Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1945 — Page 14
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FRIDAY, uAY 18, 145 COAL STRIKE § NEARING END |
Miners Expected to Return Monday for $1.37Y; Hike.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. PD, ‘|=The hard coal crisis apparent
. {1 had blown over today as swiftly as it came the night of April 30. Seventy-two thousand Penne
siness STATE FARM
PRICES BOOM | And Is Not Boing Too 8 Yet|.
CE Bub ‘Are 81% Above 1935-39
© THE TRANSITION FROM A TWO-FRQNT WAR isn't Average.’ : a smooth as planners ‘hoped. Thnes Washington Bureau The army is cancelling its war| WASHINGTON, May 18—Indiana
contracts slower hen he OE INDIANS REACH farm land prices, which hit the loser. Unemployment-—remember? sylvania anthracite miners, on strike
ceiling after world war I and came down again to the floor, have soared : 9 81 per cent above the 1935-39 average E D : according to a chart released today L: by the American Bankers associa- ; 7 Canin: of the Say Setod | tion. 3 : y re expected ‘N. Dakota D Will ‘Floo d Citing the state as a typical ex- Beale ln Moy of about akota vam wi ample, A. B. A. advises farmers to hedge against. inflation by putting 3,230,000 tons of hard 'coal—esti- . Much of Reservation.’
their war swollen profits into war mated by Fuel Administrator Harold J bonds, rather than more land at L. Ickes to be enough to heat all the J By GLENN MARTZ | _ United Press Staff Corresposdent
“| nigh prices. houses in a city like Baltimore for Using index figures based on a ans entire * winter—has remained” : ELBOWOODS, N, D, May 18:—1913.14 average of 100, the chart under the ground. | low Run plant is The Indians on the Berthold res-|lists the following price history for Ickes moved swiftly yesterday to oo ig months but the |érvation are afraid they are about |Hogsier farms: 1920—161; 1933—53; : in = a Ee ahd bombers in a ew wants to be scalped by the Great White 193973; 1944—112, and;1945—124. Cartels Gave Enemies U. S. GOODYEAR CLERK government housing age ’ Averages for all farm lands in the ,
Mine Workers, representing the to put up a $3 million housing Father. United States were: 1020—170; 1933
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Christened with water from the well on the Pyle farm home in Dana, Ind, and dedicated to the memory of America’s late beloved war correspondent, the Boeing. B-29 Superfortress “The Ernie Pyle” is shown silhouetted against a cloud bank over Kansas immediately after taking off from the Boeing-Wichita plants for combat in the Pacific. “T he Ernie Pyle” was built by employees of the Wichita division and paid for through their purchases of bonds in starting the seventh war loan drive. In the brief dedication ceremony the plane was unveiled by. ‘77-year-old William C. Pyle, Ernie's father] and was christened by the Rev. H. L. McBride of the Methodist church at Dana.
{n reconverting Juickly. The huge Wil-
hard coal miners, and coal pro= project near it and Ford's River
Rouge factory. Ford, possibly playing: poker over price, says he doesn’t want Willow Run now, People are getting restive over gontinued war controls, think some are kept on just because Washington can't get out of the habit - for liking) for directing the counky to do this or that. The all-important job of producing for the Pacific war seems to be pushed into the background in people’s minds. The country is nowhere near ready for a surprise Japanese surrender now, informed persons say. Though it would be a welcome
The government proposes to build a dam across the Missouri river at Garrison, flooding more than 200.000 acres of rich reservation land, and the {tribe is indignant about it. Martirt Cross, chairman of a subcommittee formed to “fight it out with words in the white man's way,” said this marks ‘just one more encroachment on the Indians. He is willing to take the matter to the courts, because, he contends, the land was given to the Indians under a “perpetual treaty” afTement. Cross said all of the tribe's buildings, 2000 acres of rich timberland and an unlimited supply of lignite will be lost if the government car-
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By March 1, 1945,
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Maps Show Rise Here is what A. B. A. has to say “Farm land prices continue to rise in all states. the increases during this war ranged from 17 per cent in North Dakota to 96 per New data this situation should receipts of 6400 falling below earlier have the attention of all banks. “For the past five years we have. tion said. jssued a map showing farm land price changes for each state. Taking Indiana as an example, the map
shows that the average price NOW Is io t0q with a weak undertone, but about it. The principal ones on tap
—1T73; 193984; 1044—114, and 1945—
RECEIVED HERE
Market Remains Active and Steady.
Hogs continued steady today at the Indianapolis stockyards with
expectations, the war food adminis
Cattle totaled 400 head .and cleared actively, fully steady.
