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Wage Earner Slips Back in The Groove—

Labor Plants

COMPTOMETER OPER A. TOR—Mrs. ‘Lucille McGhee, 21 S. Butler Ave., . . . a skill much in demand but hard to find.

300 Homeless In Midwest Floods

Farmlands Inundated,

More Rain Forecast

Br United Press : Floods left about 3400 persons

homeless in the rain-soaked upper

Midwest Saturday while rising rivers and streams threatened to

force thousands more from their

homes, Rain and snow fed the floods at many points, and more rain was forecast for Sunday. Floods inundated farmlands and towns in Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas, and flood warnings were issued for Wisconsin. Nearly 3000 persons were homeJess in the Sioux Falls, 8. D., area, | where the Big Sioux had flooded to a width of three miles. Worst In History Mayor H. B. Saure said the flood. worst in the city’s history. should begin receding soon. He said flood waters already had receded at Dell Rapids, 20 miles upstream. Flooding eased at Marshall, Minn., where the Red Wood River drove 50 from their homes and for a time threatened the entire town of 5000 inhabitants. Flood waters at Marshall collapsed the foundations of many homes, causing damage estimated at $100,000. The Red River hit an eightyear high at Wahpeton, N. D., and Breckenridge, Minn. but dikes still held. Nevertheless, several families moved out. In Iowa, rain and ice jams in the headwaters pushed the Cedar River toward flood stage. {

Truman Plugs | Margaret's Singing

WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 (UP)— President Truman managed to get in a plug for his singing daughter, Margaret, tonight during his speech before the ministers of the American republics. |! “I want to pay tribute to the orchestra,” Mr. Truman said at the opening of his extemporaneous remarks. | “They played those Viennese waltzes, and one of my daughter's songs, Cielito Lindo, which she sings at nearly every concert,” he said. “Tonight she is in Corpus Christi, Tex., and will sing a pro-| gram there on Monday after-| noon.”

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[has dropped 70 per cent. Of the jeft his family in Seymour.

WELDER~-Maxie' Vickons, 35 S. Ewing St. , . . opportunities. ~~ MACHINIST—Evan E. Alger, owner of Alger Pattern Works Steno on the Whiteland

Market Here Bare, In D-3 Crash

Scout For Workers" West boast

3000 New Jobs Due in 2 Months, Bursts in Flames Clerical Help Finds Shopping Good

By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor Labor is tighter than a drum. And the man with dirt

on his hands is king. The men who punch time clocks are edging toward the silk pillow again. Pay checks are getting plush with overtime. And even the little stenographer who comes to work with her lips on crooked is hard to get. All help is short here—and)| the hope of getting 4000 here. It

most of it critically. was a factor in the banks’ shiftSkilled men have been at aling to a five-day week to match premium for six months. Clerical the government's work schedule. help is job-shuttling for higher. The Finance Center already is pay. And common labor is com- lifting office pay, and managers ing to town in airplanes. .|are gritting their teeth, screaming With the labor market dried up, at the government for using their Indianapolis industry {is up tax money to force their own against it. And it will get payrolls up. tougher. #n two months there willl Housing is the big “if.” Most be 3600 new jobs begging for companies long have been poundmen. In four months there will ing at smaller industrial towns be 7100 jobs looking for men. with offers of higher pay. But 120 Plants Polled what to do with the workers when : .__'they're not on the job is their In a poll of 120 leadin in- : dred Sam Springer, i Tt Beadashe. Housing Is Shoe. 1 ’ | A ground search-rescue team of the Indianapolis office of the. Ont 100] maker. Jay Milroy, iv: v Air Force, Civil Air Patrol, SherState Employment Security pi-| INE at a hotel on the downtown HARD TO HOLD — Mrs. |iff's deputies and Navy Seabees vision, reported 113,774 on fac- Jringe, (ae been ooking Tor 2 Robert Winter, 3216 N. Colo- found the wreckage still smoulderSor payrolls here: hope. He has only $1000 to pay 340 Ave... . a good sere. UF UMS 10 TOIL, TILL In the last year, unemployment down. needs $1800 and up. He Tary is real prize in these days. ao .i2’ to Santa Barbara on its | San Francisco-Los Angeles flight. Bodies, some of them charred by fire, were strewn along the slopes of the Santa Ynez range at

