Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1947 — Page 2

“Close ‘Margin: Between Supply, Dimand 1 fold Cause for Steady Rise in Costs

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id without increasing prices paid by the housey the nation’s dinner table. i

%" “"That is & chief reason for today’s rising food prices. With price controls gone, the law of supply and demand

Food Prices Set All-Time Record Account for Jump

foreign countries have been finding U. 8. dollars with which to buy big has been

last Not so much corn is shipped Over-igere registered in flour, seas, but it takes time for big cOrM|oyry “rye, oats, barley, supplies to be translated into live-|peilies lard, butter, cottonseed stock. cocoa, steers, | hogs, - Jagpte coe ol rember or IAT Only and year or so—it will be November or| . o. 31 foods on which December before the bulk of this|i. based showed declines. spring’s pigs move to market. — In the case of beef and dairy catte the livestock increase due bo bie| H{ynpar for Pork grain supplies may be three or four years in showing. youn nn pies | Sends Hogs High

By UNITED PRESS Hog prices are. higher than ever before because of the great appetite, industry

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$30.50 at Los Angeles | Hog prices climbed to $30 per hundredweight yesterday at the Chicago stockyards, packing center of the nation. This was a local anticipate further drops.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The United States is a rich fertile land. But it cannot open its bulging bins to a

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IN ACTION AGAIN—Mt.

Create 2 Laws

6 Others Await Gates’ Signature (Continued Frbm Page One)

permits Marion county jury commissioners to make grand and petit jury selections monthly instead of annually. It was introduced by Rep. Edwin Haerle after the jury panel in the county was declared illegal : Gives Marion county two divisions in the crimina] court.

‘theater in Taormina, Sicily, is in eruption again.

Etna, shown here in the background of the Greco-Roma

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Local Legislators Six-Mile River of Lava

Menaces Sicilian Village

Inhabitants Flee as Molten Stream Flows From Mt. Etna Crater

CATANIA Sicily, Feb. 26 (U. P.).— Mount Etna erupted today, spewing down its slopes a six-mile long river of molten lava which had crept within a mile and a’ half of the village of Passo Pisciaro. The incandescent stream of lava narrowed to a 1000-foot front

rope’s highest volcano threw thou-

The bill's authors, Reps, Haerle and | Grant, say it will relieve the con-

FOUR: Indianapolis health de-' by Reps. Nelle B: George B. Huff perm..city to construct an ad-|

dition to City hospital. It also pro-|

the minority race repreon the board of health be a physician. | : A bill by Senator Hoyt and Senator Brokenburr | the chief clerk of Marcircuit and criminal an attorney. It also es-!

tablishes a minimum salary of $6500 a year.

A bill creating a nine-member personnel study commissign for In-

{fled from the siopes and hills north gested condition now prevailing in/Of Catania. Many gathered st

|a northeasterly direction, down the

sands of Sicilians into terror. They

churches to pray for safety. The lava flow was fed by a new secondary crater opened by an|) eruption Sunday night. It was in

Christian Life

‘Most Practical

“A good Christian has been delivered from fear, from doubt, from selfishpess. These have been subtracted from his life.” So the Rev. William A. Simms, rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal church, Battle Creek, Mich. in-’

formed his congregation at noon today in Christ church. “Jesus is no theorist propounding

dianapolis came out of its house committee Monday and will prob- | ably receive a deciding vote by rep-

resentatives sometime this week.

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With good weather, the U. 8. may have an even greater wheat crop in 1947 than last year. Several million more acres are in winter wheat now than in 1946, and this planting went into the winter in good condition.

tremendous, Most recent reports Europe, officials here say, show the food problem fully as acute in many areas as it was a year ago.

Sigg sald beef and pork prices never beHW Shadin er fore have been so close together. h » . | teers now are selling for almost

Retires at Butler

‘The retirement of ‘Dr. Guy H.

new records before the current pork scarcity is eased in the spring, when last fall's pig crop comes to market. Consumers éan expect to pay $1 a pound for pork chops before that time, industry sources said, Lk Beef, Pork Prices Clsee

“Wt are confronted with a surprising situation,” a packer said. “We have too much beef on the market to justify such pork prices. Lower-priced beef could furnish all essential meat requirements of housewives.” : A spokesman for another packer

8 the same price as hogs, but in normal times steers bring $5 or $6 more, he said. Industry sources said enough {meat of all kinds will be produced

The commission wbuld study the city’s governmerit and recommend to the 1949 general + assembly whether or not a merit system should be instituted. The bill originally set up the city merit system and was introduced by Mrs. Downey and Mrs. Margaret Wyatt. Meanwhile, two other bills ich have received a large amount of public interest are still in their original committees. One of these by Mr. Huff would + permit the mayor to appoint a chief of police from outside the department. The other by Rep. William L. Fortune and Rep. Grant prohibits segregation or other discrimination

measure probably would die in the committee. o

the house and is in the senate aviation committee.

delegation are: Senators John W Atherton, Mrs.

