Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1941 — Page 5
WEDNESDAY, JULY 80, 1041
. COURT ASSISTS | Kingan's Fetes
BOY ‘FAILURES’
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the school indeterminately and are released only after they receive aj specific number of honor points. | They work their way out. Immediately Jack felt better. He | talked gout his mother, his dad and his gi It wasn't the school he m inded so much as the loss of his personal freedom. Then he was sunk in gloom again. Suppose the national defense pro- | gram was over by the time he got out. He began to wish he had| never seen that car. He wished people whe park car would take’ *he ignition keys out. At would have been easy to escape. fe could have twisted away at the i of the Detention Home at In-| i
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anapolis or he could have opened | e door of the car as it slowed down for a curve and “beat it.” No one held him. They don't handcuff juveniles in Marion County. | But escape did not appeal to him. | He knew of boys who had run off at the school. Always they had re-, appeared a few days later, hungry, | tired and very much in need of a bath. The worst part, though, was| the kidding they had to take for failure. One Last Smoke
He wished that some great dis-| aster would strike and in the con-| fusion. he would be forgotten. He wanted to smoke a cigaret desperately ic no smoking. | What was it the Judge had said! he day he had been in Juvenile Court? You can't get away from) us because you are part of us or| something like that. He didn’t know what 2ll of that meant, but he was] finding out. As the car drove up the long! winding driveway of the Boys’) School which looks for all the world like a college campus, Jack took a hasty “sneak” frantically, and threw the cigaret away. |
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It was Kingan Old-Timers’ Day at Riverside Park yesterday as the Indianapolis meat packing company honored its employees with service records of 20 years or more. pitching, sack races, egg races and other contests. spot at the park were William McHugh (left), 50-year veteran of the
company, and Ed Burris, 40 years,
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one said anything. There are com-| promises you have to make. It was lunchtime. A squad of} vs marched along a gravel path! jvo abreast in blue denim overalls. | Mev were fine looking bovs. They | did not march with military precision, but they staved in line,
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One or two of the bors hailed ne new arrival. He hailed back. school official came over. “Hullo, Jack,” he said. you were coming.” i “Yeah,” said Jack. He toed a pattern in the gravel with his shoe. |} “Sorry,” said the official. “Come up to the office.” [1 Jack followed without back Behind him was a brief lifetime! which somehow had got all Pipe i up. Ahead, not very pleasant in it immediate outlook. was a long an d| as yet undetermined future. Jack didn't know it, but in the| basement of the Courthouse at In-|t dianapolis there was was going to try tc determine that future.
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Among the packing plant veterans who enjoyed the outing were this trio (left to right) J. G. Johnson, who has worked for the firm 40 years; John Hines, who has a service record of 51 years, and John McDermot, whe has been employed by Kingan’s 39 years. They toured the amusement area and watched youngsters
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WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P.).—The text of President Roosevelt's message on price control:
creases in the cost of living are today threatening to undermine our defense efforts. I am, therefore recommending to the Congress the adoption of measures to deal with this threat. We are now spending more than $30.000,000 a day on defense. This rate must and will increase. In June of this year we spent about $808.000.000—more than five times the $153.000,000 we spent in June, 1940. Every dollar spent for defense presses against an already limited supply of materials. This pressure is sharply accentuated by an ever-increasing civilian demand. For the first time in years many of our workers are in the market for the goods they have always wanted. This means more buyers for more products which contain steel and aluminum and other materials needed for defense. Thus a rapidly expanding civilian demand has been added to a vast and insistent demand by the Government,
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FACE INFLATION UNLESS—
