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INCREASE MEAT PRICES Washington — The OPA today announced new retail meat ceilings averaging 3 3-4 cents a pound higher than those of June 30. The new ceilings will go into effect Tuesday, instead of Monday as previously planned. This will give OPA another day to distribute new meat price posters to butchers. There has not been any price control meat since June 30. The average increase on beef is eight cents a pound. o TROOP SUPPLIES HIT Washington — The War Department said today its supply lines to American troops overseas have been paralyzed by the nation’s worst Maritime strike.

MUNCIE MAN DIES Mishawaka, Ind. — Sam Hall, 85, Muncie, was asphyxiated fatally and his sister and brother-in-law overcome by gas today. Firemen said a gas jet on a cooking stove was turned on, but unlit, when they entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones. Firemen said the .gasing apparently was accidental. The Jones were taken to the St. Joseph County Hospital at South Bend, where attaches reported them in a “fair” condition. Hall was visiting them.

SAVINGS BOND SALES Washington — Sales of U. S. Savings Bonds in August amounted to $500,022,000, the Treasury announced today. Sales exceeded redenmption by 144,514,000. Sales in the first eight months of this year were $5,385,000,000. This was $1,104,000,000 greater than redemptions in the same period. Redemptions of E bonds were $50,114,000 higher than August sales of $347,278,000. However, redemptions of the popular E bonds were the lowest for any month this year, and were 28 per cent below those of March, the peak redemption month.

STOCKS DECLINE New York — Resistance developed to the recovery which lifted the stock market sharply yesterday and today the list made «in irregular decline on reduced volume. The approach of the weekend and the wounds the market suffered earlier in the week brought caution. However, support developed after the list had been sold down 1 to more than 3 points. Leaders came back a fair distance from the worst prices and some specials managed to register gains. U. S. DEADLOCK COUNCIL Paris — The United States tonight deadlocked the Foreign Ministers Council by holding out against postponment of the United Nations General Assembly meeting now scheduled for Sept. 23.

GOP Politicians Attack Prohibition Candidates Clerk Jesse Green Serves Notice On Prose- JOE MARTIN TO cuting Attorney That Prohi Candidates RATTI C I AnY Fail To File Primary Expense Accounts DnMLC LHUl

—Attack May Be Fore-Runner of Action To Bar Dry Nominees From Official Ballots In Coming November Elections.

The 1946 political pot in Delaware county was given another stir this week when Republicans proposed an attack against local candidates recently named on the Prohibition ticket. Jesse Greene, County Clerk served notice Thursday on Prosecutor Guy Ogle, Democrat, that none of the Prohibition candidates had filed primary election expenses with him. This move was doubtlessly spurred on by Republican organization forces who fear that local support of Prohibition candidates will lessen the voting strength of the Republican-party.

The Prohibition candidates

SEEKS RELIEF SHIPPING Washington—UNRRA DirectorGeneral Fiorello H. LaGuardia said today he would try to meet with Maritime strike leaders in an effort to arrange for the sailing of relief ships. LaGuardia disclosed his intention on hts arrival by air from a three-week tour of 17 European and Mediterranean countries as the worst maritime tieup in the nation’s history thrust before President Truman the : possibility of calling on the armed forces to man troop supply and foreign relief ships. The chunky, little relief director indicated he would try to meet with officials of two striking AFL Seamen’s Unions tomorrow, presumably in New York. “I’l see what I can do tomorrow,” LaGuardia said.

TO SUCCEED GLASS Richmond, Va. — Veteran Congressmen Willis Robertson last night was named by the Virginia Democratic State Convention to complete the unexpired term of the late Sen. Carter Glass. Robertson, of Lexington, a State Representative since 1932, was picked on the third ballot for the post sought by six others. Nomination came after former Gov. Colgate Darden had insiste/ll that he (Darden) “could not fulfill the duties of a Senator,” and his name was withdrawn.

