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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Potato Black Market Here Costs Housewives Thousands Of Dollars
By KENNTH HUFFORD A black market. in potatoes, costing Indianapolis housewives thousands of doilars in excess prices was being investigated intensively today by the OPA. Operating quietly, the’ OPA probers were preparing.to question a number of retailers who say they are victims of a huge combination of wholesalers and itinerant truckers. g . These wholesalers, the retailers charged, have such a firm grip on the potato market that only a trickle is
CHINA FIRST OF 20 NATIONS TO MGN CHARTER
“President Truman Will Close World Paftey With Address Tonight, Pledging To Seek U. S. Ratification.
By R. H. SHACKFORD, United Press Staff Correspondent But the OPA will have to talk SAN. FRANCISCO, June 26.—China, the first of "the fast to persuade the food purveyors United Nations to suffer from Fascist aggression, today was| to be the first to sign the new world charter—designed to| At a preliminary meeting last maintain an enduring peace and prevent future aggression. night, the recalcitrant. restaurhteurs Wellington Koo, chairman of the Chinese delegation|indicated they were tired of taking at the United Nations conference, was to begin what was ex- [abuse from their customers because
. of meatless menus. They said flatly pected to be an eight-hour they wouldn't start serving again
ing prices.
spokesman declared.
MATTOON, ILL. RESTAURANTS CLOSE DOORS
Tired of Abuse Over Meat Shortage so Town Fills Up on Peanuts.
MATTOON, Ill, June 26 (U. P). —Mattoon restaurant
owners tell
administration today.
to reopen for business.
signing ceremony by affixing until somebody does something his signature to the 10,000-word | labout bringing more meat to document ‘which holds the hopes | Mattoon. of the world that another world | For the hundreds of Mattoon
| residents who usually “eat out” {life has “become very complicated {since 18 of the city’s 20 restaurants closed over the week-end.
FIGHT RENEWED
Non-Strikers Force Picket Ine | Some rooming house dwellers, Line; Tear Gas Used. irernts and workers who de-
= pended on the restaurants for By UNITED PRESS ° y . sustenance stocked up on fruit and
war can be avoided. The delegates of 50 nations ap-| proved the charter at an historic public meeting last night. Tonight at 7:30 (Indianapolis time), they will listen to President Truman give | it his blessing and promise to seek immediate ratification by the United
States, ‘Filled With Emotion’ hota: Sls hoke out wi a lraw vegetables. Some kept going os i Ing | cer y as non-striking (hy munching peanuts and popcorn. 2 presidential aadrest Closihé employees of the Northern Indiana ii PE hungry. e Sou Srehee Ril Ye mace ® Brass Co, pierced picket lines for| 1p desperation, Mayor George W. aa Speea ol ; was to whe’ second consecutive day and|gmith pleaded with members of the Sune Ro forced police to use tear gas again. pMattoon Restaurant association to
place in a specially built, Hollywood- Worke theti : ‘ like, flag-draped setting in the IS sympathetic to the com- reopen—even if they could serve
allowed to pass through legitimate channels at OPA ceil-
“If these wholesalers get wind that a retailer is thinking about testifying against them, then a solid blacklist is placed in operation against the retailer,” an OPA
“His chances of getting potatoes and even.other vegetables are nil. He suffers and his customers suffer, “That’s why we have to operate quietly in obtaining
evidence against these wholesalers. Itimidation is evident at every hand. “We ran into the same situation last year while investigating the banana black market,” the OPA official continued. “We line up our evidence and prepare to begin legal proceedings and then we find a lot of our witnesses have changed their minds about testifying. “We can’t stop trucks. We don’t have this authority. Therefore, a lot of itinerant’ truckers can bring potatoes
here from the South and sel market prices. who say they've bought the
1 them to retailers at black
We're powerless unless we get witnesses
potatoes.”
A great many housewives have filed complaints with various OPA offices here against fruit stand operators
and grocers. Many of these plained that they are being pr tors are going free.
