Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1943 — Page 35
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at Cairo. Bat Japan is already yess from
the ecofidmic indigestion of “too much empire,” rtune e magazine, . :
to the F
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e the Nazis, who, in conquering most of Europe, feil| Fayeloped natural resources and operating in.
the Japs hg ah ran ars ra What to do about it? 3 without
materiale,
e. conquered great ‘areas containing But | he question Js is:
| Dies Committee to. Probe
trated in ‘8 relatively small area— which means that comparatively few of the 300 million people in the
Yet Japan's lack of an extensive ipdustrial plant puts a premium on manpower. . What she lacks in machinery she must make up in men.”
The magazine believes that Japan gations on the ground that some GHICAGO, Dec. 2 (U. PIA
will fall back on an inner fortress, -..consisting.-of- Japan, Permosas; Korea, Manchuria and North China,
ritory to._-occupy, less distance to ship, less of a front to soldier and supply.
Civil Service Policy
ship when “Mr. Baker resigned in 1940, -has now induced the. U. 8.
- {civil service commission - to order
a drastic eurb of its loyalty investi-| |
investigators inquired about the past uniori- activities of - me’
“The aim of the questions was to
learn if the applicants” had been
associated with the” communist leadership of unigns™ The commis-
sled of ts kind 1 army. 1 So
of flexibility In f
Guffey's Scheme ( Loftary?) Would Raise $5,000,000,000
~ By ROBERT TAYLOR Special Writer : WASHINGTON, Dec , 7 (U, P)~Sénator Guffey (D. Pa) has hit | of & SEE 10 FRG Sve fillion YolIAP 10 help nance the wef and make 13,180,000 citizens happy. It's very simple,” Eacli citizen who cares to make a voluntary ¢ontribution to. the tfeasury of $2. Or, perhaps he makes several such —————— ree
CONTROVERSY OVER rite. he receives WHISKY. SALE GROWS
{and the treasury receives a stub] identifying him by name and address. And when all the tickets are
-way controversy among stock- sold, the treasury begins pulling the ay “THe: devel | stubs-out -of - 8: wheel: to see which oped today over plans to sell the donors are entitled to rewards. Century- Distilling Co., a subsidiaty.| » lottery? No, indeed. Senator
Under a proposal by the board of | “ ditectors,’ the subsidiary would be | Guffey's bill, 1s entitled “A bill to sold to National Distillers’ Products | Corp. for $23,000,000. A stockholders’| meeting has been called for Dec. 8.|
to-the treasury of the United States to aid in prosecuting the war.” You won't buy a ticket. You'll
be encourage voluntary contributions | 4 he
ik tepday; Prices Drop 10
8000 Heid i Over From Yee:
Cents Here. Approximately 7000 hogs were
received at ‘the Indianapolis stockyards today, a sharp reduction
{from ‘the usual runs this week, re-
_ {under 270. pounds
gone Into production at the South Bend Stude-
ts, workmen use pliable rawhide The wehicle, measuring 150 tow cars to snowbound battle
ARMY CONTROL | OF PLANT HIT
'S. A. Woods Says Costs Rose $9000 a Day After
Seizure. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P).—
a certificate with a serial number A Special house investigating com-|cnotce— {mittee will ask the army today to
poun {explain reports- that costs ro- | 1100-1300 d p a of p | 1300-1300 pounds
ducing anti-aircraft shells at a Boston plant rose by $0,000 a day after the factory was seized by the
|governmient. and. Jeased. to. a. Texas)
firm, ~Chairman Howard Smith (D. Va. ), | whose committee is studying excess use of authority by federal agencies,
tary of War Robert P. Patterson
would appear personally to tell the| good | 800- 800 pounds
artny’s side of the story.” The com-
| 1% 1100-300 pound 400 pounds
fledting an appeal made yesterday to farmers to withhold further ship- | ments of hogs here until a market | glut was cleared.
