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hr Sets Goal Of 61 Million Jobs

In Congress Report

Merchants ts Happy In Broad Ripple

5 ER X They “Expect: Greater Surge of Trade in '50 ' By CARL HENN | Business is good in Broad Rip- | ple— and it’s going to be better. That's - the opinion of - optimistic, far-sighted Broad Rip{ple merchants who have helped

| hoto by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer {butld the North Side commun-Red-eyed and cold, these traffic. signal lights blink through a heavy frosting and a curtain of |ity into its present-day status. (Other photos, Page 17.) | They look back on 1949 as one } lof the best years they ever-en-joyed. They look forward to an even greater surge of customers in 1950 and beyond.

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Chief Executive Urges National. Production Be Stepped Up to New Record in 1950 WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—President Truman today gave Congress his design for prosperity in 1850—61 million Jobs,} the highest production in history, and only modest changes ? | The job goal would be an increase of more than 2 mil-| lion over last year's average. Only once has employment actually touched 61 million. Co al- Savin Move: the 1948 boom year. g His semi-annual economic report to the House and Senate conproposal affecting the general public—power for the Federal Re- Weather Puts Extra e Board to impose restrictions ak’ a go Burden on Railroads He said his forthcoming tax The nation’s railroads cracked program would ~ ness activity” while still netting passenger ruhs to save coal. More than 500 trains were. cut in revenue, Presumably the stim- off and hundreds. of thousands a A SAA ACS TR HAD: oi with the goal of 61 mil- Twenty-one railroads cut 358] lion jobs, the chief executive trains. the Chicigo and North-| this year be stepped up to an an-| The weather was forcing an nual rate of $277 billion, seven gdded load on the rails. And the per cent over 1949. {Wabash levee at Vincennes, Mr. Truman and his economic inforced with 20,000 sandbags to advisers insisted that these goals keep service going. were not sliderule fantasies, but! At the strike-crippled Indiana, bor, agriculture and government | signs of wage hunger. They alpulled together for a continually lowed producers for the first time expanding economy. 0 pump out the pits on non-| icicles at Vermont and N. Meridian Sts, business might hit another down-lon Monday. fey turn in the second half of 1950) Thomas Hutson, State Libor Foto similar to the 1948 slump which Commisisoner, conferred with “0

By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press Staff Correspondent in wages and prices. That was in the summer of| Stops 536 Trains tained only one new legislative again on instaliment buying. “stimulate busi- down hard today on their steam the government a moderate rise MoT £5 FEIDEPPAL cahpIAS rater FS aX » urged that the national output western clipping 39 at one crack. Depends on Co-operation lweakened by 1943 floods. was re-| could be achieved if business, la- mines, diggers were showing] it Otherwise, they warned thal working days so they could work | they admitted “brought anxiety Gov. Henry F. Schricker and ad-

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Slight Temperature ~ Drop, No More Rain Predicted for City

Trees Sag, Snap After Ice Storm Here; Downstate Flood Estimates Revised Upward

Slightly colder weather was forecast for tonight, but no additional precipitation was seen to renew the ice sheet which covered Hoosierland today. Rising temperatures had cleared the ice glaze from most streets and main highways south of Kokomo by noon today, but trees and wires in the Indianapolis area sagged and snapped by the thousands under their burden of ice, After an all-night rain which amounted to more than an inch at some southern Indiana points, Meteorologist Paul Miller upped by an average of half a foot his estimates of flood crests at various points on the lower sections of East and West forks of the White River. Numerous schools were closed in Marion County today because officials were reluctant to send busses out on icy highways. Indianapolis

schools all were operating, Volunteer Traffic thowever.

Ice and snow still covered the Director’ $ Car Hit state's highways north of Koko- Fou iea. Ha Quits r

{ mo. Three Hoosiers died in acci#3

>-0r on . Hundreds of trees were felfe “fo “unsn aa > Gg

by their ice load in Indianapolis, on the icy West Morris Street

and the Indianapolis Power and * Light Co. received 500 reports of bridge over White River left the:

{broken wires. Company officials Scene after his car was struck sald most of the wires affected twice by other vehicles. {were light lines serving individual-- Robert ¥. DeVore, 21, of 1338 residences, and hoped to have all Leonard St. parked his car om repaired by nightfall. Two hun- the bridge and started directing dred men were working in the traffic after a vehicle driven by | repair crews. James Russell, 26, of 802% 8, Power Line Repaired East St., was in collision with a Radio Station WISH went on motorist who failed to stop. the air at 9:30 a. m. today, after| Seconds later, an unidentified a 4100-volt power line feeding the motorist crashed into his vehicle, station transmitter was repaired. A police accident prevention car, The break. blamed on the weight Which raced to the scene to inof ice causing a short eireuit, was vestigate the first crash, also

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and suffering to millions. . . .” vised the school superintendent Production and more produc- in Pendleton to close his classtion was the key point in Mr. rooms. He sent the same instrucTruman's designs for a pfos- tions to Taylor University at Upperous economy which would and.

