Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1947 — Page 11

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Railroads Go After Low-Fare Riders They Turned Down in "20s :

Millions of Middle-Class Men and Women Passengers Needed to Avert Economic Danger

Lagt of a Series

tem from economic disaster,

baths and passenger tele-| and women, able and willing

p rst « class « fare brethren, must be’

which last year in

[ Bine months | Boosted their

Mr. Heath -miles from 12.8 to 40 per cent of what Pullman

But the big hole in the railroad . freasury has to be filled with milBong of middle-class men and. wom-

3 unt. 3 ru is the railroad’s task to them with long distance trans rtation cheaper than their own . more comfortable than a bus, ter-than either, They must erase from our minds : 4 harrowing memories of hot, smoky, cindery, hard-seated, jerky, w day coaches in which we rode 1 S0 many years ! Undoubtedly the roads have that | fn mind when they insist upon talk ' hg about their new streamlined, L gir-conditioned, reclining individual seat coaches as “chair cars” L" ! Fare alone (including federal ax) you dan ride these comforable . New coaches soon from Chicago to § Angeels and back for $82.28, [ You can use the luxury coach train i Bl Capitan, as fast as the Super Chief or Golden Rocket, for $93.73 found trip.

Round Trip Fares

{The cheapest you could do with : upper in an obsolete tourist , slow and uncomfortable, | yould be $114.89. To ride a firstolass sleeper, however slow, would fl ¢ost from $146.22 im an upper to $207.52 in a roomette—and om up f for. better rooms, , There are a lot more Americans i who can pay $116.73 for round trip | fare, New York to Los Angeles, than | ean pay from $189. 13 to $247.31 { or up. f | Thousands, at least, who would i stay at home if the fare cost $189.18 for each member of the family i might be induced $0 make such trips for $116.73. That is the belief and hope of those who are try- ] Ing to attract such travelers by making coaches at least bearable l for long trips, | "But many Tailroaders see an . even greater volume of business t and profit in shorter trips, To a . small extent they tried to tap this i geservoir in the 30's. . Led by the more daring western | goads they cut coach fare to 2 cents, | and began putting in better coach equipment. The depression made | their project slow going. The war halted it. They weren't too certain F then, anyway. Make Riding Attractive

+ Now, pushed by urgent need for business, they are studying ose earlier experiences and some later ones, and they have laid out d campaign to make riding the rails attractive that you will do more d more of it. i The new equipment is one phase. Faster schedules over all distances | sre another. : Relatively short lines that tap suburban areas for two or three | Hundred miles, with fast Dieselpowered trains that can make many | stops and still get around in a | hurry, are a third. - Schedules carefully set up to Benefit the greatest number of bh patrons—to do things they can’t do with busses or their own cars—are . ® fourth. , That “gadfly of the rails,” Robot R. Young, put two Pere Marquettes on the Detroit-to-Grand Rapids run last August. That is in | the heart of the automobile country. Everybody and his brother has a car. Highways are good, bus servKe excellent.

Great Success

' He shaved 40 minutes off the old running time for the 152 miles. He ut on three trains. You can leave either end of the line after breakfast, get to the other end in time for lunch, transact about six hours’ business, or shop or visit, and be bome for late dinner. » The train's success has been great. In its first three months it 2 carried 102,031 passengers, coma ared with only 58,613 who used i he old-fashioned train on that Pine in ‘the same months of 1945. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois put the four-car streamliner Meadow Lark on a 345-mile run to Cy- \ , Il, and the 7-car stream- | ner Whipporwill on a 287-mile run Evansville, Ind. Pirst it conducted a questionnaire vote, along the lines, ‘to discover what schedules people wanted.

| Well Patronized

i Before the trains began operatfng. they made exhibition tours-of.