More than 8000 hogs” were car-
ried over from yesterday's receipts, making 15,800 to be sold today. Prices were unchanged for weights |' but. declined 10, cents for heavier weights. The top| remained at $13.80, the government
floor. Receipts also included 950: cattle, 425 calves and 2250 sheep. It was estimated 7000 of today's hogs “would be held over until to-' morfow.,
GOOD TO CHOICE HOGS (7500) 120- 140 pounds “a [email protected]
0- 60 poun 11.806213.10 1% 10 mounds 13 1068 19.30
200 20. 31 pounds 2 0 pounds 270 300 pounds 300+ 330 unds . 330. 360 pounds . Medium 180 230 pounds Packing Sewe to Chowe. per 300 pounds 3%. 11 pounds
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1130@12
60 pounds | fio 40 pounds
1008 400+ 450 pounds ... A480 3 pounds... | Mediu 250+ 580 pounds Slaughter “Pigs Medium and Good 250- 580 pounds CATTLE (900) Steers
1075012
18.28 | 16.38 |
vor 10.28 ' 1538 . 15.50@ 16.50 eo 15.50
700- 900 pounds 900-1100 ds
pounds: ..
X- “900 pounds ... . 1338
+1100 pound 1181s 80 |
10.500 wo 10 nen. pd
eam. ar nds |, 1100-1300 ied Crereene Common
700-1100 pounds 8.751050
hoped: that Undersec-|Choles
600- 800 pounds 800-1000 pounds
« [email protected] | 14.7540 15.50 |
12 15@14° wl + 13.00€014.78
some $00,000,000 pairs.
(mated $13,000,000 for the current
pattern for all coupons in the { future, will be ‘issued to commer- { clal users this month for use be-
ie do try advisory committee, Wes 2 | : 236015. B
nounced today it would bulld a new! tire. manufacturing plant at Miami, Fla. Officials said construction of | the plat would start as soon as | possible?
Expects to Build Homes in 12
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: " 5 = The war production board an-
nounced today it soon will issue
on order designed to provide for | Wy, an equitable distribution of ton | « Corkags Da
sumer goods other than feed to 1oN Dec.
help relieve shortages in crowded | PN 12-year plan for posts war industry areas. | war’ building and gradusl demobile » wo @ {ization of the armed forces was
The OPA plans no immediate briefly outlined by Oliver Lyttelton, {radical changes in shoe rationing minister of production, in pariine that, would make retail operations! tary deba ‘mofe dieult,” according to W., W. | |soccn. tbate. on the | Kings ER lof the war and the proba
shoe stocks at the Sritical level of | Germany would be defeated, the “Hirst transition period from war 9 | peace in industry should work a8 - A 20 per cent excise tax on the |smootlily as the mobilization of rennin of the Detroit Edison and |jabor for war supplies, the minister ithe Michigan Gas companies has|stated, He indicated that it would been approved by the common pe the government's, intention to {council. The tax will yield an esti-|gemobilize the armed forces grade ually and equally to shift certain ine calendar year. Moneys from the tax] .stries slowly from war production will be used to help finance De-|to turning out materials essential troit's post-war re-employment and tor reconstruction. construction program. Housing ranks high on the list of 8.9 Britain's needs and this problem is becoming so pressing that it will not {be possible to await the war's end [for its solution. At the same time, [the building industry will soon be {able to shift from wartime construps tion to civilian dwelling needs, Lyttelton said that as soon as the builders finished the present aire field striciures they would be turned over to erecting houses in
Serially numbered gasoline ration coupons, which may be the
ginning Jan. 1, it was learned today. | 1 - . » | A war production board spokes | | man today held out scant hope of
lan immediate return to the distil-|towns which suffer from the most
10 [email protected] | lation [rapidly growing liquor shortage, He Ment program calls, for 4,000,000
of whisky to relieve the|acute housing shortage. The govern=
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expressed this view following a houses to be build over a 13-year '
{meeting between WPB officials and | Period. the agency's distilled spirits indus-
er SA
. To Keep Valuables Safe Rent a Safe Deposit Box at
* THE i:
» » » The office of price administration | and - the war food administration have agreed to make no changes in {price pald to exporters in Latin {America and other coffee producing | areas, it was reported today, ” ~ ~ Officials of the 15 non-operating railways unions withheld announce ment=today of results of the recent
INDIANA. Mo
The war is going foo fast for sion banned even’ these questions| One alternative already had been | pore a voluntary contribution and Japan to have enough-time to de- following a conférence in November | Proposed, and William H. Shane receive a certificate, and- there are velop its empire. But, just like the with U P. W. A. leaders. Ho of Philadelphia, offered another. |, prizes. True, the bill provides Nazis, Japan is building up a maze| meanwhile, the Dies: committee| Shane urged a rearrangement Of | fo irewards" ranging from a top of
mittee also was scheduled to hear a postoffice official comment on charges that mail had been diverted
800-1000 pounds ... Medium A00- 900 pounds Common 800« 900 pounds
{strike poll “because tabulations were [email protected] | incomplete.” The unions may await outcome of pending congressional B.00@1035 | otion on a resolution to validate a
of legal claims to properties and | voted to start an inquiry next week|Stock to provide one share of Cen-|
$50,000 down to 1000 consolation
from a sttike-bound Portland, Ore.
