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MONDAY, JULY 8 1946 L
Senate
EXEMPT MEAT FACE BATTLE
VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer | THORNTOWN, Ind, July 8-— Blacksmith Robert W, Coolman Jr. | describes his dad “as good a mah | as ever pulled a hammer over an| anvil.” | Almost reverently he speaks of | his father, who died a half century |ago, as one of the “stoutest” men! he ever saw, | “There never was a man to equal |
By
Price Control Charge
‘Pressure’ Tactics. : his neck and shouldér muscls,” Mr. |
WASHINGTON, July 8 (U: P.). | coolman said. “Many is th time I ~—Administration leaders in cone, | caw him stand flat-footed and raise | gress told President Truman to- |, .phousand pbunds in his two day they hoped fo obtain passage . 1.45 He could pick up 500 pounds | of OPA legislation: that will be |r ata) andscarry it the length of satisfactory to him. They con- |). shop in one hand.” ferred with Mr. Truman shortly Almost legendary are the feats of |
before the pay-off battle on OPA |i. tamer. ~ was to open in the sénate, Sen- Perhaps Mr. Coolman doesn't | ate Majority Leader Alben W. yw jt, but to the people around Barkley (Ky), House Speaker | | Thorntown, he is a living legend Sam Rayburn (Tex,), and Hduse himself,
Majority Leader John W. Me- | Farmers lounging on the main | Cormack, Mass, attended the stem speak with profound : respect | for, his prowess with the hammer | Tand the anvil, As one. Said: - RE Bol ¢ CHEF IT Wh rrost un bi
, Br. JOHN vi STEELE.
«Sited. Reaen Saf, Sacmmuisy! or WASHINGTON, July 8.—The pa
senate today amid charges’ that| Mr. Coolman doesnt ae a that he’ both friends and foes of price has learned his trade and learned
control are using “pressure” tactics. it well ; The measure up tor debate would | Trudges to Work. extend OPA in a modified torm for| “Well now, I guess I can make one year. It would wipe out rent|&s good a plow as any man ever increases made since the old price stood behind,” is his explanation of law expired a week ago. his ability. The bill faces its bitterest battle| He should be able to follow his over new attempts to exempt meat, trade. For the past 71 years hi poultry and dairy products from has been trudging to work to ope: any new price control. |his shop every morning at 5 o'clock
. Leader
Senator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn.)-| charged OPA with a vicious propaganda drive based on “scaring the] public.” The OPA, he said, has| been warning of inflation with the | sole purpose of marshalling public! opinion to influence congress in favor of OPA. Urges Factual Study Senator James E. Murray (D. Mont.) asked both sides in the OPA fight to. abandon “pressure tactics,” and decide the price question with “facts and figures.”
“Business men are planning big |
profits and want more,” he said, charging it was hypocrisy to claim
Although Senate Alben W. Barkley (Ky. |!
|was away attending a circus,
{who has lived: a lifetime here, he
{ring as often from the blow of the hammer.
OPA threatened free enterprise. | Democratic |
For the past 50 yeas, he has operlated in the same bailding. Mr. Coolman was 83 years old | last March, When he was 8 he began tending {the fires in his father's shop. By {the time he was 12 he had served | his apprenticeship. He won the [right to a fire of his own when he shod two horses while the family
The oldest citizen of Thorntown
is the only blacksmith left of an all-time high of 36. Today his 50-year-old anvil doesn't
It isn't that he doesn’t have the work, it is that power-driven ma|chinery have helped to ease the
expressed hope that a satisfactory |load. An electrically operated hammeasure could be sent. to the White mer sharpens the plows today at House this week, the senate faced 70 cents each. Some 50 years ago
major conflicts over:
neth S. Wherry (R. Neb.) Mr. Wherry claims bi-partisan support promises his. amendment “a "good chance that adequate meat supplies are flowing ‘to markets at “ridiculously
low prices considering the fact that| OPA was chopped off at a moment's
notice.” TWO: A move by Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O) to allow producers their July 1-15, 1940, profits plus increased production costs then, This was a compromise ver-
sion of the Oct. 1-15, 1941, base | pricing period that would have been established in the extension
bill vetoed by President The President called the earlier plan “most damaging.” THREE: ,The threat of Senator W. Lee O'Daniel (D. Tex.) to conduct a filibuster. Sees Truman OK
Chairman Robert F. Wagner (D.
N. Y.) of the senate banking com-|
mittee told reporters he believes Mr. Truman will sign the probable | new OPA bill if it does not contain | the latest Taft pricing amendment or provide for decontrol of meat, poultry and dairy products.
The measure, as it went. fo the| carried a Barkleythe old;
senate floor, sponsored substitute for Taft pricing formula.