Joe Louis Opens N. Y. Restaurant New York, Sept. 5.—More than a dozen policemen were required to hold back the street crowds last night during the opening of Joe Louis’ new restaurant at 125th Street and Fifth Ave. Scores of celebrities were among the hundreds who visited the swanky tavern to wish success to the heavyweight champion in his new venture.

were not nominated at the spring primary election. They later filed as contestants for the various local public offices following selection by a group interested in the organization of a third party slate on the fall election ballot. It might be considered that such candidates were selected by convention although no public election of delegates was held and no public announcement of such a convention was issued. Using a slogan as New Day candidates, the Prohibition ticket has launched its campaign for voting support this fall and appears to be headed by former City the group for circuit court judge. Judge Frank Wilson, candidate of Wilson was an unsuccessful candidate for the circuit court bench on the Republican ticket last spring. He was electethrity Juttge on the Republican ticket in 1938 and served a four year term in that office. It is an unofficial opinion that the Prohiibtion candidates are not subject to the statute providing for the filing of primary election expenses with the county clerk since they are not nominated by a primary election or public vote. Furthermore, it is very apparent that no candidate spent one cent to have his name put on the ticket since none of tnem were opposed for such nomina-

tions.

Since it is the popular opinion among local politicians, that the appearance of a third party slate of candidates on the ballots this fall would reduce the voting strength of the Republican party and indirectly aid the Democrats, it is believed that the G.O.P. organization would welcome any movement to prevent the Prohibition candidates from having their names appear on the voting machines this fall. The recent act of serving notice on the prosecutor that none of the Prohibition ticket had filed primary election expense accounts is considered a forerunner for a proposed legal attack to bar the names of such candidates from appearing on the

official ballot.

Of course the scheme may also be two-fold. It is expected that a follow-up request may be made on the prosecutor who is a Democrat and also a candfdate for re-election to file charges against the New Day candidates for failure to submit nominating expenses. This procedure would

For state representatives — Thomas Booher, Albany; Angus R. Jeffers, 1112 South Hackley street; prosecuting attorney — Francis M. Shaw, 414 Ashland son, 1521 North Walnut street; avenue; judge — Frank R. Wilclerk — Albert Findley, 2701 Mock avenue; auditor — Robert E. Carter, 1802 Wall avenue; treasurer — Dewey Warrell, 2211 East Sixteenth street; recorder— Mrs. Edna Kirby, 520 South Wolf street; sheriff — Jess Strong, DeSoto; coroner — Wilbur H. Polhemus, Daleville; surveyor — B. Franklin McCreery, 1910 East Thirteenth street; assessor—Chester A. Miller, 222 Cornell street; commissioner, first district — Ward Perry, R. R. 1, Gaston; commissioner, second district — Everett E. McMichael, 1123 W first district — V. B. Browning, Eighth street; county councilman, Royerton; county councilman, se- ’ cond district — John Hodson, Yorktown; county councilman, third district — George Whitehair, Selma; county councilman, fourth distreit — Gleason Hodson, 1516 West Eighth street; county councilman at large — Bert Resler. 200 East Harvard avenue, John Schull, Selma and Ray Kitterman, Daleville. COUNTYLEVY IS SET AT jO CENTS Decision Of Co. Council Awaits Action Of Adjustment Board The Delaware county council reviewed the proposed county budgets during Tuesday and Wednesday, and after reducing several appropriations including one for their own salaries, a total county tax rate of 60 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation was approved. This is a ninecent increase over the present tax levy for Delaware county and involves a two-cent raise for county revenue and a seven-cent boost for the county welfare de-

partment.

Increased welfare costs for next year were defended by Director

be an attempt to involve the Dem-| ^ eque 1 s 1 ts N have £ een rece tve d foJ ociatic party organization i nto i 0 i d _ a g e assistance as compared fT^ting the rights of the Pro - | -with former years. Eighty per hibition candidates to seek public j cent of the cost for old age

office in Delaware county. It is not anticipated that Prosecutor Ogle would file such charges since it is believed that there has been no violation of the statutes. It is unlikely that any of the Prohibition candidates can win final election although voting strength of the ticket may be underestimated by both major

party organizations.

