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Black Market In Potatoes Operates Here
Grocers Frankly Admit Dealings
By ANDY OLOFSON Uncle Sam's price control
cops today completed a weeklong investigation of black marketing of potatoes here.
OPS officials said there was evidence of over-ceiling price dealing
but said full details would not be known until tomorrow,
Grocers, meanwhile, admitted the black market in the scarce spuds had been a reality ever since Jan. 26 when the government slapped on ceiling prices to attempt to halt the rapid rise in potato prices. Established wholesalers say they just don't have any potatoes. But any grocer, willing to pay 15 per cent over ceiling price, can get the spuds on the black market.
‘Have to Supply Them’
“What am I going to do?”|
sighed one independent grocer. “My customers are just like close personal friends. If they want potatoes, I have to supply them, even if I have to pay a little extra.” Dealers say the basic factors behind the spud price spiral are:
ONE—The 1952 crop is 25 to 30 per cent less than a year ago, one of the skimpiest productions in 50 years.
TWO-—Dropping of government potato price supports last summer discouraged farmers from planting. THREE—A big potato shortage in Canada caused buying in thé U. 8. which rapidly exhausted normal surpluses in this country. y How It Works Here's how the spud black market works: A grocer is billed $6.50 for a 100-pound sack of potatoes and an extra $1 for something like a basket of radishes which he doesn’t want or get. That way there is no direct evidence of ceiling price violation. But the sack’ of potatoes still actually costs him $7.50, . 3 Or, the grocer can buy direct from fringe suppliers hanging around the established markets. But it is a “cash on the barrelhead deal” with no record made of the price. ’ OPS officials here were reluctant to quote any ceiling prices.
Quite Flexible
It seems the potato regulation is quite flexible with such factors as freight rates, insurance and many other “overhead” items figuring in the eventual ceiling. “The ceiling price on potatoes may be one thing for one store and something quite different for the grocer next door,” one official explained. 3 “It all sounds very compli-
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Times photos by John R. Spicklemire BOBBY WILL RIDE NO MORE—Hobby horse .in front of oil stove which exploded and caused fire which took the life of | Ayee!.ald Robert Charles. Moffett, His mother tried in vain to save him.
CARRIED TO SAFETY—Ambulance Driver Bert Gray carriad b-year.old Theoria Moffett [left] and Policeman James Payne her 3.year-old brother, John, away from the scene of the fatal fire today at 2044 Bellefontaine St. :
Gallant Mother Fails To Save Boy, 4, in Fire
By HEZE CLARK went back to see if anything
A 4-year-old child burned more could be done.”
. After trying in vain to rescue to death early today while er third child, Mrs. Moffett, her
his mother frantically groped clothes aflame, dropped from the
1... (attic window to the porch. through smoke to rescue him| She then dropped the girl from
after saving his 3-year-old brother the porch into the arms of Mrs. and 6-year-old sister. Polly McRoy, 2030 Bellfontaine Mrs. Betty Moffett, 27, of 2044 5¢ and the boy to Mr. Roberson. Bellefontaine St., was in critical Two neighbors, Henry Dimmitt,
eondition in General Hospitali3z ang Fulas Waller, 35, then
from burns suffered in her futile arrived with a ladder and helped attempt to rescue her son, Rob- prs, Moffett to safety.
ert Charles. | The two surviving children, Earlier, the mother had dropped john 1. and Theorla, were taken
her other two children about 12.t, General Hospital. Neither had feet to the roof of the porch from garious burns
their 2-room apartment in the) pgtimated damage in the fire, attic. which broke out shortly after 5
cated but potato men understand quickly how the regulation works.” The OPS said it had’ to revise the potato regulation recently to cover seed potatoes. | The original order exempted these. Immediately, it was ex-! plained, all potatoes were labeled as seed potatoes, forcing the government to set ceiling prices on| this variety, too. ! OPS officials were mum as to what action might be taken here) against any black marketeers
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Bares Big Fee Paid to Nunan
By United Press WASHINGTON, Apr. 24—Former Internal Revenue Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan Jr, got $25,000 for making from one to four telephone calls to the Revenue Bureau for a St. Paul firm soon after he resigned his top tax post in 194F, House investigators were told today. The $25,000 fee—paid to Mr. Nunan in the company’s stock— also was supposed to cover Mr. Nunan's legal aid in presenting a stock reorganization plan to the Securities & Exchange Commission. But Holise members were told that Mr. Nunan performed no actual legal services in this connection. & ! The story of. -Mi. Nunan's assistance to Brown ‘& Bigelow Co., the St. Paul firm, came out during questioning of Thomas Y. Sullivan, Chicago attorney, by members of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee investigating tax scandals.
