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- THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1949

Today in Business—

Price Cuts Come as Stocks _ Rise Faster Than Demand

By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor, +. THE FELLOW who fills your gas tank probably doesn’t

Gas War Laid To Big Supply

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a a know it, but there may be a good reason for the price skir- 0f Americans

mish among filling stations in Indianapolis.

It could be just another price “war.” But ‘way back| Marine and Sailor

in the background you will find what You may have suspect:

.ed—too m " lswap a 1 " V've aske i } uch supply swap a little stock. They've asked | Crash in 1948 permission from the Public Serve

The nation’s investment bank-! ers lifted the lid on the gasoline| supply at their meeting in Hollywood, Fla. Their oil and natural|), gas committee reported that the

ice Commission.

than we are using. Stocks of gasoline have gone up 15 per cent over last year with N a rise of five per cent in demand. '® Fade customers.

the overlap.

Both companies operate over a|

ge portion of the state. Injcan officials today were meeting

growing they have overlapped refineries are making more | 1 a blank wall in tr € MOTE BAS 4nd they want to straighten out'and seek the ‘rele

‘Missing’ Since

| By ALBERT RAVENHOLT

Times Forelgn Correspondent’

That leaves a 10 per cent edge to Under the proposal customers nists.

be soaked up somewhere. And °f Public Service Co. in Union

when you have a surplus of mer-| CIty. Yorktown, Daleville, Ches-the Communists suddenly rechandise _ in this: country and terfield, Swayzee, Cowan and sev-| verse their policy the two Ameri-

want to get rid of it, you lower eral’ other communities

the price. swing over to Indiana & Michi- = » gan Electric Co. And the Public THE INVESTMENT bankers Service Co. would take over prop-

would cans may be stuck at least until and if formal diplomatic rela-! tions are established between the; United States and Peking govern-|

also have (heir eye on the huge erties in other parts of the state ments.

Canadian oil field which hints now run by 1. & M. including that Canada may be floating on Delphi, Camden. Lagro

a lake of crude oil as large as Fountain City. Texas, California, Kansas and , . Louisiana combined. lke’'s Oink Yule

Mr. Bender and Mr. Smith, stationed at the Tsingtao United |States naval base, crashed in a small naval aircraft on a trainling flight on Oct. 19, 1948.

Then production from the Near| yoU CAN ALMOST hear Ike, Originally the United States East and Venezuela is rising to Hoagland's think meter ticking) ‘Comwestpac” (West Pacific Com-

the point where the oil industry around Christmas time.

mand) based at Tsingtao feared

may not be clicking off the pro-| This year he is staging a|they had crashed into the sea.

fits with which it has amazed In- Christmas pdrty for hogs at the| Extensive search located the,

vestors in the last few years. Overpeck Farm, 3'4 miles north-/ Wreckage of their plane in ComJohn Q. who pilots his jalopy east of Kiwood. For his party munist territory. U. 8S. Naval

tendant a crumbled buck doesn't|r.a) in the flesh care how low the price goes but |. ’ the industry does, and so do its investors. 2 =

there, too.

Candy Cut

changing, and in so doing has been spending money like a sailor

refining developments. .......... . (inside price fo quantity candy! .

a cloud-dusting hristmas - tree, entertainment, food, a movie and six speakers. | It's .Ike's delicate sense of hu-

: " - THE - INDUSTRY. has - been DOL... You see, people will. be

secret negotiations with the local Communist Shantung authorities. Released Later Previously several parties of

‘Marines on hunting and sight. {seeing - expeditions -- had been |caught on the Communist side of |

ithe civil war fighting lines.

All of that investment has to|PuYers such as churches, sthools, tne Communists generous allow-

produce profits, -And the - lower 10dges, charitable organizations

the price,- the ‘lower the profits and schools. may be percentagewise. {

This is what the investment SWeets runs from 4 per cent to 20|¢he Marines with Red ideology,

bankers think about it. The oft| Per cent depending on how much

companies may dispute it. But the !* needed. bankers have to make their

But it won't apply to standard,

|and usually returned them to a

money pay dividends. |candy bars, chewing gum or Tsingtao.