This incident proves, beyond a doubt, that the local G.O.P. may be expected to stop at nothing to

win this fall.

The following is a list of the Prohibition candidates who are the target for the G.O.P.’s, recent

attack:

age assistance and aid for dependent children is reimbursed to the county from state and federal funds. Blind pensions are fully paid for state and federal appro-

priations.

While salary requests from public employees are a definite part of increased budgets and tax levies for 1947, the county council members pared $250 from their $1000 appropriation for their own salaries next year. County council members are not paid a fixed salary but are compensated on a per diem basis according to the number of meetings required to transact their of(Continued On Page Three)

Martha Sharp Likely To Lift What Is Left Of Martin’s Scalp “Never underestimate the power of a woman” is a slogan which Joe Martin. House minority leader, can well heed in his forthcoming battle against Mrs. Marthat Dickie Sharp for Representative of Massachusetts’ 14th Congressional district. “Glamour” is not the only campaign advantage which differentiates Mrs. Sharp from her opponent. She also offers the voters a chance to support a sound progressive platform. This includes adequate housing for veterans, full employment, adequate minimum wage, increased social security and unemployment insurance benefits, fair economic r practices, and a national health [ and education program; accompanied by an active policy for international peace. Gains Support. Mrs. Sharp’s characteristic enthusiasm and competence have been carried over to her present campaign to unseat Martin. Her efforts are being rewarded by ever-increasing support in Massachusetts for a “Sharp” attack against her reactionary opponent. The veteran Congressman, not prone to be modest about his accomplishments or ideas, has been unusually quiet of Jate. Perhaps it’s because Mrs. Sharp has really got him worried, or maybe he’s afraid that the big black voting record will ceach up with him. In any case, the Facts indicate due cause for alarm on the part of Mr. Martin. Mrs. Sharp expects to receive a solid Democratic vote within the Fall River area. Mrs. Sharp is proficient in speaking Portugese, French and Italian, and is able to go to the foreign language groups in her district and address them directly. She is now in the process of setting up “Independent Voters for Martha Sharp” units in every community in the entire district. Mrs. Sharp, a woman of boundless energy, stirred by the great need of the peoples of Europe, has for the past seven years been engaged in aiding victims of Hitler’s terror regime. Her humanitarian work began in 1939 when she and her husband, Rev. Waitsill Hastings Sharp, were sent abroad as representatives on the American Commission for relief in Czechoslovakia. As the only Americans aiding the 250,000 refugees driven out of the Sudenland by the Munch Agreement, they were the last foreign relief workers to leave the country. Babies Fed. Their outstanding accomplishments in Czechoslovakia gained Mr. and Mrs. Sharp the position of first Commissioners of the Unitarian Service Committee, and they were sent to Portugal in 1940. Finding mass starvation among thousands of people, Mrs. Sharp organizr/d a milk program which fed 1,000 babies, and personally assisted many refugees tb escape from Europe. • A graduate of Pembroke College, Radcliffe, and the Recreational Training School at Hull House in Chicago, Mrs. Sharp is the mother of a boy 14 and a girl

9.

STORK BILL FOR MILLIONTH BABY

Program Was Smarted By The United States In 1943

Somewhere

the United

No Probe of Ku Klux Klan Not so long ago, Representative Rankin’s very UN-American Activities Committee voted to white-wash the KKK—with Indiana’s “minute man” of intolerance, reactionary Republican Gerald Landis, casting the deciding vote. “No probe of the Klan,” they said—even though lynching and murder is their proved program. Now this same Committee’s all for investigating, instead, the CIO’s Political Action Committee. It should be remembered that in 1944 Sidney Hillman volunteered to bring to the Committee to Examine Campaign Funds, all the books of the CIO-PAC—and that the PAC was given an absolutely clean bill of health. At the same time, downright subversive groups—of the “hate-Roosevelt” type—such as Joe Kemper’s, refused to disclose the names of the Big Businessmen who had contributed very largely to the Republican (“hate-Roosevelt”) causes; were found guilty of contempt—but were never prosecuted.

