Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 115, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 8 June 1945 — Page 2

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945.

mm fails Ste?, Sullivan, 'Indiana Telephone 12 Paul Poynter . Publisher Joe H. Adams Editor Eleanor Poynter Jamison Manager and Assistant Editor Published daily except Saturday and Sunday at 115 West Jackson St.

'Entered as second-class matter July 1, 1908 in the. Postoffice at Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

United Press Wire Service. -National Advertising Representative: ; Theis and Simpson, 393 Seventh Avenue, New York (1) N. Y. Subscription Rate : ,3y carrier, per week , . '. . 15 Cents in City By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: 'Six Months :. $1-50 'Month (with Times iurnishing stamped envelope) ......... 30 Cents jYcar ..- $3.00 By Mail Elsewhere: ' . "Year ' $4.00 -Six Months $2.00 iMonth (with Times furnishing envelope) '. 35 Cents :the story behind that t-bone : 4 steak you couldn't buy I Some of the most vehement protests we have heard 'against OPA have had to do with meat. We have heard cnarges that the whole scheme was one "to. put the little fellow out of. business so the big fellows could get it all." We have heard charges of "bungling" and of "ignorance." We iave heard people condemn the whole ration and price program and want to chuck it all overboard because they couldn't get a T-bone or a filet. So we are 'grateful to Chester Bowles, OPA administrator, for a clear and concise explanation of the whole meat situation, ft makes sense and we believe will promote a greater understanding among consumers ! ; "Broadly speaking there are two types of slaughterers: - "1. The. federally-inspected slaughterers who alone .can legally meet the requirements of the armed forces, and who alone can legally ship meat across state lines to supply those civilians living in states producing only limited supplies of meat. ' ... "2., The non-federally inspected slaughters and . farm slaughterers who are limited in their distribution to the state in which, they'. are situated.. ....... .' . . ' "The basic cause of maldistribution of "meat .during ' the

last 'few months Jie.s.in.the'-sttlistafttlal.'gi-ovi' -of 'Ute Amount of livestock being?; 'slapghterered in' npn-feclei'ajly' inspected houses. "This growth" has sharply 'reduced the amount of 'meat

available to the federally inspected plants. Naturally the fed

erally-inspected slaughterers had to take care of the. needs of the armed services first. For this reason they have had less and less meat available to ship across state lines to the lo'w-meat-producting areas principally our large cities. ' ... . "In April, OPA was given authority to control the slaughter of livestock by all non-federally inspected slaughterers. A program was immediately worked out which called for the

Registry of all farm and non-federally inspected commercial slaughterers throughout .the cduntry. This program was de- . signed to increase the sunnlv of livestock oinir to - federally

inspected packers. This is ..the apparent basis for the charge ;f putting the little fellow out of business.) t "On May 14 the licenses-previously issued by the government to the 26,436 non-federally ' inspected commercial, siaughterers were .canceled. At the same time hew licenses were issued with individual quotas to all . non-federally inspected slaughterers who registered and met basic OPA reiiuirements. ' "These quotas were based on the number of animals .which each non-federally inspected slaughterer had killed and sold. LEGITIMATELY during 144.AH non-federally inspected slaughterers who failed during any quarter of 1944 to turn in ration stamps to cover the meat they sold were reiused quotas. All who handed in fewer ration stamps than the amount of livestock which they claimed to have killed were jgiven quotas based on the number of ration stamps they turned in. ' . ; "In other words we based our quotas on LEGITIMATE operations arid not on BLACK MARKET, inflated figures." By May 25. he reports, only 15,220 slaughterers had registered with OPA for their quotas. "It is safe to say that a great majority of the 11,000 which failed to apply had been operating in the BLACK MARKET. Today they can no longer do business." '. Bowles points out that the legitimate slaughterers, although working under a quota, will be rid of the chiseling black market competition. With few exceptions, he says, they will be assured a good return on their operations by the new in-icing program recently announced. Those who operated profitably before the war will be protected against loss by a .so-called "bail out" provision in a recent OPA regulation. Under the new program all slaughterers will be required to ship to all counties in the same proportion that they shipped in the first quarter of 1944 (a reaonably normal period). That is what rationing is, an equal distribution of commodiiy available. The OPA will enforce this program' with the aid of additional agents and more vigorous prosecutions. " It wilt go after meat ration stamp counterfeiters, too, "so that' the program isn't shortchanged that way. All this, Bowles is frank to admit, won't increase the total supply of meat, but it will assist in a fair distribution of available supplies which is-the purpose of OPA. V 1 The program may have its .shortcomings, may not be entirely-adaptable to every section of the country. It would be anost difficult to work, out any program that would be 100 perfect. ' Contrary to the great criticism voiced duving the meat