retailers, in turn, have comsosecuted while the big opera-
One retailer told The Times today he was guilty and ; (Continued on Page 3—Column 4)
their troubles. to the office of price |
adjacent veterans’ building. Koo admitted that he was honored and “filled with emotion” on “this great day.” “I confidently hope ‘and believe,” | he said, “that built on the founda- |,
|stoppage dy entering the plant, proposal was greeted coldly. {reaching 65 per cent of the com- |
to maintain that figure ‘today. |the city’s largest cafe, now closed, The fights broke out this morn- said it would take 48 hours to re{ing as the non-strikers pushed their gssemble his help—what there was tion of viclory ln Europe and the | way through a crowd of more than of it. - He said the other operators early. and final triumph over Japan, | s50 pickets and spectators. were in the same spot. she new security organization . ..| Tyg of the outbreaks were broken Extra Points, No Meat will be able to spare the future|y,, py police with the aid of tear ; generations the horrors of recur- gas bombs, while the third and rent war and to ensure to them the oc. serious was ended when police blessings of peacé and prosperity.” | resorted to tear gas spray in addi- | tion to bombs,
The signatures of the great powers One Thrown Back as well as those of the tiniest na-| A worker wearing leather gloves tions will represent their pledge to studded with steel brads picked up work together in peace to save|one tear gas bomb and threw it! future generations from the scourge | back at a police car, witnesses said, of war and to try to raise the living |breaking a window ‘in ‘the vehicle. standards of men everywhere, | He was detained by police. Twenty-six years ago next Thurs-| Frank Kollosarr, South Bend. day the treaty of Versailles was! conciliator and inspector and persigned ending world war IL That | sonal representative of Governor treaty incorporated the covenant) Gates, arrived at the plant today of the League of Nations—man’s| for an investigation of the strike,
(Continued ob Fare $-Coluitn | Charles Kern, Indiana labor com-
missioner, was to appear at ‘the today on orders from the WHEELER'S MIND Tage 3—Cotw OPEN ON CHARTER Warns Germany
| Can Regain War
to stand for the things the customers said when they read his menus. Three other restaurant owners relented, however, and said they would try to operate. But a shortage of ration joints, help, meat and potatoes made the whole thing pretty hopeless, they added. Sutter admitted that the restaurants -had been allotted extra red ration points. “But what good are they?” he complained. “We can't get any meat.” Mayor Smith said he would ask OPA officials to approve the slaughter of extra cattle for Mattoon,
Lodges Help Out
Women of the Eastern Star and White Shrine lodges volunteered to provide breakfasts for some 300 top priority war workers. A tavern owner, in turn, has promised to feed structural steel workers and other skilled laborers employed at the local Gar Wood industries plant. . Meantime, Alva Sanders reigned P ower Qu 1C kl y as Mattoon's most popular resident. Sanders is the local sandwich man. WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). WASHINGTON. June 26 (0. P).|He said he'd prepare several hun~Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D1 oreign Economic Administrator dred sandwiches—mostly of cheese. {Leo T. Crowley reported today that |
Mont) Way si ar 0 fer no | Germany's war-making potential is | ' v tremendous despite y
organized fight in the senate om hing
Maing Tatficeyon the San| po said if the Germans had held : lo g Wheeler was widely regarded as SIX Tonthy Jonge: hey night —The meat shortage in Houston— the senate's staunchest “isolatione| yi’ uv hompe © ttle afterwaty| TEXAS largest city—was worse toist” before the war and his attitude yp, could Dave sent au, Practically all of the city’s Rwald tho charter had been awalt- |). 0s against Washington. 1700 independent grocers carried a | If left alone now, the Germans their unprecedented “meat black1 have not'made up my mind... 4" ye ‘potter prepared for war| i d d t {+ out” into its second day. get as to what I am going to do oro. “gue years than they were | y
how I'm going to vote,” he told | reporters. “1 haven't read it. and in 1039 when Hitler launched his|
I am not going to make up my mind until I have had a chance to read and study it. ; “But as far as I am concerned, there is' going to be po organized
Work for Peace
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Says He Won't Lead Fight Against It.
‘Houston Grocers in ware of ed Meat Blackout’
of
The grocers closed
blitz against Poland, Crowley said. | Crowley gave a senate military
LOCAL TEMPERATURES cents above official OPA ceilings.
fight against the treaty.” da m.... 61 10a. m....172 The closing left only a scattered He added that so far as he| 7 a m..... 63 11 a. m..... 75 |few independent markets and chain knows, no other senators are plan-| 8 a. m..... 67 12 (Noon).. 17 [stores open to meat-hungry Hous ning “organized” opposition to it| 9a. m..... 70 p.m... 78 |tonians. either.
pany yesterday broke a 23-day work only soup, crackers and milk. His
. Peter J. Sutter, spokesman for {pany’s peak production. They hoped the restaurant men and operator.of |
| animal
Anyway, he added, he didn’t have]
sheriff's office.
ANIMAL DAY IN | INDIANAPOLIS
And There Are Reports of a ‘Monster’ Loose. |
By HEZE CLARK i City and county coppers concentrated on cavorting culprits of the! canine and equine families of the kingdom last night and early today.
