Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1942 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942

SUB-PARITY SALE OF FEED OPPOSED

Federation Head Says Proposal Would Force Farmers, Who Work From Sun Up to Sun Down, to

Depend on U.

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WASHINGTON, June 24.

S. Subsidies.

Special

—President Edward A. O'Neal

of the American Farm Bureau Federation struck back today at farm, labor and religious leaders who had jcined in urging that food prices be kept down by the sale of gov-ernment-owned feed at below-parity prices.

Mr.

O'Neal accused the agriculture department of

“seeking authority to sell basic farm commodities below

parity in order to maintain force farmers to depend upon

His charges were contained in an open letter addressed It formed a reply to one addressed to President Roosevelt and signed by Murray Lincoln, executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation President James G. Patton of

the National Farmers Union; A. F. of L. President William Green; C. J.

Luhrsen, executive secretary of

to congress.

I. O. President Philip Murray: G. the Railway Labor Executives association; Msgr. L. G. Ligutti, axecutive secretary of the

Benson Y. Landis of the Federation Council of Churches of Christ in America. This group urged the president to support the farm security administration in the current fight over appropriations, and also to release government feed for live stock at 85 per cent of parity.

Charges Unfair Attacks

The letter charged that “certain corporate and speculative farm interests” had obtained rejection by the house of the higher FSA sums provided by the senate, and that

attacks on FSA come from farm] “committed to the high-|

interests price-through-scarcity concept.”

Declaring that the higher FSA | sum is needed for war food produc-| | the subjects being discussed in the

tion, the letter continued: “The people do not know that the estimated increase in food production by these low-income farmers would be enough to supply an army of 2,400,000 men with their needs in milk, cheese and eggs for an entire year and their needs in potatoes, pork products and butter for six months. “The people do not appreciate that the release of stipulated amounts of wheat and corn at 8 per cent of corn parity involves roughly 5 to 10 per cent of the annual pork and lard production or from 750,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 pounds; about 5 per cent of the fluid milk production or 6,000,000,000 pounds; or about 5 per cent of the egg production or between 200,000,000 and 250,000,000 dozen eggs.”

Distortions Claimed

In his reply addressed to congress, Mr. O'Neal maintained that “farmers generally resent the letter sent to President Roosevelt,” and said it gave “a distorted and

unfair picture of the attitude and|

aims of farmers.” “The public should understand that this policy of depressing prices really means embarking upon program of subsidies which will have to be collected from consumers by more taxes,” his letter continued. “Farmers even more deeply re-

sent the efforts of organized labor

National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and

a arrest

low prices to consumers and government subsidies.”

URGE ALCOHOL'S USE IN RUBBER

Highway Commission Unit Seeks Outlet for Farm Products.

The Hoosier congressional delega-

tion adopted by the state highway study commission to support the use of industrial alcohol as well as

petroleum in the manufacture of synthetic rubber, The resolution was drawn after Anson Thomas, Indiana farm bureau tax and legislative committee head, detailed the need for the use of agricultural products in the manufacture of synthetic rubber at a meeting of the commission yesterday.

Asks Fee Clarification

Samuel C. Hadden, highway commission chairman, introduced the subject of synthetic rubber with the ‘remark that unless some means is/ found for securing tires for motor | vehicles now traveling the highways,

study commission meetings will soon have only an academic interest, as there will be no funds for road and street operations. During a discussion of motor vehicle license fees applying to farm trucks and equipment used on the highways, Mr. Thomas asserted that a differentiation should be made between the vehicles and suggested that the present law defining iarm equipment subject to a license fee should be clarified as an aid to enforcement. He also urged the retention of the present systera of refunding the state gasoline tax to farmers and others using this motor fuel for non-transportation purposes.

FREED UNDER BOND AFTER TIRE SEIZURE

HAMMOND, Ind., June 24 (U. P.), |—Sam J. Abrahamson, 38, automobile dealer accused of violating price-fixing regulations, today was free on $2000 bond following his yesterday by federal authorities. Abrahamson, named in a northern federal district three-count grand jury indictment, will be arraigned tomorrow before Judge Thomas Slick at South Bend. There is a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine

Al Kwatnez, 17, of Ft. Wayne, governor.

