Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1951 — Page 14

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Daisy Chain in Nickel

S USUAL in times of materials shortages, a gray market is inevitable—also, elusive and tough to fight. There is always a group of shady dealers ready to take advantage of dwindling supplies and corner the market, forcing up prices regardless of the country’s needs or welfare. This has happened to nickel. A manufacturer recently told a Senate inquiry that the nickel supply “went out like a light” soon after the Korean war started, and then began reappearing on the market at exorbitant prices. A Senate subcommittee on gray markets, headed by Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan, has now exposed the vicious racket in nickel and nickel anodes. It is a shocking report. ” " td ” n a WITH NO more than a telephone for business equipment, the gray marketeers, some of whom never saw a nickel anode until a few months ago, have all but taken over control of a substantial portion of the market. They do nothing but add.to the price—with the result that nickel finally reaches the consumer at a cost nearly seven times higher than normal market value, , Nickel has thousands of industrial uses. In electrowe Plating alone, "5000 independent job platers employ- 40,000" workers. But how these-small businessmen are priced out of the nickel market, with nickel selling at $4.50 per pound when normal prices are about 67 cents, s » ” » = 4 NICKEL ANODES, says the report, have been slipping out of the distribution back door into a daisy chain of illegal trafficking at successively higher prices. Large companies are able to pay the premium prices, but small businessmen are left desperate. They cannot afford the prohibitive prices and face bankruptcy if they try to compete with the big firms. § The report blames the situation in part on the “fuzziness” of OPS price control rules on nickel. An OPS regulation puts a ceiling price on nickel scrap at 40.5 cents a pound. But to escape this ceiling, it is dnly necessary to cast the scrap into anode form. It can then be sold at the highest price at which nickel anodes were sold by the dealer during the base period.

THE committee has called this to the attention of OPS

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But it will take more than that to end the abuses and racketeering in the nickel as well as other gray markets. The big companies which have been paying racketeering prices for gray-market materials may not be wholly blameless themselves. As the committee report said, “these practices reflect credit on no one concerned.” But, primarily, it might help if the names of the shady dealers and fly-by-night “brokers” were turned over to the Justice Department and Bureau of Internal Revenue. If it is determined that any laws have been violated, there should be prompt and vigorous action.

Dollars for Doughnuts

IT HAS been reported, more or less surreptitiously, that the U. S. Commerce Department has clamped what's called an “embargo” on the shipment of U. S. goods to Czechoslovakia. It is hinted, but not officially said, that this was done recently as one means of trying to persuade the Czech Communists to release from prison the American reporter, William N. Oatis. : Much more effective was last week's action barring the Czech airline from flights over Allied-occupied Germany. Still more effective would be a complete embargo on the export of U. S. dollars to Czechoslovakia—and to all other Communist countries, for that matter. The embargo oh goods won't mean much. Exports to Czechoslovakia and all other Communist satellites have been practically nil for many months. What the Czechs, and the other Communists, want is U. S. dollars. With

dollars they can buy war materials elsewhere. #8 Hn 8 8 8

CONGRESS, by unanimous vote in both houses, nearly a month ago specifically asked President Truman and the State Department to shut off “all commercial relations” with Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Council | of Free Czechoslovakia, composed of leading Czech refugees ‘from the Communist tyranny in their native land, advocated a break in all trade relations. They said democratic Czechs in the homeland who are trying to slow down Czech production for the Russian war machine are handicapped by our continuing

to do business with the Communists. uN 8 8 Ea # # =n

WE DON'T buy anything vital from the Czechs—it amounts to doughnuts, so far as usefulness to our economy is concerned. But .the American dollars which go to Czechoslovakia for those doughnuts are vital to the Czechs. : If the State Department won't listen to a resolution “requesting” an end to trade relations with the Czect Communists, then Congress has no alternative except to pass a law. As it has done in the case of some other imports from Communist countries. Mr. Oatis won't get out of jail until the Czechs are subjected to the kind of pressure they can understand— and the loss of American dollars is that kind of pressure.

SOME folks who are at their wit’s end didn’t have to go far.

- ; “GIRL Sues for $25,000 Bréach of Promise —headline. Love makes a gl make a man make a fool of himself.

oa 'THE burglars who took a dummy from 2 "department store window probably just needed a fourth i jn bridge. :

A JOCKEY ‘injured on an eastern race track will ~ recover. Some Solke who bet on his horse won 't

NOT enough attention is paid to educating “pedestrians, a judge. So lots of them step out and get Dumps of

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officials who. have “indicated” they will close the loophole.

