Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1946 — Page 6

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| cents because the four powers occu=- | pying Germany have agreed to that [rate of exchange. | For the marks I spent in Ger{many I had to pay 10 cents each, [But facts are that the mark ac[tually isn't worth much of .anything except for the purchase of | rationed goods with fixed prices. | Barter Big Business | Barter, therefore, has become a {big business in Berlin and general[ly throughqut Germany. Tobacco lis both @& luxury and a medium of | exchange. The average German has become |a pack rat hoarding all kinds of {food and goods for which he will | pay fantastic prices. The average | Germdn would prefer a length of (cloth, a shoe brush, 3 pewter gob-

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$13 on Berlin Street.

| Following is the second of a series of dispatches on conditions in Europe.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, July 23.—In violation of all law except supply and demand |k |1 strolled into a Berlin street crowd and sold for $13 a package of cigarets which cost me 15 cents at Schulte's store, 14th and F st, in

tends to smoke a couple and trade the rest. Two packs of cigarets woud get him a bottle of wine in

night club, the Femina, Two or three cigarets would bring a grateful girl to his bed. With cigarets he might even -get shoes. Trade Soap, Chocolate

Cigarets, soap and chocolate

in substantial quantities at army post exchanges are basic items in Germany's “Alice in Wonderful” barter economy. But the good old days are gone forever. » Until recently it was possible for a G. I. to buy almost unlimited quantities of such scarce articles from the post exhanges in exchange for German marks. He could sell them instantly for a hundred times their cost, receiving marks with which to make further purchases. Col. Frank Howley of the fourpower Berlin kommandatura cited last August as an example, American soldiers in this area then sent home by money order approximately $3,000,000. Tripled Payroll The remarkable thing was that the total American payroll here last August was only $1,000,000. The difference represented the profit from black market operations. Through a complicated system of money control books and new issue of marks the army now is bringing the G. I. black market spree to an end. But the temptation remains enormous. A colonel made it clear to me when he remarked that the four or five cartons of post exchange cigarets he is permitted to buy monthly could Be sold on the black market for considerably more than his monthly salary, He was correct in that. A colonels base pay is $375 per month and he is paid in marks. Four cartons of American cigarets at $100 per carton woud bring in the equivalent of $400—and at $100 a carton a German buyer would consider them cheap indeed. Have Nothing Berliners have nothing, literally nothing, with which to repay Mis- | souri valley farmers for the flour sent to them here.

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TUESDAY, JULY 23,

; ‘Steam Shovelers' {ave a Hot Job

DONT BUY' RALLY | PLANNED SATURDAY

A ‘buyers strike demonstration’ will be staged at 9 a. m. in Uni- | versity park, followed by a parade, John E. Bennett, chairman of C. I. O.'s Political Action Committee; ! said today. { Indianapolis residents will be asked not to buy. merchandise they | do not need and which is now above | June 30 price levels. Signatures | also will be asked for a petition to be sent Indiana's senators and congressmen, asking for continuation of price and rent control. The petition urges voters not to support any candidate who did not vote for | effective price and rent control. | Delegates attending the convention of the state C. I. O. in the Antlers hotel Friday, Saturday and Sunday will co-operate in the rally, Mr. Bennett said. : The parade, beginning from University park, will proceed east to| Delaware st., south on “Real Estate | Row” to Market st. and west to Monument circle. > Members of the Marion county women's Political Action Committee plan to establishd booths for taking signatures for the petitions in the area where the parade will end.

These workers of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. were candidates for the “hottest jobs” title today . . . they're shown “shoveling” steam in search of a hot water leak in front of The Times building.

Putter, Golf Balls Vanish In Mysterious Turf Blisters

EIGHTH GREEN, COUNTRY [tally walked across the wobbling! CLUp, PORT ANGELES, Wash, |slowly-swelling bulges: | July 23 (U. P..—Mysterious turf] “I shot an eight-iron approach to | blisters which have swallowed up|the eighth yesterday, my ball hit) golf clubs and one putter today|one of the bulges and disappeared | touched off a hunt for oil on the swank Peninsula Golf and Country

through the turf,” 30-year-old John| : Lesser, club pro and ex-San Fran-| ,

club here. ; | ciscan said. mt Tle baby University of Washington geolo-| “When I cut a hole in the sod to! lova een i the gists and club officials, today ad-|fish for the ball, I lost my putter. Lasts nd mother. mitted inability to explain reap-{There was nothing inside but black, father a pearance of the weird two-foot high |film-covered water. Lord knows | RD blisters, on the close-cropped turf.|how deep it was inside.” | REW A 20 yards from here. Thicre had been no rain for days, | \ Prize The big dome-shaped mounds re- {he said. Mr. Lesser said the bulges Nationa

appeared just off the green of the | probably weren't due to water drain420 - yard eighth hole yesterday. age as they never appeared in wel They startled golfers who acciden- * weather.

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SN ) DDT = { Governed as Unit | France, Great Britain, Russia | | and the United States each have an area of Berlin. But the city is governed as a unit. It is one of the] great and relatively successful ex-! periments in international co-op-eration. | There are difficulties, but in| basic obligation to co-operate the| Russians Substantially are doing their bit. All food is pooled. All fresh milk for the city comes from the Russian zone, We contribute powdered milk and other items. Some of our powdered milk 1s consumed by the Russians. Their | fresh milk goes to our children and | invalids. Up to the age of 14 vears | the average German child in Ber- | lin is not underweight. ! | But there is much tuberculosis | | American authorities estimated 18,- | 000 persons who should be in hos- | pitals were walking Berlin streets.

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