Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1943 — Page 6
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FOOD COSTS Top
THOSE OF 1918
Local Prices 2 to 10 Cents A Unit Higher, Study of
Ads Reveals. (Continued from Page One)
1918, while butter is up from 5 to 11 cents per pound. . Eggs range from 10 to 13 cents more per dozen today, while a quart of milk costs 2 cents more. In fresh vegetables housewives are paying about 12 cents per head today, while in 1918 the price
reducing absenteeism. (“If you can’t go A. W. O. L. in uniform, why be allowed to do so in vital war industries?)
2. Recommend that wounded veterans discharged from hospitals who can perform civilian work be retained in the service and used for administration work in Washington and other headquarters, with first eligibility for civil employee replacement. 3. Urge prosecution of the consumer in the black market with the same severity as the seller. “We should revive the old stock on the
ranged from 5 to 8 cents. However, public square for that kind of des-
the prices on green beans and lettuce have increased slightly, and spinach is about 2 cents cheaper.
Meat Prices Higher Now Canned corn, peas and tomatoes
are only slightly higher now than]
during world war I. At the same time that these prices have been rising, a remarkable reduction is noted in the price of oleomargarine, lard and navy
beans. In 1918 oleo was 31 cents a pound, while now it varies from 19 to 20 cents. Practically the same decrease is found in the price of lard, which cost 30 cents per pound then and 17 or 18 cents on today's market. Navy beans, the nation’s standby, are selling for 8!: cents per pound now, while in 1918 the price rose to 15 and 16 cents per pound. Although OPA price ceilings have been set on practically all meats, today’s meat prices are as much as 10 cents over those of 1918.
Poultry Scarcity Reflected
During world war I hamburger gold at 15 cents a pound. Today it ranges from 21 to 33 cents. Pork sausage, selling at 35 cents a pound now, cost from 17 to 20 cents then, while picnic hams, now 35 to 38 cents a pound, were only 25 cents in 1918. Housewives are paying from 10 to 12 cents more for a pound of round or loin steak now, 14 cents more for pork tenderlcins, an about 3 cents more for bacon. The present scarcity of unrationed poultry has resulted in an increase of 6 cents more per pound
picable citizen who wants to cheat his own son on the battlefield.”) Mr. Atherton added that his recent trip “re-confirmed my conviction that it is better to keep a country safely prepared in peacetime than to prepare it after a war has started.” It has been the Legion's policy for 25 years, he said, for the U. S. to have a strong navy, reserve military equipment, universal military
training. In a “hodge-podge” way, Mr. Atherton said, the government has accemplished about 90 per cent of the control which it would be given by the Wadsworth-Austin bill, but
it is “confusing and inefficient” in
Legion Defense Committee To Urge Universal Service
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THE INDIANA 6-DAY WEEK IN MINES ORDERED
Has No Understanding With Lewis, Ickes Says, as
Workers Return. (Continued from Page One)
Ickes said there has been some “cheating” by mine operators on the six-day week, on which many mines had been operating previously on a voluntary basis. Some of them, he said, have been operating only five days a week and have been collecting the additional average 13 cents a ton allowed by OPA as compensa- | tion for payment of time and a half] on the sixth day of work. | He said he had no figures to show how many had been violating the
Warren H, Atherton
comparison with the automatic blanket control which should have gone into effect at the beginning of this emergency. Mr. Atherton said he believed he navy should take over the operation of all ships as soon as possible to reduce the growing dissatisfaction which the disparity of wages is causing sailors.
WOMAN SPEED FLIER WORKS AT DOUGLAS
SANTA MONICA, Cal, May 4 (U. P.) —Aviatrix May Haizlip, second
for dressed hens and 7 cents more for dressed chickens than in 1918.
Prices of staple goods in August, 1918, had increased on an average of 3 to 4 cents per measure cver the April, 1918, price, indicating that prices generally were rising as the war continued.
An Interesting Comparison
Below is a chart showing the most popular foods and the respective prices in April, 1918, and April, 1943.
Commodity Coffee (lb.) Butter (lb) Oleomarg: Bil ue) Ss (doz. Milk (qt.) Corn (No. 2 can) Peas (No. 2 can) Tomatoes (No. 2 Sauerkraut (No. 3 can) Navy beans : ie Potatoes, old (peck) .. Potatoes, new (peck) .. Green beans (ib) .. Cabbage 1b.) Lettuce (head) i ib.) tdoz.) Apples (1b.} Tomatoes (lb.) .. Bananas (lb) Prunes (lb.)