EUROPE “er By Wodwell: Denny. Trouble Seen in

German Plan

WASHINGTON, Sept. action to the Big Three's Washington plan for a West German peace “contract” and participation in European defense is net good. = This does: not necessarily forecast But it is a reminder of difficulties and uncer- . tainties in negotiations which the American, British and ~ French high commissioners begin with the Bonn government this week. Only Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is enthusiastic among German officials—and

of stressing the need for speed. The West German press is divided and cautious. The "powerful Socialist Party -Mr. Adenauer... wants more than the Allies need for speed are prepared to give in the deal. And the conservative Free Democratic Party, second largest party in the Adenauer coalition cabinet, is more or léss on the fence. In Paris the wobbly coalition government is so worried by reports of slight concessions made by Foreign Minister Robert Schuman in the Washington conference that Premier Rene Pleven has issued sweeping denials. West German recruiting could not begin before an elaborate European Army system had been created, according to Paris. The Pleven action was taken in response to attacks by Gen. Charles DeGaulle, head of the largest French party and outstanding critic both of the North Atlantic Treaty organization and the Washington plan. for German rearmament. Gen.: DeGaulle demands more French control in Allied affairs in general and over any German military force in particular. These internal divisions in Paris and Bonn are an invitation to Moscow to make trouble. Stalin is doing just that on five differént fronts.

‘Cannon Fodder’

- ON THS propaganda front he is telling the Germans that American-Allfed “imperialism” is preparing to enslave them and use them as “cannon fodder.” At the same time he is telling the West Europeans that the United States is reviving the German militarism that

7 caused two world wars and threatens a third.

On the political front Stalin has brought forward again the campaign for German “unification,” which he dropped after its failure last spring. His puppet East German regime is repeating its proposal to the Bonn government for “free all-German elections of a constitutional convention”—a phony. In anticipation of the Big Three's plan for a Bonn peace “contract” and limited army, Stalin had renewed a semiblockade of Berlin, strengthened his East German “police” army, and sent hordes of East German sabotage agents into West Germany.

Bargaining Position NONE of these Stalin moves is expected to prevent an Allled-Bonn agreement, though they put Bonn in a stronger bargaining—not to say blackmail—position in the forthcoming negotiations. The guess here is that the Washington plan will go through and without basic changes. But there is less assurance that it will be accepted : by the November target date. That rests chiefly on two men and their ability to deliver— West German Chancellor Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Schaman. Put in another way, Stalinist sabotage is considered less effective than obstruction in Germany by Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher and in France by Gen. DeGaulle,

What Others Say—

THERE is an inseperable link between religion as a world-wide force and true internationalism as a world-wide instrument. Our great religious bodies . . . have not hesitated to take firm positions on the subject of international co-operation for peace and security— Vice President Alben W. Barkley. oS Sb THE happiest day of my life will be when § leave this damn country (United. States).— Virginia Hill, associate of mobsters.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

ST. LOUIS—Dog catchers were put out of business when someone stole the nets from their truck.

The poodle and the St. Bernard Are happy in St. Lou. The poodle yaps, “No worries, pard, “About that dog-gone crew.”

And Bernie woofs in deep content, Who said, ‘St. Louis Blues’?” . While to the sad dog-catcher gent They both bark, “Nets to youse.”

‘CAN'T BLAME US’ . . . By Earl Richert

U. S. Experts Argue Eag Prices Not High

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Prices of top ar eggs are nearing the $1 per dozen mark in most big cities. But government poultry experts contend that egg prices aren't too high compared with those for other foods.

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Another Copper Shortage

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STRANGE MOTOR FUEL .

Autos Run on Alm ond Shells,

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Spouting Smoke

PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain, Sept. 18—

"I'll not give you the business about this being

one of the world's most beautiful islands, surrounded by blue water so clear you can see the fish glaring back at you. The movie travelogues have been taking care of that department for years. More important, I think, is how the islanders have thrown away their gasoline tanks and weaned their automobiles. Driving a car here costs nothing, so long as you owh a few almond trees. What happened was that Hilda and I flew here from Madrid in an elderly and dignified DC-3 of the Iberias Lineas Espanoles. The crew wore white uniforms (with a few smudges of grease); the steward looked like an admiral, complete with epaulettes, while the captain had a magnificent big blue and gold medal with a blue ribbon pinned on his chest, On the door of the ship was a large silver plaque, which said that Gen. Francisco Franco traveled in her once, back in 1948. This made us feel a good deal better.