shortage, Bowles says he has received many reports from, legitimate slaughterers, wholesalers and retailers welcoming I

cue action UfA is taking, iliey dont like the black market," he says. "They want to see it licked." Consumers, who pay the bill in the end, should give

equally strong support to OPA. it is their only hope for a fair distribution of meat and other rationed goods and it is

- tneir strongest aexense against NORTH BUCKTOWN - Mr., and Mrs. Clarence Mayfield called 'on Mr. and . Mrs. Mack Mayfield and daughter recently,. . Mrs. Hubert Hale visited Mrs. Robert Price and son and Mrs. Ed Davidson Wednesday evening. . Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pahmier were in Sullivan Thursday niorn-

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mg. ' ; j Mrs. Owren King was iri Vini cennes Saturday afternoon and spent the . week-end in Bicknell with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cox. . Mrs. Lester Woodruff and sons, Larry and Melvin, are spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Fordice. Orval Saucerman and Pvt. Eugene Saucerman visited Ray

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CHAPTER XVI Like a terrestrial rocket, lap's car soared to the summit of a hill and from that vantage his hot eyes beheld sprawling white houses of Hatvan lying far below. On the straight, white road he could see the headlights of a car, swaying, dancing, like those of an Vitoroobile that is driven at headlong pace. Something told him that yonder Bobkhine had taken alarm and was dashing at top speed for the plane which would bear him to eafety. The wounded man at the wheel rroaned in despair; . . . After all he Sad lost. No human effort could close that gap of three kilometers before the Russian got to Hatvan. Yet, with that stubborn unwillingness of his kind to call quits until the last effort has been made, Ian bent forward, praying Bobkhine's Car might break down, might blow a tire anything to prevent his reaching the plane in time. But at the same time he knew that such convenient miracles rarely, if ever, occurred. More and more indistinct became the outline of the road, until the effort to focus the reeling headlong landscape became tremendous. How cold he was and how weak, the car si-at had become slippery with blood. All he knew was that Bobkhine must not reach that planemust not escape to ruin not only the lives of Ilya and Leonard, but his own and Lolita's as welL On rushed lan's car. At the top of a little rise lan saw he had gained on the other, but not enough to catch it . before Ilatvaa was reached, A black curtain seemed to mo mentarily obscure the driver's star ing eyes and instinctively his foot left ihe accelerator., (jreat bod, ne must have lost a lot of blood, he had almost gone. under that time. Hell! His speed had dropped a good iwenty kilometers an hour. He lensed rather than saw that Lolita was peering at him; then he skid-1 .ied'around a corner and saw Haban still a. good kilometer away. To Jie right? I&y-a'wide and apparently (vfel (.fieidacross" which . could be f en the jolting lights of the otheV r which .must have turned at the village and was now travelling at ,;ighb angles to; him While Ian ' feade a. desperate, effort to clear his aead, Bobkhine's car swung around 'i little.. curVe Its lights, striking ihead, momentarily, revealed in a meadow the outline of a large yel- - :tyt and black monoplane, the propeller of,: which was turning over ; lazily.-; '1 : It was an open job, Ian saw, a tour-seater warmed up and ready for a "quick take-off. ' Towards it SobkhineVcar was now dashing at T:op speed, lucky he. couI(Lnot know nis pursuers were only a girl and '..i badly wounded. man. Summoning ..all his will-power, i'an determined on a final gamble to; retrieve a struggle which seemed -doomed to hopeless defeat. He could ;iever come up with the Russian if tje followed the road through Hat- ", W, hut if he took a chance and v'.tit blindly across the ' field well, .here was a chance in a thousand he -;-.ould stop Bobkhine's escape and he disasters attendant upon it. Accordingly ,- be : braked 1 the car vi'riously, wrenched the wheel to the ,:ight and, plunging wildly off the oad, started across the field. ,j ; -.Though his present speed was comparatively slow, yet he neverheless was gaining, for Bobkhine's ''sar had run along two' sides of a. v triangle and he was taking a short ;ut. l es. it would be damned close, ;.but there was a faint possibility ' that he could get to that monoplane . in time to shoot it out with the Russian. Every iolt of the . ear sent searing barbs' of pain , through his wounded shoulder and all the world seemed very queer and unreal. He . must have Jost a lot of blood. mond Hale Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Foster and sons returned home Monday after spending a few days with Mrs. Frank Foster and family of Greensburg and S 3c David Foster of the Navy, who is home on leave. . Rev. and Mrs. George Angerer and daughter spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs., Donald Pahmier and son. Mrs. Ralph Browning and dau-; ghter of . Middletown, Indiana spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Browning and family -here. Mr., and Mrs. Husoell Chambers and son visited Mrs. Owron King and . Mrs, Amanda Roach Wednesday evening. ; Mrs. : Hubert Hale is visiting her parents. . anfi mr. and Mrs Lawrence' Brewer in Newcastle.1 " Russell Cox of . Princeton, is visiting Mr.', and Mrs. John Mollet. . ' 1 ;';. The. Clay Hill Lads of Jeffersentownship held their fifth meeting1 tjiis year on June. 5th, at the home cfjJames Benefiel.J ; The meeting was called to order by: President Bob Townsley and the i club pledge was led by the vice-president, Jim Behefiel, who guve an interesting talk on "Get-

