Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 23 July 1943 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1943.

Argue Purchase of Indiana Facility Philadelphia, July 23.—Officials of Northern Indiana Public Service Co., which seeks to purchase facilities of the LaPorte Gas and Electric Co., differed today with legal representatives of the city of LaPorte, Ind., on whether the purchase would be in the public interest. Dean Mitchell, president of Northern Indiana, admitted late , yesterday in the opening session of a hearing before the Securities and Exchange Commission that his company’s electric rates for the first 40 kilowatt hours were higher than those charged by the LaPorte Gas and Electric Co. Reports of the Federal Power Commission introduced at the hearing showed that Northern Indiana electric rates were higher for the first 100 and 250 kilowatt hours than those charged by LaPorte. Mitchell, however, said Northern Indiana rates for the first 36 hours were lower than those of LaPorte, and that his company’s gas rates were “substantially lower” than LaPorte’s. He said Northern Indiana expects to adopt the LaPorte rates after confirmation 1 of the transaction and, in addition, to file the Northern Indiana rates as optional, giving customers the choice of whichever was lower.

American Red Cross Aids Flood Victims St. Louis, July 23. —The American Red Cross will spend more than $1,000,000 for flood relief to families in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, Roy Wingate, head of disaster operations in this area announced today. Rehabilitation workers have been in the field for eight weeks, helping Red Cross chapters extend aid to families that suffered losses from the recent floods. Their work included paying all or part of the costs of rebuilding homes and providing farm supplies, equipment, and livestock, according to the family’s resources and needs. Food shortages were partly controlled through the organization’s work in supplying seeds and seed potatoes to farmers whose gardens were destroyed by the high water. The field workers were concluding their flood relief work, Wingate said, and were expected to be withdrawn by August 1. The Red Cross is also supplying nurses to areas in the midwest where infantile paralysis has broken out and now 15 are assigned to localities in Oklahoma and Texas. o Hoarded Corn Now Starting to Market Washington, July 23. — Hoarded torn is beginning to flow to market under the terms or a special government agreement with farmers to pay them the difference in price if ceilings should be raised by October 31. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones revealed today that more than 6,000,000 bushels have been sold to country elevators since July 1, making more corn available for war industries and livestock producers. Under the WFA plan, farmers are required to sell their stored corn by August 10 if they are to get the price bonus in the event ceilings are lifted. Jones said that with an estimated 800,000,000 bushels now on faring, “the initial response has been gratifying, and . . . the program will attain its objective if farmers continue to cooperate.” Child Epidemic Has Claimed 30 Infants Indianapolis, July 23.—Dr. Robert E. Jewett, head of the State Bureau of Maternal and Child Health of the Indiana state board of health, said today several maternity wards in the state have been closed in an effort to protect new-born infants from an epidemic of infant diarrhea which has taken a toll of 30 lives in the last few weeks. “Since the cause of this disease is not known,” he said, “the only possible procedure is to close the wards and take certain precautionary measures.” Jewett said two maternity wards in different parts of the state already have been isolated and others would be closed wherever the disease appears. “Such epidemics can be prevented only by carefully planned and supervised procedures and techniques through the maternity service in the hospitals,” he said.

Waring Approves North African Move Chicago, July 23—Roane Waring national commander of the American Legion, believes that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s diplomatic handling of conflicting French factions in North Africa has stamped him as an administrator of the first order. Waring, who returned recently from a trip to the North African front, told the Chicago Executives club yesterday that Eisenhower’s policies saved the Allies the use of 200,000 American soldiers. “That many would have been needed to patrol the area had the civil authorities been removed in wholesale numbers as many Americans advocated,” he said. The shipment of food to the troops at the front has not been handled so judiciously, he said. “Although food is plentiful in Africa and although American soldiers encounter scores of Arabs standing along the roads offering eggs for sale,” he said, “Immense quantities of powdered eggs are being shipped from the United States to that area.” o— Generals Become General Nuisance

