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NO. 10. MOUNT CARMEL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1946. PRICE FIVE CENTS, WORST SHORTAGE AIRTRANSPORT VETS HONOR SISTER KENNY GOP Leadership Reveals Schedule Krug Striving To Draw Mine Owners Into Negotiations Tax Reduction Pay Boost For Some Employes Of Borough 276 Arrests And $186 In Fines Are Collected In Month Sister Elizabeth Kenny, former Australian nurse who won worldwide renown with system she evolved for treating polio victims, was given the Army and Navy Union's Medal of Merit for her part in the fight on the disease. Above, Comdr.

William A. Klatt is pictured making the award as the veterans' organization celebrated its 60th anniversary in Washington, D. C. Soviet Pressure On -Allies To Move Out Of Trieste Opposed BY R. H.

SHACKFORD NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (UP.) Secretary of State James Byrnes will dogggedly oppose all Soviet efforts to set a definite and early date for withdrawal of British and American troops from the troubled Trieste area, it was learned today. Secretary Confers With Lewis After Morning Conference With Coal Operators BY RAYMOND LAHR WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (U.R) Secretary of Interior J.

A. Krug today conferred with spokesmen for the soft coal industry and then scheduled an afternoon conference with John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (AFL), on the same wage dispute. In a last-ditch Administration effort to get the government out of the coal business, Krug met for 43 with five members of the Operators Negotiating Committee. Neither side would reveal what was discussed, but it was assumed that Krug was exploring the possibility of having the mine owners; take over negotiations with Lewis.

Krug negotiated the present government contract with Lewis after the government seized the mines last May. A spokesman for Krug told reporters that nothing could be said now beyond the fact that no further conferences were scheduled between Krug and the operators. He said he did not know whether the operators had been asked to stand by. The conference came amid signs the government was preparing a settlement formula to submit to the operators and Lewis. Although prospects did not appear bright, Krug hoped to promote an agreement between the operators and the union.

Until that is done, the government cannot release the mines it seized last May. Another stalemate between the industry and Lewis also would mean that the government itself would have to negotiate a new contract to prevent a strike of 400,000 soft miners. Under Lewis' interpretation of the present agreement, he can serve a notice Friday putting the miners on strike Nov. 20. To avoid negotiating another agreement with the UMW, Krug was making a final effort to bring the owners and the union together so the government could release the mines.

Because the miners will not work without a contract, the government will not let loose of the mines until a private agreement is negotiated. Indications that the government (Continued on Page Nine) MISSING WITH 11 ONBOARD BURBANK, Nor. 13 0J.R) A twin-engined Western Air Lines transport with eight passengers and a crew of three aboard was overdue and reported missing today on a flight here from Las Vegas, Nev. Western Air Lines reported the plane was feared to have crashed within three minutes flying time of the air terminal. MONTROSE, Nov.

13. (U.R) The sheriff's sub-station here reported today sighting wreckage, possibly that of a missing Western Air Lines transport, in the hills near Sunland, about 12 miles from Lockheed Air Terminal. Searchers were sent to verify the report. Low visibility hampered an aerial search over the Santa Susana Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, which were isolated by drenching rains. The sheriff's office and police started a ground search.

Pilot Gerald Miller contacted the control tower at 3:37 a. P3T reporting he was flying at 9.000 feet and preparing for a landing. He was over Newhall, 40 miles distant at 3:24 a. m. PST and officials said his final report placed the plane only 18 to 20 miles away.

Other crew members aboard were Co-Pilot Ted Mathis and Stewardess Joan Fauntleroy. Names of the passengers were not released. Three of the passengers boarded the airliner at Great Falls, one at Butte, one at Idaho Falls, two at Salt Lake City and one at Las Vegas. i The plane was more than half empty, however, because it ordin arily accommodates 21 passengers. The ceiling here was 3,500 feet when Pilot Miller was directed to land, but rain poured on the field shortly thereafter almost obscuring visicn.

The control tower was unable to contact Miller again. Sheriff's deputies said they saw a low-flying passenger plane, obviously in trouble" and looking for a place to land, over nearby Hollywood at a'cout the time the missing transport was due. A spokesman for Western Airlines said the plane should have landed at 3:40 a. m. F3T after coming down over the nearby Hollywood Hills.

