Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1947 — Page 1
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Expect 90,000 For State Fair Education Day
Band Parade Featured;
Attendance Under '46
By GEORGE WELDEN { More than 90,000 fairgoec# were! expected to throng thyough ‘the|’ gates at the gtate fair grounds today with a band parade, horse show, 4-H style: show and grand circuit racing the highlight attractions. The day was listed as Education day as well as Children’s day. Fair officials said children under 12 Harness | Race Entries, Page 19 would be admitted free until the gates closed late tonight. | A beaming sun shone out of a) clear sky on the {fair and the] weatherman said the temperature would be in the 80’s, Eleven bands were entered in the! avo! Education .day the grandstand morning. A $50! 000 horse show was scheduled this, evening and the “State Fair Follies” | and fireworks at the grandstand. Yesterday's official Wtendance was} 69,988 paid admissions, compare last year's Tuescday count of ~ Li Total attendance was 61,000 below the 1946 record. Yesterday was Governor's day and Legislators’ day at the -fair., Governor Gates, Lt. Gov. Richard} T. James and members of the state| fair board were guests at a dinner! ———— =o ro at the State Fair camp for boys and| ead “Bevin Asks U. 8.” Divide
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. Europe Can't Wait For Aid, U. S. Told
Marshall Plan Too Slow, Lovett Says
the Governer .toured the grounds. | Gold, page 3 Ted? TRS ningt f Elwood, 1947] » 8.4} «8. LAA Lois Penning on © 0 ! Destroys ° British Economy” by
tomato queen, presented the Governor with a year’s supply of Indiana tomato juice during intermission at the harness races. Visitors at the fair today
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P.). —Acting Secretary of State Robert Saw A. Lovett said today that Europe's already-serious economic position is | deteriorating so fast that she must
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ithe Marshall plan goes into effect, HORSES — Belgians, judged in probably next spring. Coliseum. Horse show at night. | Mr. Lovett declined to CATTLE — Aberdeen-Angus, Ayr- whether he saw the need for shire, Jersey, judged in Coliseum. [special fall session of congress. SWINE~Spotted Poland China But he told a news conference and Hampshire, judged in Swine that some temporary devices, such arena. las loans from the world bank or SHEEP — Southdown, Corriedale the U. 8S. export-import bank, would and long wool, judged in Sheep have to be taken in the months*imarena. mediately ahead. GRANDSTAND, AFTERNOON-— Turks to Get Arms Grand Circuit racing, vaudeville,| nr. 15vett saja at the same time Lions band. that he expected a substantial GRANDSTAND, NIGHT — “47 amount. of military equipment to be Fair Follies,” band, fireworks. on its way to Turkey within: the STYLE SHOW-—Women’s build- next few,weeks under the Greek-
ing, 10:30 a. m,, 2 p. m. Turkish aid program.
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Times “BUB” gum bubble con- pe gaid “shipments to Turke test, every hour, machinery field.. | hus far amounted to less. than $3 million worth of equipment, mostly
{road building and harbor construc- | tion, machinery. Burope's economic position, the {acting secretary said, has deteriorated even faster than this govern-
Sunny Skies
Today, Tomorrow LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Sunny skies and warm temperatures were forecast for today's state. SOUTH BEND, Ind. Sept. 3 (U. fairgoers. Fire, which. Chief John HowAnd another clear moonlit night | (oa believed may have been set by was predicted for those who expect vandals, destroyed the auditorium to attend tonight. of the John F. Nuner school early The wether bureau said ths '0day. temperature today would reach a Damage was estimated at $35,000 maximum of 90 with lowest in the '0_$40.000 by Howard city about 65, and 60 in the sub-| Principal E. M. Fisher said the urbs. Yesterday the high was 86. |fire, which completely. destroyed Sunshine also was predicted for| the auditorium, would not inter-
School Auditorium
next to the last day of the fair fre with the scheduled registra-
tomorrow. {tion of 1200 pupils on Friday and
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Here the aircraft lands at the west entrance of the Statehouse.
“CLASSY TRANSPORTATION — State Treasurer Frank Millis found a quick way fo get to the fair and
held before! Statehouse, climbed aboard the helicopter and at the fair grounds.
