Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1946 — Page 23

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During the price holiday, hides advanced from the 15% cents a pound ceiling: to near the world price of 27 cents. Trade was brisk. Some dealers accumulated cowskins at 20 cents a pound or more and couldn't dispose of them by the time OPA returned to power, Now the 15% cent ceiling is back, and OPA would have the hides of the hide traders safely nailed to the barn door—except for one thing.

Can't Make Dealers Sell The government hasn't figured out a way to make the dealers sell. So the tanneries are all but shut down, shoe factories are squawking for leather, and consumers are wondering why retailers areé- all out of their size. Jack Weiller, Chicago dealer and president of the National Hide Association, says the United States wouldn't be in this pickle if it were not the only country in the world trying to operates under a conMd economy so far as hides oncerned. Hunt Substitutes

He predicted we will be short 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 hides this year. Reports that the Endicott-John-son shoe plant in Endicott, N. Y,, is running only two days a week, were confirmed by Chicago representatives, “We just can’t buy the hides to make leather in our tanneries,” said a spokesman. “OPA raised she ceilings on leather, but not on hides.

“Within the past 60 days our shoe ieliveries have been slowed up four 0 seven weeks. Accounts are geting an average of only six pairs, vhere they could sell hundreds. “All the manufacturers are in about the same fix.” Women’s Shoes Plentiful

While hidé dealers are" playing ride-and-seek with the tanneries, he later are reaching out for subititutes for cow and calf leather -hog hides, deer and goat. Women's shoes are more plentiful

[Dealers Predict Shoe Shortage To ‘Pinch’

Blame Shrinkage i in n Cattle

Price Rollback

For Severe Leather Shortage

By GEORGE THIEM Times Special Writer CHICAGO, Sept. 25.—The shoe industry sized up its prospects today and decided the shortage will pinch a while longer. Shoe sufiplies “still are tight, according to the trade. the situation will get worse before it gets better. 1t’s all due to the recent shrinkage in cattle receipts and the OPA price rollback on hides, the source of leather for shoes,

Moreover,

skin, cloth and various synthetics are being used in place of leather, These substitutes, according to Robert Sell, trade magazine editor, have played a part in setting new records this year in shoe production. Agitation for ending OPA, the Trade concedes, is causing speculators to hold on to: their hides. The civilian production admninistration allocates to the tanneries as the skins show up in the hands of packers. Only recently more than 400,000 hides were released by the big four processors, the result of heavy August slaughter. Hides Disappearing Now thatthe big packers are all but .out of business while black marketeers are flocking in, hides are disappearing from the usual channels of trade, This ‘development caused a shoe manufacturer's spokesman to say the shortage today is more acute than at any time during the war. Government allocations don’t mean anything to a tannery when you can't find hides, a tanner explained. “Last month we got only 40 per cent of our allotment and this month only 25,” he said. “And our allotment—if we got all of it—would be only 50 per cent of capacity, It's very tough.” Is there hope for improvement in the shoe outlook? There are these encouraging possibilities. @A ceiling adjustment would enable traders with stocks of hides to break even or get out with less loss on inventories accumulated during the price holiday. Cattle runs at public markets are destined to increase in October and November. Further gains are assured after the first of the year. The shoe shortage will stay with us so long as price control prevenis resumption of normal hide imports. A buy-happy public could help, too, by limiting purchases to absolute needs.

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NIMES SERIAL— ‘

CHAPTER 21 I THINK 1 must have. fainted,

right at Innisfail after Miss Charotte laughed her pitiful empty augh. And for a day or two after-| wards I seem to have been in a sort] »f daze. I do have a vague memory of sitting at the breakfast table the 1ext morning with Ellen, her face swollen and tear-stained, across) ‘rom me. And of how she canonzed Beatrice without benefit of | anon law. “She was a saint, that's! vhat she was,” Ellen declared, and n my heart I agreed with her. There is also the memory of the| stricken faces of Beatrice’s mother wd father, and of how the whole own seemed to go into mourning ‘or the girl. ? . ” ” SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH, I vas allowed to remain at Innistail, |” hough at first my father objected | itrenuously. He hadn't wanted me] 0 go there in the first place, he old Ellen, and he certainly had nb!

