Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1948 — Page 42

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__ Inventories Melt; Sales Lie Ahead

~ “tion of one per cent.

- ‘and getting lower prices (two/ket. The merchants are forcing week) from manufacturers.

Eating May Be Cheaper rs “ries "year,

food

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Retailing Closes Strong In Yule Home Stretch

. Hold-Off Buyers Stampede Stores;

‘By HAROLD H, HARTLEY, Times Business Editor, . RETAILERS TURNED the keys in their doors Friday night, took a look at their inventories and cash registers, and heaved a sigh of relief. Christmas business had up strong on the home stretch and had crossed the line close to last year’s hard-to-match figures. ‘ Heavy buying struck the stores about the first full bu iin Dugetber, Put itolt sented a lot of money. Today y A v4 Pp : Y e they feel better. Inventories thousands, gift lists in hand. poured out through revolving Buying had become a must. They doors and delivery wagons to cus- | shopped feverishly. Cash registers tomers who, had overwaited the)

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___Jingled. credit accounts piled up. market for lower prices. The gift

Retatlers in general had been buyer was caught short in many! pensitive on the subject of inven- instances and did his buying] tory. It looked big and repre-under forced draft. |

A Close Race

the downward drift of unit sales. Few, if any, were hurt by the toy business in Indianapolis this year. { The race with last year's volume was so close that with some the outcome depended upon the last day of buying. This meant gvershooting id undershooting og briskly Furs have not been

the mark by as little as a frac-too disappointing despite the fed-

Toys moved well. Stores watched this, |

eral excise tax. . Delayed cold weather has held] Women buyers are demanding | back sales of warm clothing, over- quality. One successful merchant coats, furs, woolens, ete. But even said, “You can also see the workthis side of the business noted a ing of their minds over the counpickup in the last two weeks. ters. They examine merchandise Hoslery, handbags, costume jew- closely, then buy one item where elry and women's coats have they used to buy three or four,

January should see big clearance sales not because of “inventory size so much as their desire to change stock, get new styles, new ideas on their shelves. The buyer who watches the January advertisements this year should have much for which to be grateful, . . It has been touch-and-go with hard-working merchants. They knew, .and still know, what 18 “Manufacturers find their invencoming. They are gearsd from tories piling up, and they have to the top down for the battle of sell. All they can do is to- price . competition. They aré demanding downward into the broader marshirt lines cut 25 per cent last/ lower prices for the public harder : than ever before. ’

Abundance appeared in this line first. Toward autumn, big national companies broke out with a rash of competition which included the coupon war in Indianapolis, Manufacturers did not like it after they got Into it. Two weeks after the first coupon gun was fired,

| many were holding their aching p—— mixed with abundance produce a

heads, vowing “Never again.” vy crops are still forcing|stiffening effect on food prices. prices down. There will be| Some food stores found they no demoralizing drops but a/had too much Christmas hard] slope down. The concen-|candy. They let it go Christmas of the food business in In-/eve for whatever it would bring. lis is that prices will re-|They dumped it. No carry-over. - main about where they are with! All in all, it will cost the aver8 slight tendency to lower levels. age Hoosier housewife a little less Two factors are resisting lower |to fill her dinner table next year, ces. Materials and labor areland that is good news to housetil 4n the upward cycle. These hold budgeteers,

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DOUBLING UP . . . Two men sérve you (and sell you) as filling stations step up their pace. bought good merchandise with an eye-on | to .aer Carl R.- Smith checks tires and Charles Cummings makes a windshield shine at the Stand.’ | ard Oil training station at 30th and Meridian. : " ”

Service Stations | Cut Down Wait |

Retailing Becomes More Competitive The shelves of gasoline stations are filling up again and the customer's wait at the pumps has been cut “to aboyt five seconds: flat. y And gasoline retailing has become much more than that. The 1949 gas station will be on its toes. Two-man service will be back again in the upswing of competition. Setting the pace for the big Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is the training station at 3001 'N. Meridian 8t. Here, under the experienced eye of Earl Biddinger,

an, dealers go through'a fastpaced training course. They are taught to seil gasoline and nearly 100 other items which keep cars functioning smoothly and comfortably. : - ~ Earn Customers Since gasolines are fdirly similar, the big companies must earn their customers through personal] attention, quick service and paying attention to the little worries of the driver, At the Standard training station, two men step up quickly (and cheerfully) to a customer's car, They get the order. One goes to work filling the tank while the other moves briskly over the car on a set routine, checking water, oil, tires, wiping the glass (front and rear) and head and tail lamps. : Alert attendants talk to the]

find out his needs, and make suggestions as to what accessories would improve his driving pleasure, They note the condition of tires, battery, and water in the radiator to see whether it needs flushing. - They make a note’ of the car's finish, coat of wax. While they are at it they do dozens of check-ups hield

