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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Food prices skyrocket to 106 per cent
above pre-war; profits hit all time high

And the percentages of increase for
profits in certain industries were way
above this average. Among the. groups
surveyed by the Wall Street paper, the
machinery and tool companies showed
a rise of 101 % over last years second
quarter while the pulp and paper COM
panies' profits rose 11496. The increases
were still greater for the office equip
ment companies Q2196), the electrical
equipment firms (20596), the railway
equipment companies (228g6) and the
auto and auto equipment manufacturers
who reported rise of 44996.
Despite these fat earnings" in the
first half of the year the outlook is for
possibly better ones to come The
Magazine of Wall Street" (8/2) refers
to the spreading belief" that profits
twill be better for the second half 4.
than had previously been anticipated"
In other words, profits are going to
be bigger than ever and, despite the
antitrust prosecution of the Depart
ment of Justice, these inflation-time
profits will surpass all records.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
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Labor unity works
in St. Paul strike

ST. PAUL. MINI. = tFP) -
Negotiations had failed. The
3o-daY cooling off period was
ended and the company. the
Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co..
prepared to move furniture into
a bank and hold out against a
strike of 2.700 members of the
United Gas Coke & Chemical
Workers tCIO).
But the furniture was never
moved. The Init. Bro. of Team
sters tAFL) refused to haul the
company equipment. The tele-
phone workers would not in
stall phone service. The COM
pany. stopped cold. reconsidered
and ST. Paul's largest union won
its demands of a 8 to 7c wage
increase plus a profit sharing
plan.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Price hearings here Oci.1

WESTINGHOUSE - Hearings by
a joint committee of Congress to probe
today's high prices for consumer goods
will open late in September in Cleve-
land, Rep. George Bender Or, o. an
nounced here outlining the schedule of
the subcommittee which will cover the
nations central states.
Divided into three subgroups, which
will concentrate on the eastern, central
and western states in parallel hearings,
the Joint Committee on the Economic
Report is directed "to make full and
complete study and investigation" of
high prices. 1t is also to report its
findings, with recommendations for
legislation, no later than Feb. /, 1913.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
p r l G Z s

WASHINGTON = FP) - Retail food
prices for the average family in Sc
large cities rose 149o between June IS
and July Is, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics Aug. 80.
The latest rise brought the family
food bill to point 1857 higher than
it was a year ago, 379o higher than on
VI Day and 106.5a0 higher than the
last full month before the European
war, Aug. 1899.
During the month meats rose 15%
in retail stores, dairy products climbed
4.39o and eggs shot up 1922. Even as
the BIS released its figures, Agricul-
ture Dept. experts predicted higher
prices on both corn and corn-fed meat
animals this winter and next spring
because of the devastating midwestern
drought of recent weeks.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Postwar profit crest

The postwar crest in corporate profits
was reached this year instead of last
year. Many Wall Street economists had
predicted they would slump in 1947.
A table in the "Midyear Economic
Report of the President" gives pre-
liminary estimate of first half-year
profits, after taxes. running at an an
nual rate of STA billion. This COM
~pares with $16.1 billion rate in the last
quarter of last year and total for the
full year 1916 of SIPS billion.
Profits before taxes were estimated
at SILL billion for 1916 as whole and
at 500 billion in the first half of 1947.
sThe Wall Street Journal (8/2),
compiling the second-quarter profits al
ready reported by 131 leading COM
panies in Is major industries, observed
that they showed a whopping 84%
increase" over the like period of last
year.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
p r q Fl $

On wave of profit-taking, stocks
edged upward this week, with steel and
utilities out in front of the increase.
Among those that moved upward
were:
Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet,
Woolworth, American Telephone, Con-
solidated Edison, N. Y. Central, North
ern Pacific, Union Carbide, Phelps
Dodge and Johns Manville.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Murray warns Of crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-CIO President
Philip Murray warned this week of an
other depression to dwarf all previous
depressions if profits and prices con-
tinue to skyrocket.
Speaking to Labor Day gathering,
Murray dashed powerful groups, eager
for profit and determined to obtain un-
due benefits for special privileges" who
are repeating some of our tragic mis-
takes of the past.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Report dwindIine savings

