Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1947 — Page 13

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Rasoline and ‘Housing Costs, Are Probed |

Loss of Exports May

Hurt U. S. Business 4

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P). —President Truman soon will re-| = new his “moral pressure” campaign to talk prices down, sources close to the White House said today. | The President's plea for volun-| tary price cuts by business, large and small, will go hand-in-hand with the present intensification of} ! the justice department's anti-trust campaign, it was learned. A federal grand jury invesigation of real estate practices here was understood to be the takingoff point “for a concerted drive to - lower housing costs by ending monopolistic practices throughout the entire housing industry. Gasoline Under Attack The justice deparyment’s antitrust drive is expected to ‘extend to

Friday. This tent will house the machinery exhibit.-

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A CITY RISES—Convos after canvas is going up at the state fairgrounds in preparation for opening of the fair

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Truman To Renew His Campaign To Talk Down Prices |

New York Tenant

Transit Wage Evicts Landlady

Capehart Laheled Dispute Continues As a squatter’ ‘Barnacle Bill

Railways ‘Employees | NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (U. P)— Democratic Director Seek 30-Cent Boost * ltndledy wis looking for Iving pe og Trip to Alaska

Arbitration of a 30-cent Rourlp| UR teTE fof herself and. her two i Bu . i b Times Washington reayu wage demand by union employees children today after she was evicted | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26~Di of Indianapolis Railways, Inc, was/®8 &-squatter from her own house ,..... Ggel Sullivan of the Democontinuing today in superior court by her tenant. cratic national committee today

tell Mrs. Rose Fitzgerald, 38, was of girected, aftention to a recent

t Hearing the dispute is an arbi-| tration panel comprised of two’ Ii Justice Brae 3 de {handout from Senator Homer E. dianapolis attorneys and a Harvard (o, children, Patrick, 7, | Capehart's office telling how the university economist. {rice, 2, before Sept. 2 from the cellar Indiana Republican will inspect the While union attorneys contended |, to six.room house Charles Grein | his Alaska the present average wage is insuf- has rented for the last 10 |pavigation systema on n ficient to support‘ family of four,| # the last 10 Yea™s. lip, company representatives countered| Orin. & Queens businessman, «genator Homer (Barnacle Bill) that the utility's income will not al- bewughn suit In Queens county court,|capehart, the old salt from Ine low this increase. charging that while he was away|giana is off for the briny deep,” $1.20 Per Hour on vacation from Aug. 1 to Aug. 9,/pr Sullivan reported in his weekly Officials of Division 1070, Amalga- Mrs. Fitzgerald moved into his cel-/jetter to Democratic organization mated Association of Street, Elec. (\or: He charged that the cellar and | yorkers throughout the states. tric Rhilway and Motor Coach Em. §arage doors appeared to have been Written by Secretary ployees, A. F'. of L., said the average [forced open. “pr t hand rted wage for trolley and bus operators| Justice McCaffery; directing the press agent handout repo is $1.20 an hour. jury to bring in a verdict for the Capehart is going to take a fives Arthur L, Gilllom of the utility/tenant, said the landlady's occu-|day junket among the fjords and legal staff estimated the 30-cent|pancy was illegal. channels of Alaska to make a de= pay hike for 1600 workers would cost| “She is a squatter,” he said. tailed study of the operations of

the company an additional $1, 100,- | DS RS | the Loran system of navigation, Prince Out on Bond;

other cost-of-living industries. Gasoline is already under attack with grand juries here and in Tos Angeles digging into industry pric-| ing practices. ) At the same time the President's council of economic advisers is| & working on an exhaustive study of| & the effects of the British ‘“dollar| # crisis” on America’s export trade. Administration economists do not expect the full effect of Britain's reduced buying to cause important price reductions here this year because domestic demand is likely to maintain the upward pressure. Decline Expected to Increase U. 8. foreign trade began to fall in June. With not only Britain but Latin American and other countries unable to buy U. 8. goods because they don't have dollars, the decline is expected to increase. Alarmed by recent price increases in steel, automobiles and construc-|, tion materials, Mr. Truman, it was learned, will take the position that the boosts were not made necessary by the coal wage increase. Atiministration economists point out that profits are at an all-time high, production is 60 per cent above the pre-war level in Quantity dnd at an all-time high ‘in dolldr value, ; While the national average in-| : come of $1200 per person also’ is at a new peak, government economists note that some people are dipping| into’ their savings to meet inflated! prices. They add that if purchas-| and her. |2-year-old daughter, Shirley, practice for +t ; ction on at Toxst een er oa! competition of The Timgs' “Bub” Bubble Gum contest it a slump is inevitable. | state fair. Big Industry Major Target Some industries,

: th es, ms, he Mom ‘and Pop Can Join io price raises as being a reserve) = In Bubble Gum Contest

against future depressions. By ART WRIGHT -

perts in the economic council say, however, that the price rise will| only accentuate the possibility of! Special team matches for fathers and sons and mothers and daugha slump. ters in The Times’ “Bub” Bubble Gum contest at the state fair will be Mr. Truman's new appeal will héld Sept. 3. be, in general terms to all business| This special event—the only opportunity for adults to take part— bit the major target will be big| will be staged in addition to the ghildren’s contests which open this industries which “administer” prices) |Friday and are to be held every day of the fair. Valuable prizes will —that is, fix them on a long term be awarded to the father and the 8) 1 basis and not in day-to-day re- mother who produce the biggest! the Indiana state finals to bé held sponse to the market, i; was said. pms with their youngsters. Most large-scale industries suc as automobiles operate on this basis. | Begins: at 10 4. M. “ Their leaders, whom the economic| 1D¢ one-day contest for “mom” council's reports term “business and “pop” will be held in con-| bureaucrats,” will be urged anew junction with the regular dailylgum blowing arena near the youth! to hold the line and if possible to | competition for the children that|center. cut prices. |day. The contest will be held every| Every youngster in Indiana not|

