Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1943 — Page 19

ONE OF OUR agents comes forth with the sage observation that it's almost impossible to get an ice eream sundae or soda after 10 p. m., at least on the far north side. He started a little after 10 and visited pine drug stores before he found one that was open

the vi youthful took the order for a couple of nut sundaes and without saying anything calmly prepared chocolate sodas. “But I wanted a nut sundae,” protested our agent. “Sorry,” was the reply, “but it's this or nothing. We're out of nuts.” He took the sodas. . . . Another agent rejoices over the apparent abundance of soft drinks now available. Boi "You can even get two cartons of cokes in some drug stores. It probably won't last long, though. . . . A new agent reports that an old, perennial rumor is starting up again. It's the one _ about some unidentified mother receiving a letter from her soldier son, a captive of the Japs. The rumor -hms-it-that the. stamp came off and beneath it the

Doc. “What do you do?” Doc asked. “Oh, I fil] out

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—Isolationists have d Up a poisonous meal out of the crumbs of

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that I had neved dreamed existed in this or. any other song. The sound fell at times almost to a sweet whisper; it never rose above the level of graciousness. The night was dark, and even the nervous palm. fronds were still. I stood while they sang. Aloha Oe| . +. Farewell to The . . . farewell to thee forever ., .| And any man, going away, who can stand and hear the last fragile notes fade from the throats of the leper singers of Kalaupapa without tears in his eyes— well, he would be better off dead. :

starting to take setting. up exercises—just in case. e took his selective service blood test yesterday. «+o Sgt. Jesse W. Peden, the lawyer, is back home after receiving an honorable discharge from the army at Camp Gordon, Ga. ... The Marmon-Herrington

Herrington staff and prominent in riding circles, has a’ very intelligent horse—sultan's Nugget. Nugget, a golden chestnut gelding with four white stockings, can answer any question, He just shakes his head “yes” or “no”"—or maybe it's “yea” or “neigh.” Nugget can do at least a dozen tricks on command, and with out a whip signal. Among his tricks are lying down, rolling over, and scampering when {old to “get out of here.” But the trick that delights children most is to have him answer their questions. Once, the M-H News reports, a drunk and his wife approached a group watching Nugget perform. Just for fun, Mr. Carter asked if the drunk was a good man. Nugget shook his head negatively. “Is it because he drinks too much?” This time Nugget shook his head “yes.” The drunk’s wife slapped him and said: “Come on and get out of here. Even the horse knows you're a drunkard.” t

Just the Man He Needed

) “Nous In Dr; J;-T.- Hoop ner’s..office the) other day getting a tooth pulled. While Dave “was coming out from under the gas, Dr. Hoopingarner started a conversation, asking him where he worked, ete. Dave, still only semi-conscious, he says, told

forms etc.” Davé swears that Doc hurried over to his desk and got a paper, then hurried back and said: “Quick—fill out this government blank for me before youu get conscious.” ... The victory committee of the sales executive council took as its first project the business of talking folks into donating to the Red Oross blood bank. In one month, the three members of the committee have drummed up 256 donors. The committee: Lew Dunham, of E. C. Atkins: Kenneth Fisk, of Holcomb & Hoke, and R. B. Dorward, of the Insley Manufacturing Corp.

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Maximum for Oranges;

Promise Cents-pet-Pound

Bowles’ statement came with announcement of new price ceilings for 18 fresh vegetables and a promise to add five more vegetables to the list later. : Three-fifths of the 62 per cent increase in the cost of living from September, 1942, to May, 1943, was the result of soaring fruit and vegetable prices, Bowles sald. The new program is designed to prevent further rises this winter. Effective date of the new price regulation will be announced later. But the OPA said it will be “before the bulk of the winter crop reaches the market.” The 13 vegetables for which maximums were Set are: Lima beans, snap beans, cabbage, carrots, caulifiower, celery, cucumbers, egg plant, lettuce, green peas, peppers, spinach and tomatoes. Bowles said that top prices for five more farm products—beets, asparagus, watermelons, cantaloupes and the 1944 crop of onions-<will be announced soon.