Those who have money to spend are willing to bid for the goods. The Government must and will satisfy its defense needs. In such a situation, price advances merely determine who gets the scarce materials without increasing the available supply. We face inflation, unless we act decisively and withaut delay. The consequences of inflation are well known. We have seen them before. : Producers, unable to determine what their costs will be, hesitate to enter into defense contracts or otherwise to commit themselves fo ventures whose outcome they cannot foresee. The whole production machinery falters. Speculators anticipating successive price advances withhold commodities from essential military production. Costs to the Government increase, and with it the public debt Increases in the workers’ cost of living, on the one hand, and excessive profits for the manufacturer, on the other, lead to spiraling demands for higher wages. This
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Text of Roosevelt Message on 1 Price and Rent Control
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: We face inflation unless-we act decisively and without delay, Inflationary price rises and in-
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Today's War Moves
(Continued from Page One) t is obvious that the Germans areja desperate gamble by invading naking no appreciable progress and |England. 1ave made little in the last 10 days. | If British stafesmen mean what Only an inexplicable mass col- [they say, the first is ruled out apse of the Russians would insure | Prime Minister Churchill and Forin coming davs eign Secretary Eden—the latter weeks, and of that there is no | only yvesterday—have said repeatedign. The odds seem to be grow-|ly that Hitler's word is valueless ng that the major part of Hitler'siand there can be no negotiations {land and air force may be tied up| [with him on any basis. Eden prein Russia into autumn or perhaps dicted a sweeping peace offer from hrough the winter. | Hit ler in the near future, and said Hence if Hitler is to end the war it would be rejected his year, there are only two ap-| As to the possibility of an invasion One is; ot Britain, Churchill warned the
Relief Promised Tonight; Mercury to Stay in 80s Tomorrow.
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Dennis Wiliams, and Grant Brinkley, a: "N Senate Ave. Mr. Bandy, Mr. Brinkley and Mr. Williams are in City Hospital where their conditions are described as critical. Cooler on Lake Michigan
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attempt early in September The (Prime Minister may have been tryling to keep the war effort keved to] (high pitch lest the British public get the idea that victory is in sight] land revert to their traditional at- | titude of “muddling through.” If Hitler is to make the attempt, he most probably would have to] | abandon the Russian campaign or| iswiftly crush the Russians. The first ap might spell sudden] disaster, and there is no immediate prospect of the second. Even if it|c should occur, it would be an almost | incredible task to reorganize his|¢ forces in the West before September.
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SUSPECT IS JAILED | IN SHOOTING OF 5,
Smith Nelson, who admits he was] drunk and can remember nothing! of what happened, was in jail today for having allegedly wounded five persons with a shotgun and| another with a brick. | He will be charged with shooting | with intent to kill and his case will come before a Magistrate's] Court in Lawrence tonight, Sheriff]! Al Feeney announced. Nelson is accused of having shot) and slightly wounded George Car|penter, 33; Mrs. Geraldine Carpenter, 33, and Mis. Gertrude Carpenter, 31, all of Indianapolis. They were riding past Nelson's home, R.| = R. 7, Box T78, in a car and said | t some one shot at them. They were & wounded by buckshot. S| Nelson is also Silegea to have shot | James Hazel, R. R. Box T7438, and to have hit James Belcher, R. R. Box T48C, in the head with a brick. | They were walking past the house. He is also alleged to have shot! 6-yvear-olqg Arthur Odon, son cof!
, NEW YORK HI | James Odon, Mars Hill, who also ar ELENA was near the house with his father | W ORE TUGWELL NAMED GOVERNOR | ASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. July 30 (U. PO). -President Roosevelt today nome PITTSBURGH inated as Governor of Puerto Rico COLUMBUS DAYTON
| Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of the | ST. LOUIS
first “brain trusters” and once one | ««. and other points
tof the stormiest figures in the New! Deal. Tugwell succeeds Guy W Swope, who resigned the Puerto Rican post to become director of the Division of Territories in the Interior Department.
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[nally (D. Tex.) to succeed George l as chairman of the Senate Foreign
lof Czechoslovakia now under the presidency of Dr. Eduard | Benes.