And that's why they wondered Pocket mints. They're year-round| American naval authorities ne- $15.50 set Nov. 22. - what ‘the industry is going to do|sellers and arent classed :

with jts surplus and what will|Christmas stock.

happen when the Canadian pool Extra-Dry Days comes in, f

HOUSEWIVES get a break at turns.

the super-market counters they The Alcoholic Beverage Com-| seldom recognize. It's the price mission has ordered keys turned of sugar. in package stores and imbibing/notes and inquiries concerning fof, 280 to 325-pounders. It is not unusual to pick up a|spots on Dec. 26 and Jan 2. 10-pound bag for 79c on a week-| Both are legal holidays since been made by the American con-|™ end special in Indianapolis. Yet Christmas and New Year's fall sylate in Peking. But the Com-| it should be selling for about 95¢c.| (Without a stumble) on Sundays,

The super-market operator uses 2 a it as a loss leader. It draws cus PUP Policies tomers like flies. And what's a few cents loss on one item if it can be made up two or three

times on other items? to eternity under a bus.

- » » | REFIN. ORTS that| Radio station KYDL has tied in Aah NER X agar quota|d08 Insurance with the sale of m due to ‘be set this week won't| Ihanks Dog food. Owners fill out

d send in coupons insuring ste make much difference in price in 3D government, handling of forthe long run. If the quota is high, mongrels for $25, and pedigreed

over 7.3 million tons, the price Pooches for §50. will come down. But if it is down around 7 million

go up. {by LI . But if the quota proves too y Lloyds of London

Bob Osler of Rough Notes turned up the strangest of poligies tons, it will which are underwritten, of Poise,

short, it is raised as it runs out. Then, too, the Philippines and U. S. Statement

Hawail haven't been making “WASHINGTON,

their quotas, so that makes room ment expenses nd rece, ts for

rent fiscal year through 6. for the sale of more domestic|yih 35a aso, Y peg 8 ear 8 # | sugar. Ravenses .....317,752,169,182 +1408. 851 193

Recelp eo... 13,878.487.511 14,089,950, Te Oe ena: sugar which Pittiyuases J{ASE0 HERS |Cas alance . 611,715 ,998, grade of Louisiana suga h {Public debt ..256.942.333.803 253 399.473. was slightly off color and has AiGoid reserve = 24.477.507,725 24.175.935,455

make it and sell it for whatig,,

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tation white,” or “high-washed,” |

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or “turbinados,” meaning put through a centrifugal machine as| Sunrise ...... 6:53 | Sunset

it is washed. Cuba makes it, 80 | Precip. 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 do other beyond:the-border coun- Excess since Pn 1 ce Jan

tries. It's slightly chéaper and fills the bill for some uses. |ture in other ci

Candy makers often envy Boston housewives who grab up those gurbank .... week-end loss leaders. The candy incinnaty men pay a final price of $8.60 a Denver =~ hundred, occasionally picking up| “Wayne | distressed lots at less. | Inatananelts City" But the little housewife runs Kansas City “ot right around to, her corner super- Minneapolis-St. Paul

for market and picks off a bag | Sev. Sark city

7.9 cents a pound. | OGmah Co The candy makers wish they Fittsbureh _..... could do likewise. | 8an Francisco

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“LEGAL NOTICES "LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING | Pabie Service, Commission of Indiana ry . patter of the petition requesting __ nvesdieation and suspension of Rrovos al freight tariff No. 71. PS.C.1. No - ssued Paul Hall y iman Transfer and Stora Company to come effective November 29, 1949. | Notice is hereby given that e Rublic| rvice mmjssion of Indiana will confit, Po, Beat” JE Be 0 ommission, e finnagolis: Ynd. 10:00 A. |

ndi Ranolls. M., January ‘ Publle aicipation is Avi VICE COMMISSION vk INDIANA » Director, ‘Tarifl Bureau. Indianapolis, Ind, January 4.1950. “CITY OP INDIANAPOLIS vom BF pee SATE rion | hereby given that the Common PARTLY CLOUDY AND

Notice | { Indianapolis. IndiCounefl of th & "Dubie “hearing st 130 CLOUDY AREAS day, December 1

