Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1951 — Page 3

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Gls Get Help In Fight on High Rents

Gouging Made Her ‘Sick, Woman Says

By DONNA MIKELS

The home front enemy of soldiers stationed near Indianapolis —the rent-gougers — today were under attack from the civil and military with Indianapolis ecitiZens joining in the battle. The Indianapolis Area Rent Office has started legal action against one landlord named in the “soldier-gouging” story carried in last Sunday's Indianapolis Times. Meanwhile, F't. Harrison's “Operation Housing” announced it Is weeding out “unreasonable” rentals before offering the listings to GI's. * Citizens Come Through Both moves came after The Times revealed instances of soldiers being charged exorbitant rents for sub-standard accomoda-| tions. ! : Also aroused to action were Indianapolis citizens. The Times received calls offering rentals of rooms or small apartments to Ft. Harrison soldiers at reasonable rentals. These were referred to “Operation Housing.” One woman whose husband was| in service, called to offer a rental to Sgt. Morris Parker, whose plight was cited in The Times. She said she was “sick” inside when she read how the wounded | Pearl Harbor veteran pays $60 for a room in an old farmhouse tor | his wife and two children, without; either inside plumbing or water. Sgt. Parker has accepted the of -| fer of Mrs. Booth Hicks, 2033 Koehne St. i It was on this same case that! the Area Rent Office took immedi-| ate action. Louis G. Schaefer, area rent director said the office] has notified the landlords, Lloyd! and Mary Sigman, that they are!

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SPRING TIME—Aided by crewmen of Fire House 13, Miss Dodie Holin demonstrates the switch

in violation of the law and| to Daylight Saving Time on the big clock at Washington St. and Capitol Ave. Most Hoosier clocks ordered them to register their| were advanced one hour at 2 a. m. today.

rental rooms so that a fair price may be set. Rebates May Be Ordered It is possible, Mr. Schaefer said, that they may be ordered to pay

. rebates to Sgt. Parker and to another soldier-tenant who paid When time confuses us. First, it $65 a month for lodgings in the confuses when they change it farm-rooming house at Pendleton|back and, and, again, when they

Pike and 32a 8t.- = : The Rent. Office urged that all ‘other persons report immediately rental of rooms not registered

mums, At the same time Ft. Harrison's “Operation Housing” said co-

rentals. “Operation Housing” commended Indianapolis landlords who have supplied some 300 listings since it began full operation late in March. Over 100 of these were rented. Few Rejected

By FRANK ADAMS

TEMPUS CONFUGIT — chap-

| ter two.

Again we come to the time

{change it forth.

| This time they got us going. so. Ito speak, when they said to set

at 3a. m.

{ahead of ourselves, would set it at 1 a. m. In either case we'd never get {| to do it at 2 a. m. Not the way we figure it, we wouldn't. In

{your clock ahead an hour and with the Rent Office or charges add that you should do it at 2 which seem above legal maxi-'a. m., at which time you set it

” ” = SNOW WE'VE always felt that operatién of landlords in supply-| When you were ahead of youring listings to their office will | self, ergo time, you were early, give personnel a choice of decent not late. Now 3 a. m. is later then 2 a. m. and we, therefore, to get and time

other words how can you set the clock ahead (to 3 a. m. or 1 a. m., as you see it) and still do it at 2 a. m. If you do it at 2 a. m. it just isn’t 2 a. m., it is either 3 a. m. orl a. m. (our time). Follow us?

28 n ANYWAY, so we figure we're getting ahead by putting it (t clock) at 1 a. m. Now tha means when the office clocks says 6:30 a. m. and we should be at work our clock is going to say 4:30 a. m. and we'll be getting home to get a bit of sleep before going to work. All of which, of course, will make the boss unhappy, but setting the clock at the time prescribed by all these other persons who don’t know what they're talking about will get us up at 5 a m. when we know darn good and well it's only 4 a. m.

SO WE'LL compromise and get up at the 5 a. m. which really is 5 a. m. and that will put the office out only half as much and won’t bother us at all. Ang, besides they'll be right back where they started next fall and we'll be right as We have been all along. We have just one question, What happens to Wednesday being Thursday, or vice versa, when you cross the international deadline at 12 midnight which won't be that but will be 1 a. m. Wednesday or Thursday your time and 11 a. m. the day before, my time? P. 8.—Call the Naval Observatory for the answer and write us, Care of Cuckoo Clock, Greenwich Village, Greenwich time.

