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Fear Transit Fare Hike May Reduce Riders
Zone System Urged To Increase Revenue In Plea Before PSC
By ROBERT BLOEM @An Indianapolis Railways official estimated today that the fare increase sought from the Public Service Commission might result in a drop of as much as 10 per cent in the number of and trolley riders. all Dale, executive vice president of the transit utility, added, however, that the higher fare collected from the re-
"maining riders would more than
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Trapped in
Surface Crews Voice ‘Who Knows All the
Deadly Mine Fire Gas Blocks Rescue of 4
800-Foot Pit
Faith in Foreman Tricks’ Underground
GIRARDVILLE, Pa, May 5 (UP)—Crack rescue
make up the’ difference and would bring in substantial increases in gross revenue. The company seeks an increase
squads, wearing gas masks against deadly carbon monoxide, waged a grim battle today to reach four comrades believed fighting to stay alive in the depths of a fire-swept anthra-
Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer. Ample evidence is seen atop the
ot a day. The station will go on
the air with the 500-Mile Race Mey 30.
When Is Teachers’ Pay Hike
Really Not an
Increase?
School Board Announces Average Raise Of $170, but Doesn't Mention ‘Added Days’
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By DONNA MIKELS x When is a teacher's pay increase not an increase?
Apparently when it is granted to teachers
Public. Schools System. At least
in. the Indianapolis that's tho Anse indignant city
teachers got when they took chalk to blackboard to analyze their “raise” for the 49-50 teaching year. - Last week the Indianapolis School Board announced an “av-
erage increase” of $170 to Indianapolis teachers next year and a total of about $425,000 more salary for the year, “Not a true picture,” chorused indignant schoolmarms and masters. What's more they employed some good elementary school arithmetic to prove their point. What the board didn’t point out, the teachers said; is that they added 35 minutes to the teachers’ working day and six days to the school year, plus. the four days that were added to the school term in the "48-49 year. Breaking this down into salary per day, some teachers actually will be making as much as $2.99 per day less next year than in the '47-48 school year. This figure was determined in the personal computations of one longtime Indianapolis teacher, holder of a master’s degree, who is drawing the Indianapolis maximum of $4400, increased to $4500 for next year. Here are his calculations on the subject: ¥Added Daily Schedule | 8:15 a. m.'to 8:30 | . (earlier opening) .... 15 mins. 1 11:55 a.m. to noon... 5 mins. | 3:00 p. m. to 3:15 p. m. 15 mins.
Extra time per day. 35 mins. #194950 School Term. 190 days 1947-48 School Term. 180 days
Extra working days.. 10 days 118.8 Extra Hours This amounts to 6650 extra minutes or 118.3 extra hours. This plus 10 added days totals up to 29.7 days of work added, the way this Hoosier schoolmaster figures.
$5000; Ft. Wayne, $4830; Kast Chicago, $5200, and South Bend, $4650, compared to Indianapolis’ maximum of $4500. : In Indianapolis the Federation says, most increases were to the beginning brackets to encourage new teachers, leaving the veteran instructors in Indianapolis schools on the short end of the pay increase schedule. They hasten to add, ahowever, that even the teachers who get $200 more next year than this year, the largest increase in the schedule, are far from overpaid. The $200 increase dwindles when you figure these teachers were entitled to $100 of it for contract renewal and that the added working days soak up about $90 of it. Subtract $190 from the $200 “raise” and you'll have $10 more per year, says the Federaon, '
'lasked Mr. Dale,
from the present 10-cent fare to 13 cents and two rides for a quarter, Under cross-examination by Puble Counselor William Steckler, Mr. Dale also cited a number of instances where cities
“lare using zone fares in which the
price of a ride is based partly on distance. Some Runs Dropped Mr. Dale testified that a number of runs had been eliminated recently during off-peak hours and that if these runs were not reinstated the company would save more than $40,000. a year. Total cost of operating the runs eliminated would be about $160,000 a year, but at the same time the company would lose more than: $100,000 in fares as a result of their elimination, he said. The runs cut out were estimated
miles a week. Mr, Steckler argued that from this testimony it would appear the company would save more by cutting off more off-peak runs than it would gain by increasing fares and thus losing riders, Mr. Dale stuck to his contention that the increased fare would benefit the company more than cutting runs, Reduction In Riders “Isn't it true,” Mr. Steckler “that where] transit rates have been increased over 10 cents the results has been a great reduction in the number of riders?” “The reduction varies from as little as 2 or 3 per cent to as much as 15 or 18 per cent,” Mr. Dale replied. But while it is generally conceded that such rate increases have reduced the number of passengers, such increases are considered to have produced more net revenue needed by the traction companies, Mr. Dale said.
