Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1943 — Page 11
~ CEILING ON PRICES
«State ‘Association ‘Charges Federal Bureausacy Red
Tape Are Tying Up 1943 Food Production.
By HELEN
Fr
RUEGAMER
: Charging that federal bureaucracy, red tape, Jack of co-operation and action are severely tying up this year’s|price control, rationing and fiscal canned food production, Indiana canners swung into action today to secure relief from Washington on wages, labor and
- ceiling prices in the canning industry.
More than 200 members of the Indiana Vegetable Can-
“Continue Unabated This Year. .
WASHINGTON, March 24 (U-P.). —Americans went on an $81,900,000,000 spending spree ‘in 1942 which will continue unabated this year unless effective steps are taken in
today. The study by the commerce department’s bureau of foreign and domestic commerce was not intend-
ners’ association gathered at the Claypool hotel yesterday|ed for publication. Its use was re-
"FLOOD WATERS - ARE RECEDING
- White and Wabash ~ Rivers Returning to - ‘Normal.
Southern Indiana’s flood scare is over. : The Ohio river was receding alone A 8 475-mile stretch which touched Indiana cities. The White and Wabash rivers were slowly returning to normal stages in most sections. ; ‘There were rises of ‘only. slight degrees in the lowermost reaches. ~The weather bureau's forecast here of warmer weather added that there will be a light rain or drizzle, beginning tonight, but rivermen had no fears that it would cause new rises. The Ohio river acted in a rare manner. The U. S. meteorologist at Louisville said that the flood crest extended over a length of 475 miles, whereas the normal crest was 20 to 30 miles long. Scores of families still remained homeless at Corydon where creek waters, fed by backwater from the river, bathed the historic town. Red - Cross officials are helping renabilitate them. In Lawrence county, health authorities took. precautions against . an epidemic because of contamination ‘of the Water supply in some areas.
CHILD, TRAPPED IN COLD AIR DUCT, DIES
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 24
in their behalf.
necessary manpower. Don’t Know Prices
ticulture committee.
plans. year’s pea acreage and cent of the tomato acreage. goods demand will be greater. ‘Get, No Help’ association president, reported that goal.
he said.
try needs.”
Members agreed to send Indiana congressmen telegrams and letters immediately nang the estab-|, {lishment’ of ceiling prices on their| ore in 1942 than in 1941 in an at<| products and the privilege of in- tempt to maintain their level of
creasing wage rates so as 0 com-|jivin g but succeeded only in pushing pete with other war industries fori, prices” the survey stated.
Clay Bachelder of Indianapolis, vice president of the Ladoga Canning Co., will go to Washington soon more rapidly from here on. Unless to demand action by the house ag-
Canners are faced with the prob: (lem of having millions of cases of|possible of their higher incomes for canned goods ordered by the government, but not being told what ‘higher prices each.” price they will be. paid for their products. As a result, they are un-{showed, has risen steadily since the able to contract acreage from farmers and proceed with production|$4,:
A. E. Coddington of Indianapolis,
the government has requested a 10 to 15 per cent increase over last|Food year’s food pack, but. has taken no|Siothing . steps to aid. canners achieve this ‘Gasoline - .
“No other. industry has been given ‘lorders by the federal government without having the price specified,”
He compared the canning ‘industry to a public utility, saying “we’ve |Gther services got to pack the foodstuffs this coun-
afternoon to air their views|stricted to various government on the failure of the war labor agencies. : '|board, the office of price ad-| Consumer spending in 1942, the ministration and the board of|study said, was 10 per cent above economic stabilization to act
the previous record of $74,600,000,“1000 in 1941 and nearly double the
depression low of $42,400,000,000° in 1933. “With their incomes rising sharply, consumers spent 10 per cent
Price Rise Continues
“In 1943, incomes are continuing to rise while supplies of most, consumer goods and services will shrink
effective steps. are taken in the fields of price control, rationing and | Biscal policy, the outlook is clearing for consumers to spend as much as
fewer and fewer units at constantly “The nation’s .food bill, the study |
first quarter of 1939 when it totaled 399,000,000. By the fourth quar-
The following table shows consumer expenditures for the major groups of goods and services since 1938. (All figures are in millions of dollars) :
Category 1940
Tobacco .... 1.845 ; 1213 19.4% 1,981 Furniture ... 4,08 Automobiles. .