By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—It is the minimum fare passenger, riding a portation is now pretty well une day coach at 2.2 cents a mile, who can save the American railroad sys- veiled.

| en who have tp make every penny|’ {tury and the Empire State were Pro- streamlined by the New York Cen- |

Seeks to Unite Lines, Unions And Investors

Fair Return Object Of Merger Proposal

By JOHN W. LOVE Secripps-Howard Staff Writer: WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The

Robert R. Young program for ime

The spotlight plays upon the extra fare, super de luxe Super Chiefs] d Golden Rockets, Twentieth Century Limiteds and Broadways. jued by their expensive decoration, their valets and secretaries and|

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But there are not enough jjustrated at the tiny village of st.|brotherhoods and the railroad com~

Elmo, Ill The Meadow Lark made an unplanned stop on. the plea of the station master, who promised 150 visitors. * At 10 o'clock at night, 476 showed up. Nor was this mere curiosity. The trains have been very well patron-ised-—the Meadow Lark so well that it was found necessary to give it one of the Whipporwill's coaches. The Whippoorwill showed a‘ 40 per cent Increase in revenue contrasted with the old-fashioned train it supplanted. Numerous checks on various roads have indicated that very little of such trafic increase is stolen from other trains on the line, Forty-five New Diesels On the contrary, when the Cen-

tral, figures indicated that while their patronage jumped enormously, other trains also profited by the advertising and good will. Railroad men realize that it will be a long, slow process drumming! wp a8 much new business as they

fleld. But that does not discourage them. J The New Haven railroad, still in receivership, is replacing every car on its Boston-to-New York-Phila-delphia-Washington line with new streamliners, plus some on its secline from New York to Springfield, Mass, and adding 45 new Diesel locomotives. Good but older equipment now on orack trains will drift down the line, until eventually even the commuter will have, every day, what now he gets only once in a while. That is the spirit in which the railroads are going after the passenger business they threw away in the 1920's, and now need back.

Set Saturday Deadline For Ball Plant Strike

factory today set a Saturday deadline for settlement of a labor dispute which may shut down the entire plant and make idle some 3000 employees.

a C. L O. glass workers union said, a strike would be calléd effective Monday at 6 a. m.

DIVIDEND PAYMENTS UP

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —The commerce department said today that U. 8. corporations reported $4.334,700,000 in cash dividend payments last year—12 per cent more than in 1945.

Local Produce

16¢; 87e.

0. at: No. % 60c;

Eggs: Current RC 5 Ibs. to case, 35¢; grade A large, 40c; medium, 35¢; no grade, 25¢.

need, particularly in the day coach

MUNCIE, Ind. Feb. 26 (U. P.).— Workers at the Ball Bros. glass jar

If their demands have not been, met by Saturday noon, members of

proving American railroad transe

It amounts to revolutionizing the

{rail network of this country. ’

The project begins with an asso- |

| ciation to unite investors, shippers,

panies themselves for a new deal all around.

It goes on to provide the roads with new equipment and with rates to make it pay. It ends with merging the 135 independent class 1 lines into about 25 great systems.

Of these, four or five would stand out as great national patterns, apparently transcontinental. ' Around them the rest would be grouped as collateral systems, regional in character. Three Eastern Systems The start. should be made, Mr. Young said, by clustering the east ern roads into three systems headLed by the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio and New York Central. The Cleveland and New York financier, head of Alleghany Corp. and chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio, has come forward lately as the most prominent figure in American railroading.

In him is coupled the mind of a statistician with the temper and violence of language of a section (foreman. It appalls old hands in the flelds of investment and operation.

| Recently reported in control of {the New York Central—he denies he has acquired that yet—Mr. Young formally opened in Washington this week his Federation for Railway Progress. Pushes Wall Street War In a press conference, he dedeclared his war on Wall Street investment bankers, the interstate commerce commission and the { Association of American Railroads.

Mr. Young laid down both for the unions and the public a program of modernizing the personnel practices of railroads, their equipment and service and joint promotion of transportation. _ Without some program of that nature, he said, both labor and

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Labor—

A F. of L. and the C, I. O. bogged down

A.F. of L. Rejects Cc. 1. o. 'Unified Lobbying" Plan

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb, 26.—~The movement for a merger between the

A. P. of L. President William Green rejected last night the O. I. O.'s | proposition for a formally united front against pending labor legislation. {Mr. Green repeated a previous statement that his federation would not |co-operate with its rival in any matters until a merger actually is ac-

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Advertising Head ie To Speak Here

Miss Helen Kennedy, 2 advertising manager of the Kroger. Co., Cincinnati, O., will discuss “The Mackerel Eye on Radio”

again today.

vertising club. The club meets said today.

