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.°. ~~ .. FORECAST: Cloudy with little colder today, occasional light snows tonight, low 12 to 16; steady light snow Friday, high 25 to 30. ; — y ; = — te es - pe PRICE FIVE CENTS | Jers — HOWARD 58th YEAR—NUMBER 284 ee : THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1048 | BR ima Thied Matior at Pogiftice seve
t's a Tough Job Handling fates fares
1a Rio ciblanket Denial in Blizzard‘ ec
Says Federal Agency
EEL Lirrs 19¢ JLEIN
making the job of rent advisory -— hoards virtually ‘impossible.” i There is a mounting feeling on
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it is useless for them to investi- ope ve wi cnet 1), S, to Post Families areas because any recommended | increase will be turned down any-
The Governor's criticism levaiea mainly at National Housing Fx-
rain Stocks Ignoring Boards ° 4 ) of a. ‘| Gov. Gates today charged that ' : * ; : the policy of the Federal Housing : » F ; mendations for rent Increases 1 S ! n ce J u n e 2 4 / a { 3 ing ou Tins f = eS a" - a - ey - + She Jet oF sous epserd Sve | Tips for Uncle's Njeces—- ‘Dron in Corn
5 On How to Buy to Save Blamed Upon
Curb Inflation,
MAN : ae bo > peditor. Tighe E. Woods. wa Agriculture Department to Invade Kitchens Over-Pricin spur y the recent resignation y i : x - of the entire advisory board of To Advise Housewives in War Upon Inflation ; the Auburn rent area. WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 (UP)--The government was getting } That board sent the Governor ready today to invade the kitchen and tell housewives how to plan
a copy of a letter in" which all their meals in a nationwise campaign to fight inflation by voluntary five members refused to serve means. . further and submitted their resig- Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson was to work out
Truman Warns By United Press
nation to Mr. Woods. In the let- details of the program at a meeting this afternoon with representa- A major price decline -
{open ter, the board said: tiv - . er weer : > Jp Reject Recommendation Pe Producers’ aig CONSUMET od today that average retail food swept the big grain exMr. Anderson's aids foresaw a Prices hit a new all-time. high| changes today and industrial
nearly 107 per cent above the 1935-39 average. to
{recommendations we might make _|as a board would be approved and | followed because of our close con tact and familiarity with the rent| __|situation in our area. However, on Dec. 15 we unanifmousty; adopted a resolution recommendling that the landlords in DeKalb County who had received no pre{vious increase in rent should be { |permitted a 15 per cent increase. Will be backed by such slogans Anderson $1,000,000 to conduct|
“This recommendation has been A | budgets. inflation and save grain, His aids!
“What we need.” said one agri- said that while the contemplated | 10
ment will advise housewives what foods to buy and may even sug-
an..effort will _be -made to get more than 2 per cent between,
like some meats, . in favor of ber, “continuing the upward trend cheaper, more abundant foods. halted only once since last May.
