Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1946 — Page 2
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A & P Files Answer To Monoploy Charge Alleges Perversion Os Anti-Trust Act Danville, 111., Feh 37 —(UP)— Th<- Atlantic and Pacific T*u Co. aid today that If It fa found guilty of antl-triHM violation*, "very xlzeoMc industrial concern In the United State*' could tie •'attacked at the will or whim of the department of justice." In a brief 111 .1 in U S. dlstfic t court here, attorney* for the huge arcM-ery chain wild the future of "All American buxincaa" re«ta on the out omc of th government's tnonoply and antitrust charges againut the I! nt. The brief asserted that the Justice department was attempting to perv rt the 55 year-old Sherman anti-trust act It weld the government's <<(•<■ against A£P was "a isn degree rev< -ai of every Sb r man art.” Instead of being prooecuted be cause of monopolistic: practice* r suiting in high prices, the brief aid ASH’ was ou trial because “It* prices have been too low." The brief was tiled in answer i to government evident- presented during the linn's 89-dey trial which ended Oct. 37, 1945 A decision by feneral judge Waiter C. Lindley is ;>• ndiug. Th trial was brought by the government in a criminal informs- 1 tion tiled here Feb. 2ti. 1914. The infomiatiou charged AfcP. its officers and 30 subsidiary corporations with conspiracy to control' prices and to injure and destroy | food manufacturers, processors,! cairn r». wholesaler*, and independent retail merchants. In its brief filed today. Ab I’ ■ arkeri the court to take notice of the fact that tadiet menta worded alnio-t identically ar - jx-ndlng in • Kalt H C|ty, Mn. against the 1 Kroger Grx-ery * Baking Co, and the Safeway Stores. Inc. "ft is Irrational to say thnt'’ three food distributors in the; 1 same industry can each have a 1 mostoply of that industry." the : bri f said "Tiie evidence wjth-i 1 <>ut contradiction shows that ini 1 many communities in the United States where the AftP operates. ! either Safeway or Kroger. 3T both of them, op rate in coin|>etition | with A4P. and that competition is free, open and unrestrained. . The brief said that moat anti-L trust cases have sought to “remove restraints -o :h public will , have the benefit of the kc meat and , most aggressive competition p;>* ; sible." In this case, the brief said, j "A*P is c harged with being too i aggressive in an aggressively com- t petitive btisinens." , Th justice department in its t information ■harged Afcl* with t
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conducting price wars -towering prices below costs to forMtull competition in certain areas and compensating tor the losses with 1 profits from other areas The company's brief said hi reply that "there never has been any purpose on the part of ASP I to injure or destroy competitor*'' and that "c-otwp tition, cartage and other factors affect the selling price ' in diffetegt area*. Snyder Urges Price Control Extension Reconversion Chief Warns Os Inflation Washington. Feb. 27— (TPi — Itoconverslon chief John W. Snyder today urged congress to extend price controls another year to help ' keep our economic house in order" until production begins catching up with demand. Snyder told the house banking committee that this did not meun that “we are deter mined on rigid and Inflexible” price controls. He said government policy was sufficiently clastic to permit price increases when they are shown 1 to Imi necessary. At the same time, he echoed the warning of stabilisation administrator Chester Rowles that runaway inflation b a very real threat. This is particularly true, he said, because inflat ion feeds upon itself. "The assumption that prices are going up gives business an irrealstabfe motive to withhold finished goods from the market ' In expectation of higher prices j and profits.” he said As a result, he said, people rush to buy what goods are available in the belief that prices arc going up. resulting in buying pressure which would “accentuate the already strong demand for goofs and services." Snyder said it had not l»een de-1 terniined l»ow ♦nany shorta**< were due to the withholding of I goods from the market. Hut he said it was "a practice that adds | < an artificial scarcity to the very real shortage of goods that al- i ready exiats." ; He said the new wage-price policy, which was worked out following a dispute In-tween him and Bowie* over how far the price line safely could be stretched, would assure industry “of at least its minimum peacetime earnings" during the coming year. "It means that labor in general win be able to soften the shock; of reduced take-home pay that lias followed the end of wartime pay rates," he said, "And It means that agriculture has a bet- { ter income outlook for the very reason that labor is able to main tain wage levels and so continue tc buy farm products.
