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CANNED 00DS DWINDLE: FACE “WORST WEEK
End of Quarter Finds Many . Grocers Running Out | Of Staple Foods.
By DONNA MIKELS .’ Today marked the start of a week which Indianapolis grocerymen expect to be “the worst any time since the start of the war.” Shortages, which for the most
part have been confined to meat,| bread and butter, will extend to
canned goods and other staples.
THe week will mark the last of the second quarter, a period in which allocations are always short, as well as the last week before a congressional decision.on OPA price controls,
Earl A. Hopping, president of the Indianapolis Retail Grocer association, today said his group is anticipating the worst week on record, both for meat and grocery supplies. Packers Again Hit
He pointed out’ that the meat supply not only is lessened by the packers’ inability to buy cattle, but many slaughterers have killed their quota for the month and are suspending operations until after July 1. The month end always sees some
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small packers out of operation, but large packing houses generally are] able to relieve the situation. | The large packers, however, are even harder hit this month than| the small business, because of re-| duced cattle receipts. i
35 Per Cent Drop
The American Meat institute. packer spokesman, reported beef production last week 35 per cent below the previous week and- 90 per cent below the corresponding week last year. : { Other foods not previously on the shortage list are expected to become unavailable, because grocers will have used up their quartely alloca-| tion. | Canned goods are allocated on quarterly periods. Dealers who did not stock up during the early part of the quarter are unable to pro-| |
. vide customers with canned fruits
or vegetables. Many wholesalers already have distributed most of the quarterly] allotment and will be unable to| supply more until the start of a new period. Close for Vacations i Mr. Hopping said many grocers, plan to close for vacations this] week, because the end of a quarter coupled with “holding back” by food | groups which are banking on a price increase after July 1 has left their stores bare of merchandise. The result is that stores which | remain open will bear the brunt of demands from customers whose | regular shopping places are either | on vacation or unable to meet de-
| House were open to the public and |
Acme Telephoto Mrs. George White, 35 (left), and veteran riverm an Harry Aleson, 42, are shown as they donned their swimming fins and life preservers just before they began their 81-mile raft trip Saturday, down the rapids of the upper Colorado river. They hope to arrive at the calm waters of Lake Mead next Saturday.
2 Suspects Held as Victim RUSS CONDEMN
Of Laundry Robbery Dies J, S, ATOM PLAN
Thomas H. Bridewell, 59-year-old laundry: executive, died in Method- | ist hospital at 4 a. m. today, victim of a holdup man’s bullet, |
Mr. Bridewell was shot in the left side of the abdomen Saturday! i afternoon when he failed to understand the holdup command of two Pravda Says America Seeks World Domination.
thugs who entered the office of the Star Laundry, 1251 Roosevelt ave. MOSCOW, June 24 (U. P.).—The
Two suspects were scheduled for preliminary hearing in police court | Mason, 30, of 2370 Hillside ave. Communist party organ Pravda to-
aT {late today. They were Benny, VINSON SWORN and Walter Ratcliffe, 27, of 2110 N.| day denounced the Baruch atomic
| Arsenal ave, both booked on vagrancy charges and held under $10,- Nersy plan as an attempt by the 000 bond. | United States to “establish world a a Basen ee ig a yi | an ) ewell were checking| 1g, that “such ambi . | ue rp cannol sigeesd 14 oUF Wme.” New Court Chief Steps Into tered the second-floor office and! The plan was rejected by a Pravda
Washington ‘Hot Spot s ordered the couple to “Reach!” {reviewer on grounds that it would "el
14 : | consecrate the American monopoly ay. Brdawel said ok J and |, atomic bomb secrets, that it was WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P). ed Bo oo : e laundry, | 4ocigned to destroy the veto power —FPred M. Vinson of Kentucky to- understand the command |;, {ne United Nations, and that it
~ {and the next instant one of the _. i day took the oath as 13th shiet! mldup wen fired a shot. {Riiped at establishing world domina-
justice of the United States at an| She tentatively identified Mason! Pravd id the production of i in! from police files as the man | Pravda Sa Slaborate White Hose ii i held the gun whe |atom bombs was not entirely in govwhich President Truman’ said Mr. | .
