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Rationing Restrictions
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Attlee Government Vigorously
- B. =F — Defending -‘Fair-Shares' Program
By CHARLES LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
coal, gasoline and other necessities.
man and the Democrats in 1946, ~~ » only one year after the war, when 'UCKY When’ we found them,” she
a revolt in the U. 8. against OPA helped the Re- ; os | control of Congress. - Eb Today in Eng- ¢ land, Winston 8 Churchill and $ Conservatives are seeking to drum up similar dissatisfac-§ tion with various phases of the tight rationing program. But the
Mr. Lucey
said. (shilling, six pence (20 cents) and we've nothing to grumble about,
“Now they're down to one
{you know. Of course the BOVern-/ ied for dedication day. ment could give us a bit more f sugar—you just can’t manage on gecasion will draw an unusual :§ |wha' you get now, but see there number of national figures should now-—fine sprouts, three pounds President Truman find it possible (for a shilling—isn’t that good? to speak.
If" anybody is complaining let
they'll do all right.” Not ration points, but shortage
% [of money to buy up to her ration ine Corps officers will be asked
allowances was the problem of
[Mrs. Gertrude Daniels, wife of a : Attlee government is fighting off railwayman and mother of<six G¢r Whose regime the building was
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lof Representatives in addition to {other top national figures. { | Legionnaire governors, chair-
ute thousands of Legion visitors!
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tional convention. {color to the parade to be sched-
A big event in any
{Army, Navy, Air Force and Ma-
to participate.
the attack and defending vigor- Her husband brings in a pound a Pegun. and present Gov. Schrick-
program.
when there isn't enough of every-
thing for everyone, there must be makes
ously its “fair shares for all” day—$2.80—and she said she gets eT under whom it is being completed, will be asked te appear, battles
Labor Party leaders insist that house after rent- and other ex-/2 Well as Mayor Feeney and city
four pounds weekly to run the
penses are met.
most of
She said she the children’s
a system preventing those who clothes and her husband cobbles are well-fixed from getting more their shoes.
than their share. Great Market Area
Here in Britain's second city [00d allowance is
ifs a great market area. The market hall was bombed out during the war, so. now scores of! two-wheeled carts, loaded with
—meat, fish, fruit and vegetables:
are strung out along the eurb. To this market come Britain's little people and the harassment,
“We are paid Friday and by
dinnertime Saturday the weekly
gone,” Mrs. Daniels said. “But we get on. I
believe in fair shares.”
Mrs. Jennie “Merrell helped out her husband during the war by working in a factory as a coremaker. She added defiantly trat they never had missed a meal and didn't want rationing to end, because then working
officials;
Construction officials estimate
the building will he completed and coal r wounds in the shotgun and rifle } skirmish at Junior, W. Va. How- stand trial in circuit court. No losing it when the law. catches reduction in the work-day. in Set along Pennsylvania St. at ever, the mine owners said théy trial date was set. : the north end of World War Me- ~~ Tr : :
eady for furnishing by May 1. t Details of Structure
morial Plaza, -the new headquar-| ters building faces the present (headquarters structure across the Mall. | | It is a four-story building of white Bedford limestone, 360 feet! long and 60 feet wide. The first floor will house a reception hall and offices. The sec-
Truman (Cities in Emergency Steps State Opens Drive Drive for Early Coal Peace As Coal Supplies Dwindle On Title Racket ‘AS Negotiations Resume Oe
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17 (UP)— intended to resume production Local authorities throughout the Monday. i |tederal court back-to-work order Newest demand—a guarantée o Legion Plans Service nation ordered emergency steps) ; " |today to conserve the country’simore than 55000 workers were rapidly vanishing eight-day sup-ijdle as a direct result of the coal |ply of coal. Coal rationing became effective| most heavily, with' 44,585 men today-in-New-York-state—And-arrarioughed: ore Sr—— dimout BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 17—Five years after the war.|men of Legion national commit- display advertising in New York's] Britons still are told by their government when they may have eE8S tees and other officials also will for breakfast, how many cups of tea they may drink, how much! receive invitations. sugar they may put in their tea, how much théy may buy of meats, Indiana*is-expectéd to contrib- d
Times Square and throughout the! state was ordered starting Sun-| Illinois was expected to get worse
In Pittsburgh, more than 40,000 py creqsive Mine Workers union IN business. We're. going to weed This same situation was politieal dynamite for President Tru-|to Indianapolis for the dedication, commercial ‘and industrial cus-|;.. gs heduled to go on strike. A! CT Tr ami wm onal turning the city into a replica of tomers of the Duguese Light 06} : | ; . were asked to begin an immediate Jthe annual American Legion na {voluntary cut of 20 per cent dur- Called the walkout after negotiaBands and drum corps will add Ing the daylight hours. | P Company spokesmen said the yesterday. {power slash was not -expected to case, the curtail employment of production
immediately. EO up the whole midwest. °T Used. Infact, Mr. Leach safd, TG er park i ors: . preme Court Justice, Sherman’ New Violence Reported A “law abiding dealers were Jdast nights secret = 3%3-hour yyni,, seven U. 8. Congressmen
New violenee hit the coal fields. A band of 150 Defense Secretary Louis John- northern West {them ride into this market apd son, a past commander of the | American Legion, will be on hand. mines.
