Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1949 — Page 7

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‘Little Chicago’ of Midwest Has . .6700 Jobless; GE Plant Hit Hardest

By HAROLD WH. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor

‘ FT. WAYNE, Mar, 12-This town, the “little Chicago” of the job jaundice with little worried circles appearing under its workaday eyes. wid

Midwest, has a touch of The smokestack forest from

bread isn't blighted by any means but there's a little less smoke in the sky. ' Payroll lines have been shorter since the last quar-

ter of last year. This town took a pretty tough clout on the chin last Novem- - per, still feels the punch, al-

though ‘to all appearances there|

are more fish-tailed Cadillacs and other new cars on the streets than ever, The warning signals were run up by the shipping rooms of local factories as early as October, and they are still there, fluttering de-| flantly In the breéze. Orders were canceled or squeezed down, and «the word drifted back through the production lines that the postwar break had come, 6700 Out of Work

Actually the town wasn't hurt

too much, but there are still about |3,

6700 out of work, almost a 10 per cent dent in. the 790,800 weekly payroll, Hardest hit is General Electric’s small motors. and refrigerator plant. The layoff there is reported about 2500. But the two main radio manufacturers, Magnavox and Farnsworth, are not far behind. Magnavox has built | two plants in. the South and| Farnsworth has just been sold to| the International Telephone & _ Telegraph Co. It was on the topes. : International Harvester has held up fairly well (down about 300) but is due for another cut. Auto parts industries account for about 700 idle. : The gasoline pump industry is still groping in the dark of underproduction. © The big oil companies set out to build-up their super-stations. rather than add new ones’ after the ‘war. That hurt the pump business, Change Lines The pump companies have ventured ' into other lines. One (Tokheim) makes cigaret vending machines; another (Wayne) makes compressors and hoists, and the third (Bowser) is making all sorts of liquid handling machinery. But Ft. Wayne is not all on the down side. Two industries

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This business panorama of Ft. Wayne is another summary by Mr. Hartley on the key towns In the Hoosier economy. Another will appear next Sunday. i .- east and would have been wiped out by the express highways. Water Plans - FOUR: Expanded water works and sewage disposal. Up to the voters. ; FIVE: Improvement of the city-owned light and power plant. The Indiana-Mich Electric Cao. operates a private power company, has most of the industrial business. The city’s plant, serving mostly residences, is

One of Ft. Wayne's go-get- . ters , . . He is Ermin P. Ruf, president of the Wayne Paper Box Co. He's headed many civ-

ic efforts. One year he went out singlechanded and raised $30; 000 -for the. town's civic symphony.

, . Charles Busching, B. 3 Hoyoe' bi ot banka {Lincoln | Nae * When i ot to build filling stations after the war, the pump ‘tional Bank and Trust Co.) and civic leader with a : companies Su ig oil companies decided the aerial aT the | Bowser Pump Co, which deflected achievements, keeps his finger on the town's business pulse, says | the blow by converting to other liquid Rr ars Eh - Lon re it is still strong, despite layoffs. - , ~ og . “It's nothing. It happens all!

Prof yw Sy Scoff 8 Ex-City Manager with intent to commit murder, pe Dapor Spe a oupia ae in ion 00d rons it nik the pf pro. a ed as Killer was held before Judge John W. or Juvenile Ail Ticers

Mar. 1 o|Dinkelsplel, Mr. Frazier, former OAKLAND, Cal, Mar. 12 (UP) should be debarred from having|, REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Mar. Many Sordid Incidents Involving Youth

Winston-Salem; N.C. eity man —~—Kermif Owen Frazier, 38—Dr. Andrew Lawson, 87, oldest families.” [ ur Dues Ere ‘was | ischarged with slaying Mrs, Start in Fun Arcade af Local Terminal By DONNA MIKELS

active member of the University) The child is the first-born to raigned today on charges of mur- Mary L. Thompson, 58, when she of California faculty, sald today nis second wife, whom he married gering the mother of twin daugh- tried to prevent him seeing the there was nothing startling about 18 years ago. The baby has two ers, one of whom had spurned girl he loved. Still hospitalized Not. all of the people ‘who stream through the Indianapolis Terminal Bus Station at night are heading for “far away places.”| to _& baby boy Monday. Many of them-—the bobbysox-aged girls in sequin-trimmed Ea

being a new father. | half-brothers, aged 59 and 57, and his love. ; |were Doris, the 29-year-old fwin_ His wife, Isabel, 39, gave birth several great-grand nephews, all! The arraignment of Frazier, ac- who rejected him, and her sister, dresses and the clusters of fuzzy-faced youths waiting for *pick- : #, ; ups”—they’re heading for trouble. } : ; : y :

older than he is. ‘cused also of shooting the twins Sharle. ‘ To Juvenile Aid Division officers the station spells headache