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PERILOUS NIGHT—Edwin Titzer, Indiana's top trucker, shovels cinders under the wheels of a stalled tractor-
trailer which blocked his passage near Terre Haute during the state's worst snowstorm yesterday morning. The rejected by your department . . obviously upon the theory that
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business administration in run- approach” to the problem, it will ning the kitchen. A lot of house-
Jemocrats Patch
: : | Party Rifts By VICTOR PETERSON , A half-mile farther Eddie sud: 5, ¢nirity vested in us as a board The Labor Department report- such legislation. ae wh rr s—)
petent to pass upon the question
for years. Now we hope to get prices of meat. Republican lead-| cli
| RODE 303 miles from Evansville to Chicago during the denly pagan Braking nia load, ; Alto discharge our duties and re- = me — a mi { . : : ’ ew hundr ee ead an ibiliti y ive *hein| { } . : Compromise Before | Worst snowstorm of the year with Indiana's safest truck ,,ssenger car was careening eraz- shop on a 3 = \Natts Ponders Seek Mi d dle-A ge d
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Spring Primary Test |, Lt part of a plan to ride out the season's most !m, [Tom of M8 ounce | Chdering no public service nor : : By NOBLE REED Ea k . - . pletely around twice and bounced o.o we filling any public need.” “The wide-open factional break. Ditter storm with Edwin Titzer, Evansville driver for Han- into a ditch, barely missing a “Pre Landlords” ; a j o a +A . : : - {telephone pole. 3 : , - nthe Deliicratiel Sarty 1haticock Truck Lines. Ri a or No one was hurt.| In his criticism of the ex-, g# 1¢ being patched up-in-an The junket merely was t0 yc "we were in for it. The snow Eddie couldn't find room to move pediter's policies, the Governor) ; t 1 i ‘how it felt to. ride f » Ing up" . ‘his outfit into a position to pull|said he had recently béen ap-| With Cond ed Ma brothers, - asserting flatly that pnprecedented harmony maneuv- see how it felt to. rice om} was PH Ithe car from the ditch. “He had|proached by a representative of| ith.Condemn N teen-age baby sitters are a flop, hs leaned todan Evansville to Chicago with} EDDIE KEPT dropping speeds wrecker sent from Farmers. Mr. Woods’ office With a sugges-| BY DONNA MIKRLS {today started to enroll middle-|
y he Te A A sot a ls Yi mt I SA gl Yi a i ye SUEY RH one of the safest drivers, Heluntil we inched aiong at 20 milesiburg. {tion that boards be supplemented
plignment . ‘with County was cited recently for specialiper hour. A wrecked load hurts ro.
an Walter Boetcher, "Henry oett and David M, Lewis clashed in an open break with the adinistration of Mayor Al Feeney pver the latter's City Hall apjpointments. Battle lines were drawn in a!
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Feb. 5 sitler agency,
21,500 Ibs.
courtes: d good to : d Rockville we. an to climb|landlord.” EO by Americas. Truck hve (Clinton Hil bet for the slaying of Mrs. Mary Lois two dozen women |ing Association.
n. ner-in Sullivan to eat. Another|ing, . As. thé road | Last June the state amiiaté!trucker, Joseph Gfimore, we on
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of the Month” thus qualifying ville, pulled in. t. brake t t tf h f th ER pr ’ vv ’ 0 him for national recognition. Hello, Joe. How's the road?’| Eddie didn’t. brake to a stop rect from the mayors of the cities card the ndemfed man's moth- mama is not likely to raid’ the|
But i new a I ee Tone be careful. When he pulls out) Road conditions are a phobia room to pass. Its huge - tires bi-partisan boards “in good faith. of a terminal he is entrusted With witn drivers. It is the first ques- spun and smoked. on the road.. The DeKalb County board, for
party maneuvers and the feud a equip- tion asked. Conversations are Steam rose from h is leveling off toward a compro-| $10,000 in. tractor-trailer th 3 Ke Teations. ate Stes awk t a - the grade Republicans and two Democra w ; w! river © A e e Re icans t rats filled with warnings of what to |tenced to die May 10 for the Nov. and probably knows ho to|
Harding and B. L. Brents were the furniture. i conferring with Watts, What's more, they said, she has|
Hall boys will be given a “green |whose total weight, when loaded. dark along the road. {and began to shovel ¢inders frominected with real estate interests. plans to ask a new trial or appeal
C 3 i * Ct) Bul Sat engineer, as the like we might be in for a little from habit for they ride alone. change a word. It was part of| “Because of this attitude resig-y. “og The re race-for sheriff. rough weather.” x {Eddie had more than his workitheir jobs. Eddie might need helpnations from boards have been ™ po. io ww : . ; gular organizatio "i ! ile! regan . | " He's beginning to-realize what bring out Willi § n may, x = =» _|eut out anyway. Mile after mile next time. - numerous and are increasing.” he io ron 28 DEE DTH ens torney and am EH. Steckler, at-|' IT WAS a masterpiece ‘of un-! went by in silence. Carefully we crawled up and added. “It has become almost ne eaanil Fred oa i v [ a “Election i. mime of the State'derstatement. A light snow was, Then it began to happen: About down hills and around curves in|impossible to secure qualified per- cock yd eriff Pre. JG avely -Board, or Arthur J. Sul-| falling as we jostled over Evans-| five miles south of Farmersburg the area of Turkey Run Stateisons to serve on these advisory | 240% Hes d t the ) "oo ville streets. I personally felt the two passenger cars were off the park, /boards. : | - Watts is entitled to file an ap--
Lawyers, Family Talk ~ DETROIT. Feb. 5 (UP)—Two Prices
heat. The example, was made up of three] . p P { Immediately after he was sen- had more experience with kids! hy rears of new credit curbs.
