Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1942 — Page 3

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HOLIDAY, DROUTH

Rousing Celebrations Are Unlikely for Christmas

And New Year’s.

By SHERLEY UHL Tmbibers will have to face the coming season of merry-making and welkin-ringing with a relatively sober outlook here this year. Not that Mr. Indianapolis won't be able to indulge in his holiday egg-nog or today, but unless he’s closeted and ample supply of liquor beforehand or is willing to pay top-price for higher-grade brands, he probably won’t go in for any rousing celebrations come Christmas and New Years. Remember those rumors last summer to the effect that “there’s a five years’ supply of liquor on hand and that’s enough for everybody for the duration”? Well, that wasn’t so, and even if it was, there are extenuating circumstances which threaten to tourniquet the previous gush of hard beverages down to a trickle. Already, local wholesalers and dispensers here report, practically all low-grade “rough cut” is out of stock and medium quality brands are fast disappearing from the shelves. Many brands no longer are being bottled. Lowell Patterson of the state alcoholic beverage commission, said today that the flow of whisky from distilleries to wholesalers is only about 40 per cent of what it was at the same time last year. Wholesalers, he added, have voluntarily agreed to limit each retailer ‘to five cases per shipment and in turn retailers, including package store vendors, have set up their own rationing system.

Most of them, he said, are re-|

stricting customers to one quart a purchase. Several dealers said also that they tried to keep tab on consumers and the number of purchases they make. “Actually,” Mr. Patterson explained, “warehouses -have in reserve about three to three-and-a-half years’ supply—and that’s a conservative estimate.” The government last summer urged all distilleries on a war production basis, but months before that practically all of them had converted facilities into processing of alcohol and its by-products for war use bnly, Mr. Patterson said.

5 - ‘Holiday’ Urged

A representative of the Indiana Wholesale Liquor Dealers association said distillers had decided to ask the WPB for a “liquor brewing” holiday should they manage to catch up on their war orders. Such a petition, he exlained, would request a week.or month of concentrated hard beverage distilling in order to replenish present reservoirs. If they're granted this request, they plan to blend newly distilled spirits with older stocks and thus

make the “spread-out” more pala-|

table. ii~He added, however, that the likelihood of any WPB-allowed relapse into pre-war distilling seemed remote at this time since no curtailment of war chemicals is in sight.

Distillers Holding Stocks

The wholesale executive reported, and dealers corroborated the fact, that distillers are no longer releasing for consumption any of theit stock which is two years old or under. “These are being held for further maturity and blending purposes,” he stated. As a consequence, cheap, unaged brands of bourbon have left the market. The same wholesale liquor dealers association spokesman averred that distributors expect the scarcity to become much more severe around the first of the year, following the holiday drain on present package items. Around spring, he predicted, “liquor will have to be rationed like coffee and sugar.” Commenting on reports from Ohio, where liquor distribution is state-monopolized, the alcoholic drinks there would be rationed through coupon books, Mr. Patterson said, and the commission had not discussed any such project for Indiana and such a step would be up to federal authorities anyway. One retailer believed the limited allottment was prompted largely by anti-wet propaganda which points out “there’s plenty of liquor, but no coffee.” Another package dealer, glumly surveying his decimated stores, accused distillers of “holding out” on existing stock. He had heard “on good authority” that manufacturers, acting on the assumption the war will last four years, are “hoarding” 50 per cent of their prevfously distilled products for post-war use. : Fears Losing Business

“They want to have something to fall back on immediately aft.r the war ends,” he confided. Rumor has it, he added, that tha producers are releasing only one-fourth of the reserved 50 per cent each year. : “Meanwhile,” he lamented, “a lot of us will be forced out of busi- . ness.” © Mr. Patterson said “it was possible” that not only some package * stores, but restaurants and bars as well might go out of business as a result of the whisky depletion. Further evidence that Indiana's -once copious stream of alcoholic refreshments is thinning out is seen in the fact that most hotels here no longer will send package liquors to guests in rooms. And don’t expect to drown your sorrow in gin or wine either. Because, as Mr. Patterson reminds: “Gin is more scarce than whis Wholesalers here said cheap domestic wine was becoming extinct in this region because of the lack of transportation facilities. The army, they add, also has taken over much of the produce of our California vineyards.

