Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1951 — Page 1

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$9.4 Million Bell Rate Hike OKd by Court

Order for Temporary Boost Goes to PSC

The state will appeal Judge Claycombe’s approval of a temporary rate increase for Indiana Bell Telephone Co. The Public Service Commission today asked the attorney's office to take action toward an appeal to the Supreme Court.

A temporary $5.4 million rate increase for Indiana Bell Telephone Co. has been ap-

proved by Judge Lloyd Clay-|.

combe of Marion County Cir-

cuit Court.

This was authorized today in an order sent to the Public Servjce Commission. The judge issucd a temporary injunction permitting the utility to raise local exchange rates by $5,419,000. This was the full amount requested by Bell for local service. The judge’s order means an increase from 60 cents to $1.75 a month, exclusive of federal tax, for subscribers in Indianapolis and 81 other Hoosier cities.

Bell Asked $7,229,000 However, the court did not allow rate increases asked for long] distance and miscellaneous) charges. The long distance hike would

@ ® ° . ® nave been s1.3540000, and miscel- Wieshim fn Wave of Evictions

In all, Bell had asked the court] for authority to raise its statewide rates by $7,229,000. The judge ordered that refunds will be made if the rate increases are not finally approved by the PSC. The New Schedule

The telephone company is ex- Street as she waited to give birth/ran above the legal maximum of |

pected to file its new rates with the Commission later today. The judge permitted the increases to go into effect at the next billing date. ; : Under the new schedule, these are the rates (tax excluded): One-party business, $16.50. Business trunk, $8.75, One-party residence, $6.25. Two-party residence, $5.10. Four-party residence and rural, $4.10. } Judge Claycombe’'s order enjoined the PSC from interfering

Among Home-Hungry

ANOTHER EVICTION—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clingenpeel

with daughter Pamela.

Expectant Mo

By DONNA MIKELS

An expectant mother in the throes of childbirth today was the newest victim of a mounting wave of “illegal evictions” in homehungry Indianapolis. Virtually turned out in the to her child was Mrs. Shirley Clingenpeel, along with her husband, Joseph, and 2-year -old daughter, Pamela. The couple told the Area Rent Office that Landlord Maurice

buy furnishings in their rented home:at 2213 Southeastern Ave, then sald “you're evicted” and stood in front of the door, refusing to permit Mr. Clingenpeel to enter the home to get milk for

expected baby.

with the charging and collecting

of the new rates by the utility, |

Bell had taken the issue to

Termed ‘Tik:gal’

The eviction was termed “il-\4pe house had been sold and that]

Thompson took $250 from them to|

Truce Talks

THURSDAY, JUNE 28,

Russia Wants Chinese in

Would Ban Political Questions Now

nounced today that Russia wants the battlefield com-

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Entered as Second-Class Matter as Postoffice Indianapolis, Indians. Issued Daily, >

Iranians Confis Main British Offic =e As Tankers Pull C

Se Nan s

regard to political questions,

cease-fire, the department sald Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday told U. 8. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk| that: i ONE--The cease-fire should be negotiated by the United Nations {command and the South Korean] commanders on the one hand, and military representatives of North Korea and “Chinese volunteer units” on the other.

TWO—The cease-fire negotiations would be limited strictly to| military questions not involving! any political or territorial ques-| tions.

ther Is Latest

jcame here from Flora, Ind. to at{tend school under the GI bill. He !said his family shared the unit |with another tenant and that each |paid Mr. Thompson $10 a week {and éach paid half the utilities.

| This, rent office attorneys said,

| $67.50. Mr. Clingenpeel said that in recent weeks the landlord said he iwas moving the other tenant out land that the Clingenpeel family {could retain possession. “if you can handle the rent alone.”

Dropped Out of School

| The veteran sald he dropped |

lout of Lain Business College and {took a job so that he could keep {the house for his family. On July

the child or the layette for the|16 he said he paid the landlord

{$90 to catch up on back rent and {pay through July 16. However, {last week the landlord told them

court when the PSC turned a legal” by Indianapolis Area Rent iyey must move. Later, the Clin-

cold shoulder to its request for an $8.2 million hike. The Commission authorized an increase of $730,000, which the utility declined to take.

