Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1950 — Page 10

HAROLD H. HARTLEY Times Business Editor

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you may break a tooth.

It will be like eating the hard cash itself. But don't|&

blame the packers. They're having troubles.

WHEN YOU SINK your teeth into a steak before long, |

Forecasts say the meat] supply will to five per cent. ~ But having the supply up and| po Price on Spies

getting the farmers to let go of it are two different matters. In!

what happened to the beef: been plenty.

at the Stark, Wetzel Co. He sald for sabotage. something had happened to the! The affiliates, good cattle.

better prices. » ” 5 AND THOSE “better prices” their own.

are a sure thing, if the pattern] Socony's idea is to

never touched. In the city mar-| $20 Million Slash kets, of. course, they were, The government has been buying both beef and pork in Indianapolis in fairly large quanti-| ties, So has Stokley's for can-| ning with vegetables, such as pork and beans. » » " A LOT OF hams have been] boned for government canning, , and the same goes for beef. Since can't be done for less. the government buys choice beef,! It works. Officials had - asked it hit the local market. to spend $225,705,830. But when Packers have been In water, : ment order they have to” fill it.|$19.696,440. But if they contract to deliver] more than they have, and go out into a higher priced market to|t complete the order, they lose! money. | reduced. ; And that is what has happened.| And don’t overlook the good Five million men in uniform|Work of the State Board of Tax will consume enormous amounts| CeTIRuAsioners. They lopped off of meat. It will be taken out of # T slo, a but th consumer supplies, and run the Those are big figures, but they price up. (mean real dollars to property 5. owners, THAT'S WHY the government Ergon and Center

right now is tinkering with its pi slide rule, trying to find a safe! REMEMBER WHEN you had

and Lan level at which to freeze ten-spot to get a Toom?

But such a level won't be found | unless they freeze the farmers TRL the Homentum aid I prices, 100. | Stuart E. Hockenbury, AmeriThe Price Story ican Hotels Corp., executive, preTHE GOVERNMENT has made dicts that hotel rooms may easithe error of selective price freezes. ly be on the shortage list in 1951. It never works. a { Right now, éven with prices on War II he says, but that's an “honorary freeze,” they are guess, when and if business becreeping up by the hour. gins its big defense swing. Execu-| Manufacturers are helpless. tives have to get around, and They can't do business at a loss| | and they can't stop rising costs. \!¢ rooms generously, mop up the | They creep In everywhere, added|*UPPLY. labor costs, added shipping costs,| There's a boom ahead for added basic raw material costs : which, of ‘course, are still un-'25 000 Left-overs

frozén.

|p year.

~ n ~ IN 35 OF THE state's 92 counfes, says the association, taxes

THE PRICE PICTURE is so/to the North Pole with some

complex it is virtually impossible 25.000 cash presents he couldn’t| THE Ministry of Transport said|ila’s war-ruined walled city to- : {today that the Russians had per- day. » i That's what the Tracers Co.mjtted Austrian ships from the] The raids were believed de-|

to freeze any small part of t{ deliver.

without freezing it all, from top!

projectile plugs at $54,300, and up from three |i, vy 5. Rubber Co. at Misha- | waka, 100 water tanks at $83,850.

THE SOCONY-VACUUM OIL the last month, packers wondered CO., INC. and’ its two mdor| It|domestic affiliates has an antidried up. And there should have sabotage plan calling for payment ; {up to $300,000 reward for the I talked with Erwin Wetzel out|conviction of anyone responsible

General PetrolHe thought maybe eum Corp. Los Angeles, and the the feeders were holding off for|Magnolia Petroleum Co. Dallas, (have joined Socony’'s $100,000 pledge with similar amounts of

THE INDIANA Taxpayers Association is adding up its profit| {to taxpayers, and figures it] clipped the government take on roperty about $20 million . this!

What the association does is

If the country begins to move P

land

{transient hotels. |

“increase. i . of the last war is followed. The pr tection of personnel and plant farmers went Scott free on price against a by encouraging World Reporf—

sontrsis fof Some (ime, aid SOME the enforcement of existing uw’ Dlayven fo Shand or Fall | On French Defense Vote 0f Warehouse |

|article vote.

i The arms bill is designed to get France started toward her hot, the association got through with promised goal of 20 divisions, 28) —————— reins

If they take a govern- the budget hearings it had cutifighter plane groups and mass ® . |production of war materials ve Indo China

[the | States will

New elections are

of the voters,

bu

Earl Grubbs, who was forced to drive to Ethridge's brother's house from Bloomington, sits with Mrs. Veneda Grubbs (center), | wife of the slain man and Mrs. Helen Grubbs, wife of the killer.

resulted when Ethridge Grubbs si

State Police Det. Sgt. James R. Osborne and Det. Sgt. M. J. Timme examine the bullet hole through the car windshield which

hot his own brother.