vhere there were such goings-on. To this, Ellen, in- a shocked, mved voice, said there were no| 1gs-on” at Innisfail. the terrible sorrows and vicissinudes that had fallen upon the | use were what he referred to, it| vas, of course; unfortunate that I! 1ad witnessed them. It was too bad that Celia had to ome in contact with such things o early in life, she said, but, after Jl, the harm had been done, fit! vas too late now. However, nol arm, Ellen said with dignity had een done to the girl's soul, and hat was the important thing. o ” ” “AND GOD. knows,” said Ellen itterly, “if I never needed her beore, it's now I need her, with that wor thing the way she is.” Here Ellen burst into tears. For fiss Charlotte, in her demented tate, would allow. no one but Elsh near. her, for some reason—or or no reason at all, to be sure. There was a great to-do now, ith my mother joining Ellen in er grief and my father, looking xceedingly uncomfortable, trying 5 reason with the two women. Intil, exasperated, he finally made he astounding statement that it ras up to “the girl herself.” g wn I, CECELIA HART, who had ‘alrays been told what to do and how 3 do it, was to make up my own 1nd whether I should stay at nnisfail or return to my own home ~where I rightly .belonged, he hassned to add. Faced with an unprecedented, un-eard-of privilege, that of making decision about something, I was yw the ‘moment speechless. ' Al10st at once I realized that'I now s3]t myself to be part of Innisfail, come what may I should be fched indeed apart from the lace and the people.’ Timidly I said I thought I should ay and help Cousin Ellen, since he really needed me. And though 1y father still looked outraged and,

Devil's Laughter

By Alice M. Laverick

his- rash words, after a few more tears and embraces and another

after all, for I have no recollection [cup Of tea all round, I went off whatever of what happened that{8gain with Ellen

NE ” ” I WAS to be sent to the Barrington high school for my last year, {that being nearer to Innisfail than the Lynchester school. Fortunate indeed for me that my father could=not be there at Innisfail that evening and the following one, to see the “goings-on,” or he would have marched me home | instantly. Mark, who had since the (night of the double tragedy been a silent, grief-stricken man, now turned on his brother. The third eminent brain specialist Mark had called in for Miss Charlotte had only just left, after giving the same opinion as the other two—that there was no telling when, if ever, she would recover her mental balance. It might be years or months. Or never, H MARK, HIS os like blank gray | stones, his face drawn and old, came into the dining room at Ellen’s second call, and his glance

ntention of “allowing ‘me to stay Y. tell on_Colin.

Then = it was that “the older brother, in his bitter anguish, flew into. a sudden terrible rage at the younger one and laid the blame for all that had happened on him. Colin, his head bowed, sat immovable in his place at the table. { All the while Mark raged at him lhe was silent, bearing” the whip lashes of his brother’s tongue with no words of defense for himself. Ellen and I were terrified witnesses, for Mark was frightening in his anger. ” n o THIS WAS not what we had grown used to, this was no spirited wrangling between two men over who had won the sweepstakes or who had painted a picture. This was deadly, Mark accused Colin of turning .the lives of all at Innisfail into a nightmare. He had deliberately trifled with the affections of two wonderful girls and now one was dead and the other insane, and he, and he alone, must answer for it." “You're the host selfish creature that ever lived” Mark blazed. “You have no regard for anything on the face of the earth or in Heaven itself, I believe, but your own pleasure. Get out of this house and stay out! I never want tc lay eyes on you again!” ” » » COLIN SAID nothing. He seemed utterly crushed, But he did not leave and the next night Mark found him in the supper hall out-

to get her to, speak to him, This time it did not stop at words. This time too, (olin defended himself. When, with a howl of rage, his brother leaped at Him and tried to choke him, Colin struck back and they fought like two maniacs all over the upper hall and down the stairs, with Ellen and me, petrified ‘with fright, peering at them {rom below.

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By FRANK ANGELO Times Special Writer EDMONTON, ‘Alberta, Sept. 25.—

i% | Canada's tourist tub-thumpers are

chalking up the story of a record-

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they're starting to beat the drum vigorously for 1947 with the other. They figure they can't relax for a minute, The glitter of an estimated $233,000,000 tourist business this year, highest in Canada's history, does not blind them to the fact

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SHORTAGE OF MEAT SOLVED BY LADIES

WINDHAM, N. H., Sept. 25 (U.

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Alberta, with Banff, Jasper park and Lake Louise, three of the big-

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