Saved by Shoelace
'In 40-Foot Shaft
ST. LOUIS, May 5 (UP)— Nineteen - month -old Tommy O'Hare fell intb an open 40foot elevator shaft but his shoelace saved him. The shoelace caught on a nail two feet from the top. of the shaft.
His 10-year-old brother reached down and pulled Tommy up.
Gifts, Offers
Swamp Papa
As Quads Leave N.Y. Agog
Presents Tighten Up
Housing Problem
In Father's Three-Room Apartment
NEW YORK, May 5 (UP)—The housing problem grew by ‘the &
minute today for Charles Collins, newest quadruplets.
29-year-old father of New York's
While the six-foot, four-inch brokerage clerk went to his moth-
er's home to visit his other child into his tiny, yesterday to his wife, Ethel, 27. Among the gifts were four cribs, four high chairs and four carriages. ¥ Mr. Collins, happy but exhaust-
In continuing calculations he
ed after a sleepless night, said
three-room apartment for the
, & 2%-year-old boy, gifts poured
two boys and girls born
ounces, and a girl, 3 pounds 7 ounces. At Lebanon Hospital, where {mother and babies were reported { “doing fine,” it was said the in-
figures that teachers at his level/there had been no other multiple| fants will be kept in an incubator
worked 180 days for $4400 last! year or $24.44 per day. They'll put in 29.7 working days|
births in his family.
Directors Meet If the children born to his blond
{until they weigh five pounds.
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| Their father, meanwhile, was
{besieged by contract offers. from
next year, figuring the added time wife live, as hospital authorities/milk, furniture, layetfe and other per day, for $4500. A little long confidently expected, they will be companies. He turned them over
division shows they'll be working for $21.45 per day, or $2.99 less than last year, “It isn’t that we resent the extra time as much as we do a lot pf hullabullo about the magnaninous pay increases the school board says we're getting,” one teacher said. The Federation of Indianapolis Public School. teachers also has something to say about next
Year's salary schedule for Indianapolis teacher, Far From Overpaid Hoosierland capital city ‘continues to remain below the maximums paid in other cities says the Federation. Evansville pays » » J
New York’s second successful birth of quadruplets. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zarief of Brooklyn are parents of quadruplets born in 1944, The multiple births were causing stirs in many circles. The Associated Hospitals Service, of which the Collins’ are members, said its board of directors was meeting to see what action to take about payments, The babies were born within five minutes under a light anesthetic and weighed a total of 17 pounds, 14 ounces. They were born in this order; A boy, 4 pounds 15 ounces; a girl, 4 pounds 3 ounces;
a boy, 5 pounds 5
{to an attorney.
Cleveland Bandits Get $25,000 Payroll
ing’ In complete silence, took a $25,000 payroll from officials of the Lincoln Heights Savings & Loan Co. today noon after forcing their car to a halt. Two cars of the robbers forced the bankers’ auto to a halt, then they smashed their car windows with pistol butts and took the money which was in seven bags in the rear seat. ‘ The robbers worked in complete silence.
to save the company 4797 vehicle a
CLEVELAND, May 5 (UP)—|{ '| A gang of'masked gunmen, work-
cite mine.
Tuesday night, still were living, the rescuers settled down to a “long, drawn-out” struggle to get to them. The rescue work posed terrific obstacles. Smoke drove back rescuers who tried to get down the mine shaft. Carbon monoxide mingled with the choking smoke. What the rescuers faced was indicated through the night when carbon monoxide seeped from the shaft, drawn to the surface by air pumping operations. Tests at the surfacé showed the gas “would knock out a mule.”