i To Recommend Cut In Congress Groups Reduce Committees By Over 50 Percent Washington, Feb. 27 — (UPi — ITh Joint Kim.nittee to reorganise ' Congree-i will formally recommend within a few days that the number of Senate and House committees be reduced by mor than 50 percent. The committee, it was learned will also recommend a pension plan for congressmen and a s*» j p rcent ln< reave in congressional -alarles. Hut it will turn thumbs down tor a proposal to broadcast dally proceedings in the Senat and House chambers over radi networks. On the all-important commuteq uestion, it will propio that the 38 present Senate committees be consolidated into 16 new groups and that the 48 House committee h merged Into 18. Those recommendations will be contained In a formal report which has now been approved by the full committee. One sourc -aid it probably would In- tiled "within the next three or four days." The report will urge the Setiat and House to raise congressional salaries from flh.Ooft to SlS.onv a year, to piovide larger staff* for committees and congr ssfonal offIcea. to set up official majority and minority policy committees and to permit Senators and representative* to participate in the i civil service retirement system. o Hammond Students Demand New School Whole Student Body Goes Out On Strike Hammond. Ind. Feb. 37—<UP>— Twelve hundred male students, the en’lre enrollment of Hatnmont* Technical Vocational high schoo’ struck today in protest over delay in replacing the 35-year-old school building. The students poured out of the building ehortly after 9:30 a.tn. man sod and began a paradthrough Hammond's downtown sec ion, tying up traffic They carried banners stating "new srfiool r no school" and demanding where's our new school.”
The strikers, joined l»y sum* girls from other school.:, voiced in teat ion of picketing the board of -duration offices. A petition, signed by 100 techni cal high school student*, charger bat tbe tbree-atory brick building now hod'lng the students was dir
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ty and unsafe to life and limb." The petition waa seat to a local newspaper (Thu Times). Purpose of the demonstration, student spokesmen said, was to twee the sch >ol Imard to force city ' council action on purchase of a site ■ for a proponed new school building Tito project has been underway eight years The general aiwtembly of Indiana last year awntred an appropriation of <3,mm,000 for construction of a new school by setting op the Hammond technical lax district. Last month the Hammond park board agreed to Mil the school board an 18-acre site adjacent to the Hammond civic center. City council approval is necessary for the purchase, —— l o—- - - ■ "The Comedy of Errors,” by Hhakespeare, was one of his first Plays, and was first produced He ember 24. 1594. at Hray's Inn Hall. •— - o — - DETROHJWCE Hsatlsuea Free, Fasti- Oae» surgeons bad reported bls condition "slightly improved." Bennett's wife has been at his bedside since the shooting. Benuett is the father of two young children. Eckert said that federal authorities would extradite the negroes and that they would face cilminal charges in stare courts.
POLICE BREAK r«-HneeS Free. Faa» <*•»• board also adopted a motion stat lug it was xpresslng no opinion wheteher the wage proposal war binding on the parties. If the com panics refuse to put the increase into ffect, the union* might revert to strike action to enforce compliance. A brotherhood of railroad trainineu spokesman said at Houston. Tex., yesterday that 3.s<at workers would be called off their joint on the Texas * New Orleans road in support of long standing wage demands. The TN4O runs from El Paso Io New Orleans and operates numerous shurUf lines in Texas and Louisiana. Signing of the Ford Motor Co. agreement culminated a month of intensive negotiations that began last Jan. 241. when the company and CAW ended a wag stilemate by agreeing on an 18 percent wage iMiost for the company's HNbON production workers. The contract carries over the iwion rdiop and checkoff provisions of th old agreement and is unique in that it sets up dismissal penalties for workers -participating in wildcat walkouts. Industrial p tee appeared a.*, far away as ever however. In the General Motors shutdown, now in its 99ih day. A federal labor mediator reported after yesterday's session that "no progress" had been made towaid a settlemento GO J ACK TESTIFIES (CaattaMtod Froai I'age Oa») the mayor of Ft Wayne; and by Franc 1 » Knight, police captain for Ft. Wayne. This waa the fifth day of the hearing, which is presided over by udge Luther M Swygert. Attend Trial Half a score of supervisory workers, including J:s?ph Glahig, issistant supertntende:<t of the plant, were among the company re--resentatlves from Decatur who are in Hammond attending sen><lons of the trial FIRST RETURNS uofetlnueU From Fsa- Ms) of Soviet-Argent me relations. He dSckmed that he had invited s vferal Russian newspapermen to watch the Argentine election*, but they declin-d on the grounds