Lush Resort

SO WE skimmed across the hills and plains of Spain, mostly barren at this time of year, flew over the Mediterranean for about an hour, and landed at an airport here, where nearly all the local taxis were spouting smoke-and flame. Kind of scaréd: Hilda. We wound up in the Maricel Hotel, which is an especially. lush place on the beach, and I got to worrying about those fiery sedans. So I rented one. It turned out to be a 1931 Cadillac with running boards and all I can say is that the Standard Oil Co. had better get into the almond business while there yet is time. Obviously, there is no future for gasoline. My Cadillac came with a combined engineer and fireman. A good thing, too, because he ‘was a very busy fellow. On the roof he carried a large sack of almond shells for fuel. These he stoked into an iron furnace, bolted onto the rear of the car. When they got to burning good and spewing flame in our wake, they turned into a kind of a red-hot charcoal, which gave off a combustible gas. This was pumped directly to the engine, bypassing the carburetor. The danged thing ran, too. ‘Only on the hills ‘did she falter. Then my fireman pushed a button on his dash and from a two-quart tank under the hood trickled in a little gasoline to get us over the humps. On level ground the almond shells provided the

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power and since this island produces more almonds than any similar-sized place on the globe, motorcar fuel costs nothing at all.

Luxury at Low Cost THAT is not all in the bargain department. This place is cluttered with dukes and duchesses from all over Europe. It is said to be one of the most fashionable watering places on the continent. Haw. They can’t fool me. The reason high society has moved here en masse simply is because it costs very little to take the Majorcan sun. Take this hotel of ours, which is one of the two luxury establishments. on the island. We're paying top price

for the works, including lots of waiters in white ~ spats to shag cool drinks, some especially fancy

scenery from an assortment of terraces, room with twin beds and tiled bath, and three overpowering meals per day. The tariff is $5 each.

Too Good to Last HILDA says she* thinks I ought to be Ma-" jorcan correspondent for the paper so we could settlasdown to a lifetime of soaking up luxury at flophouse rates. last. And anyhow, nothing has happened in Majorca to send a reporter to his typewriter since the 16th Century when a Frenchman invaded the place. What do you think he did then? Invented mayonnaise, that's what, and never even apologized for it. Some day, back in Washington, when ¢he lawgivers are using too many words to say nothing mused, I'll tell you about Count Mahon, the mayonnaf} e man, who's kept his gooey curse on sliced tomatoes and lettuce ever since.

WORK TO SOME folks work's an ugly word . . . that "makes them rather blue . . . and many people sulk and hide . . . when there's something to do . .. but I think work’s a privilege . . . and sent down from high above ... and given to us folks to make . .. us fit to live and love ... and even though at times it seems . . . like work is just a pest ... without it we would never know . « the blessing of deep rest . . . because the things we work for most . .. we will appreciate . whereas the things that easy come . .". will so don't be like the man who was ... in such an awful plight . «+ that he was light Yor heavy work . . . and much too heavy for light.

—By Ben Burroughs.

By Galbraith

oil crisis.

Me, I think it’s too good to

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Hoosier oral] “1 do not agree with a word that you 3

but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."—Voltaire. 2

‘Let's Have Sales Tax’ Oo MR EDITOR: : I read in The Times about state tax dodgers. I am originally from the state of Iowa and have lived in this state for five years, also have lived in several other states. But the state of

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HENRI ERSRINSRRRREEES

Indiana has the worst set up for getting ‘state

taxes .of any state in which I have lived. Why doesn’t the state of Indiana get wise and do away with this gross income tax and put a 2-cent sales tax on a dollar? Then the rich- and poor would have to pay likewise and thousands of people traveling through this state in a year’s time would have to pay sales tax also. ‘They do not have to pay now traveling through Indiana. For instance if a person would buy in a grocery store $25 worth of groceries he would have to pay 50 cents sales tax or if a person bought something for 15 cents say you would have to pay a penny sales tax. up to 65 cents and anything up to a dollar, 2 cents. Yes, you would have to pay a little more

In a year’s time, but- would be a lot easier to «pay as you go.

I also know that people from the surrounding states come to Indiana to buy their groceries and winter supply of clothing in order to keep from paying sales tax in their home states, The state of Iowa also has paid off its veteran bonus a long time ago and the travelers

who have to go through that state have helped

pay that. 80, let's get wise Indiana and change this law of gross income and make everybody pay

the state taxes.