WASHINGTON = FP} . The year
1916 was marked by a considerable
drop in the amount of savings by the
American public with an increasing
number of low and middle income FAM
lies living beyond their income, the
Federal Reserve Board reported in its
August bulletin.
The nation saved 80 of its total
personal income in 1916, contrasted to
l7% in 1s45 and more than 2O% dur
ing the war period.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06

A flood of lockouts had been an
ticipated earlier, following Judge
Heller's transfer to jury and nom
jury cases not involving tenants
problems.
AS the number of lockout evic-
tons increased daily, landlords
had a field day in Municipal
Court. Last Tuesday, landlords
filed 562 complaints to evict ten
ants--the greatest number filed
in any one day in the courts his
tory. No Municipal Court judge
interviewed by the Star could re-
call the filing of more than 400
such complaints, even at the
height of the depression.
''Unless a stop is put to these
evictions," Heller said, ''you will
find that the situation will arise
that a man won't be able to go to
he movie with his kids for fear
that he'll be locked out of his
home"
ONE such case involves two
young women who share an apart
ment at 1920 Lake Park, who re-
ported to the Star this week that
they have been unable to leave
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
4O2 firms double take

The New York Stock Exchange has
just reported that the profits after taxes
of 402 companies listed on the Big
Board for the first six months of this
year ran 984o ahead of profits for the
first half of 1916.
The largest increase was recorded by
steel, iron and coke industry, with 1857.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06

l. Stage an open-air rally.
2. Send delegation to Mayor
Kennedy.
3. Circulate petitions in the
community.
The UNAVA program resulted
from the unwarranted arrests last
week of more than 10 Negroes,
apparently guilty Of no crime, who
now face jury trials.
Police allegedly called to stop
street gambling at 61st st. and
Racine av., arrested several pic
nickers, who debarked at the
street corner en- route to their
homes from picnic at Justice
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Judge to aid
tenants locked
out Of homes

Predicting that lockout evicons would unless Chi
landlords illegally
evct tenants pledged continue
to issue wherever tenants show just
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06


Park arranged by the Englewood
Protective Association.
Among those arrested was Miss
Ethel Payne, 6210 S. Throop av..
member of the Illinois Interna-
cial Commission.
There was only a handful Of
men in the crowd of more than 40
women and children that debark-
ed from the bus.
More than four million organ
lied workers are covered by group
insurance plans negotiated through
collective bargaining contracts.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-06
Vets open drive against
violence in EngIewood

the denial civil rights in their community violence
Park Homes other racial and religious
Engewood United Negro Allied Veterans
of America OUNAVD prepared this week to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
Thomas Says CoddIing
Has Permitted Reds
To Set Up Spy System

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 49,
Chairman Thomas Of the House
Committee on American Activi-
ties says he believes that. through
'coddling tactics, we have allowed
the Russian government to set up
within the United States the most
elaborate, the most extensive espi-
onase network ever to operate
here"
Representative Thomas, speaking
here last night at a dinner meeting
of women Republican leaders from
II Eastern States. charged that the
Democrats were to blame for this
careless handling Of our national
security"
The Democratic administration,
he said, has never seen fit to en-
force the laws where Communists
are concerned"
FBI Is Defended.
"Only one agency is exempt from
this indictment" declared Mr..
Thomas. That is the Federal iBu-
reau of Investigation, which is striv-
ing desperately to cope with the sit
uation. But the FBI, we must re-
member, is under the jurisdiction of
do-nothing Attorney General"
Attorney General Clark, Mr..
Thomas added, apparently has no
intention of taking aggressive steps
to combat subversive activities.
At Washington there was no COM
ment from Mr.. Clark on Mr..
Thomas assertion.
Russians Assailed.
Mr.. Thomas also told his audience
that Russia has been allowed to
have 1896 observers In the United
States while "our technical experts
in Russia can be eounted on one
hand"
I'm fact" he added, practically
every one Of our industrial, chem
ical and military patents has been
given to this foreign country in a
Government display of generosity
that has Melted us exactly nothing
in return. Russia, my friends, is
playing us for a sucker"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
Sixty Hospital Librarians
To Attend Course al {. u.