G ‘ {ernment hands. Vinson would enhance national re-| of $100 in Cash {phases were being let out on con-
spect for the feud-ridden high tri-| The gunman then came around tract to “private monopolistic firms {a counter, she told police, removed |such as De Nemours, whose entire : . {the cash drawer from Mr. Bride-|pr tlook connected by a he war} prewar ou was y in I well's desk and fled. The drawer|thousand threads to the German , and some change later were recov-|I G. Farben industry.” ered and the loot missing. was esti-|
| j h south | , mands. Soousands jammed the U0 mated at $100. Pravda’s Charges Mr. Hopping said wholesalers and” Mr. Vinson succeeds the late] Mrs. Thelma Creasey, an em-| “The American plan is intended
retailers are feeling
yet reached consumers.
ebb on record Expects Byying Rush He added that the first week of the third quarter will probably see a lot of grocers laying in extra stocks, to guard against a repetition of the shortage in September. The only bright spots for the week are the bread, butter and fresh vegetable and fruit supply. The bread shortage now is‘'a thing of the past, and more butter is
shortages in|Harlan F. Stone as chief of the na- |: the caned goods which have not|tion’s highest court—and steps into While a one of the hottest spots in Washgeneral shortage doesn’t exist, the |ington. wholesale stocks are at the lowest |
ployee, saw the pair leave the build-|fo consolidate the United States |ing and followed them for a short! monopoly on the production of | distance. She said the man carry-|atomic weapons indefinitely,” Prav- : |ing the drawer dropped it, but was!da said. lately has been torn by able to scoop up most of the money| «pyring this period the United
The court | . Justices | before resuming his flight. | States intends to produce and store
a public feud between
| Robert H. Jackson and Hugo L.| The Bridewell home is at 814 E.|atom bombs, conditioned by the de-
56th st. Funeral arrangements| velopment and activity of an inter-
| Black. | were not announced immediately.
fers to Feud Refers to Feud United States plan would ‘in grad-
Mr. Truman, in apparent reference to the split, said: “All of us have the utmost Yespect for the courts of the country, and| we know that that respect will be| enhanced when Mr. Vinson becomes | chief justice.” The oath was administered by|
becoming available daily since the | Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner] price boost. ot the U. S. court of appeals for the
The adequate supply of ° fresh foods probably is expected to help ease the temporary canned goods shortage.
ARMY SEEKS TO FIRE V-2 100 MILES IN AIR
WASHINGTON, June 24 (U, P.). ~The army will try to fire a V-2 rocket 100 miles into the sky to learn the secrets of outer space. The rocket<launching, the army announced, will be Thursday at the Whitte Sands, N. M., proving grounds. No rocket has gone higher than 71 miles. Army and navy researchers predicted the test will speed the real&ization of “undreamed of” military and industrial “achievements. The warhead will be packed with scientific instruments which will broadcast data to ground receivers.
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Amusements
Aviation ..... 9 Jack Kofoed , Eddie ‘Ash .. 6 Bill Mauldin , 9 Jack Bell .... 9 Ruth Millett... 9 BOOS ...0vvie 16 Movies ..... “18
Business ..... T Obituries .... Classified ..14-16 Dr. O'Brien ,. 9
Dee i Politics [17'" 1q|tered at 2 a. m. One of the men Editorials .... 10 Reflections ... 1o|reportedly slugged Jessie ShoeFashidns 12 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 maker, club operator, with a pistol. Forum ........ 10 Serial .....vs The Memphis Press-Scimitar G. 1 Rights.. 17 State News 4-11 quoted an eyewitness as saying the Meta Given .. 12, Women's .... 13{bandits got in the neighborhood of
Indiana Saga. 10 World Affairs. 10
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Distri of Columbia. Mr. Vinson |was called from the appeals court {by the late President Roosevelt in| May, 1943, to become economic]
| stabilizer. He later was war mobil-| volunteer automobile brake tests at
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TENNESSEE HOLDUP L00T IS $80,000
Bandits With Machinguns
Raid Swanky Club. |
dits, armed with machine guns and shotguns, staged an $80,000 robbery early Sunday at Blackfish Lake club, swanky St. Francis county, | Ark. night spot, it was revealed here today. . Atty. Gen. Will Gerber and De{tective Chief M. A. Hinds said information of the robbery came from “reliable parties,” although no official report had been received here from Arkansas authorities. Gerber said 60 persons were in the club, an alleged gambling establishment, when six armed men en-
$100,000, most of. which came from the club safe and cash boxes on dice tables. The club is about 40 Imiles from Memphis.
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NEW YORK, June 24 (U. P.).— Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, 89, widow of the steel magnate, died today in her home after an illness of three months.