It carried enough gas to stay aloft until 7 am. (PST). A 4-passenger Western transport (Continued on Page Nine) Teachers Ask Higher Sea PITTSBURGH, Nov. 13. (U.R1 The Pennsylvania State Education Association, representing most of the Commonwealth's teachers, will ask the next State Legislature for salary increases of from $400 to $2,100 a year was disclosed today.

Letters from the Association to district leaders revealed that the Legislature will be asked to make uniform the pay scale for all teachers elementary or high school, in all districts big or little. There is now a $1,300 a year difference in the salaries of first-class district high school teachers over the salaries of all teachers in lower class districts. The Association, which claims to represent 53.000 of the State's 60,000 teachers, will demand: 1 The minimum salaries for all beginners be boosted from the present $1,400 to $2,400. 2 All teachers getting less than $2,400 be raised immediately to that figure. 3 Teachers receiving $2,400 or more be given an immediate raise of $175 for each five years of service, up to a total of $600, but not to ex- (Continued on Page Nine) Immediate 20 Pet.

Slash Planned In Income Levy; Bill Ready In January BY LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (U.R) The Republican leadership today revealed more of its 1947 tax reduction schedule but still excluded corporations from relief next year. Rep.

Harold Knutson, who will be chairman of. the House Ways and Means Committee in the new Congress, said there would be two tax bills in 1947: 1. A bill he described as a "quickie" to effect an immediate 20 per cent reduction in personal income taxes. .2. A long range tax bill to reduce or eliminate some excise taxes and to deal with administrative sections of the present act.

Knutson said the 20 per cent bill would be ready for consideration by the House Ways and Means Committee in January. It will be short and comparatively simple. Knutson and R3p. Joseph W. Martin, are confident the House can dispose of it quicklyperhaps in one day of floor discussion.

Martin's opinion is important because he will be the new Speaker. Knutson said no reduction in corporation taxes was contemplated for next year. He and other Republican leaders have promised a balanced budget along with tax reduction. That will require the shrinkage of most government de partments and agencies. The 20 per cent reduction would (Continued on Page Nine) MAN IS DROWNED Two Trevorton miners, Ralph Taylor.

46, and George Feaster, 37. are in Shamokin State Hospital with injuries sustained while searching for Stephen Shingara, 37, of Au- gustaville, who is believed to have drowned in a bootleg mine near Bear Valley. Taylor has fractures of the right arm and left leg and lacerations of the scalp, while Feaster has possible fractures of the skull and left ankle. Admitted to the hospital at 1:30 o'clock this morning, Taylor and Feaster were reported in satisfactory condition. The Foieri Contracting Company in 1939 opened a stripping operation on the Bear Valley tract, lands formerly owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company.

After excavating a stripping 200 feet deep and about 300 feet in length, the Foieri interests uncovered evidence that a barrier pillar had been invaded by independent miners. Accoring, it was decided to leave untouched a 50-foot barrier of ccal. The company then dug another stripping, leaving the 50-foot section between the two strippings. Shingara's brother, Joseph, of 634 Bear Valley avenue, Shamokin, three months ago leased mining rights to the 50-foot standing section of coal from Edward O'Rourke, receiver in the Zerbe coal land case. Stephen Shingara since then has engaged in dewatering the strippings, preparatory to opening a drift in the 50-foot sec- (Continued on Page Nine) BELIEVE RADIO FINDS THE ALPHABET INADEQUATE BY FREDERICK C.

OTHMAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (U.R) Now comes the worst shortage of all. Not enough letters in the alphabet. We are running out of call letters for radio stations.

An international conference on 'this crisis is in the offing. If that doesn't work, the only recourse is to the little man who names sleeping cars. This is not funny. The Federal Commissioners are worrying. And well they might.

The Mississippi River divides our radio statipns into four-letter calls beginning in the East and 'X." in the West with some We now have better than 1C 3,000 licensed radio stations, in-c tiding Station KOP operated by :3 police in Detroit, and that's the limit. (Take that any wav you want, kop.) There are only 1,800 combinations beginning with left. The situation is little better. We still fceve about 5,000 of those, but every time a new ham goes on the air, or another taxi company installs cab-to-shore telephones. There goes another precious letter.

