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2 SUNDAY, MAR. 18 Jospeh TF, 7 0 ness : ._THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _____-- -_*%

| Why Isn't M Some Are Blaming Taxes, Others Cite the Prices

Who put the dent in In

Where has my money g

It 1s no longer a mystery to the|

wage earner. And he has passec

: ” ing” over the statements ‘of the word along to the store owner, ‘uth : | the car dealer and the appliance S0r.Panies in which he had loaas,|

«, man.

The wage earner says taxes get Our ears, all except a few metal it. Taxes and prices. . This, plus an awakening to the fact that |Z "¢ and tin, and copper is going

nmioney has been slipping too fast

through his fingers, One woman in Clermont, wife of a factory worker, said

“We're trying to put a few dollars T2410. and textiles are limping the| aside. As soon as we get our car paid for, we. want a washer and Cancellations |

a dryer.” Savings Up

It's true) Savings are up, moderately. But not enough to account for the shrinkage in buy-

ing. Fletcher Trust Co., a leader in Savings, reports savings up about

$300,000 over last year. Other istration was holding its fire for

banks show gains.

Take an institution which deals

both in saving and lendihg to wage earners, the Morris Plan. It has $11 million in loans.

But Ernest Lee, executive vice president, said savings have swelled to $10 million, making the institution the largest Morris Plan in the country, without branches.

People are paying their bills. Credit is good. And delinquency at the - Morris . Plan less than 1 per cent of the money outstanding. The thread which runs through public attitude is that there's more respect for the dollar, careful shopping. And false feeling of scarcity is gone. Loren Houser, regional director of the CIO, said, “It’s taking every cent of a worker's takehome pay to get by.”

Pay Is Down

He said thousands have had their pay cut through lost working time, shorter hours, and complete layoffs. He said one plant which em-

800 today. Then he pointed to! something else. {

the nobody; seems to be buying.

oney ‘Being Spent ?Uatis hears

diana's $4 billion payroll?

one?

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sald, “Goods is running out of] alloys. But they can get some

to loosen up.” | “Everybody's well-stocked, and

“The weak spots are television,

world over.”

| He said he had reports of cap-| cellations - of. military contracts for airplanes, if not outright con-| cellations, <then- a hoidback of =e production to revamp design, re-| go draw blueprints. Br He said there was a rumor in| financial circles that the -admin-|&

the second half of the year. “So we'll be prosperous around elec-|§ tion time,” he explained. ; Things aren't as bad as they're painted, he .said. It isn’t fair to compare 1952 with 1951. “If we ; measure today’s sales with .950,|% 4 “nm 3 we get a fairer appraisal?’ i ARSE LW AWEL RL f He laughed. “Everybody's ps PE © loaded,” he said. “I looked in a closet and found a brand new pair of black shoes. I looked at | #2" the sales ticket and saw that | | I had bought three pair on | | March 19 of 1951. X won’t have their house this spring. | to buy shoes for ‘a long time. . - | “Factory inventories are uvp.| Southeast Siders shudder|falling limb 10 inches in diam-

{One manufacturer who is worth/jn fear when ir voungsters|¢t¢r: he said. $320,000 on the hoof (net worth) when their youngsters

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Trees Make Life Unsafe | Tria n Trial of 12 egitim: On Southeast Side [ewan

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El! sentenced to death for murder

£ Prague said tonight.

months, -

delivered by the United States. Deny Offer Made They denied that an actual of- £ |fer had been made and sald that “disposition of the steel mill is not and will not be connected” with the case. The United States has contended since Mr. Oatis’ arrest last Apr. 23 that the American newsman was innocent. Mr.

prison since his arrest, and efsa forts by U. 8. officials to see him ‘(have met with no result.

