Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1943 — Page 13
necessary to do the job.
m merican Land Army to Be Set Up Soom It's One of First Tasks of New Food Chief
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‘convert to war production. He said ‘that the WPB now has ordered more steel made available for agri‘cultural machinery. The appointment of Mr. Davis brings an old hand back to Washington to do a big job. 'At the same ime, it releases Mr. Wickard, a real dirt farmer, for his task as secretary of agriculture, a post now having nothing to do with emergency duties. Mr. Wickard’s friends said today he had no intention of resigning but such a development within the near future would not surprise ‘them. Mr, Wickard was named food administrator last December, in a presidential order which seemed to indicate he would have the power In fact he was immediately called “czar.” But like latter-day royalty, he found he could reign but not rule.
One Muddle Remains
WPB controlled the production of farm machinery, OPA controlled prices. Manpower was under Commissioner McNutt. Subsequently ~ some transfers and interchanges were made, but much of the muddle remains. In addition, Mr. Wickard ran at once into administrative difficulties. Herbert W. Parisius, whom he . had appointed to head the food _ production administration, resigned in a huff, following the lead of Donald E. Montgomery, long-time consumer counsel in the agriculture department. Former -Governor M. Clifford Townsend of Indiana succeeded Mr. Parisius, and Mr. Wickard made
Roy F. Hendrickson, one-time Associated Press man from Iowa, head
of the food distribution administra- © tion.
In the new presidential order, Mr, Davis has charge of both production and distribution and can do 8s he likes with the Wickard appointees. When the White House announced the Davis appointment, officials of the agriculture ‘department’s information division were astonished. They hadn't heard it was in the cards.
Davis Born on Farm
Later, ' however, they said Mr. Wickard had welcomed it at a conference this week with President Roosevelt. They also made public a congratulatory telegram from Mr. ~ Wickard to Mr. Davis, Mr, Davis was born on an Iowa
farm 56 years ago. He is a Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell college
Chester C. Davis
in that state; and started his career there as a newspaper editor in 1911, From 1917 to 1821 he edited the Montana Farmer, and he was Montana’s commissioner of agriculture and labor for: four years. Later he became director, of grain marketing for the Illindis Agriculture association and a national figure in farm-organization work. He was named head of production for triple-A in May, 1933, and in December he became AAA adminis-
trator, a post he held until June, 1936. He resigned to become a member of the board of governors of the
federal reserve system here, and in|
1941 was made president of the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis. In 1939 the American Farm Bureau federation awarded him a medal “for distinguished service to agriculture.” Mr. Davis is married and has two sons. He is a Democrat. During his career here under the New Deal he avoided the pitfalls of the left and right-wingers, pursuing a middle course. Leaders of the American Farm Bureau federation, the National Grange and the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives all wel-] comed Mr. Davis’ appointment, but warned that he will need greater power than that exercised by Mr. Wickard. Congressmen, Republicans and Democrats, were enthusiastic over
Mr, Davis. The appointment already:
had resulted in senate recommital of the Pace bill which Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown estimated, would result in an 18 ‘per cent increase in food costs. Mr, Davis, in St. Louis, said he hoped that all phases of the farm program could be co-ordinated and that “all factors can work together on this problem of food.” He will come to Washington early next
week to assume his new duties.
Lost Boys Reported Seen; 'Come Home,' Mothers Ask
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Mommy and Daddy miss you so and wonder where you are. “Remember how you and Daddy used to play ball together and how he boxed with you? Your daddy misses that, don’t you? » # »
Airplane Is Waiting
“ONE OF YOUR school friends brought your airplane home from school yesterday and. it’s waiting for you here. “The weather is nice now, Billy, and all your friends are out playing cowboy and superman. “Why don’t you come home? Mommy and Daddy won't scold.” Mrs. Long said: to her son, also named Billy; Your 2-year-old sister Mary has cried every day since you went away. She won't .even sleep, Billy. “Demember how you always got
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her up and dressed her in the morning . . . then played with her before you went to school? “Well, Billy, Mary has been carrying her shoes and soxs into your bedroom every morning since you left . . . but you're not there, Billy. “Billy, I miss those little talks we used to have. We had one the noon of the day you left home. “Your Dad misses you terribly too, and he is sick now. “We miss you so. Come home . « you wouldn’t be scolded .. « you never were, Billy.”
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‘HEALTHY, READY’
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P.). —Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, who recently returned from a five weeks’ tour of the North African front, reported today that American troops in that theater are “hard, healthy and ready to go.” “When I saw them, they had just begun to realize that they had held the enemy and thrown them back and their morale was fine,” he said. The African ports have been
cleared of wreckage and are working “full blast,” McCloy said. French troops, although equipped with antiquated weapons, are an “important military asset,” he said. The French now are in the process of exchanging their weapons for modern equipment furnished by the
United States. ; of
PIN-CUSHIONED FISH FINALLY IS POPULAR
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Me, (U. P.).—Sea urchins may rate on some menus but the majority of Maine fishermen who catch the pin-cush-ioned creatures. haven't even tasted them. The sudden popularity of the fish that looks like a prickly chestnut puzzles them. They remember the time when bathers screamed when they stepped on them and avoided them along the coast, Commission merchants in New York offered them a cent a pound and sometimes as high as $1.50 a
bushel for the heretofore shunned fish,
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Poor Housewife Is in the Middle; OPA Gloomy In Prediction.