| “It was our understanding that 8 campaign in which the govern. during December. They Wee! 4, pe at New York plunged
their - lowest level since
gest how much of the family bud" ~The department said. sya all June-2,-1947. ion get to spend on food. They said food prices increased slghy =o... o.. the developments: cont om y : .| ONE: The rice of corn shoppers to pass up scarce items, [mid-November and mid-Decem-, Cope eat re § {the full limit allowed for the
. | second day in a row at Chicago, The new anti-inflation drive Congress in December gave; Minneapolis and Kansas City.
The new late stock
as “beat high costs with foo y , s to ht! * s a gh ce d government campaign: fig! market 'a tly was reacting
the downward plunge of
other driver hung on Clinton hill when he couldn't get traction on the glazed hi hway. : p 9 q glaze gn y your department is more com- culture official, “is a little more program will be a brand new STAIN, At Washington, gov-
» ” . ” ” - ” . . th bers of this board ‘wh not substitute for the need of ernment officials were wondering Reporter Travels From Evansville to Chicago a Mem a adatom) hho wives have been doing just that jegislation to ration and control] whether it was x temporary de- ' y ne or whether ation had
2 . : 33 ’ . With Edwin Titzer, State S Safest Truck Driver many years. of the total lack of & lot more of them to do it" ers In Congress are opposed to reached the peak and a sharp 2 downward trend had pegun.
Commen President ‘Pruman declined to: comment on the tumbling prices
the last two days. But at a
{driver lily toward us out of control. Justi, oor nit t > { ) y, we are in effect B . I ] : ab Sitters; Ca | news-vonference, he sald the nay {tion still faces the dangerous
Teen-Agers ‘Flop’ | prospect of an economic crash unless Congress curbs rising
Chicago traders disagreed on
the cause of the break. Some said corn, the nation's basic
Times Stall Writer ‘aged women in An elderly baby| crop, had “over-priced itself.” - They said farmers had curbed
$ ¥ wherever their voting records ; a pi } ioe 4 : . UTE | indicat the boa 3 “ {The mother and sister of Robert Jack and Larry Cann, both! drastically their ‘use of corn in mention in the national safety|the company. A dead driver is| BETWEEN TERRE HA ndicated rd -was pro} Austin Watts, condemned to die World War II veterans, said some) fattening livestock,
On the Chicago Board of Trade,
We stopped ~A-Kor- Clinton Hill, It took goaxX:1. Gover, said he. refused Dad s at the Kat-A-Kor- . , we plement the boards because Burney, arrived with lawyers to their plea for “solid, depend-| corn for delivery in May opened a frantic blinking of actually they were appointed by here today to confer With Watts able women who will take theiat $2.31% a bushel and July corn named him the Indiana “Driver between Indianapolis and Evans-| lights and the waving beam of Mr, Woods’ office upon recominet;-| concerning an appeal for a new worry off parents. {sold at $2.21%. Both wete down la spotlight, |dations which came originally di- trial. z The Cann brothers said Jt is athe full 8-cent limit permissible Officials at Shelby County jail sure bet that a plump, elderly sor a single day's trading.
Traders said corn had “over«
Showdown for DAP wuue Eddie asked lany too soon Stalled’ in the involved. The Governor said the the coming. prim t 3 | asked. | . : | . a go . i ; Ihe Soming mm Bary omtests for| ZODIE HAS i. ne reasons to| “Getting slicker all the time,”/middle of the road was another mayors had carried out their as- ef. Mrs. Elizabeth Watts, 2814 icebox, invite her. boy friends in priced” itself, and that farmers ; : | Joe said. [tractor-trailer. There was no signment of naming well balanced Scofield Ave. his sister, Mrs. for a jitter bugging session, play had curbed their use of the grain
+ Dorothy Gray and lawyers P, L. the radio loudly, or burn holes in! 45 Jjvestock feed.