Housing Home maint. . Utilities Personal serv. Transportation Medical care. Recreation .. 1,531 4,113 4,884
Ce . $61,663 $65,657 $74,583 $81,002
Total
81 BILLION IN 42,
Survey Shows Spree May
policies, a government survey showed:
growing larger by the hour.
What a month ago was just-a farmer’s field in Mexico is now a new and roaring volcanb, hurling boulders the size of automobiles 1800 feet into the air. Here's a view of the volcano, showing already twice as . ‘high as the Washington monument, nearly a mile across, and is
ter of 1942 it had soared to $7,441,-}. So far, Indiana canners have con-|{000,000. The amount spent on food tracted only 58 per cent of last|in 1939 was $18,069,000,000; last year 50. periit was $27,647,000000, Food is the The | biggest ‘single item of expenditure, acreage contracted for all vegetables|accounting for about one-third of is expected to fall short of last year’s|all expenditures for goods and amount, even though the canned services.
CREDIT UNION. TRIAL EVIDENGE TO- BEGIN
Testimony was to be started this afternoon in the trial of Cecil FP. Scott and John A. Staab, charged with embezzlement of funds from the defunct Indianapolis Firemen’s
late yesterday. Scott and Staab, former officials of the credit union, were on trial twice before. The first trial in August; 1941, ended when a juror became ill and the second trial in
489 | December, 1941, resulted in a dead-
locked jury. The indictments. charged that the two former officials of the credit union embezzled $50,000 from. the union. Defense attorneys said they ‘were prepared to prove that the shortage in funds was due to bookkeeping
errors and bad investments.
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Credit Union. A jury was selected :
Farm Homes for Juveniles Sought
MORE FOSTER homes on farms are being sought by officials of the county welfare department and juvenile court to care for the increasing overflow of orphaned and neglected children. Long range planning for the post-war child welfare problems were discussed by welfare group representatives and Judge Mark Rhoads yesterday.
Judge Rhoads said immediate:
steps should be taken to establish a county industrial school for neglected children’ to relieve the “backwash of this war when ve will face a serious crime wave.” The emergency for more foster homes was made more acute this
week when both the juvenile de-
tention home and the Children’s guardian home were quarantined following an outbreak of scarlet fever.
Warns the Task Isn't Easy.
There's no magic attached to canning—no' short cis 1 the field wk
jd today by cational company in 18 Middle Western states. There's a. growing sentiment among persons planning to can for the first time’ this year that there must be an easy way to do it. “It isn’t so,” Miss Murphy says. Methods recommended by her are the pressure cooker for non-acid products—meats and vegetables — and the boiling water bath or oven for fruits and tomatoes. Explicit instructions may be obtained from Purdue university and commercial fruit jar companies on request. Borrow a Cooker This year Miss Murphy encounters difficulty for pressure cookers
‘| are not on the market. She believes
that the war production board will
| release some materials so that a few
cookers may be on the market by May. These probably will not take care of all the new victory garden canners. It means that persons who have cookers may have to lend them. “Be a good neighbor,” Miss Murphy suggests, “but go along with your cooker to see that it is . | properly manipulated. Don’t let it go astray.” Housewives need not buy jars in hoarding proportion, but they should plan ahead on the number they will have to buy, she said. She pointed out that buyers should not expect stores to have what they want ‘each time they want it. Supply companies. are making every effort to get jars to stores by the canning iseason. The fact that there might be no jars one week does not mean that the store will be out all month. Miss Murphy recommended the purchase .of selfsealing jars because “they're easier to use and may be tested for a perfect seal.” From Indianapolis today the demonstrator will go to Bloomington. She will’ return in April to work with Miss . Janice Berlin, county home demonstration agent, and demonstrators of the Citizens’ Gas & Coke Utility and the Indianapolis Power & Light Co.
REFUSE PAY INCREASE WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. P.) —The war labor board, clinging to the “little steel” wage ceiling formula which it voted Monday to preserve, today refused to grant a 3 cent an hour increase to about 4000 employes of the White Motor
Co., Cleveland.