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“Operation Housing” said only £bout 10 per cent of the 300 were rejected and not offered to GI's because they were overpriced or sub-s ard. One instance was rd who tried to rent a large basement room with. only

linoleum over a dirt floor for $45

per month. While “Operation Housing” does not attempt to regulate the price asked by landlords or question if rentals are legal maximums, it does screen offerings to wé&d out undesirable units such as these, Capt. Zeiss said. i Ft. Harrison officials pointed out that the tenants now being placed are not part of the shift-| ing army population, but steady tenants who will be stationed here for perhaps as long as five years. Thus landlords listing through “Operation Hdéusing” will be assured a longtime tenancy, they said.

Producers Fear Black Market

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Wins Spelling Bee Sister of Last Year's | Champion | Continued From Page One

past four years and this is the first time she reached the finals. { The champion will go to Washington, D. C,, by plane on Apr. 21 to represent this area in the National Spelling Bee. Gretchen will have a fun-filled week of sightseeing and entertainment. She will compete in the national spelldown on May 25. For winning the title, Gretchen received from The Times a gold champion’s wrist watch, a gold champion’s spelling bee pin, a 24volume set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, a year’s supply of Encyclopaedia Britannica teaching films for her school in addition to the free trip to Washington. The next four finishers received

winner was her sister, Carol, who

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Victim Carry

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Out a Dream

the fatherless family. Mrs. Mob-

road and put up the last of the{!eY's sole income from Social Se-

siding. The housd was complete.

joy payments are $139 a month, and after buying food and clothes

| Mrs. Mobley and the children|e . ¢0v rn active youngsters, there's

{live there now, thankful for

‘friends who saw the need. Four

[little left for holiday celebrations. { With this in mind, relatives

pre-school youngsters demand the pooled their resources. Instead of

time of a mother who can not!a small gi

leave them to earn a living. “What without our wonderful

{Mobley declares

ft for each on this first lonely Christmas, one big present

would we have done was sent to all of them. family and friends, T don't know,” Mrs. “I bought the

RED - HAIRED, freckle - faced

materials for our home, but they Lloyd Jr. 4, carrot-topped Fran-

built it.”

Then she reflected: *Someone Mary Ann, 3, and Wanda, 16] in a hurry that night, Itimonths, have been wide-eyed with \left me and our children the rest|excitement and pleasure

was

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ever

|ot our lives to wait. Is there any-|since over that wonderful telething that important? . . . . But|vision set.

I did have my family and our

It's the big, important piece of

(friends. I hope other widows and|furniture in the modest 5-room

{mothers are that lucky. | - . » THE CHILDREN

spelling bee pins and fountain young to know and for awhile I| [pen and pencil sets. The first to congratulate the said. “I didn't want them to go

didn't say much, Mrs.

to the funeral. I wanted them to

|experienced the same thrill of remember his only as he was card from his children's school.

ages in many populated areas of victory last year. Carol pinned when alive.

the coutry.” | Can't Go to Waste

the gold’ champion’s pin on the new queen. :

“Then, after several weeks, when one asked again, I gathered

Some Eastern states butchers| One of the most exciting finishes the older ones and told them recently have complained they|in any Times Spelling Bee came what had happened. Now they were unable to get the beef cuts when Gretchen misspelled the know, but they still hardly under-

they want. The AMI said that OPA experiences showed that when ceiling prices are set below the levels equal to the buying power of the public, “some people will find ways of furnishing meat at prices highrer than legal ceilings. Unfortunately, this is happening now.’ Hart Jorgensen, executive director of the Livestock Foundation of Omaha, said he can’t see how a slaughter quota “will help at all” “When cattle are ready to market, they're ready to market,” he said. “You can’t just leave them go to waste.” He said controls “already have disrupted the distribution of our meat,” but that “farmers will do the best job they can under the circumstances.”

