Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1946 — Page 2

Lowly ‘Spud Comes to Rescue of Distillers Faced With Present Low Grain Supply.

; By DOUGLAS SMITH Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

potéto is to the rescue. ° | Te 18 comes and severe grain shortage, some of the nation's largest distilleries are buying potatoes to make alcohol. | It will be the “neutral spirits” in the blended whisky of the type) \ J | now sold. veteran knows, alcohol can be made out of almost anything that grows. Distillers have always made theirs out of grain, but grain is scarce. Potatoes are so plentiful) ~~ | that the government is worrying that blended whisky made from about what to do with the surplus. potato alcohol would have to bear * It would like to sell its extra po-|a label stating the fact.

tatoes to the distillers, who, while Distillers Stretch Supplies -

anxious to keep on selling the customers something to drink. least 20 per cent straight whisky |

Its Nothing New by volume, since the law defines ___

: i" “There is nothing new about whisky as a product of the ferment-

potato #icohol,” a chemist ex-

th, ‘so Moul the yield is not as good | three days per month, 3 gt and th ye ordinary times | “stretch” their supplies of whisky

a distiller would not consider using as far as possible by using it In| P.).—The curtain went up last night | pack down again. It went up again, - : on the opening scene of Somerset | showing a

blends: that is why straight whisky | Schenley, American and several will continue to be scarce for a long

Twin Girls Are Born in Oregon m==+

WASHINGTON, May 9.—We are not going to run out of whisky. |

A Siamese twin girls, joined near the base of their spines, were born to Mrs. Mary Hurse, . not enthusiastic about potatoes, are Blended whisky must contain at| land, Ore, hospital yesterday. The father is a Deep River, Wash, logger. Combined weight of the twins

| at birth was 9 pounds 4 ounces. - Dr. Joseph V. Springer, who dellevered them, sald they are “in no imme-

Maughm's “The Circle” in the Jer- furniture and Miss Reed In an orsey theater, showing a set decorated with antique furniture and Actress

Florence Reed in a-$500 dress, Then the curtain, banged right

ed mash of grain, Distillers ace OPENING ; CURTAIN plained, “but the process {s more | now allowed to make mash ou DRENCHES STAGE SET

MORRISTOWN, N. J, May 8 (U.

The opening curtain had caught in the automatic sprinkling system and turned it on, drenching the

OPTIMISTS PLAN ~ 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Thirty years ago a group of Indianapolis businessmen met here to

‘|organize a club to boost the city.

They were.granted Charter No. 1 of International Optimist clubs, L. K. Babcock, an insurance agent, was elected president. Tomorrow, the Optimist club will observe its anniversary at a weekly luncheon in the Columbia club. Speaker will be Mr. Babcock who will return here from Hartford, Conn., where he is now director and secretary of the Aetna Cdsualty and Security Co. Clarence T. Dreyer, present head of the organization, - will charge of the meeting.

HOOVER IS EXPECTED

food survey tour. Mr. Hoover's plane is expected to

tonight.

stage almost bare of

{llers already have bought | time. Sha ee While the distilled spirits| If the whisky shortage gets even institute here has no official re-| worse, drinkers have ‘still another) ports on their use, it has received possibility. The government per- | quiries from several members mits the manufacture of “spirit pota Iw fines as a mixwant to bu toes, whisky,” which it de m Yo a will gh big surplus of ture of neutral spirits and not potatoes this year, government ex- less than 5 per cent of whisky.’ perts Under the price-support This concoction appeared in some party any the government has to buy places during the 1943 shortage, and the surplus when the price reaches | May show up again. | in level. Potatoes don’t keep { 8 aria that is why they are not be-| VFW TO OPPOSE HEALTH BILL ing ‘shipped to Europe. The gov-| WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P).— ernment wants to sell its surplus as| The Veterans of Foreign Wars topromptly as possible. day said it will oppose the adminEncouraged fo Use Potatoes istration’s national health bill un-

