Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1941 — Page 2

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Hoosiers in Washington—

COY AND M'NUTT END ‘BROTHER ACT’

Some Friends of Former Governor Often Have Felt That Aid Promoted to OPM Was Doing Spadework in Wrong Garden. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

WASHINGTON, April 26.—The shift of Wayne Coy from under Paul V. McNutt to head the Office of Emergency

. i {does with its leisure time. Management as an aid to President Roosevelt may mark the! One of the most interesting disend of a friendship which long has been reported “cooling-! newsitems, weekly pholosophy by

off.” | | 1 8 the editor and original comics

While the original take-off | featuring Snow White and the seven |

of Mr. Coy into the political ( Dwarfs. ! edly as a tail to the McNutt] 200-MILE LANE

evidence that Indianapolis stronghold for a hobbyist. This evidence is compiled in neat order on the second floor of the Central Y. M. C. A. where the] annual Hobby Fair, conducted by the Y's Men's Club, will close a three-day exhibit at 10 o'clock to-| night. It scales from match cover collections to a completely stocked miniature bar (with bartender) inside and appropriate bottle. The 208 entrants are of all ages, the youngest being first-graders. The exhibit tells the

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newspaper edited by Dick and Tom

{which contains a weather report,

stratosphere was undoubtAlso displayed are a quilt made of | kite, there have been many |

times when it seemed that his : " position has been more like Nazi Raiders to Be Spotted,

. ; n : {Smith and Mrs. Lee Ingling; a 147that of the tail that wagged British Ships Warned | foot paper chain end by Bruce the dog. | In ‘Plain Enalish.’ Anderson and pictures made from For Mr. Coy was quick to catch| n ria glish. Postage stamps by Ms, A. F Bile oh io Se Sodlial eis ol fle! (Continued from Page One) In one corner is a nostalgic col- | before Harry L. Hopkins had Po ing the new bases in Greenland and| legion oF cafipaign a Manger ot ea of Regiona | Newfoundland. | dential campaign. A long table in| Under the new plan, vessels and the center of one of the two rooms- | Believe Hopkins Chose Him

aircraft in the North Atlantic patrol | a fms is Joaged with scrap-| This flowering of admiration for ooks filled with pictures, Mr. Coy’s administrative

| would cover a sweeping route which | items and matchbook covers. ability | probably would take them a con-|{ Fayette Burroughs has con-| ripened into a personal and political | sigerable distance across the At-! structed a complete miniature cir-| friendship which continues to bear|jantic—most likely to points near cus. N fruit. Although Mr. Coy has been) where the British have encountered the ceiling. On the real stage are on intimate terms with both Presi-|the )argest depredations on their {WO miniature stages containing] dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, his selec-| verseas supply lines. U. S. war- Pubpets. Among cases and cases of tion as OEM head is looked upon ships and planes would work out|c0ins, Mrs. Ray Fiscus displays] es a sort of “Hopkins’ choice.” of Navy bases, including those in SOme used in Greece, Rome and Both men have undergone terrible Newfoundland and Greenland. | Otient Hat ig BC Sages. De aon ot bouintenmaion mum The British thus could concen. J po v r trate the bulk of their battle]

thins up and ready to do or die for strength in the infested waters near, Today's War Moves—

FDR. | id When Mr. McNutt returned from | their islands. How It Would Work

his post as High Commissioner of! the Philippines, it was Mr. Coy, via| . . Mr. Hopkins, who was credited with | The patrol would operate in ap

and beetles pinned in cigar boxes by J. Gordon ' Edwards; buttons collected by Mrs. Bernice

relics,’

BELGRADE COUP

There Are 28,953 Pi

story of what at least part of Indiahapolis |!

plays includes copies of a weekly &

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the spade work which landed the Droximately this fashion: | cruisers, |

former Indiana Governor his pres-| ent position of Federal Security Ad-| ministrator.

Chicago Role Recalled

Battleships, destroyers,

aircraft carriers and patrol bomb-

a channel generally 200 miles wide.

HAS KICK-BACK|

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Lugar, eight and seven respectively, |: ¥

| signatures of famous people by Mrs. | | Minnie Pippin; a tableful of bugs'§

A three-wheeled, antique doll

Kathryn Meckling, 3836 Washington Blvd, at the Y.