Many Prices Reduced OPA announced the following sample price ranges: LIMA BEANS, SNAP BEANS: The price of lima beans from May through October will be from 13 to 16 cents a pound, about 10 per cent below this summer's prices. Snap beans will sell for 14 to 18 cents a pound in May and June, 12 to 15 cents in July and August, and 14 to 17 cents up to December, CABBAGE: Six to 7 cents a og 0 SE .

last March and April EGGPLANT: Winter prices reduced about 35 per cent from those which have prevailed through 1943, but this will represent a 50 per cent cut-back from the high prices of last winter, New prices for November through June will ‘range from 10 to 13 cents a pound, and from July through October from 8 to 12 cents a pound. LETTUCE: Maximum rangefrom 10 to 13 cents a pound (last winter 16 to 20 cents). CARROTS: About 7 to 10 cents a bunch, slightly below last winter.

representing . a 50 to 60 per cent cut-back from last season’s high.

Big Slash for Celery CELERY: Nine to 12 cents a pound from October through June and 8o 10 cents the rest of the year, representing a 50 per cent cut-back. CUCUMBERS: Seventeen to 20

cents a pound for January, Feb-

ruary and March, a 30 per cent reduction, and 12 to 15 cents a pound for April and May, a 35 cent reduction; June, 8 to 11 cents; July through September, 6 to 9 cents. PEPPERS: February through

May, 14 to 17 cents a pound, com-

“pared to 30 and 40 cents in 1043;

June through September, 10 to 13% cents, a 60 per cent cut from last June and July. : PEAS: October through April, 20 to 23 cents a pound; through

when it go to 10 and 13 cents. TOMATOES: 18 to 21 cents a pound from January

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Rats Not Hep ||

Fail to Jive as Nicho Beats It Out 8 To the Bar,

Would End Nazi Hope of ‘Splitting Allies.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Serippa-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — It is widely believed here that if Russia, Britain and the United States took advantage of the meeting of their foreign ministers at Moscow to announce liberal peace terms to the

. | German people, Germany, like Italy,

i |has already made a peace offer,

would soon fold up. Through the Kremlin-sponsored Free Germany committee, Russia It was indicated that if the German

“| people would get rid of Hitler and

ALBANY, Cal, Oct. 15 (U. PO. ~Red Nichols, self-appointed Pied Piper of swing, hit a super-audible note and beat 'em daddy, eight to the bar, but the rats, une charmed, failed to dive into San Francisco bay. “They must be just a bunch of ickies,” Nichols, band leader and cornetist, said. “I guess there is not a hep rat in town. “That ancient Pled Piper must have hit a pote farther ‘out of this. world’ than I thought.” Nichols, a bright pheasant feather in a peaked piper's cap blew his hot cornet in a parade down the main street late yesterday. The youth of the town were “sent” indeed by his mastery of swing music. But the rats remained in their holes, It all started when a plague of large, black rats, brought on by war shipping, invaded this water~ front town. The town council, frantic, called, an emergency meeting and issued a plea for someone to, according to Robert Browning's poem: “Catch the rats that fought the

: dogs A od And killed the cats and bit the : babies In the cradles, and ate the cheeses out of the vats And licked the soup from the cook’s own ladles.” ” " ”

1CHOLS THOUGHT he had

Pied Piper, had scientific data to prove that rats ears pick up sounds humans can't hear, and believed -he could produce -music that would drive the rats out of their holes. So he practiced and practiced a special “super-audible” note. Last night just as the sun went down over the blue Pacific Nichols unleashed his plaintive lament, And although the rats of Albany failed to react like those who jumped into'the river weser centuries ago, Nichols had this satisfaction: The youth of this California town behaved just like those of ancient Hamelin, “And, like fowls in a barnyard when barley is scattering. Out came the children running, all the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls and sparkling eyes And teeth like pearls, tripping and skipping, ran merrily after . The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.”

STATE CLOSING CASE

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ANDERSON, Ind, Oct. 15 (U,P.).

Hitlerism, they -could have pretty much any kind of government they wish, It was some such formula as this that first Britain and America, then Soviet Russia, made to Italy, Therefore if the big three foreign minisy| ters can work out a comparable de- | sign for the Reich and make an offer of it to the people of Germany, Hitler's days might well be numbe: It Is a historic fact that President Wilson's political warfare against the central powers during the first world war brought that conflict to an end at least a year before it could have been done militarily.