Key figures in the Indiana boys’ state election today are (left to right) Edward Madden, 17, of Gary. “Federalist” party candidate for president; Roy Grimmer Jr, 19, of Ft. Wayne, present president, and

“Nationalist” party candidate for

Boys' State Goes to Polls Today to Choose Officers

The Indiana boys’ state—a miature, mythical government sponsored by the Indiana department, American legion—went to the polls today at the Indiana state school for the deaf to elect “state, county and

city” officers.

tion was asked today by a resolu- |

leaders to influence agricultural

policies that are intended to force farmers to toil and sweat unlimited hours at price levels far below industrial wages and industrial prices. “Farm prices today are approximately 152 per cent of the 1910-14 base pericd, while the wages of industrial labor are over 300 per cent.

“Sunup to Sundown”

The cost of food to urban congumers in April, 1942, represented the smallest total percentage of their total income of any period during the last 30 years. Farmers’ working hours are not limited to 40 hours per week, but they toil from sunup to sundown.” Declaring that he favors necesgary appropriation for rehabilitation of low-income farmers, Mr. O'Neal condemned the “bureaucratic and wasteful administration in this field of credit.”

RED CROSS DENIES AID OF OBJECTORS

KOKOMO, Ind. June 2¢ (U.P) — Red Cross officials yesterday refused aid offered by the Largo conscientious objectors’ camp in clearing the area demolished by tornado Saturday. Miss Marguerite Poits of Washington, national Red Cross representative, said that such outside aid was not recognized. Legionnaires threatened to quit policing the area if the Largo group was allowed to help. Families whose homes were destroyed or damaged said they would rather do the work themselves than accept Largo assistance.

AMERICAN FLIER RESCUED FROM SEA

LONDON, June 24 (U.P.).—Headquarters of the royal Canadian air force announced today that Pilot Officer Holbrooke Mahn, 23, of Denver, Colo, was “well on the road to recovery” after rescue from a dingy on which he spent 14 days on the North sea. Two companions on the dingy died while awaiting rescue and physicians said that Mahn’s recovery was “amazing.”

INTERN JAP ALIENS

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (U. P). —Six Japanese aliens faced internment for the duration of the war today because they allegedly held secret meetings conducted in

{lawfully concealed new tires,

and 10 years imprisonment on each count of the indictment. Abrahamson was seized by federal officials who claimed he had unand had sold them as used ones by having them driven a few miles. U. S. District Attorney Alex B. Campbell said 1500 new tires were found in Abrahamson’s possession although the Hammond auto dealer had reported only 284. Jacks Oppenheim, head of the criminal litigation division of the office of price administration at Chicago, said that seizure of Abrahamson followed a two-months’ investigation, begun when two former employees of the firm were reported to police by Joseph Abrahamson, senior partner of the firm, for alleged extortion.

THIEVES SET A NEW LOW, STEAL SCRAP

Thievery reached a new low in Indianapolis overnight when 36 tires collected at a filling station at 2733 Central ave, were stolen from a scrap rubber pile. James O. Smith, operator of the station, who reported the theft, said that at one cent a pound the tires were valued at approximately $7.

at Sailla Anis Jil) third nual | 'held in the

All was dene as if the boys were citizens engaged in the serious busi-

ness of real elections, Political placards were there were two parties in the field. The candidates:

Nationalists

GOVERNOR—Al Kwatnez of Ft. Wayne. LIEUTENANT Governor-Jim Schnake of Gary. SECRETARY of State—Jim Steiner of Ft. Wayne. JUDGE of the Appellate Court— John A. Rothrock of Monticello, Hugh B. Tanner of Lebanon, Jim Kays of Princeton, Henry Cox of Danville, James McDonald of Frank. fort, and Tom Sallwasser of La

| Porte

CLERK of the Supreme and Ap{pellate Courts — Jack Sullens of Gary: REPORTER of the Supreme and Appellate Courts—Richard Kendall of Shelbyville. AUDITOR—Jerry Marcus of East Chicago. ATTORNEY General— Alfred Moelhring of Ft. Wayne. SUPERINTENDENT of Public Instruction—Roger O. Kelly of Warsaw. TREASURER—Jerry Mansback of Ft. Wayne. Federalists