A wave of selling engulfed the arkets yesterday, touched
a
Stocks cracked sharply on Wall
mise on candidates. {ment besides freight which many Gi watch for along the highway. (on the slippery highway. with three of the members being| The a oy Hall 0. Xx Sit [times is valued at $50,000. ww RC | In seconds, Eddie was out of war veterans, one a labor union | 12 sex slaying of the Inidanapolis handle Shatinate ultaptings hie Street ‘in the final hour of trad 7! - His hands control a monster HOUSE "AFTER house Was the cab. He set warning flares official and only one directly con- woman Watts said he had no their parents are ou for the ins yesterday after slipping down evening. all day. Some stocks
The brothers said they. plan ola as much as $5 & share
light” for the sheriff nomination Bg 1 often reaches 48,000 pounds. {" We hit the height of the snow- piles along the road. He threw| “The apparent. policy of the|the decision. : I 3nd Te Diy Tegulare may come This is the 46-year-old trucker | storm around Terre Haute. Head-| shovelful after shovelful under housing administration of turn- “Everybody's got to die some- enroll a few hundred ladies and with chemical listings the hards hand in Som prom. se with a free who looked at me as I climbed lights’ barely cut through the the spinning wheels until theling down any and all recommen- time,” he said -lightheartedly. then open a bonded agency 10) gst hit, for prosecutor, on of a nominee into Bs og at Ire Hancock wi: The roar. of the. motor iractor got up enough tractionidations for rent increases is Becomes ‘Less Cheerful’ compete With the teen-agers, Biggest Break prit 3 [terminal in Evansville at 1:30) thumped in my ears. to'move off making the” job “of the local : pesmmt— 0 move off. Co / ser, jail attach id he . ; {* Tt was the biggest break the fone Ager ent suay center Ship, THESEAY, . | “Normally truckers are rather x = = /boards extremély difficult if not Ee, J ara less: : “Chicago Grain rare: "oe ” “ on ww i ” | 7 ’ - ” “ } » new| “All set?” .he asked. “LOOKS silent men. They get-that-way| THE TWO drivers didn't ex-|impossible,” the Governor said. , ...r1” since his sentencing e rop ee mid-October and the worst on the a iia J ~% |New York Stock Market since.
Hast May:
Stock transactions at New
1 York-totaled 1.2 million" 3 {compared with 700,000 shares the
‘Weather May Hit previous day.
At Washington “Secretary of
ny the 1946 prosecutor nom- | : 16,000-pound load rocking alongiroad: We slowed down to see If] We moved slowly into a valley ————————————— ; ! oe Mr. Sullivan has not back of us in the tratler. We were we could help, but help Was oOfn|where a narrow bridge made a Fair Board Orders peal for anew trial before Judge o 12 Degrees Tonight | Agriculture Clinton hy Anderson Ha ’d he Will be interested inito pick up another 6000 pounds inthe way... <. ; _ | curve even more dangerous, Down : : A orronit Court ages would prob-| - Weather Map and National | hive been due to “a lack of new sean ad RAY Withdraw Vibcsnnes. 4s got] EET IIR a ral arta the ‘opposite hill another truck New Building Plans... [Claut Cott, ed hat. 1t- would) Weather, Page 4 speculative buyers.” ; e, list. ’ ) -1 ) a reali eme - | ! woul £ - ¥ 1 pe ciimgaiad Brooker Tet ite = tg 1M. visions of, the Fo a0 EX eddie didn't want to tp. “Hes _ |The State Fair Board 10da¥ yniije him to appeal to the In-| A cloudy day with temperatures| [It was learned. too thet (hy Most active among mn pot ng pas, A a: and gc SST os flares set up, visibility, Foe going toe fas pia li go Oreted preliminary Pla ra diana Supreme Court. °° slightly below freezing was fore. SOvernment stopped virtually all tal prosecutor among all en-|po oad jack-knifin ; r8-set- up,’ ling to get up speed for the hill” for the proposed construction of{ —nre.nwhije, in Indianapolis, W. cast for today as warm air from Its grain buying for export as . 