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88 gotiated fer the release of Sgt.| A change in early ” |Bemder and Mr. Smith through receipts from 10,000 to 9000 |established indirect contacts with|favored the farmer. ithe Communists. But tor some choice 170 to 240-pound butchers And it may be why they're] THOSE WHO splash their ton- unknown reason the Communists sold at $1550 to $16, the top scrapping in Indianapolis. sjls with holiday cheer have to broke off the negotiations some . set ‘em on the kitchen table over time before the United States Sweet Bargain [two long week-ends as the year Navy evacuated Tsingtas on May|tioDS. Weights from 240 to 280 pounds $11 to $18 for culls. s Professed Ignorance |brought $14.50 to $15.50. . Prices, Prices on native lambs weigh- 2nd French Zone, 19. The reSince then the Unitea States’ from $13.75 to $14.50 were paldjing less than 100 pounds rose as| as 50 cents for the last two CAMPS in Austria. jays. It poor demand, weights! lover 100 unds remained near Sows sold at prices, steady 10 gteaqy, ul were hard to sell.

! . Wel muists, who refused to recognize zo, = a0 Senta higher eights {

125, 1949

|Sgt. Bender and Mr. Smith have

the consulates so long as the | {Americans withheld recognition! lof the Peking government, were

!ment--of the Communist central | elgners has been increasingly | raised to the level of national | policy. American officials, therefore, [feel that the Communists as a [matter of policy at present are] {stalling—that the Red regime is|

sufficiently centralized and pow-|

Mr. Smith if it really wants to!

estaurant Proprietor Scares Holdup Man

A would-be holdup man was

[foiled this morning by a West 2 36 000 Side restaurant proprietor. Hiram Marlowe, proprietor of during January. | Marlowe's Lunch 2045 W. Wash-|

[ington St. told police a short,|

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U.S. Hits Snag In Freeing 2

Reds Silent Fem

HONG KONG, Dec. 8—Ameri-/

ying to locate § ase of Marine | Sgt. Elmer Bender and Navy What they really want to do Chief Petty Officer William| Smith from the Chinese Commu-| &*

Indications now are that unless

After many months of negotia-;-ons these Marines were released the United States Navy. paying...

ances-for their -room, board and! i - 1 |guards.. The Communists fre The discount on Christmasioiently attempted to indoctrinate

United States Naval vessel

also Cutter and

|price, which is steady to 25 cents

Light- much weights from 100 to 160 pounds oved at $13.50 wo $15.

pounds moved | at $12 to $13. Choice lightweights|gos 5g reached $13.26 to $13.50. Scat-ig20 to § {tered medium and good heavyweights more than 600 pounds dropped to $11.50 and less. ittle cattle of good grade or mons dropped to around $15. ter was offered to test the ket. What trade there was on medium and lesser grades was ady. Scattered loads of medium steers and yearlings so

{reported to have professed igno-| rance of the whereabouts of Mr.|

Common and medium grades of | |steers and yearlings moved at| $16 to $20. No market test was | made from a scarce amount of! Beef cows sold steady to weak. Canner to common remained fully steady. | erful to find Sgt. Bender and|{few medium and good beef cows)

sold at $15.50 to $17.

‘Branch YMCA Announce Meetings | meetings of branch] YMCA groups are scheduled for| the latter part of this month and

Judge Lloyd D. Claycombe will |

They were rescued, along with a television set (left to right): Joe Jr., Mrs. Lillian and Sherry Doser.

A RAVENSWOOD MAN hustled his wife and two sleepyeyed children out of their burning home early today. t Then he rushed back into the blazing structure to save the family’s television set. Joe Doser Sr., 28, told deputy sheriffs the TV set was the only family possession he was able to save as fire swept through the Dosers’ five-room home at 1502 Ruth Drive. He said he wanted

{ to get it out because he was buying it on the installment plan and up to a pump and tosses the at-|)..; go the works, Santa (pork authorities thereafter initiated; was not yet paid for.