GOVERNOR—Edward Madden of Gary. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR — Pete Westfall of Crawfordsville, SECRETARY OF STATE—Dean Hyman of Frankfort. JUDGE of the Appelate Court— Paul Meyer of New Albany, John Gadient of New Albany, Herb L. Wisch of Whiting, Jack Joel of Crawfordsville, Gene Himmelstein of Ft. Wayne and George Nance of New Albany. AUDITOR—Dick McAlpine Michigan City. TREASURER—EIdon Huntington. ATTORNEY GENER A L—Dick Stein of New Albany. SUPERINTENDENT of Public Instruction—Howard House of Bloomington. CLERK of the Appellate and Supreme Courts—Dan Schockey of Wabash. REPORTER of the Supreme and Appellate Courts—Irvin Schecter of Ft. Wayne. JUDGE of the Supreme Court— Bob Davis of Terre Haute, Jack Duke of Crawfordsville, Byron Evans of Frankfort, Bill Wagner of Marion and Jim Hess of Ft. Wayne. Guests of the boys’ state today were to be Mrs. Ara C. Badders of Portland, president of the Indiana legion auxiliary, and Frances Elizabeth Miller of Goshen, elected presi-

of

Zahm of

.| dent of the girls’ state recently held

at Indiana Central college. Winners in the election are to be inaugurated tonight with Roy Grimmer Jr. of Ft. Wayne, 19-year-old present president, officiating. Governor Schricker is to address the assembly tomorrow night. The state is to end Saturday morning.

FALL KILLS WOMAN VINCENNES, June 24 (U.P.)— Miss Cora May Warner, 75, died last night after falling down the basement stairway in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Rogers at Monroe City.

WALK IN SLEEP FATAL

ELKHART, June 24 (U,P.).—Willard Howard Losee, 18, Nappanee, died yesterday of injuries received June 10 when he fell through a twostory window while walking in his

The Quarter-Century club, oldtimers’ organization of the Citizens|E. J. Cooney, veteran distribution|is a SieNoETaphe! in the main busi-|The total years of service is 2498.

Gas & Coke Utility, welcomed 16|department employee, who reached ness office. - new members to he fiSacustion at fk Souk: year of service last De ower,

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posted | about the deaf school campus and

0. K. WALK-WAIT AT 2 CORNERS

City to Place New Signals At Washington-Meridian, lllinois-Market.

Downtown pedestrians are going

to have to watch special signals before crossing at least two intersections. The safety board yesterday authorized installation of “walkwait” signals to contro] pedestrians at Meridian and Washington sts. and at Market and Illinois sts. The singals, urged by the safety committee of the Chamber of Commerce and approved by Traffic Engineer James E, Loer, will be installed as soon as the war priorities board approves use of materials for them. Crossings Tabulated

Mr. Loer reported that a check showed that about 150,000 crossings were made by pedestrians daily at Washington and Meridian sts, and that 130,000 crossings were made daily at Market and Illinois sts. The board also approved selective stops for streetcars as outlined by Indianapolis Railways, Inc. The board previously had approved stops for trackless trolleys, reducing the number of loading places by 40 per cent. The new stops for streetcars will reduce the number by 26 per cent, railways officials estimated.

RECOUNT OF VOTE HALTED BY FLACK

Toney E. Flack has halted the recount of primary election votes in his contest against Glenn B. Ralston for the Democratic auditor nomination. However, Mr. Flack notified Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox that he would petition the court for a hearing tomorrow on the legality of hundreds of ballots that were challenged during the recount up to the time it was stopped yesterday. More than half of the 336 county precincts had been recounted when Mr. Flack asked that the counting be stopped. The last ballots counted were in the fourth precinct of the 15th ward, where Mr. Ralston was given 439 votes to 12 for Mr. Flack. The latter charged that there was wholesale fraud in that precinct and said he would bring the evidence before circuit court in the contest hearing. Mr. Ralston, who was declared nominated by 841 votes by the canvassing board tabulations, also had challenged the validity of several hundred ballots during the recount. These, too, will be subjected to court judgment in the contest hearing.

ASK | DOGS FOR WAR DUTY Dogs for Defense, Inc, an organization which hopes to furnish dogs for training as guards at war industries and airports, petitioned the safety board yesterday to permit use of dogs from the city pound. The safety board took the request

under advisement.

