Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1948 — Page 3

THURSD. DAY, MAR. 18,

eeney Raps 'Secrecy’ | Of Gas Firm's Deals

Mayor to Scan Coke Fees paid To Sales Agent

Mayor Al Feeney said today he is planning an early meeting with officials of Citizens Gas & Coke

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Here’ s How UMT, Draft Differ

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (UP) —Here is the difference between the draft and Universal

The draft, or selective service,

Armed Services Committee would affect all men 18 to 20. Military experts regard UMT

Utility in an effort to “find what|as a long-range measure to pro-

connection utility.” “Too many people have been asking me questions about the firm, its policies and make-up, which I cannot answer,” the Mayor said today. His personal investigation into the relations between the City and utility has already resulted in a $4.50 a ton reduction in the price the City is paying for coke. Heretofore, been purchasing coke from-deal-ers at the retail price, presently $18.75. Mayor Feeney called the company, asked if the City could buy in car-load lots at wholesale prices and utility officials said it could be done. Decries Secrecy “There has been too much se-

the City has with the

crecy in the past concerning the|

utility’s activities,” Mayor Feeney said. “Any legitimate business should run {its affairs in the open.” Oné of the points the Mayor said he planned to investigate Is the terms of a contract under which Hickman-Williams Co. Cincinnati sérves as yao sales agent for coke produced here. Mayor Feeney said it had been reported the sales agent was getting $2 a ton commission on all coke sold in Indiapapolis, However, in a report released by Dean T. Burns, assistant general manager of the utility, it was disclosed the Cincinnati firm receives a 20-cents-a-ton commission on all domestic coke sold in Indianapolis and a 5 per cent fee on all industrial coke distributed here. Report All Sold Hére The gas company has reported that all of the 86,153 tons of domestic coke produced last year was sold in Indianapolis. The Mayor said he was also investigating comparative coke prices in other Midwest cities which range from $16 a ton in Cincinnati to $19 to $21 a ton in Chicago.

Capehart Believes Congress

Indianapolis had)

vide a backlog of trained men in event of an emergency.

Expect New Bids On Legion Offices

Scrap Earlier Plans Because of Costs

Bids will be asked soon on a new national headquarters build-| ing for the American Legion on! the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza. Earlier plans had to be scrapped when rising construction costs made it apparent that the new building and another planned for other veterans’ organizations on the same site could not be built for the $2 million appropriated by the 1945 Legislature. Can Be Constructed A prior obligation to the American Legion provides that a new of | uilding be erected by the state, Tlie national offices are to remain

The Légion building can be built within the financial limitation. Frank H. Henley, commission secretary, declared. Bids received last year totaled $4 million for the two buildings. The building will be constructed of Indiana limestone to match the present building, which will be used for the Indiana Department of the American Legion andthe women’s auxiliary.

HONOR GROUP PLEDGES 17 Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Mar.. 18 — Seventeen DePauw University women have been pledged to Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman women’s scholastic honorary. Indiana residents pledged are Virginia Ann.Cordill and Marilyn Wiegand, Indianapolis; Virginia Ruth Arnold, Greencastle; Marilyn Stevenson, Danville, and Mar, garet Thomas, Paragon,

May OK Draft This Session

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY . Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Mar. 18— President Truman’s program for filling up the armed forces with draftees may be adopted by this Congress, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) predicted today. But the senior Senator doesn’t like the idea and will not support | a new selective service act unless it is"ghown that we are on the! very verge of war, he said. Both he and Sen. William E.

system of our government at this ime.”