more than 10 small
Two truck drivers were beaten, LACROSSE, Wis, Feb. 17 (UP) axpect the probe to reveal a large tania vt Congressmen include Sen. Wil their tools taken and the trucks --Mrs. Willlam Pickett, 29, was OT of Seti car rge moments. after yesterday 8 ind liam E. Jenner and Reps, Charles dumped. Several other trucks held today for trial on charges ars [ts purpose, he satd, 1s to Jerence Yas Fecessed with notin- Halleck, Earl Wilson, Ralph Fornier Gov. Ralph Gates, un- were damaged and ignition keys that she shot a 9-year-old Hoy be- “clean house” on the “few who dication.of progress : Harvey, James Noland, Edward were taken. cause he threw a snowhall at her are giving Indiana and its ethical - Meet In Hotel Krause and Mrs. Cecil Harden, Yesterday United Mine Work- The boy, Johnny Schaefer, tes- automotive dealers a black eye”: The secret meeting opened at . Dr. W..W. Wright, dean of the ers pickets engaged in pitched tified in county court yesterday = “In the final analysis.” Mr. a downtown hotel with Mr Ching IU School of Education, and with: non-union operators that Mrs.-Pickett shot and wound- Fleming sald, “the investigation and Mr. Cole sitting in. Claude Rich, alumni secretary, in West Virginia and - burned ed him after he threw snowballs is to protect the thousands o It was learned that they dis. will he speakers at the evening equipment near Scottdale, Pa. at her Feb. 5. He sald the Inci- Hoosiers who have no protection cussed a 95-cent-a-day wage In- dinner at Roger Smith Hotel
Four pickets and the son of a dent occurred after he had fought except in this State Department crease—to $15 a day-—a
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(Continued From Page One) |learned, they discussed Mr. Lew In other parts of the nation, Police Seek to Halt issued last Saturay. ~.200 days work a year for ‘his | Government lawyers were re- Miners, one of 12 contract “sug={ported to be holding up contempt gestions” he advanced early yes- — of court action originally planned terday. = Other items included for today against Mr. Lewis and Seniority, higher vacation pay and | the UNIoA~ for ignoring the in- Severance pay. Ta case but in stolen cars as well. junction. Operators dismissed some of “That's why we're asking the Such action would subject the the suggestions” as fantastic. state police to chek them all. The UMW president and the union to They said that in all they add up huge ines for the third time in !0 an estimated $1.25 a ton. inthree years. oh crease in production costs: The delay was designed to tagel, Somme industry men did not take the: potential racketeers in the pressure off Mr. Lewis with | “ Lewis sehiously on. some. of tities ‘OF hot. cat busi. Settlement of the disputé so close his’ proposals, which he Insisted 8 ‘or hot cars out of the bus + hand were not formal demands. ness right now.” a B and tid ‘Brea i —— eee mire i : Mr. . MVD arring an unexpecte reak- pa: > ‘ {tions with eperators broke off Vor pg and BMY Ditevtal down, it was understood the ac- Minton and Peel to Be pp the state police check. should not tion would not come until tomor- | 3 . Police check should no row—Iif ‘at all. A’contract settle- Guests of wu Alumni
ment would automatically send BLOOMINGTON Feb. 17—Su~
Illegal Auto Deals (Continued From Page One) cevade taxes as in the Michigan.
shortage. Railroads were hit
order banning electric)
10,000 - More May Quit The serious coal situation in
after next Tuesday when an esti- !2W requires a permanent place,
{mated 10,000 members of ‘the ©f business and facilities for do-
The union, a rival of the UMW
Frank ;G. Reed, president of
3 \ be interpreted as being aimed at the- Chicago Coal Merchants As- the legitimate car dealers, new sald the PMW strike » - ! \
ern supply of coal.” Be — meeting, which ended shortly be- ™ “oe fore midnight marked the first ment {real break in the coal stalemate : : i | $ tile negotiaPlans “Clean House” ja tes months of fu 5 .
tio Mr. Fleming said he did not. The parley was arranged only
anxious to have the
| and Prof. R. V. Peel, nominated nights” cleaned out as the depart-
to be census director, {ll be 'spe= cial guests of an rndiana Univer= sity Alumni Club meeting Feb. 27 in Washington, D. C,
pickets toured ; > ot Virginia closing Charge Boy, 9 Shot non-union For Hurling Snowball
15-cent- Dean Wright and Mr. Rich will against buying a hot car or one a-ton boost to 35 cents In welfare also attend alumni club meetings to with an illegal title and then fund royalties, and a half-hour Feb. 28 in Philadelphia; Mar. 1 New York City; Mar. 2 in Among other things, It was Boston, and Mar. 3 in Pittsburgh.
operator suffered minor with her nephew.
