Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1946 — Page 8

“Smokes Are Worth Average of $150 a Carton in + Occupation Zone of Central Europe. :

» By LEE HILLS Times Special Writer

It reached its most fantastic heights In Berdespite stiff measures by the U. 8. army to stamp out the money racket based on cigarets. ‘

Americgn mogey orders and mailed

“1 balances. complete with chind,| Maj, Gen. silver and whatnots, Another had a new driveway built around his

requisitioned house—for five car-

Frank A. Keating, district, told me that last July our

000 although they were paid only $1,000,000. , Big operators, who came to be known as “the Berlin millionaires,” started importing their own cigarets in quantity. It was a gold rush. Men from all ranks rushed to get in on the "Currency Control Tried It was, common, apd is today, for QArEieAns: ta. party several jw Ahelr persons.

Prices Are Exorbitant

Others have gathered valuable collections of glassware, porcelain © and antiques, + -With a fey hundred allied mill tary marks, exchanged. for U.S. _" dollars at the army rate of 10 for ... $1.00, 1 went through the battered Berlin shopping district with al

-2C routa2t smprgavl 0 buy so AT cp np aot Say:

One shop asked $80 for a tiny cup and saucer. A cheap beer mug was $15, a cigaret case $100, a ¢andlestick $90. One man offered a hand-cranked movie camera, worth perhaps $75, for $1600. He said he could produce

Shouse The Facké® any stigma. : Thé army started currency control last fall. It didn't work too well. 3 There was no central record kept of" the' individual currency control | books. Men who~ had learned to a Leica camera for $2400. | multiply iets fito an unearned : | nest egg for a rainy day soon got 14 Packs Worth Fortune | arching: 1. Later I visited an American who| Now the army has cracked down , had come out the same day armed | goqin, i _ only with 24 packs of cigarets. "| Its new serially numbered curHe brought back a pair of expen-| on. control books are putting an sive pera glasses, a sterling silver| oq to the racket. A complete rec_cigaret case, five carved beer mugs,| ,.q is kept of every soldier's income « an exquisite porcelain miniature,| 4 spending. He can't send more four silver trays, a pin and necklace, |, than he's paid. New Rules Evaded

‘a pair of large bronze candlesticks But the “experts” are finding new

and several smaller items. | .". A colonel told me his cigaret| « ration of 14 packs weekly is worth ways to get around it. : more than his salary. | The latest is to go to the nearest It is hard to believe the extent army post office, buy $100 worth of to which the cigaret has bécome U. S. stamps at a time with marks ~ the medium of exchange. The | (About seven packs of cigarets), and German can trade it for food and mail the stamps home for converother necessities of life. sion. » It has a definite high values The easiest, and most widespread money hasn't. -. lruse, however, is the purchase of Most Germans in Berlin carry | German glassware, antiques or other little tin boxes to keep the tobacca|property for resale or use in from cigaret butts they snatch|America. ' from the streets, This is simple to do and we've Market Going Out | found no way to stop it,” said Gen. cigaret black market [Sau on the way out. | scarce goods disappear. Or perhaps Al hors i hu eA? EO ds | when we ship enough cigarets and| this get-rich -quick racket. They tobacco to Germany to make this ~ swapped clgarets for marks at $150 | OPE" bootlegging unprofitable, : i Copyright, 1948 by The Indianapolis: Times a carton, swapped the marks for and The Ohicago Daily News, Inc.

| TIMES SERIAL : \ General Duty Nurse

By Lucy Agnes Hancock

CHAPTER NINETEEN | don't care for men—aren't the least IN THE big gymnasium, Sally] bit interested in men. You've even encountered Dora Bronson, and the | gone so far as to take a vow of two had a. strenuous bout with-the| eelibacy or .something and intend medicine ball after which they flung | devoting your life to good works.” themselves side by side on an exer-| Sally's gray eyes clouded. “Is cise mat. They were panting a that all you heard about me, little and lay for a few minutes re-| Dora? Didn't anyone ever tell you laxed and quiet. | about Blair?” She .thought fast. x3 “Did you hear about Marion Phil-| This was the time. The name rolled lips in 315, Sally?” Dora, who was easily off her tongue ready-made. never silent long, asked. | Where had she known or even heard “No. Marion Phillips—the actress?! of @ man named Blair? Is she here in Linton, Dora?” !