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grow. better and better with every year, He said it should be possible to Bike the national output te. $300 billion and employment to 64 million jobs by 1955. American families then should aver-| ‘age $1000 a year more income] than today, he said. Believes Inflation Over For the most part, Mr. Truman/| thought the inflation scare was over. But he asked Congress to give ‘the Federal Reserve Board) greater. authority over bauk| credits, as well as power over installment buying which has | reached record “highs. Otherwise his legislative recom-| mendations were echoes from his State of the Union message this continued - rent eontrol; more social security; the Brannan Farm Plan. etc. -

The President said the economy?

today is “strong” down somewhat . . . business proceeding with good profit prospects” and employment and production moving up again after the mid-1949 decline. On wages and prices, the President. and his advisers counseled labor and management to take it easy. ‘Prices now. seem ‘at or near a gtable level consistent with continued expansion of business activity,” Mr. Truman said. He found “few, if any, major areas” where price . increases would be justified under “present circumstances.” .And he said there are “some outstanding) areas™ where price cuts are desirable to “maintain and expand sales.” On wages, Mr. Truman was more philosophic than specific, “Wage adjustments are one his:

with “prices

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Have Your Quarters Ready—

Firm Sells Cars $500 Down And 25¢ Six Times a Day

Meter Allows 5-Mile Off Ignition Unless It

CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (UP)-—It's on 25-cent installments.

But city schools were still op{erating with liniited coal rations, with an eve on bins. Mayor. Feeney r B80. dls! tress calls from city institutions, although he had pressured Sens Jenner and Capehart, along with | Rep. Andrew Jacobs, for na{tional action. Capehart In Florida Sen. Jenner replied that he had consistently urged the President to use the Taft-Hartley law, and Sen. Capehart couldn't have felt the coal shortage. He was in | Florida. Representative Jacobs said he would try to see the Puesident, or get word to him, but there wasn't much the President didn’t know about the coal situation. He| recognized -it as a push-pull-con-| test between miners and produc-| ers, and sat tight, waiting for the signal from Congress. Hlinois miners were reported ol ‘have turned down John L. Lewis’ | latest proposal which gave him | the right to say when the mines | would operate. Some of the Nttle ‘“gopher| holes” signed up to.reap a harvest from the scarcity y period, and in

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Hundreds of Real Estate Ads

@ If you are thinking of buying a home, farm, building lot or investment prop-

erty, turn now to the classified columns of today's Times. You'll find HUN-

DREDS OF REAL ESTATE ADS! @® Yes, The Times is now carrying more REAL ESTATE ADS daily and Sunday than ever before.

Leeway and Cuts Gets a Coin possible to buy a new car today,

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This ice-laden tree in the 900 block of Elm St. crashed down on a np mo fat Therap | of the home of Mrs. Mary Kramer, 957 Elm. St.

by outsiders who want to be insiders, | | 35 or 40 Clerks

| ample, is financing construction * Yof a branch store in the 6200) {block College Ave. to open in|

| ning, stand addition of a second floor when and- if the improving business scene warrants it.

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Durham Charges Political Pressure

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After Raids, He Says

Patrolman Jacque (Jack) Durham told the story of his sevenyear career on the police force In Circuit Court today.

He testified that he was pulled {off Indiana Ave. after making raids on gambling joints and houses of ill repute. | “His attorpey will attempt to use the testimony in an effort to {show that Durham was “a pawn in a political police frame-up.”

Durham 1s appealing in Circuit ICourt. a. Safety Board decision |demoting ‘him “from detéctive sergeant and suspending him 60 idayr for conduct unbecoming an officer.

{ Objections Overruled

Assistant City Attorney Jesse {W. Peden, handling the case for the Safety Board, objected to [every question submitted to Dur[ham He was overruled repedted[ly by Judge Lloyd Claycoiibe.