(All prices per 1b. 8moked ham 3 Picnic ham . : Yea] roast ....i..0eee. Pork sausage Hamburger .. Pork chops Country bacon Choice bacon Rib roast fLitaiid Boiling beef . kd Loin and round steak Chuck steak .. Veal loaf Lamb chops Leg of lamb . Pork tenderloin Porterhouse steak .... Fresh shoulder Veal chops Salmon Hens, dressed hickens, dresse RS tins SE etns bi
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woman in the nation to obtain a commercial pilet’s license and winner of more than 20 speed trophies, is a “courier driver” at Douglas Aircraft Co., plant officials disclosed today. Mrs. Haizlip drives a combination messenger and taxi vehicle, and is
held strictly to 35 miles an hour.
In the 1930s, she set speed record after record, and was entered in every race open to women.
PYLE CIGARETS SENT TO YANKS
Today’s Shipment Will Be Divided Into 4 Parts for Africa, Australia.
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amount will buy 46,000 cigarets for boys on the fighting fronts. The second largest donation was $66 for 26,400 cigarets by the night shift of Department 300, Ewart plant, Link-Belt Co. Other large donors were the Marott Shoe store and the Thomas M. Fitzgerald Co. both contributing $50 for 20,000 cig-
How the Plan Works
The cigaret fund was started after Ernie Pyle wrote from North Af-
z|rica of the need for cigarets at the
fighting fronts. There was popular demand that such action be taken. Here is how the plan works: The Times has arranged with major cigaret companies to pur-
2 chase cigarets for shipment over7/seas—at 5 cents a pack. They will
be sent to any theater of war outside continental United States. In place of the federal stamp, there will be a sticker on each
3 package reading, “The Indianapolis
Times’ Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund.” If any firm, group or group of employees contributes $50 or more,
3/ their name also will be placed on
the sticker. If you desire to contribute, any-
5 thing from a nickel on up, mail or
bring your contribution to The
?| Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle Cig3 aret Fund, 214 W. Maryland st.
YANKEES SMASH
TOWARD BIZERTE
Axis Defense Line Yields Before 2d Corps and Ist Army.
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gone toward Ferryville, where they are expected to meet strong German resistance. But American bombers heavily attacked the Bizerte airdrome yesterday. Today's communique merely described the! advance in the north as continuing | beyond. Mateur.
French troops were pushing toward the northwest corner of Lake Achkel, which may outflank the enemy’s Ferryville defenses. American artillery units were officially singled out for high praise in the operations in northern Tunisia, where the massed fire of the United States “long toms” were cited as one of the main reasons for a fast advance.
Capture Was Sudden
The actual capture of Mateur came suddenly. The ¥rench on the northwest realized on Sunday that the enemy was pulling out of defense positions west of Lake Achkel. At the same time the Americans to the south sensed the enemy retirement and immediately threw insa hard-hitting attack. One American advance unit reached the road junction six miles northwest of Mateur by early morn. | ing. A reconnaissance unit was! sent ahead while this area was being! consolidated and it reached Mateur without meeting serious opposition. Meanwhile, other American troops south of the Mateur road and| northwest of Tebourba were pushing eastward against the German flank. | The capture of Mateur also opened | a road southward for attack on Te-| bourba and, although there is al formidable range of hills to be! passed, this road offers an opportunity to outflank the last important enemy defense line guarding the plains of Tunis. | The capture of either Tebaurva, or Djedeida would cut off German | forces in the Medjerda valley from | all escape except across mountains |
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DONORS Previously acknowledged
Marott Shoe Store : Thomas M. Fitzgerald Co. .... T. S. Green Kingan Labeling Dept. Employees
Plant A Contributor
Mrs. R. H. Gordon Mr. Paul Doon, New Palestine, Ind Margaret A. Conner James W. Alexander Josephine Davis C. W. Mrs. J. W. Jordan . Carl V. Kueff
K. J. Glass ..
Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund
Indiana Gear Works and Employees Link-Belt Co. Ewart, Dept. 300, Night Shift .