Hobby Fair.

and arrow heads.

it up. Tonight there will be junior and senior swimming and diving championships for the Marion County Church Athletic AssociaIn the gymnasium will be exhibits of badminton, table tennis,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES eces in HobBy Exhibit; They Range From the Ancient fo Modern

There are at least 28,953 pieces of)

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buggy catches the eye of Miss M. C A.

casting. The “first model auto race was Ray Cauble’s car recorded a speed of {66.65 miles per hour. Second was {Harold Stofer with 66.63 and Forest | Ervin third with 66.06. The 14 participants were members {of the Indianapolis Model Race Car ' Association.

Blitzmen Sweep on Athens;

Mediterranean Fight Near

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y &1 eit Would piy back and forth alone] explosive bombs on the cente

r of Berlin, London reported,

and also strongly attacked the naval base at Kiel and three

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2 MORE NAMED TO MERIT BOARD

Schricker Adds Allen and Birthright to 2 Chosen By Dawson.

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bill to be very much in accord with my own thinking on the subject of personnel, and at that time I said that most of its provisions were designed to remove partisan politics from the management of our state institutions, and for that reason the bill wrote into law a policy | which I had personally long advocated and supported.

“There was, however, in the law,| a certain appointive provision that | did not meet my approval amd | which I believed to be unconstitutional. “However, to obviate any consti- | tutional question and in view of the fact that the Governor alone can| issue commissions, I am happy to] announce the appointment of the) four-member board. : “These men are eminently qualified by experience and their professional associations to make up an excellent board. Under the provisions of the law, these appointments are effective May 1 and commissions will issue on that date.” Governor Schricker emphasized! that the appointments of the Republicans were his, but that he accepted the recommendations of | ieut. Gov. Dawson because the | men were qualified. The new board will select a State | Personnel Director and will conduct | examinations to fill places in the Welfare Department, State Health Board, State Historical and Library Bureau, and all of the State penal, benevolent and correctional institutions.

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NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P). —Development of a new and highly efficient extinguisher for incendiary bombs was announced today at the fire defense session of the annual Greater New York Safety Congress.

| saturpay, APRIL 26, 1941 Get State Posts DAYLIGHT TIME STARTS TONIGHT

Many Cities Move Clocks Up; Local Action Rests With Council.

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. |lup their time or not, business will have to take cognizance. Stock markets throughout the country will open Monday an hour earlier, and in New York will close at 1 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). The Chicago Stock Exchange will close daily at 2 p. m, except Saturday ‘when it will close at 10:30 a. m, while other exchanges will close at, 10 a. m. on Saturdays. Some shipping and communications sched- | ules will have to be altered because of the different times. Most radio programs will be heard an hour earlier, Indianapolis (time, although some have been assigned to entirely different spots, and are so listed in the programs. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce reported that a recent [poll on the matter it took of in{dustrial firms and their employees here showed 80 per cent favored the fast time. Latest support to council measure has come from Murray H. Mor=ris, manager of the Merchants Association, who sent this letter to Joseph G. Wood, president of tne City Council: “The retail merchants of Indianapolis with whom I have come in contact, are strongly in favor of the proposed Daylight Saving schedule for Indianapolis. A large segment of Indianapolis retailers wants it and I know of none who oppose it. “It appears that employees of re~ tail stores are heartily in favor of the proposed Daylight Saving sched ule and, believing that a large ma{jority of the public is also in favor of it, we ask that the Council enacs OPEN BOARD ASKS |the ordinance promptly so that this ' beneficial program will be available ; for the convenience of the retail (Continued from Page One) | stores, their employees, and their | customers.”

0. K. SHIP SEIZURES IN AMERICAN PORTS

William C. Birthright

KEEP G. M. PLANTS

a $7 per day wage and other terms of a new contract. Other developments included: An attack on Secretary Perkins by Senator Harry L. Byrd (D. Va.), who

WASHINGTON, April 26 (U. P.),

Gave Germans Access t0 other German navy centers. Although the raid on Berlin| Charles G. Durfee of the Py- (demanded she be replaced by “a

At the Chicago convention last The patrol would report its obsersummer, Mr. MecNutt's political vations “in plain English” by radio. managers from Indiana got the idea ¢j,,5 keeping all merchant ships that Mr. Coy was doing considerable with radios on the route fully inspade work in what they considered! formed of what conditions were. to be the wrong garden. | Such a protective system would When, after a series of confer-ihe the first tactical departure ences with Mr. Hopkins, Mr. COVifrom the method of convoys—that Within Jugoslavia, itself,

Terrain Closed to Them Under Pact.