Schooled by Films In a rear room of the station, Standard Oil schools its attendants with movies, showing them

Verne K. Reeder, Merrill B. Esterline, Richard C. Lennox and Brtiue A; Stuck: chairmen log over the plans for the 1949 model

copes Se . - oN CORIEtes 61 the I " Expandab e House apolis Home Show has selected the prize-winning plans for the house to be erected for the Home . Bhow in April. It was designed by Lennox & Matthews and Assoclates and was selected bya committee of five architects who live

outside Indianapolis. . ‘Judges were Forrest B. West/dlate needs of a young married and Callix Miller, both of South couple, and the other as it would appear in later years when the

. of - G3erald OC. Brubaker family has enlarged -and its inof and Caroll O. Beeson|come increased. of Crawfordsville. Other members of the plan and The expandable house will be model committee are A. C. Cranbuilt in two units, one small withidall, H. A, Lindeman Jr, and

; ; 5 The biggest growth in any one business Biggest Boom ilionsily mest year undoubtedly wil De television. ‘There is not much guesswork about it. Factories

sets at capacity, 3000 to 4000 a. week. This is what the industry needs. Without sets there will be fio one to pay the way. FM radio] never took hold because people have restrained the sale of TV poe tisfied with AM sets, [Sets because there is no sustained

w FM receivers and left Tecébtion, the Iid' {5 expected 0] Automobiles: Ward's automo - no market for advertisers. come off sometime in the spring, ie oon hd A

the sense of t to. the sense Electical Show which will folof hearing, multiplying the effec-/low the Home Show in April tiveness of entertainment and ad-i The first two stations to be on vertising- pump-ups. And there the air here will be WFBM and {8 a curiosity market which is ab- the Wm, H. Block station. WFBM sorbing television sets as fast as plans to go in'a big way as soon they are available. jas it can get its tower up on the In Indianapolis where dealers Merchant's National Bank. Powel Crosley Jr, who makes those Shrinking Curbs short wheelbase cars, is asking Amer-

jeans to look at the shrinking curbstones. He points to the longer wheelbase of the new models, requiring “more / room to park, and ‘the increasing encroachment of businesses on. parking space by at curbs yellow, Mr. Crosley, quite apparently, is pointing 0 that his little car is just the and the rear overhang to make ticket for parking. (No pun). |carg Jonger - also oe Io them And Mr, Crosley is not alone in hardef to park. Then he adds his observation. George Cawley that too much glass and chromof Upper Montclair, N, J, auto-/lum make dangerous reflections motive engineer, says new car and the sloping windshield makes designs are clothed with “ab-/wipers ineffective, that you cansurdities.” He said the down-| not put skid chains on them, and ward tapering roof over the rear the inaccessibility of functional seat knocks passengers’ hat off, parts runs up repair bills, i

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Telévision is ugh io It adds probably around the date of the

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what can be done to improve business and hold customers. They are told that when they confront a customer they are the Standard Oil Co. in person, quite ed They also are told how to make friends of customers, how to know them personally and to be able to call them by name (head waiter technique). Then, without préssing, they implant in the customer's mind what they have to sell other than gasoline and

ofl.” L Cledn rest rooms, courtesy, a sense of obligation to the custo-

pleasant remark in handing back the change, all are a part

a 24-year-old Standitrd Oil veter-| |

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ments,

mer, and speed, not omitting thelare still mud in wet weather.

