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I Buffer, Eggs and Meal Cheaper at All Levels; New Decline Possible Price tags in food stores in Washington and elsewhere in the Nation are lower today, and there appears to be hope, at least, that other declines may follow. Butter, egg and meat prices are down both on the retail and whole sale level. A great deal depends, it Is generally agreed, on the effects of the President’s new drive to con serve food and whether it will re sult in the farmer sending his cattle to market rather than holding them and feeding them wheat instead of scarce corn. Grain futures at Chicago surged higher this morning. At the end of the first hour wheat was 4 to 5% cents higher, corn was Up Zy2 to 4% cents, while oats showed a gain of 1% to 2% cents. Lard advanced around 50 cents a hundredweight. Early livestock prices were unim pressive, with hogs about steady, cattle lower and sheep higher. Cot ton futures at New York opened un changed to 20 cents a bale lower. Raymond C. Briggs, chairman of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association's wholesale meat divi sion, said today that conditions are . “very confusing and uncertain” and that prices in Washington depend on ‘‘the quantity of livestock coming fin t.h#» morlrot ’* Lamb and Beef Lower. Mr. Briggs said lamb, beef and some pork cuts in the past two days have declined a few cents whole sale, most of these drops already being reflected in lower retail stores prices. Butter and eggs both dropped 2 to 4 cents earlier this week in the chain stores. An Associated Press survey of sev eral cities today showed eggs down 10 cents in Philadelphia over a wgek ago, sirloin steak down from 98 to 79 cents a pound and porterhouse down 13 cents, and stores were pre dicting further “big” cuts next week. Eugene G. Schulz, New York City market commissioner, said that “re fusal of shoppers to pay exorbitant prices checked the upward spiraling of meat prices” there, where he re-! ported porterhouse steak retailing at 93 cents a pound, compared with! $1 a week ago. Some other cuts were off from 2 to 6 cents a pound, he added. Butter dropped 2 cents in' chain stores today, but wholesale prices rose 1V4 cents a pound. New Postwar Peak. Dun & Bradstreet reported that for the seven-day period ended Septem ber 23 their wholesale food index of 18 commodities showed a drop of 2.9! per cent. The index, they explained, represents the total of the price per pound of 31 foods in general use. On September 23, it stood at $6.91, compared with $7.12 a week earlier and $5.15 a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, however, that during the! week ended September 20, the J wholesale prices of all products climbed to a new postwar peak at 158.1 per cent of the 1926 average and 0.4 per cent above the previous week. It said its wholesale price index was 27.7 per cent above the corre sponding week a year ago, but still was J5 per cent below the historic peald of May, 1920. a > . r uuariermasier Buying C&Tf Cope With Price Rise The Army's Quartermaster Corps, purchaser of all foods for the armed forces, has been beating the high food costs by buying In periods of plenty, but It may yet have to ask Congress for additional money be cause of skyrocketing prices. While the price of foodstuffs gen erally has increased 84 per cent j since 1941, the corps’ ration costs have jumped only 67 per cent, an Army spokesman said today. "By buying foods when they are plentiful and storing we have been! able to stay a bit a head of the jump in prices,” he said. ' How- j ever, the general price level has! raised havoc with our budget and we may have to ask for a deficiency appropriation, but I would not like to ma kea prediction on that.” Brazilian General Leaves Brig. Gen. de Jalma P. Coelho, director of the Brazilian Army map service, left Washington today for Wright Field (Dayton), Ohio, to in spect the photographic laboratory and study air forces mapping and! charting methods. He is visiting this country at the invitation of the sec- j retary of the Army. LOST. BROACH, horse-shoe shaped. .35 diamonds, set In gold and platnium. Sept. Id. nr. Sutler Hotel. Reward Call NICHOLS CO. ME. (Min._ _26 BAG, white. 