Work to Limit Rebuffed in attempts to get own the wide mine shaft, the rescue workers this morning blocked off all but a 20-feet-by-20-feet opening at the top. Working three at a time, they started the slow process of lining the narrower space with timber and burlap. The men worked two hours at a time, the limit of their endurance. A second big fan was brought to the scene to try to force air down the smaller opening, when it is completed, and push an air lifeline down through the smoke. Until the smoke is cleared, rescuers cannot enter the two lower
believed to be.
smoke, carbon monoxide and intense. heat, the rescue workers swore they would not give up “until the men are out.” The fire was raging in the Packer No. 5 Colliery of the Gilberton Coal Co. The trapped men’s chances rested mainly on two facts. Lots of Airholes The hillside In the area fis honeycombed with about a dozen “airholes,” or mine breaches. It was hoped enough air could be forced through these holes to keep the men alive. Veteran miners were confident that if the men still lived and were together, Night Foreman William O’Brien “will keep them alive until they're rescued.” “Bill knows every trick of mining,” the men on the surface said. “He knows how to get to the spots where it's safe, The b563-year-old Mr. O’Brien was making his nightly inspection trip through the lower levels when the fire was discovered late Tuesday night. The other three were trapped when they went to warn him. The attempt to narrow the shaft opening into the mine came after rescue workers were stymied in previous attempts to et down into. the mine. “Fog nozzles” on water lines failed to “melt” the smoke pouring up the shaft, Hope that the four trapped miners still were alive was renewed last night when the air pressure gauge dropped suddenly from 90 to 45 pounds, indicating that the trapped men may have cut into an air line into which three giant compressors on the hillside pumped life-saving oxyen.
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levels where the trapped men are In the face of the hazards of
Clinging to the hope that the four men, trapped 800 E./feet underground since late =
UAW Starts Strike At Ford's Plant
56,000 Walk Out
At River Rouge DETROIT, May 5 (UP)-—CIO United Auto Workers struck ‘the Ford Motor Co's. key River Rouge plant today in a walkout over an alleged “speedup” that could idle a total of 1352000 workers throughout Ford's far-flung in-
dustrial empire within three weeks. . More than 58,000 workers
dropped their tools a few minutes before 11 a. m. (Indianapolis
plant, charging that Ford was forcing them to make cars too fast in relation to the number of men on the job, About 3200 others left their jobs at the company’s LincolnMercury division here, The strike began after failure of an 11th hour attempt by union and company negotiators to set-
recessed last night, resumed less than two hours before the strike deadline.
-r. Production Cut Off The halting of 1600-foot Ford
Time), and streamed out of the *
tle the dispute. The negotiations, which began yesterday and were
Record 30° Heat to Last Another Day
Expected Showers Fail to Materialize;
Wave Grips Midwest LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m., 686 10a m,, 81 7a. m.. 8 11 a m.. 84 8a m.. 71 12 (Noon) 86 Sa m.., 1 1p m.. 8
No relief from the early May heat wave is in sight during the next 24 hours as temperatures today and tomorrow were expected to mount to 90 degrees, Showers and thunderstorms previously predicted to break the unseasonable heat wave failed to materialize in the Indianapolis area the Weather Bureau said. For the third straight day temperatures ' threatened to break records in the city. Readings this afternoon were expected to equal the 54-year-old mark for the day. Hot and sunny was the weatherman's forecast for this afternoon and tomorrow. Yesterday was the hottest May 4 in Indianapolis’ history as the 90-degree mark at 4 p. m. eclipsed the previous high of 88 set in 1805. It also was the hottest day of the year, Entire Midwest Feels Heat The entire Midwest is in the grip of the spring heat wave, but United States forecasters said it might begin to get cooler in some portions today. : 3 The mercury soared to 91.2 in Chicago yesterday, breaking the
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Rush Reinforcements To Arm Crown Colony By Land, Sea and Air |
Order Disclosed in Commons Debate : On London Policy Toward Communists LONDON, May 5 (UP)—Defense Minister A. V. Alex
ander told Commons today that Britain is sending air, land and sea reinforcements to Hong Kong to defend it against possible Communist attack.