In a formal statement prepared jor the press and radio, Sen. Capehart said: “The New Deal is now face-to-face with the Frankenstein it |started to build in 1933 when communism was given diplomatic recognition.” Freshman Republican Congressman Ralph Harvey saw nothing new nor good in the speech. He said it would not create “inspira-

Truman Condemns Wallace's Reds’

Scorns Su Of Ex-Cabinet Aid

NEW YORK, Mar. 18 (UP)— President Truman flatly condemned Henry A. Wallace as an agent of communism last night. He said he would not accept Mi.| Wallace's support even if it meant defeat in the November election. “I do not want and I will not! accept the political support of Henry Wallace and his Communists,” he told the Friendly Sons| of St. Patrick at the Hotel Astor. | “If joining them or permitting | them to join me is the price of | victory, I recommend defeat. “These are days of high prices. But any price for Wallace and| his Communists is too much to pay. I'm not buying!” | Mr. Truman departed from his prepared text to assail the Tore, mer Vice President. Mr. Wallace, who was diomisood as Secretary of Commerce by Mr.! {Truman after a speech advocat-' {ing appeasement of Russia, plans ‘to answer the President in a broadcast tonight at 9:45 (Indi'anapolis time) over the American Broadcasting Co. network. Washington reported that Pres-' ident Truman returned to the capital at 6:44 a. m. (Indianapolis' time) today by train. He went! directly to the White House.

Editor Gets It in Neck Over Story on Necking |

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Mar. 18 (UP)—George D. Wood Jr., press bureau editor at American International College, said today he' had been fired because he gave widespread publicity to a lecture advocating “clean and Wholesome, necking.” The lecture was presented ot the college last week by Dr. Dorothy Spoerl, who told her listeners to find out their “boiling point” on necking parties and not to exceed it. -

STRIKE TERMINATED SHELBYVILLE, Ind.,, Mar. 18 | (UP)—Workers on strike at the Shelby Manufacturing Co. here for the past three months agreed to return to their jobs today. The plant, manufacturing women’s clothing, had been idle since Dec. 186.

STRAUSS

SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF TOMORROW!

: Ask Mrs. Manners—

BECAUSE A A PERSON dc does something wrong should it always be held against him? I like a boy whom my parents {look down on for something he did four years ago. He took 'his punishment. He is a very nice boy, but it makes my \parents mad if I speak to him in public. We wish to go with each other, but I'm afraid of What my folks would say. I Know You will say 1a have Lens sn BBYite HA bYi SUF Bouse Hut WR Sou. BEWILD. uur food reputation is as important as the Bee to is character. Be Re Oy Anes minds about this boy Whom he 1a accepted by other parents.

Teenagers Love a Married Man

MY GIRL-FRIEND and I are in love with the same married man. He is 26 and lives in our apartment building. We are ‘almost 18. He has a semi-invalid wife who nags him and is always grouchy. They have a child. He says he doesn’t love his wife and wants to divorce her. He takes us out and makes love to us. He says we give him his youth and that he loves us. Our parents don’t know of this and neither does his wife. He says when he gets his divorce he will marry one of us. We don't care for boys our age—they seem s0 immature, " Deo you think we are wrong to encourage this man? why be with the person you are happiest with? :

E. AND P. A couple of mature girls like you two just couldn’t be taken

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A Mixup in Family Relations

A I a od Sure Tad uly. ue onth of married life to ourselves. ‘I'm 20 and have a baby. We bought a home from my husband's parents. His mother passed away leaving me with my father-in-law, two brothers-in-law a nephew to care for. My father-in-law remarried and took a jane ol po with him But they sae bask vecaite Joe 3 wite wouldn't Ww ave to. Wha keep the nephew. No BR. You'll have to keep your promise if you agreed to take care of the family. If you didn’t promise, ask your husband to urge his father to find other living quarters. Be as tactful as you know how and make crowded quarters the issue, not dislike of your in-laws.

Which Man Should | Marry?

I'M 24 and am in love with a man 28 years old who is get a divorce. He says he loves me, but I don't know. I am to another man who gambles. Shall I marry the gambler or wait till the other one gets a divorce? G. R. You'll know if the man you love loves you when he asks you, to marry him. Stop seeing him until he gets a divorce. your engagement and don’t marry anyoae until you're sure you're settled.

I'm Awfully Lonely at Times I'M A WIDOW in my 30's, have a fairly good job, and my

n by such a feeble line. Haven't you any common sense, any morals? Stolen happiness isn't lasting, and it's wrong to be with the person you're happiest with when that perscn is married. Doesn't your sympathy extend to the ill wife left alone while | her healthy husband preys on two teen-agers? He doesn’t pre- | tend to love either of you. He only wants shoulders to cry on, and e always will.

