Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1943 — Page 6

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OPA Blamed by

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For ‘Worst Black Market’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P). ~The house small business committee today blamed office of price administration regulations for causing - the worst meat “black market” in history — one which “subjects the population to the risk of eating diseased meat.” 4 In a report on the meat packing situation, the committee charged that OPA and Agriculture Secre-. tary Claude R. Wickard have adequate legislative authority to correct the maladjustment and injus= tice now in the meat industry, “but}{ they have not worked in close cooperation and have differed on important questions of policy.” The report came amid increasing’ indications that meat supplies will be too small to permit a ration of 85 ounces per person per-week when rationing starts about April 1 and coincident with a report by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown that the “relatively few chiselers”

operating on the black market “face|

an unpromising future.” Packers Forced to Wall

The house small business commit tee charged that wholesale price ceilings established by OPA have aggravated the natural meat short« age by putting a “squeeze” on the meat packers, which may drive onethird of them out of business. “The record before the committee contains no satisfactory explanation of the long-standing failure of the . office of price administration to ac- - cord to meat processors the fair and equitable margin required by the pile control act,” the committee

“Unless the packers are assured such fair margins, the nation is faced with increasing meat shortages and the possible loss of as much as one-third of the present

plants. . . ." Mr, Wickard told a press conference yesterday that slaughter supplies of meat have been “disappointingly small” in view of the record number of cattle and hogs grown last year. He said he would

meat at 2% pounds per person. could be carried out. At least three factors point to shorter than expected civilian meat supplies: (1). Military and lendlease ones are: increasing; (2) Federally: sted sisughtering has been: legs. | an expected; and (3) Argentina, which ships meat to Britain, has’ had g short feed. crop. The - deprease in meat supplies commercial markets was said to be: due in part to larger farm and Iocal storage of meats but to a much greater extent to black market. slaughter, Leak Is: 10-20 Per Cent

* Wickazd said the black et slaughter must be halted soon if ‘the’ ration allowance is to be as much as two pounds. He estimated “leak” of meats, largely to black markets,’ at’ between 10 and 20 per cent of the total slaughter. Food Distribution Director Roy

‘Hendrickson said a 17 per cent leak

“seems to be a pretty good figure.” Mr. Wickard compared the black markets to prohibition era speakeasies, “Potentially,” he said, “they represent not only lawlessness but a threat to one: ‘of our most vital weapons of ‘WaT, ‘A waste of our

war and will cause the death of thousands: upon thousands of American boys. ‘Futrehmore, the waste of our food resources may make impossible a sourid and lasting peace.” 420 Face Aston

Mr. Brown said that’ the antiblack market drive mow is: being pushed to its final stages. In the past three weeks, he: ed, 420 individuals and firms have been indicted, arrested, enjoined: or sued for triple damages for black: makket operations in meat. About: 160 are being prosecuted criminally. :

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?|sald, “I was an the floor and came ‘jup shooting.”

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—The 10th company of blue-|

jackets arrived today at Purdue uni={ in" wprainss of the three was the

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EXECUTE 3 FOR MILEY SNS

Penney’s ‘True Story’ Reveals Golf Star Knocked Him Out.

EDDYVILLE, Ky., Feb. 26 (U. P..

and Raymond Baxter paid with their lives early today for the 1941

Miley and ‘her mother and dtew minutes later Warden Jesse Buchan released Penney’s “true story” of the murders.

tric chair at the Eddyville penitentiary for the shooting of Miss Miley, 27, and her mother, Mrs. Elsie Ego Miley, §0, during an attempted holdup of the fashionable Lexington, Ky. country club Sept. 28, 1941. In his statement, given to the warden on Jan. 23 for release after the executions, Penney revealed that he and Anderson, but not Baxter, participated in the robbery and murder, Baxter, he’ sald, drove up as “the pair entered the clubhouse, report= ed all clear and then drove off.

Miss Miley Fought Back Since Baxter was charged with being an accessory rather: than a participant in the murders, this ap-

parently would not have affected his conviction. Penney also disclosed for the first time that Miss Miley apparently fought back against the bandits. He said someone, he thought it was Miss Miley, struck him on the chin and knocked him out. “When I came to, his statement

Warden Buchan declined to comment on Penney's- statement. Anderson, 38-year-old Louisville, Ky., night club owner and reputedly

first to die. Shortly before he was taken to the death chamber a razor

Buchan he had intended to commit

Penney, 33, Lexington, Ky. exconvict, and Baxter, greenskeeper at the Lexington club; followed Anderson to the chair. Buchan said it was the first time, to his knowledge that three men had died for the

Claimed Anderson Innocent

The three originally were to have been executed Jan. 22 but the Kentucky appellate court granted Anderson a stay of execution and Gov. Johnson granted stays to Penney and: Baxter to permit them to testify at.& hearing on AnderSon's unsuccessful petition for a new ia. Penney in a deposition . made at prison had declared Anderson innocent of the murders and said he implicated him “to get revenge: for a whisky deal in which he wronged me. ”» However, at the “hearitieh Penney

and Anderson’s petition was denied. Miss Miley and her mother were shot as they tried to thwart the attempted holdup at the club, where the older woman was manager, The golfer was shot in the head and died instantly. Her mother received

and died four days later.

Girl 'Coalman’ Aided by Seamen

EAST "HAMPTON, N. Y., Feb. 26 (U. P.) —~Sybil Gilmartin, § feet, 3 inches tall, took over her brother - Frank’s coal company when he entered the army last fall. . » : Miss Gilmartin, 30, said today she was a success; with a male helper she could shovel 16 tons a day. > : Tne confessed, however, that “the public”—particularly men— “has been wonderful” and that she didn’t have much work to do

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TO FREE SUPPLIES,

WASHINGTON, Feb, 26 (U.P.).— The OPA today requested wholesalers of processed foods to release supplies freely to retailers who have only a short time left to replenish stocks before consumer rationing begins March 1. Slow movement of processed foods from wholesale to fetail levels has beeni reported in many parts of the

a mistaken fear that if wholesalers nimi deliveries now they will suffer a reduction beyond normal requirements in their April allowable inventories. Such inventories will be determinded on the basis of sales made during March, OPA sald,

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—Robert H. Anderson, Tom Penney

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three bullet wounds in the abdomen |.

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