States next October a very special baby will be born. He—or she—will be the millionth baby whose stork bill has been paid by Uncle Sam, through the U. S. Children’s Bureau, under the Administration’s Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program. This program was started in March, 1943, to assure to every married man in the four lowest pay grades of the services—these grades include some 90 percent of all enlisted men—that his wife would be in safe hands throughout her pregnancy and delivery; that his child would be born as safely as possible; and that the health of his child would be watched over by professional people throughout the baby’s first year. A powerful morale builder for servicemen who have to be away (Continued On Page Four)

Townsend Lauds Labor In Address At South Bend SCHOOL LUNCHES CIO Labor Day Celebration Hears Indiana’s U/EBE nODnCEn Senatorial Candidate Speak for Labor and ntnt urruocu To Labor-Claims Major Task Is To Edu-

cate Employers To Problems of His Workers—Goal We Are Seeking Says Ex-Gov-ernor Is Economic and Social Security for

3 MEN TO STOP BOOM AND BUST

Economic Advisory Council Is Appointed To Aid Truman

Appointment of a three-man Economic Advisory Council to assist the President in formulating national policies on employment, production and purchasing power os as to avoid future “booms and busts” has been announced by President Truman. Chairman of the group is Edwin G. Nourse, vice president of Jshe Brookings Institute; other other members are John D. Clark, dean of School of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, and Leon H. Keyserling, who until his appointment was chief counsel of the National Housing Agency. In naming Nourse to head the Council, authorized under the Employment Act of 1946, President Truman said: “I consider that this Act- constittutes a distince and vitally imporant new step in the history of this counry. It is the function of the Council to formulate and recommend national ecnom(Continued On Page Four)

KLAN INQUIRY ORDERED IN PA.

KKK Advertisement Sets Off Investigation By Gov. Martin

LOCAL TRUCKERS AT CONVENTION

Muncie Men Given Appointments On Various Committees

Members of the local trucking industry have been appointed to serve on committee for the 15th annual convention of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, to be held at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis September 6 and 7, according to an announcement b/ J. E. Nicholas, executive secretary of the organization. B. W. Hardesty of the Hardesty Trucking Company has been named to serve on the resolutions committee and M. J. Uremovich has been appointed a member of the attendance committee for the event. The two-day convention will include a Friday noon luncheon following which those attending will receive a report by Professor J. L. Lingo of Purdue, on the (Continued On Page Three)

Harrisburg, Pa.—Gov. EdwqTd Martin ordered state police to make “a full and complete investigation” of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania after receiving a copy of a K.K.K. signed newspaper advertisement proclaiming, ‘We are here to stay.” Martin also wired Attorney General Clark requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation include the state in its inquiry into the hooded order “to supplement work of the Pennsylvania state police. The inquiry was asked by Justice Meier Steinbrink of the New York State Supreme Court. He sent Martin a photostatic copy of the advertisement head “K.K.K.” and signed “Franklin County Klan,” with a Chambersburg (Pa.) post office box number. “Protestants Have the Klan.” “The Jews have their organizations, the Catholics have theirs and the Protestants have the Klan,” said the Chambersburg Public Opinion. “We are here to stay and God help America if we die. Men, join the Klan and get both sides of the story firsthanded.” Justice Steinbring, who acted as chairman of the B‘nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement the Klan advertisement “audaciously reveals the existence of organized Klan activity in Franklin County, Pa., ahd publicly solicits members.” Incitement to Hatred Charged. He said the Franklin County Klan was inciting race hatred by falsely claiming in the advertisement that “if the Negro gets his vote they will turn quickly on those who held them down.” Charles R. Nicklas. editor the Chambersburg Public Opinion, said that “the name of the person who inserted the advertisment is known and will be disclosed to the proper authorities under proper conditions.”