In Indianapolis Is on

Gay red tags on the branches: of 10,000 Christmas trees being marketed this month by. the Indiana division of forestry, are evidence of the commercial value of growing trees on land which is not suitable for the production of agricultural products. Following forestry practice and management policies which it has been advocating for the private landowner in the state, the division of forestry is marketing spruce and pine trees which have reached their maximum salable value. For the most part these trees are being taken from plantings in the Mor-gan-Monroe and Clark county state forests, where soil conditions are not favorable for the maturing: of these particular species. A part of the trees are being removed to make way for other, more valuable species and to provide growing room for the trees which are being left. The areas from which the Yule trees are being cut this year, will be replanted next spring. State

"Gifts This Year Will Hang on

Workers in the Morgan-Monroe state forest who had finished cutting Christmas trees (left to right), Mahlon McDaniel, Homer Hacker, Rugo Vibbart and Victor Magee, pass the stack of trees which are ready for loading,

foresters point out that the land-| ling should be followed by replantowner should regard trees as a|ing so that the crop is continuous!Clark, Jackson and Ferdinand state, will make up to some extent a crop to be harvested at maturity and the landowner benefits from | forests trees will represent only a. ‘shortage which has resulted from

just as the farmer harvests his the annual increase in value of the|fraction of those around which grain or his livestock. The harvest-| growing tree. Hoosier families will gather for While the 10,000 Morgan-Monroe,| their Yuletide festivities, these trees

lome -G rown ) Xmas Trees

shipped in from the north and!

land the need for conserving for-

a Vir-time transportation problem. Most of the trees which Tndianapolis and Indiana residents have purchased in the past have been

northwest. Due to the shortage of workers

estry trucks and equipment, the Christmas trees from the state forests are being marketed this year only through wholesalers. The income from the sale to wholesalers will bé used for the operation of Indiana's forestry program. This program, initiated more than 40 years ago, provides for the reforestation of land which has become unfit for agricultural production as a result of erosion or overcultivation; for the furnishing at cost of seedling trees for forestry plantings on private as well as public land; for the encouragement of forestry , management of woodlots and wooded lands as a means of developing marketable timber; and for the protection of growing trees from forest fires which either destroy the trees or leave scars which

decrease their value as timber.

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CLOSES TONY,

Sets Record for for Length of Session; 78th to Convene On Jan. 6.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P.).— The 77th scongress, which began during the last days of peace, finishes its work today in the midst of a war to which it has pledged all of the country’s resources for winning. Sine die adjournment is scheduled for the close of business in house and senate today. The 77th congress has made a record for having been at work longer than any of its predecessors. Some measure of the cost of the war was seen in the fact that war appropriations alone in the last two years exceeded by $17,000,000,000 total expenditures by the federal government in the 151 years preceding the life of this congress. The 78th congress convenes Jan. 6.

Franks, Bologn

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U.

tion today set specific dollars« = and-cehts ceiling prices on frank furters and bologna sold to war procurement agencies, effect Dec. 19. The order set up 10 Zones established prices at about the levels now being paid by the armed services. The OPA also said it intended to supercede the order with a new sausage regula-. tion which will cover both civilian: and military sales.

FISHED FROM SEWER AFTER FISHING TRIP

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P).~— Policeman Sol Pollack heard a frantic tapping benéath a manhole cover on a Brooklyn storm sewer. Raising it, he discovered three. youths in a 25-foot rowboat and rescued them. They had been. fishing. The tide had swept them. from the bay 10 blocks up the sewer,

SAYS:

at 7.95.

IT’S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY

ROBES—Fine WOOL ones—including Stroocks at 28.50, $30 and $35—

SILK ROBES at $55 and $75—(As this went to press—there was a $150 Vicuna Robe in stock)—

There are Spun Rayon ROBES at 5.95— And even good ALWOD, FLANNELS—

NECKWEAR—COUNTESS MARA has just sent us a prize collection—$5, 6.50, 7.50—Alse from D'ARSAC—thoroughly exclusive handpainted ties at 6.50.

STRAUSS

SHAVING BRUSHES— Kent and London House— all the way to $30 (nice brushes at 3.50).