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car and the swaying limousine had 1 narrowed to a hundred yards or so, I he was winninsr the converging race I on the plane winning treedom, love and honor for reonara. wnen ne could distinguish the passengers in the pursued car, his lett hand tumbled for the pistol on the seat beside him, but just as his fingers closed over the butt, the two-seater slowed disastrously, its wheels digging hub-deep into soft loam which was no doubt watered by an underground spring. Furiously, he wrenched the driving wheel right and left. It was appalling, maddening, how the car lost speed though great clods of earth were spewed out by the spinning tires and the engine whined like a leashed hound. - It was sickening, unbearable, to see how the other car now forged on towards the waiting aeroplane while lan's slowed, skidding crazily and carried on only by its momentum. With the pitiless and icy fingers of despair squeezing his heart, Ian, through a tnist of pain, beheld the other car turn triumphantly onto the meadow beyond the road, its jolting lights revealing the yellow and black monoplane to the last detail. He could even see the begoggled pilot standing in bis cockpit and beckoning frantically. , All at once the wheels of lan's car hit firm ground again and lurched forward like a spurred thoroughbred. Too late, the race was lost. Ian, furious, saw. the other car halt and watched two figures, one short and round, desert it to sprint across the ground towards the monoplane, - r Forward in a magnificent burst of speed surged lan's machine, but through the driving wheel his failing eyes beheld the two fugitives in the act of tlambering hastily into the forward cockpit. - ; . . Risking broken springs, he drove the two-seater at full tilt across the road from Hatvan, just as the monoplane commenced to roll forward. Disjointed impressions were all Ian had now. A great V. of headlightillumined turf a streak of yejUowred flame shooting from the mono plane S'-exhaust- Lolita ' smiling bravely in the face of defeat. There was the plane, , He must, stop tit ! Cripple it .before it could tisei Had he speed ' enough to' overtake and rain it before it could rise '. A thou sand mad voices' yelled that he had not but he would make a try. "Get down!" he yelled to the ejrl beside him.' "On the floor!, Goitig'to n...U t i- 11 1 l : ' I T i Grimly determined, Ian set his jaw and drove his car like a gray lance to head off the speeding ihonoi ruane. nerhans to for it intnrt 1ou stone wall to the right. Mecfimically he gauged his speed and-the plane's and knew it was too ,'late even for that. Sick .with futilt de. spair; he saw the aeroplane s tail commence to bounce, the skid 'raisv ing little puffs of dust Hell! They would take off any moment now. - He pressed home the acceleiator and drove straight at the taxiing plane which yet lacked enough speed to rise. Through staring and glazed Cyes he glimpsed the monoplane's ailerons and elevators just in front of the radiator cap could he catch them? The next instant he drove through the aeroplane's tail amid a blinding, crashing confusion of shorn yejlo and black fabric and snapping wires. Past his head whirled a mass of canvas and wire, a staggering yellow wing and then, fighting to retain consciousness, he jerked his loot irom the accelerator and blind ly snatched lor , the emergency brake, his attention riveted on the Russian's plane. , . f - iShorn of its after fuselage'and equilibrium, ' the yellow and black monoplane was lurching drunkenly, grotesquely. Then, all .at once, it nosed violently, over and turned a ting Your Poultry Ready for Exhibit" Each officer gave a talk on what he learned at the officers' j training meeting which was held i on May 17th. i New and old business was'disci'ssed and the meeting was adjourned. , i Games were ' played" and. re- ' freshments of -sandwiches, "cake and pop. were served. : AU members were present and had a; fine Unless You Like Ths