Should I Leave a Drinking Mate?

I LOVE my husband but I'm not happy. We were married when I was 14 and during our whole marriage he has run around. He|

jour. son.

I'm paying a lady to keep my baby while I work so I can buy my child things.

My husband never wants ‘0 take me out. What shall I do? C.L.T.

Calmly tell him that you're tired of being mistreated and that you expect him to change. Don’t nag—just say it—then be pleasant. Show him that you've missed his companionship and his love and be as interesting and as attractive to him as you

know how. You'll be surprised how he may swagger on a little flattery.

A divorce wouldn't make you happy because you love your husband. You wouldn't have his love if you left him. You'd find

that these people who suggest divores would be too busy to remember your lonely evenings.

Reader Wants Nose Remodeled

DO YOU know of any plastic surgeons here? I would like to have my nose remodeled and don’t know where to go. M. B.

STEPPING HIGH — Randall Tucker and Wanda Towner will twirl batons at the Band Fest at Technical High School tgmorrow.. Beginning at 8 p. m., the program will include a wide variety of band numbers, under the direction of Alonzo Eidson, + and choral arrangements by the Tech Choir, directed by J. Russell Paxton;

{drinks and stays out on week-ends, and he doesn’t support me and

STRAUSS SAYS: TRADITION WITH A TOUCH OF

children and I get along fine with my parents in whose home we {llve. I've always lived for my children and haven't had any {dates in 10 years of widowhood.

Should I continue to live this way or had 1 better live more {for myself? Will I be blessed in years to come or will I, some {day, be left alone with no one to care for me? I'm awfully lonely {at times but I'm afraid I will make myself worse off than I am.

I have two sons, 18 and 14, and they've never given me any ‘trouble,

HAPPY BUT LONELY. You deserve something better than loncliness. Of course you'll be left alone some day. No matter how good your sons are their wives will come first. | Have some dates—you have every reason to be sure of youre self. You've been successful at everything you've tried. Ge the men talking about themselves if you feel out of practice.

Seeks Data on Nutrition

I'M A GIRL SCOUT of Chesterfield, Ind., and am working toe ward a badge in nutrition. Is there any free service in your come munity to help people learn what foods they should eat and how {they should cook them? . The Home Service Department of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, 49 S. Pennsylvania St., has nutrition pamphlets available to you. Contact your county Red Cross, high school home eco nomics Mstructors, and atility companies near your home.

Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times, 214 W. Maryland St

TOMORROW!

Jenner (R. Ind.) are on record tion in America or perspiration as having voted against ERP.|In Russia.” He may vote for ERP, Sen. Jenner was so busy getting but is against UMT. If a draft ready to go to Indianapolis fer Was proven absolutely necessary

the Columbia Club beefsteak din-

- ner tonight, that he only listened

to the President via radio here yesterday. He then issued this statement: “The President's message wa. alarmingly frank. Why does he| tell us now?”

Other Hoosiers _Issued more fulsome ones, but all from the! GOP were critical. They were led off by Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.), who charged the President with trying to hurry the Congress by crying crisis. His statement came from his position as House majority leader. Tested on the three main issues which were stressed by the Presi-

Ine would vote for it he said. Rep. George W. Gillie, Ft. Wayne Republican, said he was sufficiently convinced of the crisis so that he “perhaps” will vote g/for ERP, although he had not o Previously intended to do so. “If we are going to war I'll |also vote for Selective Service,” Rep. Gillie declared. “But I am jagainst it, if we can avoid doing 80. He still is against UMT. Rep. Noble J. Johnson, Terre Haute Republican, is against ERP and President Truman failed to change his position he said. He wants to “further study” UMT and SS before saying how he stands.

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be forced to enact a draft law,” Sen. Capehart said. “But I certainly want more information than he gave us in the speech, or which we obtained so far. “So far as UMT is concerned, I am not convinced this nation should adopt it as a permanent

services committee. “I'd like to see five billion spent on the Air Forces and I'm also ready to vote for a draft if that is what it takes to show Russia that we mean business and don't intend to back down,” Mr. Mitchell declared.

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