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RAPS ATTACKS UPON CONGRESS

Dies Committee Assails 20 Organizations and Seven Publications.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P.). —The house committee on "unAmerican activities today accused 20 “Communist front” organizations, five magazines and two newspapers of trying to discredit congress. In a formal report issued by Rep. Joe Starnes (D, Ala.), acting chairman in the absence of Martin Dies (D. Tex.), was clear that “the spearhead of the attack upon congress as an institution stems from a group of men who have had long training and experience in the ideology of Karl Marx.” The magazines named were Time, New Republic, Champion, Soviet Russia Today and New Masses. The newspapers were PM and the Daily Worker, both published in New York. Much of the space in the report was devoted to the Union for Democratic Action, which recently collaborated with the New Republic in publication of an article entitled “A Congress to Win the War.”

Melvyn Douglas Listed

Among those listed as members | of the union's board of directors] was Melvyn Douglas, movie actor. | “The only possible conclusion which can be drawn from the union’s position is that it belongs to that relatively small group of radicals who are trying to use the war emergency to advance their own revolutionary programs within the United States,” the report said. The report said it was not alleging that- Henry Luce, publisher of Time, was a “Marxist or conscious collaborator with the Marxist inspired movement to discredit congress.” “On the other hand, it is clear that Luce's magazine has of late contributed much to the effort to undermine popular confidence in one of the essential branches of our American form of government,” it said. Organizations Named “Our investigation has shown that a steady barrage against congress comes from Marshall Field's PM. ... Alleged Communist-front organizations named in the report in addition to the Union for Democratic Action were: American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born; American League for Peace and Democracy; American Student Union; American Youth Congress; Conference on Pan-American Democracy; Decendants of the American Revolution; Friends of the Soviet Union; International Labor Defense; International Workers Order; League of American Writers; National Committee for People’s Rights; National Federation for Constitutional Liberties; National Negro Congress; North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy; Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; Washington Committee for Democratic Action, and Workers Alliance.

CLASSIFIES PAPERS AS WAR INDUSTRY

DENVER, June 24 (U. P.) —A. J. Isserman, general counsel for the American Newspaper Guild, wants rewspapers to regard themselves as a “war industry,” charged with the resopnsibility of shaping the country's morale and public opinion. “Newspapers have the tremendous task of molding public opinion,” he said. “They are truly a war industry.” Isserman, who addressed nearly 200 delegates yesterday at the second day of the guild's ninth annual convention, said the newspapers’ primary task during the war was “building that spirit which cannot lose.” Monroe Sweetland, director of the C. I. O. American and Allied War Relief committee, said that nearly 80 per cent of the country’s war production was being turned out by C. I. O. workers.

SET SUB BUILDING RECORD PORTSMOUTH, N. H, June 24 (U. P.)—The speed record for building submarines was broken by 19 days last night, when the U. S. submarine Sawfish was launched at Portsmouth navy yard 154 days after the keel was laid.

D. OF A. TO INITIATE Capitol City Council 53, Daughters of America, will initiate candidates tomorrow at 8 p. m. in their hall, 512 N. Illinois st. This will also

be secret pal night.

16 Welcomed to Utility's Quarter-Century Club

New members of the Quarter-Century club, old-timers’ organization of the Citizen Gas & Coke Utility, are (left to right, first row): L. R. Hoffman, Harry Schein, Margaret Widolff, Augustus Anderson, George Heiny, Fred Hawkins and Adrian Courtot; (second row, left to right) George Hill, Carl Bulach, Howard Griffith, Joseph Noone, Charles Dunn, Stanley Noel and Paul Schockney. Two of the new members, Delbert

Dove and Charles Sering, were not present at the meeting.

Special recognition was paid to|service in Indianapolis. Miss Widolff cent of company’s entire personnel.

The meeting was sponsored by the

Organised. hree years ago with | Utility club, an organization of comp of 60, she club has pany department Zitads and. super-

the committee said it|

Lucky Tries Blitz Bugoy RIVER HURT IN

Lucky Teter, star and director;

of the mammoth Fourth of July celebration to be staged at the fairgrounds July 4-5 for the army emergency relief, tries his hand at driving one of the army's “blitz buggies.” It was a new experience for Mr. Teter who is known for his troupe of “Hell Drivers.” In

the “jeep” with him is Capt. A. J. Rouch, post adjutant at Ft. Harrison, on his right; Col. Walter S. Drysdale, president of the army relief fund for Indiana and post commander at Ft. Harrison, in the rear seat on the right, and Lieut. Elmer W. Sherwood, post public relations officer and treasurer of the fund.