Yet They Want The Federal Government’s Money

When Offered

Not so long ago Indiana Repub- 1 licans, and that includes out; state GOP press, the Governor! and his henchmen, and the usual | eight reactionary Republican Congressmen, were raising a great howl about the state’s acceptance of Federal funds to aid in a state-wide school-lunch program. They also opposed Federal aid necessary to Indiana’s hospital program. They don’t object to having the money — as was evidenced by Governor Gates’ scramble to find “legal” means of accepting it. He was even ready to call a special session of the legislature, if an old law had not been unearthed which covers the situation. Yes, they want the money — they just don’t want the Federal government to watch while they spend it, and for what purpose. The objection they all raised, while the bills authorizing these funds were under discussion, was, of course, that such Federal assistance was an invasion of states’ right. That this states’rights issue is of small weight with the rank and file voters was plainly shown when, for a while, it appeared the hot-lunch program might be blocked. The parents, who wanted hot lunches for their children, made it very clear how they felt! Halleck and Landis voted a flat “Nay” to the whole program. Representative Harness did his best to block it by not voting. And Wilson, Springer, and Johnson voted for the Chavenger (R., O.) amendment which was intended to kill the whole program. Moreover, the question of aid for school lunches is most important to small towns and rural communities, where even yet it may be difficult to put the school lunch program into practice, because of the stubborn opposition of various Republican Congressmen, to wit: Messrs. Springer, Halleck, Johnson, Landis, Harness, Wilson, et al! . These men, and others of their kind, voted to lop off of the Federal appropriation the sum of $15,000,000, which was allocated to the purchase of equipment. Sponsored by Republican Representative Andreson of Minnesota, the Republican-led Congress passed this amendment on an “unrecorded” vote, so you couldn’t say to your Republican Representatives: “We farmers and small-town people send you to Congress year after year. Why do you vote against us, even to the extent of depriving our children of hot lunches at school?”

the people.

MISSOURIAN VS MISSOURI MULE

Struggle Between President And His Congress Is Descriptive The struggle, these past months, between the President and a recalcitrant Congress may be summed up in a descriptive phrase: it has resembled the tussle between a Missourian and the proverbial Missouri mule. You can’t always drive or lead a mule. Sometimes you have to club it — sometimes you may resort to building a fire under it. President Truman has found himself, a good many times during this past session, unable to cajole, threaten or drive this Republican -led, coalition-controlled Congress. He has recommended, he has urged, he has besought them to pass the progressive and constructive, and even necessary, domestic program represented by his 21 points. He has even- taken his case to the people, hoping to bring added pressure upon the balking members, by the folks at home. And the folks responded — but still the mule .refused to budge. Then he has built a fire under the mule. In other words, after failing by legislation to get many good laws which he advocated, passed, he has at least prevented several bad laws passed by this mulish Congress, from becoming effective. To this end, he has courageously and effectively employed his power of veto. The last instance of its effective (Continued On Pape Four)

South Bend — The last twelve years have seen “the first successful, sustained effort” in behalf of organized labor, M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, said in a Labor

Dav address here last Monday. The former Governor and Lieu- |:

tenant Governor of Indiana addressed a Labor Day celebration j sponsored by the St. Joseph county Industrial Union Council. Townsend, who, as Governor of Indiana, recommended legislation which established the state labor division, told his audience that “if capital and labor thoroughly understood their mutual problems, the Wagner Act and the Indiana Division of Labor would not have been necessary.” ‘The major task at hand,” he said, “has been to educate the employer to an understanding of the problems of his workers. We have tried to show the employer that the buying power and working conditions of the wage earner are vital factors in national, social and economic health. We have tried to point out that the problems, needs and welfare of both employer and worker are closely related and dependent on each

other.”

