥ Jones, and their four children| work. Moving of Farnsworth) But rumors have been thick Ha, he We Sie pe waa the of the A a a x i gag ht seemed to ove! any of the Spectators 3 do not know. radio plant to Ft. Wayne was the this, week in the Courthouse, at- . "1 took the » j . ’ me x~ Yesterday, the wife walked a priscival Saute. Xt alie had An torney’s offices and on street cor- —— its on, The iver was op} Field here SHA yt ut 14 ar- Wate 20 but» sides. he of time it took Mn Be mile from her home at 4158 Rock-|® on Spencer- radioiners around the Courthouse idian- I ville Rd. through. the cabinets). Crosiey Motors is|where politicians are wont to hold| hoor tre noo DIEHL, four feet|TIVIE Hh ents trom Lin. [1 hows Ticka su tha arden) vy ve frigid do model and above the flood stage. apolis correspondents from Lin spotted deer from the pilot's com- alter Weston 1s the weather to call the: sheriff’ down for a change {quick ‘huddles and exchange the N ' Vv son -of 8 Of ne industry (beer bottles 200 Escape Trap coln, Neb. We made the flight partment, they rang the -loud,|Vo*ton and Nannie Weston fice to ask f glass news of the day. : or She had and tainers) is off. The Fox Some 200 residents in the/from Lincoln to-Denver via Oma clanging bell which used to alert done everything could, she|3hd containers) a off. It Is no secret to them that|Crooked Creek area were trapped/ha Friday midnight through 22 paratroops. for the jump. That'Jap Air Ba told Deputy Edward Benclk. Her| pooicville: Employment = off many witnesses have appeared|in a‘flash flood but made their/degrees below zero temperatures go was the signal to dump thé hay P se Fire busband is confined to his ‘bed|sbout 20 per cent. Cutbacks cen- fons Mr. Dalley and his investi-| way to safety a few hours later.|/In an unheated paratroop carrier and we dumped it—10 bales at Kills Fiv Y ks with an allment which has af-/jer i refrigeration (Servel andor Some of them brought) The Wabash also was in proc-(piloted by Maj. William Middleton a time. rive van fected both legs. | Seeger), the result of prod ction] De lawyers with them but iniess of receding. Jt crested atjof Stout Field, Indianapolis. . =» TOKYO, Jan. 30 (UP) . a. ming: demand those cases the witnesses were Vincennes Thursday night and . w= |, HALF DF the bales came apart/—The bodies of five MRS. JONES sald their coal| py w + 2500 to 3000 out ot|™t interviewed. {weather officials said flood con-| IT WAS SO cold that hot roast 3 @' In the slipstream and disinte-|80ldiers were and 10 ran out a day Or 50 ago ANd UP|work in this area. Pump o More witnesses are on tap to be ditions were “improving rapidly.”|Peef sandwiches we bought at grated. Those that didn't plum-{more believed still missing today until yesterday she had obtained nk hit b FR tation|Dterviewed this week and after|The river crested there at 23.87/Ldncoln were fast frozen in a Times Photographer L|oyd. meted down to the ground, sank|!n & fire that swept a two-story fuel from a nearby dump. Then pan a Merl? y waper's fitheir conversation is recorded, the|feet, and had dropped nearly a|*Uitcase on the plane. We later Walton , , , He's never had it Into the snow and broke open on Alr forces barracks at Yokota Afr the food in the house ran out also — of oe — Rad Ay le investigators will sit down and foot in the past 24 hours. thawed them out over a radiator ., ogg contact with the rocks. Force base near here in early Deputy Bencik got in touch|back but Magnavox is hoiding up|JcC/d® If. the matter is ready for| Farmland in Knox County stim! {he Bachelor Officers Quarters «We dumped hay at four points| Morning hours. gy with Red Cross and obtained an|jobwise. Retailing off slight presentation to the jurors or|was under water and numerous ®' 1OWIY. [son of Station WIRE, Indianapo-iand then turned back through the| ¥ive men were seriously burned . | whether more supporting evidence [families were forced Gradually, IT have acquired airiy, gng 41 bales of canyons to head for Lowry and|!n the conflagration which totally advance of $5. Another deputy, Richmond: 2600 out of wori.| wo Wl LLC alii to ‘higher|, .o clothing. The overcoat, suit, “04 hay. We were VATE Rarrack destroyed the barracks Elbert Rackley, bought two sacks Wayne Works (school bus bodies) . i light shirt, light sox and lowcut|[Pound for the White River dis-| "'o, ng ned was gone, there|12 Other victims were nly tn of coal and some food and de-|off seasonally and Brunswick shoes 1 wore when I left Indian-|trict of northwestern Colorado/was nothing to sit on and we/JWred. Those Airside hm Iivered it to the family. It will] Radio (Decca) was taken over . ery Hla. thom paper Tn ihia[C, 1e6d herds of dese and elk onjstood hanging ‘on the struts at|no, Tiepied 16 ThE Seth statibn last only over the week-end, last summer by Purves Mfg. Co. n £ n 4 were like tissue paper in this the hospital for treatment. Lesser make army foot lockers. An- the western slope of the Rockies, ship, Now and then an upwhite arctic wilderness. draft from the canyons would|/UT®d Were treated medically at Ownie Bush's Other. plant where effect is felt is ws] By the time we lined up to Ad toss us and we' our heads|th® base. TReieY refrigeration and radios. 