less veterans are exempted from its "Wears SCOUFTOE She Sutin provisions, The veteran already is | Bu ify consump- entitled to medical benefits, it was tion,” a department of agriculture | Pointed out. spokesman sald, MAY RAISE MIDDIES' PAY oo his Yerumens 8, Mvering ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 9 (U, P,). expects Soe ro. —Midshipmen at the U. S. naval % bive pienty Ones academy will get a $20-a-month| plbren WE Barvest ume. I raise if a recommendation of the) Jato are distillers and estue proved. The middies now draw ’ ot rded b $65 a month—a figure set in 1919. Potato aloohol is not rega y| - | the government as inferior to grain STARCH SYNTHESIZED alcohol as an ingredient of blend-| WASHINGTON—Starch is now ed whisky. A spokesman for the syWesized in the laboratory from alcohol tax unit, which governs| sugar in presence of phosphate soluJebeling, sald “neutral spirits” can| tion and a plant enzyme as a catabe distilled from any material, but! lyst. |

"Wrath of Burma’ Charges | Churchill Hindered Stilwell

(Continued From Page One) few tears shed at Southeast Asia headquarters when Gen, Orde . Alr Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de charles Wingate, famed British orIa Perte, chief of British public re- | oopnizer of the Chindits, was killed lations in Southeast Asia, to “make i, g plane crash in 1944. | the world believe that Britain Was, ys offensive tactics were said to fighting tooth and nail in the Ori- have offended the defense addicts ent”; for at least five months after| on Mountbatten's staff. the Normandy landing “SEAC| Mr Eldridge also revealed that propaganda broadcasts to French poth American and British military Indo-China and Thailand failed 10 opinion agreed that the Wingate mention once that Americans had operations—parachuting small landed in Europe.” groups behind the Japanese lines— Broth of Intrigue were of little military value.

A The list could be lengthened in- | He made public a fact little definitely. The Southeast Asia com- | known outside of Southeast Asia mand, as pictured by Mr. Eldridge |that, after Gen. Wingate's death, and others was a broth of conflict, this raiding forces repeatedly reintrigue, cross-purpose, internation- | fused or neglected to carry out oral and intranational rivalry which ders from Gen. Stilwell, : probably had seldom been equaled,| This situation, Mr. Eldridge reThrough it all ran three clear and ported, almost caused an internaconsistent lines: | tional scandal. ONE: Gen. Stilwell's determina-| NO new light was cast on Gen tion to fight the Japanese, no mat- | Stilwell’s ouster by Mr. Eldridge, ter. what the cost in violations of who agreed with published accounts diplomatic and military protocol. | that Chiang’s insistence on 8tilTWO: British determination to well's ouster probably was inspired avoid military costs and to enhance DY A careless remark by Harry by any means possible their shat- Hopkins to H. H. Kung, which intered prestige in the eves of Asia's dicated that President Roosevelt millions. " | WAS, not prepared to be as tough on THREE: Chiang's determination Chiang as his negotiators, Donald to utilize the war as a device to Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurbulwark his precarious position as '¢¥. had indicated. ~ the quesi-leader of the Chinese Lend-Lease Control masses. | Barbs against the Chinese NaWinning ‘Monotonous’ {tionalist government were epitoOnce when Gen. Stilwell com- mized by Mr. Eldridge in his quotaplained to Lord Mountbatten that! tion of an unnamed American dipthe SEAC communique frequently lomat who said: “I believe in the minimized the offensive operations fundamental corruptibility of every of his Chinese-American forces— Chinese official.” "the only forces on the offensive at|. Ihe generalissimo,” Mr, Eldridge that time—Gen. Mountbatten re- Said. “kept Inisisting on obtaining | plied, ing to Mr. Eldridge: | control over the allocation of lend“It is true we play you down, but ‘¢85¢ so that he could equip his we do so because you are winning A/MieS the better to trounce the constantly. | Communists at leisure after Amer“To emphasize always that you ica had won the war.” are winning tends to make the com-| Mr. Eldridge said that personalimunique monotonous, so we leave ties between Stilwell and Chiang. you out sometimes.” | whom he described as “hating” Told to ‘Sit Tight’ | each other by the time of the Nel-

