Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 10 September 1948 — Page 6

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Laxity By U.S. Is Blamed For High Food Cost

Commerce Department’s Failure-To Regulate Exports Blamed For Rising Costs Washington, Sept. 9. The inside story of the high price of food under the Truman administration began unfolding today before two senate committees. It was a story of the commerce department’s failure to regulate exports. Sen. Ferguson (R., Mich.), who presided at a senate hearing that brought the facts to light, told The Tribune afterward: “The testimony today indicates the shipment of two million pounds of lard and a large quantity of flour to foreign countries that the commerce department didn’t even know about. This is one of the reasons we have short supply in this country.” Tells Of Buying Licenses The star witness was Harry H. Levey, a New York exporter, who testified that he paid $29,255 in private circles for purported export licenses authorizing him to ship $1,051,565 worth of lard and wheat flour to foreign countries, altho these licenses are supposedly nontransferable. Levey said he believes the documents were forgeries and senate investigators said the papers were forged. But the commerce department never discovered the transactions, and one of the investigators, Max Dickey, said the department has no way of uncovering such operations. Levey, who heads Haro Products, Inc., testified that export licenses can be obtained by advertising in newspapers, altho he said he had difficulty getting them from the government. The holder of a license, Levey said, charges a fee for the use of his license. Ferguson brought out from Dickey that the issuance of a declaration of the goods to be shipped is automatic after the exporter gets a license. But, Dickey testified, exporters may then add items to the declaration, even attaching a new page to list them, and the department will never find out because it does not check the licenses against the declarations. Levey insisted he had only followed the practice of the exporting industry in advertising foj* licenses. He obtained the licenses which the investigators said were forged, he said, from John A. Quinn of Jersey City, N. J. Levey said the documents were properly filled out for his needs when lu* got them. Quinn, 32, was called to the witness stand. He refused to answer questions on the ground that answering might incriminate him, but was ordered to return Friday with his lawyer. William Rogers, counsel for one of the communittees, placed in the record a statement that Quinn was in jail yesterday on an undisclosed charge. John Felthouse of Chicago visited his father over the week-end. He is in the Jasper county hospital for observation.

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TROOPER FORD ASSIGNED TO RENSSELAER AREA

State Trooper Daryl Ford has been assifXMd to the Rensselaer area patrol as successor to Robert Bostwick who resigned to become Rensselaer Chief bf Pollfee. Mr. Ford has served as a state policeman for a number of yews. His last assignment previous to the local one was to the Starke county area. Mr. Ford and family moved to their home on Scott street, which sent Mr. Bostwick and his family to the Mrs. Martha Kresler home to live until the Ralph Donnelly residence on N. Weston street is available to them. The latter residence is occupied by F. O. Hershman and family who will move to their new home as soon as it is completed.

Years Of F.D.R. Worst For U.S., Priest Charges

Retiring Editor of Catholic World Terms 4 Terms Most Inglorious In Nation’s History A valedictory editorial by the Rev. James M. Gillis, retiring chief editor of “The Catholic World,” influential publication of the Paulist Fathers, indicts the four administrations of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt as “the most inglorious and most disastrous the United States has ever known.” Writing in the September issue of the monthly magazine, the veteran editor and commentator accuses the late President of “deceitfulness, chicanery, falsehood ... not only in international diplomacy but in the conduct of domestic affairs.” Charges Reds Coddled Counts in the Gillis indictment include: 1. Coddling of Communists and, leftists in all departments of the government and in the White House. 2. Fomenting of antagonisms of man against man and class against class. 3. The Pearl Harbor disaster. 4. Surrender of the Balkans to Stalin. 5. The inauguration of a policy and a course of conduct that will keep America embroiled in all the political and military conflicts of the rest of the worlld. Worse Than Blunders; Crimes Agreements made by President Roosevelt and his successor at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam are criticized by Father Gillis as “worse than blunders; they were crimes.” He rejects the explana-

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tion that the encirclement of Berlin was merely a “fateful mistake.” “They (enclosed) our occupation forces and with them a starving population in an inaccessible pocket. If the defenders of the reputation of F.D.R. insist that he acted stupidly, let them have it so. I prefer to think . .. . that he (or some members of his entourage with his connivance) acted with malice prepense,” the editorial said. 4 Divorces In Family Other members of the Roosevelt family also are denounced in the editorial. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote the Catholic editor, “brought up her children with so ‘modern’ and ‘liberal’ an attitude toward the holy sacrament of matrimony that they have at the present writing achieved four divorces.” Her journalistic activities, he stigmatizes as the work of a person who “dashes off dogmatic decisions on the Bible as a collection of and uses arbitrary smear words to discredit witnesses testifying of Communist infiltration of the government. Elliott Roosevelt’s matrimonial record is characterized by Father Gillis as a “chain reaction of marriage, divorce, marriage, divorce, and marriage.” Elliott’s book of reminiscences about his father, especially the accounts of “crude jestings of father and son about the prime minister of England” was described by the editor as a breach of good taste.

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SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF WILDLIFE WILL BE MADE IN STATE

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 9. A scientific study of Hoosier wildlife will be made under an agreement recently signed by officials of the Indiana Department of Conservation and Purdue University. Known as the Cooperative Wildlife Investigation, this project provides for “investigation of the biological principles which govern the life of game animals, .furbearing animals and game birds which spend all or part of their life cycle in Indiana.” It will seek to determine the best ways to

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raise and propagate wildlife. Director John H. Nigh said the - Conservation Department has allocated $1,500 for each of the 1948-49 and 1949-50 fiscal years and $3,000 annually for succeeding years to start the project. The department also is spending SIO,OOO a year on fish studies. The Fish and Game division, headed by Donald R. Hughes, will provide use of necessary state properties, reasonable quantities of experimental animals, birds and eggs, and feed and labor for the care of experimental wildlife on game farms. Rev. Achibald is attending classes at Purdue this week.