Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1947 — Page 2
PACE ._
~ Report
Housewives - Tightening Purse Strings
Buy in Dollars Instead of Pounds
Although a wave of buyer resistance against “hight meat prices was reported sweeping the nation today, - no appreciable decline in sales was
reported in Indianapolis yet,
Grocery store and packing house officials sald that business was the rpame a8 Ustial and hat the buyer a resistance wasn't being felt here
yer
A. check of Tepresentative citie by the Uni'ed Press showed buyer Fesistance was gaining momentum in other parts of the country. Some cities reported retail meat volume had dropped off as much as 35 per
cent
“Customers are buying in dollars
instead of in pounds of meat
Charles H. Bromann, executive se
ary of the Awocluted Food Scout Executive’ S SHecess Is 'Rags to Riches’ Story
E. W. Beckman Heads $10 Million
A Year Business Division By VICTOR PETERSON,
“Housewives have cerlain amount of money and And out how much meat they can buy with it They don't step up to the counter
and ask for a certain amount of
meat anymore,” he sald ON 25 Per Cent
Mr. Bromann sald meat volume was off as much as 25 per cent. He " sald retailers are absarbing. some of the price increases and "taking
beating” because they are afraid
they might lose customers if the) pass the increases on Ww the house-
wives He sald he couldn't see why peo ple stopped buying meat. The price
ir “admittedly high,” he said. But it “hasn't risen any more than
prices on a lot of other products
In New York, Samuel Morganroth; -eotinsel for —the New York State Association of Retail Meat Dealers, sald "business in our stores 15 off from 25 to 356 per cent.” He said stores had the same numbe: of customers, but the customers
bought less mieat, Urges-Consumer Resistance
said,
Meanwhile, in New York, Market Commissioner Eugene 6. Schulz urged strong consumer resistance
to high prices At Denver, one large meat dealer
said his business was off “about 30 per cent He said customers apparently did not have the money to meet high prices. However, he said he would refuse to lower the
quality of his meat to sell more At San Francisco, large meat markets reported business had dropped at feast 20 per cent during
the last month, They blamed con-
sumer resistance
Chain store managers in Detroit sald business there was dropping off “slightly.” One estimate placed the
drop at “8 per cent.” Blames It on Heat At Omaha, a packing center, Louis Kavan, secretary of the Independent
Grocers and Meat Dealers of Omaha, sald the meat business dropped “25 to 80 per ént during the extremely hot weather” However, he
sald, since the heat broke and children have gone back to school, busi ness has picked .up slightly
He thought consumer resistance was not to blame for the drop in business “I believe the extremely hot weather caused the drop in meat sales, But, well have to’ wait for. cooler weather to see if I'm right he said # J In ChIFAES “Tider: sold al $35 a hundred pounds, only $2 ufider the nation’s all-time high and equal ! to the steepest price” of “1947 se last Januar ’ Wheat and cort prices rode to a new record for the. ninth consecutive day at the Chicago Board of Trade September wheat futures eld at $270% a bushel and September |
corr rose to $253..
Tired of Unkempt Grass, Girls Clip Audubon Circle
Two teenage girls, tired of th unkempt condi! ion of Audubon cirele in the 200 block on 8. Audubon rd wiey decided it was time they took a hand Margie Dra ] 62 Audibom nd Barbara Ziegler. 16, 240 8S Audubon r¢ ned blue ea 4 white shirts: to wield: mm ized lawn mowers he small park “We fust got tired of looking at * tlie 1 1A DD conail en wid Barbara ‘between gasps for breath Margie Nnteered Jot of work but it's reall lot of fun. to They both apres Wever 4a someones else ( d do. the chore next time Residents said the park ha Ve ‘mowed only once this summer by a crew of elty employ
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£253
SUCCESSFUL SALE-E. Scouts of America business ng rush hours at the trading post set up for ih Bth national training conference at Bloomington, i 0 million-a-year. business waits on Clifford Kraft, Jott and Philip Peques,
national director of division (center), took to the
Times Btaff Writer A man who In his own words was today heads the $10 million- “A-Year vision of the Boy Scouts of America. « here attending the eighth national training - con{erence of oe world- ~wide organization a native of Indianapolis As part of the coriference, he has
Assails Foreign Pump Priming’
Goldsborough Raps ‘Giving Wealth Away
campus a trading post where at-! tending professional executives can planned to accompany them to Co-| lumbus after the holdup, She was has downtown at the time of the liold-multi-million dallar|up Hoffman said. executive out on the floor to help! wait on customers. ! ‘Rags to Riches’ Story tale of how Mr,
purchase supplies,
lan Golds- Sequel to any
Ty . flord } y giving our wealth away.’ “The us ant afion it, “he : s yu : n Mr. Goldsborough, the judge whe found. Inspiration in the When he was 15 he decided to try, going to Sunday school meeting of {he Indiatia State Bar changed his entire finally to his present position, Today he recalls how the pleasure cab, plied a gun on the cab driver a prdeee him to go to the cab e 80 he could pay for the trip to Columbus. As a man he moved {o Shelby vifle, driver $25.