Hotel Lincoln. .

complished. ..Mr. Green asserted

problem in a temporary makeshift way.” says of The A. F. of L.|are too had appointed a!diction,

tthe C. 1, O. the sible. question of or-! “Also ganic unity. The| C. I. O. also named a five-man committee but in-|

Mr. Perkins defense against labor restrictions| This publication continues:

ry be the first order of business. | The rejection of these terms by, Mr. Green make it likely the tenman dott committee will never| meet.

| enough,

in one

under present conditions to an ef-

mise. TWO: The “pinko” fringe of the

C. I. O. frequently denounced by munism

Soaring hog prices here slipped Good—

capital would succumb to nationalization in the next depression. Radical in verbiage and vehemence, Mr. Young is a veritable roaring lion of conservatism.

Refused Fair Return

The ICC, Mr. Young said, has refused the railways a fair return jon their invested capital while wages were going up 90 per cent and other costs almost as much. The ICC thus had made itself responsible for the shortage of cars which now plagues the nation’s industry, he charged. The commission, he went on, had the power to wipe out the capital of railroads in reorganizations on the ground they were not earning a return on it. And at the same time, he said, the commission had been seeing to it that they did not earn a fair return. It had thus become “a bigger fraud than Wall Street.”. Moreover, he charged, the commission had the tacit acquiescence of Wall Street

; |in most of what it was doing. Mr. Young issued still another|

warning. Unless the trend toward more federal regulation is reversed, he said, it would lead to socialism.

Isn't Worried

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.

land his bread and butter.

same thing.

soon,

starving it out immediately.

he remarked. pect them.”

ther of a 19-month-old son.

home at Riverdale, Md.

civil service employees. Rainy Day Fund “I doubt if

filled them out,” he added.

Besides, we are too busy.” , Mr. Urban’s section handles cod

Reconstruction Finance Corp. to companies which were forced by the war to abandon ship hauling in pfavor of more costly overland transportation. But, however confident we may be about his. job's life expectancy, Mr. Urban has set up afi OPA rainy day fund. He figures it would keep his

{heir routes. Interest was ‘intense. ~The response of the coach-riding public to such new eyipmen was

family “going for about two months of unemployment. When the QPA

“We've had lots of crises in OPA in the five years I've been here,” “You get so you ex-

Mr. Urban is married and the faHe still owes $1000 on their five-room But he hasn't “bothered yet” to fill out the job transfer application he received| last week algng with other OPA

5 per cent of the workers in our department have “You don’t see any signs of jitters here.

transportation subsidies paid by the

Used to Crises in OPA, He

About Job

Accountant Is Confident He'll Be Working Until End of June Despite Congress Talk

).~When you've worked foy the OPA

as long as Lyle Urban, you get toughened to job jitters. Anyway, that's what you tell people who ask. Mr. Urban, 32-year-old cost accountant from Chamberlain, 8. D., says he long ago quit worrying about what congress will do to the OPA He thinks most of the agency's remaining 13,900 employees would say the|——

folds up, he expects to get another,

Mr. Urban is oconfident—he says— hut poorer paying, government job. that he'll be paid some time yet at his $4275-a-year rate, even if OPA congress. does run out of spending money budget slashing are calling for big| He is just as confident that|cuts in the number of fétleral emthe agency will be doing business ployees. as usual until the end of June—| despite the talk in congress of

But that, too, is in the lap of

Republicans bent . on

their own budget. on their food bill. a year, he added. he said.

to wait and see what happens.”

Truck Wheat

vators are paying No. 1 truck wheat; corn, $1.20 per bushel, $1.35 per bushel; oats testing ” or better, 79c per bushel; No. soybeans 14 per cent moisture, 8.15.

Just in case, the Urbans are aping | the G. O, P. by cutting corners in Mr. Urban said his wife, Evalena, is trying to save New clothes are out and have be>n for more than

“I was hoping to get a new car” “I couid get delivery in about two months. But I've decided

Indianapolis flour mills and grain ele- if $2.20 per bushel for |:

back today with a slightly larger Man \All-Wool Fringed Shawls SESIITIIIS run of stock at the Indianapolis n pink or blue. * Receipts were 36x50 Plastic Waterproof Sheets $1.39 1 Receipts were 8175 compared with x ic Wa eefs . .... TOT wool lO wnons|| Waterproof Baby Bed Guards, $2.69 nas bo mounted to $2050 a hundred Night Lamps (Pink or Blue) $2.25 Baby Scales With Wicker Basket ..... $5.00 pounds. This was 50 cents shy of| go9-13 = 3p4se : ‘ rk Sets 98¢ the $30 record set here Oct. 15 last sind Crving- Eall 110 Stainless Steel Fork and Spoon dit year. 1308 Tying B i $1. With red or blue plastic handles. : as Yhlues hore we Senerally ’ 13 a“ “Hankscraft” Electric Bottle } was 50 cents below yesterday's high. Mediom : . 31.50 an Warmers ................. $1.95 Cattle prices remained firm in Pounds ...oeesees.. 17.00921.50 another active day of trading, while 1100-1300 pounds ............. 17.00022.80 Terry Towel and Wash Cloth veal calves gained 50 cents and fat| 700-1100 pounds [email protected] Sets... =. .............. $1.19 lambs sold at steady prices. ith Receipts for cattle was 1050, 8%: sae Laz 0 Complete with 1 towel and 2 wash calves 475 and sheep 675. 500- 83001100 cloths. GOOD TO CHOICE HOGS (3173) 22x36 Terry Cloth Towels. ... $1.23 Butchers Sod Raa ak aE rn 31 16.00 ; 133.5 Cutter and ‘common... 1... 10231300 “Chux” Disposal Diapers. ..... $1.59 a Ee cs "Bulls (sll weights) ry Large or small sizes. ain} sevsage WHEE) +0ssvr+s Jeg “Johnson” Gift Sets... 89¢ plus tax $0 Bb pounds o.oo HERG Methum Lees likgiese Flannel Back Cotton Bibs. ......25¢ Medium— CALVES (475) 160- 220 pounds ...,..se.... 3900027.78| Good and choles ............ ; Sf pet 2 An?! Packing Sows Common and medium ........ 18. 00 Criterion Combed Cotton + if . Good to Choice— ~ Culls ( UP} cuxian. [email protected] Yests ....... vines id wpe nny .45¢ 1d Joo pounds rts sues iss 3 Xaun Feeder and Stocker Cattle and Calves Ti t 1 - 1 to 4 . : 360- 400 pounds rents Bs isadets oot hi 17.50018.50 Te - ~ 400 - pounds ............ | 500- 800 pounds ..... cirnies ; ; uae 800-1050 pounds .. [email protected] Seersucker Gowns and Kimonos, 50¢ Local Issues ioo-1o% Bounds rin BRHEN In pink, blue or white. ———— ——— } MOG : Nominal quotations furnished by Indi« 300-1000 pounds seesesnnenes 13 009 15.00 Cotton Knit Kimonos. .,....... .T9¢ anapolis sovusitios, deaers: 500- 900 di Fron ... [email protected] In blue, pink or white. : Bid Asked : Abie on BT pie arrveery ow cos ay sorted. Jam = nm “ Aluminum Sterilizers ... 4 oo. $5.00 Wasson’s Downstairs Infants’ Shop A Ami tes cl “ee teases sense, } o . L's Ayres 44% nm “ lt + 18502180} Electric Sterilizers .......4...9695 Headquarters for Infants’ Needs yr ire com came Belt R Ste vas ul 8 good and oe. 6.00@ 17.50 .- Bobbs-Merrill com ... ....|Common and medium:....... S0@ 6.00 Central Soya com 40 ‘ : et Lor a pid 102% i a 3 [ : . : js n A CE ors pia.. 3% 4 AVAILABLE IN THIS CITY ONLY AT DAVIS CLEANERS Cons Fin Corp pfd............ 91 cers RY Delta Electric com .......... 15 1614 Electronic Lab com ........... 3 3% Ft Wayne & Jackson RR pid.. 92 97 Herfi-Jones cl A pfd ......... 13% 4% Hook Dr CO COM :..couvnnee 26 in E05 | A SENSATIONAL NEW PROCESS Ind Gas & Wat com ........ 16% 17 Ind & Mich Elec 4%% pfd...100 111% Indpls P & L com... ....,... 28 29% ital Yoh Ra od roan, & flat + PREVENTS BAD ODOR IN CLOTHING Jel a e com ... . " Kingan & Co pia 1111 ab ab o INCREASES THE LIFE OF YOUR oln cere } Lincoln Loan Co 8% pid....100 -... CLOTHES Mao sreigLon oo COM ..,00 I 3. NPSL Jom fom 3 o PREVENTS FORMATION OF MILDEW N Ind Pub Serv com .. 20% *P R Mallory com “ Progress Laundry com Jen Pub Serv of Ind com ~ * *Pub Serv of Ind 3% Ross Sear & Tool com Vp) Ue So Ind G & E 4.3% pid em ¢ Stokely-Van Camp pi - : \ Btokely-Van Ca c Terre Haute Malleable ny, = U 8 Machine com ...... . § 4, United Tel CO 5% .o...connes » atss AT OR ; ™ ~ Union Title aT TT sere EXCLUSIVE AT - American Loan 4%s 60....... 97 NT) SAM AA “5s a : i : : a 39s ig dg 428 61..... 96 vie Chiaons Tad Tal pir 61....103 ses aces “DAVIS CLEANERS Columbia Club hs bs ...... 88 eons Consol Fin 5s 66 ... ......... 97 eens Delta Coll 5%2s Mss tans 95 sete amileen Mtg ’c5' te 80... or pres indpls Pa Slag 0 “uk 190% 197i The Perm-Aseptic Process, developed during the war to prevent ndpls allways Co 5s 67..... 3 75.. 101 103 G investors Telephone goalie ee mildew and rot in the humid South Pacific, makes clothes odor-resistant 3 He 107% i : : : N Ind yn ft hr 10 by kifing all bacteria. Bacteria JUST CAN'T BREED in a Perm-Aseptic Trae Term Corp 8 81... 91 100 treated garment. \ *Ex-dividend og | | RR — ; i