I have been checking this sorry shortage with the Commission and we go any further we'd better clear up the Detroit kops' station KOP which should be, under the regulations, station WOP. The keps snuck in and grabbed that east of the Mississippi before the government began divvying up the alphabet. So did numerous other radio stations, including KDKA In Pittsburgh. In the old days, when the alphabet still had plenty of letters, most stations chose their own. That explains station WACO in Waco, and station WIOD in Miami Beach.

Fla. "What?" I cried. Yep," said the man at the FCC, dreams. Cute, hey?" The commissioners have let no lexers go to waste. So it is that station KGB at San Diego, inherited the call of the steamer D.

H. Luckenbach, sunk by a submarine in 1917. KOB, now the call of a broadcaster in Albuquerque, N. used to belong to the steamship Princess, which broke in two years ago on Rockaway shoals off the New York coast. The trouble is that segments of the alphabet are divided anions the nations of the world by international treaty.

We've got to get mire letters, but how do we know those Russians, for instance, will even slip us a we don't. That's where the Pullman man comes in. In South America many a radio station ignores its official letters and 'Continued on Page Nine) Colorado Still Fighting Snow WALSENBURG, Nov. hard-fought battle against snow and sub-zero temperatures in southeastern Colorado continued today while additional planes and vehicles were momnzea to save marooned ranch families and of head of livestock. Rescue workers estimated that ful in saving several families, but snow-blocked roads and lew temperatures hampered operations.

Freezing weather increased the danger to millions of dollars worth of livestock stranded on the snowbound rangcland. Resuce workers estimated that more than 1,500 head of cattle already had perished in the snow and cold. Storm deaths in Colorado rose to 15 yesterday. Army planes dropped hay to several herds of cattle, but about 50,000 head of cattle and thonsands oi sneep sua were cogged down in snow, unable to reach the green wheat shoots. Yesterday, three Army C-47 planes took off from Lcwry Field near Denver to drop three tons of hay at Keystone ranch, 120 miles southeast of Denver.

The pilots were guided by a huge and the word "hay" spelled out in the snow by young Moseley, owner of the ranch. About 10,000 starving head of stock are on the ranch. A snow weasel completed a dra-f matic mercy mission early today to the ranch home of Alex Sample In one of the most Isolated sections of the northeast part of Huerfano County. The crew rescued Mrs. Sample and the two small children who had been snowbound since Nov.

2. A planeload of cotton seed cake was dropped for the cattle. Shortage Of Names' Calls 25th 'Sunday' LAMESA Nov. 13. U.R Mrs.

Bernardino Lopez, who has given birth to 26 children in the last 33 years, complained today that she was running out of names for her offspring. Mrs. Lopez was a slender girl of 11 and Lopez was 13, when they were 'married at Ulvade, in 1913. Both had come there from Monterey, Mexico. Their frist child was born a year later.

Mrs. Lopez, now 43 and plump, said she named her new baby "Sun-I day" after her birthday because she couldn't think of anything else. Twelve of their children are living. All 25 were born singly. Mine Dinners To Be Attended Key Workers Institute Arranges Meetings To Discuss Anthracite Problems WILKE3-BARRE Pa.

Nov. 13 0J.R) The Anthracite Institute has a series of dinner meetings to inform 5,000 key mining employes of problems in the Industry and methods being used to solve them, Institute Preside.it Frank W. Earnest, announced today. Groups to be invited to the meetings will include colliery superintendents, mine foremen, section foremen, outside foremen, fire bosses, department heads and the president, secretary and members of the mine committe2 from each local of the United Mine Workers of America, he said. The group will also visit the Institute laboratory to inspect work being done to develop new equipment designed to give anthracite users greater satisfaction, he added.

Employes of the Lehigh Navigation Coal will attend the first meeting tonight. Other meetings scheduled were for the Highland coal and the Pennsylvania Coal Co. next week, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co on Nov. 25 and 26, and Dec. 2, 4, and 5, and the Susquehanna Collieries on Dec.