| son-Hurle issio Me Eldridge credited Gen. Stil- PR a Wi to cole well with having secured the re-| He attributed the ouste unmoval of Lord Wavell as the Brit- damental clash of wil . ish commander after a year of try- ests plus thé necessity for Chiang ing to get some action out of him. to find a scapegoat on whom to Mr. Eldridge commented acidly: blame the loss of the southwest “British commanders in Southeast China airbases, Asia took their orders direct from| For the future, Eldridge said Mr, Churchill. His orders were to| “this nation should be aware of sit tight and prove no offensive Chiang's record of broken promises ~ eampaigns could be undertaken...” and deceit and should watch and Mr. Eldridge charged there were Judge him accordingly. , ,

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

BIRTHS

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DEATHS

Inez Woods, 55. at Methodist, thrombosis | Anna DeGuglielmn, 5%, at 4“ cerebral hemorrhage N. Temps,

Broest A Schilling, 0 [” ta Ferguson. | "ora rditis ' 8h 143 B. M2,

william, Mary Cooper: coronary oeclusion 3 $ Caleb Holt, 52, a hemorrhage. Ont: | Robert Porter Art McDonald pneumonia. : || Clifton Whetsel, 47, at 5018 cri Morgan, and’ Direeht, | 7,08 posumonia. ~ ©. 7 Crittenden Bors York, chronic myocarditis, { Merrifield, and Wil-| Pearl Mae Salisbury, 65, at 033 N 0, coronary occlusion

At 1130 N. Illinois, cerebral

Stults, 53, at City, bronchial

ocelu, | Myrtle M d,| obstruction, Leona Mae gloma, ; chronie nephritis

raroners ocelusion,

academy board of visitors is ap- ||

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Carl H, Dinkelaker, 75, at 638 ®, “New

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to Washington,

® An 1l-car special train rolled quietly into Union station early

this morning. .

On it ‘were the 107 musicians of the Philadelphia orchestra, wha will be. heard in concert at the Murat theater tonight. Now in the second week of a transcontinental tour sponsored by Columbia Masterworks, the famous

IN CALIFORNIA TODAY

HONOLULU, May 9 (U, P.), —| | Herbert Hoover will leave by plane who made the announcement, said |for the United States at 9 a. m. Prof. Beese will continue as pro(3:30 p. m,, Indianapolis time) to- fessor of industrial enginéering in day on the final leg of his global the department which he has headed since 1937.

PROF. BEESE MAKES PURDUE JOB CHANGE

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, May. 9.—Prof.

be IN ©. W. Beese, general engineering {department head and director of |the technical extension division at | Purdue university, will relinquish his job July 1 to devote all his |

time to extension programs. President Frederick .L. Hovde,

Meanwhile the university’s board

land at Hamilton field, Oal., late of trustees has let contracts for : $191,141 for construction of a sewer The former American President!line, utility line and for basements will remain in San Francisco until | and foundations of a new women's Saturday night before proceeding! residence hall and several buildings | from the largest cork oak in the on the university's dairy farm.

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THURSDAY MAY iow Philadelphia Orchestra Here ~ For Murat Concert Tonight -

orchestra has. been playing to packed houses on its way here, according to Manager -Harl Moe Donald. “In six consecutive concerts, we've had an average of 100 over-capacity attendance,” Mr, McDonald said this morning. ; The orchestra's cross = country schedule calls for a total of 39 cone certs in 43 days, and for such long Jumps as the one after tonight's concert, when the special train will take the musicians .to Birmingham, Ala., for a concert tomorrow night, “Our longest jump will be from Vancouver, B. C,, following an af« ternoon concert, to Provo, Utah, for a program the next evening," Mr. McDonald said.

BARBER-PARTNERS PLAN ANNIVERSARY,

MILFORD, Mass. (U. P.).—Next

year will mark the 60th ananivere sary of the partnership of Frank

Thomas, 86, and Joseph McClure, 85, who operate a barbershop here, —————— OAK GIVES BIG YIELD

WASHINGTON — One’ thousand fifty pounds of cork were stripped

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