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{Office which said Mr. Thompson violated the law by failing to comply with procedure governing proper evictions. A rush query was sent to Cleveland to authorize filing suit in Federal Court for an injunction against the landlord. The Clingenpeels told rent officials they were paid up through Saturday in their rent, which, they said, was in excess of the legal maximum set for half of the Southeastern double. Rent Office investigators are probing the charge of overcharge and have ordered the landlord into the rent office for consuitation, officials said. Burl Silvers, area rent attorney,

ing that the new law which Congress may impose shortly will be more strict,

Check All Eviction Calls

Extra estigators are checking all eviction calls. The seriousness of the situation has caused

{the local office to utilize the sec~

tion of the law which gives it the right to seek injunctions against landlords who violate evection procedure.

eran, said he moved

Guide of Indian

double in March, 1950, when he

Outside Indianapolis—

Information

, Beer

Supplied by NATO

By ED SOVOLA

Mr. Inside

Indianapolis

PARIS, France, June 28—If you were in this fabulous

city, ‘maybe you wouldn't want to stop at the Supremefthe clothes on their back. They said they would stay tem- taxes in 1949 and 1950. It will be

Headquarters Allied Powers Astoria Hotel.

of Europe (SHAPE) in the

I'm funny that way, I did.

The success of the North ‘Atlantic Tfeaty Organization

(NATO) is of utmost im-

‘portance to me. It should be

to you, too. Never in the history of the world have na-

tions, 12 strong, joined them-

selves together for their common defense in the manner in which they're doing under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. NATO, when you look at it from England or in France, looks a lot different than when you look at it in Tucson, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, or New. Orleans. Here you c¢7n

Mr,

Sovola

: gee the grass on the other side

and smell it. You can talk to

people who have tasted it. ocean separat& these people,

a 8.8 I TELEPHONED Cmdr, Frank

might get a squint at what is happening and report it back home? Come on over. Commander Loveless met me at the security desk in the lobby

Continued on Page 21; Col. 1

; { Mr, Clingenpeel, a naval vetinto the)

{genpeels said, he told them a {member of his family was to {move in. Last Wednesday, the family said, Mr. Thompson offered to sell them the furnishings of the house for $250, saying: “You're the only tenant who has taken care of it and I'll give you first chance.” The youthful husband borrowed $250 from a finance {company, hoping that he might {be able to find an unfurnished {home, since he had not been suc|cessful in finding a furnished unit which would accept children. However, ' {handed th&Jandlord the $250 and {received the bill ‘of sale Mr.

said this case was one of the Thompson barred his entrance to “most flagrant” of recent weeks the house and said: “You're evictwhich have seen a startling in-/€d. We'll pack the things out in crease in “illegal evictions” in the the garage for you.” The transaccity. He said landlords are try-| tion had taken place on the fron

ing to get “under the wire,” fear-| Porch. .

Says Pleas Ignored

He said the landlord ignored {his pleas to be allowed to enter

[to get his clothes, clothes for his {daughter and for the expectant

{baby or milk in the icebox. He,

U.S. Investigation =

said the landlord once offered to {let them sleep there the night if

| they would sign a notarized state{rangement, but later changed his | mind.

| {to the Rent Office, saying “I can |go all the way up . .. up to the { governor.” He said the landlord told him

he said, when he

iment that it was a temporary ar-|

he didn't have to go Shoush legal eviction because the hous!

i THREE-—The Soviet Union has {no further specific steps in mind! {looking toward a peace settle- | ment.

