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wages have: Most of rages fellow: shoppers were less: philosophical.

Wholesale Costs, Buyers’

ueeze Butchers Southern California Retailers Lock Up Shops; 3 More Texas Towns Join ‘Rebellion’

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of the country today because they could no’longer stand the squeeze of high wholesale costs and mounting consumer resistance.

The Meat Dealers Association

that 25 Los Angeles. butchers planned to close down indefinitely until wholesale meat prices come down’ or customers buy more meat.

Press their doors in some sections

of Southern California announced

There were some signs today that prices might drop slightly in the next few days. But ‘consumer resistance in the form of organized price strikes was being intensified. " ‘S$ More Join Three new Texas cities—Texarkana, Wichita Falls and Naeodoches—joined the 14 other towns in that state where women have launched campaigns to stop buying meat. during next week. Austin, Tex, Mrs, Lila J. Wo vin said the co-operation with the price strike she has organized is “so good that the campaign may run for a month instead of a week. The Southern California Meat Dealers Association said it expected the shutdown movement to spread among smaller-butcher shops because “in ‘trying to hold their © trade some dealers have cut their profit so sharply they just can’t hold out.” But that didn’t deter women from their crusade to force prices down. along the West Coast. Los Afgeles womn were readying a price strike for the two-week period beginning Aug. 186. Sets "Phone Drive Mrs, Virginia Lutz has set up a telephone drive in Long Beach, Cal.

In «an -address at / Davenport, Jowa, President Allan Kline of

the American Farm Bureau Fed-|

eration said inflation was the mumber ane pro r-rueing all

lists. He said the only solution was to increase factory and farm production and that the job could be done if Americans pulled together. ’

Warns of Shortage J. P. Mason, daiy marketing director of the Illinois Agricultural Association warned, meanwhile, that the nation faces an acute milk shortage next fall and ter.

The condition, he said, will result from a seasonal decline in production, a shortage of farm labor, and r Son the fact that farmers are entering other agricultural

Tyndall Towne Man Believed Slugged

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Other Rumors Say Relations Deteriorated

. BERLIN, Aug: 7 (UP)—A Sovjet licensed newspaper reported today that the trunk railway between Berlin' and western Germany was being repaired and after the work was done “heavy and fast trains again can operate on this track.”

A man, believed to have been) slugged, was found in Holt Road and Troy Ave. early today, with! a serious head injury, Police found Ernest R.;Boggs,| 58, of 138 8. Gardner, Tyndall Towne, lying beside the road with a deep cut on his head. Although he said ‘he had been struck by an auto, officers said they found no indications. of such an ‘accident. Deputy Sheriffs Everett Maxwell and William Owens found blood stains and tire tracks with signs of a fast departure behind a nearby building. The tracks led to a spot near where Mr. Boggs was found. } Mr. Boggs is listed as “serious” in General Hospital.

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The line on which railway labor crews were reportéd busy was the Magdeburg-Marienborn section of the Berlin-Helmstedt It was the closing of this section last June 19 “for technical reasons” that clamped the blockade on Berlin. The newspaper, the Berlin Zeitung, added a denial of reports that rails along that portion of the line had been dismantled. Clarification of the press report was lacking. Western officials were unwilling to accept it immediately as a hint that the line might be opened again to traffic into Berlin from the West. The first reaction was that it

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Washington Calling—

U. S.-Canada Scheduled to

For the record, it’s a co first importance.

military authorities are for col-

laboration. Claxton, who, unlike Forrestal, has Parliamentary status, is willto take the floor, defend policy if First item on agenda will be radar net for Canadian morthwest, tying in with net in this , country and another in Alaska, to warn of attack from afr. Funds in this year’s budget are

phases of program "as recommended by Gen. Tooey Spaatz.

turns. frais dairying.

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sufficient to start first of three}

Defense Talks Open Aug. 15

. Dominion Seen Ready to Link With America Against Attacks From Arctic Region WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—Start of real effort toward joint U. S.-Canadian defense against attack from the Arctic will be made Aug. 15. Defense Secretary Forrestal confers in Ottawa them ith i= Canadian opposite, Brooks Claxton.

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Canada’s ready to tie her defenses to ours; realizes she has little chance of standing alone if war comes from the north. Canadian {pan army, navy and air force are below strength, need new equipmerit. Extreme right and left-wingers in Canadian Parliament still resent fact that American planes flying to Alaska use Canadian bases, that we have long-range navigation stations in Canada. But

third. It will take three years to complete. Joint working agreement even-

too — same words don’t always mean the same thing across the border.

