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Show Page SATURDAY, DECEMBER THE JOURNAL 2 SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS 29, iq4i 'JUPUWPW.-AW,- of Main Street and the World Capehari Amendment Allows Price O In general celling prices are based on his- torical pricing practices, but fixes ceilings current published list and service prices, f.o.b factory, plus handling and basis of manufacturers Increases on Thousands of Hems 1 charge of 5 per cent of list price , ; I a charge for inbound transportation. ;j O For New Repair parts: Ceilings home town again HERE WE GO with a si8h housewives across the nation learned the Capehart amendment to the controls law is effective immediately. The amendment opens the way for possible price Increases on thousands of consumer items, including clothing, meat, foods, milk, butter, coal, gasoline, tobacco, beer, drugs and cosmetics. Under this amendment manufacturers and processors are allowed a to use their prices and add or subtract cost increases or decreases through last July 26 in computing new ceilings. Because application of the Capehart formula is optional, the general effect of the new order could not be adequately estimated. However, It was believed the particular effect will be to raise prices whenever an application for adjustment is granted. There is just one possible hope for the consumer. Manufacturers are not required to seek new ceilings, but are allowed to do so. If any concern seeks higher prices for any line of goods, any reductions required by the formula for other goods must be put into effect as well. The firm cannot seek higher prices alone. Among the items affected by the new order are wool and cotton yarns and fabrics, soft drinks, liquor and wine, lumber and millwork, crude oil, canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, and many other processed foods, also many important chemicals, plastics, insecticides. Price Director Michael V. Di Salle has warned congress that prices apparently are rising again and it would be a dangerous risk to decontrol any major item now. here we of on J are established on manufacturer's f.o.b factory, plus either lists, (1) handling 'charge and actual transportation cost paid I list pre-Kore- by seller, or (2) percentage of price equal to average percentage used by rdealer during the period April 1 through June 24, 1950. If retailer does not use price list method of pricing, he may determine his ceiling by applying highest mark-u- p he realized during period April 1 through June 24, 1950, as applied to his net invoice or delivered cost, depending tice he followed in this period. on prac- O 02 Used Equipment : If seller bought ma chinery for use and not for resale, ceiling price is 85 per cent of base price, if sold within two OUT OF SHADE . . . Shirley of date of purchase. If more than two years, West Toint, N.Y., comes from years behind her big umbrella to enjoy ceiling is 70 per cent of base. If seller acquires some of the good sunshine at Day- equipment for resale and sells without reconditiontona Beach, Fla. She wearing or guarantee, ceiling is sum of following: he one of the new bathing suit crea- ing allowance of $25 or 10 per cent may allow trade-i- n tions for 1952. of trade-i- n drawn-ouallowance or purchase price, ceiling TRUCE TALKS-- The frustrating Korean peace talks continue with the two sides deadlocked over supervision of the truce and the price of parts used in reconditioning and charge Reds refusing to open discussions on the exchange of prisoners. for labor, but ceiling is limited to 85 per cent Perhaps the most significant news from the truce talks is that the or 70 per cent of base price, same as applied negotiations have entered the sixth month. It is almost inconceivable that Dei-len- s. . t, two parties can talk for five months without agreement if there was good faith and a desire for peace on the part of all concerned. This fact alone has made the people in the home town of America pessimistic of the outcome. By the time this reaches print the December 27 deadline on the provisional cease-fir- e line will have expired. If and armistice has not been agreed on, then a new cease fire line must be drawn before a final settlement. For this reason (since it appears unlikely an agreement will be reached) increased fighting can be expected on the battlefront as both sides attempt to improve their positions. where equipment was not TAX FIX The House Ways and Means subcommittee graft in the Revenue Department was blown wide open by the charge of Abraham Teitelbaum that two men claiming friendship with federal officials tried to shake him down for $500,000 with promises of a "tax fix". Teitelbaum, a wealthy Chicago lawyer, further identified as attorney for the Capone- family in some of their legal troubles, swore that Bert Lower - K. Naster, Hollywood, Fla., businessman, and Frank Nathan, Pittsburgh, led him to believe that they knew of FARM PRODUCTS SHOW acquired for resale. INCREASE O Bureau of Labor Statistics says average primary markets increased .2 per cent over week ending November 27. Farm products group increased 1 per cent as higher prices were noted for wheat, steers, cows, hogs, fruit little isn't supply, or suppliers are taking care of big firms with pull. Despite warning for continued and strengthened price controls, move is growing stronger for de-cont- rols Congress may consider it. and denials continue to throw