By CHARLES DENTON United Press Staff Correspondent

(charred remains of a twinengined Southwest Airways ‘Transport was found by a search party today scattered

along the crest of a mountain range with all 22 passengers and crewmen dead. Rescue team reports to Civil § | Air Patrol headquarters here dis|closed the plane had just missed clearing a nearly 3000-foot” ridge in scattered clouds and had smashed headlong into brush, rock and timber, bounced “two or three times” and burst into flames. :

Crashes on Knoll The transport, a DC-3 carrying 19 passengers and three crew members, had been heading through Refugio Pass, about 140 miles northwest of Los Angeles, {last night when it crashed into a knoll a few hundred feet from the | top.

increase in jobs, 43 per cent were < | » in durable goods, mostly trans- Flying In Help Jails Are Flaw portation—Allison, Chevrolet and Canners are flying in help from

Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee,

International Harvester — and . { k electronics—P. R. Mallory & Co., Jamaica and Puerto Rico. : a 2950 foot elevation " Other companies hunting com- : | “All aboard are dead,” came Western Electric and RCA. P: g | { The biggest upsweep in jobs mon labor tak ses into Ken-| {the report from the search team. was in primary. metals, up. S81 tucky, pour out the golden prom- ; About on Course per cent. That's foundries. ises of “life up Nawth,” wave a, Only 25 of 88 “The wreckage was splattered Workers are hunting higher little currency around, fill up ‘the F d Ad lall over the slope,” said CAP pay, and overtime. ‘One plant PUsSSes and head for home. | oun equate Capt. T. E. Allin, helping coemploying about 500 lost 27 in Where - will they get trained {ordinate the search. men? They're training them in| Photos, Page 3 | “Capt. Pittman (pilot) last

one week, all skilled men. It can’t hire new ones. It has to train them. Offices report they are being raided of comptometer operators.

“vestibule schools,” little train-| called in that they we 3000 ing centers in their plants. One By NOBLE REED feet. But ay hea were plant manager said he could; One of Indiana's major weak- lower than that and didn’t know turn out a good welder in Six nesses in its internal security for|it,” Capt. Allin said.

Plant managers report there i months. : lcivilian defense aganist sabotage! “They were right on top of actually ai aT isn’t only Indianapolis. land enemy fifth-column Hear just aT on ver off Being Lured Away There's a heavy pull from Lake tions is the condition of thethe top of the pass, but just about Lure vay County’s steel plants, and Ft.istate's jails. lon course. But they hit around

Addressograph operators are at Wayne. And outside eompanies| This has be is {2 a premium. And one bank said its'try to wedge in, lure help away.| annual report pv; hig os feet and Sth two customers were actually hiring Boeing tried it, got the com- Inspections Division of the State! “If they'd been a few feet help. away right through the munity's cold shoulder. Welfare Department. {higher they'd havé made it.” cashiers’ windows. Training programs are carried, Of 88 county jails in Indiana Bas ih loyal secretaries are on in nearly every large plant, only 25 were found to be adequate. ng lured away. And their jobs Allison's, J. D. Adams Manufac-/in ‘all essentials — strength to © 3 : n the Inside

are getting tough. turing Co., International Har- withstand mob violence from! One plant manager kept bidding vester, Diamond Chain, Stokley’s, ‘without, security from breakouts f * up the pay of his secretary to Eli Lilly & Co. Stewart-Warner, from within, and compris'ng the) O The Times keep her on the job. He got up to RCA and a lot of others. elements of sanitation and segre$5 a week. And still she quit. Tough Sledding gation of prisoners. Top four in Masters’ Golf id mu DresTre. Her husband The Naval Ordnance Plant has 28 Below Standard { Tourhey only iwo stokes sald she took the job home, Wop-/,, having a tough time. It has Twenty-eight county jails were apart . . . Chicago ares ber ried day and night. to advertise through civil service. found far below standards to pro-; Came bargaining center for One store had a comptometer hon i vide any security against mob Coaches seeking ‘talent’... 3 n It can’t jump out into open com- J operator who had worked up.to i;iion because it has no adver- attacks from the outside or riot- Daseball data ... auto rac$47.50 over the years. She gave tising budget ing among prisoners. ing opens here Apr. 15... notice, and went out to the Army 8 ; | Although extensive fail remod- Complete sports news... 15-19 Finance Center for $5 a week , ANd up at Kokomo, the Globe- 0" crams have b . g programs have been under- The storerooms of memories,