Defense Synchronized

UP TO NOW, Canadian defense

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———————— Urges U. S. Probe Reported Firing

: were called in to im which an American Airlines pilot sald were fired at his plane during a landing. Charles W. Duke, manager of the Bt. Joseph County airport, asked the FBI and the post office department to enter the case. The pilot radioed: the airport control tower before landing that pellets from a gun were peppering against ia plans.

AIRPORT officials and police officials searched the area for a gunman but found none. Mr, Duke said shots were fired at the airport twice previously, once ‘at a maintenance worker mowing the landing field and on at equipment inthe air’s instrument landing system.

Question ‘Mr. X In Red Spy Probe

NEW. YORK, Aug. 7 (UP)— The mysterious key witness in the Soviet spy investigation was questioned in secret here today by a three-man House un-Ameri-can Activities Subcommittee, Rep, John McDowell (RN Pa.) and his group, Reps. Richard M. Nixon (R. Cal) and F. Edward Hebert (D. La.), quietly checked into a. midtown hotel last night. They were accompanied’ by Committee Counsel Robert Stripling. The Congressmen immediately went into 4 huddle with the mystery man. There were reports that more witnesses were to be called in today for the secret

Reports Voluntarily The informer, who reliably was reported not to be a former government official, was said to have come forward voluntarily after hearing the revelations made last week to the House by Eliabeth T. Bentley, a confi former courier for the Soviet spy

Find Man Dead Here State Police today were inves tigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found lying in Scott Road just north of Thompson Road. Officers sald

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immediately whether or not the

death was the result of a traffic accident.

Mousing, nation

|At Planes Upstate Bills Facing 0K. | pipe BEND, hg

Members Cost Eyes On Fall Election

By Seripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Aug. T—A Re publican-bossed Congress neared the end of the “turnip day” spe: cial session today with only the merest shadow of ‘what’ President Truman urged being added to the nation’s law-books. Both Senate and House ap: peared ready to agree on housing and inflation-control bills and then head for the. ox-roast and county fair circuit to start collecting votes for the November hin election.

But neither of these bills came close to giving Mr. Truman what he had asked. The housing bill skipped the matter of government-subsidied publi ‘housing and the contrals

. The fact is that Republicans and Democrats alike are extremely chary of dojng anything that might tip thé economic balance and start a downward business trend. Up to Truman

The controls being granted by the Republicans are permissive— the GOP can say it gave Mr. Truman at least some of the power he asked, but it has seen to it that the responsibility for the decision to use it is strictly Mr. Truman’s.

John Citizen ix concerned, the most. important action

first installment when he buys his new refrigerator, stove, radio or other equipment for his home. On such articles as these, the

the same thing during the war— oy

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For those ning religious servi Westendorf, 38th Tafantry Division chaplain, aud his assistant, Teache

Out dorff is director of Central Catholic’ School in Ft. Wayne! and Maj. Sayre is pastor’ of the Beech Grove Methodist Church. Hold Dance Entertainment for the “stay-be-hinds” will include shows -at the

designated as Visitors’ Day and Hoosiers from all parts of the state are welcome to inspect the post, 2 Biggest event so far In the might lives of the ING “joes” most of whom are teen-agers with no: previous military experience, was a hilarious dance last night in the Sports Arena. Music was provided by the division dance orchestra, directed by Pvt. Joe Naunschef, Ball State

those remaining at camp there will be morni and h ces tomorrow conducted by Lt, Col. Fred J.

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Muncie. Set Boxing Show

Girls came Edinburg, Indianapolis, Franklin and other nearby communities, as dancing partners, For entertainment next week

been scheduled by 1st Lt. Herb

‘{ices officer. Exploding shells drove quail, partridge, rabbits and like game from the artillery ranges yesterday as the National Guard's guns roared into life to shatter the post-war calm at Atterbury. “Just to keep the records

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Our Fair City—

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County Clerk A. Jack Tilson. His office held out at least three marriage licenses in June s0 newspapers couldn't get them. In July and August, more licenses were censored.”

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Marriage License Bureau ‘Censors’ Vital Statistics

Joins Bold ‘Public Servants’; Times Will

| Print Lists as It Discovers Them Insofar as immediate effect on!

growing bolder in withholding holds vital statistics under a 1945

Haw. County suditors- ad township “trustees keep secret relief Latest example of this practice cropped up in the office of

ently are determined to have the last word in the Sambagn. They've sewed up practically all the radio time in ‘the state be-|

tions are they're bidding for even more.

First to learn of the Democrats’

lcans. They've been shopping for a good sized hunk of that radio keep run< ning into difficulty in getting it.

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