Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1947 — Page 3

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MONDAY, SEPT. 2, 1947

{ Frost Threat Sends Corn Prices Soaring

STRAUSR:: + = = Hs SAYS:

Market Slips

set ae After Jumping irateful Boston | ves of his hun . = es Limit at Open services of his D ~ } the sitters 48 ° . | Eye Commodity Trend » Scoeptatie lo : For Retail Clues says, NITED PRESS ¢ women have The thivat no frost damage in nd leisure time ‘ northern Iowa * sent corn prices willing to en soaring today, as the government activity which launched a concerted attack on real work, high food costs, ts an hour re The nation closely watched its 1 pays his own big grain and commodity markets, he cost of office It had been believed that last elephones, sec week's general decline in prices had | incidentals, set the pace for further reductions. ——— With the first word of frost from 4 i Bs the cornbelt, prices on the Chicago TN | board of trade, the nation’s largest ” 1 grain market, shot up again. s at s Following an opening spurt in as a gift from the City of 7 Istie 8 8 4 from opening highs. » : May .corn futures opened at $2. 18-| sits at the wheel of the new Southport high been elected chool’s Booster: \wheat sold in the first 10 minutes

of trading for $2.33 to $2.34 a u-| trucks.

) Increase the Ishel, up 5% to 6': cents over Sat-

's from three to

on Harley and » Damier to the | Following the bulge! all prices eaders selected dropped to a cent or two above the

Saturday levels. Cotton Jumps | Cotton futures were moving tow-| ard new highs at New York City, |

aa Cent Here Today

j : A new one-cent hike in the price 5 been elected

»l's chapter of : [ranging from one to 17 points] o Jat of AK Yee ame effective gg of 2156 Ransdell st. She was struck by an automobile while crossing| ety. Other offi- . or. xpected that if prices C. Winfield Hunt, executive secreHendricks, vice t wae i Pe Yast prise tary of the Milk Foundation of Inord, . secretary, jcontinte 9 wil |dianapolis, said the penny boost also ndt, .. treasuret, © ae rl OWAWAEA. Axend on the livestock,

KIDNAPED=—7:. rae Sth ho a Aor 3 “year old daugh- | lgrain and commodity exchanges, fe= ter, Dorothy, in the Evanston, Ill, hospital where the child was ex--|tall prices would follow. amined after being kidnaped by a youmg man. Released one hour Butter and eggs already w after her abduction, Dorothy, disheveled but apparently.unharmed, ing cheaper in many Septions, _was found by searchers in a suburban park. | Some prices apparently were

pushed downward by buyer resist-

he chapter are olores Nerding new price on milk now is 19 cents. ! Mr. Hunt said the meteoric rise

ub officers and will attend the conference” at t. 27-28. Club ugh,” president; resident; Carl

the newest price increase, second

[ ers’ strikes. buy since April.

1s Hear Edward Parry President Truman ‘began a series

Bill Whitaker, Edward Parry, national president 0 "aid to Europe and at the re.” Mr. Hunt said, “farmers can Richard Mtuer, et ere , the Railroad Evangelistic 8sso-'co oo sino cianilize prices at home. better afford to sell their grain than tram, assistant ciation, will speak at the meeting Simultaneously, justice depart- to feed it to dairy cattle. The situaling and Wen- tion 4s further complicated by the

' The consumer's price index for lof the local group at 7:45 p. m. ment officials at Chicago began se- hich Bri : 3 tLe I moderate income families in Indi- tomorrow in the Brookside United | lecting : 45 veniremen for a grand Ng price a Higaee can hw or als Brethren church. Mr. Parry is a Jury ‘investigation of wheat prices. cows if he just delivers them to the anapolis rose 1.2 per cent between locomotive engineer. Assistant Attorney General John stock yards for beef v Tn June and Su, the national Indus-| angelical United Brethren F. Sonnett, the government's, crack - He pointed out that even at 19 a PRAY Conte, rice “soneries Jopord A

s, and Marvin MacBeth, ser-

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r vo a inyestigator-anb gente ou “milk gt till is substan nerhood is uniting “WE 3 Sk. a Imyestgs FeceRt 30 a Te lh here thar mn a

day. : |Railrodd Evangelistic association for | tT: took personal charge of the in-

uiry. The increase topped the January, the meeting. The Rev. Herman Rose 4 : 199 index. the base date of the sur- will be chairman. The Odd Fellows | Urges Voluntary ‘Rationing

vey, by more than 50 per cent. C. G. Rife will lead the congre- Vers speaking in New York, offere Greatest rise occurred in fuel and gational songs. a four-point plan to avert mass lights, which went up 3.6 per cent. |starvation abroad. His plan called