"We'll never hitch hike again." These four Camp Atterbury soldiers were with the berserk Grubbs when police car. They are Harley Raymond, Ervin C. Martin, John Shaffer

Pa

stopped his

due

Great Britain

PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT been postponed until k to persuade Minh rebels and their Chinese

New _ealand Communist allies show their in-| South Africa to recognize tentions. | epo 0C

the Communist government of China at the Commonwealth ¢onference opening here Jan. 4, of{ficial sources said today.

OLD KRIS KRINGLE got back] * % some Austria

{they do it on tax dollars, so they R. ATTLEE will see

Canada, Australia,

Assembly Decides to Take Ballot After 20 Hours of Ceaseless Debate

By United Press t | ~~ Premier Rene Pleven pushed. the rebellious French National to challenge budgets, asked where | Assembly into a scheduled vote on the $1,014,000,000 rearmament the money is going, and If it'budget tbday after almost 20 hours of continuous debate. Mr. Pleven’s government will stand or fall on the article-by-

end of Jesu. The United THE biggest Communist assault spread of business elp her. But Mr. Pleven had to fight der defenses to be collected next year were tooth and nail to keep the bill thrown back from being sent back to committee during the debate. Britain Rides High Politics played a leading role,

in 1951

and the deputies want to protect themselves against possible wrath

During debate, several speaklers claimed the budget was out to slip a hotel desk clerk a five oP the Frenen pt lugged for “active neutrality.” But Finance Minister Maurice Petsch warned that failure to vote new taxes would bring disastrous inflation and Defense Minister Jules Moch said Russia and her satellites had a military

Block Building

N. Side Project

Objecting property owners and

jeries warehouse at 3028 N. {Keystone Ave. { Householders surrounding ‘the |area, many representing Tacoma { Village, where former servicemen {own their homes, objected to the | northward since the collapse of French bor-|from 30th St. Some charged they last October was would be “boxed in” by the warein a bloody, eight-'house and buildings already in {hour, hand-to-hand battle 15 miles the vicinity. {north of Hanoi, French officers] The Board approved the request |said today. {of Preston Scott Inc. for permisAt least seven battalions of sion to construct a food market Viet Mingh regulars attacked building at 325 N. State Ave. and seven outposts at midnight yes-/328 N. Walcott St. terday but retreated in disorder, OK Petition for Store

leaving many .casualties, when . : mobile units arrived from Hanol.| ,A &PRroved was the petition of James. HL. Ward to build and A French field officer said the ; Reds were looking for a “hole.” operate a store at 1055 E. 52d St. ang . Denied was the requested expansion of a poultry breeding esFor mosa . tablishment at 3129 N. Sherman RELIABLE sources said today|Dr. an area zoned for residential that French officials may release use. The permission was sub30,000 Chinese Nationalists from mitted by Edwin and Margaret interment in Indo-China‘to fight Allen. ! the Communist-lted rebels there. The Board continued for fu-

/der way between the French and Parking lot at the rear of 5804 {Chinese for some time, these E. Washington St., where consources said, but decisions have struction of a furniture store is 5 the Viet! planned.

Philippines ages. ie : 2 ees MiSSINg in Action oP oiioe xo iv Se g in ’ | outlawed Communist-dominated ! - Pfc. Clements Wrote

{Huk movement in raids on Man-| Last in November Another local soldier, Pfc. Paul

to bottom, solid. jof America reports in 100KINg | American zone to penetrate thelsigned to break up a ring accused ‘Eugene Clements, son of Mr. and

And that won't come until the °F missing stockholders. government is in a position to handle it, police it, and adminis-| “30. too. shout $3 Billion. ‘ trate it—three months off, at! n m:-going ome and. oo

least. | undes the Sarpet, might be a|tankers sailed 90 miles into the J share or two there. Soviet zone and took on oil car- apan Steel Next? But it might be better to turnigoes from the Russidn-operated| P

\ | Soviet-controlled stretch of thejof They've got a lot of doughipgnybe River for the first time and transmitting them to the Huk |g¢ “is missing in action, accord-

|since World War II.

