Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1949 — Page 2

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Bewildered Victims of

Through Ruins for Sa By JOHN

afternoon and threatened homes |i the victims was injured.

‘in finding temporary living quarters and supplied clothing to those who lost all their personal belongings. Uncertain of Next Move Some of the victims spent the night with relatives and neighbors, but all agreed they were not sure what they would do eventually, “Guess we'll do the next best thing,” one elderly man sald, shaking his head. The need for decent, low-cost housing—the objective of the Indianapolis Redevelopment Commission—is pointed up by the

West Side Fire Stresses Need For Low-Cost Housing |

r Three firemen pour a stream of water on the smoking, charred tuins in the rear of 1446 N, Missouri St.

Bewildered, homeless victims of a raging fire that swept through four West Side houses and a church today sifted through the ruins

for salvageable property and sought places of refuge, Whipped by a brisk wind, flames roared through the tinder- x 5 8)iEotten sw . Bt. yesterday and uncovered another very much, y. ] dry wooden structures of the 1400 block N. Missouri y y ry HI Dp ff, pr

} Flanner House, Negro com-|sharred and water-soaked ruins, munity center, aided the homeless retrieving , photographs, muddy

clothing and household necessi-| ties.

living in the Applied Christianity! Church Home at 14446 N. Missouri

started,

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: Picts vy John Spicklemire and Bill Oates, Times Staff Photographers. | Cleo Blackburn surveys damage . . . "Shows need for decent, Edward Taylor , . . saved | low-cost housing." b only a trunk

8t. a small nondescript black dog “But maybe I'll go with friends,” at 1434 N. Missouri 8t. considmoved nervously back and forth she said. ered his family very lucky. . The near her charred kennel, keeping! Edward Taylor, an elderly un-!fire narrowly missed spreading to watch over her tiny puppy that employed man, leaned on a trunk his frame house. died in the flames. Stside his former nome a! Ios “These people will have no The mother dog kept would-be N. Missouri St. li was all he had| ” “ | helpers away by Br ies and saved sxceft the Slothing he wove. Mate to gotne a. al Suess) | “It seems that the ¢ as for-| snapping. Firemen, however, were y it. There's nothing better. You!

rgotten about us all out here,” he able to remove the ruined kennel 8 “I don't know of| CAD only move to something

Roaring Flames Sift Ivageable Property

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alive puppy. jany fire i ! Miss Mattie McGavock, 1442 N. here.” | The victims moved silently Missouri St. was a luckier fire] He said his landlord came out among the blackened remains. victim. She was able to save a only to collect the rent. “They|The question of where to go was few clothes, a bed and a radio, don’t care about the place,” he uppermost in their minds, but| | She said she thought her house said. “Only money.” {they weren't sure how it was to ‘was still in ‘a livable condition.! Thomas Thompson, who lives be solved. {

Name McConnell Head of Firm Disabled Veterans Son.

The two-story frame| C. Bruce McConnell has been dent of radio stations in soutn Killed by Truck : structure was nearly burned to named president of Hamilton,| Bend, Anderson and Ft. Wayne. | CRAWFORDSVILLE, May 12 the ground. : Harris & Co succeeding E. W.| Other officers of the company (UP) — Seven-year-old Ronnie Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Maxie! 3 ‘~~ ‘lare Edward W. Harris Jr, first! Baldwin, son of a disabled World’ said they had lost almost every. Harris who has been president vice president; John E. Messick, War I veteran, was fatally inthing, They had been paying|for 20 years. {second vice president, and Earl jured yesterday when he fell be-| $10 a week for two small rooms. Mr. Harris |H. Schmidt, secretary and treas- ieath a truck. 7 f “We got to try to find us a/Was named to ‘urer, | Police said the youngster was place,” Mr, Maxie said. “My wife|the recently cre- ! me ee ne climbing over the side of the, Police did

is going to have a baby. I don’t|ated position of § ‘Anthronologi truck when he fell. know what we're going to do.” [chairman of the] pe gists fo Meet hold Joe Kendricks, a. city

n a block-square area. None of Meanwhile, families probed

Worst hit were four families

8t., where the fire apparently

fire, according to Cleo Blackburn, ¥lanner House head who surveyed the destruction with Mayor "Feeney.

said Mr. Blackburn. kind of thing we've been working for new housing for.

« ,,|She clutched a family snapshot People here live in jeopardy,” she had removed from a charred co and “This is the dressing table.

Mrs, Leatha Yates, who lived bosrd, He and employee, who was driving the in an adjoining room, said she L. or amilton BLOOMINGTON, May 12 — (tk . ! was unable to salvage anything. founded t h e {More than 100 anthropologists| gurvivors were the father and! wholesale tobac- {and archaeologists from over the mother, Mr, and Mrs. Everett candy | United States - will gather this Baldwin; two brothers and four company Jan. 1, {week-end at Indiana University sisters. : “I guess I can stay with my| 1906. {for the 25th annual session of] mother-in-law until I can find a| Mr, McConnell

“1 guess we must have a kind

community. What if it had happened at night?”

Mr. McConnell

’r | the Central States Branch of the BRITISH REACH HONG KONG place,” she said. {has been with {American Anthropological Asso-) HONG KONG, May 12 (UP)

of thing like this to awaken the] Human beings, however, were the company since 1923, serving ciation and the 14th annual ses- —The first reinforcements for;

not the only homeless. {as salesman, sales manager and, sfon of the Society for Americanithis British crown colony arrived

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