It was a change, pleasant or
otherwise, for the local sleuths,
Last night a farmer appeared at | police headquarters with seven pups, | ancestry unknown. The police passed | the buck, telling the farmer they
HOUSTON, Tex., June 26 (U. P)).|
their meat | departments yesterday in a mass {move to force Houston wholesalers | to sell meat at ceiling prices.. They | (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) alleged they were being forced to |pay prices ranging from 8 to 13
“Contrary to the opinions that have been expressed by some of our internationalists,” Wheeier said, “I have always been in favor of this country collaborating with other countries to try and preserve the peace of the world.”
TIMES INDEX
Bid on Pyle Manuscript Is Boosted to $3,900,000
HARRY REID,. acting for the Indianapolis public . utilities bond committee, today offered $3,900,000 in war bonds for the Ernie Pyle manuscript.
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Amusements,, 7 Jane Jordan.. 18 The first bid of the final week of the auction, it hiked the last Karl Bickel... 12! Mauldin ..... 11 previous offer of $3,350,000, made by the American, United InsurBusiness ..... 6! Movies ....... 1 ance Co. by a cool half million. Bids will be accepted during the Ciano Diary.. 11] Obituaries... 10 remainder of the Seventh War Loan drive, and the manuscript will. Comics .....: 18 Pred Perkins. 11 be presented to the successful bidder on the stage of Loew's theater Crossword ...-18 Radio ..... _. 18] ~at- the world premiere showing of the Erhie Pyle picture, “The Editorials .... 12|Ration Dates 15| Story of G.I. Joe.” Viv a id Peter Edson.. 12|Curt Riess... 11 . un» a “8 4 Fashions... 14, 15| Mrs. Roosevelt. 11 THE MANUSCRIPT is one of the ‘few remaining of the many Mrs, Ferguson 14, Society ,...14, 15| = Ernie typed himself on all the battle fronts-this one on asus 13)8ports ....... 8] a Pacific island a short time before his own death. Arrangements Biven.. 15 Henry Taylor. 2| have been made to give replicas of the manuscript to unsuccessful ua 13| bidders. Bidding began & month ago, with an initial offer of $5000.
{troops y 1d
A “monster—not as big as an elephant but much larger than a dog”—was reported roaming the neighborhood around St: Clair and Paca sts. today. An alarmed
woman—too excited to give her name—informed Police Dispatcher Arthur Huber that the “monster” had panicked all the dogs | in that vicinity. Two of her own disappeared. She said she saw and heard the “brute” rumble through her yard three times,
couldn't take them as they were wards of the county.
sheriff. The farmer was being ushered out when the phone rang. The deputy answered. Farmer Gone, Pups Stay When he hung up the farmer was gone. The pups remained. Deputy Sheriff Robert Imhausen adopted one, the rest are now housed at the municipal dog pound. This morning police were told of a fox hunt with a’ car wrench, Carl E. Clause Jr., 2002 Berwick st. and John Atwell, 1714 N. Exeter ave. blinded a pair with their car headlights. Mr, Clause dropped one with a wrench. Wandering Pony Little David and Richard Stillabower, 1601 Tabor st. are happy today. Their next door neighbor, Norman Gunvaldsen, 1605 Tabor st, found a pony wandering the neighborhood. It had trampled several gardens. He tied it to a tree-awaiting police. Meanwhile the Stillabower boys rode the steed while at anchor. And at school 57, Ritter and Washington sts, two mules were found nesing around looking for an. education. Police tied them to a tree where they could bark their shins. The owner is as much in absence as the mules in presence.
Miss Barbara Greig, municipal dog pond
So the farmer went to see the !
Reports 200 Yank . Off Okinawa for Attack: B-29’s - Bomb 10 War Plants.
By WILLIAM TYREE, United Press Staff Correspondent
P
GUAM, June 26.—Tokyo
Premier Kantaro Suzuki that their decisive hour was
receptionist, receives six of seven pups abandoned at the
John Atwell, 1714 N. Exeter ave. and Carl E. Clause Jr. 2002 Berwick st. (left to right), triumphantly hold the victim of their fox hunt.
David and Richard
Stillabower, 1601 Tabor st. (left to right),
happily mount a stray pony which trampled neighorhood gardens,
TROGPS IN EUROPE MOVED TO PACIFIC
PARIS, June 26 (U, P.).—Severa] thousand service troops have left
they will begin the task of building bases for combat troops who will follow them,” European theater authorities announced today. Today’s announcement . was the
actually had left Europe by the
ter. numbers of combat troops already are assembled for embarkation by
that route.