Chicago, July 23. — A flock of “generals” were looking for honest jobs today. Convinced by a judge that while crime sometimes does pay it usually pays through the nose. The “generals” comprised the American Faithful Workers. They nickelled and dimed themselves into ersatz prosperity with house-to-house collections for the needy. What they forgot to tell the contributors^ the judge learned, was that they were the needy. , Yesterday they met Municipal Judge Francis Borrelli. “Adjutant General” Harry Card and “Major General” Edward Marrgraff produced “General” Ben L. Jewell as their witness. “General” Jewell said he commanded the staff. Beside him stood Mrs. Jewell, who told the judge she was a “vice general.” “What does a vice general do?” asked the judge. “I don’t know,” replied the “vice general.” The judge put Marrgraff and Card on six months’ probation and levied suspended fines of $100 against each. He ordered “General” JeAvell t<5 demobilize his army and get a job. The loot was turned over to the USO. All $2.84 of it oSea lions and hair seals are still abundant on the California coast, but the fur seal has disappeared. Wartime glass containers, substituted for tin cans, are releasing an estimated 300,000 tons of steel and tin for war purposes.

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ON THE AIR By Fred Emery "SENATOR" FORD His real moniker is Edward Hastings Ford and on WLWNBC’s “Can You Top This?” program (Saturdays, 9:30 p. m M EWT), he’s the dour-visaged Joke savant who relates ?— yarns about i *uch homo sapiens as Fannie Fiddletuffer, Tillie Numbnut, Mr. and Mrs. Snapgirdle, Fritzi Baumw addle and Dopey Kil-

dac.

Before crashing show busin e s s, “Senator” Ford tried his hand at

practically everything from bookkeeping to cow milking. In between, he managed to obtain an art schooling and operated an art studio in New York’s lower Broadway, doing commercial il-

lustrating.

Ford made his debut as an af*4>r dinner speaker at the Republican Club in New York. He followed on the. speaking list Senator Warren G. Harding, who later became President. It was on this occasion that the toastmaster jocularly referred to Ford as “Senator” Ford in introducing him to the audience. The title ’has stuck since. Ford lives in Southold, L. I., where his ancestors settled in 1640. He met his wife at a New Year’s party when both were sober. “And still are,” he hast-

ens to add.

Edward H. Ford

MARJORIE ANDERSON HEARD IN ‘BIG SISTER*

Marjorie Anderson is a favored performer in the “Big Sister” serial, heard Mondays through Fridays at 9:45 a. m., EWT, ove^ Station WLW.

Will Sell Jail To Purchase War Bonds

Harvard, Neb., July 23.

The

town jail which Robert Pinckney, 16, bought a month ago for $1.5’0 through error of city officials, will be sold to the highest bidder in war bonds at Los Angeles to help construction of the cruiser Los An-

geles.

Pinckney made the announcement as he left for Los Angeles at the request of Albert S. Scott, head of the Los Angeles war finance committee. Pinckney, who has rejected an offer to sell or lease the jail for $80, said he would deliver the deed in person to the highest

bidder.

The idea for the war bond sale of the jail originated with a sailor convalescing in a Los Angeles hospital from battle wounds received in the south Pacific. He wrote Pinckney who in turn got in touch

with Scott.

The sale will be made in the next two weeks, Pinckney said.

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Report Survivors Guadalcanal, July 23— The following are among survivors of the American light cruiser U. S. S. Helena who were taken from a Japan-ese-held island after the ship was sunk (it is not a complete list of

the ship’s survivors):