| The ministry said that three|field. EN

NEXT TO GET the price choker Over stray boulders. Some of the Zistersdorf oilfields for consign-

will be steel. The government already is carpet isn’t that old. fashioning the controls necessary err to help the already frozen auto industry keep prices down. There'll be nothing “honorary”

about them. They'll be solid or- : ders. But steel, like autos, has esca-| dzes ome

lator “clauses in labor contracts,| " and can't hold prices down unless| Blaze Near Acton

wages are tied too. x : Causes $25,000 Loss

s x » | WITH THE CAR industry, turning out 8 million cars this] Fire of undertermined origin

{ern occupied territory. Previously any Austrian ships crossing into the Soviet zone were seized on grounds that they were former egemy property.

Canada

A DEFENSE spokesman said signed. But he said this could be by sub-zero temperatures. He said

[stuff dates back to 1860. And my ment to an Austrian firm in West-|

intercepting army messages yrs Ezra Clements, 1215 E. 9th |dissident peasant army in the ino to word received here yesterday by the parents. : The parents last heard from Pfc. Clements, serving with the | PRIME MINISTER SHIGERU 2d Division, in late. November |YOSHIDA said today he was op-|When he wrote that conditions in posed to the rearmament of Korea were “pretty tough.” He Japan. sald he was “getting awfully “Our constitution renounced tired.” and that he wished things war,” he told Japanese reporters ‘would get settled.” n an interview. Sleep on Ground Mr. Yoshida said Japanese Pfc. Clements said the GIs should provide their own “de- Were sleeping on the frozen fense” once a peace treaty is ground and eating food frozen

{today it was “almost certain” that done “by means other than armed some of the boys had been receiv--

{11,000 Canadian troops training at!forces.” He did not elaborate,

[F. Lewis, Wash., for Korean duty

‘stead.

would go to Europe next spring in-

ling Christmas packages while on the march, The last the parents heard; Pfc. Clements was a few miles short {of the Manchurian border. He dis-

Zoning Board Bars |

Ga. “They say we haven't lost

Negotiations over use of the in-|ture action the W. A. Brennan, It wort be as bad as in World| oo bued French raionditures. | terned Nationalists have been un. (Inc. petition for an off-street|tS = SULTRICCOt,

I Have Lost a Son'—

"We Just Can't Leave,’ Says Sergeant—Dad of Dead Gm. vic ot sist Caroiie ave.

‘More Than This Little Country’ at

Stake, Asserts Soldier in Korea TAEGU, Korea, Dec. 28 (UP) — Sgt. Joe Gregory said today parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E.

of beans about.”

i

Sgt. Gregory said.

and Robert Cave. .

a Zoning Board denial of peti- that if the Allies are driven out of Korea they will lg [tion ‘have blocked proposed con-| ‘Just this little country that nobody but the Korean {struction of Cloverleaf Cream-| | “We'll lose the first round in the big battle with communism, ”|Shortly after giving him bis bot“If we don’t do something, and quick, it may|tle: She called police and the em-

Three-Month-Old Baby Strangles

The death of Mark Kowalski, 3

{was attributed today to strangulation. | The child was in the care of a {baby sitter yesterday while his

Kowalski, were at work. The baby sitter found the baby n its bed, struggling for breath,

more than "gives a hill,

be that Joe and a lot of his {buddies will have died in vain.”

‘his son—Pvt. Joseph B. Gregory here.’

{Jr., 17. Joe Jr. and his buddies

killed. “Some of the boys think we ought to go home,” said Sgt. Gregory who comes from Macon,

anything over here. Well, I have lost something here. I have lost| a son.” | Sgt. Gregory, 40, is a grand-| father. He has three daughters, two grandchildren, and a 2-year-| old son in Georgia. On the day his son was killed, Sgt. Gregory, a veteran of 12 years in the Regular Army and’ such World War II campaigns, Bougainville, Guam and Saipan, boarded a ship at Yokohama. He was bound for Inchon with the Allied invasion fleet. He walked up the gangplank reading a letter from young Joe. f When Sgt. Gregory entered the still smoking suburbs of Seoul a! week later, a telegram caught up! with him. It conveyed the regrets! of his government on the death of | his son. | “I knew then that I had to carry on the fight for both of us,” Sgt. Gregory said. “I looked up Joe's unit. I learned how he died. And I found out that he is buried in! the United Nations cemetery here. | {I know where his grave is. I go out to see it eyery chance I get. | “Some people might say I'm bitter, but I don’t think so. Maybe

Hog Prices Strong To 25 Cents Higher

Cattle, Sheep Run Steady

| Lightweight barrows and gilt {prices were strong to 25 cents] {higher today than yesterday's avlerage at the Indianapolis Stock-! {yards. Trade opened active. |. Hogs 11,000; choice 170 to 240

I can put into words why my boy |t0 revive the baby failed. | Sgt. Gregory was talking about and other men’s boys have to die!