11. 13 INJURED IN SCHOOL BLAST BARODA, Nov. 13 (U.R) Superintendent of Schools Howard Walter said 13 persons were injured today when a boiler rocm explosion wrecked a section of the Baroda Consolidated School. Berrien County Sheriff Erwin Kubath said the explosion wrecked two on the first and second floors above the boiler room. About 15 to 20 children were in that section of the building at the time, he said.

He said seme 150 children were in another part of the building having lunch and escaped uninjured. There was an unconfirmed report that one person was missing after the blast, but rescue workers digging in the debris of the wrecked schoolrooms said they had found no bodies. The injured were taken to two St. Joseph hospitals and two were understood to be in critical condition. Among the injured was a teacher, Miss Mira Spackel.

The explosion occurred in a new brick addition to the original one-story building. Rescue workers estimated that it would take eight or 10 hours before all the debris was cleared away. Dorothy Burgard To Teach In Sunbury Mrs. Dorothy Burgard, of Mount Carmel, was elected as a teacher In the elementary division of Sunbury schools. She is a graduate of Blooms- burg State Teachers College, and was formerly engaged at Telford, and has had four years' experience.

there would be only slight improvement in the supply of soap, which has been scarce for many months. Increases were announced by three of the nation's leading soap manufacturers. At Cincinnati, Proctor and Gamble Co. and M. Werk Co.

announced that their six-ounce bars would sell for nine cents, an Increase of three cents. Both companies announced that 21-ounce boxes of soap chips and powder which had been selling for 23 cents would cost the consumer from 12 to 14 cents mote. At New York, Lever Bros. Co. announced wholesale price boosts of about 50 per cent on all its soap products.

Industry spokesmen said the costs of raw materials had risen about 125 per cent since decontrol. Scrap steel brokers said prices have been hiked $2.50 per ton. And that the new price is being paid by most of the big steel mills. Harvey Kaplan, prominent Chicago broker, said the advance brought the base price for No. 1 and No.

2 heavy i melting scrap to $20.75 per gross ton nt Chicago and to $22.50 at Pitts- (CoDtinned Fsge Eight) On recommendation of the Finance Ccmmittee, Mcunt Carmel Borough Council at the regular monthly meeting at City Hall increased the wages of certain employes of the municipality. On motion of Yakutis and Kla-witter it was ordered that the daily wages of borough la-borers be fixed at $6.12, truck drivers and roller operators at $6.50 and unskilled workmen, $5.00, all for seven hours work per day. This constitutes a boost of $1.00 a day. The salary of the meter maintenance man was set at $100 a month on motion of Rettinger and Morgan. The job was only -recently created since installation of the meters, so the salary is newly created.

On motion of Zaleha and Shiko the salary of the Secretary was increased from $100 to $125 per month. Chief of Police Anthony Trefs-gar reported a total of 276 arrests for the month of October, including 263 for traffic violations, 10 criminal and three sumirons. The total of $186 was reported as collected in fines during the past month. A motion by Yuskoski and Morgan was passed boosting the salaries of the House Sergeant and the Sergeant cf Police each from $175 to $180 a month and the salary of patrolmen from $160 to $170. Tamscki and Zaleha made a motion that passed that the Chief of Police be allotted $10 a month for expenses.

Members present at the session of Council last night wree President Simmons, Tamecki, Shiko, (Continued on Page Three) To Call For Contributions The Commnuity Ambulance Building Fund Committee, acknowledging additional contributions of $125, announced that volunteers from the American.Hose Company will call at the homes and business places in the First Ward and some parts of the Seffond Ward tomorrow. Homes which were missed the first time the workers called, will be canvassed for voluntary contributions. People are warned not give contributions to any one unless the collectors are accompanied by the American Hose fire truck. Donations of $25 received so far include: Clem J. Karpinsky of Crystal Beverages, Kerstetter and Veach Building and Supply, Joseph Blewis, H.

H. Otto and the Sons of Poland. Contributions of fifty cents or more will be Contributions may be forwarded to City Hall or given to the volunteers who will man the American fire truck. Think it over. What is it worth to you to have an ambulance available, an ambulance which perhaps will save someone's life, maybe you or someone dear to you.