BRAEMAR SWEATERS— India Cashmere—{made in Scotland)}—$ 15.

At $6 to 7.50—a swell selection of SWEATERS— Argyles, Fair Isles, Reindeer patterns, plain colors—novel the classic "cables" —

At $3 and $5—also broad variety—and outstanding Sweater values.

stitches and

craftsmanship!

WE remembered reading a little Portrait Sketch of an internationally renowned Jeweler (of New York City). The point that particularly lodged in our mind—was the assertion that "severance" of employment was caused by practically only these 3 causes—death, thievery, and placing in one of the store's gift boxes— something that was not of the firm's own

Perhaps the well-known, widely obeyed impulse— "he will open his Strauss gift box first"'—

WARP PRINTS and MOIRES—choice at $5.

The famous LEATHER BACK SATIN TIES—now-

loomed in America—at 3.50.

Fine MACCLESFIELD SILKS (woven in Great Britain—tailored in U. S. A.)—at 3.50.

Also some Welch Margetson Macclesfield— loomed and tailored in Great Britain, 3.50.

At 2.50—are weighty FOULARDS in Ancient Madder colorings—Super satins—Imported and Native Cravetings—2.50.

And, of course—TIES at 1.50, $1, and even at 55¢ —fine, all fine!

SHIRTS—Sea Island cotton—white and patterned —woven in Great Britain—tailored in U. S. A. It does not seem too much to say—that these are “the finest shirts in the world ready for wearing''—8.50.

At 3.50 and 3.95 are Canterbury shirts of New England Broadcloth (patterned).

has back of it, somewhat the same fanatical regard for the character of the things that we permit in a Strauss box—or to carry our label!

The Man's Store is a Specialty Store with a selecfive mind—It has the tradition of presenting “the finest in the world ready for wearing."

This insistence on "only the best"—has a deep and lifting influence throughout the stocks.

The obsession "with quality" extends even to the things of the least cost!

(We can illustrate what we mean by this one example) We have TIES at $§,and $7.50, Superlative! —but we also want you to know that we have 55¢ ties “WITH QUALITY”"— You'll note that they are full shape, substantially put together—with deep turn-back-seams—resilient feel— smart patterns.

We shall never knowingly admit anything into our stocks—unless it comes in "With Quality" — unless it has intrinsic merit—and lasting

WILL OPEN HIS STRAUSS GIFT BOX FIRST.

Stra SS

THE MAN'S STORE

A branch of the Army Quartermasters Depot for uniforms and accessories, | :

LEISURE JACKETS—to wear when shoveling off the snow—when feeding

fuel to the furnace—

when relaxing at home! There are CORDUROY Jackets at 7.95—and some super de luxe last word GABARDINE Jackets from Jackman of Los Angeles

at 37.50 and 42.50

You should also see the

10.95 Jackets from .

California—all-wool [

cloth. (They are réal oy

At 2.95—there are PIMA BROADCLOTH SHIRTS in STRIPES—also fine Oxfords—and also &

collection of Long Point shirts from California.

ARROW SHIRTS—White and patterned—

2.25 and up.

VAN HEUSEN White Shirts,

2.25.

PAJAMAS—The verrrry nice, lustrous, enduring Broadcloths from the Anderson Brothers (David and John) of Glasgow,:Scotland, 7.95.

JACQUARDED RAYON PAJAMAS—

at $5 and 7.50.

At 3.95—a great showing! (Pajamas) Broadcloths

—Spun Rayons—Koda Cloth (Eastman's fiber).

Even at 2.50 some really remarkable

broadcloth pajamas.

HANDKERCHIEFS—Pure Irish Linens—so sheer and fine as to be almost transparent—$3. Also, of course, plenty of lesser prices—as low as

bto $l.

Concentrated groupings at 50c and 35¢,

MUFFLERS—Perhaps the finest in the world— are these choice wools that have come

from COUNTESS MARA--$20.

There are choice ones of CASHMERE at 7.50.

EXTREMELY LONG Knit Mufflers are 2.95.

Wools are as low as $1.

The Rayon and Silks are 1.95 to $10.

WHITE MUFFLERS go from

An appointee 2 the U. 8. Navy— for regulation naval wiforus.

$1 to $10.