3*2 inches: black stitching, containing money, foided 2 RA45'43URre: approximatelx $30, reward. j COCKER SPANIEL (black! male, answer to the name of “Bobbiereward. SH. 8301, _ _07 DARK GREY, blue Persian cat, answers to name of • Rocky.’’ 2909 O st. n.w., NO. 5998._27 DIAMOND RING. Saturday night, Sept 20, vicinity 1120 46th st. s.e., or in Hyattsville. Reward. Call VI. 4829. —28 FOUNTAIN PEN, September 21. Mount pleasant. Columbia 0290. KITTEN, gray, with white front and paws: . strayed from 6401 Maple ave., Chevy Chase, Md„ Tuesday: reward. OL. 8618. ■__; _—26 KOLINSKY FUR SCARF, Initials ~F.L.B., lost vicinity 11th and O n w . WeH anernoon; reward. GE. 8437 after 6 PM. _—26 LADY’S Hamilton wrist watch, Chevy Chase. Reward. Call WI. 6425. —27 ThEXICAN SILVER bracelet, vie. 46th to 49th on Wlndom pi. n w. Reward. EM. i 4535.' PLASTIC FRAMED man's glasses, between Union Station and 6th and East Canitol.! Reward. Phone PR. 8452._—28 POCKETBOOK, black, vie. Fla. ave. street- ! car. containing eyeglasses, keys, other arti-1 cles: Wednesday morning: reward. Please return* to L. PAYNE. 37 Que st. n.e.! DU. 6367._07 POCKETBOOK, black patent; Kresge 5 8t; 10. 3427 Conn, ave ; keys, driver’s li cense. registration card and other papers most Important to owner; keep money and i return valuable papers and keys. 126 S4th st. te,. TW, 8300, Ext. 768. 26• PUPPY, 3 mos. old, part collie’ andlpolTce, yeUow and white face, black back. EM PURSE, ladyh. on Navy Yard streetcar 8 30 a.m Thursday, containing money, glasses. Identification cards, pen: reward. GE. 1697. • FUfcSE. ’ n.e. section, containing bills.! •mall amount of change; widow much in need of cash. Phone AT. 9860. * REVOLVER, Colt: official police revolver. ,38-callber: aerial No. 711468: In holster; property of Metropolitan Police; vie. No. 9 precinct: reward. 3403 Lancer dr.. Hyattsvllle. Md. WA, 8655. —27 SKIRT, brown, lady’s, lost in delivery Tuea. evening, vicinity Union Station; $10 reward. 539 3rd at, n.e, —36 WALLET, pigskin, case type, in or near Columbia Hospital between 8:30 and 11 p.m. Sept. 24; several cards containing name of owner. Finder please call OL. 3908.—1 WATCH, small, chip diamonds; black band. Phone EM. 6855 any time. Reward. —29 WRIST WATCH, lady s. white gold. Hamil ton: gold Imk band: vie. 13th and F st.s.. Sept. 25: reward. Rockville 2533. —27 FOUND. Slack COCKER SPANIEL, female, found on Columbia Pike In Arlington. CH. 5460 GLOVE, lady's kid or capeskin; found in: Bethesda shopping center. Call OL. 3460.! U'RIST WATCH, lady's: yellow gold with black band: found on Washington Circle streetcar on Sept. 25. NA. 1684. MRS. WEDDING Wfifsf WATCH—Found in street ciF. . 14; white told with Mack band SH. 3763. “BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE . . —Passersby stop to look at a copy of John Howard Payne’s famous song, “Home, Sweet Home,” displayed in the window of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Washington, 610 Thirteenth street NW. This copy was penned by the author for Dolly Madison, to whom he was related. The inset shows the final lines and Payne’s signature and the date he made the copy while in Washington. The manuscript belongs to the National Savings and Loan League and will be on display in Washington for a month. _ •___ -—Star Staff Photos. Chest Unit Will Solicit D. C. Businesses With Less Than 10 Workers Solicitation of every downtown Washington business concern with fewer than 10 employes Is planned during the 1948 Community Chest Fe deration Campaign, Chairman J. S. Bartlett of Bus iness Unit Two announced to day. Mr. Bartlett appointed three W ashington b u sin e s smen with campaign e x p e rience to direct area ac tivity of staff workers in this part of the campaign. They Mr. Kaddatx. are E. D. Raddatz, field director of the National Association of Elec tric Companies, as chairman of \rea One; Herman Neugass, main ten a n c e and purchasing su perintendent of Lansburgh & Bros., Area Two chairman, and William B. Brennan of the C h e s apeake & Potomac Tele phone Co., chairman of Area Three. The unit chairman also appointed five others to work Mr. KtuitH. with these chairmen. The campaign starts No vember 12 with a coal of $3,900,000 for more than 125 community serv ice agencies. The Unit Two vice chairmen will be Herbert Mc Murray, Wash lngton Gas Light Co. adver tising manager; Charles M. Fyfe. director of the Boys' Club of Washing ton; Miss Peg Schaefer of