Black ‘But the ‘. money is For

3 “She sure is—in 315. Stomach were wide with interest. — “Blair? ; x loa Prétty bad, I guess. Rup- Blair who?” She demanded, tured. 'v ive : i eyve had to give heri .g, x CANFIELD”. Sally]

three transfusions already. Imagine .. dieting the rest of your life. Some fun!”

hoped she wouldn't forget his name. “His plane went down in the Painn cific—nearly four years ago.” Her

SALLY LAUGHED and rolled voice faltered and she turned away. over on her stomach. “To hear you! Fi ae us hear Suyshing Re talk one Jer a | glutton.” would imagitie YOU were a Sally's shoulder, leaning close to her g “Whi " in sympathy, . ehon 1 tm, Sarling” Dor seid. “Somehow I can't seem to .care “5 fully plebeian in my tastes Sally pr for men—they just don’t interest lf . quite frankly like to eat. After all, | 4 hi ae ig Sey one l Have “+ it’s one of the few pleasures I can | od Wold: ©, Dora, and 1 wis a enjoy without comment. If I dance |? 1 a orget. I. . There, she § there are dozens‘who do it better. | 101% herself, that last is true, anyIf I sing—and heavens knows I| °° can’t—people stop their ears. I'm a| §, fair nurse but there are hundreds better. I'm certainly not ornamental E . but can I eat! Oh, brother!

” » ” DORA DIDN'T notice the surreptitiously crossed fingers of Sally's {left hand. “You poor darling,” she

Sall | murmured. “I think you're wondery laughed again as she lung | ful to bear it so bravely.”

an arm abou irl. | ’ tL the younger girl. | Now I've done it, Sally thought.

n (YY », -1 oure a darling, Dora Bron | That ought to satisfy their insa-

son,’ she said, ‘ Close. to her. drawing the other | ip) appetite for romance, If any-

“You're sweet and | | had ever told me I should turn wholesome an y | The . and lovely and I don't yi, 4 large scale liar I would have

care Ww ip ho disagrees. And to some! him limb from limb. However, ean you will one day. be the | ic i perfectly harmless and is creature in th hid $n the world merely a bit of camouflage for pur-

"5 " x THE EYES of plain little Dora poses of self-protection. Even the

Bronson were bright as she gized | ATTY approves of that. She was Howe at the ceiling of the, big gumnasium. convinced --that the story of her ! | “Do you really believe that, Sally?” tragic love life would be repeated |" she asked softly, “They—they a | to thie others, loding nothing in,the has seein to pass me by—the really | “IVs something 1 Maco aegine Iva ok Sor of! about,” she said softly. Sally gave her a little shake. | "Of course you don't, darling,” “The right one won't pass you by | the wide-eyed Dora murmured sym"Dora. And don't tell me you have pathetically, “How you. niust have "your eye on anyone already—at suffered—not’ really knowing, and your i" . $0 young and so lovely!” ” n » » a 2 ie Spit sated Belli- | ‘SOMETHING IN her voice made ter looking as I get older either.” Sally wince "EOL Savy me, you Sally sprang to her feet. Looks 10, she cried. “You think it's

: | romantic, don’ ? , = looks — looks!” | , don’t you? Well, it's all : She stormed. .. put—my. lite is changed. I

feel as if a part of me had died.” Even as she said it she knew it sounded theatrical. . “Nonsense, Sally Maynard! And nb stop talking like a maiden aunt. Youre young and beautiful and good and you'll fall in love again, perhaps my times before you marry ad have a dozen handsome children. And you'll live a full and happy life. You see, I'm something of a clairvoyant myself,” “Good heavens!” Sally thought. “I shouldn't have Killed him. Now everyone will’ be frying to provide. antidote—another man, ]

don't talk

BERLIN, July 8.~The American cigaret is the international cur-||

them home to build up fat bank:

American commander in the Berlin

troops sent home more than $3,000, |

too general tod Ld

It will end when the already|

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The. first success thas ended: Pip

Dave L. Johnson of Boston, Ga. |,,, manganese, silicon, aluminum, holds five-foot alligator stowaway he found in New York City in a cargo of watermelons driven up by truck from. Georgia,

STUDENTS SHUN . 10-CENT SODA POP *. This. mixture,

ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 8 (U. PJ.— gaseous oxygen, ful buyers’ strike

in St: Louis.

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noethy-- Stc+ Lola: oh a. To pile a horhood confectionefy when proprietor upped the price of soda | ‘pop from 5 to 10 cents. | The youths drank their pop at a for this invention; nickel a bottle again when the boss signed to the Linde Air Products 1:30 p. m “couldn't stand the pressure.”

