Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1950 — Page 1
. asked Congress for more taxes to pay for a big-spending ! the one he laid down last year,
, a $4. billion tax hike,
; year of heavy government spending. But he? promised to
' a half-century of increasing national prosperity and prog-
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the next few years” through tax changes that will “reduce present reading habits.” “inequities, stimulate business activity, and yield a moderate amount,
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President Continues Left of Center; Silent on Universal Military Training
By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent . WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—President Truman today,
foreign and domestic program which practically duplicated However, he did not repeat his last yeéar's request for
In his annual State of the Union Message, the Presi-| dent said frankly that the next fiscal year will be another,
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billion or about $1.8 billion bolo the —_— spen hg gure. Mr. Rayburn, revealing for the first time details ot Mr. Tru- | man’s budget recommendations, said the President and his staff | have shaved $3 billion off spending for defense and foreign aid.
hold it to the lowest level consistent with our international commitments and the national welfare. Mr. Truman gave no hint, however, budget actually would be balanced. But in a long bright look into the future, he forecast
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ress. He envisioned a one trillion dollar national production by 2000 A. D., and a real
income of $12,000 a year or A Year of Great Opportunity
Mr. Truman recommended a © Yes, 1950 will be a year of “moderate” increase in tax reve-| great opportunity for everynues through a revamping of the] wil t present tax structure. He said he| one Who 18 willing $0 work » would make specific proposals Jake his dreams come true! soon in his budget message and in| you can make a reasona spécial tax message. able down payment and have The best guess was that - about BUYING: A of your. own , .. the
wartime excise taxes to stimulate, time to act is NOW! Prices retail business sales and a boost are far below the 1046 peak, selection 1g better than at taxes, any time since the war. ". Still Left of Center | ® Why not turn to the classiHis generalized tax proposals| fied columns of The Tines were. the highlight of a 5000-word| right now and look over the messagé in which the Presidentf HUNDREDS OF HOMES recommended again just about] FOR SALE. Youll find the the same left-of-center legislative], REAL ESTATE ADS in The ——pee— | Times today ... and every
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WASHINGTON, Jar. 4 (UP)— President Truman played it safe today in the controversy over when the second half ~ of the 20th Century begins. He took both ‘sides.
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In another part, he said: “As we move forward into the second half of the 20th Century ..." ’ Takg, your choice.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UP)—A topical summary of
Surpass National Average
Almost 3 of 4 Stay in School for Diplomas; U.S. Figure Is Nearly 50 Pct. ‘Drop-Outs’
Unlike students entering many high schools over the nation freshmen at Broad Ripple High School stand much more than an — even chance to be graduated. Almost three of four youngsters who enter Broad Ripple High by the New York World-Telegram as freshmen remain to receive diplomas at the end of their senior oo was announced today. year, excluding those who leave in the intervening years bec ause . E ” — 0 | ak ” The transaction was regarded of illness, transfers or ether un- ————— EE —— n 1 as the most important move in avoidable reasons. {those without one, nor will their LONG a om ie JUHOOK. ion ean reach ew or field since the ‘These fgures, offered by Prin: [{arallies let, thier diop out. an annual rate of more than $1 trillion dnd the real income of merger of the World and: the Tel- cipal J. Fred Murphy, are in direct| ul the biggest thing we have the average family may be in the neighborhood of $12,000 a year. 8 Sim - oon contrast to a national average of 10 MEN" Hr. MUrbnY mn oo. National production now is $255 billion and average family income tp multaneous announcements of almost 50 per cent ‘ drop-outs, “or/lack of Interest. If a student e purchase were made by Roy non-graduates. doesn’t want to go to school, he'll of about $4200 a your, |W. Howard, president and editor ldrop out, sooner or later. . = : HE. {of the World-Telegram, a Scripps- Why Students Re main Try to Hold Interest Foreign Policy Howard newspaper, and president; Why and how does Broad Rip-! “We try to hold interest by
“ " lof The Indianapolis Times, andiple High hold them? group sanferences, in addition to FAR EAST—“Prompt action” by ey. American capital 10 Tyomas W. Dewart, president and." 8
help tiolster and improve production is ‘“Ymperative” if “the ideals] ublisher_ of the Sun. lig tor SPAY OLA Si ™ freedom tr representative mention of ( are to prevail, . iP The World- eon and the ~ of “at least three possible. We ofr everyining we e Presiden made Jo specific mention of Ch na. Sun will be published under a “In the first place,” he says, home economics and other practi-
BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY “Both of our great political Joint title-line beginning with to- “many of our studerts come from cal courses for those who are
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gress today:
parties are committed to working together—and 1 am sure they MOrTow’s editions in which the ‘families with a high income level. inclined that way.” ¢ Will continue to work together.” Sun's outstanding featuges and The children do not have to leave Mr. Murphy's ideas will bé of- : » columns will be added to those of school at 16 ‘and go to work to|fered for nation-wide study this
COMMI NISM-— The United States will meet successtully the [the World-Telegram.