the Peg Schaefer Insurance Agency; Edward J. Flynn, execu tive director of the Washington Criminal Justice Association, and John C. Cummings, residence manager of the YMCA. Mr. McMurray and Mr. Fyfe will assist Mr. Raddatz. Miss Schaefer and Mr. Flynn will work with Mr. Brennan, and Mr. Cummings Will serve with Mr. Neugass. Each area chairman of Business Unit Two will have an average of seven divisions of campaign work ers, with each division composed of six sections. More than 18,000 vol unteers will work in the campaign here. President Truman will greet vol unteer workers in the Community Chest campaigns in a Nation-wide radio address at 10:30 tonight. Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Edward H. Foley, Jr., 1948 cam Jaign chairman for the Chest Fed eration here, will respond briefly for ihe campaign organization. Also on the program will be Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Margaret O’Brien md James Stewart from Hollywood. Research Lab Is Robbed Of $810 in Equipment Police today were searching for ;hieves who took $810 worth of equipment from a research labora ;ory of the Timber Engineering Co., 1812 Minnesota avenue N.E., early yesterday. Joseph L. Stearns, superintendent, said the thieves jimmied a rear win low. The stolen equipment, he said, ncluded electric motors, drills, sanding machines and cameras. Appeals Spumed by Landlords, Evicted Father of Six Kills Self By th* Associated Press CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Since last spring Raymond Thill, 41, spent most of his spare time hunting for a place, to live for his wife and six young children. •« He always received the same dis couraging answer from landlords: “No we couldn’t possibly rent to anyone with six children.” After Mr. Thill’s family had been evicted from their home last spring, he succeeded in finding a one-room flat for his wife and their baby son of less thsn a year. Four other children were sent to a children’s home and the eldest, Raymond, jr„ 6 Tons of Groceries To Be Sold by Union As Protest on Prices By th» Associated Pres* KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 26.— Six tons of groceries will be offered for sale today by a CIO United Automobile Workers local as a protest against high food prices. Local 72, consisting of em ployes of Nash Motors, will be in charge of the sale of canned vegetables, fruits, fruit juices, condensed milk, cereals, mac aroni and spaghetti. The food stuffs were purchased from a Milwaukee wholesale eo-oper ative. Union officials said other pur chases will be made if the sale is successful. Two Chevy Chase Youths Arrested in Auto Thefts Two teen-age Chevy Chase youths were arrested yesterday by Bethesda detectives on automobile larceny charges in a move to break up a juvenile theft ring. Both boys have been released in custody of their parents pending Juvenile Court action. Detective Sergt. John P. Leahy said one of the boys. 17, faces a hearing in District Juvenile Court after being arrested on automobile; charges two weeks ago. He said the youth stole two cars in Washington within the last two weeks, while the other stole two cars in Montgomery County within the last 10 days. Emmons Gets New Post With Capital Transit Samuel E. Emmons, transporta tion manager of the Capital Transit Co. since 1942, today became operat ing manager of the compapny, to direct the mechanical and way and structure departments as well as op erations. Mr. Emmons has been a Capital Transit official since 1941, after re turning to this country from several years as manager of a streetcar and busline in Brazil. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he has been in the transportation field since college. He is a member of the Cosmos Club, the Capital Transit American Legion Post and the Columbia Coun try Club. t moli Now forC lasses Starting Oct. 1 FRENCH GERMAN'SMNISH The Berlitt Method Is Available Only at THE BERLITZ SCHOOL of LANGUAGES *>39 17th St. (at Eye) NAtion.l Q»79 WARM AIR-HOT WATER HEATING CALL AMERICAN HEATING CO. 55 K St. S.E. AT. 1331 GLASSES ™J97* BAR STYLE FRAME, $3.00 ADDITIONAL WITH BIFOCALS, $3.00 ADDITIONAL EXAMINATION Patented Frames Slightly Additional j| - » ! OFFICE HOURS «L£,MnS 932 F St. N.W. 2nd Floor 1 Metropolitan Theater Baildlns Tptown Address—1K1 14th St. N.W. » FBEE TABBING—STAN TABBING PLAZA—10th and E N.W. 12, went to the country and lived with relatives. The boy returned to the one rodtn flat when school reopened and Mr. Thill slept in one of the parked vans owned by the storage com pany where he was employed, Earlier this week the children’s home advised him he must find a place for his four children or the home would start court action tc declare them abandoned. Yesterday, Rogers Park police were called to the storage com pany after employes had found Mr Thill’s body hanging from a rope from an upper beam of a parked van. lowans Urged lo Grow Food to Help Europe By the Associated Press FRANKFURT, Sept. 26.