-A Taxpayer

‘The Odds in Dice’

MR. EDITOR: In a recent issue of The Times, Pvt, Mulroy -said in an article entitled: “Gls told how to spot gamblers,” that the odds against throwing a seven on the first roll of dice are 35 to 1. Either this was a typographical error or Pvt, Mulroy had better: “brush up” on ‘his determining of probabillties. In any roll of two unbiased dice, the chances of throwing a seven are 1 in 6. The chances of rolling any other number are 5 in 6. Therefore, the odds against throwing a séven on the first or any particular rolls are 5 to 1.

—Ralph Arbuckle, 3140 Sharon Ave.’

‘How Do They Do It?’

MR. EDITOR: I read in The Times about tax dodgers. How they do it, I don’t know. Last January my husband was in an accident and wasn’t able to work for some time. I couldn't pay our state taxes right away but they are after us all the time. : I finally got our payment but when I went to pay it they had charged me $5 more for letting it run over three or four days, Tell me how they get by with it. —Mrs. F, C. S.,, City. (Editor's note: State law requires a penalty on delinquent returns.)

‘Why Not a Zoo?’ MR. EDITOR: Our city is growing by leaps and bounds and certainly a zoo would add much to its attractions. In a few years our city will be pushing to the top among the biggest cities in the country. A zoo, besides being educational, adds pleasure to all. It will bring visitors from out of town and maybe ‘help toward solving. juvenile delinquency by having a wholesome place for children to go. A zo should be on the must"list. —Jeanne Seymour, City.

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Views on News

«+ By DAN KIDNEY WHEN a Democrat politician wants” to get-rich-quick, he asks his wife if she is willing to move to Missouri or Washington, D. C. ® OS. 6

SOME of our Internal Revenue collectors seem to be headed for the penitentiary, but so far none has gone to the

poor house. : hob Bb

BOOKMAKER GROSS is expected to report how much those grafting New York cops made net. > bo» AFTER voting all those billions for the free world, our Senators couldn't very well turn down free haircuts for themselves, o bb : “PEOPLE'S POLICE” are the kind that arrest people without warrant. “©. G9 &

ALL the Peiping radio needs is a better sponsor.

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OIL CRISIS . . . By Clyde Farnsworth Iran Government

Facing Deadlock

TEHRAN, 9: 18—Parliamentary government in Iran seems to be coniing to a crippled halt. This is the predominant feature now of Iran's long Parliamentary opposition to Prime Minister

ernment a, support for

“You get at least 11, pounds of high protein food in a dozen eggs,” sald W. D. Termohlen, head of the Agriculture Department’s poultry branch. “Compare that with meat prices.” And this is the high price period of the year for eggs. Egg production is at the year’s low point fram now until late October.

The retail price of eggs in.

Indianapolis today ranged from 59 cents a dozen for Grade A small to 77 cents a dozen for the top grates. Wholesale prices were: Grade A large, 75 cents; Grade A medium, 70 cents; Grade A small, 55 cents; Grade B large, 66 cents and Grade B small 51 cents.

When production turns up in November, government poultry experts expect egg prices to start downward and the trend to continue until late ngxt spring when egg production reaches a peak.

“This is one year big city consumers can't blame high prices on: us,” said Mr, Termohlen, referring to the fact that the government dropped

its. egg price support “program ;

at the beginning of 1950. “And there has been no unhappiness on the part of poulArymen either,” he said. . oo

THERE has inven no gov.

simple one of supply and demand.

The U. 8. public has been eating eggs 'at a record rate this year. Consumption is now estimated at 405 eggs per person for the year-—slightly more than 73, eggs per person a week, (Previoys consumption peak was in 1945 when Americans ate an average of 397 eggs per person.) And production, with 3 per cent less chickens on farms, has been running more than 1 per cent behind last year. (Egg output per hen has been increasing.) ” o o AN INCREASE in production soon is regarded as a certainty since laying flocks are now expanding.

Theoretically, judging by supply, egg prices should go higher between now and the last of October. But government experts think this won't happen because egg prices are meeting consumer resistance. Many consumers are turning from the top grade to the cheaper - priced medium and

small eggs.

