Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1946 — Page 4

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& “Until the government easier for everyone. Now D what they make or grow. The result is a food economy in Spain that makes it impossible to obtain food at the prices fixed by a the government and a black market which Franco not only cannot stop, but which flourishes fullplown among the bureaucrats of his regime, And because of it, the wage-earn-38a ing population of bo Spain, both in the Miss Hargrove yd in the rural districts, face the grimmest winter since the revolution. Although you can eat all you want, at a price, in luxury hotels and restaurants, the working man and the “white collar” employee must depend on the staples he can buy and take home, and these staples are officially rationed in amounts that make the quota for one week look hardly enough for one meal. Stratosphere Prices

Bread, three to eight ounces Aa

day, depending on thé category of the worker. Oil, one pint a month. Rice, cereals or grains, a little over three ounces & week. Sugar, six ounces a month. Meat is no longer rationed, but is obtainable, on the legitimate market, only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Butter, fats, cheese, fresh fruit and vegetables also are unrationed, which means they are unobtainable except at stratosphere prices. Fish Unobtainable For his official ration, when he cannot get it at official prices, and for whatever else he can buy to avoid starvation, the laborer or white colrar worker making from 12 to 25 pesetas a day (at 11 peselas to the dollar) is confronted by these black market price tags: Olive oil, 50 to 60 pesetas a quart; ham and butter, 80 pesetas a kilo

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something wrong With your kidneys or

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By ROSETTE HARGROVE Portugal. Dec. 24.—The olive ofl producer shrugged his dispair and said: “In Spain today, everybody cheats the butted in,” he explained, “life was distinctly

roducers declare only 30 or 50 per cent of had paid off their mortgages and The rest goes to the black market.

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(22 pounds); beef,. 35 peselas a kilo; mutton, 25 pesetas a kilo; chee, 15 pesetas a kilo; potatoes, 7 pesetas a kilo; eggs, 36 pesetas a dozen: a small chitken, barely enough for three people, 40 pesetas. The cheaper varieties of fish, ohce abundant, are unobtainable; sole, lobster and prawn are available at high prices. Milk is plentiful at the | official price, but is fit only for cooking. Tangerines, which a few years ago {were five for a penny, now cost from one to two pesetas a pound. The scarcity of native citrus fruits and of olive oil is partly explained by the fact that 80 per cent of the country’s production is earmarked for export, but every Spaniard is convinced that the government practice of fixing prices at 50 per cent below uction cost has done the most age. Continuous Search for Food Wives of city workers make excursions to the neighboring coun-

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Lavish Christmas

overflowing tomorrow

lucky to get a 10-cent toy.

of agricultural boom today. had money in the bank, lavish Christmas.

—not toys, but real ones. Fly to School Robert Beckman, 17, uses his plane to fly to school, 120 miles from his ranch home near Strool, 8. D. Another ranch youth George Hauk, of Grindstone, parks his plane in a ranch pasture which 10 years ago produced nothing but tumble weeds, Western South Dakota's wheat and cattle lands,. devastated by drought, grasshoppers and poverty prices in the days of the dust bowl had become a bonanza belt. Farmers who were on WPA in 1936 were worth $50,000 or more today. Many more counted their wealth at $25,000 or more, as the result of bumper crops and fackpot prices the last two years. Farmers Don't Brag

fortune and refuse to let their names be used.

try districts and try to pick up a few kilos of potatoes, rice, flour, putter and oil for which they pay,

| the farmer double the taxed price,

and in turn sell the goods at a] good profit in the city. Housewives) doing their marketing in the city| are accustomed to being accosted by| men and women offering all sorts of produce, hidden away in "private houses. | Everyone who has relatives in the county.is fairly well off. . But those whose occupations do not allow them to make forays Into the countryside are the unfortunate ones. Most office workers—even when both husband and wife work—have to take on another job outside their regular office hours to face the high cost of living. The bank secretary, like countless others, claims that the last ten strenuous years have been harder on the “white collar” class than on any other class of the population. The result is a tired dispirited . people, with little faith | in the future, :

Remove Controls From 6 Inventories

{their homes.