Nasls Hope for Split

Germany's one remaining hope today is a split between Russia and her Anglo-American allies. In the field, she has already been stopped, It will take time-—perhaps a long time—but eventually the allies will trample her into the dust. But if the allies divide into camps and she can play one against the other, she may yet escape via a negotiated peace. A demonstration of unity at Moscow now would destroy that hope. The German people would realize that they had lost the war. The Fuehrer would probably have to pay for his crimes with his head and, it is believed, sotie "of the Wehrmacht's top-rankers would be eager to ‘wield the ax. ’ For these reasons the Moscow meeting of Secretary of State Hull, Foreign Secretary Eden and Comt -Malotoy 1s Tegurded-as-oru-, cial. Germany and her vassals will be watching every move. Their whole future is at stake, Comments Are Unfortunate That is one reason why the remarks of the official communist party organ, Pravda, concerning the parley are regarded here as unfortunate. Pravda sharply rebuked those who believe political questions will be uppermost, and intimated that the omly thing Russia cares to talk about is a “second front” in western Europe. Post-war frontier problems would seem to be out. Newspapers in Russia are not free agents. They print only what the Kremlin wants them to print.

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Show of Unity at Moscow

John Roy Carlson, author of the best seller, “Under Cover,” will speak on the opening pro= gram of Town Hall at 11 a. m. next Friday in the English theater, LH In his book the author exposes subversive groups working for the Nazis in the United States, A celebrity luncheon will be held in the Columbia club after each lecture In the Town Hall series, honoring the speakers,

FATHER'S CLAIM | T0 BABY LEGAL

Police Drop Inquiry Into Case First Reported as An Abduction.

The alleged “abduction” of a 2-year-old baby here yesterday by his father, a Kentucky resident, has been dropped by police. Arnold Dause of Catherine, Ky. accompanied by his father, Gid Dause, was reported to have gone to the home of the child's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Olga Bernard, 537 Fletcher ave, and seized the baby. ; Police sald investigation revealed that the father had been given legal custody of the baby by a court order in Kentucky and that the child’s mother, divorced wife of Mr. Dause, had gone to California and married again. “We determined that the father had a legal right to take the child and we have dropped the case entively,” sald Jesse McMurtry, chief of detectives,

BOY'S LONG ILLNESS

IS ENDED BY DEATH Noble Howard Pfeiffer, son of Mr, and Mrs. Noble ©. Pfeiffer, 912 | Division. st., died y Y An his home "after =n , He was 16, Born in Evansville, he attended school in Bloomfield. His father is former minister of the Indiana conference and is now employed in the personnel department of the government at Terre Haute. Survivors besides his parents are a brother, Egbert Pfeiffer, who Is serving overseas with the armed forces, and two sisters, Mrs. R. J. Mason of Indianapolis, and Mrs, Gordon Merrell, Brooksville, Funeral services will be at 11 &. m, Sunday in Bloomfield with the Rev. E. P, White, pastor of

*I' Trinity Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Milltown.

ministers—do| COUNTY DISCIPLES

TO HOLD CONVENTION

The Central Christian church, called the mother church of Indiana Disciples of Christ, will be the scene of the Marion county, one-night convention next Friday

Day will conduct the

{Asserts School Measure

Would Bring Federal Dictatorship.

DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stalf Weiter WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.~Wamning that “the authority to subsidize carries with it the power to reg-

(R. Ind) today urged his senate colleagues to defeat $300,000,000 school subsidy measure, Robert Wyatt, secretary of the powerful Indiana state teachers association, and Philip Lutz, Indianapolis, former Indiana democratic attorney general, have been here all week lobbying for it They received a pledge for the

{bill's support from Senator Fred-

erick VanNuys (D, Ind). “This bill authorizes the U. 8. commissioner of education to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to facilitate its admin. istration,” Senator Willis pointed out. “It provides for annual reports to congress giving an account of all moneys received and allocated by the commissioner. The federal office of education is at once raised from & $159.808920 institution to {nn $450,808,920 institution.” “Congress is obligated, if it does its duty, to make an annual examination Into the affairs of education in each state. It has become a fixed principle, lately sustained by judicial opinion, that the authority to subsidize carries with it the power to regulate.. The sponsors of nearly every one of our myriads of governs mental-aid agencies disclaimed any intention of regulation.”

Reads Editorial

Senator Willis read a Scripps Howard editorial entitled “Who Pays Fiddler Calls Tune” in support of his contention. The editorial cited various agencies inaugurated with federal funds under local auspices which wound up with Washington bossing — particularly WPA. “No matter how well saféguarded - thé present measure may appear to be,” Senator Willls concluded, “it is the initial step toward federal regulation and regimenta-

the present tender of aid would

Warns of Tax Burden

“This pending measure cannot be justified from an economic standpoint, Prom every nook and corner of our land come protests over the

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ulate,” Senator Raymond B. Willis