STREET WORK | _ Shrinking MAY BE QUIETER

Patented Device: Eliminates’ Air Compressor. ok

WASHINGTON, July 8 — No longer need a neighborhood be, disturbéd by the deafening nolses of | the air compressor cutting away

pieces of concrete in street or sidewalk, ‘A flux-forming fuel, and | method of use, patented here recent- | ly, permits a noiseless process. | While it is particularly applicable | [in plercing round deep blasting holes in concrete and hard iron ore, | it can be used to make grooves pr {cuts in the mineral materials. The flux .is a mixture of free-| flowing finely pulverized materials, fed continuously into the blowpipe flame of an oxygen burner. It is | composed of varying quantities of

and either circonium or calefum. A convenient way to get the mix-| he had {16 is to use ferromanganese, zir-| | conjum-silicon alloy, and aluminum,

Claude L.

| silicon alloy can replace the zirconiumy alloy in whole or in part. when. burned in provides much heat. | It forms oxides with the materials|

public _ sentiment for

starving’ children.

the | the slag from the hole. MEETS TOMORROW Patent = 2,402,947 was granted “| Charles J. Burch, Plainfield, N. J. Relief corps It has been as-/ ness meeting at Ft tomorrow MTs,

Co. garet. Foster will preside, .

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Influence Is Felt,

erved overseas. Though the VFW voted Chicago convention

| maintain its all-male status, Virginia state conventior. of the ernment insurance ever since 1 got |organization has just adopted a out of the army. But my wife tells "| |resolutbon asking the national or-|™® this isn't enough. She says I| | | ganization to reverse its stand, | The action is regarded ‘as signifreasons. It ' |shows the rapid growth of influence IT veterans in the organization, and it came’ from a

here for two

by world war

southern state, where sentiment for is: traditionally weaker than in other sec

equal rights for women tions.

| Ex-servicemen of this war

| vetera.= organizations. . The

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women was a mistake

VFI MAY OPEN [0&2 ya DOOR TOWOMEN 7 t Get Back Allowance

By Soripps-Howard Newspapers | ‘WASHINGTON, July 8.—The Vet- | erans of Foreign Wars, only large |veterans' organization which still bars women to membership, may yet open {its doors to women who

at its|" last fall to

leaders (o believe the bar against

[YOUR G.1. RIGHTS... By Doiglas Larsen

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Which Was Not Applied For

World War I Veterans’ . WASHINGTON, July 8.—Here are|I worked two months and couldn't

«| Some general questions from vet-|get along with the boss

erans and their relatives: 1-qult

{and applied for my ald job with | Q—While my husband was in the the other firm, but they refused to army I didn't apply for* a family take me, They said I had lost m allowance, I didn't really need it,| rights by gBing to work first for and I didn’t understand exactly how | thé rival company. 1s this true? |to"apply for it. My husband didn't| 'A—As i (apply, either. Is it possible to apply | every Song 32 vou Swality Pi money which’ was| reinstatement within 90 days after ghtfully due me and get it? | discharge, your pre-service employ= A—No, |ers have to give you your old job. QI have been paying on my gov-

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hel — the (Questions will be answered

only in this space—not by mail)

have to change it soon. 1s this! truer - WILD DUCKS, GEESE A—Yes. You have to convert it )

within eight years after you took it out. If you took'it out after Jan. 1, 1946, you have to convert it’ within

ARE GETTING SCARCE

By Science Service WASHINGTON, July 8.—A Kk’ Q—I am a veteran. Before I|jico ica hard one : Sacks welt into the service I ran a bowl-| : oly one. ing alley. That is the only busi | are that it will get harder.

five years,

and the prospects

, who ness I know. When I got out re- | Hunters’ ¢hots, disease and |served with the WACs and WAVES, (cently, I tried to get material and : generally favor their admission to |priorities to

rought in the northern breeding build another alley,grounds have eut the duck and okder (and I was turned down. Doesn't geese population of the United get- A States by--36-per cent: in two vears | A—The government has set up | Meanwhile the number of oa system to give wvet- has increased more than half-a-me eran first-choice: on. building ma- million; ‘with. 1.686968. RUD ORT ing )

erans preference for materials for ‘Officials of the U. S. fish and business construction. wildlife service here term -the site Q-<When I got out of. service I uation “serious.” and their latest

The

VFW went to work for a shoe store field reports indicate the duck dee which: was™ a rival of the one 1/'cline has hit all regions and all worked for before I. was drafted.’ species .

Dora was startled. Her blue eyes|

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