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was “not in force,” the Air Ministry said that heavy bombs were dropped on the capital. castle and Sunderland.

German planes bombed New-

In North Africa, both sides reported local triumphs

since the from Libya to western Ethiopia.

There appeared to be no

announced that Mr. McNutt would is, the protection of cargo vessels Germans had agreed not to engage fundamental change in the military situation, however, in

support Secretary of Agriculture hy constantly escorting warships Wallace as the vice presidential Officials acquainted with details| candidate on the third-term ticket,|of the proposed setup. said that in S0il. Greece would have been an im- | some of them decided that he was event a patroling ship found Axis portant beneficiary if this under-| just a grave-digger and have treat-| vessels, ships of superior fire power! ed him as such ever since. and speed would be detailed to dog! y PEW ; Although Mr. McNutt turned de-|them and report their movemeants| 1 Jugosiav revolution. | feat into triumph by his spectacular —“in plain English,” not in code. With the way into Greece through | personal renunciation of the vice| British warships could, in such Jugoslavia barred, there would have | presidency, Mr. Coy has not rated | Instances, move in on the enemy peen only one main entrance to] as a close political adviser since|ships. | | their return to work here. So the separation this week may or may not result in a divorce. » » .

I. U. Man New Deal Favorite!

Fowler Harper of the University of Indiana law school faculty is credited with the extremely prolabor flavor of Mr. McNutt’s Jefferson Birthday dinner speech in New York City last week. A former counsel for the Federal

Congress Tension Eased Official sources admitted

army and one secondary passage. that The main entrance would have]

proposed patrol system. But they!the narrow Rupel Pass. The secondpointed out that as in other in-|ary route would have been along a

aid nations fighting the Axis, the ther east, near the Turkish bound-| issue of peace or war with this ary.

Germany and Italy “to make confined to these routes, east of The use of patrols rather than| Salonika. no such overwhelming rush convoys was expected to ease some as the Germans developed would of the tension in Congressional cir-| have been possible. The fighting