factories ‘all over the area. “They may ‘expect to retire temporarily, but they expect to come back.”
ting cities,’and advising the time to’ start planning them is now. r TNnIANATOLIS CLEARING House - : x 762,000
The Soap of
Beawtiful Women
into thé civil service commission's altered procedure in loyalty cases.
{Its first witness will be Lawson A.
ers for the changed procedure. The Dies committee later may extend its questioning to the members of the commission—Harry B. Mitchell, president; Mrs, Lucille Foster Mec‘Millin, and Arthur 8. Flemming. The president's intercession. for
Mr. Baker has not heretofore been test ¢
made public, although it was known
in upper C. 1-0. and government An Loco
circles,
Ra . Mr, Baker, now vice president of Am T & T the Institute of Applied Econome- Auivconda
trics, Inc, in New York, has de-
ge to discuss it publicly, finding |4
his postion untenable after the
president and Mr. Lewis Jell out. Mr. fa
Baker left the union
three years ago. :
FBI, Army, Navy Balk
But, after Mr. Lewis in June; 1937, {50%
{announced plans for organizing
800,000 federal workers the presi- Dow dent sald they were at liberty to join unions, although they could not |e Een collective
expect | bargaining agreements with the government.
The sensitivity-of the present U.|Goodyear
F. W, A, leaders over the guestion of union affiliations and activities
started to develop several years ago yy
their most active
FIRM AT CHICAGO ¥:
CHICAGO, Dec. 2 poe 5 ot
cond Ceritury 8 whisky,
tury Distilling stock for every share | .. rewards” of $100 each, of Allied Mills stoek. The schedule of rewards is liberal, be given the right to buy Century | yy Deal Senator. Mr. Guffey prostock: on a share-for-share basis, posed that, for every million dollars eanicisaad
stars: a RR LRH ‘tributed -on a of, ER for HT x every share of Ceniury stock, ury, the treasury kick. back a hall
milion dollars in rewards by pulling N. ¥. S tocks
: Net Last Change 2 x ul »
ha! jue two . per. cent, with everything ul exempt from the income tax exis cept the interest. te Mr. Guffey estimated " his bill iit (would raise’five billion dollars. At | that rate, the would have 3 to get 10 billion dollars in voluntary val icontributions, because half would go it | back in rewards. Such a take, under the terms of |the Guffey bill, would call for-10,-000 drawings (one for each million 2|dollars), with 1318 winners in each 4 drawing, accounting for a grand ti total of 13,180,000 winners, Draw2! ings would be held every 60 .days, | —~as many as necessary--but the whole ie would stop - six i | months after the war. Mr. Guffey specified that the | certificates ‘be made available to prospective donors through “charitylable, fraternal, philanthropic, + chareh - and other religious and * | choral organizations and societies” i who would be entitled to keep two x per cent of the proceeds as commis |sion, and through public agencies.
LOCAL PRODUCE
* lout 1318 names, That gives the cus- {order in September, 1942, after the|~ little better than onejcompany defied a war labor board| geod to cho
tomers a chance in 500. Payments would be made In Sedans bonds, of the type the next tion will redeem. They would Allfs
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Harvester--. 674) Int Nickel pf 130 Int T — “T For 12%
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28% 23 22 “5 DAILY PRICE INDEX
/ YORK, Dec. 2 (U, P)~|ship high schools, with “the & Bradstreet’s daily weighted |tion of Washington township pe index of 30 basic commodities, |clection will be st the Nora
100):
‘Election of Marion county AAA community -committeemen will’ be
; Yesterday ath canis
on] Ago Seseasessssennas »
Comwith Jotn 5% hoy * e oom
plant in 1940. Testimony. of increased costs in
making the three-inch shells de-|c¢
veloped. yesterday during comfhittee Guescioning of H C. Dee, preslLent of MRE BoB Boston, seized .by the army at presidential
order to include maintenance of membership clauses in union contracts... The army. subsequently leased the two plants to the Murray |"
-year bonds, bearing interest!{Co., Dallas, Tex.