he got from Sunday school made if him determined some day to help, we can make an advanitugeoy trade Other youths.
koine lo make us prosperous,”
But what we have been doing for youths asked him to becofie thelr office where King A quarter oi & century Sunday school teacher, tx to lend money 0 & [Oreign gov-| with ‘which to buy our the class became fo goods and return nothing for it. difficult to hangfe. We don't know enough to get it to time organized” a scout troop and ckman was on his way up. y he moved up the lad=
Mr. Beckman consented; and soon \drivek got a spare tire for the large it was,
The group In!
We just give it Mr. Be
con- named to his present post. sumer buying power" and added that | ~The business division is in charge a realistic monetary system” would of all scouthiig commercial opera“these monstrous tions. ‘The division -works through 3360 stores scattered over the na-
pression could be prevented by *
make unnecessary
These are supplies by three scout : 2 New Shots through the cab. Two pierced
York, Chicago and San Francisco i « ariver I ,
Firearms Instruction Scheduled | by FBI Here | via Beckman total 238,
While the division has a total vol"ume sale averaging about $10 mil- ', Mr. Beckman hastens to point out that this-in-no way. in
» of FBI firearms experts he courses are open so all police
Warned of Fire Hazards ’
than 600 rooming house
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Upto S500 |
‘Peace Is Vulnerable,’
Veterans Are Told
|keep America strong.
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reserve.
for all world war I servicemen.
The bonus recommendation called (for $3 a day to all former service men for the time in the, United [States and $4 for overseas duty.! It set maximums at $3500 for {duty In this country and $4500 for overseas veterans, with an extra $500 allowance fog purple heart’
veterans,
Hunt Girl Friend 0f Bandit Pair
(Continued From Page One)
Entered Tavern Together
The two bandits entered the Var-| sity Tavern with the cab driver and Beckman ordered a drink, Later, King and|
high In the scout world Is & the cab driver were told by Hel i : man to go outside and wait w h
Tntutipois he bought some liquor. 7 Union station where Mr,
shined shoes and sold newspapers
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o Drop Here
| CLEVELAND, Bept, 6 (U, P.).~! Gen, Alexander A. Vandergrift, | warning the Veterans of Foreign Wars that “peace is just as vulnerable as any pillbox you ever took,” {said foday they should use thei position as responsible citizens to]
The marine corps commandant told the 48th encampment of the V. FP. W, that this “is no time to {slack arms and go to sleep.” He asked them to support a program of bullding America's industrial {plants for defense, stockpiling vital materials, strengthening the armed! {forces ‘and maintaining a. trained British was brewing when the debarkation of the Jews—forcibly if The convention last night nd resolutions favoring a bonus of up| [to $5000 for world war II veterdns! and pensions up to $100 monthly |-
fiecessary. Jews had lost a bloody battle with ‘ [the British off Palestine, and had] | won a hollow victory in a seaborne sitdown of nearly a month off southern France,
tear gas and fire hoses to
sioner for H thathe would tfy to make the landing a pea
‘Dentist Gives Up Lifelong Effort To Be Funny
slipping through his fingers, 'was 42 years old, with a successful] November, ‘practice, a wife and three children. |
: “{Beverly Dawn Trenary jp on Ind.) is shown here on e runway during the contest in the bathing suit division at
Miss America Beauty page eant at Atlantic City.
Refugees
Ir German Waters
Hamburg Debarkation
Set for Tomorrow oe BURD. Sept. 6 (U, P)— The wandering Jews, some 4300 of | them, came. back to the shores of
Germany today, :
to run the British blockade of!
{Palestine aboard the old Chesapeake bay ferry President Warfield. The refugee ships and their royal that Gen. Marshall thinks connavy convoy dropped anchor off
Cuxhaven harbor early this morning.
They will remain there, an’ hour’s| fun from Cuxhaven, until late tonight when the first of the three vessels will set out for Hamburg.
Another showdown with the
—begins tomorrow, The
Now the British were ready, with
Vaughn Berry, tish commis8. emphasized
I one. But if that is
rupt some tours.
(Continued From Page One)
But the dream was still there, So
he chucked his career and maved [to Hollywéod, |
‘Washington Calling—
Doubt Truman Can Avoid Recalling Congress in Fall
i king-size jitters and. Democrats
(Continued From Page One) , | getting cockier. G. O. P. private _
gongress. Actual decision on. special session will rest on advice of Secretary of State Marshall and . publican popularity since last
Undersecretary Clayton.
