Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1946 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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140,000,000 consumers.

able supply is concerned,”

exporter for 15 years, said. can get it right now in India, or the Dutch East Indies. “But the OPA ceiling in country for whole black pepper

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OPA Ceiling of 15 Cents Per Pound Seen by Spice Traders as Partial Cause for Lack,

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Cotrespondent NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Only 9000 bags of black pepper tween the entire United States and pepperless meals. After those are gone, there likely won't be any niore for a long time. Before the war more than 30,000,000 two-ounce cans of ground pepper were sold each year over the counter. | Nine thousand bags hold roughly 1, 1,170,000 pounds of pepper, and would produce approximately 9,360,-

divert this supply to the grinders, | But, even if holders released these but the courts ruled that the hold- | bags—which they won't at present ers could not be forced into selling prices—most of it would go for unless the pepper was to be used | meat packing and ‘industrial uses. by the armed forces or for the war! Only 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 cans effort. would be available to the nation's| However, holders eventually be- | their “But there's no real shortage of dwindled from 50,000 to 9000 bags. |

pepper in the world, as far as avail- |

gan to sell and

They sold to the grinders, M. J./grind the pepper and sell it to the|

Golombeck, who has been a spice! [trade in anything from ounce con-| “You tainers to 300-pound barrels,

“But I don’t believe

let the rest of it go,” Mr. ‘for less than 50 cents a pound.” White pepper, with. an OPA ceil-

15 cents a pound. You can't buy it ing of 23 cents a pound, » scarcer than black pepper.

stand be-

Orville Wright, co-father of the

modern airplane, ' is pictured above as he celebrated his 75th birthday im= his home town of Dayton, O. “When you reach 75. birthdays aren’t so unusual any more,” commented Wright, who maintained his usual seven-days-a-week routine in his laboratory.

PLAN EXPLORATION OF JAMES BAY ISLE

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Botanis even ca) exploration of Akimiski island,

stockpile |

who |

that they'll Tag said,

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Charles Gilc dleton convict, after man tod just as convinc a woods near cal police were about Indianaj State police fugitive, who | with two other: fired at by farmer near yesterday. TI ducked back | that five stats now guarding A man iden Gilchrist was 1 tered the Cen at 35 Kentucky Within a fe dozen prowl ce area but altho one answering tion was seen he could not | Yesterday Di Crickmore oper lieved to be G

for less than 42 cents at ils source. After the pepper is ground, the ceiling goes up to 18% cents, Those are wholesale prices.

Ceiling Lift Rumored

Minnesota st. creek but the the fugitive w the "vicinity of though state px hunt, he was n Gilchrist an escaped from tory Aug. 13 af guard, The «¢ mond Johns, 2: Rollin Hurt, 25 were recapture Crawfordsville According t« Gilchrist was @ fiber pistol an find a change escape. When ported wearing work shirt an He is blond, fir and weighs abe He was serv

a large but little known island in The white—which is made by pol- james bay, the southern ‘toe” ot ishing black pepper. has practically Hudson bay, is to be the September disappeared from the market. . It job of an expedition headed by the wasn't manufactured in the United Rey, Fr, Artheme Dutilly, research

hat States during the war, and only professor of botany at the Catholic Spice traders hear rumors thal go jittie of it is being turned out now yniversity of America here.

OPA will lift its present ceiling, but i, the Dutch East Indies. With Fr. Dutilly are Mr. and Mrs.

OPA officials in New York denied otto EE am M2 Netherlands officials also deny FALLS ON DIRTY JOB | Burger Sperks Ihe lvstsge of the that there's plenty of pepper in the AND IS SAVED 1ee Indians w n g East Indies. They report that it BY DIRT and will serve as interpreter, and so assist in th 1 work. will take three or four years to SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 21 (U. P.). Bity aim in he bolamieal wom : rehabilitate pepper culture on —When the Olympic hired Ey % Aol : CE Opa — ngka island and southern Borneo : Ap party, to help in manning the Bangka is Morris Shelstad, 16 out -2p-foot canoes.

Only half of 1 per cent, or 100,000 =. shaft, they told him it weuld| Fr. Dutilly expects to bring his

J spper trees of Bangka . ot W290 YO pen while only 20 per D¢ & dirty job. Today, Morris was vollections and photographs back to ’ jeg Washington early in Qctober.

‘| cent :remain in Borneo. glad it was. Arthur C. Tag. sales manager for| The youth slipped and plunged Archibald & Kendall, -Inc, said: two stories to the bottom of the “Nine thousand bags may be even shaft. a little high for this country.

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think the total probably lies between seven and nine.” Investors Hold Back

Mr. Tag said that this backlog = = was held by investors and speculators in warehouses at New York, Boston, Chicago and various points on the west coast. Most speculators wouldn't know raw pepper if you place it in their hands. They deal in it, but they = never see it. It stays in the warehouses. “Any available pepper is pre-war stuff, Mr. Tag explained. “It has: been in this country from six to eight years. Pepper is the only! spice on the commodity market and speculators bought it up.” -They were smart. They knew that 40 pounds of pepper was |

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s went to the meat packers, 10 per cent to the pickling industry, and 50 per cent “to ‘the grinders. The specu< lator knew that there was bound to be a war shortage, so they put in their orders and bided their time. As late as 1943, warehouses still held. around 50,000 bags. Speculators and holders having bought the pepper at approximately 6 cents

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