Other changes were food, up 1.7 per (for more control over American {food exports, restrictions on foues d es Ce S d d

cent ;. house furnishings, up .2 per Heads Car Dealers

cent, and sundries, up 1.1 per cent., ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22 (U. P.).— ing grain to animals, and volunta Housing and clothing were un- Carl Marker of Pt. Wayne, Ind. is rationing. changed. new secretary-treasurer of the Na- | The American Bakers association On Fuel Crisis Compared to June of last year, tional Used Car Dealers associa- indorsed a suggestion that Amerthe index had risen 16.3 per cent tion. He was elected at the first icans exercise “a restraint in what with food, up 32.7 per cent, showing annual convention of the organiza- ‘we buy and the sharpest increase. tion here. | Paul S. Willis, president of the |Grocery Manufacturers of America, said proposals to restore price conSTRAUSS trols are impractical. He said peoSAYS: : ple can hold prices at “reasonable levels” if they stop “bidding against {each other” for choice food. The United Nations assembly found time to agree on one thing— they agreed prices were higher in {the United States than anywhere |else in the world.

Governor Gates today called in representatives of 24 oil companies

an inside picture of the impending fuel oil shortage. In a letter last week inviting the

|sion, the governor said prospects appeared to be for some cold homes or at least cold rooms in Indiana this winter. He asked each company to lay-on the table its (allocation picture for the state and |its estimate of the outlook. CALL "SCOTS GUARDSMEN Transportation has been blamed LONDON, Sept. 22 (U. P.).—|principally for the shortage threat. |Scots guardsmen were summoned! |Operators say there is plenty of oil into action again today to move being produced, but that heavily inhundreds of tons of meat held up ‘creased demand since the war has in the Smithfield market by a strike taxed transport facilities to the of of transport men. ~ (brepking point.

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by Hutton of Southampton— ‘ one of England's finest shoe i makers—famous for GOOD

DOG DAYS — This new municipal dog ambulance "went to the dogs’ today the market, however, prices dropped ift \ 55 ‘the start of National Dog Week. Here "Shep," blind mascot of the pound,

2.20% a bushel, up the 8-cent limit! pose beside truck driver Paul Morris. This arobulance -and another just like it were permitted in a day's trading. July| o, haced by city council and decorated by city firemen to replace old pick-up

J a Milk Up Another Auto Accidents Kill 12

8. Meridian st. at Wilkins st. in the rainy darkness last night with her) 2-year-old granddaughter, Jeanelle Compton,

Iwouid: bounce. the..price..of..a halls orab: hospital this Morning... MIs. home of John Larnerman.’ I'pint "of cream to 20 tents and would ‘Brown ated 6 a fractured Hight Teg,™ Joseph ~ Connor, 79, Attica, was ere sell. be applied to butt ermilk, chocolate fractured right arm, and a crushed killed instantly yesterday when the milk and cottage cheese as well. The chest, ;

{ ; ble for ance, including organized threats of il 8rain prices was responsi automobile as Frank L. Stumpf, 58, Railroad Church Group ‘of 3225 8. Meridian st. Police said State police said the vehicle| {he told them the -weman and the which crashed into the parked car lof conferences to determine how to| “With grain prices what they oi. stepped into the path of his Was operated by Max Rugg, Elm-

car. He was not held.

Mrs. Madge Neal, 54, Nora, was son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mec-! oy Hien Clead, Marion, was killed Saturday| band, William W, Neal, 52, crashed into a utility pole seven miles north of Lafayette on U. 8. 52.

i bi of other Midwest cities. Hesington blvd. former superintendent passengér in the second car driven | ‘cited a price of 21'¢ cents effective of General "hospital here, was in- by Virgil Hoover, Greenfleld, was |

lon Grade A milk in Chicago and St. jured seriously at Epler ave. and Jnjured. ,and Rebekah choruses will sing.| Former President Herbert Hoo, Louis, 21 cents in Louisville and.20 Ind. 37. State police sald Dr. Sluss

cents in Cincinnati and South Bend. Car cut out around a tractor-trailer apg Catherine Elizabeth Lester, and crashed head on into an on- 33 and her sister, Virginia Lee Frye, coming car operated by Millard 15, Poland (Clay county), were kiiled * Shields, Bloomington, who suffered when they were struck by an autoa broken rib.

