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food Prices Here Reflect

Housewives Gain On Today's Bills

Housewives returned from day morning shopping a few cents richer today as retail prices began to reflect last week's marline. ; L oe Bee family food bill showed anywhere from fractional to substantial decreases on’ such items as flour, pread, butter, lard, an cured and fresh meats, lo Meanwhile, both markets re-! flected the uncertainty caused by last week's downtrend. There were few early hog sales at Indianapolis stockyards with sales mostly light hogs selling $1 lower. Majority of buying was hesitant. The-cattle market «as. uneven with. a definite lower,

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Reflect Market Retail price cuts by grocers and butchers In the main reflected last week’s market drops. | There were a few reductions beyond the point that market drops would justify, apparently in a competitive spurt. Here is the local price picture on six principal items today: ’ FLOUR — Generally down a| fraction of a cent on the pound, reflecting last week's market drop. The sharpest reduction was| 25 cents down on a 24-pound bag at the Standard Grocery Co. i BREAD—The one-cent cut by Krogers which became effective today was the only cut announced locally. Spokesman for the Indi-|. ana Bakers’ Association said a general decrease was unlikely, in-/ asmuch as this area had been at the bottom of the price list in a national survey. Bakers feel, the spokesman said, that increases in/ paper, gasoline, freight rates and, other items offset the decrease in,

grain, { BUTTER—The market drop) was generally reflected in retail today, down as much as: a pound in most stores.

generally selling about 6 cents lowér than last week. Observers believed that the price would level off here, with the lower price acting as a sales stimulus to “peg” the price by demand.

cured meats were down as much as 7 cents on the pound. The sharp reduction caused by lower market prices was generally nation-wide. Here again a level-ing-off was expected as stores create a demand to “peg” the price by “pushing” 69-cent bacon. FRESH MEATS —-All fresh figats “were “expected to be generally lower this week, as last week's lower priced cattle and hogs reached the meat counter,

Warmer Today, 5 Above Tonight

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

By Marfin ° Sam..3 10a m..18 Mr. Lilly had been ill for two * ee 9 . Meas | dro as much as . Lill ——_— Tam. 4 ‘1a m...16 I Sv op safd it was years. He had been'in eritical wh. Sl Neel 3 i 12 (Noon).18 the biggest price break since early condition for the past several Ne ae : a alanis Jast yet. he mean- ¥ Started to Work at 14 ASS ‘SR. Slightly warming temperatures At Washington, in the : {time, Chairman August H. An-| One of the nation’s leading. in-

today through tomorrow, were forecast by the Weather. Bureau this morning. The weatherman termed it sant winter weather” as the Sun shone through elear skies. Temperatures, which dropped toa low or 3 degrees at 6am: today, were rapidly warming under the sun's rays and are exPected to reach a high this afterhoon of 24 to 28 degrees. Forecast 5 to 10 Above Tonight will be not quite so cold, the weatherman. said... The ercury is expected to drop to Or 10 degrees above zero. Tomorrow temperatures are exPected to" rise to about freezing. a Weather generally covered hoo northern half of the nation wer" Sub-zero temperatures , Vere’ reported in most of the northern tier of states. - Minneapolis, Minn. reported 14 ow Zero-last night while fareT north in Central Canada it Was 30 below, a" fmperatures in the southern ‘Ales from Florida to California Were generally mild.

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Hogs and Cattle Josiah K. Lilly Is Dead at 86;

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rices dro) {Private funeral services for Cate a OE on 0PPed! Josiah Kirby Lilly, chairman of

| months. ne: break who died at 1:45 p. m. yesterday Except for a single day last at Methodist Hospital, will be neid | April, hog prices reached. the low- at 2 p. m. tomorrow at his home, {est level since January, 1947. 5801 Sunset Lane. o |" Department o7 ‘griculture ex-| Burial will be in Crown Hill perts said that retail meat de- The family has asked that flowmand had slackened, and that ers be omitted. there was an oversupply of ani- The Lilly Co., one of the world’s. !mals_shipped to the big cornbeit:largest drug firms, will-be.closed |stockyards. tOmOTTow, em Meanwhile, grain prices rose, In Hospital Since Jan. 21 fell and rose Again onthe Hay piv who was 86 years tion’s major exchanges. Last ,..° }.4 heen a patient at the week's price nosedive apparently ,, iia) since Jan. 21. At his had been checked. bedside were his wife; two sons, . $1 to $8 Drop’ Eli Lilly, president of the Lilly Hog prices dropped $1 to $3 firm, and J. K. Lilly Jr, executive

livestock terminals, and at some children.