Calf receipts were 525.. Vealers
by that mysterious word, “cartels.”
He wrote a bill which would force any .American company which {joined in a.cartel to say so, in public. {The hearing was to see what as{sorted federal big-wigs thought
War Secrets, Says Biddle
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Corresposdent WASHINGTON, May 18~If you'll hold my hand (in case I start to go under) we'll wade into the swirling international waters bounded
A lot of people agree they're bad, including Attorney General Francis Biddle, who wore a rose in his buttonhole and who reeled off some horrible examples. The occasion was a hearing called by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (pronounced Oh-May’'-a-Knee) of Wyoming.
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AKRON, O., May 18 (U, P.).— A plantation office clerk, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. revealed today, operated a rubber plantation
anese occupation and has 30 tons of crude rubber ready for shipment to the U. 8. In a 10-page report--by Mateo Ruiz, he said that he escaped to a guerrilla band when the Americans were interned. He reopened a ‘wrecked” rubber plantation and ran it undetected by the Japs for more than a year, despite bomb-
ducers. Agree On $1374 “At 4 p. m. yesterday he called both parties intor his office. In 10 minutes he laid before them a compromise proposal and repeated his. warning that anthracite coal must continue to be mined. Within a very short space of time both miners and operators agreed to Ickes’ proposal, which would give the miners $1.37'¢ a day more than they're getting now, The producers had offered $1.03 and the miners asked $1.79. : The contract will probably ine clude a provision that the raise cane not become effective until approved
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| were Biddle, ‘Secretary of Interior| Metal Societ Sheep and lambs totaled 200 and (Harold L. Ickes ry Undersecre-| “Medical yy katy, the ‘Great| The 30 tons, which Goodyear said (by the war labor board and Stabilie sold generally steady. tary of State Will Clayton. American Praud.” will be the sub-|would be shipped as soon as space zation Director William T. Devia Ickes eliminated himself promptly|Jéct of Toner M. Overley, Indian-| Was available, will be the first re-|The office of price administration by saying he was out of his depth. apolis Better Business Bureau man-|ceived from' the Far- East since will be asked to grant ceiling price t}1%a1e%| Pretty soon he walked out. Asked ager, at the meeting of the Ameri-|the war started. increases \o.offsel, the higher labof
tied out its plans to construct a |124 per cent of the 1912-14 base price. power and irrigation dam as'a part{That is well on the way to the high Tallied to close fully steady. wa of the Missouri river valley de- |of 161 reached in 1920 when the land FORD is likely to be the first out | velopment. . boom ‘busted’. This index dropped with new cars, Detroit auto men| The “encroachment” is in viola- [to 53 in 1933; it had climbed to 73 say. . : {tion of a treaty sanctioned at Ft.|per cent of the 1912-14 base by 1939, Other auto-makers are jealous of | | Laramie, Wyo., in 1851, Cross said.|on the eve of world war II. It was to dele Broaiel Rie RTOTey Oe | S80: Soci for-dMetais, Monday abi omnes . 5 on op op OYE Bn ge “DEBT enc POPE'S 3G TIRE HWE COAG nil ey we a Seay nl fra AL 1458 oof TWseTatehed tn mont et Libg. am. Ande Ge 1 AMSTERDAM. May 18 (U: Blan). . ay ¥ x ; : : and said “that"was a hard The head of The Netherlands Na- 18 ¢ tional bank today estimated the |Firemen saved. :
Ha of gfficers” alo "be held" 240- 270 pounds a do: Clayton, the big- -time ing. tok... : 270- 30 = Ch 300~ 3% Be 14.80 % broker turned diplomat, had what Real Estate Board assistant io national debt, including probable [Stock in a stockyards LE or tribes to the Ft. Berthold territory,” na~ | 23 See bounds +. + [seemed like a first-class GemNNION. |, 0 is resident of the Texas Co. | 0st of restoring the Dutch rail- island ‘which destroyed a three. two months, they say. c ntinugd tion-wide boom in farm land prices| 100- 200 pounds “A cartel,” he said, “is a ‘kind of : i ent.9 "| ways, will be about 23,000,000,000 story building and caused damage Fra POs whit Gi a were as follows: Packing Sows treaty of alliance between economic| Will speak on “Postwar Real Estate| vio” og 635 000.000. estimated at $75,000. : ODDS AND ENDS! Indianapolis ary lines shrunk still fur- 1. Farm real estate sales continued [Good to Choice— rivals.” Selling” at the luncheon meeting There have been, it develops, some | the Indianapolis Real Estate
department store sales last weex ther in another ‘agreement’ during in large volume in 1944, activity in 270- 300 pounds , dillies in the cartel line, Give you board, Thursday, May 24, at the
event, it would wrench our economy as nothing else could.