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,. SHELVES ARE FILLED . . . Filling stations have accessories aplenty. Here Manager Carl Smith shows a few things they

Waiting Out

010 President Rep. Hoffman

Prober Will Lose Authority Jan. 1

-By FRED W. PERKINS Soripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Rep. Clare EB, Hoffman (R. Mich.) ‘|closes his career as a free-wheel-ing investigator with a dud. Philip Murray, CIO president, snubbed his subpena, and defied the investigator-at-large to do his durndest. The union leader apparently is aware of the fact that the new year will amputate the authority Mr. Hoffman has been ‘throwing around-during the 80th Congress. In the next Congress Mr. Hoffman will be a mere mem-= ber of the minority. He won't be chairman of the House Committee on expenditures in the Executive Department, and he won't be able to get the chairman of the House Labor Committee to name him as a one-man subcommittee to investigate what interests him. Subcommittee of One Mr. Murray gets into the act pecause of a raid in September by CIO* members on a plant of {the Shakespeare Co: in Kalamaizoo, Mich. It was accompanied lby destruction.-of propgrty and violence to individuals. . | Mr. Hoffman had himself appointed as an investigating subcommittee by Labor Chairman Fred A. Hartley (R. N. Y.). He questioned several figures in the affair, and then decided to work on Mr. Murray. The CIO president also heads the union involved at Kalamazoo, . the United Steelworkers. 5 Mr. Murray challenged the con-

man subcommittees were illegal, that the House Labor Committee! had no power of: subpena, and that subcommittees could not be created without minority representation.

of the House Mr. Murray got the

The. Year's Outl

SUNDAY, DEC. 26, ook ry i 35 Economists Find It’s Too Soon to Fret Expect 1949 Readjustments But Without Great Shock

By J. A. LIVINGSTON

IT'S TOO SOON yet to fret. If 34 high-ranking Américan economists who answered my questionnaire read their crystal balls truly, we're headed into a year of minor re-adjustment-—nothing more, nothing less. That forecast goes, notwithstanding recent layoffs, “slow” pre-Christmas sales, tendencies to stop new plant

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2xpansion, and worries about higher taxes. As the economists see it, by June the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production will be down only 2 points—from 194 to 192. By the end of December, the index will slip a trifie further— to 189. That's tantamount to saying that the current high rate of industrial activity will persist throughout the year, that the plateau will continue (see chart). But the economy as a whole will be looser. As workingmen become more accustomed to their postwar jobs and as more and more plants use postwar machin ery, efficiency will pick up. Less manpower may be needed; also less raw materials (as waste

A year ago, a third predicted a recession or worse, as against 15 per cent fodgy. Similarly. a year ago 39 per/ cent expected the {status quo (to continue. Today that proportion is up to 59 per cent. Here's the story, FORECAST Year Ago Today Recession (Decline of 10% or more) ....v....38% Minor Drop (15% io 10%) ..28 Relative Stability "(Less than 5% either way) ....39 50 Either economists have more confidence in business stability or less confidence in their own capacity to sniff change. They remember the error after the stock market crash of September,

15% 2

"11946. Prior to the break, eCon-

{omists were unanimously bullish. | After the break, they were -al-

diminishes). Thus, in 1949, it most as unanimously bearish. will .be possible to have produc- They reasoned that the drop in tion on a plateau while the eécon-|stock prices augured a recession

gressman'’s - legal standing. He| said he had been advised that one-}

“According to experts on rules}

omy gains much-wanted elbow room; : Economistd seem to be less pessimistic and more like-minded.

a la 1920-21. When the recession failed to come, they began to feel that maybe postwar history would not repeat. -

[Stock Prices va. Production

“YEAR OF READJUSTMENT" "Economists look in crystal balls and see dip in production and stock prices in ‘49. :

wrong legal steer on all of these points. But although the -congressman appears to have the law om his. side, under the present ear-end situation Mr. Murray

on the profit side, he has but one

Times Farm Writer

course.

U.S. Farms Spent $18 Billion

To Produce Bumper Crops {mw marino: Hoosier Growers Handled More Money In 1948 But Settling Prices Cut Net

By HARRY MARTIN, Indiana farmers, along with the rest of the nation’s agronomists, spent $18 billion producing 1948's bumper crops. customer, “tise every minute to three times that-ef-any other peace-time year. fi The business-minded farmer keeps an eye on like other business men, he cannot fix his selling prices. He must cut costs.

The figure iz

costs. But, unTo keep

y has the laugh on his side, Other Probes on Record Mr. Hoffman's record includes

Last spring’s meatpackin strike; Federal paroles of Chicago gangsters; the “dock street” labor disturbance in Philadelphia; a State Department transfer of relief funds to the (Luckman) Citizens’ Food Committee; participation of army officials in publicity on Universal Military Training; use of government funds to

Indiana farmers ‘handled more money this year than ever before, ! but they netted less. prices did the trick.