—Eighteer Iowa farmers were told by Americar Military Government officials todaj that it was to the interest of Amer ican farmers to produce the type o! food needed by hungry Europe. The farmers, touring Europe t( study the aariciilt.iirnl Pvnnrf eifiio. tion, conferred here with S. M. Katz chief of the food and agriculture branch of military government ir the state of Hesse, and John Lynn American agricultural representativ< in the bizonal organization. H. L. McKinley of St. Ansgar Iowa, leader of the group which ii sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureai Federation, asked whether it vti better for Midwestern farmers t< feed their grain to livestock or shii it as food to grain-short area abroad. “It is to America’s interest to see that these people don’t starve,” saic Mr. Katz. “There is a definite mar ket here for United States agricul tural products, and it to your inter est to work for that market and grow what they need.” From here the touring farmers gc to Brussels, then to Amsterdam en route back to the United States They have visited England, Scot land and France. Woman Injured in Blast Of Furnace Recovering Mrs. Libbie S. Alexander, 67, ol 1424 Varnum street N.W. today waj reported in good condition at Emer gency Hospital where she suffered second degree burns on the head when a gas furnace exploded at hei home yesterday. According to her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Larson, Mrs. Alexandei went to the basement to see why the furnace was not heating. The ex plosion occurred when she opened the door slightly. ivysssjsw/s/jsjwjjj/jsjjjjj j Mum >>}>>>>)> Gen. Kepner to Head Air Force Division On Atomic Energy Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner former Marine, balloon race win ner and an Army Air Force’s com mander during the war, is to become the Air Force's authority on atomic energy, it was announced today. Gen. Kepner, who was deputy commander for air with Operation Crossroads at Bikini, will become chief of the Atomic Energy Di vision in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at headquarters here. It is a new position. Maj. Gen. Charles C. Chauncey, who has been deputy chief of staff, will succeed Gen. Kepner as com manding general of the technical division of the Air Training Com mand at Scott Field, Belleville, 111. McKee Succeeds Chauncey. Brig. Gen. William F. McKee, who has been assistant to the deputy chief of staff, will succeed Gen. Chauncey. All three appointments will become effective Wednesday. Gen. Kepner, 54, a native of Mi ami, Ind., was an enlisted Marine from 1909 to 1913. Later he joined the Indiania National Guard. Dur ing World War I, he commanded an infantry company and, during the intervening years between the two wars, acquired a thorough knowledge of airships. He won the National Elimination Balloon Race and the International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race In 1928. Twelve years after entering the Regular Army, he became an air plane pilot at the age of 39. Gen. Kepner was pilot and com mander of the National Geographic Society-Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon flight in 1934. He command ed the 4th Fighter Command in 1942 and the 4th Air Force the next year. Later he commanded the 8th Fighter Command in England and then the 8th Air Force. Early in the postwar occupation period, Gen. Kepner assumed command of the 9th Aii» Force and then the 12th Tactical Air Command. Learned Flying in 1917. Gen. Chauncey, 58, a native of Joshua, Tex., first became a flying cadet in 1917. In July, 1942, he or ganized the 8th Air Force Com posite Command at Bolling Field and took it to England. He became