One rancher was broke in 1937. He had lost his cattle and his farm. He had no credit. He owed several hundred dollars on old feed and seed loans. Now he has two sections of unencumbered land, some cattle, 200 hogs and 5000 bushels of stored grain. Another man owed four times his net worth. In 1834 he sold 60 head of cattle to the government for $760. This year 48 steers brought $6000. He is debt free and has two sections of clear land. A young renter had 23 cattle and owed $400 in 1936. Now he has 100 head of cattle, nearly two sections of land, 4000 bushels of grain and he doesn't owe a cent. Most of the ranchers have improved their places and modernized They also have bonds and cash—and are puzzled over what to do with the extra money.

Calls Fire Truck

Instead of a Cab YORK, Pa, Dec. 24 (U P)— Gonzales Cresencio, 20, Santa Rosa,

turning in a false alarm from a

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U. P). «The office of temporary controls has removed inventory restrictions from men's sport sh

negligees and trimmings.

were in good supply. The order limited by dollar volume the number of these items that could be held in inventory by wholesalers and retailers.

on women's dresses, men's and women's coats and suits. Electric mangles, water heaters, refrigerators, ranges, washing machines, sewing machines. and vacuum cleaners also are still under inventory control.

Argentine Deporis 13 Of 52 German Agents

—Argentine Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia told the press last night that the Peron government ordered 52 German agents deported but managed to oust only 13 of them,

| Dec. 21 on the Argentine transpor Pampa bound for Hamburg.

some of the remaining 39 agent

party gowns, petticoats, beachwear,

| Inventory controls still remain

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 24 (U, 1).

He said the 13 were deported

Mr. Bramuglia said the government was prevented from deporting J

by pending court action. ,Others on

proper place to call a taxi. Mr. Cresencio, discharged

years’ army service, came to York vesterday to “look up a buddy.” He

OTC said the order was no long- said he asked some one on the a necessary since these items now Street how to call a taxi and was

told to “use that box over there.”

He did as told and called a fire

{truck instead of a cab.

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the time when we

CHRISTMAS

@ The time when hearts are kindlier,

greetings cheerier, handshakes warmer—

of responsibility, humility, faith, hope, and

—<harity, "May God bless us every one!”

all have deeper feelings

you

day oO

man!

PAUL

DORSEY

Funerals of Character and Distinction Without Extravagance. Attendant on duty off wight, Private ambulance,

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Farmers Riding Crest Of Agriculture Boom

PHILIP, 8. D., Dec.”24 (U, P.).— Christmas stockings will be filled to in western South Dakota, where 10 years ago the children of farm parents were

Farmers who were snowed under by dust and debt in the depression

of the thirties were riding the crest They

This year they were planning a Some already! have given their children airplanes

They do not brag about their good |

N. M,, was fined $25 yesterday for

street box identified to him as the

at irts, women's Camp Dix, N. J, Saturday after b's

—does something to

* To each of you

Seay it with Flowers

By JACK GAVER United Press Staff Correspondent

really were a ‘Santa Claus:

baritones.

and to write a one-act, four-char-

drlled a dramatist. The Shuberts, under threat of being cast away on an island with

barred from their theaters from time to time, would have to restore the wire hat-holders to the bottoms of the.seats in their houses. Hour-Long Shows Radio singers would cease trying to be funny and concentrate on singing. Fred Allen would be .enjoined permanently from trying to sing on his air shows. No night club show would be over an hour long. Movies with night club scenes would have to be preceded by program notes warning that “if you think ht clubs- are really like this, visit your psychiatrist right away.” Broadway musical shows would have music and principals who could sing it. Hope and Crosby Bob Hope and Bing Crosby would forget they ever knew each other, Ditto Fred Allen and Jack Benny.

honored position as the center of the legitimate theater.