a darker shadow across the Internal Revenue Bureau, under fire since the dismissal of Assistant Attorney General Theron Caudle by President Truman. And the deeper the in- Mrs. Roosevelt said on a radio program recently: "I dont know I came to feel that it didnt really whether I believe in a future life matter very much because whatever the future held youd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it in exactly the same way. "I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. The archbishop said he considers It "a strange situation that one who is chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, on the question of religion, assume the role of an agnostic and fatalist." ... DEFENSE Secretary of Defence Robert A. Lovett has announced that a provision for increasing the Air Force from 90 to 143 wings 126 of them combat will be in the 1953 fiscal year budget now being prepared and which will be presented to congress early next month. The actual size of the defense budget has not been announced, but it is believed to be within an informally set ceiling of $45,000,000,000 for the entire military establishment. Congress appropriated a total of $59,403,264,000 for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the present fiscal year, exclusive of foreign military aid. The present 90 wings of the Air Force their size varies from about 75 planes for fighter units to 30 for heavy bombers are not modernized since they are in many instances made up of aircraft such as the 9 and These planes are World War II vintage and must be replaced. B-2- B-5- 0. of at least some prices. Prepared by the Washington Bureau of WNU Features. of charges. As far as the people in the home towns are concerned, the charges fatalist. some CHARGES GENOCIDE . . . Msgr. O Despite controlled materials plan, NPA is Bela Varga, president of Hungarian government in exile, charges having headache on allocating materials to Communist Hungarians with de- buyers of steel and other scarce materials. They porting 70,000 people, many of go with orders to suppliers and material whom, he says, died in cattle cars. there. Story is NPA made an error in over-estimati- ng He charges "genocide by ously denied the charge, but Attorney General Howard McGrath ordered a grand jury investigation MRS F.D.R. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most controversial figures to appear on the American scene, came under attack of Archbishop J. Francis A. McIntyre for "assuming the role of an agnostic and vegetables. prices for eggs, cotton, peanuts and grains were not sufficient to offset price a Washington clique which was on the lookout for "soft touches". Naster and Nathan both vigor- vestigating committee digs the more dirt that is likely to be uncovered. There is no doubt now that the echo of this investigation will be heard in the election campaign of 1952. and some QUESTIONIBOX (Send your questions about the armed forces or any aspect of military service to: Walter Skead, Armed Services Question Box, 1057 National Press WINS MEDAL . . . The marine Building, Washington 4, D.C. Ancorps has announced the award of swers will be given in this column.) the congressional medal to Sgt. James Johnson, Pocatello, Idaho, Q. My son served in France and in in enaction Korea. He Germany during World War missing hand-to-haand returned in 1945. He was ll, gaged the enemy in killed combat so platoon could escape. after his return. Am I nd FAMILY DOCTOR OF YEAR . . . Dr. Albert Yoder, 84, Goshen, Ind., was chosen "family doctor of the year" by the A.M.A. at its convention in Los Angeles. He has spent the past 50 years practicing medicine in Goshen. C. honorable discharge you would to write the Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D.C. For the family of a soldier to be entitled to benefits, he must have served 90 days, or if less than 90 days, discharged for disability. Write to your nearest VA regional office to ask about benefits, giving all details and enclosing any VA numbers such as claim or insurance entitled to a pension? He was numbers, and his serial number, if you happen to have it. my only support. B.Y., Rule, Texas. Q. Who is entitled to receive a burial flag which drapes the A. If he died of a service connectcasket of a deceased veteran? ed disability, then you might be S.F.E., Manchester, Ohio. entitled to a compensation, but not A. The tlag goes to the next of to a pension, since a pension does not go to parents. You would write kin, with preference in the followto your nearest VA regional office, ing order: widow, children, accordexplaining the status of his death, ing to age, with sons having prefand enclosing any insurance or erence over daughters; father; claim numbers and his service se- mother; brothers or sisters; uncles or aunts; nephews or neices; and rial number. others such as cousins or grandQ. Aiy husband was a veteran parents. of World War I. I know that he Q. Im planning to take a job received an honorable discharge, ' overseas. Slay I use my Gl loan but it has been lost. How can I to a home abroad? purchase get a duplicate? Also, in regard J.G.S., Yuma, Ky. to benefits received by the family A. No. Under the law, GI loans of a soldier after his death, how may only be used to purchase long must he have been in servproperty in the United States, and ice? A.L.N., Polk, Nebr. its territories and possessions. A. To obtain a duplicate of an WNU (Released by Features.) |