chief of staff of the 8th Air Force in December, 1942, and the follow ing year assumed the additional duty as chief of staff of the United States Air Forces in the United Kingdom, serving in the dual role until he became chief of staff of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces in January, 1944. Gen. McKee, 41, a native of Chil howie, Va., was graduated from West Point in the class of 1929 and entered the coast artillery. In Jan uary, 1942, he was assigned to AAF headquarters here as chief of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division, later becoming executive officer ol the Directorate of Air Defense. In July, 1946, he became com manding general of the Air Trans port Command, European division and later was chief of the head quarters command for the United States Air Force in Europe. Electronic Shells To'Find1 Target Are U. S. Weapon •y th« Associat'd Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—II and when America should be at tacked by aircraft or any form ol aerial missile, a new electronically guided flying explosive that seeks out its target will be one of the country’s counterweapons. That is the report of James C. Coe, radio engineer active at the Naval Air Missile Test Center. Speaking before the Institute of Radio Engineers yesterday, he de scribed methods used in measuring speed and. performance of such “homing” missiles. But security, he said, forbade any reports of their range or their abil ity to And their way to targets. They have been launched from land, air and ships—and from one other place or object which he said he was not permitted to describe. During the last war no true guided missiles were used, although American guns were firing shells which exploded automatically when they neared the targets. The mech anism was known as a proximity fuse and could not guide the shell. WHY NOT? It costs no more to park at the Capital Garage Now York Avenue bttwnn 13th and 14th Back to School Special! One Weeh Only typewriters! s \ Cleaned, Oiled N S and Adjusted New Ribbons Installed Machines \ Dismantled, \ K Chemically \ 8 Cleaned, \ I Oiled, X 0 A djusted \ | All Work X 1 Portables Guaranteed Standards ; 1 $7.50 $9.50 1 Is] ^ S Free Pick up and Delivery $ ALLEN TYPEWRITER CO. I I 2119 Nichols Ave. S.E. Line. 3194 ; I Open Friday and Saturday Evenings 9 GEN. CHAUNCEY. GEN. McKEE. GEN. KEPNER. Air Force officers get new assignments. Ninth Precinct Investigates Officer's Loss of Revolver Circumstances under which a ninth precinct policeman „ lost his service revolver and holster Wednes day night were subject of a report being prepared today for Police Superintendent Robert J. Barrett. Precinct officials declined to give details of the loss by Corpl. Charles B. Kimball, 3403 Lancer drive, Hyattsville, Md., while on his beat. Regulations require a complete re port by Capt. John J. Jeffries to the police department head. Inspector Milton D. Smith, chief of the uniform and property division, said under normal procedure Corpl. Kimball will be given ample time to attempt to recover the weapon and then, unless “extenuating cir cumstances'’ are shown by the re port, he will be required to buy a new one at a cost of $45 to $50. Col. Marshall Transferred Lt. Col. Frederick H. Marshall, 3703 Bangor street S.E., has been transferred to the 610th AAF Base Unit at Eglin Field, Fla. He was with the AAF at Guam and Okinawa during the war, and had been stationed at Hickam Field, Hawaii, since November, 1945. Baker's Warning On Waste Helped Start Food Drive An unidentified baking industry official gets an assist on President Truman's “waste less” food cam paign. In a recent White House meeting with food experts, the President was told by the baking spokesman that the extent to which people, stores and bakeries spoil and discard per fectly good bread is shameful. The President was particularly im pressed by the further statement that enough bread is thrown away tc account for an annual loss of 70, 000,000 bushels of wheat. Mr. Truman also heard a restau rant operator deplore the wastage at the tables of the Nation. With the bread loss in mind, the President told his news conference yesterday he was asking the Amer ican people not to eat less but tc waste less. Royal Best Man Selected LONDON. 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