doing business in Indiana® to get]

oil men to confer at today's ses-| 'was taken to the Dukes hospital, | week-end, but except for the death

{home in Cook, Ind,

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Indianapolis to municipal dog pound. Occasion for the

ambulance and two inmates, Betty’ and "Brownie,"

In State Over Week-End

A sudden upswing in automobile accidents took 12 lives in Indiana this week-end One of the dead was an Indianapolis woman, Mrs. Maude Browng

The child received minor injuries

and was in fair condition at Gen- Car smashed into the porch an the|

{parked car in which he was sitting! was struck by an oncoming automobile two miles south of Boswell| on U. 8B. 41.

Driver Not Held Police identified the driver of the

hurst, Ill. Four passenger in the| Rugg car were injured.

A suburban Indianapolis resident, |" One-year-old Dan Keith McCledd,

(night in a head-on crash on Ind. 9 two miles north of Alexandria. The| parents, Mr. and Mrs. McClead,|

ere injured. dE ils 86, REE Nd Weidner. 95 writin 7

Strucky by Auto

mobile after alighting from a bus 3 Race Fans Die 10 miles south of Greencastle, | Three spectators were killed at, State police said the driver of the| the Converse race track near Mar- car was willlam C, Caldwell Jr., 22, ion yesterday when a racing car Evansville. The sisters were Crosscrashed out of control through a |ing the road in the rain, police {guard rail, |said. The dead were Robert Schuman. | Allen Eads, 16, Plymouth, was 36, Caribou, Me, and Maud D. killed by a hit-run automobile near Harris, 35, and Clement Mitchell, that town. 26, both of Marion. The race car| A series of minor traffic accidents driver, Lee R. Clark, 29, Cincinnati, |happened in Indianapolis over the Peru, with a fractured-left leg and |of Mrs. Brown on 8. Meridian st..| cuts. {no other fatalities were recorded. Two men were killed early today | Four Separate Accidents when their automobile left a high-| Nine persons were injured in four way and struck - the porch of a separate accidents involving street |cars and trackless trolleys. The dead men were identified as| Bix-year-old Jackie Lee Woods, Henry Pilfrey, 23, East Chicago, 1048 W. Vermont st., was injured a driver of the car, and Oscar Morris, block from his home yesterday 29, Ceralvo, Ky. {morning when he was struck by an Police believed that Mr. Pilfrey automobile after buying ice cream saw a warning flare in the highway in the street from a pushcart venand swerved to avoid hitting it. The dor. ————— ree | Bar] Gilbert, 59, Kokomo, suffered a fatal heart attack while driving his car across the Meridian

took the wheel, his car swerved and crashed Into an automobile op{erated by Edward Peterson, 53, 4400 {N. Pennsylvania st. Mr. Peterson was reported unhurt. Probe Freak Accident Police were investigating a freak accident early yesterday when an automobile crashed into the Binkley pharmacy at 5802 College ave. Police said the driver of the car was Henry J. Frenzel, 44, of 1338 N. New Jersey st. Police said Mr, Frenzel left the scene while they were investigating, presumably to. get medical treatment. Damage to the store where a plate: glass window was smashed was estimated at $500 by Charles E. Binkley, proprietor.

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NATIONAL 24-HOUR FORE- | the fallish 40's tomorrow mornCAST "SUMMARY: It will be | ing. Lowest temperatures in the clear and cooler east of the Mis- | U. 8. will be recorded in Min-

woman's walkin q shoe—in several pissippl except for southern | nesota + and Wisconsin, where

ch Florida, also in the central Plains minima in the 30's will be reach styles ranging in size from 4 to 10. | FIO. ale Io A early to. | ported. ach... | —Widths AA to B. morrow. Cold northerly winds The Miami weather station reHind loft from central Canada will sweep ported a tropical storm brewing et GT wa into these areas and bring the | 90 miles southwest of Key West, Yop oh tie in brown suede with first fall temperatures to most of | Florida, mdving north northwestach brown leather tongue and piping. these eastern and southern sec | ward al 20 mileg per hour. 5 14 95 tions of the TU. 8. Squally 50-mile winds accompany . » Clear skies, ‘light winds and | this new storm threat. IndicaTop rig pe frosts are predicted for Min- | tions are for little change in wind nesota, Wisconsin, northern | velocity or movement. 8torm. Loafr ype show in brown loather— Illinois, Nebraska and South Da- | warnings were displayed from ne ” he kota. (The frost area on the Palm Beach to Key West this . Fotocast pictures where corn, | morning for expected to shift to : : grain and other late crops will be | northerly tonight and become Lower right— hit with the first seasonal frost.) | fresh northerly tomorrow, . Black suede ghillie tie — low Most of the U. 8. will have | Those who follow weather walking heel. clear skies in the coming 24 hours, | trends will notice the fall-winter