Birth Certific
te Pro
Ironed Out by Proswdurs
' Applications. for birth certificates under the new 1943 law will be started next week, Jack Tilson, county clerk, said: today. * Machinery for - the = court-issued certificates was suspended last week by Mr. Tilson pending legal advice on technicalities of the new law, which he: said were confusing. Judges of all five superior courts and Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox who will issue the certificates decided at a joint conference yesterday that provisions of the new law could be made to work without filing a suit for a declaratory judgment. . Difficulties in the new law, Mr. Tilson said, included the provision
requiring ‘mon it applicants for certificates to” appear in person.
could "made for non-residents.
who were born hereto: get their. certificates by alidavits through the mail, 1 Under the. new aw all Superior courts will issue the certificates stead of just circuit court, th speeding up the procedure. More than 15,000 certificates were issued in circuit court during the last two years under the 1941 law.
TOO SMALL BUSTLINE,_IS JUST. AS
EMBARRASSING AS
Young girls. and women are, gen-|:
erally, just as embarrassed over a lack of curves in the right places as other women are of having too much of a curve. It is a problem that can be solved quite happily by the right brassiere. But, unfortunately, too many women choose their brassieres in much the same way they do their dresses. They are apt to say, “I'm a size 34.” And they may be, for a dress. But a dress size 34 means next to noth-
ing at.all in the selection of a bras-| siere, because the figure itself may
have a much smaller bustline than. an average’ size 34 would indicate. Fortunately, most bustline problems (too large, which we will take up later, as well as too small) can as we said in the beginning, be solved easily. Also, most fortunately, brassieres themselves are
designed to: solve these problems.|: now design|:
Brassiere designers brassieres- to fit each specific problem. They are still sizes 32, 34, 36, etc., but they also have an ad-
ditional size, called the cup size—|;
A, B, C or D—which is 'proportioned correctly to the too-small, the average, the too-large bustline. The too-small bustline, with which we are concerned today, takes an A-cup size brassiere. Now, a* toosmall bustline may be caused by under-development (for which we advocate “Pointees,” to be worn with a good uplift bra. But it is more often than not caused by broken-down tissues which ‘make the bustline seem much smaller and much flatter than it really is. Here is where the right brassiere comes in. The properly cut, properly fitted brassiere in an A-cup size supports and lifts up the bro-ken-down tissues, - gives the bust line a. young, rounded, natural and average looking contour.
One of the ‘best types of brassieres}.
we have found to solve this particular problem. is the “Bali” siere sketched here. It is mage of firm broadcloth, skillfully designed to give support where it is needed,
to raise the ‘bustline up, giving it
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& (U. P.).—William Roher, 18-month-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Roher ‘of South Bend, died today in St. - Joseph hospital after suffering shock and second-degree burns yesterday while trapped inside a cold - gir duct. ~ The child was playing in the kitchen of a neighbor's apartment . yesterday when he fell through the cold air screen 12 feet and lodged * in the pipe near the furnace. He was burned before rescuers could dismantle the duct and remove him.
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‘They've got us in a place where (we've got to go ahead. We're ex[pected to can foods and get. labor some way, even if it means being|}
| this year’s civilian stocks until the
|ganization for passing its contribu-
hope to win by furnishing an over-
| “Who. knows but that the spirit * {of the Red Cross may conquer this
Stating that OPA seems to th’ ! canners should run their plants last year’s profits, he said, “We cau’ strike because we don’t approve of that. We can’t close our factories.
crooked.” Production May Drop Mr. Bachelder accused the OPA of trying to avoid a rise in food prices by forcing canners to agre- '» Jrices which would “bankrupt th aning industry.” Kenneth-—Rider, tomato canner from Trafalgar, asserted that unless the association's resolutions are adopted, canned food production may drop as much as 50 per cent. Another canner predicted that the delay in Washington would tie up
first of January. “Canners are ‘counting heavily on women workers to solve their manpower . problem, but production will be hindered by the drafting of many key workers.
WE MUST WORK OR FIGHT--SCHRICKER
MONTICELLO, Ind. March 24 (U. P.).—Governor Schricker believes “we must all either work or fight.”
honoring ‘the county Red Cross or-
tion quota. “We are in a fight with an enemy
a long period of years,” the governor said. “We here are in it as deeply as the boys over there. We can only whelming strength in Whatever supplies are needed.
world when the war is won,” Governor Schricker said. :
COLLEGE TRAINING 4 OFFERED NAVY MEN
Enlisted personnel ‘of the navy and naval reserve meeting specific requirements may now apply to their commanding officers for
PIONEER MINER'S
He spoke last night at a meeting|}
that may extend the struggle over|}
training at selected colleges andi]
~ SON DIES AT HOME
. BRAZIL, March 24 (U. P.)~John
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