Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1946 — Page 2
e non-farming popu- ]
starvation rations now and : starvation: threats in the¢next three months. | ‘*' Gen. Robertson told a press con- \ British occupation aubeen advised they could expect no food imports for } n population between the | end of March and the end of June. | | wapril, May and June will be .eritical months,” Gen. Robertson
widespread
said. “Something must be done.”
When a correspondent asked if
‘
three months was enough time to
widespread starvation, Gen.
answered: .. "Yes, in certain areas.”
“* The British drastically slashed ¢ “all rations last Monday, reducing normal. consumers to 1014 calories
a day.
_ Gen. Robertson admitted there] _was little prospect for immediate Mr. Morris imports and said a further ration
cut was a “distinct possibility.”
. Gen. Robertson, laying the Ge:r-
man food plight before the world;
said the problem would not be wsolved this year and predicted that the “battle of the winter of 1946~~47" may be even grimmer than
this year.
vo asked that the situation be| from a practical rather
Bhan a sentimental standpoint,
HIGHER STANDARDS | NEEDED FOR STAFF
“TF AR interim hospital at Bittings SUPPLY:
‘General hospital, to remove veter-|
ans from waiting lists, “will be staffed by Hoosler doctors if the vention and exhibition in the Murat
Veterans’ Administration in Wash-| ington lowers specifications. #<The proposed second hospital for Indiana veterans can have 350 beds, buildings and equipment which will be a portion of the Billings hospital to be abandoned Monday. ‘ Henry E. Siebenmark, state commander, told Legion, guests of the new hospital's possibilities last night at a Hotel Antler's party. * Dr. Mathew Winters, chairman of & dean's committee at the Indiana University Medical Center, told the
“Our committee was formed to
a is it fiscaem g to administration's 220 surpassed the predicted 3000.
#pecifications Jaid down in Washfigton. However, there are not ‘éhough physicians in Indianapolis| under VA regulations to
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Charles E. Wagner
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Mr. Slagle
WAGNER NAMED T0 HEAD GROUP
‘Association Closes | Annual Convention Here.
|" Charles E. Wagner of the BurnetBinford Lumber Co. here will head the Indiana Lumber & Builders association for 1046. He was elected president today, the closing pe of the group's 62nd annual con-
temple. Mr. Wagner succeeds Edward P. | Redman. of Terre Haute. Elected vice president was Raymond Morris, a partner and man- | in the Crawford-Morris Lum- | ber Co., Mitchell, Ind. Retained as | secretary- treasurer was R. W, Slagle, of Indianapqlis. The three-day convention was to end tonight with the annual banquet, floor show and dance at the Claypool hotel. The Builders’ day program yester- | day broke all records for attendange
Some 2000 registered for the con- | vention.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 (U.
62d|’
An attempt to open a 22-room hotel for traveling men at 52d st. and state road 52 was being resisted today by nearby residents, A number of them have protested to the Pike township planning board ‘against a proposal by Ben Graesch, 1662 Fisher st., to remodel the old Snasks school building into a small hotel. About four families occupy apartments in the building now, ' They would be vacated,” Mr. Graesch said. Meeting informally Feb. 21, the township board denied Mr. Graesch's wpetition.” however, he plans to file a formal petition with the county zoning board, which meets Tuesday.
P.).~—Pfe. Delmar Dustmann, Detroit, Mich., was en route.in the United States today withy the wife
and family that cost him a month's army pay and two trips to India, The 27-year-old soldier was sent to Karachi, India, ‘during the early months of the war where he met and married (without army consent) an attractive British refugee from Rangoon. For the breach of discipline he was court-martialed and fined half pay for two months, Returned to the United States, Pfc. Dustmann persuaded an army reassignment board at Santa Bare bara, Cal, to send him back to Karachi to join his wife and family In February, 1945. Yesterday, Pfc. Dustman, his wife, Veronica May and two children, Delmar Pete, age 15 months, and Donna Lee, 2 months, arrived
LOSES $2000 BROOCH NEW YORK, March 7 (U, P.) i= Joyce Blaffer, 19, Houston, Tex, was very unhappy today. The city sewer department was unable to find a $2000 diamond brooch she thought she accidentally dropped
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Aviation Centers Research On High-Altitude Heating
said.
NEW YORK, March 7.—Heating and ventilating passenger airliners, particularly those designed for operation at 15,000 feet and over, is a problem on which aviation engineers are now concentrating because of anticipated increased travel by air and the use of highaltitude airlanes, Development has already reached a point astonishing to the land engineer, B. M. Brod, of American Airlines, told a meeting here of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, but, he sald, “the end is not yet, for pressurizing of cabins has raised many problems, some of which are not even as yet recognized.” Heating systems for air transports flying at 15000-foot altitude are designed for an outside temperature of 40 degrees below zero, he
into a catch basin. aboard the U. 8, 8. General Patton.
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STRESS "EVANGELISM
Gualified Stat the Billings project also.”