. Tip-off of thelr thinking® was | under. Secretary Lovett's warming Three British ships pui into the that European situation is growing , waters at the mouth of the Elbe Worse and may require emergency [With the refugees who tried in vain, Action before Marshall plan can
take hold. =»
polls show sharp decline in Res
“ spring.
br High prices and reacti against Taft-Hartley labor bill” are chief
sources of worry, 7 Fortune magafine poll last
| March showed any one of five
| Rtpuslic could whip Mr, Trus t poll shows Mr. True
: . : WELL-FOUNDED reports Is | an. unning ahead of all but
gress should get on job by Oct. 15. This timetable d with ideas of Mr, Vandenberg, says foreign relations co can't be reassembled be
WANs corigress won't be rushed on | n ald program. Thus, if mbers were called back in ctober, all except committee | | men might loaf a month. why some members predict meeting date around Nov, 15, with committees returning That still could gét foreign pro- | out of way by Jan. 1, aveiding (collision with appropriations | and ‘other regular session routine. Early fall session would intercongressmen’s world Group of house armed | services and appropriations com- | mitteemen leaves Sept. study military needs in Tokyo, Shanghal, 8eoul and Okinawa. Return date is Oct. 24. “Bighteen members of house public works committee have a : ~Lawrence seaway and Hawaiian | last expedition, will go along. ! tours lasting from Sept. 15 to Oct. a —— 29. Traveling committees st i1dy ~ | ing domestic high prices have | He hearings scheduled as late as mid- |
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Action on UMT
AF THERE'S _ special
oesn’'t mes
schegluled St.
wey. Gallup poll shows rop from-79 to 46 per cent since Depember in number of voters
0 | who think Republicans will win
presidency. Republican senator back from Midwest says G. O. P. must find
| way to present its side of price story. His size-up:. “It's hard to Mr. is inst | geben Ag | low prices under OPA that fors | eign feeding, damaged corn crop
explain fo people who remember
and higher union wages are keep« ing their living costs up.” He found “surprisingly” little sentis
s | ment for tax cuts, one of G. O,
P's main goals. Some G. O. P. leaders find come
| fort in history: Party that wing
congress in off-year election cuss
| tomarily wins presidency two
years later. x x
Antarctic Bound NAVY WILL send another exe pedition to Antarctic, this wine
ter, but without fanfare that sure rounded 1946-47 project. Newsmen
| aren't invited, navy officer will
handle all news dispatches, It's still uncertain whether Adm, Byrd or Adm, Cruzen, leaders of
One objective: To learn mora about those oases—open water in ice flelds—seen from air along
Ross sea coastline, Another: To
fill in gaps in aerial mapping.
» » Ow . NEXT SIX. weeks will determine how long present period of
, | Industrial calm will last. A. F. of
“It's not the glamour or the big, 8dvocates of universal military L. and C. I. O. will have ended
dough,” he explained. “It's Just | training will try to sandwich In that I've always wanted to be a their measure,
Otherwise,
national conventions by Oct, 20 and settled policies toward Taft-
Hoffman then stepped Lylhe side! four contestants waited tor. fo- |comedian. I've got enough money Stil on house calendar for Jan- | Hartley law.
of the bar and pulled « n on the he partender, Alvin J. Mdrtindale, 49, of 1434 N. Delaware’. and quietly |
ordered “give mefhe money.”
Patrons didn't realize there had been a holdlUp until Hoffman left.!
Hoffman said he then ran to the
The trio then went
for the out-of-town trip. The ¢
night and the wave of a’ magic waggl which would name one the |
Flames Blacken 100 Square Miles
HIGHMORE, 8. D., Sept. 6 (U. P).—A wind-whipped prairie fire P2nk account, | to” the cab’that blackened 700 square miles of! said he paid $54 jush range wheatlands w
He said he gave the!
Before fhe fire was brought un-
<5] i ee
| the big studios.
» YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the|
who was making a telephone call der control, the flames had burned | maid went down to the basement |
in the tavern, had noticed the num- three farmhouses and resulted in in the Horwood home. ber of the cab parked outside the serious injuries to at least one.resi- ® MOle scribbled on the back of an| Brown (R. 0.),' chairman of G. | 0. P. national executive committee, that Truman got “whole-
tavern and notified police. Inspector Jack Small, in a cruiser
{dent of the area. envelope, It read:
Four villages were threatened as
“Am tuined. Big slstakk in leav-
driven by Lt. Dulin Judd, spotted the flames raced across the thick 8 home town and all my friends.
the cab in the 900 block on {. Illinois st. and gave chase. One of the fleeing pair opened fire. Inspector Small fired three
the rear window, one striking the
Descriptions of Hoffman and King are being sent to major cities in the belief that they may be wanted for other burglaries and hoidups,
Quaker Rites Scheduled
For Former College Head WESTPORT, N. Y, Sept. 6 (U
P).—A Quaker prayer service will
Gandhi Ends 3. -Day Push be held tomorrow morning at the Plans Trip to Punjab
family home for Dr. Mary Emma . Woolley, .noted educator and retired
today President of Mount Holyoke college,
that he would leave tomorrow for Who died yesterday. Miss Wooley, 84, had been active gt, Hindus and Sikhs have In educational, religious and world died in communal massacres.
peace movements until, about three vears ago. In accordance with her . wishes, money that would have been
sured that communal Abie would SPent for flowers will be donated inbe prevented in Calcutta.