' American Corp., which makes more. Bu t rE pF m t that didn't do it. She Maytag washers and stoves, is taken all »ver the state - the a dusty, dimly lit attic, are

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| Indianapolis, Ind:

Dear Editor:

GEN. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR—Debate on his future rages. Jim G. Lucas Isn't Alone |onei ici

Plainfield Veteran. Wants Washititon a: And UN to Untie MacArthur's Hands 2

General Fired By President

Truman Talks With Top Brass

Here Is Your War .,, a Talburt cartoon ........v00000 2% Hint Joint Chiefs of Staff to ask recall of MacArthur... 28 14 Nations with troops in Korea reported ready to give nod for China raids ,. . - World Report ......veoe0¢ 28 Britain's No. 2 spokesman raps Doug. ..csecsinesesse

By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM . United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Apr. T— Sen. Robert 8. Kerr, (D, Okla.), suggested today the ¢ administration consider firing . Gen. Douglas MacArthur for “‘open disregard of superior

authority” in making stater

ed Nations policy in the Far East, Mr, Kerr's blast, couched in the strongest possible terms, came 4s President Truman met with his

TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 8 (UP) close to

If the readers of The Times will take time b . out to read the |, “up (BR. 0.), demanded the

articles that Jim G. Lucas is going to write, then they will get some truth of this nightmare. over in’ Korea, where we have had better than 50,000 -dead, wounded and missing in action. This man Lucas is a veteran of World War II. He has seen action in nearly all the large battles of the South Pacific. Now L

see by Friday's Times he has come back home angry. I ‘will say to Jim that he will find a lot of company, as most of us Americans are hot under the collar, the way this United Nations, Harry Truman, Acheson,

| and a few more of this tribe up

in Washington, D. C., is doing to Gen. MacArthur. The President of these United

States says that this is only

“police” action and not a war. Go to some of the hospitals, and have a talk with some of

Mr. Lucas’ series starts in The Times tomorrow.

these Korean veterans, then you will find that this is out and out war. Yes, they have the General's

| hands and feet tied, and if

they, meaning the President, Acheson, and the United Nations, would only untie the General's hands and feet, then he could run that so called “police action” his way, and no doubt it would come to an end, it looks to me personally, that some people, yes certain people up there in Washington, want this conflict to go on and on, either to cover up their errors, or to use all of this for this coming presidential election, it's

| certainly a $64 question to me,

Gen. MacArthur, and Washing- |

Nationalist China, has offered her troops several times, but Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson say “no.” Why do they say no? More than 500,000 seasoned

Chinese Nationalist fighters are |

all set to go out to the aid of

ton says “no.” Some one answer that. one, and I do hope that

| Jim Lucas is the one that can,

and will, answer this $64 question. All that we want is the truth—why did our President send our men into Korea in the

