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Show Cost of Livinn Index J . (Bsrwa f Ubw Statistics.:. Wtt V :. 170 . i irsf iw m? , up..; UP FTP vii. o o o Goes That Old HCL 1945 1947 $gk Q& Trasgl rangE laBSSrvi 77 Percentage of Food Price Changes From June 1946 to June 1 947 52 37 P"! 27 ; X V (Diswtiaeat T AifaHwt statistics) 1 i ? jh nnicn tsL-fefst 1939 ir 1945 m w . 1947 I 1 DAILY HERALD Friday, Sept. 12, 1947 3 Voluntary Rationing May Be Necessary to Feed Europe f ; ' " " - prliai .. i H 1 By RUT1I GMEXNER , united Frew staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 12 (UH-1 Government officials today shied away from. proposals to revive cpmptusory iooa controls. But they indicated that, voluntary rationing ra-tioning .i may be necessary if Europe is to get substantial supplies sup-plies of food this winter. In the face of shrinking United States food production prospects. President Truman's advisers at the state affrfniltur iwmm.m. deDartmenta were -Hfsrwratoiv .exploring ways to. assure a high ieve or exports without, upsetting upset-ting the domestic economy, Chester Davi. mmhr B special government committee on toreign aid, bluntly put into words vesterdav th "sltrntivM that officials have discussed privately pri-vately for some weeks. This nation, na-tion, he said, soon must choose between voluntary reduction - of meat consumption or re-ins tate-ment tate-ment of .government controls. Europe alreadyhas been warned that U. S. rrsin shipments ship-ments will be reduced 'below last year in view of a 750, 000,000 - bushel drop in American grain- production. - Agriculture ficials said it These two chartl illustrate Just how high the cost, of living has gone. The top graph picture the soaring lines of food, clothing, and all items whkh art stfU on the rise. The lower chart shows the percentage ec change in food prices in one year from June. 134S, to 3une 1847. All classifications el food, except frestt fruits art TtgetahJevrose n price In that period. How much does a dollar buy? . In 1939 a' groccp took your dollar and handed you soap flakes, bread, butter, milk and eggs. In 1945, you could purchase all but the butter for your dollar. . Today, the soap flakes and eggs alone consume, and, in some stores in some fities, exceed the dollar. Tomorrow's prices will probably be higher, experts predict. Prices on most items continue to spiral upward. Take, for example, new and used cars, men's suits and new houses. In prewar 1939 (left column) a '38 used car sold for $500, but in postwar 1945 that same car was bringing $400. Today's ads ask $475. In prewar . 1939, newspapers advertised a new car, listing at $660; today, the same manufacturer wants $1350. Similar jumps have attacked the ether lines. Want? To Bring Silk !To Japan 1 TOKYO, Sept i2 (UJ!) -- The jegenaary figures . wno sold re frigerators t o Eskimos and brought coals to Newcastle, have nothing on William Brooks - of Ehiladelphia, who is begging al-ed al-ed headquarters to let him bring silk to Japan. Brooks says the Japanese are tn favor of the Idea, but astonished aston-ished officials of headquarters made up their minds whether to give the necessary permission. . . , A 1 . ' I in ine pasi mania since nis ar-4 rival in Japan, the 31-year-old . f i J - a z, erooKS nas maae mmsen a reputation repu-tation as an" "enfant terrible" .with both officials and his com petitors. He believes he has fired more proposals at the Japanese than he fired bullets acainst , themV as' a private with the 27th division on Okinawa., w. j . Brooks' , last stemwlnder Is a plan to bring U. S. wool, cotton, rayon, nylon and silk . to be processed here by the Japanese under supervision of U. S. designers de-signers and catering to U. S. tastes. Brooks said he has not yet received re-ceived official word that his proposal pro-posal or one In which he would tell American cigarettes on the Japanese market for yen has received re-ceived favorable consideration. "All I wantls permission to in-. in-. Vest in Japanese yen, he said. I don't even want ' td r buy ex portables. Just Invest it in ball parks, forLlnstance." - .Brooks charged foreign trade officials with "lack of imagination" imagina-tion" about some of his schemes. He admitted, however, that they may have been right in rejecting ...1tS.A.