368 Bills still face Legislature ................. Page 8,08 the hay transport vester-| JUU% oie tie for hay and|iOBether oF against the sides ofl, one, of (he victims was fm. Life Story be Ametioan Co. (stoves for (General news and features, Pages 2-12) form-—wool shirt, Ip trousers, [Tepresent a big part of the state's the Plane. a Taadtassly | Vani \déntitied “Then owhe Maytag Products wool sox, flyi .|game LSO names withheld pending ® ine Ownie Bust, Nobody | (radios, roller skates, ete,) Jobs On the Front Line for Civil Rights . . . a picture ing boots. My haberdasher is the Capb of Renolubout the first serious flying. ne|DOtfication of next of Kine thought he had a chance |Of Approximately 15 per cent. BOTY ...iviiviiinninncnrinanarisearsssss Page 18, Tenth which likes to keep its(and Capt. William Glichrist ofi}aq ever done, and it was enough to stop the ball but he did Columbus: 300 to 400 ‘ unem- (Society and women's news, fashions, foods, gardens, Pages 13-24) |SUests from freezing to death-|Kemmer, Wyo. pilot and copilot, itor him, It was the first time I] Killed vurt and Bush had made one of |PioYed. Break came at Christ-| and will keep a lot of people from [lifted the C47 off Lowry field in-lever saw a radio commentator ’ ’ his miracle stops again.” mas. The radio division of Nob-|It's on the House . . . candid photos of our legis- freezing, too, in snowlocked com-(t9 brilliant sunshine. It was com-|speechlons. Wh * toh Mt-Sparks down, dus to televi- la gp, [munities over the West. iparatively warm in the sun—15/ We couldn't see many deer en Ownle Bushi, presiden n changeover.” Diesel engin BOPB ...cociuinsnanrnsintannsnnnesaness Page 35. above zero, thetic animals hudthe works slacking, not badly, (Editorials, politics, world report, radio, amusements, Pages 26-38)| AT LOWRY, the” co-ordinator] ‘This plane, unlike the CATO tore thetls Athi and one of the greatest Terre Haute: Boasts best em- of the greatest airlift operation which brought us to Lowry from world. We came into Den shortstops in baseball his- [ployment level in mig-state put Butler wins; Illinois upsets Minnesota .......... Page 87. [next to Berlin is Col. Joo K.|Lincoln, was insulated. But they dusk. ver of tory, is the subject of a se- [still has 3000 registered unem-| (Sports, Pages 37-40; classified ads, Pages 41-47/ business, Page 48) McNay of Ft. Harrison. He had|had to leave the door open to ries of eight stories start- |ployed. Recipe Foods (mayon- . : 45 planes—C47s and C82 flying|drop the hay and so I could take ing on the sports pages of |Daise and salad dressing) wants Other Features on Inside Pages |boxcars—operating out of Lowry pictures. «. |pllots of the Tenth:it was jus today's Times. to go on seven-day week. . ‘all morning, on hay drops to; We flew into the Rockies. Below another mission ® It 1s the first complete : Employment on | Amuse- Editorials ...28, Dr. Jordan «+23 Radio veers + 30 stranded cattle, us was a rippling sea of white, Hayrt, ‘ story of the life of the Bast |/8r-ago fevel due to strong) ments ..34-35 Fashions ....22|Junior Page 33 Real Estate ..8) Three helicopters rose into the broken here and there by roofs, (Another Story, Page Twe) Side boy who rose to fame limestone Jaustsy. RCA plant, Eddie Ash ...38 Food ........190 Dan Kidney 26/Ruark ......20 air to take out ill persons from and chimneys and fences like en ———————— furniture university “boom-| Beauty ......17 Foreign | Mrs, Manners 22 Scherrer ....26/towns isolated by’ snow drifts. |flotsa ft : great and fortune in- the Amer |. 0 . Blau 8 . m drifting on - the 1 $28,000 Perfect © {ing : rveveessdB Affairs, 26,°27 Movies ......35 Schools .....20| I boarded another CAT for the ocean of snow. lean League. Peru: Employment reported 25 Bowling .....40 Forum .....:26 Needlework .28(Science .....31/hayride with Colorado State . LONDON, Jan, 20 (UP)—The First story in The Sun-'. |per cent under last year but rail-| Business ....48 Gardening ...17 Othman ,....20 Sports ....37-40| Game Warden Ralph E. Jackman, WE PASSED over lonesome Times exclusively, [road payrolls are and Meta Given ..19 Parliamentary | Earl | 35 who shivered and longed for his herds of cattly clustered around more stories this |steady, and furniture s Is) «++:20|Hollywood ..34| Law «is...16 Women's ,13-24/0ld home of Jasper, Ind. on the where ‘hay had been/left $28,000 to exclusively in your reviving after first of year let-|Classified 4147/In Indpls ....3|Pattern .....22/World beautiful Patoka, Ty several days ago. Wek I” Indianapolis Times, down, Clubs ......,18 Inside Jndpls 20 Politics .....27 Report +ee27) With me, also, was Glenn Wil-iflew at 15000 feet, by Mount|M, Perfect, : 4 i ’ : go : " ? fig +! ’ ¢ f . ¥ ' A