BRAKE TEST POINTS FOR WEEK LISTED
Indianapolis police will conduct
the following locations this week: Monday—North st. between Pennsylvania and Merididn sts.; Tuesday Madison ave at Pleasant Run
blvd: Wednesday—Kentucky ave.| fore
ual stages’ share information on the production of atomic energy with the international control organ and
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'DAY STARTS WELL,
BUT IT WON'T LAST
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am ,68 10am 019 | 7am 72 lam 82 i sa.m.....7%h 13 (Noon)... 84 9am. 76 1pm 86
| This June day started out rare [but promised to be well-done benightfall, as the weather
bridge over White river; Thursday— bureau predicted rising tempera-
38th st. at Orchard ave.; Friday— W. Michigan st. at Belle Vieu pl; Saturday—North st between Pennsylvania and Meridian sts.
JAN SMUTS TO VISIT U.S.
WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P.). ~South African Premier Jan Chris-
MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 24 (U. [tian Smuts, senior statesman of the | morrow. P.).—A group of red-masked ban- British commonwealth, will visit | cloudy,
the United States in September, it was learned today.
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tures, “Fair and warm” weather was to | be the fare for Indianapolis for the remainder of the day and night. The same general weather will prevail over the state. Another spell of humidity, coupled with warm weather, was predicted | for Indianapolis and the state toThe day will be partly with scattered thunder- | showers in the north and west porI tions of the state.
Slices Through Automobile
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 24 (U, P.). —An investigation was ordered today of an accident in which a lowflying army transport plane sliced through the back seat of an automobile, killing two persons. The C-47 army plane, piloted by Capt. Wayne Collier, struck the car on a highway bordering the municipal airport when it came in too low for a landing.
Then, with the ship's landing as-
sembly damaged, Collier circled the airport nearly two hours to burn his
gas supply before sliding to earth in!
a safe crash landing. Collier, Co-Pilot Capt. Farnis L.
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Kenny, and six enlisted men were in the plane, which was returning from an administrative mission to Dallas, Tex. No one in the plane was injured. A Ernest Bobo, Crenshaw, Miss, Negro and driver of the. car, saw the plane as it swooped low about 75 feet away. He stepped on the accelerator, and a slight burst of
Mattie, to escape death, The plane's landing gear cleanly tore away the rear seat of the car, instantly killing Alex Bobo, 38, first cousin of the driver, and Buddy | Woodhouse, 42, both of Crenshaw.
speed enabled him and his wife, |
‘Old-Line’ Party Members ‘Go Along’ Despite Mild
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~~ Protest'by McHale.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Democratic National Committeeman Frank M. McHale made a slight effort today to get the “ma-chine-made” state convention to abandon the platform plank providing for putting the governor and U. 8. senatorship under the direct primary. ! The cohvention will be held at the Fairgrounds Coliseum tomorrow and is expected to be carried off with as little fuss as was the Republican one a fortnight ago. As delegates arrived from the va-
convention badges, a slate headed by ex-Governor M. Clifford Townsend for U. S. senator and nicely prepared planks to put into the platform tomorrow. Opposition Shouted Down Outstanding among these, so far as opposition from “old-line” Democrats such as Mr. McHale is concerned, is the direct primary restoration. But the New Deal Dem=ocrats who are in complete charge 'of the show, shouted this opposition down. At the customary state committee meeting, held before each biennial convention, an informal vote was taken and the McHale men were mowed down three to one. So he is going along with the organization.
it was pointed out. Because they mostly feel they are slated for slaughter in the fall, entrance fees for all candidates were sharply cut by the state committee.
the state organization under chair-
It said various| anship of Pleas Greenlee.
President Truman is being played down. Those in charge of the convention, including Mr. Greenlee, were for renomination of Vice President Wallace at Chicago in 1944 C. I. O.-P. A. C. proposals have been put into the party plat- | £
orm. But the “old-line” Democrats will not be in the limelight. It will be | new deal all the way through. Senator Claude Pepper, the leftist from ! Florida, is scheduled as keynote | speaker. Use Opposite Tactics During the campaign two years
national control organ. Later, the!ago, conservative Democrats such
as Governor Henry F. Schricker and Senator Samuel D, Jackson headed the ticket. Mr. Schricker was seeking the senate seat and Mr. Jackson the governorship. They played down the new deal and the fourth term for President Roosevelt. They lost. So those in charge of the party to use opposite
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{today propose tactics. Mr. Townsend came up through farm bureau and labor policies. He was once assistant war food administrator in Washington under Secretary of Agriculture Wickard. Drafting the industry plank in
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rious districts today, they received |
But it 1s doubtful whether theiBig 4 Reject former fat-cats of the party will break their arms passing the hat. The financing for the ticket may have to be drawn from labor and the rank-and-filers, rather than the
former conservative party leaders, quai plow today to Austria's claims
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Slocp Squall IBRD 13M.
Tows Indianapolis Woman's Granddaughter, But Fails in Rescue.