13.95 weather experts say. Weather | air flow pattern has begun on

bureau forecasters say the only | the Fotocast. In this pattern

rainfall in the nation will occur | warm south to southwest winds as showers over soithern Florida. | are followed by long cold air L. STRAUSS & CO., INC. THE SPECIALTY SHOP

(Bee affected area.) fronts extending deep into the Fall clothing will feel comfort- | southern U. 8. as cold Canad IS ON THE THIRD FLOOR Af

able from New England through | high pressure cells push into th the Ohio Valley to the Lakes = central U. 8. During the hot, sulregion, the northern and centrdl try simmer these outbreaks Plains as the mercury stands in | brought welcome relief from the

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| " | Harry, Doris McGuff; John, Mary extended heat: During the-com- | Yovan, and James, Katherine Lewis.

ing winter this Canadian air will At St. Vineewbs William, Dorls Freeman; Ar ugenia er; hy bring our coldest weather. | Mary HuneyPuti; ’ Woodrow, - Leona Tuesdays minimum tempera: | Port pith HUE “i: ture -foreemsts- include Milwaukee, ger, and Ernest, Rosemary Settles. . At Gemerab-Dan, Mattie Luther; Russell, 38; Chicago, 42; 8t. Louis and De- Clemens; Avron: Estelln Thomas;

troit, 44: Kansas City, 45; Boston | ail, Gladys Brock, and Wiliam, Jean and Cleveland, 46; New York, 50; AC “Home—Martin, Mary Anderson, 1539 Philadelphia, 52; Washington, 55, | aire N “mew Dorsey si nad Wiltam, and Memphis, 56. | Hrnestine Bolton, 417 BE. Ohio st

———— | Girls |At Coleman--Kenneth, Darlene Hensen,; Official Weather Ceorye, Ethel Cluff; William, Chrysta:

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§ 6:32. | At Bt. Vincent's—Al, ' Dolan; Ora Sunrine | Sunset aida ‘| Grace Ratlipp; George, Cecelln PatierPrecip. for 24 hrs. endin 7.30 “s. m. 1.10] son; William, Rosemary DeFrees; Clyde, Total precip. since Jan. 30.68 Elms Arthur, and rnest, Rosemary Excess since Jan. 1 vous 486) Bettles, » The following table shows the tem sr. ure in -other cities HY npers DEATHS Atiants de i Jefle H. Atherton, 38 a 2324 W. Michigan Boston “13 68! st, coronary occlus Chicago ...... + 18 42 Prancis Marion Hawkins, 74, at 38 B. Btate Cincinnati «BS Ave. carcinom ’ Cleveland « B6 81| Catherine Kuchier 4. at 45 BE. Le Grande Denver oo 1 4%) st. diabetes meflit Evansville ........ . "3 Leona Owen, 85, at ry Vincent's, coronary . Wayne ........ . 85 occlusion Ft. Worth ; .. 83 5 Elia Brandt, 60, at Methodist, arterioscleIndianapolis ‘(city) . ., 88 51. rotic heart Kansas City ih . 16 48 Ruth Krebs, ‘41, at] Methodist, Phivmenia. Los Angeles wm 65 Avery Gi. Putnam at on E, New York Miami wh 76| at, cerebral ra Mpls.-8t, Paul oo 64 34 John Riley thy a, at 1336 N. New w Qrieans "81 13, Delaware st. arter ele erosis. Rs oa aviv own 70 Waiter E. Bchults, at Veterans’, leuOklahoma city ‘ « 81 _ 80 kemia, ' 18” » Mary C. Crago, 84, at 941 Congress st, pittibiren oe .. 88 | coronary thrombos 8 ONO «savas 9 1 Roy Fiisworth Fhompsort; 9, at Method« San tr giao 9 84 nephrosclerosis, Jo 80 8 Filer ‘Levi Wine, 80, at 238 s. LaSalle shy Mon, D. Cus «+ 81 08 cancer.

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