contribute to family su rt. military, maqral a economic challenge from World communism. y ¥ {month in Chicago, where princi. »
Buys Geod-will “Then, too,” he continues, pals from high schools in large ’ D ’ Te ye Wor- “about two of every three stu- tities will at to discuss the omestic Policy good will and CD Ame, dents we graduate here go on to problems common to- all. He was LABOR—The Taft-Hartley Law, is “puiitive in purpose and the Sun. No plant facilities..physi- ica Tou A oe eastey m elected by the other Indianapolis one-sided in operation,” and should be repealed. It should be cal equipment or real estate is in- high school principals to repre“replaced by a law that is fair to all and in harmony with our voived in the transfer. sent this city at the conference.
democratic Mente» . ~ yw. | Mr, Howard, in a statement fol- Gef Gloves FARM-—-The Brannan Plan is intended to assure -“a stable |'/0™ing ahnouncement of the pur. Small Phone Firms
. and prosperous agriculture.” There should be “mandatory price (Chase, ssl he, Tenacrs ot the sun Tickets Today supports. for the commodities not now covered which are main |, “World-Telegram . and .the Sun’ ®When the Times-Legion sources of farm Jnoome,” ; Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament opens at 8 p. m, Fri: day in .the N. Pennsylvania He said there would be nol SL Astnoty you] ant Jo be Thousands of | telephone subof | change in the editorial policy of sitting in a choice location. '|scribers in small Indiana commuadditional Fevenu Ee dils tax proposals will be contained in his| the new paper—‘which will con-|* There's still time to get your |nfties today faced rate increases resulting =*rom the new Federal minimum wage law, The law provides that the 75-| cent-an-hour minimum wage be ‘applied in all telephone exchanges)
b id eparate t | tinue independent in =I1 political] tickets at: udget messhge | Fr day and a separate tax message Jater, er yr eal. v8 a a Beals Sebring serving 750 subscribers or. more. | Public Service Commission
the familiar names, faces and feaTAXES “A substantial improvement in our fiscal position over tures iong associated with their|
CIVIL RIGHTS —The eivil rights program he proposed in PE, iy " Goods Co,, 136 E. Washingshould be.adopted, ie “It will continue to speak in| ‘ton Bf. — East and South o. the liberal traditions of Scripps-| ringside and reserved. HOUSING AND RENT CONTROL—"I "recommend that the Howard,” the statement con-| eEm-Roe Sporting Congress enact new legislation authorizing a vigorous progeamm 1 | cluded. help co-opératives and other non-profit groups build housing whi RE A. (lower income) families can afford.” Federal rent controls Na ‘Wild Car Hurts 14 be continued another year. “to prevent widespread hardship and DETROIT. Jan. 4 (UP)—An' sharp curtailment of the ‘buying power of millions of consumers in|... ile plowed into a crowd!
Goods | Co., 209. W, Washington St. Balcony reserved. | . @Sportsman’s, Store, 126 .N, ‘Pennsylvania St.--North and West ringside and reserved.
independent companies already had been granted "mergency rate increases ranging from 6 to 26
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This pump at 3100 S. Harding St. had no operators today as high water flooded the area. Home owners would like to have thrown it into reverse as a sump pump.