” ” - ” n ~ MR. DOSER was awakened by smoke at about midnight. He awakened his wife, Lillian, and children, Sharon, 4, and Joe Jr, 2, and led them to safety, then returned to rescue the TV set. ~-JFiremen. from Indianapolis. and Washington Township extinguished the blaze; but it-had gutted every room and destroyed all of the family’s furniture and clothing. Damage was estimated

~--Deputies Eibert- Rackley-and William Rusie said- they believed. - the fire was caused by a kerosene stove.

ighter Receipts Bring Boos today per-| Commons brought $14.50 to{ nchored near Haiyang east of mitted hog prices to pull away|$15.50. ~ Canners : and cutters again from the 41-month low of moved at $11.25 to $14.50. Bulls |sold at steady prices, Medium be among 1267 persons aboard estimates of [and good moved at $16 to $18, the USAT General Taylor when common brought the ship docks in New York City [$13.50 to $16.50. Beef bulls sold tomorrow. Sponsored. by the Interna[tional Refugee Organization, the | Vealers remained steady at $29/displaced persons were selected (higher than yesterday's quota-|to $31 for good and choice, $18 to/from IRO-maintained camps In

$28 for common and medium, Germany. From the American um, and| ne came 1071; British Zone, 99,

at $16 to $17. Vealers Hold Steady

‘Good and choice weights less than 100 pounds sold at $22 to! Heavier weights brough

A load of good and choice fat! Home. native lambs of 106-pound weight Cross Cemetery. b wp! There were no immediate sur-|fos Js;

average reached $21.80. Slaugh-| ter ewes remained steady.

Deadline Today ~~

Police Instructed To Make Arrests

Today was the Indiana school bus drivers whose vehicles need minor repairs, State police highway patrols today received orders to arrest all drivers whose busses lacked red flasher lights, fire extinguishe ers or axes, stop signals, proper rear view mirrors or other equip= ment, or needed mechanical ad«

Hold Tn’

Wed 55 Years

d in Fire Who Are Butler's

Beauty Contest Scheduled Today

Who are the prettiest coeds at ¥ oo. 717 | Butler University? | - A_teacher, an actor and two’ jactresses were to make their

“choice from 18 girls at 2 p. m.| {today in the Riviera Club. Pfe[tures of the five winners will

.{ junior class yearbook, Drift,

|P. Rice Jr, head of the Butler {University department of speech and Miss Margie |Hart, Miss Lynn Bari and Sam |LeVene, all of the “Light Up the Sky” cast, which opens tonight {at Murat Theater. Contestants include: The Misses i.ee Head, Moores{ville sophomore, Charlotte Rike, {Indianapolis sophomore, both of {Alpha Chi Omega Sorority; Betty | Forster, Indianapolis junior, Suzie Indianapolis freshman, of Delta Delta Delta; Gwyn MecCracken, Attica junior, Stonestreet, Louisville junior, of

Capt, Keriiit T.ewis, state pos lice field operations officer, sald only 80 per cent of 1339 drivers warned their busses needed fix{ing up when ins had complied by the Dec, 1 dead-

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis, 538 Chadwick St., will observe their 55th, wedding anniversary tomorrow. Their family includes nine children, 21 grandchildren and ‘14 great-grandchildren,

Capt. Lewis sald 75 of the 501 bus owners whose vehicles were fi. spection time have revamped their busses to conform with Indiana law. Most common violation was seats fac ing bus aisles instead of facing

Local Issues

Statement Followed Protest His statement followed a pro{test from Ernest Erwin, president {of the Indiana School Bus Drive ers’ Association, that the Feb. 15 |deadline for condemned busses {was unfair and, in some cases, » [impossible to comply with so soon. “I think good ride-seat busses {ought to be allowed to run until 5 drivers’ contracts with township trustees are ended in June, 1951." Mr, Erwin said. safe busses ought to be taken off

Virginia Foltz, Charlotte Johnson, {dianapolis freshman, IAlpha Theta; Betty Ann Groene, {Indianapolis fres hm an, Mary cy Mane Rolen, Pataskala, O.,, sen-{Glrele Jheater of Kappa Kappa Gamma; Cont Car-Nu Var Patricia Fricke, Ruth Reed, In- gl dianapolis juniors, of Pi Beta Phi; iC Nancy Anderson, South Bend un-|

merican States com

Heater, Indianapolis freshman, of | in |Zeta Tau Alpha... +-- Beverly - Junken: |senior, Jean Harrell, Indianapo-iiod & {lis freshman, of Trianon; Barbara Hinkle, {Indianapolis freshmen, of Butler [ne Students Associa: | Jef