48-Wil- onthe. tractor. {was poor, and a huge -tractor-img4ie said guietly. a new conservation ‘building -to: - Co ' 3 li : AS : | soon ‘as prices ; oa Erbecker, newly appoint-| Before reaching Sullivan, some | Traiter ‘onty-invites-disaster-if- not... witheut-changing. his tone: (house permanent exhibits at the oF Ey Vout the gordth bald ame WAVE. yesterd aye if- it had doughts it 10 I has on prosecutor, who already 80. miles from Evansville, we completely off the road. | “Hold on. It's going to be close| Fairgrounds. : : ANIEEs. Aa De De Moe L> con "he Wenther—Bureau-reports Mgt have held prices up. ° Veranda up of a 8.8 EAT jon-the bridge.” re Pe The.ordar Was wise OE fer with Watts and the family to only slightly colder temperatures Secretary Anderson sald The 1 ET . + tion ) . . char ’ : “ s ever buily, Slong with a preliminary el apy. fa IT WAS. — Even -on sofe|T. James, SOminiasioaer of agri- esti definitely what Watus'itonight with occasional Hight) "4 i honight Jor. some me | that wing come Other ign publicity, | Az straight-away highways trucks culture. He proposed that the ishes concerning a new trial mew. The metoiny > oe am clined 10: 4aY, Bei) wi n To I be interested |r Ae jcleaz oun other by only eight building be large enough to house] “I promised thé Boy during trey een 4 i *the price break was “welcome or the Democratic] |* A inches when each is hugging the permanent exhibits- on soil con-| ys : rennet NRT : be fe RN osecutor nomination include ae . {edge of the road. To servation, wild life and forestry trial 1 woe i h Sob the death Meanwhile, Indianapolis and ——————————— | An RO oe ation _tislade 4 1°f asked Eddie how close it Was. and that it include a public audi- penalty,” Mr. Henry said. How-| the state—continued to dig out et Ch } ill D k en rough on the Dlers withl : “I don't know, I couldn't do|torium. ever I will not unless he and his from under the heaviest snow of| ys ; vu n )00 Ibs, for jaw Suits to recover dice game \any good watching him. All I| The cost of the proposed struc- family wish it. the doason which el Yesarday Before Fulton Speech { Ses and John McNelis, former . | sould do was get as close to the ture will not be estimated until Mr. Henry sald two organiza-| hao g wo ar 804| CP ICHMOND., Va., Feb, 5 (UP) unicipal Court 4 judge and a 4 | bridge rail as possible and pray|preliminary plans are submitted, tions had indicated they were BIENWAYS oe.» PPery.| A Baptist pastor charged today Criminal Court nominee in 1942 : # he held his. line.” : I" Lt. Gov, James suggested that Prepared to give $500 each for transportation was returning to that former British Prime Mini Mr. Jacobs would not be in- Bor ¥ | ‘There were no dramatics. ‘the building be erected on the & defense fund for a new trial. | normal ough the eforls Of ter Winston "Churchill “loaded tompured ‘volved in any Democratic fac. 'Y ys u = north side of the Fairground race| “These people have a Jot of "04¢ and & Feet crews, himself With champagne. Whisk tional fight, “If he bee ; «| A COUPLE of coffee-stops track, facing on 46th St. confidence in me because of the] LOCAL TEMPERATURES . | oo." nd wi pagne, ye candidate he would cary obits a Ly i 4 |1ater, and a total of 121; hours emir nt ere: | Shaw case,” he said. , 6am ..20 1am. 19 Rt phil » me t OF ic 8 : gambling “clean up” a a _i|since leaving Evansville, we were Eisenhower to Retire | He referred to the case of John 3a m. .. 