He said infantry, tanks,
Big Three to Keep Airlift in Action
During Conference LONDON, May § (UP)-—For-eign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Commons today that the West. ern Powers would pursue at the Big Four meeting on Germany the same “spirit of firmness and reasonableness” that broke the blockade of Berlin. “It was not we who were responsible,” Mr. Bevin said, blaming the Soviet Union for the blockade. But he expressed hope that the Big Four meeting in Paris this month would find a basis for settlement of the whole German problem. Mr. Bevin spoke briefly in Commons shortly after the Big
Four
field guns, anti-aircraft guns,
fighter aircraft, an additional cruiser and perhaps an aire
craft carrier would be rushed to Britain's key crown colony, Mr. Alexander also dise
China situation that Britain now “an entirely new defense setup in the Far East,” a council . consisting of local political rep« resentatives and the commanders in chief of the air, sea and land arms. The defense minister first declared the Labor government's intention of maintaining a hands off policy .in China, but under questioning by Conservatives said that Hong Kong would be dee fended, ' City of 1,750,000 ~ Hong Kang, which lies at the mouth of the Canton Kiver about 90 miles south of Canton, was ceded to Britain by China in January, 1841. One hundred years later, Dec. 25, 1941, it was occupied by the Japanese.
announced ‘agreement to lift
all-time high for May 4.
May 3 on record.
an 1895 record for May 4. Other high temperatures terday were 91 at Louisville, 90 at 8t, Louis, 92 at Huntington, W. Va, 88 at Milwaukee and Cleveland and 86 at Minneapolis.
The vious day was Chicago's hottest House
Columbus, O., recorded 90 In mid-afternoon yesterday to top
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The father (center) and two brothers of Joseph Wolwok, one of four miners trapped underound in a how oe Girardvill, Pa., wait anxiously for news. Rescue workers were battling thick smoke fo reach 800 feet underground.
the men, s
assembly line and 1000-foot Lin-coln-Mercury line cut off daily production of 4700 "automobiles and trucks. Pickets massed at the gates of the 1075-acre River Rouge plant with signs denouncing the “speedup.” It was the first major strike since 1941 when the UAW struck for nine days and won bargaining recognition. Ford dealers throughout the nation faced the threat of empty showrooms. A company spokesman said dealers had an average of two and one-half cars on hand. There is no factory backlog. The walkout could force shutdown of Ford plants in 33 cities in a week to three weeks.
New York City had 80. Tonight in Indianapolis the mercury was expected to dip to a minimum of 65.
Ex-Convict Shot At Noblesville
Wounded by Police Seeking to Arrest Him
Times Slate Service NOBLESVILLE, May 5—A paroled convict was shot in both legs last night as police were at- : tempting to arrest him on a disUnion Makes Proposal orderly conduct charge was Shortly after the negatiations|termed in ‘not critical” condibegan, the union presented a pro- tion in Hamilton County Hospital posal for ending the dispute, sug- today following & blood transgesting that it be settled “on the |fusion. {basis of the company’s accept-| Officers sald Robert Glenn, 36, lance and initiation of practices Ipicked up a piece of iron pipe and (and procedures with respect to advanced threateningly when work standards on assembly they went to his home in the lines which are in effect in a {southern part of the city to arrest major portion of the automobile him after his wife, Lorene, had industry.” {signed a disorderly conduct The company’s reply to ihe|charge. proposal was not disclosed immes| Patrolman Larry Bay said he diately. {shot Glenn in one leg with a .38 Walter Reuther, international|caliber pistol. He said he fired UAW president, entered the nego- again, striking the other leg, when tiations because of the serious+| Glenn continued to advance. Even ness of the strike crisis. Pre- then the combined efforts of Mr. viously he had rejected an invita- Bay and three other officers were tion of Ford officials to partici- required to handcuff Glenn. pate. | Glenn was on parole from the As the meeting opened, union Indiana State Prison after serv{members and company super-|ing time for a grand larceny con- | visors prepared for a walkout. viction in March, 1948,