DANGER—Mr. apd Mrs. Lloyd Goad, 3117 E. Bradbury Ave., wonder if these two trees will fall on te Song's Jroageast yas Fh

{at a three-day trial of “spies and

disposal crew of three men and a murderers,” all of whom were foreman. The men get $1.05 an/found guilty. Burning mad, Mr. Goad said: |hour; the foreman $1.15. What| Most of the 12 were witnesses

has $200,000 more inventory {han 80 out to play. “We live in constant fear. kind of a crew can you get for/at his own trial which led to his he needs. He has managed to get] They're afraid the children Looks to me like funds that are that money? We can’t even keep sentencing last July 4 to 10 years

rid of $70,000 worth in the .iext|

90 days, but he'll take a loss,

{will be hit by falling limbs from| d t > t and Be has farther to go.” {dead trees which line their streets

{borhood are, going someplace]

supposed to be used in this neigh- these men on the job all the time.|imprisonment, half of which

“The only way to solve the might be suspended for good be-

| " | Y havior. | —particularyl on Bradbury Ave. | t1se. {problem is have the County let a,

; Hundreds of dead trees stand contract for tree removal to some; The broadcast said he “again Takes Selling | The trees are on county prop-/yntouched and piles of tree limbs, professional outfit. That way the admitted his guilt” at the new | A new car dealer said he was erty, and they charge the county|gathered from walks and streets, County can clean the mess up in trial. { “pulling in his horns,” tightening has kicked around their duty in |jne the curbs between Raymond half the time and save money do-|

up his organization. He took me taking them down. |St. and Troy Ave. ing it.” ! . for a ride in a small car, six] “We're a lost community,”| gchool children on their way| Southeast - Siders report wee Thief Grabs Purse cylinders. angrily sald Lloyd Goad, 3117 E. home from Margaret McFarland crews take nearly four days to I asked the price. He said|Bradbury. |School, Raymond and Perkins fell and cut up one varrane OF Woman, 80 ['$2300.” Then added that takes “We live between Indianapolis| A ve are warned by their teach- sized tree,” and then leave the! ployed 2000 last June is down to selling. and Beech Grove and are in the org to heware of falling limbs. |pleces lying around. - If ever there was honor in “Nobody's coming in to take a hands of the county government.| gam Walker, county highway| “The dead tree situation in the thieves, it was lost yesterday. car away from us these days. Nobody cares if we want those chief, says: [County isn’t that bad. It couldn't] Mrs. Myrtle Moffett,-who-is 80 We've got to convince them it is|trees out or not.” | “Mr. Goad and the rest of the be or we would be getting more|Years old, was walking along Ala-

It is the number who have used up their unemployment compen-

financial backs, trying to get| along. | There has been a softening of employment in Indianapolis, in electrical plants and in clothing mills. But other towns, Muncie and New Castle, have felt the touch of the buying slowdown. The plywood industry: (furniture), radio and TV have eased a little. But prices are struggling to hold their own. ] Terre Haute, Linton, and even South Bend have layoffs reported through the unions. One plant in South Bend alone has had 3000 reported off since Thanksgiving.

Some Reactions?

What do the people think about it? Mrs. Benny McDermott, 315 S. Emerson Ave. said, “It’s a darn shame we have to pay taxes on the money we earn, then when

|itch to go somewhere. And when

the biggest dollar's worth of car| The do-nothing attitude re-|fo]x down there probably are/calls in here. We haven't had|/bama St, in the 1400 block. Budsation and are nof flat on their they have ever been offered. And mains even after “hundreds of right. The trees pose a threat to/ Very many at all, this year,” said|denly a young man ran up to her, it is, believe me.” |calls” Mr. Goad says he has public safety. That is true pretty County Commissioner Jesse A. [grabbed Mrs. Moffett's little black Hutsell. purse, and ran,

But Spring is coming, and used made to the County Highway De- much all over the county. cars which have been sticking to/partment. “You can’t get good help these in glue, may begin to move. rowly missed being struck by a willing to pay. We have a treeIt will be the annual American| ii Sa igh

to take over trusteeship of the

I America decides to ‘“go some- Trustee % local’s tangled affairs.

where,” it will have in tow, the , One of the stewards’ spokesmen country’s number one money pro- i : Sti said he thought Mr. Kavper had ducer, automobiles. iring irs embarrassed the international

And when they go, everything

grass turns green. A bitter fight was shaping up Mr. Kavner paid a $25 fine in

within the AFL Teamsters Union Municipal Court 4 Mar. 7 for treslast night over the sudden ouster Pass. He had invaded a Hoosier of Richard Kavner as trustee of Fete filling station to check the Indianapolis Local 135. . {membership eard of a truck driver 2 {who stopped for gasoline. Mr.