“The way I see it, it's so my lin the 5th Cavalry Regiment other little son won’t have to do| stormed Hill 174 on the Naktong|the same thing 20 years from| um, 46c. No grade. 25c. ‘River just north of Taegu last NOW. We've got to do something! Fouliry—fowls, {1a Ibs. 3nd er, oats {Sept. 14. A mortar burst caught and do it fast, or get out of here and stags, 1c. his squad, and young Joe was fast. And we just can’t leave.”

give it all up range acts temperature changes and ruins my cookies and cakes, the top burners are so crowded I can't get the pans on conveniently. there’s no work space.

ing

“I like to cook. But sometimes I could

“Not one of my friends has to put up with _ that! They all have a Modern GAS range.

“At Christmas I was hoping Tom would give me one. that would stay at 350° when it’s set for

year, and steel stepping up “pro-/last night made a‘blackened shell| duction to 110 million tons in the|of the two-story colonial home of diction on an army announcement

Ls et m——— ee on PATKING Meter

am next 25 months, including a new Burnet Willis, R. R. 1, near Acton. that all but 45 members of a 345plant at Indiana Harbor, steel| “If we had been asleep, none of man advance party the army 0C i N

{closed no details of the fighting. tpounds $21 to $21.50; choice No. §

| He attended Cathedral High 1 and 2 around 220 pounds down { School here, enlisting in the Army | $21.25 to $21.50; 240 to 270 pounds lat the age of 17. He served with $20.50 to $21; 270 to 300 pounds

350°. And top burners so spaced that pans aren't cluttered and a top with so much working space!

will have to have some wage pro- Us wou tection before it can take a freeze, Willis said today.

—and that includes mining and|estimated at $25,000. shipping. | Mr, Willis, his wife,

. ow {their daughter, Elizabeth, 15, and Still Coming »

WAR ORDERS are still flow-/the burning building at about’ merino aistes com EF] Ing. 3:20). mw. fATrahire Collieries com 18 10% The latest given me by Mrs. Lil-| The family is staying with next-|L § "Ayres thn sta fa 183, lan Kreps, Department of Com- door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. 38 RE & &ik Vi Rom 00 38 are merce representative in the In-|/Lorin Tilson, until Mr. Willis can|bobbs-Merrill com ow #

dianapolis Chamber of Commerce, establish temporary quarters. listed the following: {+ Provided With Clothing American Tire Machinery Co. The Tilsons today provided Mr. Muncie, 79 vulcanizers at $38,568; "lis with clothing so he could

. BO to work at his hardware store Fisher Engineering Co., Hunting: at 138 E. 22d St. >

ton, transformers, $30,000; St./°', Been he Te old iia Croix Canning Corp.. Lynne, Inc Only the brick wall Is stand-| Equitable Securities com ..1.. 3 i & LOrp. Lynne, INC. yng» he said today. “All our fur-| Emily Finanes com 109 9996 dozens cans of tomato juice oF ys Family Pinance 6% of4 _..... 97 100 - Ak nishings were lost, including some "avs “orn ofd ww vues Bs at. $25454. and Stokley’s, - 1870 p . sHamilton Mfg Co com ,..... 28% dozen pickles and pickle relish handed down for generations... Home T 0% Dra a i e AISI gilver. of » *Home & % Pda. BS $25.237 silver, carpeting and furnifure.” | mock Drug Co com Tel 20,237. The blaze was fought by fire {nd Aso ial 000 a a. The Purdue Research Founda- departments from Franklin, New Ing Sieh El 4% pig 104 108% tion got $60.000, and El Lilly and/ Bethel and Jreenwood Town- ina a mnan th otd ” ’8 Co., got $102,900 for 370,000 bot: ships. Indpix aT 4% pid 100 103 " - CS Ee) ‘tiles of penicillin; the Hoosier; Mr. Willis said the house was 1nd Rone & Water com =... 30% ] 3 y y y | pls Water com 17! 18's Tardinal Corp. Evansville 300.000! only partly covered by insurance. ii, Waser oo ou pie... 4050 418 ’ Jette National" Life com 10 efferson a * CO v wl Today's Weather Fotocast [isis 7 & Ran 0 Pp « 8B : : Lincoln Nat Life 3 % ~ 3 ilonch Corp... ..o...iiamusn 14%: 15 ° ¢ da armon-Herrington tom ..... 5% "\~ o : : | Mastic Asphalt ale ~ \@ i Nat Homes com 19% Ii = y {Nat Homes ofd 3 . : + Na / 1 .