Inow overloaded and -iseat all the chil

~ Strict enforcement of the con. = 2 school -transportation for =

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—\Indiana-Bound DPs yp \To_Land Tomorrow

Twenty-six European refugees to be placed in Indiana ecitfes with

“I Looking Tor = good value tn-& home of your own? The quickest

maining 79 came from similar

Frank Whalen

Dies in Hospital

Frank Whalen, ti Ave., died shortly before noon to21. Extreme heavyweights, day in Methodist Hospital after a {those reaching 125 pounds or short illness. He was 70. o! |more, dropped to $16. Medium and, Funeral services were tenta-|™ (good sold at $18 to $21.50. Com-| tively set for Saturday morni {in Blackwell Irvington Funeral | Byrial will be in Holy

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court, where he and ‘a 30-year-old

orderly conduct. The woman and her two young |

called on the fireman. He invited

and walked toward him in a Evangelical and United Brethren|lady stood in the living room

“threatening manner.” Mr. Marlowe said he grabbed!

The following table shows the te -| y Jo ® gfmpgra- his gun from a drawer beneath the counter and confronted the , stranger. The man ran from the

door and disappeared west on Washington St. { Marlowe told police he believed | the man was a hitch hiker.

SIX KILLED IN WRECK CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 8 (UP

Churckat 7:15 p. m. tonight. Annual meeting of the South-| est District: branch will be held bedroom. When he peeked out t 7:15 p. m. in the Olive Branch aga Inited Brethren Church tomor-|the woman was still there, row. J. R. Mitchell, of Purdue University faculty, will be the declined. The Senate Ave. branch meet-| ing will be held Jan. 8.

{wearing only shoes and hose. The fireman backed into the Missed both cases:

“I considered throwing her out”!

)—| - ee ma | Six persons were killed and 13 Local Truck Grain Prices ,..cnrobe.

3 seriously injured last night when

a speeding express train rammed another passenger train stalled just outside Alexandria. |

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for or S00 eaming over the East and deep into the South: { ndianapofe. and official coi will bling minimums of 10 to 20 degrees near the Great Lakes and Northern Plains; andyin the. | 5 ~50's-in-the Gulf states. Snow flurries are expected in the Rockies and the Western Plains states.

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{man asked if his wife was there.

Th: fireman said “No.” He gyppiies are unlikely to imp

ald, 1ocally, he said, until production and besides he couldn't think of returns to a six

(anything else to say.

Cases Dismissed

behind him, still wearing the bathrobe. The policeman arrested him. “I might have been a horse's

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Fireman Too Much of a To Put Out His Predicament

Finds Himself Playing Host to a Nude / Who Proves to Be Wife of a Neighbor

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 8 (UP)—A 53-year-old fireman admitted | today that there are crises even 4 fireman can’t meet—such as | finding a nude neighbor woman in his living room. The fireman, a widower, explained his predicament in district woman were charged with dis-

I was innocent,” the | children, who lived a block away, fireman said. The woman explained she had [them inside, he said, and went to been drinking beer and always [stocky man entered his restau- De the speaker at the first session| ip, pedroom to dress up a little. “blacks out” when she drinks. ‘rant with his hand in his pocket/to be held at the Brookside] When he returned, he said, the, Judge Barry agreed the defend- | ant “might have been a horse's neck” but was innocent. He dis-

TT ——— | Miners’ Setup | He suggested she leave. she For Smoke Condition

City Pollution Engineer John Oo Mingle today cited the short he told Judge John Barry. “But work week of the coal miners as It didn't seem quite the thing toone of do. It was cold outside.”

in, the children were gone, but Blames

the causes for “objectionable” ‘smoke conditions in IndianFinally he got her to put on his apolis, an Mr, Mingle said large quantities) of Inferior grades of coal are still being - used here.

~day per week:

The ‘engineer's office has been| Later the husband came back'igsuing an increasing number of with a policeman. The fireman fyel oil heating permits in cases was telling them the woman where wasn’t there when she stepped up| from coal.

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