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300- 330 pounds .. were T per cent over a year ago.| President Grant's administration.”|y. frst quarter being the highest | 330- 360 pounds .. e 360“ee Apo Hip Ore another sice 1866, Uncle Sam took | n record. Now, fewer farms are Good pounds the creeps. Washington hotel. rumor e gov wo! » i le; 400- 450 pounds eo ope aaah Po | We. have valche aur domain [Heda beng oed for aie i: 8 3023 Fiems Aded Enemies | Chemists eral Reserve Bank of New York Sheik rom 8 large Frame empire| 9 Parms held by insurance com-| 330- 500 pounds Biddle said there was one Ameri-| H. B. Schock, P. R. Mallory Co., alone changed $24’ million of $100] D2 : RE. » wg jhe ves panies, banks and estates have been| ets : a augnter i can outfit so tied up in an Oriental| Will speak on “Bearings and Bear-| ~ bills for smaller ones. Gossips say, =~ f the t oN it looks like 1 in most areas and will no longer |" go. 180 pounds [email protected]| Cartel that it had to give the Jap-| iN Material” at the luncheon] other auto companies, besides SON of the trail” Cross sald. Io 3 dampening influence on ths ; anese the secrets of submarine pro- Meeting of fhe Judiane section of § and Chevrolet, plan cheaper, light- POTATO CEILING SET market. pellers even while they were being|the American Chemical Society a weight autos; another rumor is that| WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P),| 3. The number of farms, par-|Soo- 30d pounds ............. 18.25g17.28| tested by the navy. When the tests the Warren hotel, Tuesday, May 23. _ a group of Chicagoans plan a chead|_ Tye office of price administra- [ticularly adjacent to cities, that are| 800-1100 pounds [email protected]| were ‘finished, he said, the results| yyw FIRMS AND PARTNERSHIPS | car of radical design. . . . When ion has announced that country|resold at a profit after a Short|1300.1500 pounds ..ie.e...... [email protected]| Were mailed to Tokyo. p YoNerel Machine & Tool Works, 14331 allied troops entered the Frankfurt|snipner ceilings for the late 1945|period, indicates that speculation is|Good= ~~ is ooauegs| Alrmailed, probably. work." Curt E. Strempel. T4308. Bate headquartres of the German chem-| crop of white potatoes will be the|active. Many city people are bid- Pounds [iii 15o0@ieas| The world's best storage batterlesist. _ o, ,& Cinien st, Chiical trust, I. G. Farben, the records,isame as last year's ceilings. ding up prices beyond what bona |i co POURS rer P1gen propelled German submarines,icago, Ti General contractor. G. T. letter a= Sepurts 2nd ledgers o tins fide farmers can pay. Medium : csteessuveces Ra = Biddle said, because the Nal gos Burrell, 7800 W. 61st pl., Chicago, IIL world-wide ca were founa scat- . 4. The proportion of sales made 1100-1300 POUNAS ...eeveesenes 13, 18, eir know-how from erican . 48 iene arrive ’ tered to the four winds. They're N.Y. Stocks for cash is high—55 per cent of all|Common— [email protected]|, .ttery makers. He said he was being sorted now to track down the sales in 1944. However, two-fifths| 0" 1100 pounds 11.50813.80 | taking this one to court. deals by which I. G. Farben worked Net |Of the remaining transactions in=-|chotce— He charged that one of our big hand-in-glove with Nazis and com- Alie-Cha¥ Hig " last chins volved mortgages of 75 per cent or 500. 200 Doubds ares vs 300i oil companies had a deal ‘with the panies in other countries; a Suit-|Am can ....... 96% ; Ba >a vs | more of the sales price. This large|Good— PoRNES sev + 133592080 Nips which included showing them case full of Farben's international an laco Fa 5% ye 3 proportion of debt may prove trou- Sg. 0 pounds ressnnsasnere ji Reh how to manufacture aviation gasoagreements was found buried in the|am Ron Mm .. + + 1, blesome when the post-war adjust-|Medium— oy “|line. He had some other examples, lawn of a director. . . . Thirty-five|4™ T&T .....188% 4’, | ment of prices occurs. «+. [email protected] | hut you get the idea. A half dozen bags of Sold cia tong > ho W .. i I “Be Conservative’ 500- 900 pounds [email protected]| busines$ men around the world ph held Hy pear oe