1U. S. Statement

“no good. purpose will be served by | the A. PF. of L. but speaking for a attempting to deal with a vital|sizable slice of C. I. O. membership. The Trades Union News, an A. F. of L. publication in Philadelphia,

+3 five-man commit-|—and too many jobs at stake to i tee to discuss with | make any hurry-up wedding pos-

|few granite: blocks of bone-headed selfishness who know no idealism and whose notion about unions is that they are private properties in sisted that joint/the nature of satrapies.”

“The interest of all labor is, true The interest of most employers is

ur country’s interest, in the field | of i international relations, is in one! Among the obstacles discerned |ianor movement. “We are no interfective labor unity movement are: nationally, api So sod labor ONE: The ‘entrenched and aging | movements. Nor are we reaping group of men who run the A. F. of| any good internationally by having L. and are in no mood to compro-|a portion of labor taking on a ‘political coloration which it ‘carries | into union business. Meaning Com- |

Local Livestock

Associated with January, 1946, he said.

Miss Kennedy is considered an au-|

Je Seusion ul of juris- i thority in the field service through Indianapolis during too many conflicting claims| Miss Kennedy °F Droadcast ad-|January included baby chicks, flow-

vertising,

Alr express shipments handled pefore here showed 'a.'gain last month|10:30 \ members of the Over the year-ago period of 14.28 Indianapolis Ad-|per cent, G. A. McLachlan, general! lagent. of Railway Express agency,

tomorrow noon in’ Gross revenue of this airborne! [traffic rose 154.75 per cent over

the chain grocery| ' Mr. McLachlan credited the rise the last 10 years, partially to additional plane service ‘available here this year. Principal commodities handled in air

having ers, mediicne, foodstuffs and sea-|

studied the subject a number o food. years,

standing in the road are a

first five largest buyers of radio lion.

in one labor movement.

labor movement. Finally,

and else.”

The Kroger Co. operates more aa announcements. The firms anthan 2600 stores and is one of the nual radio budget exceeds $1 mil-

Outing Flannel Gowns and Kimonos. . te 17x18 Quilted Cotton Pads............B0%¢ Full Size Receiving Blankets ..........50¢ Rayon Satin Bound Receiving Blankets $1.19

36x50 “Esmond” Blankets . ... In pink or blue assorted patterns.

36x50 Printed Cotton Batiste Comforts, $3.25 |

Lovely Chenille Bedspreads ceevenens $3.98 In white or pink.

$1.98

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body odors, discolorgd and weakened fabrics by having Davis Cleaners clean all your clothes.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 .(U. P.),—Government expenses and receipts for jhe current fiscal. year through Feb. co pared with-a year a o

Public Debt 250.685.876.996 279,563,019 Gold Restrve 20,989,190,622 20, 233, 4 xDeflcit. .

553 63; 682

INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings .... $ 7.062.000) Deb AZT

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This Last ¥ : : Expenses 823.084, 780, Th 845.708, 04, 578 a THERE’ Strive 23001 007 424 ‘500 - Ap, 039. 4 335.060 GRAIN DEALERS os A |Cash Balance . 6,054,002,271 35,938,050. vi$

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