{dresen (R. Minn.) announced to- dustrialists and philanthropists,

aay that the special House Com:-. Mr. Lilly gave. unselfishly of his | mittee on Commodity Speculation time to promote worthy civic and will-maice a “full inquiry” into cultural endeavors as well as to

last week's slump in grain prices. cement a close, personal friendAnd at New York, the Stock ship with his employees. {Exchange opened steady. But| And. although his father, Col. {traders continued to-watch-eom- {kif Lilly, founded the vast pharmodities for information to chart maceutical firm, the son did not the stock future. step into a plush job. Steaks Cut 10c¢ At 14, Mr, Lilly was the fourth

erson to join the fledgling firm In-New York, the Grand Unlon Bed in May. 1876, at 25. W.

chain-of 128 stores announced an Pe SL. }is duties were to sweep |immediate cut in te price of the floor, carry messages and (steaks from “79"to merchandise to wholesalers and Pou, ind the Kroger gro- to do other odd jobs such as nir- . ing the boiler. cery chain, which cut bread prices (1 Yt per loaf Saturday, an-| Goes to Pharmaey School |nounced a 10-cent reduction on The youth’s imagination was bacon to 57 cents a pound. The fired, however, with this first con{chain cut lard 6 cents a pound, tact, and he left preparatory school for the full-time emplov-

{ 10 cents per 25-pound bag, t a ot pnd ge to 10 cents. ment. The first pound of material

At Chicago, the Kroger chain finished at the laboratory was dereduced all beef cuts from six to Mivered in a basket by Mr, Lilly 12 cents per pound, depending on to August Kiefer, wholesale drugthe quality. Flour was cut four gist, a few blocks away.

size. Convinced the drug Industry to 11 outs, depenging op the |should be his life work, Mr. Lilly

othe vag entered the Philadelphia Coilege of Pharmacy in 1880. He was Truman Requests graduated two yeéars later and (Ti i returned to the firm as superinTin, Oil Controls Teturned

| WASHINGTON, Feb. § (UP)— During his 16 years as superin- | President” Truman today asked|, .... "pn, took an active lead

oday by the Bureau of Congress for “prompt action” 0, 4py pharmaceutical feld. One

|continue controls over certain . i early acts was to engage a

| materials that are still scarce. |. nomigt for control work. | The present controls expire 1, 3883 he offered the trade a Feb. 29. line of assayed and standardized

| The extension requested by the g,iq extracts, the first available | President would permit the govV- to pharmacists. Then, in 1890, he {ernment to continue to control established a botanical laboratory the distribution, use, export and for the control of cride drug import of tin, fats and olls, rice, stocks,

| antimony, cinchona bark, quinine, . Father Died In 1808 and quinidine, and nitrogen fer-| Just six years later he began | tilizer. the manufacture of gelatin cap-| plese . sules by machines designed -in hel Lilly shops. Set 2 Holidays This. interest in advanced ideas

City employees will have {WO continued as he assumed presi-

holidays this month. The City dency of the firm on the death of {Hall will be closed next Thurs- nis father in 1898. He Immedi-| day for Lincoln's birthday and giely took over the sales force

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By RICHARD LEWIS The doors that don't latch have been nailed shut in City Hall. The doors that sag have been taken off the hinges and stored away. Out of $13 million the city spends in a year, there ought to be some money to fix a few doors. But then... no one really knows this year, Controller Phil Bayt after anWhen the windows rattle other day of trying to find out

so hard the stenographer the state of municipal finances. % Nobody knows the financial can’t hear the dictation, they (ore at City Hall these days. stuff paper: between frame and Thousands of dollars In. unpaid, sill. Good bond paper. too, left 1947 bills come in with the mornover from last year, 8ic Gloria ing's mail, The Controller shud« Transit, ders when the mailman walks in Even with paper in the cracks, the front door, the ‘wind eddies in from the (It's the “back doors they've street with a long. low sigh. It's nailed shut, The front doors are a sad, moaning sound the wind tied together with wire, so it's makes, like the sigh from City easier to get in that way.)