Account Books

Hoosier farmers are showing an

Account Book for 1949, published by Purdue and available at county agents’ offices. Year-end reports on the 1948 hog crop show about one per cent fewer porkers in the nation this year than last. Economists predict more hogs in _1949—15 per cent more spring pigs in Indiana—due to bigger! gorn supplies.

Farmer's Viewpoint Merle Stillabower, Fowler, says farmers he knows don't show much interest in raising more hogs. “A lot of work,” he com“and - farm - labor is scarce.” Half the country’s side roads

M.A. Newlin; State Highway

Commission engineer, states with

hi Are. 8 Par ofthe, technique of the fabulous busi-

minutes it takes to fill a gas tank:

Canada this week estimated at) new post-war peak of 125452 against 124,041 preceding and 120,657 year ago. | Banking: Federal Reserve — Week ended Dec. 8 member bank commercial, industrial and agri-|

$15,459,000,000, from previous week and com-|

ago; week ended Dec. 15 gold re-| serves new record high at $24.

$22,723,000,000 last year; excess reserves $1,260,000,000, up $5980 million from previous week and compared with $1.2 billion a year earlier; money in circulation $28,369,000,000, off $46 million from previous week and compared with $28,923,000,000 last year; holdings of U. 8. government securities $22,903,000,000, off $11 million from last week and compared with $21,657,000,000 year. before; brokers’ loans $883 million, off $07 million and compared with $1,373,000,000 year earlier; ratio 57.0 per cent against 55.6 week ago and 53.6 same week year ago. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, week ended Dec. 15 bank’ clearings in 25 leading cities $14,853217,000 = $14,001,362,000 previous week 1 $15,665,189,000 year earlier. Construction: Engineering News-Record — Week ended

year-to-date awards $6,968,052, 1000, up 25 per cent from last year.

ness which takes place in the few|rural roads are at

trucks ‘and buses in U. 8. andj qt year, ert

230,000,000, up $12 million from seasonally adjusted index of trade week ago and compared withiand production 116.11 per cent of 1935-39 average unchanged from| The Building Officials Conferprevious week and compared with ence of America, Inc, yesterday announced-the publication of the

Indexes: Commodity—Dun &|abridged edition of the organiza-

. Electricity: Edison Electric Institute—Week ended Dee. 11 output all-time high at 5,704,823,000

Ear ae 147 weeks go

justifiable pride, faced.” .

Ine. — Week ended Dec. 9, 122 against 126 previous

Indexes: Prgduction—Standard,

week & Poor's Corp.—~Week ended Dec.

11 industrial production 207.5 per cent of 1935-39 average against revised 200.5 in preceding week and 202.7 year'earlier. Moody's|

cultural loans in 94 leading cities Investors Service — Week .ended! off $68 million Dec. 11 business activity 200.6 per

cent of 1935-39 average, un-

pared with $14,540,000,000 Jour changed from previous week and;

compared with 195.0 year. ago.| Barron's—Week ended Dec. 11

118.9 year ago.

31 commodities $6.21, lowest lev-

$7.02 year ago. Oil: Production—American Pe-|

vious week and 5252739 year ago; daily average crude runs to stills 5,650,000 barrels against

104,000 year ago; gasoline 18,395, 000 barrels best weekly figure on recorsl against 18,216,000 week before and 15,705,000 year before;

osene 2,506,000 barrels against

485,000 year earlier. : |

Rallroads: Association of American Rallroads—Week ended

against 804,183 preceding week

ings to date 41,472,118 agains Capi y

and 854,150 year ago, total load-

satnng Patient Sues, Dentist Wins

EPSOM, England, Dec. 25 (UP) —Saint Clair S8almon, in claiming “Jinterest in & new Indiana Farnr go pounds ($360) damages from tional a dentist, told a court the last thing he remembered clearly was the doctor giving him an anesthe-

tic, after which:

He found himself outside the surgery walking to his car. Persuading a policeman he was not drunk and was fit to drive. “TYNE to enter-his garage; butilisted-— men; -whiech--allegedly colliding with the right-hand wall. but knocking over a gasoline pump on the left. Finally achieving entry. Getting out and collapsing. Waking up inside his house five

Trying again,

hours later.