This would require OPA to allow
producers prices to assure average profits of June, 1940, plus increased production costs since then—if OPA deems higher prices necessary to step up production. . It also would allow wholesalers, distributors and retailers their June 29, 1946, mark-ups. s Mr. Taft has attacked this pro-
gram as giving OPA most of the]
discretionary pricing powers it had
la lot of sweat and muscle went ONE: The meat-poultry-dairy ex-| emption, sponsored by Senator Ken-|
and has expressed belief
since |
Truman. |
into the sharpening for a mere 20 cents. | However, the heated metal will dance on the anvil and the sparks will fly for Mr. Coolman never has lost the art of turning out hand- | made products. | The day of the horse is gone from .his shop,- and he is more likely to build a trailer for an automobile. In days gone by, however, shoeing was a routine affair, Keeps from Loafing |" “When the day would pass that a man didn't shoe 20 head you could bet he was loafing,” Mr. Coolman said. Plows have kept him from loafing any this season, Inthe past 15 weeks he has { sharpened about 2700 besides pointing an additional 525. All of this is topped with small jobs which keep pouring into the old shop. | Townsfolk talk about him like the does of his dad. They must be {two of a kind. Thorntown citizens {say of him: “Old Boh" will tackle anything | from a knitting needle to a thrashing machine.” That's exactly what “Old Bob” jvits about his “Pap,” too. | before the old. law expired June 30. Senators watched prices on items ranging from cattle to shirts to see
just what one week of no price | control has meant. Mr. Bridges told reporters he
will object to senate consideration of a proposed $106.605,000 appropriation for OPA for this fiscal year. | Senator John Overton (D. La.) | also a committee member, said, however, he would urge that OPA funds be granted with the. understanding that they be returned if congress does not continue the | agency.
Good Neighbor Policy Eludes Florida Hotel Tycoon, Wife,
By ERNIE HILL Times Foreign Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 8—A considerably battered million-
aire—down here to spend’ at least]
a year—is going back to the United
States as fast as he can get there.| Many heart-rending experiences | hotel
have befallen S. A, Lynch, tycoon, who came to Latin-America to: hear the strum .of guitars,
live quietly for a time.
Lynch's Miami hotel,
headed for Washington and They
cans, New York during the war. have urged him to go south. Lynch, 65, and his 53-year old wife, found Latin-America thus: When they landed in Buenos Aires, he limped off the plane with a touch of arthritis, 4nd was immediately impounded by. Argentine health authorities. Passports Taken Away Lynch was ordered incarcerated in the “concentration center for
crippled and deformed immigrants,”
although Mrs. Lynch made an outright offer to buy the whole country, sight unseen, r But Argentine officials, who slotp “better after insulting a few Americans, insisted that Lynch was already a public charge — millions or no millions. Then Argentine officials. looked over Mrs. Lyneh,
to { watch the full tropic moon and to)
the Colum- | bus, has been the favorite stopping | place of théusands of Latin-Ameri- |
| American airways plane — a thing
SA AXES 4. {| somh WOAH, ACA AEA VAIS REEVE"
pointed questions about the big chunks of “ice” around her neck and arms, It turned out, that’ they were a sultry half million dollars worth of | diamonds, emeralds and other assorted rocks of lesser value. So, the Argentines took both them and the Lynch. passports away for the duration of their stay. And, they pitched Mr, Lynch into a rat-trap hotel for halt and blind | immigrants for three days. Poor Maid Service
So,.after three days, Mrs. Lynch called up the United States Ambassador_ to Brazil, Willlam Pawley, who lives next door to them on Sunset Isle, Miami Beach, and very nearly produced an International short-circuit, Pawley said that he would send | his private plane to Argentina to| pick them up before sunset, But, Mrs. Lynch said that all they wanted was to get on the next Pan- |
they certainly did. Mrs, Lynch says that they have | given up plans for buying a home | in Latin-America. She says that: the place is full of foreigners, who! can't even speak French. ~The Lynchs lived in France, with 32 servants, before the war, “I am a tired and sick man, and want to go home,” said Mr. Lynch, | “What good neighbor policy?" asked Mre. Lynch, “Never have L|
“Old Bob,” the village smithy .
ATTEMPTS Thorntown's $ Village Smithy, at the Trade ATTENPTS T0 For 71 Years, Can Still Make the Anvil Ring|
. Robert W. Coolman, Therntown, [Stl makes the anvil ring and the i fiy despite his 83 years, 71 of them spent by the forge and bellows,
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CHURCH OR C10 “EDICT ISSUED
100 Lagrange Women Told. To Make Choice.
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LAGRANGE, Ind, July 8 (U, | P.).~-One hundred women in this | small agricultural community were | faced today with the necessity of | choosing between their religion and ! | their jobs, The women, all members of the
| Amish and Mennonjte churches, | have ‘been told that they will ‘be excommunicated if they join the C. I. O. Amalgamated Clothing
Workers union, Mose Mast, Amish deacon, sald | the church would not permit its women to join the union, which is| conducting a drive to organize the
entire Wilson Brothers haber-| «{"dashery. mop |- Amos O. Hostetler, international
| seeretary of the Mennonite church,
Sheri io- pointed" euerilnt in the!
fos Re agreed with Mc. Mast, als’
granted immunity from union mem- | ry By | The two faiths hold membership | { In any organization other than the | church is a sin. “We "have told them awhat they | must do,” Mr. Mast said. “If they | join the union they must leave the | chureh. If the. company rays they { must join the union, then they must | quit their jobs.”
MOST OF TREE WASTED WASHINGTON. .—Only about oneFtHifd of the wodd in a tree 1s now | converted into useable products.
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