Willkie Urges “Full Facts” |

Security Agency of which Mr. Mc-|cles, although some non-interven-!would have been more confined and Nutt is the head, he remains a tionist leaders like Senator Gerald | the Germans could not have enlectuals here. He was on leave convoys into the same category. As it was, the Germans had made from I. U. when he held the full-| Inter-related problems of U. S. no comes and goes whenever there is a continued to draw widespread com- the Jugoslav mountains northwest‘ment in the United States, Canada ward began its encirclement moveHe was in the city when the and Britain. gpeech was drafted and made many | speech was “We Are Not Afraid.” Wendell L. Willkie, in a Pitts-| with Germany had not been broken! » ” nN » Administration to give the Amer- ff Mark Gross Fires Words ican people the “full facts” on the Greeks Cut Once in Jugoslavia. the Germans assistant secretary to Senator Ray-|to Britain. He urged immediate spread their front westward and mond E. Willis (R. Ind.), takes the steps to halt the destruction. 'broke through the Monastir Pass, current number of the National said in a speech in Atlanta, Ga. : revirt . Republic magazine published here. last night, that the “Battle of the | tactical disposition eventually cut Without Assurance” and it begins{war and expressed hope that what- | sulting in its final surrender. in a style reminiscent of P. T. Bar- ever the United States does to ease] After piercing the Monastir Gap, graph: : a drive from the north, in co-oper-“The tortuously deceptive bread- 1ST CUSTOMERS FOR ation with simultaneous operations, | the detours of ‘government control’ | [bas Anglo-Greek defenders were to the dead-end of social and cul-| . | SPEEDWAY ARRIVE which eventually became a ‘single Appian Way. Yet the vapid van-| offensive, moving southward, with of Washington's bulging buopened here yesterday with the German mechanized units. : mislead the American people bY...) of the first customers who| Thus the use of Jugoslav terriAe i y tii : every sign that lines that treaca- Proposed to sit out the 35 days untii| ive terrain than they other- | erous road. Every map that shows the 500-mile race, May 30. [one | 1¢| The early birds, who broke the to believe that even if the Prince smear of ‘Horse and Buggy Days.” eyicting record for setting up head- Paul agreement had not been re- | te + quarters at the gate “pole position,” | SO which this appears is: In | d'etat, the Germans would have dis- | “A Magazine of Fundamental are Harry G. Futrell and Larry Den-|, op; deq it if they had found it « » | blocked their offensive. ; | & @ To 22 Jeu Hie Brel, "siiabver Yet there would have been some | Why Bobbitt Lost Out | hei by the British to establish their de-| o |being the first at the gate he has’ “™ aoa better th they “No dough! |achieved an ambition of two-years fensive positions better than they tional Republican Chairman Joseph ,¢ the goal but arrived after a young Started. Also time would have been W. Martin Jr. gives for not CarTy- fellow from Detroit. |given for more effective mobilization Bobbitt, Indiana State Chairman, peen barnstorming the country for| The feeble resistance of the Jugoint a full-time job of roving direc- work and have traveled 6000 miles slavs was due partly to the lack of Rep. Martin, who also is minority work here to support themselves | mediate confusions that followed the leader in the House, says that he until the race. (revolution. But, without the revolulater, but for the present the one- specially arranged for beds, and will | for a time at least from entering man plan has been abandoned. (relax by playing cards and listening | Jugoslavia, with consequent advanRepublicans can do for the next 60 or 90 days,” he explained. Wage! B di ’ S + S I by tat ume we will know where F rood ING on Secret Sorrow, a "Girl, 12, Ends Life With G irl, 12, Ends Lite With Gas | NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P).— TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ,,. Shaw, 12, sat up until after Kitchen was in the back and alMarion County deputy sheriffs midnight today brooding over a 'nOUSh the odor of gas awakened t wan enough to hurt him. homing igen YHO Yoem's * were out visiting friends. Michael went to the kitchen, debo go home. 17.! She wrote them a note and in- : and went downstairs and aroused West Newton, called them yesterday | 1 low! . pigeon. Deputy | Michael, in it, saying in part: Edward Skinnider, the neighbor, to report the stray pigeo a a “Gi momie, daddy and one leg with the number Mickey: : the floor.” pate oh jt. Mr. Armstrong sa of you. Jane. wron and perched in athe kitchen door and turned on the emergency squad arrived. | In West Ne howing no inclination gas Jets of the stove. Police said they had not estabto leave. | waiting at the County of a two-family house. Michael was No. 43 s asleep in the front of the apart-,

favorite among the New Deal intel-| P. Nye (R. N. D.), put patrols and | gaged in flanking operations. time position at FSA and now convoys and British shipping losses Rupel Pass until the drive through Job to be done and his time permits. | | ment which ended at Salonika. This contributions to it. The title of the] burgh interview, called upon the by the Jugoslav revolution. Mark Gross, petite and peppery |sinkings of war materials en route entire New Deal for a ride in the| Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, | the Albahian frontier. This His piece is entitled “Insurance|Atlantic” was the most vital of the off the Greek army in Albania, renum. Here is the opening para- the situation, it would be done soon. |, o Germans had a wide front for and-circus road that winds through based on Salonika, from the east. unable to meet this double thrust, tural nihilism is older than the] The Speedway season officially increasing pressure from superior reaucratic behemoth continues to painting “To the New Order’ on tory gave the Germans far wider | wise would have had. It is possible | its real dangers is splashed with the’ The sub-title of the publication in| |pudiated by the Belgrade coup | Americanism.” ton Cleek, both of Maury City, Mr. Futrell announced that py | delay which could have been used | That, in brief, is the reason Na. standing. Two years ago he aimed Were able to do after the fighting ing out the proposal to put Arch N.© My PFutrell and Mr. Cleek have of the Jugosiav army. tor to arouse the G. O. P. since March 28. They hope to get full mobilization and also to the immay appoint some regional directors| They will sleep in their car, tion, Germany would have abstained “After all, there isn’t much the to their portable radio. tages to the Greek defense. by that time we will know where ment beside an open window. The i the boy, the fumes were not stron are hunting for the owner of 8/..ret sorrow while her parents y g Arms sy Be cided that something was wrong, Meridith trong x cluded her 4-year-old brother, he n had a “Goodby telling him that Jane was “lying on sheriffs said Pige With awl my love to awl, the bird had arrived a week ago, She stuffed rags in cracks around parn loft, s | The Shaws live on the top floor|lished the cause of the girl's act Jail for his owned