Cattle Raisers Official Predicts Black Market

VAN HORN, Tex., Apr. 28 (UP) —Texas’' No. 1 cattleman,. Ray

word “abattoir” and the runner-

up, Marsha Seraphine, also mis-| The same folks who built the| IN THE

spelled it. Gretchen then spelled “abdication” and the next word— “aberrance’” — was misspelled by Marsha. Gretchen gave the correct spelling and also spelled correctly her second word — “abeyance” — which was required by the contest rules. Here are the words that spelled down yesterday's finalists: mimjoker, minimum, ninetieth, oddity, abbreviation, abolition, abscess, acclimated, acoustic, adjacent, adolescence, aeronautics, amethyst, amortization, amphibian, anonymous, anteroom and apostrophe. Gretchen's victory marks the fourth year in a row that a St, Patrick’s Catholic School pupil has won the spelling title. Emilie Gray won the title in 1948 and 1949.

Indiana Registration

Willoughby, president of the Texas Of Vehicles in Jump

and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’|

Assoc., predicted tonight the return of the black market as a result of the OPS order rolling back beef prices, Mr, Willoughby declared that a rollback for the meat industry alone is unfair and under present conditions will force small

There's less walking and more driving in Indiana. The number of vehicles registered in Indiana rose 7.1 per cent last year over its 1949 total, the U. 8. Bureau of Public Roads reported last night. That was about average for the Midwest,

packers out of the market, thus 2 i channeling of cattle into “back- Strike Called n Japan

street” markets. A The spokesman, who represents more than 9000 ranchers in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana, said he knows of no move, however, toward a producers’ strike. Ey “When they're fat enough, we'll

TOKYO, Apr. 28 (UP)—The powerful General Council of Japanese Labor Unions today ordered a one-day strike of its 3.1 million claimed members Tuesday .to protest a government

stand.”

{house made Christmas merry for

Air Horn Clue In Hit-Run Death

| Might Belong On Killer Car

Seen a late-model car minus one big twin air horn recently? If so, notify state police. It may be .the hit-run car that /hit Gene Abell Bannister, 19, of [320 E. 10th St, on Apr. 15. He

died five days later. | The broken horn, found at the (scene, may be the clue leading {to the killer car. Stopped to Give Aid | With ' some companions, Mr. {Bannister stopped to aid a stalled {motorist near 90th St. on Fall {Creek Blvd. As he walked near the edge of the road, he was {struck from the rear by the killer [car speeding northwest toward Lv Oaklandon dam. Witnesses were able to describe

| {

' {the hit-run vehicle only as a dark-

colored, 1946-49 model. The chrome; 31-inch, blast-type air /horn—believed mounted on the fender or hood—was knocked off. | Police theorize that there was a twin horn on the car. . 8gt Alva R. Funk, heading the investigation, asked any person

ban on a May Day demonstration with information to call him at

on the Imperial Palace Plaza Indianapolis headquarters, BEbring them to market,” he seid./grounds. = i ica MY

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Mobley |

house. And in a place of honor test from the meat industry and above the set is a handsome, |the Congressional farm bloc, Mr. were too Smiling picture of Lloyd Mobley,|DiSalle asserted in a statement a father who died in his twenties. accompanying the orders that his

He didn't live to see his young-

He didn’t live to sign a report, He never took his son to a “ri ball game. He never unlocked] the door on his own home. Why? | Because someone was in a hurr on the night of April 9, 1950, cut‘ting into a lane of traffic. |

evenings, when the {house is quiet only as a house can 'be quiet after four children have |gone to sleep, Martha Mobley often looks up at that picture of ther husband. | The séaring period of grief is over and only the dull, empty ache LO | | The eyes in the picture met hers| as she speaks softly, “I'm trying, |Lloyd. I'm doing my best and we're getting along. But why must I do it alone?” The picture cannot answer. Neither can a traffic statistic.