{pare his case. The court refused. Durham’s attorneys made a {part of the court record the fact that his latest suspension, which

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on Post Road, south of Washington St. ! While no rain or snow was forecast for tonight, the Weather outlook said:

skidded into Mr. DeVore's vehicle,

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Jan. 6 — Dr, Albert L. Kohimeier, Indiana University faculty member for 38

(fined to ome floor at the begin-| but the foundations will

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‘precipitation will average heavy, LOCAL TEMPERATURES

iyears, was injured today when he was struck by a mass of ice {and snow falling from the roof

May or early June. The branch) 6am... 51 10 m.. [Ma house 9800 square feet of Tam... 81 11 a , a {of a campus building. floor space and 35 or 40 clerks.. 8a. m... 31 12 (noom) 38 Dr, ‘Kohlmeiler, professor of his« | F.M. Fiege, Muphy Co. divi| Sam... 31 1p m..3s [tory. was about to enter the |stonal manager, Says the DPARCH | sem . Social Science building when j {will be a “junior department ranging between one and “two Was struck and knotked to a Istore.” Business will be con- inches™ for the period ending next Sidewalk. Before he could arise {he was hit by another mass of

Wednesday. White River was falling at In- ice from the roof of the foure dianapolis today after cresting Story building. late yesterday at slightly more 1a2ken to Bloomington Hoge than 14 feet. (pital, Dr. Kohimeler's condition On the east fork of White Was described as fair. An X-ray River, Weather Bureau forecasts e@Xamination was scheduled. said, the crest at Williams will be about 20 feet, instead of 19 as, SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. § estimated eariier. The Shoals (UP)—Three persons died from forecast was upped from 32 to 33 heat prostration today and at feet. least 80 collapsed as the tems On “the “west fork néw “crest perature ~rose to 103.1 degrees forecasts included: Spencer 23.5, here and 110 in central Australia,

Elliston 31. Edwardspor} 26, and At least 25 bushfires were Mt. Carmel 2 started in the outer suburbs by . Geared to “handle snow, em- the heat wave, ¥

ptoyees of the Indianapolis street: Suburban residents reported and park departments were forced that snakes, . scorched out of [to become woodsmen today. By their holes, crawled into yards mid-morning the two departments and in some cases into houses,

had been swamped with more than 2 A — 1260 calls on fallen trees, Firty- STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 8

two trucks and 215 men were (UP)—A cold snap hit Sweden working to clear the debris today. sending temperatures down Cecil D. Hudson, chief clerk in 3% much as 25 degrees below sere the Street Commissioner's office, | central Sweden, bought a dozen new saws and two doz axes for his “woodworking” When struck by an automobile trews. on a highway near New. Albany Data on Rainfall last night. The driver said his Rain at the Indianapolis air- vision was obscured by rain and port during the night measured he did not see the pedestrian. 71 inch. Other reports included| Mrs. Margaret Gwinn, 29, of

Scottsburg 1.06, Williams 97, An- Anderson was killed when the car . .

derson .35, Logansport .38, Mar- in which she was riding was tinsville 59, Knightstown .67, struck by an eastbound Big Four Seymour 1.18, - Columbus 1.03, passenger train at a downtown |Shoals 1,05 and Bedford 1.04 crossing in Anderson. The new rainfall would have Police blamed ice on the car's greatest effect, Mr. Miller said, Windshield for the accident;. The

on the lower Wabash and White driver, Mrs. Shirley Widener, i rivers. The precipitation was 2 Passenger,.Helenlighter in the.north both of Anderson, were critically As river crésts moved down: !njured. stream, ‘more Indiana residents, Ed Snook, 42, Sturgis, Mich, were being forced to move from was killed near Gary when his

| Mr. Peden objected ‘on the their homes {grounds that new evidence was es, adding to the esti- semi-trailer crashed into a cul _Ibeing introduced in the case. He mad total of 250 families. vert. He drove his rig into a ‘|asked for additional time to pre- ew critical point Was on the

Wabash River at Clinton, where (Continued on Page 16—Dol. 1

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families were moved

Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer,

Bringing in Sandbags

A Chicago -automobile dealer has installed coin meters in his| cars and a customer now can drive a new car out of the showroom | and pay for it a quarter at a time, warning buzzer begins operating.| car sales have jumped since he, It sounds long enough for him to| | inaugurated it Dee, 27. drive about five miles. If he| Mr. Tauber said that

hasn't found a quarter by then, ihe idea has been in use only 1

the machine automatically cuts gave he already has sold 80 Mo * “Mr.