With 4 capital “Ho They chet ball-playing admirers is to lounge % We have been working for months to in Telévisi

own. . - SIX: Grade separation. The

west section of town. The ralilroad must be rerotited or ele vated. The Nickel Plate will reroute but opposes elevation (too costly). The question has been before the council for two years. Ft. Wayne also wants better air passenger and freight facilities. It has a top airport (Armybuilt) with 300-foot runways from 6700 to 7000 feet long but is not equipped for commerce. Boast of Symphony Ft. Wayne boasts of its civic symphony, Igro Bukettoff, director, . Public support above ticket sale is $30,000 a year. One year the entire sum was raisedy single-handed by Ermin P. Ruf, president of the Wayne Paper Box and Printing Co. .

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vision. But despite this, the sta_{from then on is for the male to tion réinain one. of downtown In request the girl to have her ple-

dianapolis’ No. 1 troyble spots. ture taken with him. She gigg!Many of the worst incidents ingly gives assent, . the = pair

happen Many miles from the CoP. crowds into the small seat and|

Der nu RUPKSE 20g Tinks Bis. the acquaintanceship is launched. \ But the girls by no means ac-|

A feen-age. girl was driven to the country and raped by two men|cept thei gost pleture, Pasta i an —~police traced their meeting back/an escort. One evening - - ng tractive girl had some 20 plotures|

“pickup” in the bus terminal. Ft. Wayne is not going broke. va 15-year-old prostitute who|taken, several with Military Police, Far from that. The county has admitted contacts with some 300|who came in for regular checksome $226,914,000 a year to buy|,on named the bus station asiup, béftwe she picked out one to what Jt wants. The of Cadillacs One Of her “hangouts” before she|take her home. . fast. You gee 2 ot of Sa ACS ontered prostitution for cab driv-| Not only does this allow shopPushing the 1r ‘pois NOSES, ors and bellboys. ping around” for escorts. It's a pg h (rattle, ood life in-| The Arcade in the bus station is mark of achievement to tage, 27% a : ay ru a headache within a headache for home more of the tin-framed pic-| ane Bat thin ie C1 _-® those concerned with juvenile de-|tures at the end of the evening

‘you quickly that this is the home th of the other girls. - linquency. The prospective pick-/than any . of the Lincoln Life Insurance Co., urs both boys and gifls, may

the largest in the Midwest with ol wes lounge around -in the station : i: je exception o Nort tern proper for awhile but eventually Hoosier Oil

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there frequently and the manage- . .|near the “take-your own picture ment itself has improved super chines. Accepted pi dure bring you the B values and service.

started since the war. They help take up the slack. U. 8. Rubber (mountings for automobiles) and

the Cleveland - Graphite Bronze !OWn” between the oceans.

Co. (bearings) employ about 1400 and 200 respectively. Department Stores are prospering. Wolf and Dessauer, one of the smartest in the Middle West, still gets the lion's share of the trade. ¥ 3 Fishman’s (women’s wear), . next to Wolf and Dessauer’s, finds that dresses still move easily from $23 to $45 but have slowed up beyond that point. Their stock is clean and geared to a lively Easter trade. : Approve Morals

Mayor Henry D. Granning Jr. clamped down on slot machines,

bingo and the baseball pools-last year, ‘then let the slot machines) back into (the private clubs in|Neb., a state chairman who will Nk one complains about|

January. the-towr's morals;

The leading = newspaper; the Chicago hotel, said that “the

News-Sentinel, is run by charming but practical-minded Helene . Fogllinger. Her newspaper has just contributed a $125,000 open air theater to the community. Her opposition is the Journal-Gazette (morring ard Sunday) which gained strength under the late Willlam Kunkle and is now run ‘by ‘the ‘other stockholders, and-is strong on Sunday. The biggest banker in town is Charles Busching, president of the $84,720,508 Lincoln National Bank and Trust Co. He is realistic, too. He knows about the. creep-up of unemployment and sees no change. High Pay Troubles From some of the financial men of the~town you learn that the Electrical Workers .of the CIO

have pushed wages so high it has!

