Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1943 — Page 13

=| On the cattle ranges of the Far|straggler beeves at = A Ene |West and Southwest, rustlers once|slaughtering them at the! At Cleveland, Union ‘Stockyard more were reported active. At San|under flashlight. ‘officials, said meat truck ~ drivers| Francisco, there have been persist-| Salt Lake City authorities noted have been halted at the city limits ent reports of motorized cattle rust-{a sharp increase in cattle rustling and. oftered ies above ceiling for|lers operating in eastern Alameda and believed the meat was going to livestock. county and other areas, killing | crowded California cities by truck.

" Nation-Wide Black Market Aggravates Meat Shortage,

By UNITED PRESS A huge but unorganized black market operates today: in cities from: coast to coast, aggravating the meat shortage and creating a condition ripe for racketeering, a United Press survey revealed. . Farmers, small packers, butchers and consumers contribute irreésponsibly to the situation. Racketeers already have muscled into the traffic which threatens to rival the bootlegging of the prohibition era.

LIMIT oN] SYMPHONY TAX

Amendment * Would - Place | Ceiling on Support for Orchestra.

The -senate’s Indianapolis committee today was studying a proposal to amend - the Indianapolis symphony bill by placing a ceiling}

armed forces and for lend-lease,

shipments.” At New York, where meat has been very scarce, one source close to the situation said that in the last 10 days the supply had picked up possibly 30 per cent as a result of the OPA drive against the illegal traffic. Twenty-three dealers have been arrested for selling above ceiling prices. At Pittsburgh, Loran L. Lewis,

on the amount of tax support the orchestra could receive. The bill in its present 20mm would permit the school city and the civil city to appropriate funds equal to %-cent each on their levies to sup-

port the orchestra. Senator Harry Chamberlin (R.

' Indiahapolis), committee chairman, &

said’ that both proponents and opponents of the measure are agreeable to two changes: . Limiting the total amount which could be appropriated in case the city’s valuation would soar. : Changing the provisions to make ft “not to exceed ¥%-cent” from each levy. : “Senator Chamberlin said the latter change would permit the civil and school cities to appropriate one-eighth or one-quarter cent if they wished. Under the present provisions, they would have to provide % gent or none al or none at all.

NEW EAGLES CLASS T0 HEAR JUDGE CLOE

‘Judge Ernest E. Cloe of Noblesville, state secretary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, will speak at the tri-chairman quota class initiatioh of the local Eagles group Mon- |” day night at the Eagles temple, 43 W. Vermont st. Almost 100 new members will be initiated. ‘The quota class is under the direction of Ernest Jolliffe, George Wissel, Wendell H. Pryor and Walter Heppner. Committee heads Moody, candidates; Marion Dininger, entertainment, and James Reynolds, arrangements. Marshall Thomas will play the piano and the Eagles glee club will sing.

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_ Robert Lee Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis) was. a proud senator yesterday for part of his family had come all the way from Fi. Hua-

chuca, Ariz., to sit in the gallery.

His son-in-law, first Lieut. William

T. Ray (left) is in the chemical warfare branch of the 93d division.

Mrs. Ray (right) makes her home in the west with her husband.

1800 Pennies Pour in for Dickie's Battle Against Japs

P.) —Little Dickie Laswell’s donkey| bank balked today at the torrent|

began his bed-fast campaign to

| “whip the Japs.”

Now the six-year-old patient ounts his coins into a big candy box and grins at the promise of more to come. Dickie has two enemies—a deadly blood disease and Japs—and he is fighting the, good fight against both. Confined In St in St. John’s John’s hospital

YANK SETBACK LAID TO INEXPERIENG

The 35-mile setback handed American troops In Tunisia is an inevitable result of collision between green, unseasoned forces and experienced veterans, Mayor Tyndall told members of the Shrine Caravan club at a luncheon meeting at

; Murat temple yesterday.

{white corpuscles: devour the red!

ones, Dickie is contributing toward | : : : a vietory he may never live to see.! of pennies he has received since he ya had fewer red corpuscles today, |

but he also had more friends send-| ing him more pennies to fight more Japs. Dickie’ ogled the penny-laden let(ters yesterday as doctors gave him ‘a blood transfusion, one of many | designed to save his life. Dr. David « McCarthy said his condition is “not {much changed.” | Dickie has wrought a change, | however, . Citizens inspired by his

| patriotis and courage have sent|

=n more than 1800 pennies. ckie’s former schoolmates |e to present him with defense stamps later this week, and Springfield postal employees gave him a full book of stamps.

An army of OPA investigators,

meat inspectors and civic authori-

ties worked overtime in running to earth complaints turned in by lawabiding citizens, the real victims of

the black trade.

Hundreds already face .prosecution. Hijacked, Upgraded Meat is being hijacked, upgraded, slaughtered . above’ - quotas, and rustled to be sold outside of normal

channels to a high-priced trade against which law-abiding butchers

.| cannot -compete, the survey showed.

Many butchers have gone out of business entirely while consumers, who patronize the black market, endanger their health by eating uninspected meat. . Government investigators in Chicago, the world’s meat-packing

SPRINGFIELD, TIL, Feb. 19 (U.|with leukemia, a disease in which | 0 estimatell shat housewives

e are contributing at least $1,000,000 weekly to the black market. Chiseling, graft and boot{legging of meat are engaged in by dealers of hitherto unblemished ! reputations. Investigators said there are definite reasons to believe that underworld figures are engaged actively in operations. George A. Eastwood, president of Armour & Co., one of the “big four” packing companies, expressed alarm at the growing size of the black trade. : Perils Army Supplies

“Its dire effect upon the price structure and upon the ability of legitimate concerns to operate profitably is of tremendous importafice,” he said. “So is its threat to the Bo of supplies Jesired for the

chief OPA attorney, indicated that three out of every 10 pounds of meat sold over the counter were being illegally slaughtered.

under investigation and the survey was being extended to every butcher

packers have been charged with price ceiling violations. ; Arrest Two in Capital U. S. Dist. Atty. Bernard Margolius at” Washington, D. C., where two men operating =z slaughter house and wholesale meat firm have been arrested, said district

residents have:been mulcted out of}

hundreds of thousands of dollars. At. Philadelphia, one packer has been convicted. of selling above ceiling prices and a - half-dozen other cases are pending. The pattern of black market dealings in- the Southeast and Middle West were on a small time basis with farmers butchering above their normal needs and selling the meat to the highest bidders.

About 50 black marketers were |

shop in the district suspected of}! {illegal meat dealings. Three local

At Atlanta, Ga., the regional OPA office said it had a total of 90 black | market cases under investigation. At Miami, Fla., three large slaugh- | ter houses were ‘closed during the | last month for lack of meat. At Detroit, where the meat shortage is acute, only 50 per cent as much meat is available per person as compared to a year ago and 15 butchers have closed their. shops. In St. Louis, small packers and farmers have been adding 10 to ‘15 per cent to market price of meat

dealers. Slaughtering above quotas also

was reported at Indianapolis, Min-

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