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disastrous series of somersaults that

ripped off the wings and crumpled the cockpits into shapeles wreckage. There sounded a deafening report when the mass settled and from beneath the eneine cowl burst a blinding sheet of white hot flame. That much Ian saw ana tnen commenced to slin into the black abyss of unconsciousness but his descent was checked ; above him was the beloved face of Lolita, infinitely tender of expression. Gently her arms went about him to draw him back. "We've won, darling "he gasped faintly. "For ourselves and Leonard I'm glad now Crane said he'd live it's terrible how much Ilya loves him." Her head bent close, bringing with it a suggestion of Black Or chids perfume. "Leonard.' Live; 1 do not un derstand. But, Ian, my darling, I do know we have survived." With incredible speed the plane roared into a vast torch, in the heart of which Ian and the horrified girl glimpsed a few briefly moving figures. How how terrible!" Lolita choked. "Terrible but necessary, Ian gasped. "Come on, we've got to get away from nere. , , . But he was too weak, and it was the girl who guided the big auto still mobile despite the recent crash away irom the hissing inferno. www Your paper, sir." A valet hur ried into the room. "This is the first edition I could find." "Give it to me," said Lolita von Waldeck. "Monsieur is very tired." "Yes, Madame." And the hotel valet smiled to himself as if the remark were unnecessary. After all, who was he to think things if a lovely yo.ung woman and a handsome young ' man appeared in the early morning demanding a room and with no more luggage than a big car? ' ""( . , .; , With a, faint swish of her long skirts, Lolita crossed to the bed, upon the pillow of which Ian Gray s face made a rugged brown blot. ". "is 13 it there7 he demanded, ; , "Yes.,: Oh Oh, thank heaven. they suspected nothing! .It would cost you your career if it were even breathed that you killed Bobkhine and the others, even though they were monsters." ... f A silence fell in the pleasant lit tle bedroom and the dip-clop of a horse's hoofs on the street outside sounded ivery loud.' Lolita drew a long breath and straightened the newspaper.' i i i" ! s ' f "Listen to this, my beloved: t FATAL1 CEACX-UP : ' . WEAR H.ATVAN 5 ' The remains of ah ujiidenti- . I fied pjane were discovered by : j two gendarmes late last night.' j Police, inspectors statehat the i plane was of Germanconstruc;i tioni and that ,. it apparently . f crashed in the act of taking off. Identification of plane's four ' passengers is impossible, and as ; yet no one ' has appeared to make inquiry concerning them. "No one saw us,'1 Ian said and heaved a sigh of relief. "Bobkhine's car must have rushed on as soon as he was dropped." "Yes, dear, we are safe ,. . . for' the pi-esent, at least. No inquiry may ever be made. You see, I know Soviet methods." Infinitely tender of expression, she bent above him, and gently her arms crept about his neck. "Oh, Ian" ' "We've won, I'm sure, darling!" he cried and felt the strength flow back into him. . "Yes, Ian, darling, we have woii each other to be sure." Lolita the Lady of the Black Orchidssmiled., "And that is greater than any diplomatic, triumph."; The r air seemed heavy with orchiddep noires. : THE END ; 1 . . CoDjrlttit. 1933, t e. y. W Man ; Distributed by Ktog FeitureJ 6iudlcle, lim. time. The next meting . will be on June 19 at Bob Townsley's home.

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