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he found to the Midway smoker, Preston Heater, former police | 600 block, Indiana ave, where nh2 llieutenant ' and political kingpin | cashed the “hits,” He received $13
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County Council Makes-Big Cut In Budget |
52-Cent Tax Rate Set, Hike of Only 5 Cents
Marion county council today ade - drastic reductions totaling] $1,500,000 in the proposed county] {government expenditures for 1048.
The council then fixed the total]
county -tax rate for next year at| {62 cents per $100 property valua-| | tion, an increase of only 5 cents) {over the current levy. Budget requests {rom various] | department heads as submitted to| the council a month ago called for|~ a rate of 70 cents, an increase of| 23 cents over the cyrrent. levy, Welfare Unit Hard Hit | The biggest single reduction made | lin any department by the council] {was $1,100,000 in the county welfare! {department request. | Next biggest reduction was $200,- | |000 slashed from the county general | || fund. This cut included $60,000 off {ithe proposed 1948 election expenses, {eliminating a request for central] {{count operations on the grounds | that new voting - machines will arrive in time for the next primary. The council also trimmed $92,000 off the Marfon County Tuberculosis hospital request and $100,000 off the) highway department request. Of the $1,100,000 reduction in the welfare budget, the council slashed $657,000 off- the requested fund for| old-age assistance benefits and $200,000 off the fund for aid to
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price record when they sold for $35 per hundred pounds.
60% of Fair Stands Overcharge for Food
Black, Greasy Hamburgers Sell for Quarter,
1 2 pecceny ciiiirer 5 Cents Over Ceiling Set by Board | Councilmen hinted that the sub-| - IT'S EASY to pay above the fair board's celling price for food at stantial cuts were made in order the 9ist Indiana State Fair.
to force “efficient” MminifEon At least 60 per cent of the, concessions are going over the prices and that more money WOWC D€|,.;4 gown by the fair board.
forthcoming next year if the operations. are managed expertly, F. M. Overstreet, in charge of concessions at the fair, issued a | typewritten order the first day. :
26-Cent Rate Asked The original welfare request of| «A11, PRICES MUST BE POSTED Thess are CEILING [burgers for 26 cents. The stand 1s!
$4,502,000 called for 4 tax rate of | ents, The -reductions resulted! » . rate of 15 cents for the wel-| FOPD PRICES” located directly In front of the bas-| |fare department. He listed hamburger sandwiches ketball goals at the side of the ad-| The total county budget was fixed at a ceiling. price of 20 cents; fish, ministration building, They have lat $7,200,000 compared to $8,700,000, '20 cents: hog dogs. 15 cents; ham. signs posted — HAMBURGERS, 25 w—— requested in the original 1048 ex-| {35 cents, and a dinner at a ceiling cents, | pense proposals. The 52-cent county | of $1.25, | a {rate will make the proposed 1948! These, according to Mr. Over-| THREE STANDS on the west end levy for Center township residents street, were set by the fair board|of the grandstand apparently aren't | inside Indianapolis $4.099, an in-!as the most reasonable conees- | afraid of fair board ceiling prices. | crease of nearly 4 cents over the sionaires could . sell food and still They have signs posted HAM- i {current rate in Center township.
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Last Auditions For Teen Talent Show Tonight
make more than expenses for the BURGERS, 25 cents and FISH 30 | eight®liay stand, lcents. A stand on the west. side of
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[tion of talent for the teen show Lottery Tickets | YESTERDAY NEARLY 70 per ing hamburgers for 25 cents. The! The Times plans to stage in a| cent of all stands failed to-display Sign says 25 cents with onions. Padowntown theater this fall will be food prices. Another 6). per cent|trons were buying the hamburgers held at 6:30--p.m, today inthe! {were charging 25 cents for a ham- without the onions. The price was
thé Wilking Music| Co., 120 N. Pennsylvania st. Last night's auditions attracted | a large number of talénfed youngsters who sought places in the cast of several hundred who will take part, !