Coal Prices Due For Summer Cut

Indianapolis coal prices for sum-|

mer delivery will be slashed as much ad) $1.75 a ton next month. Some cuts will become effective Tuesday. Frank Harper, executive secretary for the Indianapolis Coal Merchants’ "Association, said a survey of retail dealers here disclosed the average cut for all grades will be about 55 cents a ton. : This is possible despite recent wage increases granted coal miners which producers estimated increased costs from 30 to 35 cents a ton. Earlier this year freight rates for coal shipments aiso were advanced an average of six cents a ton here, he said. Prices can .be reduced here, Mr. Harper said, because they already have been lowered at the mines, as operators want stock to move

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Businessman and

Housewife Confused Continued From Page One |

to buy the best and pay for it. I could figure on a certain number of burgers out of a pound of beef. Now I figure less ham- | burgers and more grease. I can’t| dish up grease on a bun | “Beer has gone up 50 cents on the barrel and 15 cents on the case,” he said. “But I still get a dime for the same sized glass and the same price for a bottle.” | ‘Typical of what happens be-| tween the manufacturer, the re-| tailer and the consumer-is the! case of an Indianapolis yard {goods store, a speciality shop. | “Ceiling prices? The [they've set them I'm afraid the| {roof will fall in on me,” the owner commented. | He explained his plight. His| business is built on volume in his |special line. A year ago material he was buying for $1.25 a yard, |he sold for $1.85 a yard. The public had been paying that {price for a long time. Then eame the first hike from the manufacturer. The material went to $1.45 a yard. The merchant held] {his price. Then the goods went to |1$1.65 a yard. The retailer, expect-! ling’ a rollback, held his price. A |freeze came, but on him. | | Now the merchant is faced with |selling material for $1.85 a yard (while he must pay $1.95 for it. {He’s not buying any right now.

Ceilings on Beef To Cut Prices

Full Effect | Due Oct. 1

| Continued From Page One

lis intended to relieve the wholesalers and retailers who were caught in a squeeze last January when their own prices were frozen while cattle costs continued to rise. But your butcher will have to cut his beef prices 4 or 5 cents

When the full effect of those reductions percolates down to the

steaks throughout the ‘country should be 10 to 12 cents a pound cheaper than they are today and the general price of all beef products should be down 8 or 9 cents. wa $7 Billions on Beef However, there will be a few isolated areas where meat is plentiful and beef already is selling slightly below the new ceilings. But the Office of Price Stabilization is convinced that in the {large majority of cases, beef | prices will be held at their present {levels or rolled back a few cents. | Prices then, Mr. DiSalle said, will be at the levels prevailing {just before the start of the | Korean War, plus some allowance for cost increases. | American families are spending {about $7 billion a year on beef, which accounts for 44 per cent of their meat diet and is the most expensive item on the average menu. The beef order had been in the works for more than two weeks, but its issuance was delayed because of red-hot opposition from the farm bloc in general and Secretary Charles F. Brannan in particular. The fight was settled Friday after a cabinet session in which| {Mr. Brannan was reported to have urged President Truman again to veto any meat price cut. Defense Mobilizer Charles F. Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston sided with Mr. DiSalle, however, and Mr. Truman gave Mr. DiSalle the go-ahead. Anticipating a storm of pro-

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al economy. He pointed out that" beef now) sells at 152 per cent of parity—a theoretical level at which the] farmer is calculated to be getting a fair return for his products in relation to the cost of things he| buys—and that by fall, even after| the cutbacks, still will be between 120 and 125 per-.cent of parity.

3 Arrested in Raid; Baseball Tickets Seized

Police arrested three persons | and confiscated 11 full and 59 par-| tially filled books of baseball tickets in three raids yesterday. | Slated on charges of keeping a room for pool selling before Judge Alex Clark in Municipal Court 4] at 9 a. m. tomorrow are: | Dave Nahmias, 37, 12101 S.| Meridian St, who was operating | a cigar store at 1205, S. Meri-| dian St. Stanley Thomas, 23, of 1050 N. Traub Ave. owner ofiTom's pool room, 2241 W. 10th St. Arthur Taylor, 29, of 939 Fayette St, operator of Park Exchange Cigar Store, 1318 E. 25th St.

Broad Ripple Pupil Wins Wabash Scholarship

George Seidensticker Jr., Broad Ripple High School football player, has been awarded a $1000 honor scholarship to Wabash College. The son of Mr, and Mrs. George Seidensticker, 4822 Guilford Ave., he was one of 10 students picked from five states. |

Named Vice Presidents | NEW YORK, Apr. 28 (UP)—H. Joseph Markert and Albert E.| Bell have been elected vice presidents of Purolator Products (Canada) Ltd., Canadian subsidiary of Purolator Products, Inc. of Rahway, N. J, it was an-

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