Informants
a rate
Marseille for the Far East, “where!
first word that any American forces |
eastern route for the Pacific theaIt also disclosed that large
estimated that the
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forces may land on Amami northeast of Okinawa—to gai ‘at Japan itself,
daylight. raid. Greatest
the American-held Kerama i » » »
MORE ATROCITIES—
Witnesses Jap Slaying of 154
For 'Practice’
By GEORGE WANG United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, June 26. — A
Korean sublieutenant who deserted the Japanese at Swatow charged today that he had wit-
154 American and British prfsoners of ‘war. \ This, he said, happened at a Japanese prison camp near Zentsuji, Shikuko island, in the main Japanese 1944, The Korean—whose name can not be revealed — deserted the Japanese at Swatow in March and arrived. in Chungking this month. He said he had been forced by the Japanese to join their army and was on a mission to the Zentsuji camp when he witnessed the massacre. The killings he attributed chiefly to a shortage of food— but also to provide practice for Japanese army recruits.
= » » HE SAID that at the time there was a shortage of food— not only for prisoners but also for the army and for the general public. The Japanese picked sick prisoners for the bayonet practice. Tt About 220 Japanese soldiers participated in the bayoneting, the Korean said. They were divided into three groups—each of which was allotted about 50 prisoners. The prisoner of war camp was located about seven miles from the town of Zentsuji in a mountainous area—so no civilians wit. nessed the execution, "Other pris-
1 2 un 0» * Jap Totalitarians Criti
group, on April 26,
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Wanna Dog, Fox, a Here They Are 1. & INV ASTON SHIPS READY, KYO SAYS
Vessels Mobilized'
reported a 200-ship American
{invasion fleet off Okinawa today.
warned the Japanese people » at hand.
One enemy broadcast speculated that American invasion
and Kikai islands—110 miles n further bases before striking
The American pre-invasion bombardment of Japan meantime rose to a new high pitch. 4 Nearly 500 Superfortresses blasted buildings at 10 . Japanese arms and aircraft works into smoking rubble in a
Air Raid
Jt was the heaviest precision demolition and greatest multiple air assault yet made on Japan. Radio Tokyo said the 200-ship invasion fleet was in
slands just southwest of Okinawa. It was said to include three battleships, three criss ers and a number of large, medium and small transports, Tokyo said Suzuki bluntly called the present crisis “the greatest one | since the Mongolian invasion” in a {message to the Japanese people fole lowing a cahinet meeting. He | pledged his government’s “grim de- | termination” to resist invasion. | Destiny of Empire The prolonged defense of OKkinawa enabled Japan to improve her strategic position, he said, bub
nessed the bayonet massacre of | added:
“ “Enemy air raids over Japan are | likely to grow both in intensity and frequency, while new enemy inva|sion operations must also be exe | pected. “Now is the time to decide the | destiny of the Japanese empire.” | Suzuki said Japan's strategy of | defense already had been fixed and [would be implemented “with speed fand resolution.” Japanese planes continued their ‘furious attacks” against allied ves- | sels around Okinawa last night and {early today, radio Tokyo said. It | made no claim that any vessels had | been sunk or damaged, however. { Four Cities Hit
Superfortresses dropped 3000 tons |of high-explosive demolition bombs on factories along a 150-mile are stretching through Akashi, Osaka, Nagoya and Gifu in today’s attack on the main enemy home island of Honshu. Never before had the B-29s hit {50 many separate targets on so large a scale, A Japanese coms munique said eight Superfort:.sses were shot down and 14 others ‘crippled, but the claim probably was exaggerated. All 10 plants had been damaged mn earlier attacks, and todays ase sault was designed to administer the coup de grace. Their destruction would be a major step in the reduction of Japan's wag, potential preparatory
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Of Suzuki's War Handling
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 (U. totalitarian Nippon Po-
{P.) ~The | litical association today called o
Previously he had announced that he would not resign the premiers
n|ship when Okinawa was lost. But
{Premier Baron Kantaro Suzuki's today the Political association, |government to take ‘“stronger| headed by Fascist-minded Gen. Kiro [a in coping with the war! Minami, “urged” the government to crisis.
| The association arranged for .a
emergéncy conference with Suzuki
|and his ministers tomorrow.
| Critlcizing the government indi“|rectly for its conduct of the war, {leaders of the Political association, | late [today after Suzuki issued a state-' {ment warning the Japanese peopl
imet in executive conference
| their decisive hour was at nd.
| Suzuki told the nation that “the life and death of any individual|iya aby set his |is no longer worth giving consid :
eration.”
cause of ow countey.
He called on his. people to offer their lives. “to the etamal
|take stronger action “in coping with 'the present situation arising out of the Okinawa battle.” | Various government leaders, ine |cluding Agriculture and Commerce Minister Tadatsu Igpiguro and |Home Minister Genki Abe, will ate
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tend tomorrow's conference. g Suzuki's statement, issued through o the board of information with aps proval of the emperor, sald he was war to a successful conclusion and ma jesty’s mind at
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“firmly resolved to prosecute the