Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1948 — Page 2

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Bae Pi Placed On House Bill For Parties

Agriculture Chief Gets Blank Check

‘By EARL RICHERT Howard Staff Writer WASH GTON, June 14—When

you're working on the family tbudget, write this down as cere tain: Food prices are going to

two years. Congress Is going to keep them

1t is doing so by renewing the virtual blank check given the Sec-

THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES

Food Prices Predic ted For

T e Next Two Yours

MONDAY, JUNE 1h, 104

PARTLY CLOUDY AND

retary of Agriculture during wartime to promote farm production and ordering him to keep prices pretty much as they are until June 30, 1950. He will do that by buying farm products and taking them off the market. The House of Representatives has voted to continue the present| high government floors at 90 per) cent of parity for cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, peanuts, milk, butte rice, eggs. hogs and chickens. Although prices for most of these commodities are now above the support levels, they are not| far above. A general decline to, support levels would be so small that no lower consumer prices

- Hkely would result.

Sharp Criticism The Senate has a farm support; bill which would lower government support levels on most crops, “ses but the House bill is the one gen | irecin erally expected to be enacted.

House debate on the farm-sup-|>®

port extension bill brought sharp criticism from big-city Congressmen and conservative Republic-

ans who pointed out that their

party Bromine during the last eliminate subsidies. “The title of this bill" sata Rep. Ellsworth Buck (R. N. Y.)’' “ought to be: ‘To guarantee that the

high cost of living will not come

down for two Jears and for no M other

Farm-state Republicans and Southern Democrats who supported the bill with few excep-

tions contended the bill actually Washing

‘was beneficial to American con-|

will receive an associate of arts

No attempt was made in the House bill to revise the parity, t nie ahe ro: “men es it support price: Most agriculture. sxports ny th thi

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formula is outm: Iy ‘assures autmoded and profi on many products, ine ta-| toes | eggs. "Hoosier to Get Degree Frank P. James, Indianapolis, one of the 435 students to be ose State College, San Jose, Cal,

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Friday by the San Crown Laundry & Dry Cleaning {Co. M. D. Jaimet, safety director

CLOUDY AREAS

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Abduction Story

{forced her into a rented truck at

” room and he did. She said she Sis 'eiimbed through the restroom MIAMY window and escaped. She called OO wsmmsusss Der brother-in-law and he drove

{to the station for her,

Police Check

Downfown Waitress ° Reports ‘Kidnaping’ Police today were checking the

report of a 22-year-old waitress in a downtown restaurant who!

kidriaped her and took Shelbyville Saturday, fo The girl did not- notify police 0 until yesterday, She. said she/* was en routé to work at a down-| town cafe Saturday when a man

her to

gunpoint. © She sald he drove toward Shelbyville and talked of molesting her. Near Shelbyville, she reported, she .asked that he stop at a rest-

sald she escaped from a man who|" -

No Stone Left Unturned' For Bedford's Centennial Hoosier Limestone Center Launches Six-Day Celebration of Jooth Birthday of Industry

BEDFORD, ‘June 14—7True top Promise, Bedford was leaving “no

100th anniversary of the birth of Indiana limestone as a comnercial resource, A Mardi Gras spirit pervaded this city of 16,000 persons, which owes Is origin and existence to the stone over which is is built, The vanguard of some 200000 500,000 persons expected to attend the week-long centennial, crowded the streets today. . Dedication Wednesday Center of activity. was a great stone statue of comic strip heavyweight Joe Palooka. Emulating the project of two sculptors in the Palooka comic strip, Bedford Bculptors George Hitchcock and Harry Easton have created the statue to be dedicated on |

The girl told police she could] not remember where she was kid-|

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW-—Partly cloudy and rather cool is the general forecast. Minimum temperatures in the 50's are indicated. Stormy weather over the Mississippi Valley is mov. ing info the easter states as the cold fronts push out toward the Atlantic. Affected areas in the Fotocast picture where showers and thunderstorms are probable in the next 24 hours, according

to the Weather| Bureau forecast. Official Weather UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU, dune 14, 1948

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Precipitation 24 hn. 7:30 Bresipitation since “sui. 1 feney since Jan

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Safety Council Group Sets Dinner-Meeting