The highest temperature in the State yesterday was 103 at Wheatfield. Other highs were 102 at Cambridge City; 101 at Columbus: 100 at Indianapolis, Paoli, Rochester and Washington; 99 at South Bend and | Vincennes, and 98 at Angola, Lafayette and Terre Haute. Cooler temperatures were promsised for the southern tip of Lake | Michigan teday, for Kentucky to- | night and for the East Coast tomorrow. The Lake Superior region, New England and Middle Atlantic | States escaped severe heat yesteray. The weather bureaus said temperatures would remain above normal in the eastern Ohio River It predicted readings in the middle 90's, 5 to 10 degrees above normal. for the South. In the Far | West, which has escaped the heat wave, the temperature level was expected to rise about 5 degrees,
100 Over Wide Region
Scattered thundershowers were forecast for the Great Lakes region, the Middle Mis-
valley.
Temperatures reported yesterday included 107 at Blythe, Cal; 1M at Phoenix, Ariz; Grand Island, Neb. and Clayton, Mo.; 103 at St. Louis. Mo., and Wichita and Con|cordia, Kas.; 102 at Kirksville, Mo.; {101 at Chicago Airport; 95 at Cleveland: 92 at Pittsburgh; 84 at Washington; 83 at Boston and 82 at New York.
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There cannot be price stability if labor costs rise abnormally. Labor has far more to gain from price stability than from abnormal wage increases . . . I also recognize that we may expect the whole-hearted and voluntary co-operation of labor only when it has been assured a reasonable and stable income in terms of things money will buy.
The burden of defense is thrown haphazardly and inequitably on those with fixed income or whose bargaining power is teo weak to secure increases in income commensurate with the rise in the cost of
We are determined that the sacrifice of one shall not be the profit
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means friction between employer and employed. Great profits are reaped by some, while others, with fixed and low incomes, find their living standards drastically reduced and their lifelong savings shrunken. The unskilled worker, the white-collar worker, the farmer, the small businessman and the small investor all find that their dollar buys ever less and less. The burden of defense is thrown hapharzardly and inequitably on those with fixed income or whose bargaining power is too weak to secure increase in income commensurate with the rise in the cost of living. And over all hovers the specter of future deflation and depression, to confuse and retard the defense effort and inevitably to aggravate the dangers and difficulties of a return to a normal peacetime basis. Economic sacrifices there will be and we shall bear them cheerfully. But we are determined that the sacrifice of one shall not be the profit of another. Nothing will sap the morale of this nation more quickly or ruinously than penalizing its sweat and skill and thrift by the individually undeserved and uncorntrollable poverty of inflation. Our objective, therefore, must be to see that inflation, arising from the abuse of power to increase prices because the supply is limited and the demand inflexible, dees not occur during the present emergency.
INDEX ADVANCES 5! PER CENT
Today we stand, as we did in the closing months of 1915, at the beginning of an upward sweep of the whole. price structure. Then, too, we enjoyed relative stability in prices for almost a year and a half after the outbreak of war abroad. In Cctober, 1915, however, prices furned sharply upward. By April, 1917, the wholesale price index had jumped 63 per cent; by June, 1917, 4 per cent, and by June. 1920, it was nearly 140 per cent over the October, 1915, mark. The facts today are frighteningly similar, The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of 28 basic commodities, by the end, of June, had advanced 50 per cent beyond its August, 1939, level. It has increased 24 per cent since January of this year. Since August, 1932, the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of 900 wholesale prices has advanced 17! per cent. It has increased 10 per cent since January of this year. In the past 60 days wholesale prices have risen more than five times as fast as during the preceding period since the outbreak of the war abroad. Since August, 1939, the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of the cost-of-living has advanced 5'% per cent. It has increased 3': per cent since the beginning of this year, and the upward pressure is now intense. In a single month, from the middle of May to the middle of June, the cost of living jumped 2 per cent. During the last quarter the increase in the cost of living was greater than during any similar period since the Wor ld War. But even
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vet the index does not fully reflect past increases, and only in a few months will it respond to current increases. In 1815 the upward price movement proceeded unchecked so that when regulation was finally begun it was already too late. Now we have an opportunity to act before disastrous inflation is upon us. The choice is ours to make, but we must act speedily. For twelve months we have tried to maintain a stable level of prices by enlisting the voluntary co-opera-tion of business, and through informal, persuasive control. The effort has been widely supported because far-sighted business leaders realize that their own true interest would by jeopardized by runaway inflation. But the existing authority over prices is indirect and circumscribed, and operates through measures which are not appropriate or applicable in all circumstances.