A class Of so hospital librarians
will attend q one-week extension
course at Catholic University next
week
The course, first of its type to be
conducted here. is sponsored by the
American Association of Medical
Record Librarians, which will fur
nish some OF the instructors from
its headquarters in Chicago.
DR.. Daniel Leo Fnucane. super
intendent of Glenn Dale Sanatorium.
will address the class on the rela-
ton of proper medical records to
hospital administration.
Others who will appear before the
librarians include DR.. Leslie French.
chief Of medicine at Prince Georges
County Hospital; DR.. P. N. Densen.
Of the Veterans Administration
staff, and H. Mason WEIGH, attorney.
The classes will begin at am.
Monday and continue through FRI
day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
Train Pickpoekef Mails
Checks TO Victim S Bank
BY ths Assoeioted Press

WILKES-BARRE. Pa, Sept. 49,
Joseph Raczkowski is going to get
back two cashiers checks totaling
$13,500 which he said were stolen
from him on train Thursday while
he was en- route from Buffalo, N. Y.
to Detroit, Mich.
Cashier S. w. Thompson of the
Kingston National Bank said the
checks we're mailed to his bank by
the pickpocket Mr.. Raczkowski be-
lieves took them from him. One
check was for $1,000, issued by Mr.
Thompson's bank. and the other for
$4,000, issued by the Forty Fort (Pa)
State Bank.
Mr.. Thompson said the envelope
postmarked Buffalo, containing the
checks did not have in it $700 in
cash which MIR. Raczkowski also re-
ported missing.
The checks viii be mailed to Mr.
Raczkowski. who had sold his farm
last year and disposed of his home
near here only last week. Mr.
Thompson said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
Greece Offers Pardon
To GuerriAas # They
Surrender in Month
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, Sept. 13.-The Greek
Parliament early today passed a
bill to offer pardon to guerrillas
in rebellion against the govern
ment, provided they surrendered
within a month.
Themistokles Sophoulis, Liberal
Premier of the new Liberal Populist
fRoyalisD coalition government,
had urged passage of the amnesty
bill as move to bring peace to the
country.
The action followed heated de-
bate. Parliament first accepted and
then, on reconsideration, rejected
a motion to reduce the time for sur
render TO IS days.
As soon as the bill is printed in
the Government Gazette, military
aircraft will fly over guerrilla-held
areas and drop thousands Of procla-
nations containing the text OF the
amnesty law and urging guerrillas
to give up.
Dwight p. Griswold, chief of the
American mission to aid Greece with
$500 5000 in supplies. said yester-
day he hoped the new coalition gov
eminent would mean "a united eff
fort of all the Greek people to solve
the serious problems which trouble
their country"
In a statement terming formation
OF the government very gratifying"
he also voiced the hope yesterday
that new cooperative spirit would
mark the beginning of return to
peace and stability for all Greece"
In dispatch from Demati in
Greek Epirus, L. S. Chakales of the
Associated Press said nobody in that
area was optimistic that the amnesty
offer would end guerilla resistance.
He quoted Maj. Gen. Michael
Andonopoulos, commander OF the
Greek Army's 9th Division, as saying
he expected anti-guerrilla operations
to 60 on through the winter unless
the amnesty is fully effective"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
Vepeo Is Fined $3.50
For Ash Nuisance

