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Evening star., 1947-10-12
Drop in Sales Of Meat,
Poultry, Eggs Noted in
First Food Plan Week
BY the Asseeiofed Press

I, The first week of the Nation s
! voluntary food conservation pro-
+: gram was marked by drop in sales
+. Of meat, poultry and eggs in many
cities, a survey indicated yesterday.
About half a list of representa-
tive cities covered in a spot check
reported slump IN demand for
these critical food items. while the
!, balance reported little change from
a week ago.
! Although the sales declines ranged
from slight to as much as so per
cent in a few isolated cases. the
reasons for the drop still were OBJ
scure.
Reasons for Drop Vary.
. Some food trade spokesmen
. ascribed 1t to the meatless- poultry
: less-eggless days program, while
. others credited continued consumer
resistance to high prices. Some
! believed it still was too early to
determine the effectiveness Of food
! conservation efforts.
, Meanwhile, grain, livestock, coffee,
,, -four and lard prices advanced in
. the wholesale markets during the
week, but eggs, coca and butter de-
clined.
The Associated Press index of 35
wholesale commodities advanced
, from 1890 on Friday. October to
1s4.7o last Friday-only a skip and
jump from the all-time high of
1851 established September Is. The
index is based on the 1926 average
Of 100.
December Wheat Sets High.
December wheat reached an all
time nigh price of $2.95 bushel for
that futures contract on the Chicago
Board of Trade yesterday. although
that figure was exceeded by the
s325 May future in May, 1917, and
the $305 March future last March.
The December peak was reached
in the face of higher trading mar
gins. imposed earlier in the week in
an effort to check speculation. De-
cember wheat closed at S293-$2.931s
A survey on sales of meats. poultry
and eggs showed that demand for
one or more of these commodities
had slunped in Denver. St. Louis,
Kansas City and Philadelphia. New
York reported that sales were dull
while Seattle said the sales-price
picture was spotted.
However, demand for these food
items was as high as before inaugu-
ration of the food conservation pro-
gram in the following representative
cities: Washington, Detroit. Mime
apolis. Boston, Atlanta and San
Francisco.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Mrs. Mary Burns Honored

Mrs. Mary M. Burns, founder and
past president of the Ladies Aux
iliary of American Legion Post No.
10, was honored at luncheon
yesterday at the Casino Royal
Restaurant.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Price Rise Is Caused
fBY Many Factors,
Wiley Declares
BY The A,saeiatsd P,s,a

Senator Wiley. Republican OF Wis
consin, said yesterday that anyone
who attempts to accuse any one
factor or any one source as ex-
clusively responsible" for the rise
in prices "is talking through his
hat"
He issued . statement asserting
that obviously "a vast variety Of
factors were at work, such as the
grave world food shortage, crop
failures, under production brought
about by strikes and slow-downs,
high consumer income level thigh
wages, and irresponsible Govern
ment purchase policies"
Scores Attacks on Congress.
The Wisconsin Senator said it is
ridiculous" to attempt to make
Congress a "scape-goat" for high
prices and pin the blame on the
Republican majority.
He said that, on the other hand
no one who studies history Of the
removal Of price controls "can fail
to note President Truman's action
in ordering and helping to erect
mass decontrol."
Earlier, Senator Flanders, Re-
publican, Of Vermont, had suggested
that housewives may be using ra-
ton coupons again If other methods
fail to cut prices. But, Senator
Flanders said, return to price con-
troll and rationing at all levels
would be a last-ditch resort.
Senator Wiley said the American
people are interested in bringing
prices down as speedily as possible,
rather than "in cross.accusations
between political parties and in
diyiduals."
Lists Seven Point Plan.
He said price cuts hinge on:
l. Careful revision of Govern
ment buying prices 50 as to help
halt and reverse the price rise
trend" He did not elaborate.
2. Full production OF goods by
full work uninterrupted by labor
strikes.
8. Unmistakable instructions to
the European nations that they
must help themselves and utilize
every available resource rather than
rely exclusively upon the United
States.
4. Buyers refusal ITO patronize
profiteers and price gougers."
5. Business refusal to 60 along
with behind -the-scenes efforts to
force prices up.
6. Public food saving.
Z. Complete streamlining Of the
tax system, including tax reduction,
to stimulate all-out production, such
as In the building trades. where
we are still suffering from a ter
rife housing shortage"
Evening star., 1947-10-12
British Seek Increase
Ii Sterling Area Goods
For German Zones
BY the A,.esia,.d Prs.s