Give freely and give generously. Wilkes-Barre, to recruit them personally. She gave them stenographic tests, got their parents' permission to leave home, met them at the station when they arrived, found them single rooms for $24.50 a month in a government girls dormitory at Arlington Va. At first, the girls wished they had stayed home. Bnroute to Washington, they had to drive over a flood in the Susquehanna River.

Their bus caught fire in Baltimore. The' first day of work they got out of bed an hour early because they thought Washington was on Daylight Saving Time. And two weeks later OPA was put out of business by Congress for a month. Since then, they say they have had a "wonderful time." They don't believe that old saw abcut there being five women to every man in Washington. "Where we live, men are all around," they said.

Fort Myer is 'only a stone's threw from their dorm, and several naval and marine barracks al- (Continued on Page Eight) His view is that the troops should remain there until stability and order are assured, and that the United Nations security council on which both the United States and Britain have a veto should be the body to decide when withdrawal is safe. In the last analysis this policy would allow (he United States and Britain to be the final judge on withdrawal of their trocps from Trieste. Byrnes has long feared a Trieste settlement unfavorable to Yugoslavia might lead to a Yugoslav coup. For months Byrnes has beaten down Soviet Foreign Minister Via-chsslav M. Molotov's efforts to fcrce Big Four agreement cn early withdrawal of all foreign troops from Trieste.

And he succeeded last night in beating down Molotov's first offensive this direction at the Big four council of foreign ministers here. Before the New York council is many more days old, there is bound to be some bright east versus west fireworks on this issue because Mo-lotov is extremely vulnerable on the whole question of foreign troops in other, countries. British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin already has shot one barb at him this week on the issue of Soviet occupation troops in Eastern European countries to maintain communication lines with Soviet occupation forces in Austria. Bevin suggested alternative lines, since the British have arrranged for such for their troops in Austria when they withdrew from Italy. The Big Four Council of For- (Continued on Page Nine, BULLETINS TOKYO, Japan Pvt.

James H. Phillips, Detroit, was sentenced to two years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge for the unintentional killing of two Japanese with a 2 ton truck. An Army court martial found him guilty of operating the vehicle in a careless manner at high speed. ELIZABETH CITY, N. Stanley Brickhouse, father of a 17 year old girl who ended her life in shame, defended himself in court today for the shooting of a man he claimed was the father of her unborn child.

Brickhouse is accused of shooting Raymond Mann, 34 year old friend-of the girl, 10 days after she put a bullet in her head. BURLINGTON, Vt. With a single shot from a small caliber rifle, 20-year-old Armand Premo felled a 250-pound deer. But it leaped up and started to run. Premo flung himself on the deer's back, yanked out a hunting knife and finally stabbed it to death after it raced nearly 100 feet through the brush.

HARRISBURG Robert B. Conley, 16, Harrisburg, was struck and killed by a hit-run motorist a few miles east of here on the Jonestown road this morning, police reported. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. The Board of Education today ordered a $200 annual pay increase for all employes of the Jamestown public school system.

The Board petitioned the State Leg- Islature to establish a minimum salary of $2,500, with eight increments to a maximum of $3,600. STEUBENVILLE, O. Steuben- ville ministers today had won the first round in their fight for police powers to combat crime here. City Council last night granted preliminary approval to their demands, but because the proposed legislation had no emergency clause it must come up for two more readings and will not become effective for another 30 days after final Six Policemen Die In Blasts Railway Explosions Believed Planned By Jewish Extremists JERUSALEM, Nov. 13.

U.R) Six policemen were killed today in two separate Palestine railway explosions "believed planed by Jewish Stern gang extremists. Two British constables were killed when an inbound train from Lldda was blown up at Tel Aviv. Four more policemen three Arab and one British were killed a few minutes later near the Beit Safafa railway station, three miles south of Jerusalem, when mines exploded beneath a police trolley car. Authorities blamed Sternists for both blasts, Jewish extremists have been conducting a sabotage campaign against Palestine railroads for the past ten days. A half hour before the Tel Aviv explosion, an Army patrol had inspected the rail line and had found it undisturbed.