From Yesterdays Last Editton.)
The Virginia Electric & Power Co.
today was fined $3.50 for creating a
public nuisance by the discharge of
ashes at its Alexandria plant.
The company and its plant super
intendent, D. P. Hardy, were found
guilty earlier this week. Mr.. Hardy S
sentence was ordered continued
until November II. Judge James
r. Duncan of Alexandria Civil and
Police Court said he would suspend
a fine for Mr.. Hardy If the nuisance
is abated by that date, otherwise
he would impose Jail sentence.
Today's fine followed testimony
by George L. Bascome. Richmond
engineer for the State Corpora ton
Commission; Gardiner L. Boothe;
company counsel, and Mr.. Hardy,
indicating installation of smoke
and ash precipitators will be COM
pleted by November l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
This Changing World
Proponents of Morgenthau Plan
Under Grand Jury Investigation

the French, is contrary to the Pots
dam agreement. Russia fears that
eventual rehabilitation of German
industries might interfere with Mos
cows well-laid plan for complete
destruction Of Europe's economic
structure.
Behind Rash of Strikes.
This Russian plan is obvious to
all who take the trouble to cast
even cursory glance at conditions
in Western Europe. The rash Of
strikes in the larger countries. such
as France, Britain and Italy, is due
primarily to the activities Of Mos
cows agents among the working
population.
In Russia, and in most of the
satellite states, farmhands and in
dustrial workers are compelled to
work between S. and 10 hours a
week for whatever wages the gov
eminent decides to pay them. How
ever, Soviet agents are agitating
successfully in Europe for ever
shorter hours and ever higher
wages. In order to prevent what
little production might be obtain
ed strikes are engineered in vital
industries.
Moscow, which is watching eco
nomic developments in America
hopes that our Good Samaritan
policies will drain our resources to
such an extent that large-scale So
cial disturbances will be possible in
this country in the near future. The
Kremlin has far more information
than the State Department about
the colossal task of European aid
which the administration is sug-
costing to Congress.
Has Means of Sabotage.
The Politbureau, which has given
precedence to economic intelligence
over military espionage, is aware
that our support for Europe will be
indefinite. Russia has the means,
through its powerful organizations
in every country, to sabotage any
tangible economic improvement in
WESTERN Europe. Our observers In
the U.S.S.R. and in the countries
behind the Iron Curtain report
that the siphoning of American
substance to Europe Is one of the
matters in which the Kremlin is
most vitality interested. -
The attempt to reverse our policy
in the Western German zone comes
belatedly. Moscow's fangs have
penetrated too deeply into the
European political body to permit us
to develop an active peacetime in
dustry in the Reich.
Two years of application Of the
Morgenthau plan have done so
much harm that it is doubtful that
it can be repaired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13

In case you have been giving only
casual attention to the great ex-
ploratory expedition now under
way, you may have missed its real
purpose. You may think that Taft
has gone forth to win the West, to
show the Republican managers and
voters that the man of the hour Is
Senator Taft, not Gov. Dewey or
Mr.. Stassen or anybody else. But
that's not it. Not at all. He has
simply undertaken to find out
whether or not he is that man. AS
he explains it, he really doesn't
know. But when he has finished
his trip he will know, and he will
let his friends back in Ohio know.
He will tell them then, about the
first week in October. whether to
20 ahead and launch his candidacy
or whether to drop the whole bust
ness.
Might Say No.
So you see it is possible that the
intrepid traveller will come back to
the boys in Columbus and say the
answer is "No."
Assuming that should happen,
what will it mean?. It could mean
all sorts of things. For instance,
it could mean that Mr.. Taft had
found the situation so good from
a, party standpoint that any Re-
publican candidate could win
even that mythical Chinaman they
used to talk about. In that case,
being a self-saerificiffg sort of fell
low, he might decide 1t would be
unsportsmanlike to take the nom
nation himself and he would urge
the naming of one OF the lesser
| lights.
Or it could mean something quite
different. For instance, that ne mad
detected something akin to f1shy-
eyed indifference, either to his per-
sonal charm or his views concerning
national policy, or both. If this In
difference were confined to the local
political managers, regardless OF
how he vowed the plain people, he
could decide to leave 1t to the peo-
pie to bring the managers into line.
If the reverse were true, he could
leave 1t to the managers to bring
the people into line. If both, ne
could renounce his personal ambl-
ton in the interest of party welfare.
Willing to Face Facts.
This would be in line with Mr..
Taft's willingness to face the facts,
an outstanding characteristic; ne
has even been accused at times. by
his enemies, of out-facing the facts.
There still remains another pos
sible reason for Mr.. Taft to electrlty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
On the Other Hand
What If Taft Does Not Choose to Run?
Question Raises Terrible Suspense