The British were reported yester.
day to be trying to increase the fiov
of goods into Western Germany
which can be bought with British
pounds.
The idea is to lessen the new
burden of dollar costs which the
British are asking the United States
to take over In the British-Ameri-
can occupied zones Of Germany.
Anglo-American negotiators held
their second conference at the State
Department yesterday to explore
all the reasons why Britain has
asked the United States to take
over probably 5000 900, 900 to $780,
100000 in extra occupation costs.
Total cost of the economically
merged British and American zones
now runs about s700, ,000,0 600 a year
The British paid roughly 20 per
cent of their half of this in pounds
and the remainder out of dollars
They have served notice that their
dollars for this purpose will be
exhausted about the end this year.
The present discussions are de-
signed by the British to prove this
point to American negotiators and
provide a formula by which the
United States may take over more
OF the responsibility.
An off1cial statement issued after
yesterdays session said that special
consideration was given to potential
contributions In commodities from
the sterling area such as wool, tin,
rubber, fish, seeds and fertilizers"
The statement said the negotia-
tors would meet again Tuesday
after various sub groups have
studied further the facts of eco
nomic conditions in the occupation
zones,
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Hurricane
Continued From First Page.)

farming community with approx
mately 700 inhabitants, is about so
miles south of Fort Myers.
The hurricane is the second major
one within a month to lash the At
lantic and Gulf Coasts in Florida.
The one on September II caused
damage estimated at s75.000, 600 and
% lives were lost in South Florida
before it struck the Mississippi
Coast and New Orleans, leaving 81
dead and 654 injured in Mississippi
and IA dead and 95 injured in
Louisiana. 49,,
Small ToEnsds Hita 1865
A small tornado was reported Ii
the Redlands district, south Of
Miami about nightfaH. One house
was damaged and a few trees were
uprooted, but there were no
casualties.
At Dry Tortugas, site of the IA
nous Civil War Fort Jefferson,
Andrew Albury, lighthouse keeper,
reported the wind took up pine trees
and whipped them away as though
they were match sticks.
The Red Gross sent the evacuation
trains for several thousand residents
in the flood stricken Lake Okeecho-
bee region west of Palm Beach as
torrential rains threatened to bring
conditions to a critical stage. Be-
tween 800 and 1000 persons living
in the Davie area near Fort Lauder
dale were expected to be evacuated.
Refugees Drift Into Fort Myers.
Islanders and residents of isolated
sections drifted into Fort Myers
ahead Of the hurricane. The Red
Gross put an evacuation plan into
effect. All during the day while
almost continuous rains fell evacuees
drifted in by twos and threes. The
area is still attempting to shake off
the effects of the September storm.
Army and Navy planes from South
Florida were flown to Georgia to
escape the storm.
Domestic airlines halted their
flights at Jacksonville instead of
coming farther south. Pan American
Airways flying to Latin America said
only flights on it's Cuban subsidiary
had been cancelled.
Two disabled ships in the Florida
Straits, the 10,000-ton Haiti Victory,
hard aground, and the tug Relief
with its propeller fouled by a hawser,
were reported to have weathered
the blow as Coast Guard cutter
went to the scene.
Key West came through with
winds of 40 to go miles an hour and
a heavy rain.
Small craft throughout the State
were ordered to remain in port,
and in Miami hundreds of small
Evening star., 1947-10-12

per cent compliance. He is ex.
pected to make some slight con.
cessions, however, such as ruling
that sweetbreads and other meat
by-products are not to be considered
as meat on Tuesdays.
Whether this will meet the OBJ
jections of the restaurant groups
however, is uncertain. The Wash
ington Restaurant Association's
board of directors will meet Monday
night after the national group has
talked with Mr.. Luckrnan.
All of these activities by the Luck.
man group have been aimed at get
ting the consumer-meaning. chiefly
the urban families-and the major
business groups behind the con-
servation drive. Mr.. Luckman ad-
mits that the farmers of the Nation
are the chief users of grain-for
livestock feed-but he is depending
chiefly on the Agriculture Depart
ment and the big four farm organi-
cations to help him there.
Lacks Funds to Organize.
Agriculture, unfortunately. has NO
funds available to organize any
special means of reaching the farm
ers. 1t Is depending on the regular
county agents and State extension
service personnel who have lot OF
other jobs to perform besides trying
to talk the farmer into grass feed
ing his cattle and adopting other
grain saving practices.
Posters and advertisements point
ing up these conservation measures
for consumers. industrial users and
farmers will begin to break out over
the Nation before long. Advertising
agency personnel have been kept
busy day and night turning out
samples ever since President Tru-
man named Mr.. Luckman to the
food job Now that his personnel
problem Is beginning to untangle
the flow of posters, slogans, SUBJ
stitute menus and other campaign
devices will begin.
The Luckman committee, which
began in a two-room suite in the
old State Department building, has
expanded down one corridor on the
second floor until it has 10 Offices.
They are in addition to Mr.. Luck
mans own suite. manned by his two
personal secretaries. -,
Toward the end of last week, tele-
phone installation men had finally
connected up the lines in all the
offices and at least a reasonable
percentage Of Mr.. Luckman's CO.
workers knew one another. Another
week should see the office mechanics
at least, running smoothly.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Catholic Charities Plan
Food for-Europe Drive