{Mary E. Robbins, an aunt, fled

Id have gotten out,” Mr, sent to Korea last fall would be Damage was home within a month.

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18% Both sides of Pennsylvania. 9% Meridian and Illinois -Sts.,

103

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. meters to the Safety Board. They

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{the Army of Occupation in | Europe, was discharged in April jof 1949 and re-enlisted four months later. Recovering Tech. Sgt. Elmer L. Rhoads, 22, who lived here with his grandmother, Mrs. O. H. DeWitt, 3005 Ruckle St., is in Camp Atterbury Hospital, recovering from serious leg wounds received Nov. 30 in Korea. Both legs were hit by machine from gun fire in fighting close to the Manchurian border. . Sgt. Rhoads was a member of the badly depleted 2d Division. Shortly -after being wounded he was flown back to the United States from Japan. He is a Navy veteran of two vears. At the age of 17 he wis with “Adm. Byrd when the admiral’ made an expedition to the South Pole five years ago.

List Recommended To Safety Board

Traffic * Engineer Frank Gal-!

mended locations for new parking

from {Vermont St. to North St. | Both sides of North St Alabama St. to Iilinois. sides of Vermont Pennsylvania to Alabama. i ~ Both sides of Michigan St. from Delaware St. to Illinois. . Both sides of Massachusetts Ave. from Delaware to New Jer. sey St. Others, in the Fountain Square district, will be located at: West. side of Virginia Ave. from

from

ns Woodlawn Ave. to Prospect St.

1041 Woodlawn to Fountain Square.

1 Fountain Square to Orange.

103+ 3

36% lawn to Fountain Square.

21 88%

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| for kissing “too passionately

East side of Virginia Ave, from Purdue Scholarship Fund { Kast side of Shelby St. from sted by $10,0C {Morris St. to Orange St. West side of Shelby St. from University Alumni Scholarship ‘Fund has received $10,000 from Both sides of Virginia from Walter Miller, Benton Harbor, Woodlawn to Grove St. Mich., manufacturer and inventor.

West side of Shelby from Wood- The money is “to help deserving Waals Club at its meeting at noon

_istudents to help themselves." Both sides of Prospect from Mr. Miller, native of SwitzerFountain Square to Laurel St. land and a Purdue graduate, | South side of Prospect from heads several manufacturing ‘Fountain Square to St. Patrick plants in Benton Harbor, St. mend

{Virginia to Shelby. : West side of St. Patrick St. from Morris to Woodlawn. |

Re imme po No. corn, $1.80, : No. 2 yellow corn, $1.59.

LAFAYETTE, Dec. 28—Purdue!

South. side of Woodlawn trom Local Truck Grain Prices i

'$17.50 to $20.50; 120 to 160 pounds 1816.50 to $17.50; choice near 160, |pounds $18; sows steady to {strong; choice 300 to 550 pounds {$16.50 to $17.50; odd choice lights $17.75. Cattle 1000, calves 300; steers, about steady: medium steers mostly in small lots $28 to $31; small lots good {earings $34; ‘scattered common and low medium native yearlings and heifers | {$23.50 to $29; cows active, firm; {good beef cows $23 to $24; best {young kinds to $25, ; Bulls steady; medium and good beef and sausage bulls $24.50 to | $27. ! Vealers active. steady; good jand choice $34 to 336; common , and medium $24 to $33. Sheep 2000; fat lambs active, steady: good and choice native wooled lambs $31.50 to $32.50; 3 ‘loads good and choice fed wooled lambs $32; near 4 loads good and {choice fed shorn western lambs, mostly No. 1 skins $29; few, {slaughter ewes steady at $10 to! $16 for medium to choice. {

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and No. 3 poultry, 4c less

than No. 1. Butterfat—No. 1, §7c; No. 2, Sde.

my old, out-dated cooke a spoiled child. The oven

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