He told the workers, however, that “it is just as true that labor must make a sincere effort to

labor division law as ‘frankly 1 amazing,” pointing out that dur-

ing the four years of his administration, 1,600 labor disputes were satisfactorily settled, “all but a few without a strike.” While he was Governor, he said, wage earners were saved 7,000,000 though elimination of employee payments to unemployment compensation, the state Supreme Court outlawed anti-pick-eting ordinances, the state government refused to grant charters to company unions, union organizers were given the protection of the state and a bureau of industrial hygiene was created. “These activities on the part of your state government were a part of a trend toward a more sincere concern for the welfare of the common man,” he asserted, adding that “the last twelve years marked the first successful, sustained effort to free the common man from the dictatorship of corporate wealth and monopoly.” Full text found on page 3. o

understand the problems of theJ^\YQ BlIS RlIIlS

employer,” adding that “organ- 1 ized labor in Indiana has demon- | strated on many occasions that it has the public welfare, as well as the welfare of its members, in

mind.”

“The public welfare of our state benefits every time employer and worker can sit around a conference table and work out their problems peacefully,” he de-

clared.

“It brings us nearer and nearer to that goal we all seek—economic and social security for all

the people.”

Townsend said the welfare of the woi’ker has ‘an immediate and direct relation to the welfare of all of us—farmers, business men

and industrialists.”

“If workers are oppressed, underpaid, and overworked,” he said, “the standard of living for all but a few at the top will fall lower and lower. That is why I believe it is false economic reasoning not to keep wages as

high as possible.”

He said that when he became Governor of Indiana, he recommended the establishment of a state labor division with twp

purposes in mind.

“I believed first,” he said, “that such a division would transmit to the employers a better understanding of the wage earners and thus result in improved security. Second, I believed the labor division could help the worker and the employer iron out their differences in a peaceful manner. Some of my friends and advisers opposed the plan Strong interests tried to stop it. But I was convinced that we could no longer deny the fact that the problems of labor are the problems of people generally.

Through This City Running time between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, via Muncie, will be cut from five to twenty minutes on the new Indiana Railroad bus schedule to go into effect Sunday, Sept. 8. Two new runs between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne are included in the new schedule, with later departures in the evening. A new through trip will leave Fort Wayne at 1:00 p. m. for Indianapolis, and a later run from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne, will

leave at 9:00 p. m.

Other additions to the division schedule include a new, eaiTy trip, at 5:20 a. m., out of Muncie for Fort Wayne, connecting with early busses for southern Michigan. Two new local trips each way have been added between Fort Wayne and Bluffton. New trips leave Fort Wayne at 9:20 a. m. and 5:30 p. m., and leave Bluffton at 2:15 p. m., and

4:20 p. m.

Indiana Railroad buses will operate on central daylight saving time until the changeover

September 29.

J. T. Martin, vice president and general manager of Indiana Railroad (Division of Wesson Company) announces that the company has been promised delivery on ten new motor coaches before the end of the year. Delivery on one new thirty-seven passenger coach was made last month. Upon delivery, the new equipment will be distributed over the bus system which includes IndianapollsTerre Haute; Indianapolis-Muncie Fort Wayne; Indianapolis-Peru-Fbrt Wayne and Indianapolis-

He described the results of the Fort Harrison divisions.

MEETING SUNDAY P. M. There will be a meeting of the Central Committee and all the Candidates, September 8th, 2:30 P. M. in the Circuit Court Room, at the Court House, in Muncie. This is for the purpose of outlining the activities of the coming campaign. Please come and bring your friends. OSCAR SHIVELY, Chairman, Delaware County Democratic Central Committee

Ain’t It the Truth?

The President “let down his hair” at a recent Washington dinner party, Drew Pearson relates, and said just what he thought about a number of things. One of them was the defeat of Senator Bob LaFollette, who went down to defeat in Wisconsin the other day. , Truman acknowledged that he was deeply disturbed over the loss of LaFollette to the Senate, where his record for true liberalism has always been as fine as that of his kinsman Charlie, of Indiana, in the House. He said he didn’t think Bob made a wise choice by joining the Republican Party. “That’s what happens,” he said, “to anybody who joins up with Bob Taft.”