Guess at Deficit for Two-Bils

There's an informal, little pool ever since the City Hall was buiit. in the Controller's Office on the It Is Soutinuel oh the thiofy errors eventually w ca total amount of the deficit. They py the County Treasurer, by the expect to discover it next month... ke the State Board of AcYou write your guess on a slip counts or somebody. But the of paper and put it in the drawer errors are not caught before they with 25 cents. There are three result in overspending one year officials and one bystander in the and deficit the next. pool so far. Somehow out of the mists of Each has studied the situation the past there has evolved a for some time. Their estimates method of financial record keepof the deficit range from $472,000/ing in City Hall that makes to $600,000. counting on one's fingers seem The winner pledges the pot to a like higher mathematics, special fund to purchase aspirin’ For three years, nobody took for the Controller and the Mayor. time out to issue a financial reThere is no mystery in the port. When the financial reports spectacle of City Hall going broke finally appeared before election, with the biggest budget and tax they were incomplete. y mie rate in history. The reasons are During all of 1947, the City had B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer 28 Obvious as the $400 plaque the no firm idea of its cash position, i — : hi Works Board put on the W. Mor- It hasn't found out vet.

" 941 ris St. underpass last year to im- Look underneath the table near Wells Denies He I mortalize itself in bronze. the south window in the Controll-: | | The single-entry system of er's office and you will find the oY |Dookkeeping employed in the City spending records of 1946 in a th Controller's office has led to cardboard condensed milk carton, eep " errors ranging up ‘to $1 million covered with ‘dirt; *

Carelessness Results in ‘Crisis’ Plans Return to IU la Duting 1947, the Controller's of- cluded widows and orphans on the ce did not know from month to police and fire pension funds. When Job Is Over imonth what its actual -and antic- Phe Controller's office itself is By SHERT.EY UHL |ipatéd balances were. When it'only one instance of the lack of =~ Tai Special Writer _ _° had to find out in order to make financial control over the city . LOUISVILLE, Ky; Feb. 2 the 1948 budget, it guessed. It budget. Departmental spending Pure tommyrot, pure gossip.” guessed wrong to the extent of also is uncontrolled. declared Dr. Herman B Wells $320,000. That's part of the aef-| At the City Hall, it's every detoday in repudiating rumors that jejt, {partment for itself, and the one he might accept a more or less/ The rest of it, ranging from with the least articulate precinct permanent job with the American $150,000 to $280,000, was over- committeemen takes the beating. Military Government in Ger: spending, the Controller believes.” When one department spends {many. | ‘One example of the carelessness its funds for the year, it raids anThe bouncy, breezy president which has characterized city other department. of Indiana University, energetic financial practices was last The Street. Department is the as ever despite a 10-hour plane month's city - payroll crisis. A usual target for these raids... This trip from Berlin, said he expected $750.000-bank loan to pay salaries may sceount for its annual plea ‘to be back in. Bloomington in until spring tax collections was to the City Council that It never

~about-three months, sidetracked a month because -a has enough money to fix streets. He has been on a six months’ stenographer forgot to mail some . Most departmental funds are [leave of absence as advisor -on letters to advertise it. earmarked for specific types of

cultural affairs to Gen. Lucius| This nearly forced the City to spending, but there are a few D. Clay, U. 8. military governor Miss one entire payroll, which in- known as “special funds.”

Just for the Ride 3 Dr. Wells flew here with Rob. These cover items like special; The purchasing agent has no ert Murphy, U. 8, ambassador to legal fees, commissions to asso- More power to control purchases Germany, who is taking part In ciates of top officials and trips. to by sity Separtuients Shay Sherk, the 1! anniversary celebration ~up, * Tot ‘the University” of Loutsvire. 2 %-X ark. Atlantic. CItY,. Detroit. a clerk, with a tithe Dr. Wells “came along for the New Orleans and Washington on. Each department orders its mer.

ride” and Immediately dashed ¢ItY business, like conventions. .Ichandise over the telephone, or off by automobile for Blooming- If a department goes broke and else has a clerk in the pirchas- ° tom, an ; 4 iean’t find another to raid, it gets ing agent's office order for it.

{anapolis-tonight for Washington What is called “the unexpended | 000 a year.i. where he will conifer with State ANd ANUCTPATSS DAIAATE™ 1TH Ihe TWo or the TC's biggest Department officials on his re- City General Fund. {spending departments by-pass the organization of cultural affairs’ Departments were trying to get purchasing agent's office entirely, fn Germany. jaaditional appropriations last year The only. exact record of. thelr Dr. Wells said details of the re- [rom “unexpended and antici- spending at City Hall is their canorganization plan probably would pated” general fund balances celled checks in the Controller's {be announced from Berlin today which had ceased to exist. office, “ lor - tomorrow - and - declined to Manipulation of funds can be They are City Hospital and, [jump the gun on his superiors by controlled —by the City Council more recently, Sanitation elaborating on the program here. °F the State Tax Board. But Plant. Six months ago, the Sani-