that transport difficulties made the trip impossible. o BRADLEY AND (Coßtlßae* Frea» Fb<» Oml ley said. "For the limiting factor 'n hospitaltzatisn today is not beds, but ataff." Bradley said that tbe job he had set out to do in the veterans administration cannot be accomplish »d in six month*— the period he has been in office. He said, however, progress had l>een made and his poltdea "have now begun to pay off In actual operations." Bradley predicted that within 80 days a substantial part of his organization will have reached a current status on the adjudication of claims. A backlog of StP.etio unprocessed |M>nsion claims waa the basis for part of Stella's attack on the Veterans Administration. Stelle and Rradley still were al >dds conceruiai what tcok place ' t yesterday’s closed peace 'parley. A wive recorder wfcish might hare cleared the air as to what west on gave out little hut growls. Its operator, it developed, had been barred from the 244 hoar conference aud worked by attrition. Reporlen wore Invitod to the | meeting by Rtelle but were baaoed
by Bradley A joint ztatement. prepared after the session In borderline Gubbledlygook, contributed no thing but coMoquence. Three hours after the parley. St olio got In the first pant-confer-ence Beks. He told the Legion's national rehabilitation committee that Bradley, victim f damn bad 1 advice," had matin concession* of everal slgnWlcan' points. A ,-pokeaman for Bradley promptly denied it. This afternoon Bradley had a •han o to speak for himself He was a featured speaker lutforc the wme Legion group that yesterday loudly applauded Slelle's report For the moment overshadowing Htelle's original, and apparently ontlnuing demand that congr--•nvcwtlgate VA. were these poinis t Issue: Stelle said Bradley agreed U•ako over "every available armv -nd navy hospital." Bradley's man said VA would continue to accept only atich surplus hospitals as It •an ataff To’al to date: 17. Stelle claimed "’here won't he any contract hospitals. »w pt tor mergency cases.' Sail the VA pokesman: There ba* been no change in Bradley'* intention, as ( temporary expedient, to encour ige the Michigan plan to pric*tc hospitalization throughout the na tlon. Os Stelle's other a counts of progress— faster dee-ntralizatlon of VA functions and closer checks on on-the-job training—VA replied it had already been doing these things as fast, and m much, as oossible. On the main question, whether Stelle etill thinks Bradley's job alls tor a busim seman, nobody—with the possible exception of Stelle—was certain the answer, _ ... o— URGES ALL NATIONS -•-infln-i-O horn Faa* <m«» tin .said: "I say you will not know how practical it is until yon try it nad the least ft can do is to test the good faith of the world pow r*."
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’ The RepuMh an leader said he was mentioning armament reduc tion "betause It may now appear advisable to broaden th scopo of my original resoluthm which referred to compulsory military service only."
Martin said he tovored a xtrong army and navy, adequate renew • •nd an expanded nttonal xuerd Rut he warned that rmlng of one ntlon h-.tds to arming of another "until all the nation* ar* armed to th. teeth and eventually set upon one another." Martin said It wm a *p*cllc duty of the United Nattona organIzutlon. as set forth in He charter, to develop a plan for disarmament. Now. he said, let America "brine the Unit <1 Nations down to bed rock and make It work." o— FRANCE MAKES (CBBtlßwed Fr«B» Pb«» Ob»I i.- government to take even st.-onz-r steps again*. Genera Francisco Franco's regime by a .ormal br-ak In diplomatic rel* tion*. They urged a worldwide boycott of Spain. Socialist and communist newspapers hailed the frontier -thutd wn as a move responding to the will of the country, but urged that Unit ed States and Britain loin France In * diplomatic breach. A fiery crowd of 30,000 luetlly Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulzlon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of th* trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of CreomuiMon with the undsrstazufing you nurnst like tho way it lukkly allays the cough or you ar* to have your money back. CREOMULSION fnrCmi-.'hs Rrnnrkifie
•ang the Internationale while Franco was hanged In effigy In the Veledrome D'Hiver last night. They passed a neolullon urging a dip) • malic break ami iHoogniiiou ol the Spanish Republican exile government.
Jacques Durloa, secretary of the French communi*: party, told th* rally, "»ooa we will talk of Franco us we talk of Hitler—ln the past teaae ' He aal<t tha 1 United State* and Britain supported France in the fight against Franco. “Amerl a has announced that It will publish a book on Franco'* role during the war," he said "Wu hail this decilon a* meaning America i* whh ua." Eugene Henaff. secretary of the Paris Trade Union Federation, told he rally that "if Franco had not received gasoline from the United States he could not have aent tanks
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