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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Sept. 26 (^.—Mar
quess Milford Haven, 28. will be best
man at the wedding of Princess
Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbat
ten November 20, it was announced
last night,
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