Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1944 — Page 5
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~ Counteracts Cut in
Gas Rations.
Indianapolis speed-boat enthuslasts continued preparations for a gala race next Sunday on White river despite OPA's recent nationwide reduction in motor-boat gasoline rations. fe ‘And it's all legal too, chagrined OPA offlicals were forced to admit today: After learning of the gasoline cut, Charles A, Carter of the Indianapolis Boat Racing association, brought to district OPA headquarters’ here 8 chemist with a sworn statement.
{Data Proves Convincing
OPA authorities aren’t too sure about the details, but what the chemist swore to was that the material burned in thoss White river boat races, is a combination’ of alcohol, castor oil, ether and several other substances OPA ' attorneys had never heard of. Anyway, they took the chemist's word at facgvalue, even when he asserted that an ordinary automobile wouldnt get to first base on that motor-boat Reasoning that where there's a will there's a way, OPA today, ac- ” cordifig to its information bureai,| bean
Wil take out after boaters who have ypu fous weather boards Blown off the side of the: George MH.
been . observed towing their craft ther done by a via automobile from lake to lake Wik me TN. Aringuea aye, am o damage Yass
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WALKOUT AT DODGE | A sas -explosion followed by fire company who came about 8:30 p,'m.
early today in the home of Mr. and yesterday sald he could detect no FACTORY IS ENDED aus. George H. wick, 776 x. Arling- | S87 of Blea Mr. apd Mss. Wek
DETROIT, Aug. 18 (U. P.).-|%n ave, shook windows for a block] Production was resumed at the Chrysler Corporation's Dodge truck plant today after 187 interplant truck drivers ended a one-day walkout and began supplying 2500 Dodge workers with parts from other plants. . The drivers struck Monday, protesting layoff of a driver who was involved in a traffic accident.
around and sent Mrs. Wick to City the basement to investigate. Mrs. hospital with face and arm burns. | Wick lit a match and a pocket of Damage was estimated at $500. gas in the southwest corner exMr. and Mrs. Wick believed they | ploded. smelled escaping gas last evening! Gas which had seeped into the and a neighbor, who was called in to | ground from a leak outside the investigate, turned the gas off at house caught fire and burned up the meter. A man from the gas | through a sidewalk in the yard.
U. S. to Lose on Liquidation Of Deeshee Co-Op Farms
By ROBERT J. FOX last three years has paid the govFarm security officials here ad-{eérnment $7150 a year for the use mitted today that the Faw Bowl of the land, has made a profit every will suffer a loss when Deeshee|Year except 1943, when a flood de-
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Vincennes, is liquidated, but said it| after June 15. was not yet He to estimate| Last week Rep. Gerald W. Landis the loss. (R. Ind) charged that Deeshee The government already has in- | [ATMS was “just another New Deal vested $534,326.17 in the 2771-acre blunder” and sald that there were farm, just under $200 per’ acre.|f¢W employees on. the farm who Similar land in Knox county, where | had any farming skill. Deeshee is located, is reported to Following these charges, the FSA be selling for $150 an acre. released a statement quoting Verlin * The Deeshee project was one of | H- Paul, farm maneger, as saying three co-operatives of its kind set! that 70 per cent of those who had up by the government in 1935 { been employed there had some type ’ of farm experience previously, Farm Makes Profit
Liquidation became necessary w $102,193 when congress refused an appro-| At the start, the co-operative aspriation for FSA projects last! Sociation borrowed $102,193 from the spring and demanded that they be FSA to buy machinery, livestock discontinued because of changing and seed. This fuhd also was used economic conditions. Harold E.| for operating capital. All payments Christie, regional information ad-| Were met until last year's flood and viser for the FSA, said that hel the liquidation ‘not only should pay believed the co-operative associa Off the balance of this debt but tion which has been operating the | leave a comfortable surplus to be farm since 1838 could continue to] divided among members of the coopetate without government aid. joreratyee, FSA officials said. The co-operative, which for the; The land and buildings, which are federally owned, will be divided into two classifications for sale, The central group of buildings, which includes a large dairy barn, machine shed, ete., will be sold with | enough land to make it an economic 'unit—between 500 and 1000 acres. . The rest of the land will be broken up into 15 to 20 “familyi sized” farms to be sold under the - | tenant purchase program. Becauge t the price of these
: : . farms is determined on a long-range Incidentally . . , Speaking of Prices
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Families to Buy Farms .