Safety problems of door-to-door “delivery drivers will be discussed at a dinper-meeting of the fleet I- {division of Indianapolis Safety Council. The meeting will be held at 630 p. m. Wednesday at Buckley's in Cumberland. Speakers will include James E. Brinkman of Omar Bakeries,

Son Dairy, and = Elbert Glass,

Cash, Jewelry Stolen

Week-end crime reported to

os = police included a sizable burglary,

‘two “stickup “jobs™ ‘and “the cap:

7 turing of three teen-agers in a

stolen car after a long chase. Claude Brown, 40, of 531 Bright - 8t., told police someone entered his home sometime yesterday and stole $490 in cash and some jewelry from a trunk in the basement, Rob Filling Station Eugene Suggs, 49, of 1308 E.| 19th St., the manager of a filling station at 16th St. and Martindale Ave., was robbed of $50 at his place of business early yes-|

terday. A car stopping in front of the Alr-Liner Restaurant at 10th

and Jefferson Sts. early yesterday, mistaken for police, foiled the attempt of a Inasiced bandit to hold uw the . Barl Hastings, 22, of Shelbysile. The would-be bandit became tright-| She ened and fled the scene. Caught in Chase In other action police inter. rupted the vehicle taking careers of three youths when they halted

them after a wild and chase in a stolen car at Vermont

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3 In Week-End Burglaries

Two of them are 15 years old and the other is 14. The trio had from the JAD home last Thursday. Police said they had been convicted of vehicle taking and were under sentence to the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield. Authorities said the youths had admitted the theft of three cars, incl

the one in which they were ap- ud

prehended Saturday.

Local Woman Assigned

To Army Post in Japan

Miss Vera Jane Shaw, daughter! of Mrs. Maxwell Shaw, 3240 Broadway, recently arrived Yokohama. She has" been assigned to Riot, Japan, as Arny hostess wi the Service

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during 1945 and France and Ger-| 5: onn

MARY In 1046 with the Red Cross.

School and received degrees from Stephens College, Columbia, og and Stetson College, Deland, Fla

GRADUATES IN COLORADO Paul Leon Billhymer, a local resident, was graduated today from the. Viiverny of Colorado,

and Illinois St. late Saturday. at Boulder, Co

served in France Sha

naped or a description of her {abductor. = She did remember,

|however, a name which she said marching bands and numerous Hie gave,

Police checked records of U-'Drive-It Co. and found a truck had been rented by a man whose| name resembled that given by the, girl. Police are seeking the man for questioning.

Seven Girls Top High Honor Roll

‘Seven girls tied for first place on the high honor roll at Broad Ripple High. six-week grading period. A total of 85 of the 211 honor students made the high honor roll during the period. Tied Jor first are:

Kather Bert. Alice = Curtis, Ruth Hubbard, "Sars hmilier, Anne Jo janet Wert and Jane Zaise the high honor foil er

ubenger, William Bar

hardt, ge ar, Doris Graham, Mari. Carolyn Ke Donald k, Barbara Lilley, iia Taylor, rr Wilso son, Charles Lou Allen, Janes Baldwin, Lenore

ney Peter Bri oy Nancy ro Pinehout, a. Hn pe a A Jones, Mildred Daniel Rovier.

o Johnson. Royce Meranda, Arthur Plume Dorfs Roth, Suzanne! h Trudgeon, June hays, 0! Wooafil, James” “Alltop, Baroars v elen Blan rel pd ori 3 -

Suzanne Grob, pasricia Guthrie, Hennessy, Tom

Mary Ann Hall, y, Klingaman, Bob a. hn Pecsok Joan Rabold, Janet Rust. Don Shelhorn

, Sus Van Sickle and Disne | Weniteid.

OES AUXILIARY TO MEET | The auxiliary to Indianapolis

Chapter 393, OES, will meet at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Masonic Temple, 1522 Ww. Morris St.

ines,

|Wednesday by Ham Fisher, car-| |

- nati and the State En nation? 22% contests and varied 'ment. of Indiana at its four-day.

om Boone. unturned to give you the time of

obs, a i ei ‘Local Bankers’ Group

recent meeting.