In Indianapolis _
stead to the department of inter"national Justice and. good will of "the Federated Council of Churches
Hartley Quits as Head
Of I. U. Personnel Unit
Times State Service
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. 6 —|
Che ‘resignation of Paul A, Hartley
as director of the Indiana Univer-|
sity personnel division, was _announced today by. J. A. Franklin, treasurer of the university M1 Hartley has accepted a position" as associate personnel director. at the
University of Illinois, and will be in Became charge of personnel for the uni- and " versity's Chicago division.
' hour has |
t tribute should °
| pictures just a gag. {crossed me, We have good children. | | Betty (his wife) should remain ~n| fight on state department's for- | She is cracking up also.”| eign information program, backed The man, who wanted to make| move to chop $150 million from | —Two former Oakland ‘police offi- people Jaugh was hanging. by a foreign relief appropriation, cers yesterday were found guilty of clothesline from a floor joist. raping a 16-year-old high school girl i
two EaPolictoen Convicted of Rape
{ {the coast.
her boy friend in an Oakland lovers’
$450 Removed From Safe
Spencer's restaurant, 4400 Allisonville rd. last night after “punch-! Ing” the combination off a safe and | tearing off a door,
mended they be sentenced to from two to 20 years in state prison. The police officers were Edward , and George Bell RADIO RECEPTION FAIR gained by breaking the front ous: deputy sheriffs reported. |
[air “listening conditions for shortthe week-end are Debits
Cv ida awe i 22,404,000 predicted by the national bureau of Clearings ... Lo. 8 17,000 For the Week Clearings . us co. 8 37,200,000
double-|
Restaurant Burglarized,
now, so I can afford to. wait for UAry. American Legion, on’ rec- | a break.”
Justice department is
to popularize U. M. T. Allan | Coutts and Mrs. Arthur Woods,
fluence legislation.
DEMOCRATS DUG up record | She found| after reading statement by Rep.
hearted co-operation” from ReLack of work all my fault, motion publicans en foreign policy. They found Mr. Brown had opposed Greek-Turkish aid bil, led
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WARM-UP of presidential cam- | paign finds Republicans with * pick 'em yourself.”
Backers of Ta¥ wie Pleased with | ord for special session on U. M. | operations to date, point to sevT., sees chance for early action if | . 80 HE MOVED his family to European aid session develops. | Hollywood where would-be comedi- | |ans are a dime ‘a dozen. He took a, studying” complaint of house ex{home in Beverly Hills and tried penditures subcommittee that Ex--Secretary of War Paterson vioCasting directors and the talent lated law in hiring civilian aids scouts weren't interested in a den-| tist whe could dé comic imitations. His confidence dwindled with his| the aids, have resigned. Rep. Wadsworth (R. N. Y.), strong U. A short time ago he returned to, M.T. supporter, was among signDetroit to visit his sister and, ers of report charging Mr. Patder control today after a thous Crothersin=law, Mr. and Mrs. Max | 'erson broke law forbidding trip. sand, fire fighters foughi. the blaze H- Horwood. i partments to spend money to in- | Ray Gordon, 35, “of 1923 N. Ili- for almost 12 h nois st, a former Red Cab driver; |
eral important ‘settlements and | record of strikes, lowest since early 1946. They predict most of ors ganized labor, possibly excepting United Mine Workers, will abandon threatened boycotts of national labor relations board.
a nn AMERICAN LEGION chiefs
have rejected proposal by world war II veterans to create Legion division of housing with full-time . director. Unnecessary, they said.
Real estate lobby, whose views
were adopted hy,outgoing regime, will have tougher going with new national commander, James PF, O'Neil. Mr. O'Nea] sided with minority favoring indorsement of Taft - Ellender - Wagner general housing lobby, which real estate interests have been fighting. Mr. O'Neil wants to placate harsh criticism against Legion housing policies voiced by Mayor O'Dwyer | of New York, Franklin D. Roose« velt Jr, and others.
o » o REPUBLICAN comment on Mr,
Truman's Brazilian mountain. | climbing . expedition for flowers: That's one way to get orchids—
Burglars obtained $450 from
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