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a m. The winners at each con-| pete, There are no entry fees, All| test will take part in the daily | you have to do is go to The Times, HONOLULU, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—|finals that day at 4 p. m. to de-/sontest arena in the fairgrounds. The coast guard reported today it|termine the prize winners. Free bubble gum will be given to has received a distress signal from| The boy or girl blowing the all contestants. the 70-foot fishing sampan Marlin biggest bubble each day will receive! en route from Kauai island to Hon-ia deluxe model bieycle, The one GEN, olulu. |blowing the "second largest bubble | Two coast guard cutters were dis- Will get a pair of roller-bearing Gen, George Kenney of the U. patched to search for the vessel, |skates. _ larmy air forces arrived by ios which was believed to be carrying] ‘The first and second-place win- (today on his world tour of Amer-! 10 men and 3000 pounds of fish. ners each day also will qualify for ican air installations.

on the stage in front of the race-! {track grandstand. The contests the first seven days

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 26 (U. Be

000 annually in payrolls, - He sald there is no basis for the “An obvious attempt to excuse Dobbin Bows to “Cars present request, since workers mst! Still Faces Questions a junket at thxpayers' expense. year were. granted two increases, | BERLIN, Aug. 26 (U, P.) —Prince

At West Point lone for 15 cents an hour and an- BUS perhaps some good wil} 'WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. 26 (U.|gther for 12 cents. Ferdinand of Carolath-Schoenaich, come of, it Yif Senator Capehart P.).—The army surrendered to the - i {stepson-of the late Kaiser, was re- finds out where he is going.” mechanized era today and planned leased from jail today on bond of ‘The handout was written by th to convert the stables at the U. 8. Red Foe Flees Hungary 5000" reichmarks posted by his di- senator's press secretary, Charies military academy into a garage. BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 26 vorced wife, Rosa Rausch. L. Egenroad, who went ahead to The last of the horses at the (U. P.).—Deszo Bulyok, leader of| He was ordered to appear before Alaska to prepare for the senate academy were auctioned off by the [the outstanding opposition Freedom |a British military government court {small business subcommittee on

. [war assets administration yesterday.|party, has ‘left the country, it was|Friday to answer charges that he newsprint which will inspect the

The 66 animals, including the five announcea officially today. Re-|falsified a British questionnaire by| Alaskan forests.” Senator Capehart, which drew the. caisson in Franklin|ports indicated that he had been|concealing that he was a Nazi. who took off, fram Indiana yesD. Roosevelt's funeral cortege,/warned by the Communist party to| The former cabaret star divorced|terday, is subcommittee chairman,

brought a total of $7835, about 75/get out before next Sunday's elec-|the prince in 1942 but has been his/He also will hold hearings on Aire fields in Alaska.

per cent of their original cost. . tion if he valued his liberty.

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Entries for Far

Increase Over 46

3000 More Cattle Entered This Year

Entries registered for this year’s Indiana State Fair show marked increases over last year in every class of exhibition, Adult open classes, in which every thing from needlework to prize bulls 'is entered, show an increase of 376 entries over last year’s total of 1538,

will be held in The Times’ bubble according to Orval C. Pratt, secre-

tary-manager. The number of 4-H club boys and girls competing also is higher this year with 3401 entered as compared with 3322 in 1946. The number of cattle entered for | competition shows the greatest increase with 3000 head of beef and dairy cattle registered for judging.

Mr. Pratt said the increases were]

due to the fact that farmers had had a full ull year ¢ of preparation.

Idaville Polio Victim Critical

A polio victim who was kept alive on an emergency oxygen supply as an ambulance rushed her to Long hospital last night is in critical condition there today. The infantile paralysis victim is Mrs, Leona Smith, 27, Idaville, She was taken to Indianapolis from a Logansport hospital as her condition became worse. The Logansport hospital has no iron lung. She was kept alive during the hour-long ride by oxygen from an {inhalator administered by two Lo-

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ambulance neared Michigantown with the oxygen supply almost depleted. ' State police, however, obtained oxygen from the Indianapolis fire department and sped with it to the ambulance to refill the inhalator. Stricken Saturday Mrs. Smith was. stricken Saturday night at her home and taken to the Logansport hospital. She was ac-

Quentin Smith, 28.

hospital is Mrs, Esther E. Blevins, Charlestown, who arrived in an ambulance from Jeffersonville at the same time as Mrs. Smith.

undetermined whether Mrs. Blevins is suffering from polio or menin- | gitis. of FBI Hunts for Couple And Missing $102,000

—FBI agents joined the search today for a couple who disappeared prior to dn audit which showed shortages of $102,000 on the books lof an automobile findnce firm. Claud A. Templeton, 33, and married, a partner in the firm, and Mrs. Ruby Gresham, a bookkeeper, ‘were wanted

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Another emergency arose as the

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| Also in serious condition at Long

Hospital attaches today said it is

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 26 (U. P.).|

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