FOUR—"The parties” in Korea should decide what later arrangements would be necessary on popitical and territorial problems. FIVE—The Soviet government] is not aware of the views of the Chinese Communist regime to-| ward the peace talks. i

Gen. Ridgway Awaits |

‘Cease-Fire Orders

TOKYO, June 28 Gen. Matthew! B. Ridgway’s Supreme United! Nations Headquarters stood by! today for instructions from! Washington on a possible Korean| cease-fire conference. |

Presumably either Gen. Ridgway]

|commander of W¥nited Nations ground forces in ea, would! represent the Allies in any conference with the enemy. | | In Korea Gen. Van Fleet said! {he had received no instructions |for negotiating a cease-fire agree-| iment. { He said the Chinese appeared {to be building up for a future {effort, but were not in a position]

'at the moment to launch a heavy attack.

| ‘Not Letting Up’ |

Undersecretary Archibald Alex-! ander, who arrived in Tokyo by! plane this morning. But it was believed Gen. Ridgway would get!

than through Mr. Alexander.

Closing of Struck City Plant Draws

'Board today was investigating) the shutdown of an Indianapolis]

The homeless family also said | plant to determine if it closed il- || the landlord told the father to go|legally in face of a strike or by |

coincidence. | . Robert Volger, chief of the |INLRB district, said the Rock{wood Manufacturing Co., 1801 | English Ave, may have violated

the Taft-Hartley Act by notifying | had been rented to the other employees it {

was permanently

tenant. However, he said, he paid|closed the day they walked out.

his rent directly to Mr. Thompson,| The pulley manufacturer plant's

who declined to give receipts.

Meanwhile,

who is 16 days past due in deliv-| Treasurer Louis

ery, lapsed into “light labor” painsifiled suit against the firm in Cir-| after the shock of learning her|cuit

Mrs. Clingenpeel,

| 275 workers struck June 13,

| Meanwhile, Marion County Rainier, today

Court

{ native in a goatskin hat poking

| ~—colored tan. | for hour after hour.

| dark. Pitch black.

of Staff in Washington rather The

The National Labor Relations 5

a cluding ‘Hot as the Hinges of You Knew What'— 2 b o wee comms 0 nine | Alyddan Doesn’t Mind 130°-140 reams se BUt When It Gets

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON, June 28-1 don’t believe I ever told you about the time I lost my appetite in Abadan. This is a small island at the top of the Persian Gulf. It is as hot as the hinges of you know what. In the middle of it is the greatest ofl refinery in the world. This the Iranians are trying to take away from. the British. Warships are hovering in there now, and the diplomats are hinting darkly that here may come the ‘shot that starts Weld War III. Abadan is frépt page news and insofar as I nobody has attempted to tell in print how it smells or looks, or how a Britisher manages to live there at all. Even without a

a gun in his direction. Bear with me and I'll do a little recollecting:

o n » I WAS pounding over from Cairo after the war in an Army DC-4; down below the landscape was mostly nothing This went on The sun went down and-—-bang—it was

The plane did a little pitching, too, on account of the hot air eddying up from the earth. We started to come in for a landing at Abadan, finally, and there through the plane window I saw one of the most startin, sights in my life—thousands of electric lights studding the - landscape below for mile after

or Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, mile, almost as if Los Angeles had been trans-

planted ito the wilderness. x

This was the oil refinery. Soon we could get

a whiff of its fumes. As the plane bounced lower,

; the temperature grew hotter.

» ” = WHEN 1 stepped out on the runway at about 10 p. m. the heat hit me like a board across the face. The odor of the cooking oil everywhere was present; so were Irahians in their peculiar hats of shaggy goat, manning the fire extinguishers and hauling out the gas tanks.

to 101° It's Cool

The thermometer read 101. The locals said this was a cool evening, Dinner in the restaurant was waiting. I ordered eggs. A barefoot waiter brought ‘em, friend, and left the door to the kitchen open. Through that I could see the cook. He was a gent ip a goatish cap, gray-colored diapers and nothing else. The sight of him, plus the blast of hot air carrying the odor of burned grease, took away my desire for hen fruit.

I had to spend several hours |

in Abadan while the mechanics labored on the flying machine. It was a good thing, they said, I'd arrived at night or they could have done no work.

