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* Mr. Archer said, “and of the ‘stuff we check and then ve to dispose of.” tches someone checked last “These three fur coats ok been taken out of “lockers and never claimed.” I examined the three furs. in good shape. checked March 27. Mr. Archer said that the station lockers aren't. the best places for storing a fur coat. Especially since the time limit on lockers was 24 hours. After that the contents are taken to the parcel room. Jim Cole, station manager, took over the tour. Mr. Archer went back to the busy parcel window.
‘Get Nearly Everything’ “WE GET ABOUT everything ‘here,’ said Mr, Cole. From one cubicle, Mr. Cole drew forth a gallon of wine and a half pint of whisky. “Can you imagine anyone checking this and for-
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MAYBE THE CUSTOMER WILL COME BACK—And then maybe the two pieces of luggage George Archer is checking ot Terminal station will just stay and stay.
PARIS, Sept. 15.—I would advise nobody to visit Paris today unless he is well connected in the black market or is a multi-millionaire-or is a Boy Scout or is a clever counterfeiter who can make his own money. Boy Scouts cook their own food and live in tents and hence are exempt from the necessity of paying hard money for the right to exist. Muilti-millionaires don’t care how much money they spend. To counterfeiters, money is only a matter of paper and black marketeers are hep to the jive that Paris was once famous for. The real worth of the franc in France today is about 300 to the dollar. All prices are predicated on that rate but of late currency controls have become so rigid that 120 francs, the legal rate, is what one gets for his money without, running the very real risks of landing im the brig. Actually there is no black market in Europe. ‘The black market today is the true market because of its domination of all economics; the false market is the government pegged price for foreign currency. You are allowed to bring only 5000 francs into Trance and your foreign currency is registered on the passport in order to prevent illegal dealings inside France. If you cannot show documentary proof that your imported currency or credits have been cashed legally, the gendarmes step in.
3000 Francs for Meal I HAD DINNER with three people last night at a very reasonable spot. We had four salads, two hors d'oeuvre, four mixed grills, consisting of a skeletonized lamb chop and an anemic kidney, ice cream, coffee and a pint of vin ordinaire, The check was 8000 francs.
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Luggage is & heavy item at the station. Some of! the suitcases should have been checked at the dump. * Mr. Cole opened one which had been there for over four months, The junk that was inside wouldn't have brought a nickel for the whole works. Two violins, a tuba and a guitar rested silently on top of the racks, After looking ofr the piles of merchandise that had been left since April, I began to wonder if people call for anything. Maybe they Juss check in and not check out? Mr, Cole assured me that a winlority of customers don’t forget. He said I was looking at the exceptions. The station manager receives on the average three letters a day from out-of-town people who ask for! articles ranging from an umbrella to a plaster of paris horse. “There's one explanation. In August, 32,319 busses left this station. Rather than miss a bus a late traveler leaves behind something he has checked,” Mr. Cole said.
I sat down on a piece of luggage and gave a long.
whistle of surprise. It would have taken a large moving van to move all the stuff that Mr. Cole showed me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I'll show you a real stock.” On the 10th floor the company has a storage I room for forgotten articles which have been left over six months, Twice a year it's sold and the money goes into the employee pension fund. Maurice Bigane, clerk, opened the door for us. On one side of the room were articles picked up from | busses and trolleys. On the other were articles i the check room.
A Varied Assortment IN ONE CORNER were approximately 50 lunch
long rack. A casual glance revealed tool kits, swords, alarm clocks by the score, purses, an automobile
and a ‘“neurocalometer” whatever that was. If you have a tendency to forget try to remember that anything you forget on the transit system or at the station you can get back within six months. All you have to do is describe the item and pay the cumulative storage. charges. : But don't call for a dozen eggs after five months. That's one thing they won't keep for you.
By Robert C. Ruark
At a» reasonable black market rate of 250 francs to the dollar, that wasn't too awful. The tip comes to only $3 per person but.in the legal rate of 120 francs that meal went on the books at about $25 which is ridiculous. The visiting chump in search of colorful night life finally locates a car which is willing to transport him to Montmarte for no more than two bucks for a 30-cent haul. He arrives at a smoky hole in the wall, is informed that the only available tipple is champagne at $16 the bottle or bad whisky at about $3 the sip. Nothing else is served although in the wineshops the oldest Remy Martin brandy comes up at about $4 per bottle legal exchange and $2 the bottle true exchange. You are paying about $1.25 for a pack of cigarets in Paris today and the hotel, by the time they've finished with the extra charges, smacks you down at the rate of $10 for a so-so hutch and $25 for a good one.
Like Miami in Sucker Season I WOULD RATE PARIS expenses on a par with Miami at the height of the sucker spawning season when all the rich New Yorkers try to swim over the waterfalls of Miami prices. That is, unless you turn technical criminal and play the black market which is becoming more difficult daily since some low types started flooding the market with bogus travelers checks. Even the Boy Scouts at their recent jamboree here have been feeling the pinch, Some of the American scouts were discovered peddling American cigarets to the Frenchmen at a good 40 francs under the going | price which just shows you how tough things can get.
