Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1946 — Page 10
DISCOUNTS PROBED
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. House Committee to Investigate Gifts to Newly- Dfganiced
‘Schools When Well-Establ
Rv ROGE
ished Institutions Must Pay. R STUART
Cacipps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—The
house surplus property investigating
committee is seeking to learn why some educational institutions have | to pay thousands of dollars for surplus land and buildings while others sometimes newly organized—get such properties free. “We're going to dig into these deals,” said Rep. Ross Rizley R
Okla.) today. of congress in the matter of aiding schools is being twisted out of shape.” The committee will resume nese ings here next month, at which time the transfer of hundreds of pieces of real property to educational institutions will be explored. Meanwhile, the reported sale in hs of surplus radio and electronics equipment as junk will be taken up at hearings scheduled to open in Atlanta next Monday. 100 Per Cent Discounts
Rep. Rizley is particularly interested in the war assets administration's. little-publicized discount formula. The agency, as ScrippsHoward newspapers revealed 10 days ago, uses the formula to substantiate discounts up to 100 per cent to some institutions. So far, the committee has touched | only lightly on the sales of property to schools, although WAA already has completed more than 50 such deals with discounts totaling millions of dollars. Robert director of the institutional division of WAA's real property office, will be questioned further, it was understood. Called to testify at the hearings, Mr.
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Whittet told the committee] that one newly-organized school ob-| tained $407,000 worth of land and | buildirigs. in Arizona for nothing] “pecause of the benefits which will} accrue to the United States.” |
250 Students Expected
The institution, the first of its] kind, will open next month. head, Lt. Gen. Barton K. EJ assured war assets that the school would operate as a non-profit institution, according to Mr. Whittet. It will offer approximately 250 students courses in business administration, foreign area studies and’ international regulations, designed | to prepare them to represent | American business and federal | agencies in foreign countries. Gen, Yount has left the army and was on terminal leave at the time negotiations for this deal were begun. i Rep. Roger C. Slaughter (D. Mo.) declared congress “had no intention |
“From what I've been able to gather 80 far,
Whittet, |
the intent courage the romotion ald estab- | lishment of new institutions.” Both | he and Rep. Rizley, however, said | they approved the transfer of property to established schools and coloBes,
EMPLOYMENT GAINS, EARNINGS SET MARK,
NEW YORK, Aug, 19 (U P)—| June employment in the United | States came close to the August, | 1945, level while hourly earnimgs of wage-earners hit a record top for | the fifth consecutive month, the| National Industrial conference] board disclosed today. The board, surveying 25 manufac- { turing industries, reported the aver- | age hourly earnings rate for June {amounted to $1.189, 4 rise of 0.8 per cent from May and a jump of 70 per cent from June, 1945 Hourly - earnings for June 56.7 per cent above January, the base date of the Little Steel { formula; 65.1 per cent above August, | | |
stood |
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1939; and 101.5 per cent above 1929, the board stated. Employment showed a rise of 3.1] per cent over May 10 to bring the board’s index almost up to the level} {of August, 1945. However, the June} [level ran 74 per cent below June - last year, although. it topped 1929] by 17 per cent.
SURVEY FAVORS END | OF PRICE: CONTROL |
CHICAGO, Aug. 19 (U. P).—|
| Elimination of federal control of]
commodity prices, and early return | to free markets; is advocated by an| overwhelming majority of econo-| ; mists, educators and editors of farm | publications, the National Associa-| tion of Commodity Exchanges and | Allied Trades, Inc., reported today In a national survgy among 1800] industry leaders by the Institute of | Public Relations, Inc., for the asso- | ciation, a majority expressed the] view that it .would be bad for the nation’s economy if all commodity | exchanges were to be permanenyy;
of using surplus property to en- | closed.
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THE Corinna tells me that
Cecily
STORY:
fraternity Val, And she {ook Stevie's pin in the first place.