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 11.-(P-
A Nation wide food collecting cam
paign for the starving peoples OF
Europe will be launched Thanks
giving Day, delegates to the 33rd
annual convention of the National
Conference of Catholic Charities
were told here today.
Harold j. Seymour, New York
former general manager of the Ma
tional War Fund, made the an
nouncement at a meeting of the
groups board of directors.
Mr.. Seymour said every Catholic
church in the nation will serve as
"a collection point in the NCCC
campaign to bring immediate relief
to Europe.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
'Hurricone-Busting' Plane
Lands in Mobile, Ala.
By The Associated eress


MOBILE. Ala, Oct. 1.-THE first
Of two hurricane-busting airplanei
landed here tonight shortly after
pm. carrying a group of scientists
eager for their first opportunity tx
scout" a hurricane.
But 1t. Comdr. d. F. Rex, spokes.
man for the party, refused to an.
swer questions on whether it woulc
attempt to seed" the hurricane
now 1ashing the south Florida area
with dry ice.
He would only say, This Is the
first time we have actively secuted
a hurricane"
Beside Comdr. Rex, who Is from
the Navy Department Office of Re.
search at Washington, those in the
party include Vincent j. Schaefer
General Electric Co. research chem
ist who invented the technique fol-
creating rain by dropping dry ice
pellets into clouds; Kiah Maynard
General Electric meteorologist, anc
Samuel Stine, civilian meteorologist
representing the Army Signal Corps
engineering laboratories at Camp
Evans, N. j.
n The Bill, packed with care
fully guarded instruments, was pi-
loted in the o1e-stop flight from
Schenectady by Capt. c. N. Cham
berlain, Asbury Park, N. j. The
second plane Is expected here about
midnight.
Comdr. Rex said he was chairman
of the four-man operations group
for Operation cirrus"
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Price War Reduces
Milk a Cent at Six
Cedar Ropids Doiries
BY the Associated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct.
11.-Six diaries have announced
q cent-a-quart drop in the price
of milk here in what has been
described as q price war. The
six are selling regular milk for
II cents a quart.
Remainder Of the .dairies are
holding to the old price sched-
ule, but say they may be forced
to fall in line on the price cut.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Allie May Smoot Wed
To California Officer
By the Assoeiofed Press

BY The Assoeiofed Press
The marriage Of Allie May Smoot
granddaughter of the late Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah, to 1t. Ivan l.
Foster, jr, of Pasadena, Calf, was
announced yesterday by her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest w. Smoot
After . wedding trip to Florida
1t. and Mrs. Foster will live at
March Field, Calf. '.
Evening star., 1947-10-12

boats sought safety in the Miami
River.
The storm was discovered Thurs
day in the western Caribbean Sea
near Swan Island, bre 1ding ground
Of many dangerous hurricanes of
past years.
1t passed over Cuba last night
with sustaining winds of so to so
miles an hour and gave every in
dication that 1t would not reach
hurricane force until this afternoon,
when it suddenly increased In force
while crossing the Florida Straits.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Red Cross Ready to Open
Shelters for $1,000
Nv the A.soeio,ed prs,,