of her note,

| strategic stroke would have been:WI | impossible if the Prince Paul pact Minister

Mr. Skinnider gave the alarm but the girl was beyond help when the, !

and withheld the main contents | A

iin military operation on Jugoslav| apy African sector.

But the main theater of

standing had not been destroyed by Athens—and the apparent rescue of the bulk of British fighting forces from Greece.

Delayed by Fierce Resistance

Two columns, the German declared, were pressing the | Greek territory for the German | British and Greek rear guard back on Athens, while the Lutfwaffe continued aerial atacks that already have rethere were risks attached to this| been into the Struma Valley, through portedly sunk 223,000 tons of shipping and damaged 64 other vessels as compared to a total Allied loss of 214,000 stances of “short-of-war” moves to more difficult mountain way, far- tons in the evacuation from Dunkirk. But the German armies had been delayed by the stubcountry rests upon the decision of| Had the German offensive been born fight made at Thermopylae, where the new British! 25-pound guns appeared to have been most effective. While ‘the rear-guard continued to slow down the enemy, the B. E. was reported making good its withdrawal form Greece —promising the cheering Greeks that “we’ll see you again.”

The British, and probably

‘told the people of Athens as he left for Crete, and the com- | Marburg from the Serbs, the

ing battle for liberty will

prove the unity of the British and Greeks.

Germany, meanwhile, rapidly was preparing for the next steps in the battle on the Mediterranean. Nazi forces were reported to have spread out rapidly over the Greek islands along the Turkish Coast and commanding the entrance to the Dardanelies. Athens Radio reported that the Islands of Samothrace, Lemnos and Lesbos had all been taken by the Naazis.

Turkish Coast Flanked

Axis forces appeared to have flanked the Turkish Coast by possession of these islands and the Italian Dodecanese Islands in event of a struggle with that nation, which London said was still determined %o resist Hitler. The appointment of Viscount Gort as commander at Gibraltar indicated the seriousness with which the British viewed the possibility of a Nazi thrust in that direction. Dispatches from Berlin seemed to agree that the Nazis did not intend to permit any “intermission” or rest period in the battle of the Mediterranean. A dispatch from Vichy reported diplomatic advices speculating on a possible move by Soviet Russia, especially to strengthen Turkish resistance to any German demands on the Dardanelles, In London it was said that no more than indirect Russian opposition to the Nazis should be expected at present. There also were official French reports from Syria that the Egyptian Government had closed tke Sinai Peninsula, which lies east of Suez, to all but military traffic as a result of Near East developments. In the air, British long-range bombers carried the war to the biggest German naval bases, attacking five different points, and raining a few bombs on Berlin. The strongest attack was made on the big naval center at Kiel, where the R. A. F. pilots reported extensive damage. The Official News Agency in Berlin reported today that Adolf Hitler has arrived unexpectedly at Marburg, northern Yugoslavia, 36 miles southeast of Graz.

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CONGRESS CLOSED BY PHILOSOPHERS

The 42d annual congress of the

Philosophical Association was to

close at noon today following a business meeting and election of officers. Approximately 300 association members attended the congress, at which Butler University was host. Speakers yesterday at the Hotel Lincoln included Dr. Marvin Farber, head of the Buffalo University philosophy department who addressed the members on “Logical Systems and the Principles of Logic.” Dr. Elijah Jordan, head of the Butler philosophy department, read a paper on “Philosophy and the Social Crisis.” Association members were guests of President and Mrs. D. S. Robinson at a tea yesterday at Butler.

MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 26 (U. P.).—Cyrus B. Brown Jr. son of Montgomery's mayor, wrote this note from Camp Blanding, Fla.: “Having a fine time, Wish you three were here.” It was addressed to his local draft board.

ELECT CHAIRMAN

L. A. Geupel of Evansville was elected chairman of the Indiana section of the American Water Works Association at the Hotel Antlers yesterday. Others named are E. F. Kinney of Indianapolis, vice chairman; Herman G. Horstman, Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer, and P. H. Reardon of Marion, secretary.

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essential progress through the helieved evacuating to the island of Crete, where the Greek ‘Government already had been established. The fight to “rise again”,

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‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ |

rene Manufacturing Co. said the extinguisher was developed in co-operative research carried out by the Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich, manufacturer of magnesium alloys, and the Pyrene Co. “For the first time,” Mr. Durfee said, “we have a material that

two-fisted man, fair to labor, with | the intestinal fortitude to say that no interruption of defense production will be tolerated either by capital or labor.” A decision by the Defense Media-

tion Board to return to ‘‘direct negotiations” the strike tying up 64

will promptly and safely extinguish burning magnesium, whether in industrial plants or | dropped by air raiders. The trouble with other extinguishing | agents when applied to burning | magnesium is that they react with the hot metal and make matters worse.” Mr. Durfee said the new extinguisher was “applied by spreading the powder on the fire with an ordinary shovel or .scoop.”

DENIES ‘DISSATISFACTION’

SYDNEY, Australia, April 26 (U. P.).—Acting Prime Minister Arthur W. Fadden denied today that any dissatisfaction existeq because Australian troops had been sent to Greece. “Australia to a man is solidly behind Britain,” he said.

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plants of the California Metal Trades Association. The strike in-| volves 4000 members of the A. F. of | L. International Association of Machinists, who demand higher wages. Defense contracts worth $27,500,000 are involved.

Continuation of a C. I. O. strike | at the Baltimore, Md., plant of the! Aircraft Corp. | which has contracts for $45,000,000 | worth of miltary planes for Britain | and the U. S. Company officials| said production had not been af-| fected. { In Milwaukee, the C. I. O. News, a weekly union publication, an-| nounced that Local 248 of the Unit- | ed Automobile Workers had accept- | ed a four-point wage increase pro-, gram offered by the Allis-Chalmers| Co. |

~The Inter-American Economic Advisory Committee, representing the 21 American Republics, today unanimously approved a resolution recog= nizing the right of each to requisition immobilized foreign ships in Western Hemisphere ports, The resolution does not require any of the nations to requisition the vessels, leaving such action to the discretion of each. But it has the effect of indorsing seizures first instituted by Chile, and subsequently by the United States and Mexico.

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HOUSEWIVES BEWARE . . . oo. OF “TOP NOIL™ SCHEME

The appearance of this Information Message in these columns 1s evidence that this publication subscribes to the principles of the Better Business Bureau, and co-operates with the Bureau in protecting the public even to the extent of refusing to accept the advertising of firms whose advertising and sales policies are proved by the Bureau to be contrary to the public interest.

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The Better Business Bureau has received complaints that certain persons operating with trucks

have solicited housewives yards. When asked the

to put “top soil” on their cost, these men quote a

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This Bureau is an incorporated association, not operated for pecuniary profit,

purpose the promotion of fair play in advertising and selling, especially where there is a public or competitive interest involved.

price of so much “per hundred pounds,”

The home owners, not knowing anything about top soil weights and getting the impression that the cost would be but a few dollars, order the work done, and find out later that they have been presented with a bill for several times as much as they expected. Persons who have expected bills of but a few dollars have received bills as high as $70.00.

We suggest that unless you know that you are dealing with an established concern who is responsible, you should secure a definite estimate of the cost for your job before dealing with such individuals.

SEPTIC TANK CLEANERS USE SIMILAR SCHEME

Complaints have been made to the Bureau that transient individuals offer to clean septic tanks, and quote prices of a few cents “per cubic foot.” The average person, not realizing how many cubic feet was involved in their septic tanks, have given the order, presuming that it would cost but a few dollars.

After a few hours work these individuals have presented to home owners unconscionable bills, and in some instances for a sum that would have almost been sufficient to replace the tank.

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