Five of the 14 families now living cn the project have signified their Antentions of buying f -sized farms. Any of the other farms not sold on the tenant purchase basis after a certain period will be put on the open market. In the six vears the project has been in operation about 80 families have lived there for various periods, the most in any one year bging 36. 8ix heads of families who left went into the armed services, a large proportion went into war plants, ald some of the others went to better agricultural jobs. Stanley M. Coleman, Knox county farmer who is chairman of the FSA committee there, and R. A. McKinley’ Vincennes bank president, both expressed approval of { the way liquidation was being ef- | fected, F'SA officials here said.
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Russia in Accord With U. .
Except on Scope of ° Functions.
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 16~—The
security organization would Hmit its
! work solely to safeguarding peace
and security and specifically prohibit it from engaging in “superfluous functions” concerned with general world welfare, it was learngd today, / : The objective of the Russians— to prevent the world organization from bogging down because of too
{many diverse functions—is also Asought in the outline made public
by President Roosevelt on June 15. But. the American plan would merely limit the council of big nations to the work of keeping the peace and would allot to. thetassembly of all nations the job of promoting world welfare through various other technical organizations, ‘ U. S. Plan For Council
The most important job of the assembly under the rough outline prepared by the United States wouid be election of the “suitable number of other nations” which,” with the big four, would make up the council, The Russians, it was understood, object even to keeping any ties between the future interna 1 security organization and the intff-
Russian proposal for a world]
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“You'd hurry home, too, if you lived in a ration dump.”
national labor office, of which Rus-| ternational organization of security the largest mass interview ever held
sia is not a member. The recent article in the Leningrad Zvzda, which was reliably re-
ported here to be very close to the|deciding of only such problems as|Australia” sounded. good for a film |
official Russian memorandum on world organization, specific on this point: .. - “We propose that the future in-|
must concentrate all its energy and attention on the consideration and
have a direct relationship to the
conflicts and the safeguarding of general peace and security.” ~
John Thatcher, No. 10 Club's
John “Thatcher, last survivor of the famous No. 10 club of Frankfort, Ind., died last night at the City hospital. A retired printer, Mr. Thatcher was 84. Mr. Thatcher made newspaper headlines in 1941, when, as the loné survivor of the No. 10 club, he carried out provisions of the club by drinking the bottle of ‘champagne saved for 55 years in a bank vault for the “last man.” The bottle was the last 48 which had been purchased for a party at the formation of, the club in 1886. The No. 10 club was a group of friends who went hunting together,
Native of Frankfort
A native of. Frankfort, Mr. Thatcher had resided in Indian-
{apolis for 46 years, making his home John Thatcher
lat 711 Buchanan st. He had been {a city councilman at Frankfort and daughters, Margarette and Susa: | printer for the Frankfort Banner |Jane Thatcher, all of Indianapo!: | before moving here. He was em-| The body will remain at the C { ployed as.a printer at the Pratt Co. | H. Herrmann funeral home, 1505 £ {here before his retirement in 1937. | East st., - pending completion « Surviving are two sons, A. J. and | funeral arrangements. Friends me: | George ‘Thatcher, and two grand- | call after 7 p. m. today.
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BY SYDNEY WRITERS), 51 ot euro charm
r the Salvation Army camp ¢ SYDNEY, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—Come- Oaklandon' this morning in dian Bob Hope met 100 reporters, caravan of motor cars furnisned b
{mostly women, today in probably the Optimist club. There was send-off party at the Salvatio: army citadel, 26 S. Capitol ave. {in Australia, |
Hope said he thought “Road to] THIEF BESTS PATROLMAN
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was quite! peaceful resolution of international substituted for his picture-mate, | ported today that a’ pickpocket wa- ’ {Bing Crosby, because “they have operating on Los Angelés streetcar:
|about the same sized pouch.” The loot: His wallet and badge.
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