2 el mo. N IMo.. in ving peech at Fulton, irecti ’ a. &.. bouncing over Chicago streets. | — a.m... 2 oon) I : ] Sire Ng his barrage at Repub-| | ; , . » | bouncing w ap i From: Army Saturday: (Continued on Page 4 —Col. ol sam..19 1pm. 20 | Dr Bernard C. Clausen of the ; a Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. | Siu? Chicagoans were rushing to 4 ay i Bd in ee) er Euclid Avenue Baptist Church #8 3.700 Another potential candidate] | a catch ‘streetcars. Heads were, WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UP)— ° “ »_e of Cleveland told the Richmond 7,800 Ibs, Who might get int candidate vs | bent down against the cold wind. Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower an- Inflation Note: Hi h-Paid preaching mission last night that cratic 't into the Demo- The streets were like glass and|nounced today he will retire as . 8 . . + ® prosecutor race is Judge r 8 ! Churchill then “spoke the words Emmett Eddie crept alohg. ke . |Army Chief of Staff at noon SatEA} 5 IcManamon of the jam A 4 bet ¢ 20 WwW {that almost from that very day Peedway City Magistrate Even #0, it takes skill to stop urday, : cror on fe set the world afire with hatred.” d to 303 He is close to the Maver po a tractor-trailer on a dime, J Baenbowes Yta a Nation-| 3 mr beret a Press i Y dministration, Eddle had to. aLiPro Club. luncheon he will Robert Mitchum Earned More. Than Truman; | Gloves Tourney te ————————— | ’ | - - I Agai NOT FIVE FEET in front of|his new job as president of Co-| Charges Agent ‘Melted’ $68,000 in Savings : twat, A utlawing Reds the left wheel & rush-hour work-|lumbia University in May or] a Eran CLARY, T 3 Special Writer 3 Nears Finals TON JP) d. June. i "t p ’ : E " Attorney Genus Jab, 3 (UP) - Jove. Bide rea wan June. ine N, Brodiey susvesda) oo OLLY WOOD. Feb, 5—Robert Mitchum's former business man- Ona move. uighbtomor, day opposeq ng. He seem bim as chief of staff. ager promised a complete explanation today of how the star earned row—then comes the Fina posals to tie ugtessio nal pro, pate what was happening. «ON en, Hisenhower ai d not say More than President Truman and still got only $20 a week. in the annual Times-Legion : PATtY, saying | e. Communis The man had fallen on his| Koes. Cr or Tor how Paul R, Behren, ex-manager for movie celebrities, is on trial on) Golden Gloves Tournament ATtyre, back. Horror was written in his Ra : charges of grand theft from two former clients. i at the N. Pennsylvania St. ‘ eyes as he looked directly at the A aa { Mr. Mitchum said Behren's management melted his $68,000 sav-| Armory, cab, I stood up in the cab to Al | Pilo |ings down to $58 while he was, _ — inte rr You'll want to see the see. The wheel stopped about. a Airline Sues being doled out a slim allowance, "TiSht Anne Nichols, author of} fastest action , in foot from the man. MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 5 (UP)—|After he was fired, e's Irish Rose” and Mrs. gmateur. circles tomorrow Wanda Schoeman. He also repre- night when the boys whe
Eddie didn’t say anything as he National Airlines today filed in| threatened Mr. Mitchum's wife drove on. Then he pulled into|Dade County Ctreuit Court a $5/with death, an accountant tostl-| wited Wayne Morris and Grant
\NAPOLE Rp ay | Another trip without “Incident” Pilots Assosiation charging Ubel| An will be explained today. aa in ie pam \ertiied oserTRUCKER'S STOP—Edwin Titzer, vansville fo Chi- |was over. = |and slander. | Bahren promised. He said be wil was my best friar” allowed him yd cago driver for the Hanaoek Tewek Lines, alaims the best | inn 4 Good job” he said|Thieves Get vel oh bor of ion © Te Tent of ‘ois Ta
food between the two cities can be had at the Kat-A« | “Always something new. Some! More than $500 was stolen from|movie celebrities to support his|check. t
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