Rotor Balancing Dept. Lukas-Harold Ordnance
The Indianapolis Times Employees,
CIGARETS
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Ickes emphasized that his order act against the practice. As a con-|ing in view of the fact that gam- | blers the city-over, accustomed for
the mines are operated six days aed matter; even the paper shortage|years to operate on the “up-and-up”
is intended only to see to it that
week and that it is not necessarily a guarantee of increased incomes) for miners. He added, however, | that mines operating six days a week but laying off men so that they work only five days a week will not be allowed the OPA price increase. Ickes declined to answer questions on who asked for the conference between himself and Lewis last Sunday leading to the 15-day truce. “I did not, and that is all I am going to say,” he said. Ickes said the mines will be turned back to the operators just as soon as possible. They will not, however, be turned back until the government is assured of uninterrupted coal production, he added. “All negotiations for a contract will be between the operators and miners, subject to any jurisdiction which the war labor board may have,” Ickes said. 8400 Hoosiers Return
Ickes said that he would volunteer no recommendations to the war labor board. “They are capable of running their own affairs,” he asserted. The order applied to all mines being operated by the government, both bituminous and anthracite, which have been authorized to increase prices to cover costs of the six-day week. Ickes formally ascribed the order to the necessity for assuring adequate supplies of coal. By noon-time the response to the back-to-work call was virtually 100 per cent cent throughout the nation. More than 8400 Indiana miners, members of districts 8 and
ported at the pits. Similar reports came from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois and Alabama. Wilkes-Barre, capital of Pennsylvania’s hard coal field, reported a virtual 100 per cent resumption under their new boss, the United States government.
Hutson Named Liaison Officer
Governor Schricker announced the appointment today of Thomas R. Hutson, state labor commissioner, as liaison officer beteween the state coal mining industry and William P, Stein, federal director of Indiana mines.
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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 143
It's Spring, and Baseball Pools Are Blooming Again
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pools are running so brazenly as to dupe the amateur gambler into believing ‘they're being “overlooked” by a discouraged police force. The prinicpal difference between present-day manipulations a n d those of the “pre-Tyndall” era is that practically all pool drawings are being held out of the county. This is a feature which is sadly lamented by top-men in the “industry.” Such an evasion, they say, throws a shadew of doubt on the pools’ authenticity, naturally alienates the more dubious chancetaker. Printing Held Legal
Pool drawings were forced to take cover after continued police raids proved them to be the most vulner-
effect. Neither does there appear to be a lack of ticket distributing agents, the survey showed. The little slips of paper with numbers are being sold more and more “on [the hcof” as a result of the strict |surveillance of pool-rooms where they were once featured as openly as pool cues and cigars.
Have Regular ‘Routes’
Now agents are “pounding beats,” (going from corner drug store to {hotel lobby to office building, and establishing regular ticket-selling routes. Chief Beeker, plagued by this legion of busy little men, said they apparently had even taken to “house to house” peddling.
the island.
Guadalcanal.
able aspect of the “trade.”
agreement but estimated that 95 per| Pool ticket printing, however, con- yesterday said operators were fully cent of coal mined in recent months, tinued to enjoy the sanction of the aware that police were no was produced under the six-day law here after several legal rulings|vigilant in their efforts to exter-
recently pointed out that state legislatures had consistently failed to
sequence there’s no dearth of print-
nas left the racket untouched, since,
it was revealed, most ticket printers | | generally dampen lady fortunes
fore paper conservation went into'ardor.
were well-stocked on card-board be-
County's Only Inspector
that maybe she knows her business after all. “I've inspected as many as 30 cars in a day, during the tire inspection rush, near deadline,” she says. “Most drivers are co-opera-tive and I've had good dealings with all of them.” The gasoline station she manages shows a woman's touch . .. it's as neat and clean as a good housewife’s kitchen. It is further distinguished by possessing what is probably the only “hot seat” in town. #4 #4 “A LOT of school boys like to loaf in here,” Miss Thompson explains. “That’s all right with me, except that it sometimes interferes with my work. “So I've had this chair in the office wired, and when I can't get rid of the boys any other way, I give whoever is sitting in the chair ‘the works,’ by pressing this
RECRUITS SOUGHT FOR - WAVES, SPARS
A representative of WAVE-SPAR recruiting will be in the lobby of the Central Y. W. ©. A. today through Saturday to interview busi= ness women and office girls concerning the naval women's reserve organizations.
questions and provide information
from 4:30 to 6 p. m.