A bill which would merge the! county and city aviation boards into one nine-member group has passed

Other members of the county

solutions and panaceas for the ills of men. He is man himself, a man who has faced those troubles and | worked out his own solution. His | way of life is the m practical because he has lived a human life and died a human death and come through it all with colors flying. In His strength, what He has done we too may perform,” the guest) minister said.” The Rev. Mr. Simms will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the Episcopal Church of the Advent and tomorrow and Friday at noon in Christ | church.

Three Ships. Arriving

in schools on the basis of race or At New York Today : color. Observers have indicated this

| NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (U. i] Ship movements scheduled today in | {New York harbor: | Arriving “— Wisconsin from Le- | Havre, Santa Sofla from Caribbean, and Marine Tiger from San Juan. Departing — America for South{ampton and Cristobal for Cristobal.

|U. 8, ENVOY WON'T RETURN

[this year*tc permit each in Shadinger, head of the Butler uni- person yersity chemistry department since| 1 United States to eat 150 pounds. | 1920, was announced today by M. O.! 1/8 1 two pounds more than last, Ross, president of the university. (Y°ATS Der capita consumption

Arcada Balz and Paul G. Moffett,l WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. PJ). and Reps. Wayne O. Adams, Ken- —Diplomatic quarters disclosed toneth Blackwell, Bert C. McCammon, day that Richard C. Patterson, U. 8. Rae W. Powell, John G. Tinder and ambassador to Yugoslavia, will not

Dr. Bhadinger will retire in Sep-

{record and 20 pounds more than

case! Two-way stretch; small, medium

the pre-war annual average, “If we had 200 pounds for everybody, we still could sell it,” a packer's representative said. “People el Seem to have the money to buy all the meat they want nowadays.”

16 Local Students’ Enroll. at St. Joe

_Bixteen Indianapolis students are enrolled for the second semester at 8t. Joseph college in Rensselaer.

university when it was sitIrvington campus. A of Hamline and John Hopkins universities, he was honored by students in 1040 at a 20th

AY 60 Y They include: ‘ ont ears Charles ¥ Bull 4a Cottage ave.; Robert RL , h . New Jersey st.; , in Sanitarium [Ges a BE Hudson, an [56 eet we "ape, Ave: Raid Jana 00 years, died today in the [igh *-; Norman B Kerchuer, ‘wes W sanitarium. He was 81. [st.: Gerald T oanny Jr. > Lave: whose home Wis at|arsens] ave Thois® &- Beara Ja N He torment, hive Of |e snd James C! Welch, oto Brine } . A surplus government bulldin: Or 1s one daugh-|will be erected on the St. Josep)

sollege campus to house a snac

J. Russell Townsend.

‘return to his Belgrade post.

Burglars tunneled their way, ratlike, through an office and two storerooms in a building at the northeast corner of Washington and Alabama sts. last night. They took old clothes and a $60 radio but left $500 in cash. The scene of these burrowing operations is a half block from police headquarters. The yeggs” damage to ceiling and

.Jwall totaled more than the value ijof what they, took.

They gained entrance, police

‘{theorized, by forcing a door at 7%

NN. Alabama st. and climbing the ‘tairs to the Gallup Co. advertising nd publicity office on the second loor, ; Then they pried up floorboards nd dropped to a balcony in the

‘ownstairs, Taking some old cloth-

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'Ratlike’ Burglars Tunnel Through Building Here

toreroom of the Everitt Seed Co.|

squeezed through i into the Larman Purniture Co. storeroom. They broke the combination off| a big, double door safe. They did| not enter the safe which contained! $500 in cash and an undetermined amount in checks. Jack Harmon, co-owner of Larman’s, said one radio valued at $60 ¢ was missing. ; 9 Squeeze Through Hole The burglars then squeemed back | through the hole in the wall into the seed store had left via a rear! door from there. H. H. Prescott, seed store owner, | said all he could ‘find missing . was work clothing belonging to an em- | i ployee. ] : “I think they took that to use their*work,” he said. : = ; The burglars by-passed his safe | ‘

and cash register, neither of which, bar

sembly session to provide indemnity | broken ‘leg.

chemical and metallurgical engineerdepartment head and chairman

under a compulsory student health and benefit service, School officials pointed out, however, that there are now no provisions - for payment on injury to non-students, The school did not