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headq | Mr, Lindsey, who was born in Betiy 16a " |{Lindseyville, Ky. took up resi-|Lindsey, and two half idence here after his discharge|Jimmy Harry Lindsey and Larry,
close to Soviet head today that Russia's first step on lifting the Berlin blockade would be to demand a plebiscite to force establishment of a central German government. Russia would want the plebIscite to ask the German people merely if they wanted a united or split Germany, Observers said virtually every German would vote “yes” for a united Germany. Five Key Points Cited By this means, it was said, Russia would hope to: ONE. Block formation of a western German state In the American, British and French zones, TWO. Establish a central German government and spread Communist and Soviet influence beyond the confines of the Soviet zone. THREE. Block participation of Western Germany in the Atlantic Pact. ! FOUR. Block participation of Western Germany in the Western Union. FIVE. Gain a volce in the control and management of the great industrial Ruhr,
issesdbasaiaia—s atm ———n FOUND AFTER 40 YEARS LAUREL BPRING, N. J., May b (UP)~—Mrs, Anna Mick lost her diamond engagement ring down the bathtub drain 40 years ago, and an exhaustive search through the plumbing failed to uncover it. Yesterday it was discovered in the front yard by a workman
the ir the blockade next Thursday and
BERLIN, May 6 (UP) Souris
British forces recaptured it in - September, 1045, and a civil ad-
call a Council of Foreign Min-|ministration took over from the isters meeting in Paris May. 23. [British military government nine Mr, Bevin also told the cheering|manths tater. LAT that the Allled Living in ita 350 square miles continue “unti) the situation has are an estimated £750,000 " been finally cleared up.” sons, including about 7000 Russians to Demand subjects from the United King-
13-Hour Bendix Meeting Breaks Up
BOUTH BEND, May 85 (UP) A 13-hour mediation meeting bee tween federal coneciliators and officials of the Bendix Aviation Corp. and the striking CIO United Auto Workers broke up without
results at 4:45 a. m. today. A fourth meeting was scheduled for 3 p. m, today, the 16th day of a strike by 7500 Bendix workers
and in protest against the dis. charge of 47 employees. ie While the meeting, which began at 2 p. m. yesterday, was in prog. ress, eight trucks moved brake dies and parts belo: to the Nash Motor Co. of the Nash-Kele vinator Corp. out of the strikes bound plant.
Ingrid’s Mate Hits |
Divorce Rumors
ROME, May 5 (UP)—Messina newsmen sald today that Dr, Peter Lindstrom told them that neither he nor his actress-wife, Ingrid Bergman, intends to seek a divorce, Rather; he sald, he is bound to his wife by “indissolue ble affection.” . 5 The newsmen Interviewed Mr, Lindstrom at the raflway station at Messina on the northeast tip of Sicily: last night shortly before,
erecting a trellis.
a concrete retaining wall at the railroad overhead.
in the European Theater.
John Lovell, 24, of 2019 Broadway, another Uunited driver, told police he was parked, waiting for the light in Virginia Ave. when the cab driven by Mr. Lindsey, came speeding out of Maryland Bt. Mr. Lindsey's taxi, police were told, crashed into the left front door of Mr. Lovell's machine, skidded down the street 123 feet, hit the iron utility pole and crashed into a eoncrete wall which supports the Big Four Railroad overhead. . As the wildly careening taxi struck the wall, police said, the driver was catapulted to the side~ walk. He died just. after being placed in a General Hospital ambulance. He suffered a compound fracture of the skull, The accident happened shortly before 5 a. m. Immediately following the crash, Mr. Lovell leaped. from his
uarters to summon aid,
from service, ; Ho. 8Suyived by, Bi
ville,
he boarded a train for Rome.
Cab Driver Killed as Taxi Rams Downtown Abutment
Vehicle Sideswipes Second Car Before Striking Utility Pole and Caroming Into Wall
A United cab driver was killed this morning when his car side swiped another taxicab, bounced off a utility pole and smashed into
Maryland Bt. and Virginia Ave,
The dead man was Earl Wright Lindsey, 21, Plaza Hotel, a former U., 8. Army paratrooper who
served more than 14 months
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taxi and ran a city block to police |Elsie Lindsey, Lindseyville, Kyi ~~ Ii a brother, Jesse Lindsey, 913 Cole
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