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One ticket distributor contacted
less
minate gambling in Indianapolis. Meanwnile,
This, he said, is very discourag-
were now obliged to adopt undercover proceedings which, somehow,
Woman Tire
Knows Her Job
buzzer, and it clears them out in no time.” Miss Thompson's most enjoyable job is greasing autos. Her pet peeve right now is the help situa« tion. She says she'd rather work around autos than have to be an executive. She works in slacks. “One man asked me why I
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YANKS OCCUPY RUSSELL GROUP
‘Expected to Set Up Airplane Bases 100 Miles From Jap Outposts.
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several smaller ones. sumed that they contain sufficient level ground for construction of one or more plane landing strips,
The occupation was carried out in February without enemy opposition and our forces are “established” on
The operation followed soon after Japanese resistance collapsed on Pavuvu, largest of the Russell group, is 60 miles from Henderson field on Guadalcanal. The navy did not say what forces participated in the operation. the navy reported
eight more air attacks on Kiska in the Aleutians and raids on Munda and Rakata bay in the Solomons
0. P. STATE GROUP’ TO MAP CAMPAIGN
The Republican state committee met here today to lay plans for 1944 campaign. o The committee was scheduled to pass a resolution indorsing enactment of a pay-as-you-go system for the payment of federal income taxes, Also reportedly to be taken under consideration was a proposal by some committee members to issue a statement announcing a “hands off” policy by the state committee on the state and national candidates for next year,
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TRAFFIC VICTIM DIES
Andrew Tschan, 72, of 2022 N. Dearborn st., died in City hospital today of injuries received in traffic. He was the 21st traffic vietim of the year in Indianapolis.
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didn’t wear gloves,” she said. “He seemed to think I should worry about my nails and hands. “All I told him was that dirt
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The representative will answer York, just returned to Cairo from
from 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m. and at a reception given by the apos-
doesn’t scare me. And it doesn’t —that's why I like this job!”
RANK RETAINED BY GENS. LEAR, DEWITT
WASHINGTON, May 4 (U. P) — President Roosevelt today nomie nated Ben Lear and John L. DeWitt, both currently lieutenant generals by virtue of commanding the 2d and 4th armies respectively, to be lieutenant generals in their own right. Mr. Roosevelt also nominated Maj. | Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of army forces in Alas« |ka, to be a lieutenant general; eight | brigadier generals to be major gen= erals, and 52 colonels to be brigadiers.
SPELLMAN IN CAIRO CAIRO, May 4 (U. P.) .—Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New|
{the Holy Land, was guest of honor
Itolic delegate today.
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Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes appointed Mr. Stein, regional] manager of district 11 of the bituminous coal division, after the gov-| srnment assumed control of the coal: mines. Mr. Ickes asked each gov-| ernor in states affected by government control of mining to appoint a liaison representative.
0. K. APPOINTMENT OF 10 POLICEWOMEN
Appointment of 10 policewomen for emergency duty for the current drive against juvenile delinquency was approved today by the safety board. Police Chief Beeker said the women, who will first take a police training course, are to be assigned to the juvenile aid division, eity venereal clinic and as regular detective matrons. He said at least 15 more policewomen are to be added to the force. The appointees are: Ann Bennett, Minnie M. Berry, Christabel Carey,
Mabel L. Lowe, Nelle Florence Nutt, Vivian Tinnell, Charlene Farmer, Artee Mae Stockdale.
U. S. GENERAL HURT IN JAP PLANE RAID
WASHINGTON, May 4 (U. P).— Brig. Gen, Edward E. Glenn was slightly wounded in action April 28 in China, where he was struck by a bomb fragment during a Japanese raid on a U. 8. 14th air force base, he war department announced toay. Immediately after the raid, nine P-40 Warhawks pursued the Japanese planes, destroyed 10 zeros and probably five others, and three bombers. All the American planes returned safely. Gen. Glenn is a native of Kansas City, Kas. His wife lives at Waco, Tex.
LEAVE FOR PRISONERS? By UNITED PRESS The Paris radio said today the Germans have granted 1000 French war prisoners a two-week leave in
France on condition they return tol
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