CAREER ENDS—Josiah K, Lilly, chairman of the board of Culture Exchange there is no control over purchas- tation Plant seceded from the

Eli Lilly & Co., died yesterday here,

T He did say, however, that he !N&. City Mall and took its business was especially eager to set up _1here is no over-all suver- down to Eagle Woods, a remote

cultural pérsoniiel between Ger ere a $1 million municipal

Ca HT machinery for the “free flow” of Vision of spending at City Hall. place south of town. pehart Offers Mayor Pays Visit y . There is no central purchasing, Th

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| many and the U. 8. although there is an office with business was handled under the This would involve an exchange ® door which says “Purchasing supervision of an executive who

) of educators, artists, clergymen, Agent” on-it in gold letters. resided in. Brown County, di or ir Mayor Al Feeney had an ap- newspaper and radio men. Dr.

pointment this morning that A new European recovery plan didn’t want to keep.

he. Wells believés this is one of the Competitive Bidding Is Vanishing

key methods of democratizing Competitive bidding for major find a single copy of it at the City all. r 3

based on an international Recon- He sidestepped the issue last Germany. ~iitems of expense has nearly dis Bal

struction: Finance Corp. was outlined today by Sen. Homer E Capehart. . The plan will be offered to the the meeting.

week by intentionally

Dr. Wells said that while In appeared. The City buys 800,000 In 1945, the city started its

getting | A o 1 , the U. 8. he also would endeavor gallons of gasoline a year at a sewer survey. 8in t busy so ‘that he couldn't attend to recruit new aides for re-edu- fixed price from the 12 big dis- spent $179,000 on ert, bias

cation duties in Germany. He was tributors.. There are no bids. sanitation survey, in preparation

Senate as an amendment to thé Bit. today he had to go.’ And, 'non-committal when asked 1 buys coal by the ton for all!for: a gigantic program in the

Marshall Plan, according to Sen. Capehart. Details of his new plan are found on Page 3 of today’ Times. pulled.

| Saw Poland Betrayed’ ID America and Britain betray Poland with their appeasement of Russia at Tehran, Yalta and succeeding conferénces? ‘ Did President HO0#éVelt deliberately deceive Polish-Amer-fcan voters in the election of 19447 Was Yalta an encouraging compromise, or was it in fact the pinnacle of appeasement? Arthur Bliss Lane, former ambassador to Poland and long an advocate of telling American people the score on foreign affairs, resigried his post early last year to answer these - and gther questions. He tells the story in his new book, “I Saw Poland Be-

» trayed," released today by the Bobbs-Merrill Co: and re--

viewed on Page 11 of today's Times by Robert Bloem, Times Political Writer,

s dentist's chair and-had a tooth, Queried about his recent deten- one coal dealer.

at 11:30 a. m., he sat down in o J nether he had his eye on any departments except the Hospital future.

Hoosiers for such jobs. and the Sanitation Plant from' The new administration has There are no been checking for weeks to find E . out what.this survey is all about, & Suseuin visiting trip there, Pr. It buys its automobiles by and has its own engineers making “I think that was like Mark COmPetitive bidding, but writes'® Survey of the survey. Twain's death report—greatly ex-|\N® Specifications in such a way Approximately $1400 was spent Fain dem » [that only one make and model !28t year fo compile a municipal Br, Wells sald military govern. | Automobile can compete. code. City attorneys say they ment was “about finished’ with| ~ If buys milk by the quart from Have found 30 WARY SiTors in the the negative phase” of its German One firm—without bids, It buys “Og cinnot be published. occupation, such as the de- fanned milk by the case from one. hoo goin cw last two years

; why invested $230,000 in the publie nazification trials. rm—without bids. employees retirement fund. With Sees Long Project | City employees send each other 4 change in administration, the

Converting Germans to democ- flowers from private florists at pped racy, however, is a very long City expense. p he Sroment plan a De Sori do project, Be believes, and he didn't There is still another broad i ; appear optimistic on this|avenue of expenditure which in score. He dodged the question four years has cost the taxpayers bi basi i Ja fant of how long U. 8. troops might be $200,000 without producing a cic occasions dobs spending required to remain in Germany. visible result. The City Hall sur- some under control, The occasions Although still -scrappling for veys. are periods when the City Hall is food "and clothing, intelligent In 1944, the City paid $10,000 en t Germans are “quite eager to for a personnel survey, Its rec-| : ——— i ig 4 establish cultural contacts with ommendations were never put into, TOMORROW: Who's responsi the outside world.” leffect and present officials can't ble for the deficls?

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