A sudden squall which hit Lake Michigan's Green Bay yesterday claimed the lives of four persons, including Miss Mary Florence Loomis,
18-year-old granddaughter of Mrs, Paul. H. White, 422¢ Washington blvd, Details of the death of Miss Loomis were revealed today by Patsy Smith, 18-year-old daughter of wealthy Leathem D. Smith, lone survivor of the tragedy. ! Miss Smith, who was Miss Loomis’ roommate at Pine Manor school, Wellesley, Mass, reached safety after more than seven hours in icy Lake Michigan. She towed Miss Loomis for several hours during her 13-mile swim but the girl slipped from her grasp. Shipbuilder Lost Others lost when the squall overturned Mr. Smith's 33-foot sloop ca were Mr, Smith, owner of one of ‘(Continued on Page 4—Column 1) the biggest shipbuilding firms on : the Great Lakes; Alvin Washburn, an executive of Mr. Smith's company, and Howard Hunt, Miss Loomis, who visited Indianapolis frequently, was the daughter of John Loomis, president of the Illinois Brokerage Co. of Chicago and Mrs, Margaret Malott White Loomis. Her mother was a former Indian-
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Bid for Pustertal Valley. | FAYETTEVILLE Ark. June 34|STanddsughter of Noles : White.
PARIS, June 24 (U. P.) —At the (U. P.) —Legends of the Ozarks were| + 10 prompting of V. M. Molotov, the | ywarfed today by the true advenForeign ministers council dealt a : Participating in Race ture of a little girl | . Miss Loomis, who was visiting
She wandered unharmed for six | her parents at Winnetka, Ill, during turning down an Austrian demand | days and nights in desolate and| summer vacation, had gone on the for the Pustertal valley in the south | trackless wilds. | boat trip with her roommate after Tyrol b { In the same region several 108t| her debut party at Indian Hills The council decided earlier this travelers have perished from eX-| Country club earlier last week. ear that no major frontier favoring | haustion, hunger and terror. The sloop, the “Half Moon,” was { Austria would be made in the south| Eight-year-old Katherine Vani jn a race from Menominee to SturTyrol. It left open the possibility | Alst—a city girl on her first visit 10, geon Bay, when a storm of less of minor changes, and the Austrians | the mountains and without knowl- |than two minutes’ duration swamped renewed their claim to the Pustertal| edge of woods lore—was rescued the boat. Miss Smith said it hit Russian Foreign Minister Molo- |late Saturday. “like a tornado” and sent the craft tov today proposed a resolution to| She was found in a mountain down. the effect that any transfer of the cave. in the deep woods of Devil's| As the sloop began to sink, Miss Pustertal, in the northeastern part | Den state park near here. Smith said, she shook hands with of the south Tyrol, could not be re- . =» her father and then plunged into garded as constituting a “minor{ SHE HAD been missing since | the water. The boat.sank like a change.” Under terms of the previ- | 1ast Sunday when she went for a rock, she said, and the men didn't ous decision, it meant that Austria’s| stroll near her parents’ vacation | have a chance. claim was rejected. | camp. She said she and Miss Loomis Hopes Blasted | She took the wrong path, Before pi wimost to shore when the v ; she knew it found herself hopeless- girl “became hysterical and Mr. Molotov's resolution blasted | Jost in a maze of trees, dense un- tore herself out of her life belt.” Austrian hopes of recovering a reroll and opued Nraesbome Miss Smith said she towed Miss least a part of the south Tyrol, oo tains | Loomis for several hours” before she which was lost to Italy after the oun TS tie amazed ‘at the 10st her grip. Jay hips » tus ee re. | child's apparent complete lack of I saw her go, but there was
Screen's Greatest Gun-Toter, Dies From "Just Growing Old'
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON United Press Hollywood Correspondent { HOLLYWOOD,’ June 24.—Wiliam 8. Hart, 75, Broadway “Hamlet” who switched his style to become the greatest gun-totin' cow- . boy ever to ride the movieland |range, died last night from what {his doctor described as “old age.” | Mr. Hart sank into a coma ab | California Lutheran hospital after {a critical three-week illness. He {had been {ll for several years. | “His ailment was nothing you ,could give a name to,” hospital of|ficials said. “It was just the result lof growing old.’ | Dr. H. D. Van Fleet said Mr. Hart {died in his sleep. His son, William | 8. Hart Jr.. was at the bedside. { Mr. Hart, who earned a fabulous $10,000 a week in the silent flicker {days fighting bad men and Indians, {died three days after. a judge awarded custody of his well-being to his son, and his oldtime pal, G. H. Prost. The decision came after a 10-day jeourt battle in which young Hart asked to be named custodian of his father’s health and fortune. The judge granted Mr. Frost sole control of the estate. Mr. Hart retired from the screen 20 years ago—just before the talkies camie in. But his name has