Economic Winds
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—~The president of a steel company testified before the U. 8. senate that at least one firm's electric refrigerators wenrg piling up in warehouses, His implication was that most folks faced with buying shoes today for the kids, and meat. and milk, couldn’t afford fancy ice boxes. The distributors of one nationally known radio advertised “$100 trade-in allowance on your old set, regardless of age, make or condition.” This brought the price of the super-duper AM-FM phonograph combination in the mahogany console down from $260 to $160, Another equally well-known radio dropped from $375 to $187.50, with no trade-in hocus-pocus and 15 months to pay. A leading jeweler advertised for the first time since the war: “Generous allowance for your old watch in trade for a new one.” Trick deals of many varieties brought the price of automobile tires almost everywhere to pre-war levels,
Direction of Economic Winds FEDERAL FEELERS of the business pulse said these and similar developments were straws all right, indicating direction of the economic winds, It was a little early to be making any flat predictions about slumps, or even to let me quote ‘em by name, they added, but still they felt that $1-a-pound butter wasn't doing business any good. So for what they're worth I'd like to list a few punctures in the inflation balloon which have made hissing noises in my own ears; they may not mean much yet—and still again they might:
By Frederick C. re
My photo-fan brother in St. Louis a while back came home, lugging a de luxe picture enlarger “for his darkroom, plus considerable other expensive photo-| graphic equipment. He'd bought the whole load at exactly half price. The dealer, with whom he'd long done business, had phoned to say his store was so full of merchandise and he was so pressed for cash that he was! offering his old customers 50 per cent discounts oni
or bankruptcy.
Cobra-Skin Handbag—$18
A FELLOW REPORTER, as pleased as he was|ters written concerning “My Job |
dazed by what- had happened to him, showed me a| gift he'd bought for his wife—a handbag of cobra skin, manufactured by a celebrated maker, and bear-
ing his label with a suggested retail price of $55. It now on our payroll to understand | was a beauty; my friend bought it from one of the! {the many advantages available to firm's salesmen for $18. Not since the 30's have 1G. M. employees.
run across any similar salesmen’'s sample bargains.
processed sheepskin which sold so widely last year
for $150, were going this sepason for less than $100, ing of their work. We also expect from em-| first ball-point fountain pen at $12.50 a dopy, was! ployees as Lo how they can be more trying to sell his factory. It now turns out pens at 5c The contest closes at midnight,
The Chicagoan who made a sudden fortune with the
each. 80 long as a medium-good hamburger sandwich costs 40 cents I won't be wanting any of the above, mentioned merchandise myself. And that's the trouble, claim my anonymous economists. Nobody will.
The ‘New Look’
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15—Hellywood still is in # panic over the 75 per cent British film tax (a 30 per
cent loss in revenue).
Moviegoers are in a panic over the thought of a lot of cheap movies from Hollywood in the next 12
months,
Fashion designers are battling over the “New Look,” with prices going up and hemlines going
down,
Many veterans received their terminal leave money " and immediately spent it. A lot of people think
there will be a third world war. Bo today thete wil be only ugh tn. this epluns. (I hope.)
Auto Age in Las Ve FRANK WHITBECK, M
By Erskine Johnson
“Oh, oh, oh,” théy moaned. “We sit here. look up there and then—we think about our wives. Comedian Harvey Stone, headlining the floor
Vegas is a great place.
car. Steve Cochran was doing a perfect imitation of
his boss, 8am Goldwyn, while Goldwyn looked on and|
laughed. Said Sam: “He sounds more like me than if he was.”
Cost and Cast Stag _ DURING A LULL in the
filming of “The Red Pony,” Director Lewis Milestone told Myrna Loy and
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Help Make
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gers. for many years from St. Louis to the east coast. Approximately 25 employees
staff the giant carrier to provide a safe. comfortab
Hoosier countryside. His is engines, track and signals.
Contest Is Open To GM Workers
5000 Awards Offered For Letters
A total of 9700 General Motors!
employees in Indianapolis are eli-|
| gible to compete for more than 5000
(awards in a General Motors contest announced today by C. E. Wil- | son, company president, All hourly rate and non- exempt | salaried employees of G. M. may | participate, except certain members |
of plant personnel departments and | J everything in stock. He told my brother it was. this,|members of the employee relations,
personnel and public relations staffs which will supervise the program. The contest will be based on let-|
and Why I Like It.”
Contest Ends Oct. 31 Mr. Wilson said: “We want those]
thereby obtain a better understand- | to receive suggestions effective in their jobs.’
Oct. 31.
WATCHING—Fireman Joe B. Johns, Bellefontaine, lays down his shovel and becomes a mechanic on the modern locomotive as it glides smoothly through the
We also feel that
| through this contest employees will
The ladies’ coats of mouton, a fancy name for.be able to analyze their jobs and
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947
Crewmen Of Famed Train rip Safe, Pleasant
Photos by Henry Glesing, Times Staff Pholegraphe:
NEW YORK BOUND—Easing out of Union station on its way to the Empire buckets. Three bundles of umbrellas were under a, state is New York Central railroad's famed Knickerbocker which has carried passen-
le. ride. for_the passengers.