This Is Our New BILL SIMS

_ cheerful as a sunny summer - morning! Designed with Bill

Sims’ famow, sure fing

rick-rack_ trim. Blue, aque or

toonist and creator of Palooka.| Highlights scheduled today included a gala Flag Day parade at 2:30 p. m. made up of 12

marching organizations. Queen From Oolitic A sun-up flag raising ceremony on the public square started ' levents, followed by an unveiling of special centennial windows. a ang a oe] elected and installed as state Sowders, 18-year-old bru-| commander of the Veterans of net from Oolitic, as “Centennial Foreign Wars at the four- day Queen.” | session “ending Yesturday. in An open house at the National South Bend. {Guard Armory and a display

foreign and American Sor % scheduted “at 4:30 p.m. and at) Hom to Hea 8:15 p. m. the Elks Chanter | from! te will appear

NEW. VFW . CHIEF—Ancil

Moose) Morton, Indianapolis veteran of World War |, was

School for the third Terre Haute

public square. Day's events will: close with a battle of music and public ane.

‘ng at 9 p.m. on the square, f a two Indiana Caray a Man Elected orchestras led Ned an Chuck Smith » ory State Commander

Ambassadors to Visit x Ancil (Moose) Morton, Indianhout the rest of the apolis, was elected and installed

, week events will include a visit| state commander of the Vet-

ors of 22 foreign! Depart-|

from ambas erans of Foreign Wars, depart-|

events. |session which ended yesterday in The slogan of the event is, [South Bend. “Bedford will not leave a stone | Mr. Morton, chief of staff of|

the Indiana department seven iyears, was the only World War {I veteran-elected to office. He de. : _|feated Earl A. Snyder, Craw’| Elects New Officers "| fordsville, * Max Flanders, Officers of the’ Indianapolis { Anderson. Bank Auditors and Comptrollers] Other officers include George organization were elected at a G. Irich, Ft. Wayne, senior vice {commander; William Cox, JasElected were Robert Coolman, per, junior vice commander, and president, cashier for the New John G. Tinder; Indianapolis, Augusta State Bank: John A. | judge advocate. Rebecca Smead, vice president, auditor ning, Terre Haute, was elected. with the American National! president of the auxiliary. Bank, and Charles H. Gauding, | The group renewed its approv-

Robs |Your life.”

the Indiana National Bank. {veterans of World War II.

SHOP TUESDAY THRU SATURDAY

; 9:00 to 5:25 CLOSED MONDAYS |

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Pinafore Shop, i Fourth Floor :

stone unturned” today as it launched a six-day celebration ‘of the|

; juin de ‘Anguerra and Mr,

For Ballet Series

Auditions Planned To Complete Cast °

Five young Indiana danesy have been chosen as members o 4 the operetta ballet for the ‘Strg Under the Stars” series But. ler Bowl this summer, n ie | Selected by Marguerite de An v Spereits

Sue MeCarty. Pe turgeon and ir and Webb, all of Indias, apo nia M apails, & rgl cClamroey Two more young wom four young men dancers needed ‘to complete the

en and are ballet,

{will .audition applicants at 8 p. today through Friday in the base, ment of Tabernacle Presbyte ‘Church, 34th and Centra] Ave, where reltearsals for the summer productions will be held, Dancers over 18 years of age who are free to accept full-time employment are invited to sent themselves for auditions,

Brownson Receives

. > Civic Award Charles B. Brownsonh, 3561 N. Pennsylvania 8t., vice president in charge of civic affairs of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce, has received the dis. tinguished service award for out. standing leadership and contrib. tion to civic betterment in Indian. apolis. The award was presented by Karl Stipher, chairman of the Jaycee awards committee. President of the Central Wail paper & Paint Corp. here, Mr Brownson is also commander of American Legion Post 186. He is a director of the Indian apolis Optimist Club, president of the Marion County Republicas Veterans organization, chai*man

council and is a division chain \man of the Marion County Cancer Society.

Local Insurance Man ‘Gets Company Award

C. J. Schneider, manager of the Guardian Life of America life insurance agency here, has received

5 Dancers Chose

of the Juvenile Court Advisory ;

a 1948 National Quality Award |

for work in life insurance.

J. E. Bettis, agency supervisor, |

also received the award from the

"Lite Insurance Agency Manage :

ment Association.

Optometrists Set Outing

dy Central Indiana Optometric

“Society and women's auxiliary B will meet Wednesday. for golf and

|dinner at the Elks Blue River {Country Club in Shelbyville, Golf

secretary treasurer, auditor with al of a soldier bonus for Hoosier play wiil start at 2 p, m. with

{dinner at 6: 30 p.m.

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