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Good Pump? Sleet, Snow on ‘Way After 3.39-Inch Rainfall Inundates Many Areas
Ice Begins Forming on Windshields As Police Rescue Families From Lowlands
A sleet and snowstorm headed toward Indianapolis this afternoon in-the wake of a 3.39-inch rainfall that left (the city flooded. The mercury was plunging downward toward an exe | pected 12 degrees above zero tonight. Snow and sleet was |scheduled to ride into the city along with the cold wave. Ice was forming on winds shields as police and rescue
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: $a ly # 0 lo = ‘workers hurried to evacuate 8 a "m o 9 12 (noon). 29 many families from the lowland | 9am. .. 49 1pm, ..2 areas in and around the city early g =» this afternoon. The flooded creeks
|and White River A this area were
- ' |Weather Bureau chief .in Indian~ To 1949 Seen | Gas users in flooded areas were warned today by Indian- | . apolis Fire Department officials Threat Called Major " turn off all gas heaters, | By Weatherman pilot lights and other gas ate tachments if homes are evacu~ Crests ranging up to eight and e.g. {10 feet above flood stage at some “Water will extinguish the \points will be reached along the gq. ..c and the subsequent Wabash and White Rivers as a leaking gas could create a danresult of a 36-hour downpour, the gerous fire hazard,” an official Weather Bureau forecast today. declared. “major flood” will be In ____ ————————— progress the next few days on apolis, said “the “city was in for both streams. said Paul Miller, the worst siege of winter this chief meteorologist of the bureau season but saw no immediate here. danger of icy streets in Indiane In. general, flood crests will apolis proper today. {approximate those of last Janu- Sleet in Northwest jary, and in some cases will reach | Snow and sleet had covered |1943 flood levels. {western and northern areas of the Many Highways Closed |state, with dangerous highway
Inundation of thousands ot/conditions reported in Terre acres of farm lands is indicated | Bake, Oluwionds le, Hammond with families being forced toand Gary by the State Highway
move from low-land communities, Department. | Already scores of highways are State police reported sleet cre= eloned th t the state. ating - dangerous highway condiCrests will be reached tonight /tions in the Dunes Park area and land early tomorrow on the upper Motorists were warned to stay off (Wabash and White Rivers, the the highways unless travel was {Weather Bureau said, with the urgent. {peaks moving downstream during, The Weather Bureau forecast “4s the next several-days. rapidly dropping temperatures FY In Indianapolis, - White River throughout the night with a low, © was approximately at its 12-feot Of 12 above expected. No relief flood stage at mid-day, with a Was anticipated tomorrow with crest of 15 feet forecast for 4 & high of 20 degrees forecast for p. m. tomorrow. This will be the day. about three feet higher than last. Meanwhile creeping flood wae January, and is expected to force ters brought added alarm to hun= evacuation of families from Ra-/dreds of Indianapolis residents. venswood and other communities Preparations were being made to in low areas. sandbag Eagle Creek in the Hap«" py Hollow area as water crossed Sadie St., near Warman Ave. flood stage was ex Hardest hit in the local area pected to be was Tygdall Towne. where. more.
Wabash Due to Crest A crest thrée to four feet above
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Passenge Trains yA at Muncie at 7 p. m. to- than 100 persons deserted their ay. Many homes are expected phomes last night in the face of
be surrounded, but no major creeping flood waters. . damage was forecast. | "In other sectors residents were U Ir y oy Wabash was due to reach np, ving furniture to second floors a 2i-foot crest, 11 feet above, nq making preparations to 0 d AR ' flopd stage, at Wabash. evacuate their homes if the raer ecis 20 hh ppreame ete expected 10/1apping waters crawled nearer to / 8 e As oliows Coal Burners Only 5 Sir points: Marion. 1 foot. their doors. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UP) -~ Peru, 215 feet; Logansport, 1 Traffic Snarled The government today ordered foot; Muncie, 3 feet; Anderson, railroads that have less than 26(7 to. 8 feet: Noblesville, 5 feet: ticularly beneath the railroad day's supply of coal to curtail Columbus, 4 feet, and Seymour, elevations on some of the major coal burning passenger service by 5 feet. thoroughfares, was snarled by one-third. deep water on the streets. The qrder issued by the Inter- Rainfall Reported State police, the sheriff's office Rain has been steady through- and police headquarters were comes effective at 11:59 p. m, lo-{0ut the state during the last 36,.),064 by telephone calls from cal time next Sunday, Jan. 8, It hours. Totals reported for the pe-|} oe owners and motorists seek« will remain in effect for two riod include: Indianapolis 4.50, ing assistance. months unless revoked Anderson 4.10, Greencastle 5.15 Many basements were flooded The ICC ordered all railroads Knightstown 3.41, Columbus 3.91, and the Indianapolis Fire Depart to make the 33'; per cefit cut Seymour 3.93, Bedford 2.86. Bluff-/, .t received many calls from passenger service on their coal- ton 3.46, Portland 3.64, Lafayette, vious citizens seeking aid -in burning trains when their sup- 3.52, Vincennes 4.16, and Mt Car- ‘pumping out basements before
‘plies of ‘coal dwindle to 25 days mel, Ill, at the junction of White t. naces were drowned out. or less; and Wabash Rivers, 3.52. Police - blocked traffic -at the Sees Emergency On the brighter side of the flood Big Four Rallroad elevation on "The ICC said that soft coal picture is. the weather forecast Emerson Ave. between 30th St. production, as. a result of the calling for tapering off of rain, to and Massachusetts’ Ave., where
three-day work week ordered by he followed by snow and much several automobiles were stalled John L. Lewis, 1s “insufficient to colder weather. in deep water. relieve’ emergency .conditions if. The sub-freezing temperature, The Belt Railroad overpass at
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immediate action in all sections of the country.” the ICC said. de ne CE Winter on Rampage i in West fected roads is to be cut to one- ' third less than it was on Dec. 1. i { It's Li k J E % The order was more drastic u i e une in as than a similar one issued by the . . ICC in October, during the coal] Blizzards Lash Plains and Northwest; een © which ‘required & 25 per) Toboggan Kills Two Oregon Students | By United Press That order was _rescinded Blizzards, tornadoes, fldods and ice storins pounded the west ov. 20 when the miners re-|... (hree.fourths of the nation today while the East basked in [turned to a three- day 1 week. record-breaking June-in-January temperatures. Blizzards lashed the Dakotas, northern Minnesota and the Railroads Unhappy! Pacific Northwest, piling stow drifts in the Puget Sound ares and halting highway traffic in the northern: plains. Over Curtailment | After a near-blizzard in OreRailroads had been “expecting ¥O0- two students, ‘ons the ore: Times Index official curtailment, of steam pas-|S°" State College football ‘cap-| |senger lines. after the holidays. tain-elect and the other a rookie Amusements 8 | My Day 8 But they were far from happy Pitcher in the Brooklyn Dodgers Bridge - 7| Needlework 7 today. Heavy weather had ground- baseball farm system, were killed :
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rails. automobile. ' Crossword Larry ‘Hennessey, division pas-| Stan McGuire, 22, captain-eiect |: TT 12 Serial |senger agent for the New York|of the Oregon State College 1950]
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metropol » { r cent. " i polttan areas. : 5» |of people walting- for a street-| ePrices are: Ringside and Pr, Abbett said he had no esti-| Central, said he was putting on|football team, and Bill Corvallis, Food 71 Society 3 SOCIAL SECURITY—The “widespread” pension move in private Car in a safety zone today, in- first row balcony, $2; dOWn- - |. ee'of the number of companies every car he could get: Student|20, also an Oregon State student Forum 12 | Sports wi industry dramatizes the need for higher security benefits and; uring 14 of them. Witnesses sald ' stairs reserved, $1.50: + Prices or the number of subscribers that| traffic back to school is heavy and|and _ former college baseball {Forse ine § Teen ro 5 a broader eoverage. Stronger Whemplayment ‘compension laws are(the car was driven by a unl-| . include tax, be affected by the timé the most ot the store buyers are go- player, died at a hospital. Banh : ‘Deeded “to meet Present-day needs more adequately.” armed Rsv Deljeved ne a “Por Pre-fght flops Golden goes into effect Jan. 25. ing ast were from Portland, Ore. Hollywood Co - HEALTH—"Wa must establish a system of medical insurance stopped and aided some of the Sesto TE as Lh: Spar - tam Beck, secretaty of the) New York Central officials ex-| They were being téwed on a Inside Tndpis. 1 which wil nails i Si Ameians 10 Ev $098 Tapdica) cuss. ii mi | (Contnans ox Fags 3—Col 3) (Contant on Fag 1-Col 8) (Contd fai” Py Pape sca irs. Mannges 2}
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