Mrs. Pickett was ordered
up
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“tioning. “Most “women
of scant purses shows in the faces of the women as they bend over the carts in worried calcu-|
lation for every penney’s worth of their conviction on the “fair ©ffice of the national commander
The hucksters shout their wares and the smell of fish dominates the street. ’ A morning's conversation wit a sizable group of these work-ing-class wives, shows little | grumbling, and what there is con-| cerns high prices more than ra-| wives -of bus and truck drivers, factory workers, railwaymen, gas titters and so on—quickly came up with the “fair shares” slogan. Most said they were for it. Today in Britain most adults, except coal miners, get only 20 cents worth of meat weekly. The sugar ration-is—eight ounces a. week. For tea the ration 2% ounces and for cheese two ounces. Britons get one or two eggs a week, with larger allowances to children. Many articles once rationed are on the unrestricted list now, but the task of getting dinner for a family still challenges the patience and ingenuity of mil-| Hons--of ~housewives. ’ { But things really aren’t so. bad, said Mrs. Mamie Morrall, as she flipped a fine fat rabbit into her canvas market bag from the cart
where she bought it. “We paid four shillings a pound for rabbits in the war and were
——these yp
people would get nothing. Who so apparently little -revolt against rationing? Partly because
shares” idea. But one Briton points out another factor—at the
lend of the war all. people on this '00m on the fourth floor, which is p little island got the greatest gift airconditioned.
they'd ever been given. It was simply ‘that the terrible bombing pped. After that bombing, rationing qr anything else couldn't be too ard, AE
French Strike Fall Short of Red Hopes
PARIS, Feb. 17 (UP)-—A Com-munist-called two-hour strike in-
terrupted train service and coal
production in France today, but Motel Planned es. 5 | 2 -
fell short of Red hop The railway strike was partially effective in Paris and Marseille, but even there trains moved during the forbidden
period, some after delays ranging|
from 30 minutes to an hour.
Elsewhere, most trains moved $400,000 Project
on schedule.
RUSS EXTEND BLOCKADE BERLIN, Feb. 17 (UP)-Brit-ish officials charged today that the Russians have extended their baby blockade .of- Berlin to canal traffic. They said the Soviet zone waterways administration is
~a-spectal- state-property tax levy
ond floor Will be entirely. composed of offices. On the third floor will be. the
and other executive offices. A staircase will lead to the assembly
Funds for the building were voted by the 1947 General Assembly, which advanced $2.5 million from the General Fund, The money will be recouped by
which ends in 1951. -- Although {built for the exclusive use of the {American Legion, the structure | will remain. the property of the! {State of Indiana. :
For Trailer Site
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A modern two-story motel, ex- | pected ‘to cost $400,000, will be| erected on the site of the South | Side mobile colony, Trailer Haven. Marion County's Planning Commission approved the erection of la ‘50-room hotel on the trailer | camp grounds, 3102 Madison Ave. |
“making it difficult” for the 400 but refused to rezone the area for |
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the Commission, warned the spec-| tators the courtroom would be cleared if the noise continued. No Immediate Eviction Although the Commission's ruling virtually outlaws the trailer camp, there was an indication the 90 trailer camp families would [not be forced to ‘move “until” the {school term ends.” . { Spokesmen for the home own{ers near the trailer camp said that while they objected to the] trailers, they would agree to al-| low the families to stay until
school vacation.
Objectors to the trailer camp stated that it damaged value of homes and property in the area. The trailer camp, was defended)
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~ithe-traiter-eamp-is-Floyd--Jones;
the former owner-operator. Myers Acts As Counsel Dewey Myers, chief deputy prosecutor, ~appeared as counsel] on behalf of the trailer campers. County Clerk A. Jack Tilson, a; resident of Perry Township, spoke] in behalf of the trailer campers.|’ He said they would clean up the camp. - However, spokesmen for the home owners said the camp had been operating on a temporary year-to-year basis since the war and that each year the trailer camp management promised the comission. the trailers would be out shortly:
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