the country with the classic an
nouncement, Il do not choose tc
rum" This would be his conclu-
sion that, after all, 1948 will not be
a Republican year.
If he should reach that conclusion
however, we will never know it. II
will be buried in the deepest recesses
of his own soul and, perhaps, the
souls of few of his closest friends
He won't dare admit it. That would
be treason to the party.
But, you suggest, his very renun-
citation of his ambition would itself
be a dead give-away, an admission
that the nomination isn't worth
having. Maybe you've got something
there. That is. you may have if noEe
of the other reasons outlined above
are convincing. A lot Of people really
might think that.
This would pat Mr.. Taft in a
pretty tough spot. 1t might seem like
disloyalty to the party If he refused
to be candidate. 1t might be neces-
sary for him to run just to save the
party's face. He never has been one
to let the party down.
Adding everything up, it probab bly,
is pretty good guess that Mr.. Taft
will be candidate. But, meantime
this suspense is awful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13
On the Record
Fantastic Stern Gang Plot Raise,
Question of Who Is Behind 1t

without Palestine, including the
planned bombing of England, are
being financially supported almost
wholly by American citizens.
Rabbi Korff is an American citi-
zen. That he is an American citizen
Of Jewish religion is beside the point
He bears responsibilities not differ
ent by q shade from those of any
other American citizen. Yet he, and
other members, affiliates, or sup
porters of terrorist groups have
taken over function, exclusively
lodged in the United States Con-
gress: the right to declare war. They
have declared war on Great Britain
and, unless foiled, were prepared
to extend it by an act of war to
the British Isles.
This occurs at time when the
whole Of Europe is eollapsing and
Britain and America are co-operat.
ing in the Marshall proposals. 1t oc.
ours when left-wing groups in Britain
are seeking popular support fol
orientation away from the United
States. And what could win them
more popular support than that
American citizens. unhampered by
the American Government, de.
clared war on Britain?
What is the difference between
Greek guerrillas supported by for
eign powers waging undeclared wal
on the Greek government ant
American guerrillas tolerated by
their own Government waging war
on Britain? Rabbi Korff and all
the American supporters OF Zionist
terrorists are exactly guerrillas.
And, I repeat: Whose interests
do they serve? Whose agents are
they?
Ask who profits, and you likely
will find the answer.
released by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-13

CulldI lBLC Is Sohstsnuhe nroWh'
thrown on it by the fact that some
OF the men who helped draft it are
now being investigated by a grand
jury in New York on suspicion OF
the most despicable crime any
citizen can commit-the sale OF
highly secret documents dealing
with matters of national defense to
the U.S.S.R.
The Morgenthau plan was re-
ceived with applause in 1945. The
American public believed that long
period of peace and rehabilitation
would follow the last world war and
did not realize that creation of a
vacuum in Central Europe would
hamper world peace.
Critics Shouted Down.
The few critics who timidly re-
marked that, in the end, this vacuum
would be filled by masses from the
East were accused of reactionary
pro-Naziism or pro-Fascism, and in
Inundated or ignored by the bulk OF
the nation, which placed the respon-
sibility for organizing peace in the
hands of those who had won the
war.
The economic catastrophe must
be traced to the attempts of the VIC
torious powers to prevent any kind
Of economic revival in one of the
most important industrial regions
of Europe. 1t is true that in the last
few months the administration in
Washington has begun to realize the
chaos which the former Treasury
Secretary was causing and has de-
cided to reverse its policy.
In this, however, 1t meets the
stern opposition of the U.S.S.R.,
which hopes eventually to bring the
whole of Europe into its fold. The
Russians scream that the new
American plan, supported heartily
by the British and lukewarmly bv