(U that Via Im. port old clothes into Japan, sell them for Japanese currency,, buy cultured pearls with the yen and sell the pearls ior U. S. dolars. "Even so I was prepared to pay customs on the clothes," he said ruefully. WORK TO START ON BILLINGS REFINERY BILLINGS, Mom, Sept. 12 (U.W The "immediate resumption" of work on Carter Oil Company's 20,000-barrel refinery here has been announced by the company's president, O. C Sharp, Tulsa, UKia. Work on the refinery, of which the cost was originally estimated at $9,000,000, was halted about six weeks ago when the oil Company Com-pany was faced with the large in crease in costs. : CONGRESSMEN TO. SEE GRAND COULEE . CASCADE, i Ida.,- Sept.-' 12 (U.R) A house of representatives - J.I ami . - AMwAant(fif - Atmial Adultery Charge Against Couple Gives Iowa Authorities Plenty of Headaches MARSHALLTOWN, la., Sept. 12 (U.R) The judge issued is-sued a warrant charging the young couple with adultery, but two hours later he pronounced pro-nounced them man and wife. Then, they were arrested on the adultery charge, authorities au-thorities admitted that they, ..topjwere confused. Judge Ray Scott, who Issued the . warrant and perrormeetrthe ceremony, said it sounded like "some new f angled triangle." tri-angle." The girl In the case was Anna Wheeler Dixon, 22, a carnival employe. She was married yesterday to Roger Murphy, 36, St. .Louis, in a ceremony performed by 'Judge Scott. Two hours before, however, Theodore Dixon, Mpntgome-ry, Mpntgome-ry, Ala., had appeared on trie scene1 " and told authdrttles that he already was married to the girl. He swore' out a warrant charging both her and Murphy with adultery. Then came the marriage ceremony, cer-emony, and after that the arrest ar-rest of Murphy and the girl. Dixon told authorities that Anna left him three months ago. He said she was the daughter of a probate judge in . Montgomery. - She - denied, however, that Provo Firemen Put Out Three Blazes Three' alarms kept the Provo fire v department busy Thursday, With $100 loss recorded ..for a saraee and minor 'losses to a house roof and an automobile in terior, r Firemen started the day early with a 2:30 a.m. alarm to the car of Fred Davis, parked at 11th North and University avenue, where cigar ashes on the seat had caused a blaze. Loss was figured at $2. At 12:25 p.m.. chimney sparks on the roof caused $5 damage to the home of Glen W. Moulton, 65 North Eighth West. Heaviest loss of the day oc curred at 2:55 p.m., when Jiot ashes dumped against the side of a garage caused the latter to take fire. Loss of $100 resulted before firemen doused the blaze. The garage was owned by Mrs. John Bown, 576 East Fourth South. she ever was married to Dixon, Dix-on, and she claimed to be the niece of .former Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D. Mont.. Not only that, but she claimed that Dixon already had a wife and child. Meanwhile, Murphy, the bridegroom, sat in a jail cell on the adultery charge, all but forgotten by authorities, who were growing more confused con-fused as the questioning of -Dix-and-4heuiixLcontinued When police went to Murphy's Mur-phy's cell they found hims gone. He was outside, digging into a wall in an attempted jailbreak. , -. . . . ; Police put him in another cell, and ,he and his bride were held in lieu of $2,000 bond. Then authorities sat down -and tried to figure out what to do next. . Wallace Attacks Foreign Policy At N. Y. Rally NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (U.R)f Former vice president Henry A. Wallace told a cheering crowd oil zu.uuu munaenng -wauace ior '48 in Madison Square Garden last night that he would "con tinue to work within the Demo cratic party" until convinced that it held no hope for Liberals. If the major parties, give the people no choice except "reactionary "reac-tionary capitalism,":: a t h i r d party may-be-necessary