Discovering he had left. his

influence restoration of funds of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency; refusal of the President and other executive officers to furnish documents to congressional committees— Also, a proposed new ruling by the general counsel of the Na-| ~— Relations: oo disposal of a steam-power plant in Oklahoma; sale of a house project in Indiana; Inclusion by the Civil Service Commission of names of congressmen in a general loyalty file; a strike by workers in cafeterias serving government departments; an army pamphlet, for instruction of en-

favored labor unions.

Nizam’s Wealth. At 235 Million

HYDERABAD CITY, Dec. 25 (UP)—The private wealth of the

coat, collar and tie and dentures Nizam of Hyderabad, often called’

in the surgery. The dentist, Frank

counter-claim.

Week's Production of Automobiles New High for Post-War Years

| Failures: Dun: & Bradstreet,

43,070,874 year eariter. ru Steel; American Iron &; Steel week and 87 Institute — Operations this’ week " scheduled at - 100.0--per cent of rated capacity or production of unchanged from previous week, and compared with rate of 97.8 and production of 1,711,400 net tons year $1,500,000.

1,802,500 net tons,

earlier.

than last year. J

Building Conference ‘Makes Code Public

The abridged code,

stripped-down

publication is months,

{Indianapolis at 950 a. m. an {4:10 p. m. daily, both making connection with IR busses for Dec. 11 carloadings. 783,276 cars| Greencastle and Terre Haute.

Davis, had entered a claim for 20 pounds owed him by Salmon. The court “SMost Trdiana gave fudgment in“ fator-of ‘the least -sur-|/dentist and disallowed Salmon's!

Trade: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. —Retail trade week ended Dec. 15 unchanged to 4 per cent higher

Bradstreet, Inc., week ended Dec./tion’s—lasic building code and 14 wholesale food price index of its distribution to municipalities. designed el since June 10, 1947, compared specifically for residential commu-~| with $6.33 previous week and|nitles and their customary business and ciyie buildings, . is a version of the troleum Institute — Week ended master basic building code on Dec. 11 'daily average crude ofl|Which the conference has been 5,620,150 barrels vs. 5,615,150 pre-| Working for three years. Final pected in »

5,608,000 previous week and 5 Indiana Railroad Lists New Bus Schedule

New bus schedules will go intoja nation-wide

effect today bet: Indianapolis, “Dec, | distillate fuel oil, 7,553,000 bar-|gokomo, De “Ft. Wayne, local district supervisor. of the

16 civil engineering awards $146,-/rels against 7,269,000 -preceding|the Indiana Railroad announced | 187,000 vs. $83,603,000. previous Week and 6.337.000 year ago; ker-| yesterday. week and $130,139,000 year ago; 2.490.000 preceding week and 2 in new trips leaving Ft. Wayne {

‘the-richest man: in-the-world," has been estimated at “around $235,000,000.” * _The figure was published by an Indian. press. agency. which rlajmed. it had received “accurate Information from sources close to the palace.” °

ure; according to the-agency;

gems ‘stored in rack vaults be-

7 |neath his palace. “IT The remainder id made up ) other ime movable properties,” the agency

“largely: of landed and. said.

—Board; tion will dip

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hand, | production and prices to go down A psychiatrist. might expial economists are afraid of higher prices because they squeeze workers. Investment economists are afraid of lower prices because they produce declining stock prices. So, maybe in their forecasts, labor and investment economists are projecting their fears.

item by item. Total value of goods and services will -go down from the recent level of 256 bilpartly because physical prod ’ partly cause prices will 'be off a bit. The consensus figures that the wholesala price index, now around 165, will register 157 this time next year. The cost of living, now

Page a Psychiatrist iproduction--and- prices to-go. up from here on out.. investment economists are most “bearish.”

This is what the year ahead looks like to the economists—

lion dollars to 246 billion. That's!