pokey OO a on " a Under the title ““What can be|Good ; Som tan egal) [email protected] SID: up Yo slice —- 4 Siche a = i Atl Refining ... tal * | done about it?” C. W. Bailey, chair- Ms edium [email protected] | Pieces, say, for the sale of earaccoun Bald Loco ct. man of the A.B. A. agricultural com- |Corier, 2nd common .......... [email protected]) muffs. Then ‘comes. a war and the endix Avan .."51 + Ys . : r Eskimos, who didn't sign, Beth Steel 7 © ;* mission, concludes with this advice poor mos, _ WORK RULES RELAXED Borden 8% + 3% to bankers: oats oh freeze their ears. WASHIN iy Pa "Me | Caterpillar T : ==, — ‘| “The problem of Silat will be Saysate- Make Contraets Publie —War Manpower jee & Onio .. : «+es | lessened to the extent that surplus| Medwum . .. .° 1 d Nutt has delegated to regional di-|GHES o-oo «ee. money in the hands of farmers is| Cutter and common The head men all agreed, anyrectors authority to retain or re- | Douglas Airc. ‘ “| used to buy war bonds instead of| CALVES (525) how, that Senator O'Mahoney had voke the 48-hour work week in 28| 00 Bectrio w — 1. drm land at high prices. We 2S|qoeg sug Sore WM west) ol good idea. It would work like areas where it originally was Gen Foods ..... 43! 2 lenders can do much by following|Common and medium 9.50@ 16.00] LUIS: - mandatory. es " .! conservative policies of financing. : 5.000 9.00| The American earmuff maker, + Speculative debts should be opposed | Feeder and Stocker O Cattle and Calves | who wanted to sign a deal with by eve s at . {On his 'Buropeah competitors to raise YR iii s00- 300 poyuds 11.50@12. 3 prices at the first snow and keep portant! Advice to. veterans or ex- Good— poUnes 1.10803 ‘em tp until the first robin, could war workers who believe they want 300.300 Pounds 10 %ai1 50| do so. But he'd have to make his to farm, should be clear and prac- Medium— 1 x Hil | contract a matter of public record Fe tical. lived pounds [email protected] | so «it could be printed in the 253,000 a year ago, the National Pure Oil » “Do what you can to influence 500- 900 pounds ............. 1.50@ 8.75| Papers. Coal association reported today, - {Repub Sif si B your customers to keep in a safe| Calves (Steers) This, everybody hopes, would Schenley Dist . 57's 56% 57 "+, | financial position—and watch the] gh ry make earmuff wearers so sore LOCAL PRODUCE [Esme be, = 3 i = ' trends. Medium they'd either make thelx om er il South Pac %0- pounds. qown 9.00011.38| move to Florida... Heavy breed hans Me. Leghoro hens Sta Shands ne 3 Good and ana t al ... " Ee i 500 ds d 0. , | ibs., white and Bad rocks. 38 '| oid on Ni : Plant Makes : i. on . No > ET A t : BR . 8 . loyees of the East 8 ola toasters, ise. B- 29’ E h D SHEEP (200) B eceipts, 31¢; grade .A|US Rubber .... S ac q of Stokely-Van Camp, Inc, today! x] ; grade Wedfum and B large. | US Steel... y Ewes (Shota) received a second ‘white star on ji fo" iytet Wider grade 9g. | Warber Bros SEATTLE, May 18 (U. Po (Sood and cute their army-navy “E” flag for con 1 a utterfat—No. 1 | Westing El — | " 49c: No. 2. 36 {Zenith Rad Six BA Supertones are leave A, | tinued excellence in production, | ing the Boeing Aircraft Co.’s Ren- |Common . | ton, Wash., assembly plant daily, |e ® : ELE U.S. STATEMENT the company revealed with war Nominal quotations Yirnisheo: by Andie | department permission today. agapolts securities dagiers: It also ‘announced that B-29 ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through May 16 com- ; reat i | his Ye Last Ye i Eveater than that x Apr, MEN MEET HERE Expenses + § 86,128,446,000 § 81.340 A {0 per cen. greater Nan | rne maintenance committee of | War Spend. 8.123.080.000 ort 589.663 continue until a peak is reached Re BB this B: pe held the first all-day meeting of a Ssh Bal aae:ae8 338 NS Summer, series Wednesday in the Lincoln Public Debt 237,271,940,035 It was attended by 25 key main- INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE tenance men of state motor vehicle Clearings STOCKS Agents Fin Corp com .|concerning the upkeep of these L 8 Ayres 4%2% pid vehicles. . 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