Stolen After Raid burger and 35 per cent were charg- (still 25 cents, five cents above the ing 30 cents for a fish sandwich. |eeiling laid down by the board ‘Perk’ Complains, Gets in many cases the hamburgers! Across from the motorcycle vou bought for 25 cents had been speedrome in the heart of the midLittle Sympathy long cooked and were nearly black way, greasy hamburgers could be A 28-year-old habitue of Perkins'|with grease. The buns ‘had been | bought, for 25 cents. The attendan exchange, 787 Indiana -ave., has ad- heated and re-heated to appear admitted business wasn’t any " mitted to police that he took a fresh. {good. The hamburgers, stifling in number of winning lottery tickets|: Many prices that were posted the hot grease for many hours, felt from the - establishment after 'a were placed irr such a manner that business was bad also, gambling raid Monday. a hungry patron would need better! ” Andrew (Big Perk) Perkins, who than 20-20 eyes to make out the! nm og CHURCH ofganizations has built a flourishing business!small type tacked behind a post in|... doing a fairly good business. “exchanging” tickets for cash, had the rear of the stand. {They werent overcharging, although complained to Inspector Donald "ou some neglected to post prices as reTooley that raiding police officers, wp OVERSTREET has request- quested by the fair board. Their | [took $300 worth of “hits” while he oq that any fair patron féeling he!food was in “gor?” shape and conThe show is being written and Was in jail, was “overcharged for food “please formed to ceiling prices. produced by teen-agers, Net pro-| Gerome Harris, 828 Paca immediately contact him in the ad-! Numerous persons contacted vesceeds will be used by The Times to Whose brother is emplic oyed by Big ministration building.” He says terday said they wouldn't have oractivities /in the city.| Perk, last night told Lt. George with the exception of perhaps dered at some of the places charg-Co-operating with The Times in| {Sneed that he and three or Iourijabor day, he knows of no stands ing excessive prices if they had staging the show is the city park |others ransacked the exchange aft-|going over the: ceiling. price. known. what the prices would have and recreation division (er the raid Many fair patrons, however, con- been,"
. —— ‘Cashed’ at smoker tacted The Times complaining they °~ One man said “Trdon't see how Heater Applies “I Went into a back room. ani were overcharged. Some complained anyone could have eaten the hamif P it A
n » v ALL TYPES of talent are: needed Any teen-ager who can entertain in any way is requested to audition or to register tonight. Tonight's session will be the last opportunity to sign vp for a part. - The teen-age ¢ommittee producthe. show will ‘begin to. cast participants this week. Rehearsals will start early next week.
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begat to look ar6und to.see if I of the meager food they were served burger, It was greasy and black {could find any money or tickets,” for the price. and must have begn fried early in he stated. “Three or four others also A survey yesterday disclosed that the morning He charged me 25 were searching.” within 20 feet of the administration cents besides.” He said he took some tickets that Re na
around Indiana ave. for many years, | he told Lt. Sneed, | has filed his second application for| Police said they believe he cashed a liquor store license. $00 worth, still short of the amount His first application for a liquor Big Perk reported he. 10st. license not more than two. months No charges were placed against ago was withdrawn when it was| Gerome Harris: Inspector Tooley discovered that his proposed place Said he doubted that the prosecutor|
of business in the 800 -Block, Ww, Would issue an affidavit charging
Michigan st., was in a Probie theft “in a case of this sort.” | zone less than 200 feet from church.
Sep Palin Hurt In Auto Accident
His. new license appliestion is fot a liquor package store. at 19th st, on'the other side Hp - city,
The Marion county liquor board yesterday t » t pos poned action on the Sep Palin, nationally famous application “pending further inves- u . tigation.” grand circuit harness racing driver, 5 . ear his t ° “ bert 8. Smith, liquor board garty a sliermivn tinderwent X president, said the board probably, °°
tent of injuries suffered in an auto accident last night, The accident occurred last eve-|
will act. on Mr. Heater's application ‘next Monday.
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{ning on 42d st. as Mr. Palin was en | {toute to the State Fairgrounds, He) was bruised and shaken up. The famous driver has been driving in the ‘current grand circuit| [competition at the fairgrounds,
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MANNERS [FLYING PAIR IN IN PARIS | “PARIS, Sept. 3 (U, P.) —Olifford | |Bvans and George Truman, globe|girdling fifers, Tanded their Piper
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attle Equal $35 Record As Food Price Index Rises
$35 CATTLE — This group of 40 Hereford. eatiie today set a new Indianapolis
price at Chicago, they reflected higher prices in grain which also set a record ord today.