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a considerable period of time will be required before the meat situation adjusts itself and that consumers may turn up with excess stamps because of insufficient meat supplies, « Thus, the local meat situation is muddled and only time will clear it up. Meanwhile, Indianapolis, along with the rest of the nation, faced a meatless or near meatless weekend. as supplies in local butcher shops and meat markets dwindled to practically nothing,
Some Meat Held Back
Meat markets around town reported that their supplies would not last through tomorrow, but some admitted holding back some meat with which to start the first meat rationing period Monday. Today and tomorrow will see local housewives traipsing from store to store and meat market to meat market in search of the vanished meat, but from all indications, the search will be in vain. A United Press survey. showed that in cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the gulf, the greatest current food shortage is in meat.
FARMERS FAVOR '60-OPERATION’
Fortune Survey Shows Many For Post-War League Of Nations.
NEW YORK, March '26—Almost half of all American farmers— more than half of those with definite opinions—want to see some form of active U., 8. collaboration with all nations of the world after the war, the latest Fortune Jurvey reveals today. This survey, published in full in the April issue of Fortune magazine, things that a majority of American farmers: : 1. Do not belong to any farm or agricultural organization, but think a farm owners’ union would be a good idea; 2. Think government’s farm program has been good for farming, and especially approve of soil conservation; 8. Reject salary limitation and government ownership of business.
How Opinion Varied
Here is how farm opinion divided on the question of America's part in the post-war world: As far as America and the rest of the world are concerned, which one of these six policies comes closest to what you would like. to see us do when the war is over? Fac- High tory School Work- Stu-
(Feb. (Nov. Farm- Sur- Surers vey) vey) Form a new league or association with all the different nations of the world and take an active part in making it work... 403 34.2 Form a new United States to include in one government all democracies in the world ....ceee Try to form some close connection with the British empire . Have as little as possible to do with any countries in Europe and Asia, but form a new United States to include in one government all North and South American ocounIES Lineivsveaes Use our influence to organize
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actual ties with any other country233 314 312 Stay at home and have just as little to do as possible S with any other ! country A800 se 117 120 4.2 Don't know ........180 69 23
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a nurse in “Cry Havoc” in more clothes than ever and at less money. From now on, it's strictly art for Hart, with some agriculture on the side. ’ “Gosh,” said Margie, “if I'm corny, J'll still have farm for social security. But; I'm going to try to get ahead on the stage.” The farm the g-string bought is 120 acres in Missouri near the
"whistle stop where Margie was born
nigh onto 26 years ago. She grows corn, alfalfa and soybeans and the triple A is no mystery to her. “Boy,” she said, “did we make out. I'm a rabid Democrat. Is it safe to say that around here?” She peered anxiously around the collar of a fur coat. “Maybe I talk too much, but I think F. D. R. and the administration’s farm policies are wonderful, “Here we were planting soybeans. Why? Because we wanted to grow soybeans, So we get a check for $200 from the government. “They wanted us to grow soybeans, too, only we didn’t know. So we get a bonus for growing whatever we want to.”
Shares the Profits
Margie said she bought the farm for her mother to live on, but since her brother has joined the navy air corps, mother has moved to Lathrop, Mo. At the moment, a tenant farmer operates G-String Acres and Margie shares in the profits, “That makes me a sharecropper,” she said. “Next week, ‘Tobacco
Soybeans Merely a Sideline
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Nine years of burlesque have left Margie a fresh-complexioned redhead with light brown eyes, a sense of humor and a bank account. She quit school, which she said: she used to attend in her bare feet, at the 10th grade and left Edgerton, Mo., for the big city in 1934. That was Chicago. She got a job in a chorus at $35 a week. She quickly learned that the less she wore, the more money it was worth. Then she abbreviated Margaret to Margie, Taking off one syllable from her name tripled her salary, so ‘she kept taking things off.
The Call of Wildburg
She was playing in “Wine, Women and Song” in New York when the stout burghers of that city closed it up forthwith. Then John Wildburg, producer of “Cry Havoc,” sent for her and offered her the part of the ex-burlesque queen who volunteers as a nurse. She agreed as long as she could use her middle name, Bridget, and until the show opened in Chicago last month, the matter was kept She wanted to keep burlesque out of it. : That's the story of Queenie, or rather the Queenie that was, except romance is in the air. She’s engaged to Lieut. Si Jacobs, AUS, a former publicity executive in New York. “Maybe that’s why I like newspapermen so well,” she confided. “Si used to need them in his business.” Yesterday, ‘ before the show, she posed in her new role as an actress. “Is this too corny?” she asked,
“Y’know,” she broke in, “the clos-
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