| first place, why did the Presi-

p : : Said ne would get eight hours switching the skills of its men. umber of substandard prisons ¢aqt disappearing ......... 21 Lose Help Daily On Thursday it started to con-| Continued on Page 3—Col. 5 Joint Chiefs of Staff may recHotels, restaurants, garages, vert 30 enamelers into welders. ——————— EE ——| ommend recall of Gen. Macgas stations, bus lines, all in the In that way it kept the men. | Arthur ......cccoeeeeennne 23 service business, are losing help There 3 labor pirating" going Shop for That | ‘Heiress’ tops this week's local every day. Factories promise, to °™ But it's as gentle and subtle stage events news of the train unskilled men, pay them 5 the breath of spring. No one Home Today | entertainment world 26, 27 while they learn. openly approaches the labor force | Tae A The man with muscle is in|°f another company. | Wamon meditate 2M pray at 9 demand. The still-hustling con-| , But When one worker enters 3320 W, 21st ]. Fatima Retreat House .... 28 struction trade is yelling for help |the employment office for a job Im a i] The Little Red Door opens paying good wages. Any number &t better pay, some tell him to ne a er: hu fans into comfort and aid to canof contractors can use ‘from one, Pring in his friends. And his ime a Brg TL cer-stricken people . . . State to four men. | friends are the ones who worked lot. Make offer ? Garden Club announces proThe fertilizer plants neeq|Peside him in the old shop. They HAPPY HOMES, INC. gram for annual spring husky men to handle sacks, and ‘rail along. That's how it hap-| 11 N.Teon. RM. 77 MASH | meeting . . . brides . can't find them. The creosoting Pérv Mak American Look ‘takes {518 business is hard hit for labor that) The utilties are having trouble Make a real family ex- floor during carpet fashion cap take At. getting men for outside créws.| cursion out of a home-shop- week . . . other news of The canning industry is almost | Permanence, their biggest selling ping tour today. This may be interest to women ..... 31-44 in tears. “t's migrant labor,|POint, doesn’t mean much any the Qsy Yow wil a Just | Housing in Indianapolis will which yearly comes up from the more. The boys—and the girls-- fa Tai pe tr r Yow get tighter complete South, is badly thinned out this Tang Me Hough, every Week on my security. real estate news ....... 45-47 year. Workers have good jobs at Y. ine NO matier where Above is just one of the home. And crops won't wait, that pay, line may be. | many HUNDREDS OF About People BIT ON Xi Indianapolis is a tight Class A | | HOME OFFERINGS you will ee rn 26, 2 Defense Area. And it will be Mrs. Williams Fined" | find listed in the Real Estate Births, Deaths, Events .. 28 tighter. The opening of the Dodge 1 ANSING. Mich. Apr. 7 (UP) Section of today's Times. Henry Batar ae... 26 Transmission plant in mid-year Gov 'G. Mennen To t,o. l Choose several that seem to a 33. 36 will call for skilled men Who narav illiams’ wife.) meet the needs of your fam- | © heb rird won't be available. Nuc: as fined $7 today for| ily and arrange for personal award Huirsinbion ree 41 And the Army Finance Center operating an ,automobile in an inspection right away. Fash esssessssenrne 22 at Ft. Harrison will have between | 7 21¢ Inanner= Apr. 1. Her car IRN N Forum hs ara ines 22 5000 and 6000 on its payroll, with 20a Bihan uuu, I yD Harold H, Hartley ...... 45 nN: 8.8 ' sald, “We were both at fault-”| nn Erskine Johnson ....e... 27 Our Fair City ....oeeeeee 2 Potonac Patter ... ...... 29 Teen Problems .......... 44 Radio and Television .... 24 World Report ....ccovees 23 Robert Ruark ..ooeeveees 21 Real Estate ........ . 45-47 Records ........ revsnes 26 Schools ...cvvevvvaenassn 12 Society ........ reese 38,:39 Ed. Sovola iceveverensans 21 Sports .....ic0000000 15-19 Washington Calling ..... 23 Earl Wilson ...coevenee 21 The Wright Angle ...... 17

It's a Good Day

—For a Snooze

Another Sunday brings another day of dreary weather. Good only for an afternoon snooze. The weatherman disconsolately predicted it would be continued cloudy today with scattered showers and- cool, g Nor could he see silver linings to the clouds for tomorrow. “More {dreary weather,” he predicted.