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The fire started when an oil 3 pn, wag placed at $9000, stove, used for cooking, exploded, = —______
shortly after Mrs, Moffett lighted
: : Ben Pollock Claims Four other persons living in the
21,-story house escaped without | ‘Shrimp Boat’ His Tune
injury and helped rescue the tWO| wor 1 vywooD, Cal, Apr. 24
youngsters from the porch roof. ,p) 1 activa Leader Ben Pol. ‘Just Too. Hot’
Lonnie Roberson, 52, brother day from two composers he said of the landlagy. Shea, ern, (based their hit song “Shrimp Nash, tried to fig 8 way | " stairs to help rescue the chiidren,|B0ats Are A-Coming” on a mel“I tried to get up the stairs to/0dy he wrote in 1936. the third floor,” he said. | Mr. Pollock filed suit yesterday “But it was just too hot. The | against composers Paul Mason fire drove me back. {Howard and Paul Weston and the “I'll never forget those Walt Disney Music Co. screams.” | He said in the federal court Fireman Hubert Simpson fi-laction that he had played his nally reached little Bobby. But tune frequently in Mr. Howard's fpresence and accused the song“TI had to crawl on my hands writer of using it for the hit tune and knees because the smoke was he wrote with Mr. Weston. 4 too thick,” he explained. Mr. Pollock’ asked ; that the “As I crawled along, my hand | copywright on the song, held by {touched ‘something. It was the the Disney firm, be declared v !little child. or transferred to him. “I gathered him up and carried | - him down to the second floor. | Then I realized it°wasz too lite. The child was already dead. “So I placed him on a bed and)
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1952
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Convicts Delay Surrender in Spite of Pact
‘ By United Press JACKSON, Mich, Apr. 24— Mutinous convicts at Southern Michigan Prison today agreed to surrender but the whim of thelr psychopathic spokesman delayed the reledse of eight hostage guards for another 24 hours. Earl Ward, whose arrogance {has increased hourly since the uprising started Sunday night, signed the surrender agreement after Gov. G. Mennen Williams agreed to his 11-point reform program. The settlement called for “no reprisals” against the 172 desperate criminals who have been holed up with their hostages in Cell Block 15, the disciplinary barracks, It also called for an “abundant ‘meal of steak, icé cream and ap|propriate trimmings” immediately after the surrender. The written agreement called {for capitulation as soon as the convicts could read about the settlement in the newspapers “in daylight.” But Ward said orally there would be no formal surrender until Friday morning. Gives No Reason Deputy Warden Vernon Fox, who negotiated the final settlement in a post-midnight talk (through the bars of the Cell Block {15 office, said Ward gave no reason for delaying the surrender land release of the stages until Friday morning. | A third guard hostage, James Akins, was carried out on a stretcher, He apparently was suffering a nervous collapse. With him came one of the mutineers,| {Stewart Moore, who went im-| {mediately to the administration building. d In staging the final truce cere-
lock sought $200,000 damages to- MONY, Ward allowed only Mr. Broadway yesterday.
Fox to approach the barred win-| dow, : { At Loss to Explain
{ Prison officials, handling the {moody Ward with kid gloves, |agreed. Mr. Fox, a professional (psychologist, is the most popular of the prison officials. « { Mr. Fox talked with Ward for| 30 minutes. Ward then allowed three cameramen and a newsreel] photographer to come forward| land take pictures of the actual) {signing. ! Standing in the background {behind Ward was “Crazy Jack” (Hyatt, Ward's second-in-command who was thought to have seized
old the reins last night when Ward be win five dollars at the same
{refused to settle.
Truman Calls Stories He Would Seize Press Just a Lot of Hooey
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24—President Truman today de-
seize newspapers and radio stations in an emergency.
idea that he believes he could
ubject of his seizure powers,
the President said he had to seize the steel industry because the na-| tion faced as great an emergency as it ever has. | Many persons gained the im-| pression from his news conference last week that he thought he had the inherent power to seize press and radio, " The President said today that such an idea had never occurred to him. He also said that frankly he found it difficult to imagine a situation under which seizure of the press and radio would be n
ecessary. He said that at no time did he state or mean to imply that he had any intention of seizing the press and radio. He said that at his press conference last week, attended by members of the American Boclety of Newspaper Editors, he was speaking only of the general welfare of the nation. Since that time, Mr, Truman sald there had been a lot of hooey about seizing the press and radio, Actually, Mr, Truman continued, the President has very great and inherent powers to meet : 'national emergency, but a President cannot tell what he is going to do until an emergency does arise. He brushed off a suggestion in| the House that he be impeached because of his steel action, saying it was a political proposition. He gaid the House had a right to impeach him if it so Aesired but he thought he had a pretty good defense, Mr. Truman was asked last Thursday by a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: “If it is proper to seize the steel mills, can you in your opinion seize the newspapers and radio stations?”