” - » IT GETS so hot by day on this fantastic island that no man dares touch his monkey wrench for fear of blistering his hands. For day after day and week after week the temperature hovers between 130 and 140 degrees. The refinery workers do most of their labor by night; in the day when its too hot even to think, they try. to sleep. They have air conditioning In their house, free movies and no telling what all else. They earn hefty bonuses for enduring the place at all, but they take furloughs every few. months. If they don’t the heat

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gets ‘em and they go haywire mentally.

oe A THE NATIVES have a village near the refinery, This generally is off-bounds for foreign-

ers, simply because the chance is too great for contracting one or another Near Eastern disease, My informants reported there wasn't much in town to see, anyhow, Never did I see people so envious as were they when I climbed back aboard my flying machine. When we'd gone upstairs into the cool again I cracked open a small can of genuine, germ-free American orange juice. I don’t think I've tasted anything so good since.

Cries Uncle—

were not eteng won tne | OWN With Fish in Streets Isn't Happy by a Dam Site

By JAMES DANIEL Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June 28—Con-

ferred for a time with U. 8. Army to $418,000 to keep 5-pound river rocting Clinton's situation. Two.

public nurses were giving shots! almost around the clock. i

You Can't See For the Sun at ‘City of Blind’ By FRANK WIDNER

FRED OTHMAN isn't kidding {when he says the heat in Aba-

Washington has never shown! He con- gress is being asked to vote upP'any particular interest in cor. {430 18 like the hinges of hell.

It's the kind of hot air blast

carp from coming up through years ago, Frank Pace, then that seems to suck the wind right manholes in the streets of Clin- assistant budget director and now|out of you. “And when there's a

ton, Iowa.

Army Secretary, took the standignirt in the wind from the Per-

It’s not just the carp the towns- that the government wasn’t liable|

his instructions from the Chiefs | sian Gulf you get an idea of what {people are complaining about. for damages to constructions bey'~¢ also unhappy becatse of low normal high water mark, in|tRat baked chicken in the oven

snakes said to be coming out of which class he lumped Clinton's/feel8 like.

lavatory drains and rats reported sewers. crawling up through basement} traps. |

ton.

Dander Up

ver town of 30,000 inhabitants, ask for funds for an all of whom had to be inoculated not related to la leet against typhoid this spring Dbe- This ruled out any relief for Clin- GI towel with water, place it on But the townspeople got your bunk and lay on Wp of it (their dander up and sent their/to get a little relief. In'a matjofficials to Washington. Their theme was that if Uncle! hn = = Sam hadn't interfered with the!

Mississippi River, then Clintons that's hotter. And that's a few {drains would work as they used

ito. What the federal govérnment| |caused, the federal government Dizful. There, they claim to have

{chould correct, they argued. | Result is that in a few days, The British once reported there Rep. Henry O. Talle, Republican, that they broke a thermometer

I’ve seen GIs douse themselves, appeal to Russia would be a

with a bucket of water while wearing sun-tans to get relief. By

This spring, President Truman the time they'd walked 20 feet Clinton is an upper Mississippl told the Army Engineers not to/back to their barracks they were |

Even at night you can soak a

{ter of minutes it's crinkly dry. ONLY ONE place I know of imiles north to a’ little spot called

ithe hottest sun in the world.

as dry as a freshly pressed suit. efforts to negotiate a

for $13,816.37. The

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family was homeless, with only|treasurer says the firm owews the |

porarily with

her parents,

{ {money for personal and real estate

to file against tax de-

Park ‘Ave, pending consultation|linquents, he gaid.

on possible civil No| Rent Office injunction against the

(landlord. The

25th Meda

Enough SEOUL, Korea, June 28° (UP) —~ Eleven Royal Northumberland Fusiliers will be tried by field general court-martial tomorrow on charges of refusing to obey an order to parade for training purposes aftér returning from a patrol.

(position.

landlord {reached for comment. Loveless, public information offi-| reporter who called at the home cer, at the Astoria and gave him|outlined charges against him to Continued on Page 2-—€ol. 8 the pitch. Could he fix it that I|Mrs. Thompson who said she . {would have her husband call when

could not A Times

{he returned home.

| of Honor

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a m,. 68 10 a. m... 70 Ta m.. 7 11 a.m... 74 8 a. m.. 70 12 (Noom) 5.Sm. 0 ip m.. N &,

suits and the!

Officials of the United S8teelcharges. with

good faith.”