become difficult to lure a new industry into Ft, Wayne. : They tell you, too, that there are no more than 200 new unoccupied houses in town and these should move easily in spring. ~ In Ft. Wayne there is .one ‘significant set of figures. ‘With 35,000 at work in selected industries 20, million KWH of power was ised. Now with 32,000 employed in those same industries, 2¢ million KWH is used per month. The answer: Industry is cutting payrolls with machinery. The civic program as outlined by Earl (Mike) Ward in the impressive Chamber of Commerce “ Bldg. 1s extensive but is glued in fund-famished apathy,

Highway System ONE: The express highway System. Ft. Wayne is the point

at which the St. Joe and St.|

Mary's rivers join to form the staried Maumee. The rivers chop up the town. Two through highways were planned. But they involved In 10 years the elimination of 1500 homes. The council asked for a referendum and the people said no. . TWO: A Memorial Coliseum. A meeting place big enough for sports events and conventions. But Where to get the $2-t0-$3 milon? THREE: Housing rehabilitation. A polite name for slum clearance. These areas lie along the railroad tracks in ‘the south-

% We have a complete selection of TelMutual. : y There still is smoke in the sky, they gravitate toward the Arcade g) oom Hinte d evision sets for every purse and purand lots of factories are busy in|of pinball, target and automatic . ! Ft. Wayne, . |photo machines, There's an oil rush on in South- pose There is no mistake about this ‘Drugslere Cowboys’ |western Indiana. For 30 days We offer GUARANTEED installation

town being a hip off the.Chi- ; e'some B85 lease men have been cago block, the biggest “little On a typical night in the Arcade!

v“€la quartet of “drugstore cowboys” circulating through the territory, stand near the automatic record- leising all land which might coning machine, one twanging a tain oil guitar and the other three wall-| Tne principal company leasing ing a plaintive western-type tune. 1anq is Youngblood & YoungIf someone offers to pay the price, /p1004 of Oklalma who reprethey'll make a record. Otherwise|gqo.¢ operating oi] companies. they just lean against the soft-| phe Indiana activity has been Ji drink counter and sing. i in Montgomery, Parke, Putnam Around the rom a scattering ,4 other counties including Da-

of boys and a few middle-aged | Vermillion, Owen, Clay and ‘men play the pinball or target cone, ‘

For 1950 Elections |machines. And in and out of the | CHICAGO, Mar. 12 (UP)—Re-|room flit the girls, traveling alone Ors Suan’ 175.000 acres are republican State Chairmen will of In Eiggling groups from the Ja dn meet here tomorrow to plan for Station to Arcade to the restroom| But there won't any. er.) the 1950 Congressional elections|2nd back again, looking and being ricks going up soon. The leases g on the basis of lessons learned looked at. : [run for 10 years, and geological in the 1948 campaign it was dis- The best way, apparently, for|and geophysical surveys have to {closed today ’ 7 ithe girls to meet one of theirin- be made first.

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GOP Chairmen Flock to Chicago

Plan Campaigns

act as temporary chairman of tomorrow's meeting at a

meeting points toward the- 1950 campaign.” “if He said it will give chairmen from all the states a chance to, get together and.swap campaign | experiences of 1948. } “We must profit by past ex:| perience,” he said, “for any plan | for action in 1950. We must get our message to.the. people.” vi Fonan will- preside over what started o to be a meeting of the 20 her ds and western state chairmen, but which grew, into a national meeting at the! suggestion of National Chairman Hugh L. Scott Jr. = Mr, Scott wil not be present.| He is now in a Washington naval hospital, recovering from a back! injury: mr TA ‘ : ’ Stop Weaseling,

Peterson Tells GOP DE KALB, III, Mar. 12 (UP)— Gov, Val Peterson of Nebraska ' warned-the Republican Party to-| night to “stop weaseling.” . | He told the John Ericcson ReBublican League here that .the party sho avoid catering special interests, b “Parties lose- their right to ex-| istence when merely to keep ™ power they pander to every whim | L

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