CHARGES EVASION
It has further been weakened by those who purport to recognize need for price stabilization yet challenge the existence of any effective power. In some cases, moreover, there has been evasion and bootlegging; in other cases the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply has been openly defied. Faced now with the prospect of inflationary price advances, legislative action can no longer prudently be postponed. Our national safety demands that we take steps at once io extend, clarify and strengthen the authority of the Government to act in the interest of the general welfare, Legislation should include authority to establish ceilings for prices and rents, to purchase materials and commodities when necessary, tp assure price stability, and to deal more extensively with excesses in the field of installment credit. To be effective, such authority must be flexible and subject to exercise through license or regulations under expeditious and workable administrative procedures. Like other] defense legislation, it should expire] with the passing of the need, within | a limited time after the end of the emergency. The concept of a price ceiling is already familiar to us as a result of our own World War experience. Prices are not fixed or frozen; an upper limit alone is set. Prices may fluctuate below this limit, but they cannot go shove it. To make ceiling prices effective it
for the Government to inthe available supply of a commodity by purchases in this country or abroad. In other cases it will be essential to stabilize the market by buying and selling as the exigencies of price may require.
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CITES RISING RENTS
Housing is a commodity of universal use, the supply of which cannot speedily be increased. Despite the steps taken to assure adequate housing for defense, we are already confronted with rent increases ominously reminiscent of those
War. This is a development that must be arrested before rent profiteering can develop to increase the cost of living and to damage the civilian morale. Of course there cannot be price stability if labor costs rise abnormally. Labor has far more to gain from price stability than from abnormal wage increases. For these are likely to be illusory, and quickly overtaken by sharp rises in living costs which fall with particular hardship on the least fortunate of our workers and our old people. There will always be need for wage adjustments from time to time to rectify inequitable situations. But labor as a whole will fare best from a labor policy which recognizes that wages in the defense industries should not substantially exceed the prevailing wage rates in comparable non-defense industries where fair labor policies have been maintained.
PAY STANDARDS SET
Already through the efforts of the National Defense Mediation Board and wage stabilization committees wage standards are being established and a measure of wage stability is being brought to particular industries. It is expected that such activities will be con-
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tinued, extended, and made increase ingly effective. I recognize that the obligation not to seek an excessive profit from the defense emergency rests with equal force on labor and on industry, and that both must assume their re= sponsibilities if we are to avoid ine flation. I also recognize that we may exe pect the wholehearted and voluntary co-operation of labor only when it has been assured a reasonable and stable income in terms of the things money will buy, and equal restraint or sacrifice on the part of all others who participate in the defense program. This means not only a reasonable stabilization of prices and the cost of living but the effective taxation of excess profits and purchasing power. In this way alone can ths nation be protected from the evil consequences of a chaotic struggle for gains which must prove either illusory or unjust, and which must lead to the disaster of unchecked inflation.
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MUNCIE, Ind. July 30 (U. P)~| Two of Muncie's five bus companies, { which have been strike-bound since] Sunday, resumed operations today | after signing contracts with the Amalgamated Association of Street | Electric Railway and Motor Coach i Employees.
GEORGE IS CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P). —The Senate Democratic Steering Committee today chose Senator Walter F. George (D. Ga) to be | chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Tom Con-
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