Gates were understood to he Working out Dians whepely the egislature may be asked to provide for assumption by the state expenses for non-sfudent

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Governor Gates after receiving a report from President Hovde that

deputy attorney general, Rep. Henry A. Kreft (R. Michi-

Tourney te Go On

-- Mr. Phillips said that Morris E.| Allsion E. Stuart of Lafayette, McCarty, superintendent of Lafa-|president of Purdue trustees, named yette schols and manager of the|the following investigating board: tournament there, assured him yes-| R. T. Hamilton, superintendent terday that the tragedy Monday of the university's physical plant; night would not cancel plans for{Profs. P. E. Soneson and R. E. one of the four key tournaments in{Mills, civil engineering: Dr. E. R. the Hoosier schoolboy classic. Martell, head of forestry departSeating capacity at the Lafayette ment; Brenton A. Devol, university semi-finals, however, will be reduced | counsel; William A. Hanley of In3000 because of the destruction of |dianapoils, a trustee; Wallace Cook, the Purdue bleacher section. Mr.|Arlington, student senate head, and MeCarty said that bleacher sections | Edward Karpick, Buffalo, Ky., ediwould be moved to the university tor of the Purdue Exponent. field house from Lafayette high| Also killed in the bleachers crash school. |were Roger Gelhausen, Garret, Ind., The reduction to 7500 seats willland William D. Feldman, East Chicut allotment of tickets to winners cago, both students. of the regional tournaments

and prides Mr. Phillips p hointes Roofing Dealers out. To Meet Friday

dealers at 2 p, m. Friday at the Claypool hotel. The Lewis company is the distributor of Vacol invisible combination storm windows in Indiana

David Betcone, West Lafayette, Cline Finnell, sales manager of

fractured spine. the V. E. Anderson Manufacturing Eugene Catt, Princeton, fractured|Co., Owensboro, Ky. manufacturspine. ers of the Vacol window, will be

1 Injuries Fatal hl Nolan, South Bend, frac-| 781 Teams Begin ‘To Honor Student tang, ced sokes andl Chase for Tite done at the current general 8s-|. John ' F, Horner, Indianapolis, (tional tournament a

director, nounced at noon today that he still had 88 unsold tickets for the tourney at his office at Tech high school. *\

First Wednesday Date It is the first year the sectional tourney ever started on Wednesday. Previously, Thursday the opening. date. But IL B'S A A Commissioner L. Virgil Phillips and the board of control decided # placed too great a strain on boys whose teams were in larger seetionals and had to play four games to win, The afternoon games today resulted from an. experimental die vision of the Hammond and Gary sectionals to allow more fans to see the games. The first two rounds for Hame mond will be played there and a East Chicago, while the first two rounds for Gary will be there and at Valparaiso, The semi-finals and finals will be at Hammond a Gary, Hammond high's Wildeats—wine ners of 19 out of 21 starts this sea son and co-champions of Northern conference's western wing —were the only top-notch cone tenders playing this n.

Eight at Calumet

Coach Bob King's Cats faced Lowell in the 1:30 Pp. m. opener at Hammond. There were eight games altogether this afternoon in the Calumet district, Tonight, the four Calumet centers will continue with two games each. Indianapolis, Lafayette, Ware saw, North Manchester, Kendalle ville, Plymouth, Terre Haute, Aue burn, LaPorte, Huntington, Fe Wayne, Paoli, Jeflersonville, Farme land, Connersville, Clinton, Roe chester and South Bend will Join in, That adds up to a total of 53 games today—and 52 disappointed teams tonight.’ Besides - Hammond High, five other high-ranking teams in the state will see action today.

Meets Little Wheeler

East Chicago Washington (18-2 opens at 7 p. m. against little Wheeler at East Chicago. Also as 7 p. m, Rochester (16-4) meets Richland Center at Rochester, Gary Proebel (15-6) faces Gary Wirt at Gary, and Huntington (18-2) plays Huntington . Catholic at Hunting ton.

At 8:15 p. m. Jeffersonville’s Red’ Devils open with Georgetown Jeffersonville. » Eight top candidates for the championship—Madison, Gary Eme erson, Evansville Central, Seymour, Shelbyville, Terre Haute Garfield,

+ | Richmond and Bedford—open play

tomorrow, The others start Frie day. ‘ W Few of the favorites anticipate any trouble early in the sectional Evansville Central (19-1), howe ever, opens against Evansville Me« morial at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow and, if victorious, probably will face city rival Reitz Friday night. Central won two-pointers from both last

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