in 1948, he said. "If the Democratic partyis a was party, if my . party continues to attack-xiyil liberties, if both parties stand, for high jDjriees and depression-7ihen the people must must have a choice Wallace spoke from the same rostrum where a year ago he denounced de-nounced the; administration's "get tough with Russia" policy. Tha, speech brought about his resignation as secretary of commerce. He showed no change of Hearing Set On Bus Line Request Hearing on application of the Geneva Transportation company for permanent franchises to operate op-erate passenger bus lines from Provo to Orem and Geneva and between Lehi, American Fork, Alpine and Geneva will be held Sept. 25, at 10 a. m. in the Utah countv court house, the state have a new party of liberty anjlpublic service1 commission an- peacey" he decIaredThe-people nounced Thursday afternoon, Grandpa's Back Ho me committees left today for Grand Coulee, Wash., .to continue its) tour of the northwest after inspecting in-specting -the Cascade Dam site! here yesterday.. - ' LILLY'S PASTRY SHOP Carher First South and 'Fourth Wegt Provo. . . Dorfe Nut Galce H45c & 65c Cherry PieEach.. Almond Roll Each .... Pari Rolls ....... Date Nut Cookies , Doz. Raisin Bread Loaf ... 45c 6c 12c 22c 17c SMEATH'S A&HMKT. Shopping: Center 3rd South & Vth East The application was made by Gronway H. Parry, owner of Geneva Ge-neva Transportation company, and also asked for a license al lowing operation of a bus line between Dragerton and Horse Canyon. The transportation company al ready holds'temporary franchises for the bus lines mentioned, and seeks a more permanent license. ion over last year. He said communism com-munism was not the cause of the present crisis facing this country. He said the crisis was a financial finan-cial one brought on by the Truman Tru-man administration, "monopolistic "monopolis-tic capitalists and their political errand boys." Wallace addressed a political rally sponsored by the Progressive Progres-sive Citizens of America. Sharing the speakers' stand with him were Paul Robeson and Lena Home, negro, singers, and Dr. Frank Kingdon, newspaper col-uminst. col-uminst. ' Wallace bitterly attacked U. S. foreign policy, which he said followed fol-lowed . the philosophy of former president Herbert Hoover and was carried out by military men and Wall Street bankers. . , "Under the Republicans Wall Street ran America; under the present administration Wall Street is all set to run the world, he said. . " ' ." The finest grades of domestic tobacco are grown in Massachu setts and Connecticut. .department of- would be a "con Istrictions in .-ibis country ? 'lew: officials,., however, coh sider any . broad renewal of war time controls either practical or possible. Secretary of Onmmrr Averell Harrlman said rationing probably could not be reinstated m time 10 neip Europe tnis year.. Other government spokesmen pointed out. that neither congress con-gress nor the public is likely to be receptive to renewal of 1rKti restrictibns. " On Canitol Hill. Smv Smt Lucas, D, IU said he did not favor a return to general price controls but that some sort of regulation was lnrtirstrf nn. grain. . ' One alternative to compulsory controls would be so-called voluntary vol-untary rationing appeals to the Public to conserve frwvt nnrl on easy in buying scarce commod ities, ana to farmers to use grain for feed.. jbui- ouiciais are doubtful as to thtt ffMtivn f irnlun. tary program. .The public, they saiaK is i tm hungry for meat and has the moneyta buy it .As for urging farmers to cut back live- stock feedJWg, they said: '"Withggs a dollar a dozen and buttejranoV beef a dollar a pound, ' what would you do with your servative" estimate that exportsi M yu were a farmer? J U. 1 . rt . I - wuiuu uc icuiwcu iv. per cenl. Thev said the dron miptar' hi more than 20 per cent in the absence ab-sence of price or allocation re lets TTh'e Koran, sacred book of thei1 Moslems.. reauireA thm tn nnv five times daily at fixed times. Need A New Pair Shoes For School or Work? 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