K. E. Bottom, Waverly, 11.; P. A. Shuh, Qolona, 111.; O. R. Point, Al-

Place Hog Ceiling At $14.75 Per Cwt. Washington, July 23.—The government prepared today to place a flat price ceiling of $14.75 per hundredweight, Chicago basis, on live hogs in August and to tighten control of hog slaughtering and marketing by federal licensing of slauhterers. The Office of Price Administra tion announced the new move last night. It was concurred in by the War Food Administration. Simultaneously, WFA announe ed that its support price for hogs would be extended, effective Sept. 1, to include lighter weights in an effort to conserve feed supplies. Officials said it would be necessary for farmers to market hogs at lighter weights; they requested that hogs not exceed 230 pounds. WFA action will extend the average hog support price of $13.75 per hundredweight, Chicago basis, for the period Sept. 1, 1943 to March 31, 1944, to include weights from 200 to 270 pounds, good to choice butcher hogs. The support price previously was effective only for good to choice butcher hogs weighing 240 to 270 pounds, Chicago basis. The support price for hogs weighing 240 to 270 pounds will ^remain in effect for the period originally provided — through Sept. 1944. The new flat maximum price of $14.75 is below the record high of $16.10 reached this spring but “slightly above” prices prevailing in recent weeks and “substantially higher” than live hogs prior to 1942, OPA said. It should assure packers an adequate margin between the price of live hogs and OPA’s ceilings for wholesale pork cuts and processed pork, it said. War Alarm Clocks Are Now Available New “war” alarm clocks are now becoming available at a maximum retail price of $1.65, exclusive of tax. An OPA regulation provides that such clocks must be stamped on the back or have a tag stating that the maximum price is $1.65. It is urged that if you buy an alarm clock, if it is a “war” cIock, pay no more than $1.65 plus tax. COLLECT RAT TAILS

Kona, T. H.—Rat tails have a current commercial value of two cents each. They are paid for out of a $2,000 legislative appropriation for rat eradication in Kona. Next to going to school, or better than going to school, school children love rat hunting. One school in a single week enhanced its

bany,' 111.; p7 Mason, Fort Wayne.-'Guancial standing In the communInd.; A. F. Beck, Carml, 111.; G. H. jity by turning in and collecting on

WATCH -FOR THE FURTHER APVEMTURES of ANN ■ • Write or go to nearest Navy Recruiting Station or Office of Naval Officer Procurement for copy of new WA VES booklet.

Schoolman, St. Louis; W. J. Stoever, Rock Island, 111.; R. L. Miteur, Pana, 111.; F. M. Morris, Pano, 111. Value of property owned by California public utility companies reached an all-time high in 1942.

1,634 rat tails. Each school alternates every two weeks with the

use of the traps.

San Francisco has nearly 300 churches, representing more than

50 denominations.

Lift Man 2,000 Feet Up Side of Canyon Montrose, Colo., July 23.—Rescuers told today how they used ropes and a crude stretcher to lift Gordon Shipley, injured rancher, up the steep side of 2,000 foot Black Canyon in which he had lain since early Sunday. Shipley fractured an elbow and both kneecaps when he fell from a 30-foot ledge while on a fishing trip. His companion, Carl Absburg, Paonia, Colo., returned here for help. A rescue party reached the western side of the canyon shortly before midnight Sunday but found the cliff too steep for a descent. Amsburg then drove to Crawford and organized a second party, which rescued Shipley the following noon. Fastening ropes to the stretcher, they carried the injured man up

steep ridges and past dangerous rock slides, taking six hours to complete the ascent. An ambulance met the party at the top and took Shipley to the hospital at Paonia. Doctors said his injuries

posure hut that his condition was not critical. o

An estimated total of $55,000,000 was spent in Mexico by American travelers during 1941, says the De*

were aggravated by the 26-hour ex- partment of Commerce.

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Truth” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, July 25. The Golden Text is: “It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth” (I John 5:6). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul” (Proverbs 16:1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 17). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook,“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “The purpose and motive to live aright can be gained now. This point won, you have started as you should. You have begun at the numerationtable of Christian Science, and nothing but wrong intention can hinder your advancement. Working and praying with true motives, your Father will open the way. rtVhc did hinder you. that ye should not obey the truth’ ” (p. 326) ?

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