Man’ Killed by Cac... FRANKLIN, Apr. T (UP)— [Charles Garrett, 51,- Whiteland, {was killed ‘tonight when he walked into thie path of an auto driven by Gerald Stoehr, >17,

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dent bring out of retirement Gen. Marshall, why does he stand back of our Secretary of State Mr. Acheson who could not turn his back on Alger Hiss, who was a traitor and a

perjuror? There are a lot of |

more questions that we the public would like to know, but will we ever? Inclosing, I will say to all of The Times readers, please write your senators and your congressmen now, asking them to get" together and try their

best to get the President and | the United Nations to untie |

Gen. MacArthur's hands and feet and let him run that Korean War the way that he sees fit to do, use the Chinese Nationalist Army, blockade China's coast, etc. (G.~A. T.) Plainfield, Ind. a A VETERAN

administration accept Gen. Mace Arthur's suggestion and use Chi~ nese Nationalist forces now based on Formosa to create a second front on the Red-held mainland. He asserted the policy against

# # = w Americans Cross that is “ridiculous.” ‘No Comment’ The White House stuck to a » rigid “no comment’ on all quesol g ar Ter tions about the general while a storm built up here and abroad

over his feeling that the diplo-

British Cripple mats have neglected the real ’ . struggle against communism Reds’ Railroad lin the Far East in favor of talkBULLETIN ing about fighting the Reds in

TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 8 (UP) Europe. —Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridg- | Removing for the first time way, American commander of the kid gloves the Democrats Allied ground forces in Korea, wear in speaking | of the hero said today that the Korean War general of World 'War II, Mr, cannot be won on the battle- Kerr said bluntly that Gen. Macfield under the present condi- [Arthur's “prolonged, one-man act tions. lis wearing the patience of the Gen. Ridgway told a press rest of the team mighty thin.” conference at 8th Army head- “In fact,” Mr. Kerr said, “it quarters that only a political lis getting about .as thread-bare settlement could end the Ko- las the general’s much-touted rean War at the present time. |Oriental prestige. The time may — |be nearer than we think when the ip SL SEwAeN | © lovee wt of ksdhing sas : {Arthur as the theater commander TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 8—AN yi pe greater than the value of American division crossed North his ‘position’ with the Asiatics.” | Korea's Hantan River Saturday,’ Echoing the reaction of many ‘toughest natural barrier guard- United Nations with forces comling the Communist buildup area, Mitted alongside American troops | while British Royal Marine com- in Korea, Mr. Kerr said that 'mandoes struck 130 miles south ‘Sometimes I fear parts of what of the Russian frontier. MacArthur is doing could get us |" The U. 8. destroyer Thompson deeper in to war instead of sucland Hoquiam hit bridges crossing cessfully ending the one we are

‘the Chuurong River only 60 miles already in.” from the Russian frontier. At the White House, Defense

|" The commandoes stormed a Secretary George C. Marshall and |beach eight miles south of Song- Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Chairman |jin, a northeast Korean port that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, {nas been under naval bombard- ducked in quietly for a talk with

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Parents Get Letter Raising Doubt Son Killed in Battle

FBI Probes Chance That Evansville Gl May Be Held Prisoner in Communist China

| A voice from a GI “grave” behind the Iron Curtain of Come

{ munist China? { FBI agents today were checking the possibility that an Evanse

| ville soldier, officially reported killed in action on Thanksgiving Day, | may §till be alive. , The parents of Pfc: Thomas Berry recently received a letter

| which they are convinced is in his| — le They are also con-|any fingerprints that would indi- | vinced he is still slive. | cate that Pfc. Berry, 19, actually But authorities are checking to wrote the letter. make sure the letter is bona fide, 1 She Soldier 5 lathes saia_ibe and not just a cruel forgery hoax | Ble) | Oh like Mar. 17 neat] | by Communist propagandists. He! five months after he oy may be a prisoner of war. | ported killed in action. The FBI is trying to find out: | Mrs Joseph Berry, his mother ONE: Definite indications as to! explained: — . | when the letter was. written (the| <1ast November the packages | letter was not dated and the post-|we had sent to him were returned {mark was smeared). |stamped ‘missing’ Then in JanuTWO: How he got the message ary we got word from the Army out. It was postmarked from that he had been killed on |Canton, near Hong Kong—more Thanksgiving Day.” : |than 1300 air miles from the She said that they had never

Korean battlefield where he was been informed by telegram that

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