Pilot Lost in Bush Country Lived on Grasshoppers, Owls

MELBOURNE, June 24 (U. P.).—|part of my parachute to catch the |A 24-year-old pursuit plane pilot rain water.

from Columbia, S. C., returned to! his base today after being lost in. the wild bush country and re-

ported: Fresh-killed grasshoppers like crab meat. Raw owl is tough but eatable, Lily roots make passable salad. Forced down when his fuel ran low after chasing Japanese planes out to sea from Darwin, the pilot spent four days in the wilderness. He was rescued because, when he landed, he had had the foresight to cut up a part of his parachute and leave part of it near his plane, pointing the way he had gone in an attempt to reach safety. “I set out to walk across the mud flats from the coast,” he said. “I had one quart of water and some chocolate. Later I found I couldn’t eat the chocolate. “I had to keep moving all the time because the mosquitos gave me no peace. The grass was over my head, but the sun was burning, and vines made the going more difficult. “I became weaker. I could walk only 200 to 300 yards, then I would have to lie down and rest for half an hour. “While I was lying down I saw a grasshopper near my hand. I grabbed him and ate him. He tasted like crab meat. “Barly next morning it rained heavily, and I used the remaining

taste

“I staggered down the beach | where an owl had flown from the trees and landed in the water. “I waded out in the mud and killed him with my knife. Everything was wet and I couldn’t light a fire and I had to eat him raw. He was kind of tough and didn’t chew so well. I was just gnawing a leg when I saw the plane come over and circle around to indicate he had seen me.

“The plane circled several times and dropped me some food. I threw the rest of the owl to a crocodile and started in on a tin of pineapple. “About an hour and a half later another plane made a wonderful landing on a small beach and picked me up.”

Reunion Follows Casualty Report

SOUTH BEND, June 24 (U. P.). —Mrs. Claude E. Roberts and Seymour Gibson, brother and sister separated for the last 32 years, were reunited today following a war department announcement

that Mr. Gibson's son was reported ast in act. .n. Mrs. Roberts read the announcement in an Elkhart newspaper and from it

was able to locate her brother.

S. SIDE CRASH

Car Rips Foes: Filling Station Light Then Goes Into Building.

Swerving his automobile to avoid striking another car in front of him that had stopped suddenly, Garnett Cook, 30, of 306 Bicking st., was in=jured seriously last night when the car went out of control in Madison ave., 3200 block, and crashed into a building. Mr. Cook’s car jumped a concrete divider, tore down six feet of fence and knocked down a filling station floodlight before striking the building. The accident occurred at the intersection of the newly improved Road 31. Mr. Cook was taken to City iuspital unconscious, with a oroken jaw and head injury.

Architect Injured

In other accidents overnight, Her= bert W. Foltz, 75, of 1847 N. Dela=ware st., local architect, received a fractured left shoulder and head injury when he was struck by a car at 19th and Delaware sts. He was unconscious when taken to Methodist hospital where his condition today was reported “fair.” Police said the driver of the car which struck Mr. Foltz was Estin Myer, 2438 College ave. He was not held. Mr. Foltz is of the local firm of Herbert Foltz & Son.

Hit-Run Victim

Arthur Jackson, 40, of 512 Drake st., was reported in a serious condition at City hospital today from injuries received last night when he was struck by a hit-and-run car in N. West st., 1300 block. Police said Mr. Jackson was thrown into the path of another car driven by Ralph Moore, 1137 S. Reisner st., after the driver of the first car struck him. He received a broken right leg and possible skull fracture.

‘KOKOMO VOITURE

TO FETE DOOLITTLE

KOKOMO, Ind. June 2¢ (U. P.). —Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who led the bombing attack against Tokyo, will be guest of honor at a dinner of the Kokomo Voiture, 40 and 8. Date for the gridiron dinner is tentative, pending arrangements by Gen. Doolittle, who is in Washing= ton, but is expected to be held early next month. Gen. Doolittle was inducted into the local Voiture in 1932 and is a member of the local American Legion post.

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