Sixty-one stewards of the local] charged international head-|5avner has appealed the fine.

quarters reneged on a pledge to give the local a voice in its own Two More Arrested

we go to buy furniture, we pay] taxes on that again. | “The only way to lower prices] is to stop buying. Everybody] likes butter, but when it got too high, they bought margarine.” And butter came down, from 95 to 77 cents. Mrs. Mary Holt, 408 Minerva,! said, “Your money goes like you make it, fast, You can't keep up

with it. The trouble is nothing but

taxes and prices. The first thing you know you don't have any.” Mrs. Edward Holland, 1615 Milburn St., reported, “I think| it's prices mostly. Look at black epper. > Mr Carl Cook, 1501 N. Leland] St., added her complaint, “We haven't been able to save. We have a growing daghter in high school. We'd like to save. But] there doesn't seem to be any end to, thistax business.”

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes

“Prices are almost unheard. of. They're terrible. But I don't think clothing has gone up so much. It's food, cars and homes. How can :a young married couple buy a house with the down payment what it is, and still pay their taxes?" The operator of a big five-and-ten - said, “Sure Yhings have slipped. People think we do better when buying tightens up. But we ride right along with the other stores. And we are not exactly a. five-and-ten. We've got lamps at $22.50. He looked around the store. His eyes fell on a counter of daffodills and dyed seaweed. “They still buy>what they want. That seaweed is 59 cents, and they keep cleaning out our stock.” A bank official who had been

Times Reporter To Be Speaker

Ed. Kennedy of The Times will tell Red Cross fund solicitors about the GI need for blood on the fighting front at Tuesday's “report” luncheon in IPALCO Hall. «Mr. Kennedy recently flew to Korea with Hoosier blood donations. Junior Red Cross members from Warren Central High School will be on the program. Fund collections have passéd the halfway mark toward the 1952 goal of $464,711, but Chairman Floyd W. Burns warned against “too much optimism too early.” He pointed out. ‘the first money is easiest te collect. We've still got the biggest job ahead of us.

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ffairs h it laced Mr. offs en Repace In $1.5 Million Theft

The stewards, representing] WASHINGTON, Mar. 15 (UP) workers of - 61 Indianapolis| — Federal Bureau of Investigatruckers, signed a petition de- tion agents tonight arrested John manding a showdown meeting Triliegi, 37, and Frank Scortenti, with both Mr. Kavner and his 36, in Milwaukee, Wis., in connecsuccessor present. tion with the $1.5 million burglary at the residence of Lavern bok . th : d iv. Redfield, Reno, Nev, Feb. 28. spokesmen for the stewards, mpe two, arrested on conspirac Frank Burgess, Anderson Lee, F. charges as an outgrowth nl acy A. Ross and Robert Carrigan, did burglary, brings to a total of five not know the new trustee’s name the number arrested in connecjor when he was appointed. Inter-/y;, with the case, the Justice Helional officers could not be penartment said tonight.

Pledge Given Last Summer

: leadership by his activities in orgoes. T + {ganizing certain segments of InAnd 4hat is the hope as the eams ers |dianapolis labor.

their graveled lots as if they were] Both the Goad children nar-|days for the wages the County is|Siders

- MET STAR—Martha Liptdh, The pledge to give Local 135 al ’ . young star of the Metropolitan voice in its own affairs was! 13 s Not His Number Opera, will be soloist in recital Made last July by James Hoffa, NEW YORK, Mar. 15 (UP)— for the Matinee Musicale Art Detroit, of the international’s|Uusuperstitious President Tru-| ists Seri 2.2)" board of trustees, when a CIO man occupied Seat. No. 13 on| 1344 eries at 2 p. m. Friday, {union was signing up teamsters. the dias of the” Colombia ScholMar. 28,.in L. S. Ayres’ audi- Mr. Kavner was brought here astic Press Association annual torium. from St. Louis at the same time! luncheon today.

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