Veterans Spend Bond Cash Slowly
‘cashed more than $1 million in
Scheduled Tonight
HAMBURGS DELUXE(?)- — Photo shows a black. greasy ov hamburgers purchased by a Times reporter at prices higher tham thaws permitted
Chicago 00 Grain Futures Up; (Corn $2.41
Meat Production xpected to Drop | Cattle prices soared to & new record here today as across the country signs popped’ up that food prices were on the march upward again. The top price of $36 per hun dred pounds was paid for 40 Here fords, a new local record for a ~° pen sale and equal to the record for individual sales set last Octoe
ber. They had been purchased lash December in Chicago by Carl
Weigle of Otterbein as stocker ani mals. They averaged 748 pounds then and he paid $18.75 per cw, Average 1274 Pounds A Put on full feed the first of January, the sleek animals
weighed Matching yesterday's high [an average of 1374 pounds when
Speicher & Son for Kahr Packing Co. of Cincinnati, | Hoosier-fed animals will
lin livestock: here where 12 loads of | Herefords ter sold for $34 More Than $1 Million cele Tester ony wore ves ‘Converted Here 1 to 50 cents for A top price of
Several hundred veterans wo
In the Chicago grain market all-time price peaks were terminal leave bonds here yesterday | September deliveries of hie, corm ared tod be taki jr/ 8nd oats. Corn soared to $2.47 ; appeared today to.be (aking thelr, "y ype) “oats to $1.14% and wheat time about spending it, [to $2.581%. . : Department stores reported only a Food Price Index Up slightly greater than normal amount! yo New York. tia he Dun & Bradof buying, certainly nothing ap-|street week iy price proaching a buying spree that some: price advances in “18 of 3 Hoods - persons had predicted. : “There's nothing wild about it, ,that's for certain,” declared the spokesman for one large retail [store, Taverns likewise failed to notice| veterans “throwing their money around,” as thirsty bar-flies had hoped. Only one police report involving leave money was made overnight, Lee Bailey, 26, of 3130 Ralston |pounds in 1948. ave, told police he lost $160 of $285! He said the reduced production he obtained from his check. He said. would result from. the increase in he and another man met two girls | the ‘price of corn and other ands 4 lin a tavern last night.’After this,| mal feed grains, a his mongéy dissppeared,
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| More Than in 1939-41 | The average meat consumption next year would be 148 pounds per person, compared with 158 this iS vear, he said. He pointed out, X: however, that this was still about 10 pounds per capita more than im 1939-41. Mr, Eggert said that meat prices The controversial. anti - jottery| today are lower than they were ime {ordinance is scheduled for a de- | mediately after price controls were ciding vote tonight at city council) removed last year, even though meeting. oF hy Jo 8 anu 0 year. However, there was no definite in The weekly earnings of the aye dication which way the counctinién | erage worker in all manufacturing would go. {Industries in June, 1947, would not A poll a week ago disclosed there erage weet gel Hetty the ye y wage n was not one sure vote. for the meas- | even though wages today average generally | $48.91 weekly as compared with $23.86 in 1039, he said.
ure, Councilmen were “undecided.” It is expected they will make up their minds in. private caucuses prior to the meeting this evening. The ordinance would: outlaw printing and possession of lottery and pool tickets, It is aimed to assist police in smashing a $9 million racket, flourishing In the « city.
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Wild Freight Car ii Kills Brakeman
A New York Central railroad brakeman was crushed to death by a run-away freight car early. today, The victim was Brewer Greeson, 46, of 834 Blaine ave | He was killed as a string of seven jcars onda switclf engine broke loose {on the track at Alabama and South sts. at 3 a. m. R. W. Brown, 26 Caven st., cone |ductor, said the engine was switch ing when the cars broke loose and {began to roll along the track, One. car leaped the rails and |erashed into a “stop” block at the {end of the tracks. Mr. Greeson was crushed between the car and the block.
SIEGE OF | THE CITIES—
* THERE is no peace Mm China, And The. Times Far Eastern correspondent, William H. Newton, is in the thick of. the fighting, The first American reporter lo go into the Shantung war zone of: North China, | where Nationalist troops!
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