off the car’s ignition. | Max R. Tauber, the only dealer! fo try the plan so far, today re-| ported ‘that both new and used r4pidly and it looks like the big-|

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He said “sales Have accelerated *

Trackless trolley coaches become useless when ice coats the power and ground wires.” Here, on - | Kentucky Ave. at ‘Maryland | St., a truck pushes two powerless trolleys from the street. If the purchaser's time limit expires as- he drives along a

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Inside’ Hits GOP Leaders Demand Probe Of Truman-Pentagon 'Split"

By JOHN LIL: STEELE, United Press Staff Correspon

aid to Formosa over the objections of U.-8. military leaders. |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-—-8Senate Republicans today demanded t Times Columnist Ed Sovola an investigation of reports that President Truman denied military ®*.Y

Some challenged Secretary of State Dean Acheson to give them,

|refusal to drop the appeal. Blackburn Testifies |Flanner House project, good reputation for truth and honFive other character witnesses,

including former - Police Clifford F. Beeker,

came about two months ago, was {linked to the present appeal. They {dicated that the current suspension came as a result. of Durham's

Cleo Blackburn, director of the testified {this ‘morning that Durham had a

Chief testified late

|were bringing 20,000 sandbags to use on the Wabash River levee, [which was weakened in the 1943 flood and never repaired.

The river stage at Vincennes| tomorrow ... Harold H today was 22 feet, six feet below! column ....%vvv.. wees Page the crest which is expected late Golden Glovers await action toTuesday or Wednesday. Flood, night. ,.complete sports crest 4s .16 feet but the levee up ...:.....vees «+ Pages 21+ was built: to hold 20 feet. li i tr n—— Sandbags were sent to Clinton Other Features wt

part of the town and some 35 ABC suspends five liquor permits

Mayor William L. Betz said, here s.cvuevinesy Page 3 the situation was “not yet crit- Clergy of Cathedr 1 to be ical” at Vincennes. Authorities) gy al to be honor

guests. at NCCwW ted « ao’ women's news ......Pages 7-18 8. “hands off” stuns China . . World Report .........Page I i" {New Chevrolet makes bow herh

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industry since the self-starter.” officers of the the recommendations of the joint chiefs of staff on the issue, Others

Watch The Pimes gest thing to hit the auto sales For New Fashions

® Want the low down on high styles? See The Times’ women's section starting .Bunday. An eight-day series of stories on exclusive New York fashion openings begins that day.

_@ The stories are by Logise Fletcher, Times Woman's Editor, who leaves this Weekaud- = New York where she'll report fashion Aivel td ;

|months monthly payments of about $45,

Here's the:way the thing works: A man buys a car for $1500 and makes the customary $500 down payment. He then spreads out] the remaining $1000 over 24! and comes up with

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Maragon Denies Guilt | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UP)-£| John Maragon, fast-talking for-| mer member of the inner White, House circle, today pleaded innocent to charges that he led underfoath during the Senate's “5

Indianapolis Naval Reserve on a training cruise to Panama.

He will write a dally ae count of what happens when civilians turn sailors for two weeks. Follow the

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Informed sources said U, military leaders still {Formosa of ‘strategic importance line. lin case of another war and have!

8. consider Japan-Okinawa-Philippine defense.

Mr. Acheson denied any serious aid Mr.

(yesterday that Durham was of] “good character.” Police Chief Rouls left duties at headquarters today to Peden . in directing the,

{not written 1t off as lost to the split but the information from case for the city.

|Communists. Re {military sources lent” weight Some prominent Republicans such reports. {protested that Mr. Truman had!

i \seriously jeopardized the bi-parti-! ‘possession of Formosa by

{san approach to foreign affairs: {by ignoring’ GOP views on China. UTiSHly (oe a8 Strategically All talked of a serious split) .|

between the State Department, "5 Pacific war,

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to protect a levee southeast of town. Precautions also were! | Amusements 12] 3 | Needlework taken 3 protect the Vermillion | Bridge 9 T Othman “ounty Hospital, from which pa-| | tients were evacuated in the 1943] | Com os. ® | Batten : | flood. |Crossword 4 | (pt. Arthur M. Thurston of the Editorials 18 |state police reported emergency! ‘ {flood work generally tapering off Food : in Indiana north of U. 8. 40 high- Forum is

way, Jen and boats will be con+| Gardening ¥ ! centrated now, he sald, on the rT 5 fen Tall [natde 1d :

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