[Over McHale
Rensselaer Republican, used the _The President replied then that/fact that “Boss” McHale had under similar circumstances the/brought his candidate for the President has to act for whatever judgeship to the White House last is the best interests of the coun-|Summer before the roving judge try. for Indiana had been voted by
Truman Lets Hoosiers Row
Refuses to Back Any Candidate
(Another story, Page 15)
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 President Truman is ‘backing no candidate for Democratic
national committeeman from
Indiana at present. That was his press conference answer today to the question of whether or not he is supporting the re-election of Frank M. MeHale, [Indianapolis lawyer-politi-cian. ; Mr. McHale was reported to have passed the word the President wants him re-elected to prevent a Dixecrat invasion of the Democratic Party. On his record in Indiana, Mr. McHale would seem to have saved the party from the Dixlecrats and let the Republicans win all the national elections in the state since the late President Roosevelt's second term. Beat Judge's Bill Only Gov, Schricker has proven sufficiently a Democratic vote. getter to take some Congressmen into the House with him. He is not the creature of either Mr. McHale or his partner, Frank McKinney, now Democratic National Chairman nut on the way out after the national convention {if not before, Boldness of Mr, McHale alléged claiming of White House support against the effort to oust him from the national committeeman’s post, which the President denied as of today, was a factor in the defeat of the omnibus judgeship bill in the House yesterday. For Rep. Charles A. Halleck,
the Congress. Halleck ‘Delighted’ Although the omnibus judge-
version and sald no such an ultimatum was ever gent. Mr. Truman, in a general dissertation on various crises which
of Tran in 1045 by. sending an
The President said apecifically that it was an ultimatum and that Stalin was given what Mr.
which Russian troops would have to leave Iran or American forces would move in. Two hours after the news conference and after considerable
man said that no ultimatum was sent by the President to Stalin, ‘La; Senne’
Roger Tubby of the White| House press office sald Mr. QUES Truman was using the word]
“yitimatum” in a “non-technical layman sense.” : During the press conference, a reporter pointed sut to the President that “ultimatum” was a specific term in lom requiring action by & given time on penalty of countse-astion. The President insisted that the message to Stalin was an ulti matum and the Russians had been “given a day oertdin by which to get out of Iran. PFurthermore, the President said this
ultimatum. Mr. Tubby, however, gave this
“He was referring to the United States’ leadership in the United Nations, and particularly in
diplomatic. : of 19468 which was a major in bringing about Boviet with. drawal in Iran. : ‘Pretty Strong Note’ “On Mar. 6, 1946, a note was
to the Soviet government, making
5-Mile-Long Parade Features Sooner Fete {ship bill, providing the one for Indiana, was approved by the
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Apr. Senate, the Ho { i 24 (UP)—The longest parade in to u's . un killed n, i Oklahoma = City's history com-| My McHale's candidate was memorated the historic Oklahoma pemaocratic Judge Paul G. Jasper! land rush of 1889. of the Indiana Bupreme Court.| The parade, stretched out fori ye comes from Ft, Wayne and| five miles, required an hour and ip, Republican Congressman from | 20 minutes to pass Main and there Rep. E. Ross Adair, voted It included yn¢ to send the bill back to com-| a busload of oldtimers who PAT-| mittee. | ticipated in the run into Okla-| So did Republican Rep Shep-| pn, | homa territory. lard J. Crumpacker, South Bend, member of the House Judiciary | Committee ‘which had asked that
Bored? jhe bill be passed. Who is the biggest bore on Ste ol Requests
TV? Every week Kathleen,
Times TV and radio editor, WASHINGTON, Apr. 24 |
gives five dollars for -the best letter on a TV or radio topic, (UP)~The House, arounsed by | President Truman's steel sel
This week she is asking you to tell her who bores you. Here's a chance to get a pet peeve off your chest, and mayzure, voted overwhelmingly today for a special investigation of the Wage Stabilization Board's handling of the steel wage dispute. :
time. For details, see page 22. |
Ry United Press WASHINGTON, Apr. 24--Bteel companies asked federal court today to block government imposition of a wage increase on the industry. [ Counsel for the industry also } asked Judge David A. Pine to ‘grant hearings later on plea for an order forcing return of mills seized by President Truman Apr. 8 to prevent a production-crippling steel strike.
to block the seizure, of constitutional issues today but order forbidding Commerce Secfout his plan to grant ‘the CIO | Steelworkers a pay increase.