BY the Associated Press
The American Red Cross said last
night it Is ready to open shelters for
$1,000 persons in the path of a new
hurricane moving toward Florida.
A spokesman said the organ
ization opened shelters in Palm
Beach, Everglades City and Punta
Gorda early last night and will open
others in eight southern Florida
counties If they are needed.
Two hundred fifty railroad cars
have been marshalled at Fort Pierce
if it becomes necessary to evacuate
residents of the Lake Okeechobee
region, he said, adding that officials
were fearful of~f1ooding.
In addition, buses, trucks and
autos have been collected at West
Palm Beach for evacuation duty, he
said, and SO Red Cross disaster
workers who were on rehabilitation
duty following the most recent
storm have been placed on emer-
gerlcy duty,
Evening star., 1947-10-12

When Aaric sacked Rome in 80
AID, 5000 pounds of pepper was
part of the ransom for the city.
Russian Marxists first organized
In 1893.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
TRUMAN CALLS
Congress to Meet

Congress, summoned by
President Truman, will con-
vene in special session atnoon,
November II, to deal with:
1. '"The alarming and continu-
ing" high prices at home and,
2. The pressing need for rap
id-fire emergency need abroad.
President Truman's summoning
of congress a month and a half be-
fore it normally would have re-
convened marked a definite climax
in U. S. domestic events for 1947.
Although doubt existed for a long
time as to whether a special ses-
sion would be called to meet the
two problems which have been
screaming with urgency all year. it
was the only really logical step to
take.
Mr.. Truman took it decisively. He
conferred with his cabinet, and he
conferred with key congressional
leaders of both parties. He did not
ask their advice on special ses-
sion; he informed them simply that
he was calling one.
''It is urgently necessary" he
said, ''for the congress to take leg
islative action designed to put an end
to the continued rise in prices . /.
and to meet the crisis in Western
Europe!"
Concerning prices, the President
would not ask for consumer con-
trolls, but for authority for alloca-
ton Of certain materials. European
relief, scheduled to be given pri-
ority over the price nuddle in con-
gressional action, was highlighted
by the growing desperation in
France and Italy.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
NEWS REVIEW
Congress Will Convene;
No Russia: Chile, Brazil
DENIAL:
No Force

James F. Byrnes,' said James F.
Byrnes somewhat angrily, was and
is a patient man. Moreover, he did
not advocate in his recently pub
ished memoirs, Frankly Speak
ing" that force should be used, if
necessary, to drive the Russians out
of Germany.
The former u. S. secretary of
state made, that rebuttal after wide
ly printed reviews of his book had
stated that he was urging the build
ing of more and bigger atomic
bombs and the use Of force against
the recalcitrant Red army.
He reiterated his belief that the
U. S., Great Britain and France
should proceed with a general Ger
man peace conference. regardless
of the Soviet Unions attitude. If
the Russians refused to sign the
treaty, then the other nations
should appeal to the security coun-
Gil of the u. N. to order the Rus
slams out because, Byrnes said, 1--WE
will then be facing situation likely
to endanger the peace"
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

- y
Brazil. which beat Chile to the
gun by a few hours in breaking
relations. had the less valid reason
for its action, on the surface. at
least. Stated reason for the move
was given as the extremely out
rageous and even calumnious" arti-
cles in the Russian press attack
ing Pres. Enrico Gaspar Dutra and
the Brazilian army.
Russia's Literary Gazette had
called Dutra an incompetent sol
dier and a Fascist. It was the same
magazine that had compared Presl-
dent Truman with Hitler, to which
the U. S. strongly objected but took
no further action.
Chile, however, had more deep
seated grievance. Communist inf1l-
tration in the nations southern
coal zone, leading to recent labor
difficulties there, undoubtedly
spurred the decision to sever rela-
tons.
Chilean Pres. Gabriel Gonzalez
Videla previously had accused the
Communists of planning to cripple
Chile's production OF copper, nj
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
Vandenberg Won't Fight

vert. He was once frankly an
isolationist. Today he has con-
verted many others, and I be-
lieve that no single man has
done more than he to break
down the provincial attitude,
especially in the Middlewest,
which before World War III pre-
vented America from taking
leadership in world affairs
leadership which might have
postponed, If not entirely pre-
vented, the war.
I do not believe that he is actually
eliminated from the nomination, but
we can be certain he will not fight
for the job. He had the high vote al
the Republican convention of 1910
when. the Willkie blitz struck.
Vandenberg's support of bi-parti.
san policy doesn't mean that he
gives blank check to the admins
tration. He favors the Marshall plan
and aid to Greece and Turkey, but
he refused to recognize that aid as
the Truman Doctrine" insisting il
was not doctrine at all
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