Production Decreased
Dodge charged that the changeover had brought these results: 1. The Texas firm was given from $3.28 and $3.40 for each. shell produced as compared with the $2.72! eg which the 8. A. Woods Co. had been getting and the $2.52 it would ask under a deal pending at the time the plants were seized. THe committee chairman figured this was a difference of $9000 a day on basis of |
(8. A. Woods’ 10,000-shell a day pro- |
duction record. 2. Shell production decreased in| the 14 months that have elapsed! since the seizure, 3. Users of S. A. Woods woodworking machinery faced inability to get replacement parts because the Murray Co, turned facilities of the
so-called commercial plant over to} radio detec-
production of radar, a ra tion device used by the armed forces.
LOCAL ISSUES - Asked st . 4 Belt R Stk Pds pid .. Bobbs-Merrill com Bobhs-Merrill 4% % pf
Circle Theatef com 109%
He on 8% iH
held at 3:30 5. in. Det 9 at _town- |
100% Touts | 114% | 104% 17%
The firm's I plants were §
Cows oll weighin) | Good . .,. 811.50 | Medium 10.35 Cutter | Fang commen ann
Bulls (alt weights)
Fee ai CALVES (1%) naire all wights) «. 15.004015 50
Common Shije medium rth 2 30¢ 14.00 Cull «75 lbs. up.) S800 Feeder and Blocker ( Cattle and on |
300- 800; poy #00-1030, poi Oooa 4
500+ 800 pounds .... 800-1080 pounds ... Medium 800-1000 pounds . ....ceones Common « 900 pounds “" Calves (steers)
Good and Choice Mo. 1000 pounds oo 11.3513. 1 [email protected]
br 900 pounds : : Calves (heifers)
Gobdd and Choice ~ { 500 pounds down ............ H [email protected]} Medium 500 pounds down [email protected]| SHEEP AND LAMBS (2250) ! fwes (shorn) {Good and choice 2.000 6.00] Common and medium 19 “nl
’ LAMBS Good and choice | Medium and good . Common
10.50411.75 | «-J0.284811.00
suit oa 0.200 0.28 670 8.35
[email protected] 9 8G 13.00 6.50% 9.50
CHARGE ‘BIG INCH’ PAYROLL PADDED:
YORK, Pa, Dec.- 2 (U. P.)— Charging payroll padding in building the “big inch” oil pipeline, Rep, Chester H. Gross (R, Pa.) today said he will ask congress for “a thorough investigation” of the Reconstruction | Pinance Corp. which funds for the $05,000,000 project. | Rep. Gross sald he examined transactions of the Defense Plant
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responsible for the pipeline’s construction—after receiving numerous complaints against waste on the 1500-mile-long line which carries oil from Texas to Philadelphia and New York area refineries, He revealed that “an economyminded employee” "helped him to uncover attempts by one road gang to collect $7966 during a four-month | period by payroll manipulations. Rep. Gross said this gang of operators and owners of heavy equip-
Hn ment sought reimbursement for use
100 ” I"
af Witis machines on days they bag
{fornia and Arizona grapefruit to
furnished 1
wage agreement between the brotherhoods and the railroads. : . » » - The war labor board ordered striking printers of the Balt Lake Lity Tribune apd the Ball Laka City. 0 Telegram fo return to their jobs|] today, They have been on strike since ‘Nov. 26. ] . 8 » ; Robert J. 'Caniff, sales promotion
"and advertising “manager of Bervel,
| Ine, of Evansville, has been elected
vice président of the National Notse
Al tsment council, 2 FC i James G. Patton; Sreniden of wha) National Farmers union, charged] today that many county agricultural agents have digressed from educa tional functions and urged that they Ibe restrained from participating in activities of “political ’ pressure groups.”
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? yw 3 The war labor board yesterday {told two rival unions in the Potts-| | ville district of the Pennsylvania | Power & Light Co. that they were {expected to respect their no-strike pledges regardless of any decision the WLB makes in a pending griev-
The OPA today ‘suthorized in-| {creased in packers’ prices for Cali«
en's SUIT! TOPCOATS"
A. M. R RICHART
bring them in line with Texas and Florida grapefruit | prices.
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