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OPA Approves
Ceiling Raises On
Cotton Textiles
WASHINGTON, July 31, — </P)—
Cotton clothing prices headed up
still further today as OPA agreed
to ‘raise textile ceilings an av
erage of about 16 percent.
This increase on fabric, the j
minimum required under the new
price control law, is expected to
boost cotton garment costs at least!
10 percent, an official told a re
porter privately.
£)ther OPA officials have es
timated that clothing increases
may range from 15 to 20 percent, I
on top of price hikes for some ap
parel granted earlier this week.
Also in prospect, according to
those who know but may not be
identified, are these other cost
of-living increases:
1. A price boost of one to two
cents a can in price ceilings on
cornu peas and tomatoes.
2. 71 possible cent a loaf hike for j
bread, with proportionate increas-■
es for other bakery goods.
3. A jump of eight to ten cents j
a pound for coffee.
4. Higher ceilings on several kinds J
of breakfast cereals.
On coffee and the three canned j
vegetables, preliminary decisions j
aweady have been made against.
restoring the subsidies which were;
suspended July 1, when price con- i
trols lapsed.
Without subsidies, OPA ig re
quired to grant compensating price
increases to producers and sup- j
pliers, who can pass them on to
consumers.
Aged Woman Prays
For Boys Who Tied
z^nd Stoned Her
NEW YORK, July 31, — (/P>—Mary
Heydrick, 85, who prayed for
teen-aged boys who hurled rocks
at her house, was found today in
the basement of her 100-year-old
torque-filled home .with her skull
battered, her mouth gagged and
her hands tied behind her back.
Firemen, answering an alarm
that smoke was pouring out of
the second story window of her
home in Dean Street, Brooklyn,
found her. They reported the in
side of her house was wrecked.
Doctors at Jewish Hospital,
where she was taken, said the
£derly woman had been beaten
and choked and was suffering
if<|>m suffocation. Her condition
was described as serious.
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SS Bill Adapted To
Territories Share
WASHINGTON, July 31, — </P>—
Senator Huf man, (D-Ohio) has
obtained adoption of an amend
ment to the Social Security Bill
which would? treat the Territories
of Alaska and Hawaii as States
for the purpose of determining
what percentages they should bear
of the cost of grants to aged,
blind and to dependent children.
Until reliable statistics on their
income are received, they will
share 50-50 with the federal gov
ernment.
Black Marketeers
Denied Sacraments
ROME, July 31, —(£*)—Alfredo
Schuster, Archbishop of Milan,
has warned black marketeers they
will be denied the Sacraments of
the Catholic Church.
The warning, according to a
Milan dispatch to Rome’s “II Min
uti” was contained in a letter to
clergymen of the Archdiocese,
written by the Cardinal after the
Prefect of the dty had asked for
his cooperation in the fight against
the black market.
Jails Will Be Filled
Says Rep. Olson
War Investigations
WASHINGTON, July 31, — (/P)—
Paxil A. Olson, former secretary
to Rep. Coffee (D-Wash.), told
the Senate War Investigating
Committee today that “the jails
of America are going to be filled”
if the Justice Department en
forces a law barring government
contractors from making cam
paign contributions.
‘I warn you, you are treaamg
on very delicate grounds.” he
told Senator Ferguson (R—Mich>
in an angry exchange over the
interpretation of the law. Specif
ically at point was how it affected
a $2,500 check which Coffee re
ceived in 1941 from a Tacoma,
Wash., defense contractor.
The six-year-old statute car
ries a penalty of $5,000 fine or
imprisonment up to five years
for violation.
Olson maintained that there is
nothing in the law barring a per
son holding a government contract
from making a personal contrib
ution from his personal funds—
a contention with which Fergus
on sharply disagreed.
Judges’ Salaries Up
$5,000 Per Year
WASHINGTON, July 31, —(^)—
President Truman today signed
legislation raising the salaries of
the nation’s 300 Federal judges
by $5,000 a year.
The raise blankets the Federal
judiciary, from district judges to
the Chief Justice of the United
States.
, Thus, Chief Justice Vinson will
i get $25,000 annually and the as
sociate justices $25,000. Pay of
circuit court judges goes up to
$17,500, and that of district
judges to $15,000.
One Constitutional effect of the
bill is to ban appointment of
present members of Congress to
the Federal judiciary until next
January, at the earliest.
In the case of some Senators,
they will have to wait as long as
four and a half years—until their
present terms expire—before be
coming eligible for any Federal
Judgeship.
Olson said that Eivind Ander
son, the Tacoma contractor who
sent the $2,500 check, tried to
blackmail him into withdrawing
last January from the race for
Mayor of Tacoma.
PARIS, July 31, —(/P)—Russia
emerged today as the principal
beneficiary of proposed peace
treaties which would strip Italy,
Finland and beaten Germany’s
Balkan satellites of their mili
tary power, redraw their front
iers and charge them at least a
billion dollars in reparations.
The treaty drafts presented to
| the 21-nation Peace Conference
: last night by the big four agreed
> upon substantial territorial in
creases for the Soviet Union, upon
payment of $900,000,000 in repar
' ations to Russia and left Russia’s
! domination of Eastern Europe in
' tact.
In certain disputed sections of
the treaty drafts, however, it
seemed apparent that the Western
powers intend to try to whittle
down some of the Russian gains
in the East, at least in economic
j matters.
The United States and Britain
want the vital Danube River op
ened to trade on a basis of com
plete equality, while Russia wants
nothing said in any of the treaties
about freedom of navigation on
the Danube. The three Western
members of the big four also want
“most favored nation” status for
all allied nations in commercial
dealings with the five defeated
nations, while Russia would ex
empt all fields closed to private
enterprise and would make ex-*
ceptions for neighboring states
Epidemic Feared
Among Soldiers
On Troopship
BOSTON, July 31, —(/P)—With
one dead, others stricken and a
diphtheria epidemic feared, the
Coast Guard today rushed anti
toxin by air to the troopship
Colby Victory, several hundred
miles off Argentina, New Found
land, and enroute to Bremerhaven,
Germany.
The Coast Guard estimated the
supplies would reach the ship this
evening.
A specially-rigged parachute
equipment will be used to drop
the supplies, packed in a water
tight package, to the deck of the
troopship, which left New York
July 27.
In an “urgent" message for the
supplies, the chief medical officer
aboard the Colby Victory said the
death of one soldier was “strongly
indicative of diphtheria" and that
“other patients are showing simi
lar symptoms."