Serious cuts in meat production
and wheat selling for SIS bushel
may be in prospect if rains do not
relieve the serious drouth plaguing
the country's vast wheat fields from
Texas to the Canadian border, a
survey discloses.
A dry summer and below normal
rains this autumn have delayed
wheat seeding. kept planted wheat
from terminating properly and
forced farmers to "dust in'' their
grain in a manner reminiscent Of
the dust bowl days of the 193Os. crop
experts report.
In addition to the damage to the
paintings Of winter wheat, farmers
have not been able to use their
wheat grounds for grazing, and mil
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07


of the Kansas City Star in connec-
tion with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
namely, that there had never been
a real draft" in his day. Vanden-
berg said that, of course, no man
would refuse the nomination if it
were handed to him as an accom-
plished fact.
He concluded his remarks
with this statement: 81 am not
a candidate. do not expect or
wish to be a candidate. 1 shall
seek No convention delegates or
approve of others in this behalf.
think my place of service is
filing cut my tenure in the sem
ate."
Few mems stature has increased
as Vandenberg's has as a result of
his participation in international af-
fairs. l think it Is fair to say that
Vandenberg not only made non-
partisan foreign policy possible, but
that his efforts in carrying out the
non-partisan principle made a uni
6ed foreign policy itself possible.
A part Of Vandenberg's influ-
ence I'm the field Of foreign af-
7 fairs 70 due 20 the fact that he
has the enthusiasm Of o con-
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

ality to which the politicians object.
I doubt if any practical politician
expects us to turn back the clock.
But in his highly unorthodox cam
paigning. Stassen has violated two
rules.
One, by announcing himself
early in the present campaign.
Today he is the only official can
didate for the presidential nomi-
nation.
Two, he has made and he re-
peats sharp criticism of the Re-
publican program.
AS Roscoe Drummond of the
Christian Science MoHitor puts it,
"If they pick him to ride the ele-
phant, they'll have to get new
elephant" Certainly, Stassen has
limited this was necessary when he
said the Republican program must
be more constructive, more dy-
manic. He doesn't consult with any
body else when he announces how to
make it so. That's part of the lone
wolf complex.
He comes up from the soil with a
dirt-farmer father. He worked his
way through college. He has a good
military record as deputy chief Of
staff to Admiral Halsey. He is
younger than Dewey (Stassen is 800
and taller than Taft7a sandy.
haired, slow-spoken and deliberate
six-footer.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
FARM DISASTER LOOMS
Rain is sNoodod dToSave Wheat

dust in which the grain now is being
planted is little protection from the
freezing and thawing weather which
will heave the young seedlings from
the ground.
Moreover, grain dealers and cat
tlemen have predicted that wheat
would soar to SIS bushel unless the
drouth is relieved Immediately. The
price of wheat now is above So, and
serious shortage next year, plus
the heavy demand, will send it even
higher, they said.
This year, livestock men say,
there will be practically no pastur-
ing, and many farmers are reported
to be liquidating their herds rather
than attempt to carry them without
pasture on high-priced feeds.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

trates and other strategic materials
and hamper defense Of the western
hemisphere and the United States.
He also had announced his inten-
ton to lend once and for all what
he called Communist dictatorship
over Chile's mine workers.
And in a burst Of thoroughness,
Chile also ended diplomatic rela-
tionships with CzechoSlovakia.
If no other end is accomplished,
the action by Brazil and Chile at
least may answer the question Of
whether Communist penetration into
a nation actually can be halted by
breaking diplomatic. relations with
Russia.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

Our host shouted a happy Hello,
Harold" then turned and an
nounced: Gentlemen, the next
President of the United States"
daresay most Minnesota Repub-
icans will say "aye" to that. What
the rest of the country says is
awaited with interest by the candi-
date.
/ suppose have had so people
ask me about Harold Stassen. "Why
hasn't Stassen a chance?" they
query.
Most observers seem to agree
that if he has chance, it's pretty
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

lions of animals usually fattened on
wheat during the fall either will
move to market at lighter weights
or without the fattening benefits of
the wheat fields.
The Texas Panhandle, whose
thousands of acres normally provide
both grain and cattle pasture, has
little topsoil moisture and only a
scant supply of subsoil moisture.
Texas cattlemen estimated that the
state would have only 20 to Is per
cent of the normal pasturage this
winter.
Crop experts in Oklahoma. Kan
sas and Nebraska have reported
serious danger Of heavy winter Kill
this year. The wheat needs moist.
well packed soil to survive. The