William 8, Hart
remained a legend to a generation of movie goers. Cowboys, when “Old Bill” was riding to fame and fortune across the Western plains, didn't wear jewel-studded chaps and $100shirts. They didn't sit around
MOLOTOV KILLS
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fear and the perfectly serene man- nothing I could do about it,” she
roca Trieste reSiprveal > pg over ner in which she had accepted the
The council again debated the | likelihood of death in the wilderness. Pe Shims losis Little Katherine—whose family is The chief point at issue was the | devoutly Catholic—was wearing the status of the Tends and Brigue val-| medal of St. Christopher, whom leys, with their two hydroelectric thousands of wayfarers for censtations supplying power to Genoa. | turies have known as the patron Mr. Molotov opposed. any final| Saint of travelers. : decision befor® the .council had | or nu | | time to study a memorandum on| SHE WAS found by Porter Chad- | the subject circulated among the| wick, a University of Arkansas studelegations by the Italian embassy| dent from Pine Bluff, Ark. He was on May 6. The memorandum had not been discussed by the council, although presumably it was
| amined by the individual ers THREE HURT AS ROCK | Wom. DERAILS MOTORCAR
| Secretary of State James F. | Byrnes told Mr. Molotov that the! Three workmen were injured Italian government had had full op-| when they were spilled this mornportunity to plead its case and that jng from a derailed motorcar on the council had no time to study the Belt railroad tracks near E these problems. But Mr. Molotov New York st. stood fast. The motorcar was derailed by a DT. i large rock. Injured were Joe Moore, | FALLS 26 FEET OFF LADDER (21 of 2053 Cornell ave, taken to A 26-foot fall from a ladder while City hospital with a possible frache was painting a House at 540) tured right leg, and James West, Forest blvd. sent James Guillan, 25, 54, of 2509 W. 10th st. and Leslie of 1524 N. Sherman dr. to Meth-| Moore, 23, of 2243 Guilford ave, odist hospital with batk injuries | both treated by Belt line physitoday. cians.
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45-Minute Earthquake Sways Buildings in Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE, Wash, June 24 (U.|9:14 a. m. (P. 8. T)) yesterday while | P.).—A dozen Pacific Northwest | crowds were on their way to church, | communities surveyed minor dam-|They tan in a panic at Vancouver age today from a relatively strong |and street cars were swayed from quake. | side to side and forced to stop. The quake swayed tall buildings| In Seattle, a 63-year-old penand frightened thousands of aa Jacob Leroy Kingston, saw dents in the United States and| tall downtown buildings jolted by Canada during the 45 minutes it|the quake. Frightened, he collapsed lasted. , lto the sidewalk and died of a heart Seismologists in Washington attack. state, California and Honolulu re<| A pridge on the east side of corded the shocks and located their nro cer island in Lake Washington
epicenter in the Pacific ocean 200) g00k arfd sagged about one inch miles west of Vancouver, B. C. fs
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said, Authorities sent out six airplanes and scores of boats to search the area for bodies and for missing craft, Miss Smith reached shore about eight miles north of Sturgeon Bay. A couple in a summer cottage heard her screams. They found the girl, dripping and shivering outside their door, Was Good Swimmer The girl said that as the boat went down all those aboard struck out for lights they could see blinking on the shore, but she was the only one able to make it, The men soon became exhausted and sank, she said, because they had no life belts. Sheriff Hallie Rowe said Miss Smith was “one of the best swimmers in Sturgeon Bay.” Her father forced lifebelts
./jon the two girls when the sloop
was overturned. Smith was president of the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co. at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. During the war the firm turned out cargo vessels and sub shasers in recordbreaking numbers, He once was a candidate for the Mr. Smith also was known as the inventor of widely~ used unloading equipment for ships. Officials said ‘another boat was believed lost in the storm.
FOUND DEAD IN HOME NEW YORK, June 24 (U. P.) The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Scudder, 35, divorced wife of a St, Louis sporting goods manufacturer, was listed today by police as an ap~ parent suicide.) Her body was found in the gas-filled kitchen of her small apartment here. Police said two jets on a gas stove were open.
PASSENGER p= LAUNCHED | ALAMEDA, Cal., June 24 (U, P.), —The President Cleveland, said by shipbuilders to be the largest com-
‘mercial passenger vessel launched
in the United States since 1939, slid down the ways of the Bethlehem Alameda shipyard last night.