AS EVIDENCE that egg prices are not disproportionately high, Mr. Termohlen pointed out that poultrymen fh mid-August were receiving only 91 per cent of parity for their

eggs. One hundred per cent of Jars is the Subpasedly * “Tair

9.16%

COPR. 1951 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT, OFF,

"I've taught kindergarten for nine years, and now they give me ~ the first grade! How's that for getting along?"

only 94 or 95 per cent of parity. The average price received by farmers for eggs in mid-

August, nationwide, was 49.7 -

cents a dozen. a eo. .8

THE public's craving for

eggs this year has made life

for the government's - poultry people brighter than was ex-

‘pected last winter when it was decided to drop the éxpensive es "ins eceive ;

when the. government was buying eggs to keep up prices to farmers. 5

o ” . AND THE government has

cut its once huge holdings of

dried eggs from 112 million pounds. last December to ohly 18 million pounds now, Most of this has gone to foreign countries at bargain prices. But, point ig, there

Mohammed Mossadegh, who fathered the abortive national-

* ization of the Iranian oil in-

dustry, has turned to the boycott as a weapon with which to try to break his so-called National Front regime. The scheduled weekly sitting of Majlis (lower house of parliament) broke up without a quorum. Seventy members were present but 71 were needed for the required minimum of two-thirds. ‘ # 4 ®

WHEN it was certain that the 71st was not forthcoming, everybody put on his hat and went home. Premier Mossa-

degh, who didn’t appear him--

self, was no longer pressing for a vote of confidence on his “negotiate or evacuate” ultimatum to the British government. Britain, as the principal owner of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., was dispossessed of assets in Iran under acts of this ‘same parliament March. ] Oil, Iran's only means eof economic support, no longer flows and negotiations that might have brought about its restoration have been broken off. Britain and Iran, Sssnpwislle, are carrying on a running duel

of economic reprisal and "psy- : Shslogioal siratagent r

; MINISTER MOSSA.

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oilmen from Iran comes under the latter heading. A threat to cancel their residence permits and enforce their depar-

. ture by police action, if neces-

sary, goes along with the ultimatum.

That's where the United States and W. Avereil Harriman come in. Mr. Harriman, after six weeks of futility as President Truman's special peacemaker between Iran and Britain, left here Aug. 25 with

an invitation to Mossadegh to.

call on him if there was anything he could do. ‘ The prime minister took up

his option on Mr, Harriman’s

services by dispatching to him the ultimatum and a- request that he deliver it to the British government—an extraordinary procedure considering that Britain and Iran maintain their own ambassadors to each other. The conclusion that Prime Minister Mossadegh is trying to use Mr. Hariman to put the heat on London is inescapable.

THE BRITISH Delteve their “let Iran stew” policy is paying off in mounting parliamentary resistance to the prime: minister, ‘The important test for the parliamentary boycott movement will come next

TUESDAY.

By Unite SAN FRAN 18—The Ameri of Labor pred

-can elect a frie

ifn 1952 if it get vote. A friendly Cc eyes of AFL liam Green and t ical arm, Labor's litical Education, ed to effective pr repeal of the Taft Mr. Green serv opening session 70th annual conv that if Congress d equate price contr fore it adjourns to unite our vote the ballot box ar those congressme; act for us at hom

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The administrat the Labor League

- icy statement at

night in which

"there is no quest

votes to elect a fr in 1952.” S “Those votes ar fal,” the League s registration drive immediately - to labor turnout for tions. ’ The convention today while most egates went on a picnic. Business s sumed Wednesda) A net gain of ni ed to get a senate ly to the AFL.

House Prosp

In the House, “prospects for net

“Of the 114 vuln districts, 66 are I of labor and only We will need a ne least 36 seats

. majority,” the le

said. The political a the AFL warned must be alert to ct er assassination ai representation” f candidates in '52. “Our task both ern Democratic p the general electic will be to keep ti man’s attention o sues and not on and misrepresent: opposition will ra The league sir Joseph McCarthy Sen. William F. Cal.) for special McCarthy was | “smear campaign election. Sen. Kno AFL’s wrath beca Sen. Knowland sé foreign issues is t his anti-American ord.” This record, the included votes ag trols last year ar backs this year.

Cites Dolla:

‘There was no AFL will make pr islation one of it 1952. Mr. Green wage increases for ject to the Wag Board while price “The dollar has ue from 100 cents nts today,” Mr. | wage increase ca this devaluation o dollars saved in e forces a race betv wages in which ways loses,” he sa * At some point day convention, A expected to make to the Congress of ganizations for a particular goal o labor representati First open indic: te consolidate the came yesterday Pitts, president of AFL, urged unifics or under one sta marks were greete plause from conve

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CHICAGO, Sept.

‘my Yancey, called

fans the “Daddy -o fe,” ‘died last nigh He was 53. Mr. Yancey hac health for some worked since 1915 keeper for the Chi baseball team. He was the com] ous jazz selection most famous bein Special” which ba Crosby made far

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