CHAPTER 13 ANOTHER new ‘experience was iting Cecily. at Della's. Stevie Ralstoh had gone home to pour his wrath into his mother's ears while Cecily was sitting in her coupe outside Downs’ being told*by the! president of her sorority that Val was not acceptable to the club as one of its “dates.” Myrtle Ralston, evidently afraid of the emotional dynamite of the inevitable reconciliation, got on the phone with no time lost. “Mrs. Halliday,” she said lightly to Della, “this is almost too childish to bother you with, but my son has just told me that he and your daughter have considered themselves secretly ‘engaged this past semester.” » 2 5 MRS. RALSTON was in no position even to guess what great good news she had given Della. Let Myrtle Ralston try shutting doors now -on Stevie's Tuture mother-in-law! “1 can't say I'm surprised,” Della said sweetly “After all, they've been crazy about each other since they were babies.” “1 suppose we should have been warned,” Mrs. Ralston. agreed. “But I never dreamed they were taking
-
their friendships so seriously! We've |
never allowed Stevie to go steady with any one girl, but of course he isa dated Cecily more frequently than anyone else—" “And if he has,” said Della, net-
tled, “it was because he asked her |
well in advance. Cecily has always been able to take her choice.” » » »
en a
“Dough — of
By ine Emery,
“I guess I should be thankful | try- |
{that I have a girl,” Della said, |ing to be as exeshospting as posI sible. “I'm sure you should.” ‘ston returned, by this | inch the enemy that Della 'had| determined her to be. Long experi-| ence in women’s clubs armed Myrtle | for her next Sat. 5 n “THANK You. Mrs. Halliday, | for making your stand so clear in this matter, IT had hoped we could co-operate with each other but I} see I shall have to handle “the situation alone. And I am very thankful that Cecily did give Steve back his pin. I am sure that her |
Raltime every |
“Mrs
| judgment is more reliable than her
mother's!” Her last remark, of course, was intended to make Della smart, but the information about the pin was ‘the thunderbolt. Della was trantically telephoning me before the click of the Ralston connection ceased reverberating “I hopeé you're railed. “Throwing that Marlin street brat at her every time she turned around. This is vour doing! You've ruined her life!” = » ” coulan't
satisfied!” she
1 SIMPLY burst out laughing “Oh, it's all right for laugh!” Della sputtered, even more enraged. “You never wanted anything better for Corinna! But there’s only one boy in this town good enough for Cecily and that's Steve Ralston. And .if she wants him she's going to have him— whether you and Mrytle Ralston like it or not!” “Apparently she { him,” T pointed out | “Certainly she does!
help it
vou to
doesn't want
Why would
MRS. RALSTON was no fool. She {she want that gardener of yours?
caught the hint of matters below the surface.
“Of course she has been popular,
Mrs. Halliday,” she said cautiously.
“Cecily is a very attractive girl. And|—I like him. of course you want her to be sure right.
that she’s in love" “Apparently she's choice,” said Della,
made
Mrs. Ralston asked incredulously, “You don't mean that you'd approve uy
~—at Cecily's age" “Cecily is very mature Della said. “I can trust ment.” “How fortunate you are!”
for 17, her
Mrs
Ralston indulged in an injudicious feline’ laugh that rubbed Della the just as Cecily
Wrong way even words had done,
more than
her
Judg-
her stained and defiant “All this wild talk | wait to hear her about zilling Val if he doesn't leave ‘Cecily alone convinces me more! her.
Steven is better more money “Della,” 1 cut in. posed to Cecily's But They're both “I'd rather have her married young to the right boy than long she has to-grab an she can get
looking, he ha “I'm marrying his too
not opSteve mother 1s young
walt ything
” n I LAUGHED again danger of that not with Cecily Let her alone, Della. She'll be in love a dozen times before she settles down.” She
“There's no
cut! me ofl
came
without in to her Della did Woes, little Missy!” “Your great-great -
goodby , leark not “Well,
she greeted
grand-
than ever that Steve is still an| father who owned a. Plantation and
adolgscent at 19!”