EX-CRONY - OF HITLER ENDS HUNGER STRIKE primary task of the ¢hurch .which
LONDON, March 7 (U.P.).—| must be met with a sense of imErnst F. (Putzi) Hanfstaengl's law- | mediacy and urgency in a report i yer said yesterday that the one-|adopted today by the Federal | . time. crony of Adolf Hitler. had council of Churches of Christ in’ ended a hunger strike. America. Hanfstaengl began his hunger; The 15- -page report of the counstrike Feb. 20 in protest against a cil's section on evangelism was apBritish decision to return him to proved in its entirety by the fedGermany. He is lodged in a prison {eral council, which met in plenary cottage at Beltane school at|session on the third and final day Wimbledon. of its special meeting. *I don't know how authorities] A 12.point program for action in| managed to get him off the hunger | evangelism was included in the re-| . strike.” Kenneth Brown, his lawyer, | | port. said. “They didn't tell me anything | Reports of sections on world or-| more than that he stopped—not a| der and foreign relief were also word about his condition.” | scheduled for consideration by the
RR | council in plenary session today. | CONGRESSHAN > ie ANTI-TYPHUS DRIVE
WASHINGTON, March 7 (U. P). PLANNED IN JAPAN
~The record of the house expendi- | YOKOHAMA, March 7 (U. P.).—| tures committee hearing on the A nation-wide anti-typhus cam-| surplus property law will show that ion will be launched by the eighth | Benno C. Schmidt, counsel for|garmy jn Japan in the near future, it | the foreign liquidation commission, | was announced by military authorsmiled during his questioning yes- ities | terday. : | Using a mixture of crude taleum Rep. Ralph E. Church (R. Ml), and American-made DDT, the army irked by Mr. Schmidt's steadfast plans to dust all public places in-| grins, instructed the committees cluding stations, docks, prisons, rail-| er: road trains and ferries. { “The record will show that Mr.|! The eighth army surgeon quar-| Schmidt smiled while being ques- termaster and military government tioned on the serious problems of sections will collaborate in the pro-| surplus property.” ‘gram.
Finds Not Enough Shirts and ‘Underwear Are Being Made
By DOUGLAS SMITH |lina, which resulted in a 65-cent Seripps-Howard Staff Writer minimum wage and across-the-WASHINGTON, March 7.—When ‘board increases. Erwin is the napeople can't buy shirts and under- [tion's biggest producer. of denim wear, they want to know why. They cloth.
| Neither side anticipates any more vim received a wide - variety of {nig strikes: they both say, “Let's answers. Most of them are wrong. 'get to work.” The real reason shirts and under-| If that attitude continues and the wear are scarce is that not enough expected new pricing system is of them are being made. agreed upon, there will be a subThe government is doing some- stantial improvement by midsumthing about that. Due any day mer. now is a new ceiling-price system | As for rumors, the two most pop- * under which cotton mills can start ular are about hoarding and exports. \ full production of goods from which| There have been stories of ware- | shirts and underwear are made. |houses bulging with - millions of | This involves stabilization of the [shirts the factories were supposed price of raw cotton, presumably at | to be holding in the hope of price around the present 27 cents a increases. There has been hoarding,
AT CHURCH MEETING|
COLUMBUS, O., March 7 (U. P.). —Evangelism was stressed as the
* pound, and an added “incentive” of | 5 per cent to increase the production of low-cost goods. The mills have not been making much of their goods, because they say they couldn't at a profit. They have been making more ex- | pensive goods. That's why your clothing store often has $6 * ‘sports’ | shirts, but no ordinary $2 shirts. It appears doubtful that labor troubles hold up production. Though | wages are low and some plants can-| mot get enough workers to operate |
At capacity, less than a third of the
Union (C. T.|
ni industry-| buy them, je, which is} England mills | turers to charge more—7 to 10 per * than the cent—for goods exported, but the
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“and labor attach amounts. Therefore the shirtmakers ficance to the set. cannot “divert” American goods to of the strike atl 3 iiorth Garo. to do so,
{but according to the government's civilian production administration there is “very little” now. As for the export rumors—trav- | elers tell of being able to Bly good | white shirts by the half-dozen in | Havana, Mexico City or Buenos | Aires. Yet shirt exports scarcely touch| the problem. The bulk of cotton goods exported is cheap, work-cloth-ing material, and even this totals less than 10 per cent of American production. The ‘reason white shirts can be had In Mexico. City -is that the | average Mexican cannot afford to
The OPA does allow manufac-
| government also specifies export
markets, even if they chose
pated shortly, will require a design for a temperature of 60 degrees below zero. Loss of cabin
walls.
were described by Mr, Brod. One is the steam system, in which heat
flash-steam boiler; the makes use of exhaust heat in a heat exchanger in the ventilating air stream; the third is a gasolineburning heater, The first system, he stated, is safe but heavy, and requires excessive maintenance; the second is
simple and reliable but heavy and needs frequent checking, and the third is efficient, light and flexible, but has short life, high maintenance, and requires piping of gaso-
Operation at 20,000 feet, antici-
line tothe heater.
Three types of heating systems |
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureas———— (All Data in Kentral Sindag Time)
AH | Tus
Precipitation 24 hrs. end 7:30 a. wm. Te Total precipitation since Jan. 1. Defigiency-—since Jan,
The following table shows the tem
rature and precipitationi n other cities! t
heat is large hecause of the thin Boston
Cleveland Denver .. Evansville ..
from the exhaust is used In aT: second [1,0 an
INCREASES EFFICIENCY WASHINGTON—The light efficiency of low-voltage cathode-ray television tubes is increased about 50 per cent by coating the back of the luminous surface of the picture tube with a layer of metal less than
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946
FILE RECEIVERSHIP REPORT OF FIRM
A final receivership report of ‘Welsh’ Lumber & Co-operative Homes Co, firm that allegedly was used to fleece scores of prospective home-owners, was approved Today by Judge" Judson L. Stark of Sue perior Court 1, A report listing assets of $199.10 and liabilities of $6000 was filed by Edwin Haerle, receiver, Among creditors wers many . persons whose savings had been entrusted to the firm: for pure chase of property. John Welsh, former head of the firm, is serving a term at state prison. He was returned there as a parole violator after an investiga tion was made last fall into affairg of the company. Forrest L. Hackley, Indianapolis attorney, also was involved. He ig awaiting trial on an embezzlement
eight millionths of an_inch thick.
Pure Lirien; 14.95
Eyelet Batiste, 16.50
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FRENCH INDO-CH
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Discussic
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MacArthur Control 0
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