Radio announcers and masters

on their programs. They would not be startled into paroxysms of surprise when these persons get out of their chairs six feet away and and walk to the microphone. Famous orchestra leaders would not make records and theater appearances in front of pick-up bands

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...it does to us!

At this time, we pledge ourselves to strive to maintain the Spirit of Christmas t

ughout every

f the New Year, setting as

our goal the desire to be of more efficient service to our fellow-

we extend our best

wishes for the holiday season!

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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES RI Dear Santa: Here's Some || = SE ; Amusement Suggestions

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-If there “White Christmas” would be a weather condition instead of sad noises issuing from the throats of Moss Hart would be forced to sever relations with revolving stages and mobs of actors—such as feature his current “Christopher Blake"—

acter play to prove his right to be

all of the drama critics they have o5_vear-old Rochester, N. Y., man

of ceremonies would know who 1s

STOP Sa CRAMPS

from ruling your iifel

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which the customers are led to believe are the ones with which they have worked for years,

Season's Greetings

Member? of theater audiences who ‘applaud to the extent of more Traffic ; than one bow or encore for a per- Injure J

former in a musical show with a story could be arrested for disturbing the peace. There would be no need for remonstrative paragraphs such as these.

TO OUR OLD FRIENDS AND A HEARTY WELCOME TO

THE NEW ONES FOR, 1947 | |

Another deaf mounting acci trians today a. a new warnin one out of eve dents involves John Scott, ave., was killed as he walked a

Wears Discharge Pin

Illegally, Arrested egally, Ares From the Employees of

DETROIT, Dec. 24 (U. P)—A : road tracks s : ] bridge. He we was charged today with wearing cago-bound pas an armed forces discharge button | : ‘ : Traffic accide illegally. | ; | ited FBI agents who arrested him | ' * ar tore i hy of a said George H. Newton had com- i condition mitted a string of similar offenses : \ i ‘Mo : JACOB H. WOLF, President Mos

and had posed as an ex-marine

captain in an effort to get funds State Police

Austin Killian

from the Veterans Administra- / } lost their liv: tion | . f pedestrian acc per cent of tha g between the hq ; Hi midnight. s \ Most acciden

the direct resu ity in the earl ning, Col. Kill fatal hour is between 5 and Henry J. Mu Davidson st., w last night whe driving smashe trailer truck a the heavy vehic pinned for sc

Forty-seqpnd st. between 7th and| == ~~ —— steering wheel 8th aves. would throw out the critical’ conditic honkytonks and revert to fits Passen

The accident River parkway ton st. as the L. Sanders o emerged from | west on Washi dn the car, Har 758 N. Tremont critically and

This is a record of what we have ac- Demand for telephone service—new

complished in Indiana in the first post- demand—skyrocketed to unprece-

dented heights . ; . far beyond any pre-

war year.

: . : hospital. It is a record made against heavy odds vious experience in the company’s his- Jay M. Sewe . «+ « against material shortages which tory . : . far beyond any reasonable Bewite a

crashed into t in the 9900 bloc ton st. early were treated a not admitted. Though dams heavy, four oc ond vehicle wl mins

became increasingly acute and a supply expectations.

situation which at times became worse In spite of all this, we have forged

ahead.

instead of better.

This is what we did...

Added over 60,000 telephones —twice the previous record gain for any similar period.

moastry in cable.

-~41 in service about 75,000 miles of wire,

Installed ersuah -~=t-4] office equipment to serve a city «. ...y2 as South Bend.

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Added some 1,700 employees—an increase of more than 30% over the total force we | had a year ago.

Spent about $8,000,000 on extending and improving the service.

spite of disturbed supply conditions: We won't rest until we have enough telephone lines, central office .equipment, instruments and the thousand-and-one other items necessary to meet Indiana’s needs—and to restore service to its accustomed round-the-clock high speed and quality.

We're well into a huge construction and improvement program which is pointed toward providing the world’s finest telephone service to anyone who | wants it anywhere in the territory we serve. We're bending all our energies toward completion of this project . . . and we're making steady progress, in

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