HEAD MEN—Conductors Charles 'C. Combs,
a constant job of checking New York? :
BREAKFAST IS SERVED—The sway of the cars has little effect on John P. Davis as he balances a 10-pound food tray, Seven other waiters, cook and two club car waiters make up the staff of Steward James P. Cummings.
section of the berths. Each waiter averages 85 servings daily. They keep their
balance by relaxing their knees. tunnels leading to Gotham.
‘Ask Mrs. Manners—
— Shall She Tell Husband He Can't Hope for a Family?
Dear Mrs. Manners:
I need help so I'm coming your way for it. * married before and have two sweet children. » operation 1 cannot have any more children, | 1 am married to a wondershow at the’ Bl Rancho Vegas. wires that Lasiful man who loves children “I just saw a couple get'and hopes for a baby all the married and divorced without getting out of their! time but I know it can never|
ibe. Would you advise me to} him eA let” him find boa Problem of Grief
leave
[that can bear children for him?
tell me what to do.
Does your husband know that
+ Bob Mitchum the following story: Some years ago,| you cam’ have children? If not,
two were sitting quietly looking at the film. But the two exceptions were causing a disturbance. Every time Esther appeared on the screen, they would throw up their hands, shake their heads and and sent Milestone a telegram reading: wail. The manager finally went down to their seats staggering.” By return telegram, Milestone replied: and asked what troubled them. bi gow T8018 the cash”
he was directing a picture titled, “The Captain Hates| tell him and don’t let him hope the Sea,” for Harry, Cohn at Columbia. Much of hel for a family. Don't leave him picture was being filmed on location at the docks | in San Prancisco, and Milestone was way over sched-| ule, what with foggy weather and a couple of players | he says he wouldn't marry “again, who insisted on being drunk constantly and holding | Agoption of children probably up production. Cohn finally could stand ‘it no longer wouldn't be successful if your twe “The cost is’ “children haven't filled the need
he wants you. A family can't mean everything te him because
for your husband. Adopted children alse would not bz his,
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He says he'll never marry again | a widow woman of 42, My husband | and he loves me too dearly. Please has been dead 10 years. I've grieved |
“A DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE." all the time. I have bronchitis and
my cough and suffering. So I hope I've heen you will pardon this much writing. Due to an But I'm so alone and can't go any
Need Advice?
Is there a personal or family
place. 80 I'll look for your advice oblem you have been unable p———— ———— — _ (In my Times. “PIGEON.” pA my ya ay | Enrich your lives "2: your hus- Could you financially swing Are you desperate for wise
band’s liking. happiness.
find | changing climate on doctors’ ad- and wonder where to vice? You'll spend more on doctors and medicine than for travel, J and you'll remain unhealthy and unhappy. With no ties you | shouldn't mind leaving your job and home. They have left you empty. ! Good health would permit ac- | tivity, and activity and friends
are what you need. You probably
counsel, turn?
Ask Mrs. Manners Your questions will be answered through her daily column, Your name will be held in strictest confidence. Address Mrs. Manners, in. care of The Times, 214 W. Maryland st.
You can
1 read your article in The Times| [so I hope you can help me. I am|
{till T got so I never eat and am sick |
AT THE THROTTLENo more black smoke or roaring firebox, Engineer Frank B. Voisard, 5730 E. Washington st., quides the diesel-electric train in & clean comfortable cab. He has been with the company 44 years driving between here and Bellefontaine, O.
Bellefontaine (left), and Harry H. Petty, 2715 N. Gale st., are the bosses of the train. On their part of the run between St. Louis and Cleveland they handle an average of 240 tickets. Their biggest fob is answering passengers questions, most frequent of which is "How soon do we gef to
ll. HOTEL ON WHEELS—As the train nears New York the passengers are out of bed and Rollis H. Williams, one of eight porters, begins to tear down his He and the others must be finished ] by the time the train enters the dark underground — 28
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asthma very bad.
don’t grieve as much about a husband gone 10 years as about your health. Reading could pass your
| Tican't keep my two rooms cleaned any more. I'm too weak and I only fvink a cup of broth a day and it's
a farce. So I've wondered and time, but you alse need compan- |, we never went anywhere to ucicd what to do. But I can't do! lonship. People don’t like eom- ,.v. 45 fun, I won't be 18 until enything the shape I'm in. I'm .so Plainers, particularly men, so get o00mper, lonely, ‘1 never see anyone and Well Did I do the right thing? don't know anyone. It's a lonely Vv. J. W.
life to live and be sick all the time, I've had two doctors to come for a
No Job, No Wedding
I was supposed to get married in More people would stay married |
year and they don't seem Ww help December. But the hoy 1 was going i women 18 years old-—and e along SemAmanalg:
with never could keep a job more | than two weeks. So I broke off with,
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