Mr. Bawyer is in control of the {industry under Mr. Truman's
did ask Judge Pine to issue an what he sent:
troops In Iran had remained there
our position perfectly plain with respect to the situation in Iran. This note was published on Mar, 7. As you recall, the Russians withdrew their troops from Iran in May, 1047. Puzzled reporters. pressed Mr. Tubby for some idea of what Mr. Truman was referring to when he said the ultimatum had never before been disclosed. “It was not an ultimatum in the usual diplomatic sense but it was a pretty strong note,” he said, Mr. Tubby sald there was no trace of any other note to which the President might have been referring. Asked flatly whether the President sent a personal note to Stalin asking him to get out of Iran by a certain date, Mr. Tubby said: “I don’t believe he did.”
have required emergency action after World War II, comparable to his recent seizure they had protected the of the steel industry, told report. Gulf through which the United ers in some detail how the United States - moved armed ald ts States forced Russian troops out Russia. aol
ultimatum to Stalin. of
was the first disclosure of this,
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sent from the U. 8. government said
‘Get Out Of Iran Or Else’
White House Staff
‘Corrects’ President On ‘Pretty Strong Note’
Ry United Proms x WASHINGTON, Apr. 24-—President Truman told his news conference today that he sent a secret ultimatum in 11945 to force Russian troops out of Iran. 4 ‘But the White House two hours later corrected this
Background of Iran crisis,
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“Prohibiting parking In the downtown business district is a coming thing in all major cities, However 1 can't believe
Mayor Clark intends to prohibit all parks
ing. * “It is only logical to take the cars off the streets, but you've got to have some place to put them, The downtown stores must have a high volume of business to pay overhead and high taxes * Mayor Clark hastened today to explain the parking cut down suggestions were “just sugges. tions.” “I don’t mean to reverse policy or to give these ideas as definite plans,” the Mayor sald. “We're facing a real problem of what to do about the transit company.
Authority Has Spent $16,000
“It seems to me there are twe opposed ideas here. If we ine
No March on Trieste The President at his news con-| ference also sald that when the government of Yugoslavia was!
dered Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower to send three American divisions into northern Italy and dispatched the U, B, Mediterranean!
Fleet into the Adriatic Sea. Con- discriminate ' sequently, the
President there was no march on Trieste,
added, owner,
crease parking facilities in the downtown area, the transit coms pany will lose more customers and have to raise its rates even
|planning to take Trieste, he or- higher. That would discriminate
against the man who has no car, and we can't do that,” Mayor Clark said. “On the other hand, we can’t against the car 1 think there are some new ideas which must be talked
The White House looked up the 2P0ut so we can come up with dates on this and found ‘hat ® real solution to the problem.”
Yugoslavia occupied Trieste for 40 days, beginning in April, 1945 In May of the same year, United States and the United Kingdom
told the Yugoslavs tn get out of 19 their Trieste and they did. This apparently was what Mr. Truman
referred to. Reporters pointed out that the t
word “ultimatum” 4s a precise 19 The companies twice previously diplomatic have falled to get federal courts attracts
term which world - wide attention t
when it is used in international lots. They did not ask consideration affairs.
The President said that was |
An ultimatum.
which they would have to eave Iran.
Hp explained that
{seizure order, [Roger I. Putnam directed that!
{increase of about $3 a ton. Mr. Sawyer asked Mr. Putnam at the same time to figure out a wage boost for the steelworkers. {
LOCAL TEMPERATURES |
Meanwhile, Economic Stabilizer’ After Divorce . {the steel Industry be given a price What?
To Paul and Pauline, their divorce meant continued confusion. Why they couldn't find
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The Mayor said he did not ine
tend to “throw away” the time , /and money already spent on the Off-Street Parking Authority.
The Authority, created by the 49 legislature, has been work. ng for 2'a years on a survey of
Indianapolis parking problems,
The Authority has spent more han $16,000 since November, 49, In making a parking sure ey for stiidies of proposed .locae fons of off-street garages and
Ramp Building Corp., author ty consultants, reported last year
the city needs at least six major
He sai ot J off-street’ ts. retary Chailes Sawyer fo carry by @ 321d 1s Set 4 specified date fitreel Projects
The Mayor's office staff ree
{ported today varied reaction to Russian the proposal has been received.
Poison Set for Weasel Takes Big Toll on Farm
| ORILLIA, Ont, Apr. 24 (UP) {Farmer E. A. Cottrell scat poisoned bread and chicken on (his farm to catch a weasel that had been raiding his henhouse.
He said today that so far