Labor economists are most ullish.” They expect both On_the other They expect

in this in this fashion: Labor

|895—1his because slightly less imerchandise will- be sold and at lower prices. The Dow-Jones industrial average is in tor “@nother year of stagnation. Now around 175, it's expected to wind up the year at 173. Two blue chip stocks—U. 8. Steel and General Motors—wlil move along with the average. | They'll get nowhere, too. ” Interest rates will rise slightiy. So will federal spending. Presumably the economists feel {that further tension with Russ —mar-1949;

propriations for armament will be

ordered. - Result: The Treasury's cash surplus is expected to drop from $8.6 billions to $1.6. Consumer

Pore than “half of the rors tre

consists of cash, silver, gold and

The Nizam’'s yearly income

credit—no doubt because of inAutomobile production will re-creased sales of autos—is due to main stable throughout the year. go up slightly. . Exports will reUnemployment is expected to rise main more or less stable, and so frofi-1,800,000 to 2;500.000-=hard-{ wilt restientin}- building : ly an alarming amount in an ently, the forecasters don't think economy of 60,000,000 employed. home-huyers have been priced out Department store sales will slide of the market.

Farm Outlook As for the farmer, he's in for “re-

adjustment” too. The index of prices of what he sells is expected to drop from 271 to 250, or nearly 10 per: ceht. One estimate goes as low as 200. But with crops as large as they're expected to: be; earning. pnd. buying. power. of farmers will still be high by prewar standards. So, all in all, the outlook for '49—as the consensus has it=is more plateau. An extension of "48, 3

174, will go to 168.

® : % ° Bristle at Chinese Prices “Currency Inflation in War-Torn Country | _ Has Sent Cost of Hog Hairs to Sky-High Levels Those long-haired Chinese hogs are doing things to the American paint brush business. They're snorting Tof higher prices

|epst much more if they were made of, gold. The reason is that

‘Makers of Paint Brushes

from royal lands was estimated stocks in the United States are at $8,000,000. In addition, the armingly low due to inflation in

-l gm Pl tives an An China, where money, is practically ; sold’ in bales.

Inflationary practices in China {have pushed prices from 70 cents la pound in 1938 to $18.10 a pound today tor 2% to 5% inch lengths of Tientsin bristle, the higitest grade, That's ‘an increase of nearly 2000 per cent. Bristle available for brush manufacture. today in generally of the inferior Chungking grade, he said. Authorities agree that considerable Tientsin bristle in remote of China would be brought to market if the owners were as-

‘Desoto Appoints Frame

‘As District Manager

‘The appointment of Ford E. Frame as DeSoto District mana- | __ ger for Indianapolis was announced: yesterday by J. B. Wagstaff, DeSoto's vice president in charge

warehouse in 59 8. State Ave, recommends as a solution that China bristle brush inventories be held to a low level and customers be encouraged to purchase only their current brush needs. Pittsburgh Plate is a major painter brush manufacturer,

Deliver 800 Passenger Cars to Railroads

Timen § : CHICAGO; Dec. 25 — Railroad carbuilders today figured they had

enger cars to the nation’s class 1

delivered almost S00 new pass-'

six

& of sales,

Mr. Frame sales staff said in the announcement. ——————————————

Plan Indianapolis Business Census “~

arly next year, Henry E Neal Census Bureau said yesterday.

Iwill be canvassed by Mr. Neal

month. )

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Mr. Frame will “have completelcommodities over a reasonable .. charge of sales ¢ promotion in the territory. He comes to the district with an ex-

tensive kground of automotive aNeainistration, Mr. Wag-

Indianapolis will participate in census of business

Marion and nine other counties

wi 1 | The prin¢ipal change was made, and his assistants, after he com- RHEUMATIC PAINS

Of ipletes a four weeks’ technical training session in St. Louis next

Retail, wholesale and service establishments in the Indianap-| Other trips will vary only five olis district will be enumerated by minutes from the ‘ oM{the crew in lat March or early

sured currency that represented

sound purchasing power for other rafiroads, including 19 complete

stream lined trains. At the Pullman Co. here engineers compared the building of a sleeping car to the erection of a five-room house. One sleeper,

length of time, Mr. King explained. He said Pittsburgh Plate, with

Drinking Drivers Fall Into Road Block Tra PORTLAND, Me., Dec. 25 (UP) —Saturday night road blocks are Police Chief John M. Mulkern's latest weapon against drunken } drivers. I Details of officers stop automobiles to inspect operators’ licenses, during which time they are “espe- + cially alert for evidence of liquor.” § The first night's work netted five| [a drunken drivers. :

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