Restore Tax Bill .Cut,

Snyder Urges Senate | WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)

WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP) |—Secretary of Treasury John W. —Capt. Lewis L. Millet, 30, South|Snyder stuck lo the administraDartmouth, Mass., will receive the tion's request “for a $10 billion 25th Medal of Honor in the Ko-|{boost in taxes today and urged rean War for his bravery in lead-|the Senate Finance Committee to ing his company in a bayonet restore most of the $3.8 billion! attack on a strongly held enemy knocked out by the House.

Each month of delay will cost the Treasury millions of dollars in lost revenue, he said. . And unless the full $10 billion

cause the sewers failed to func[tion properly as a result of inter-

Mr.|the largest suit of some 500 he ference with the water level by and Mrs. Stephen Roach, 2241|plans

the federal government.

| The sewers apparently worked fine until the U. 8. Army Engi-

be Rockwood “refused to bargain in along that part of the Mississippi. A { Mr. Volger said this The idea was to make the upper ingly defeated an effort to permit |

Mississippi more navigable. Didn't Notiee

But somebody in the Engineers |Corps apparently didn’t notice lthat the crest of the particular ‘dam downstream from Clinton was 214 feet higher than the out-

let of one of Clinton's most im-

{portant sewers. |" Because of this oversight, about [half of the town customarily lives only a few feet above an underground cesspool. When it rains hard or the Mississippi is in flood, 'the stagnant sewers flow backwards. | This is when the town officials

| }

‘begin to get complaints. about| 3 is voted, he said, the government |fish, rats and snakes. At one time bill before it, too, but leaders sa'd

will go billions of dollars into the this spring sewage-contaminoted

red in fiscal 1952.

\water filled 4000 basements aid)

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{who comes from that part of Towa, and the state's two Sena{tors, Bourke Hickenlooper, Repub-| |lican, and Guy Gillette, Democrat, | {plan to put the bite on the Senate! {Appropriations Committee . for {enough funds to build three pump-| [ing stations to lift Clinton's sew-| lage up to the river level. | in 1946. Now the bill would be! fabout $418,000, because of increased construction costs,

Senate Swamps | ‘Weaker Rent Curb!

| |—The Senate today overwhelm-|

{rent increases up to 37 per cent |in some cases. aa] | The action came on a proposal by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R. Ill.) to write a weaker rent con{trol provision into.-the Senate's new controls bill. He was defeated, 68 to 19. The House Banking Committee {approved, 21 to 3 a stopgap bill to extend present’ controls over prices, wages and rents for 31 !days through July 31. Administra[tion leaders hoped to bring it to a House vote tomorrow less than {36 hours before all controls are {scheduled to expire.

The House has a new one-year

Conaress could not finish it this weal ;

{in the sun at 180.3 degrees. Anyway, the natives can’t stand it. They live underground to escape the heat. . Ahd when they come up in the sun they can’t see. It's called the “City of the Blind.” During the war, the GIs stayed on top of the ground-—

. . | This would have cost $257,000 working in a (cool?) truck ae OF The Times

sembly plant.

Red Cross Warned On Fund Campaigns

NEW YORK, June 28 (UP)— The American National Red Cross

workers of America (CIO) filed neers, about a dozen years ago, | {warned all local Red Cross chapthe NLRB that built a series of locks and dams| WASHINGTON, June 28 (UP)

ters today not to participate in community drives to raise funds in conjunction with other organizations. ; Only independent Red Cross fund raising campaigns were authorized in an almost unanimous reaffirmation of policy by’ some 5000 delegates attending the closing session of the Red Cross annual convention yesterday.

Chéinge Posts

BUENOS AIRES, June 28 (UP) —Well-informed sources reported today that Foreign Minister Hipolito Jesus Paz and Jeronimo

"A Drake had ray soe

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dan headquarters within the two days but told other

“last resort.” Denies Iran Threat The premier Iran's with the British-owned Anglo-

tries using Iranian oil and his government: still “is ready” enter into talks with the pany. 1 Government officials at { Adaban fields warned

Continued on Page %—Col. 8

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