“ » u
“I DON'T know why,” said Della, | hand for hin
spinning things out so that" sh
glo stor tiem to the full. “Older | today-—getting yourself
fight when someone tries t on their women.” She use
| Was | | never
ambassador to knew what. it
France and was to lift a 1self to the longest day e he lived-he'd be very woud of you mixed 0|with that playground flunky!’ d| Cecily, accustomed all her
years
ast word maliciously. “It's quite | {to Della’s* approbation of her ltigh- |
“but:
handedness, was beyond speech at | * Mrs. Ralstoh | this betrayal,
you'd feel dif- tensely, her eyes , Halliday, if it were Della's, unprepared
She merely talking back te by any previous
ihteatening an-. training to retract a word of what |
t him - 10 she had ‘said earlier.
(To Be Continued)
New York's Mayor William H. O'Dwyer, has “adopted” as his foster son, Gaston Maurice Friedmann, 8, a Polish refugee who won his heart with this smiling photo.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS, TIMES
LEBANESE MINISTER | Already Troubled Iran Due for More in ‘Joker’ Novelties
1S DUE HERE FRIDAY
The Hon, Charles Malik, Lebanese {minister to the U, 8, will head convention guests to the 10th annual meeting of the Midwest Federation of the American Syrian-Lebanon clubs beginning Friday at the Claypool hotel. M. F. Tamer, convention chairman, announced thet Mayor Tyn-
{dall and U, 8. Senator Homer E. |Capehart will also attend the three|day convention as guests. High'ighting the convention will
{be the grand ball on Saturday in| | knows because he's the boy who is
| the Murat Temple and the grand | finale and banquet on Sunday. More |. than 5000 delegates are expected to attend.
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By ROBERT RICHARDS | United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 19~It looks
like a real showdown in Iran, because somebody is going to get the “hot seat” It was crated up, and mailed today. If ‘you own any oil in Iran; say
your prayers or tear off the tops of 10,000 shares and mail them to|jg
your favorite congressman. In two. weeks, or perhaps three,
| that tiny country will be in trouble fue to its shoulders.
We know because we've talked to | Jack Spiegler, and Mr. Spiegler
Isending it over. He's even thinking of marking all.the crates| “trouble” with a capital “T.”
the Joker Novelties Co., and he's just completed filling an Iranian order that will blow the lid off any oil tank at 30 paces. “They'll love the ‘hot seat,” Mr. Spiegler said, “It's my own invention. Everyone likes it. Thaf i, everyone but the guy who gets it.” The “hot seat” is a tiny pad which dipped into water and then slipped into the chair-of your No. 1 enemy. When he sits down the steam shoots up, and things get hot all over, For 10 cents, or whatever they use in the desert for dough, these gentle items will be sold on the {open market. If the “hot seat” isn't enough to gum things up in Iran, Mr, Spiegler
give out with a violent razzberry when anyone sits on them. They're jusf,the thing to soothe the nerves of a nervous tommygunner, Another choice item, selling far 35 cents, is a glass that dribbles. Then, if that's not enough, Mr. Spiegler has a suction cup which startles the timid holder by clinging to its saucer. He's also sending along a jar of jam that hurls out a snake, If you but touch it. Ang there's a pill in the package that you slip into water. It raakes the stuff look like beer, but it tastes pretty awful. For the kids, there'll be pepper chewing gum. The harder
Darked-eyed, slender Mr, Spiegler | is also shipping.some’ “‘poopoo cush-| chew, the hotter it gets. If the Iranians still find peace ance counsellor to students.
is co-president and chief tester of!
ions" '—they’re filled with air,
and|
after that, all they have to do send another cable, “I've got a cigar that blows up,” Mr, Spiegler explained. “It's sures fire for causing trouble.”
CANTERBURY COLLEGE ADDS 2 TO FACULTY
Times Special DANVILLE, Ind, Aug. 19.—Twq new faculty members have beer named to the Canterbury . colleg staff, President E. C. Cumings an nounced today. Stanley M. Dixon, ‘Plainfield hig school, principal, was appointed as sistant professor of mathematics. The Rev. Leonard C. Wolcott,
|Oswego, Ore., will become chaplai you!
and professor of religion and his |tory. He also will be general guid
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