It was believed the mines were planted' by Sternists after dark and that they were detonated electrically after the patrol passed. British High Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham announced last night that 300 Jewish refugees would be transferred from Cyprus internment camps to Palestine as legal immigrants. He said they would be admitted as part of the 1,500 quota for the period of November 15 through December 15. Peru Earthquake Toll Up To 500 LIMA, Peru, Nov. 13.

(U.R) Fatalities from Sunday's earthquake in northern Peru mounted to 500 today and authorities feared more casualties would be reported when shattered telegraph communications were resumed. Three hundred persons were killed and 250 injured in one small mining town where landslides entombed native workers. Two entire towns were destroyed. Medical equipment and relief supplies were rushed to affected areas yesterday as the tremors continued. Doctors and nurses were sent from Lima by the government.

Fragmentary reports indicated that the departments of La Liber-tad and Ancash in the Andes mountain area of northern Peru were the most seriously affected. Almost all the victims were native Indians, or Mestizos. In soxe areas the earthquake caused floods which blocked possible escape routes for survivors seeking higher ground. NOTICE Because of the acute shortage of newsprint, The Item finds it necessary to reduce the size of our daily Issue. To remain within our paper quota we are forced to conserve space by temporarily eliminating a number of comics, features aid considerable advertising.

We take this action reluctantly but assure that when the situation becomes adjusted we will again publication of favorable features and advertisers can purchase all the space they need. May Ask Franco For Plebiscite LAKE SUCCESS, N. Nov. 13. (U.R Britain is toying with a suggestion that the United Nations sk Generalissimo Francisco Franco to i submit to a supervised plebisciie and prove whether the Spanish people want his dictatorship, it was learned today.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, while here principally for the Big Four Foreign Ministers' talks, is working personally on the Franco case and is consulting British Cabinet members in London on the plebiscite proposal. While the idea still being explored, Bevin and other British officials were said to feel it might be what they are looking for to counter the growing demand that the UN General Assembly take drastic steps to unseat Franco. It was emphasized that the Brit-ish have not yet decided to make the proposal to the Assembly, nor have they determined exactly how the UN could supervise the plebiscite or general election in Spain. If such a proposal were to get Assembly sanction a possibility which many considered highly doubtful its outcome would depend on Franco himself. The proposition envisages no way of forcing the plebiscite or election on Franco un-- less lie wauui Both the United States and Britain, determined to fight against a general rupture of diplomatic relations with Franco Spain or any action they consider similarly drastic, are devoting overtime thought to the means of combatting the growing pressure for a break in relations.

Reliable persons disclosed that Secretary General Trygve Lie of the UN had made an unsuccessful personal appeal to the American deie-gation to abondon Its opposition to Poland's proposal or some similar move. The U. S. delegation has decided definitely to oppose such an act, despite Lie's pie. developments added to the, rprfaintr of a biter duel between af large Russian-led bloc Dl European! and Latin American countries on the one hand and the Anglo-American delegations on the other when the Spanish eontroversy breaks hit the open in the Assembly'a political1 and Security Committee, OPA Has Own Tie-In Plan To State On Public Payroll Soap Tops List of Soaring Commodity Prices In U.

S. BY HELENS MONBERG WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 U.R) The OPA, which always has frowned on tie-in-sales, now has a tie-in scheme of its own that may keeo some of its high-paid employes in the government. OPA has such drawing cards as the 19 bright and beautiful teenage stenographers who were imported en masse from Pennsylvania last summer and who don't want to go home now that OPA is folding. Government agencies are bulging with lawyers, administrative assistants, information specialists and-the like but stenographers are scarce, and therein lies CPA's bargaining strength.

OPA is willing to transfer the girls to other agencies but it hopes to persuade them to take a few of its higher-paid employes at the same time. Only five months out of high school, the girls are among the few OPA employes who don't have job worries. They are hoping they will all be transferred to the same ar.ry. E' rins Heiberg of the OPA Department went up to BY UNITED PRESS The price of soap Increased as much as 50 per cent today to lead a long list of rising prices on articles ranging from scrap steel to bonded whisky. Retail food prices were reported moving upward a cent or two at a time in several large cities.

Detroit and Washington, D.C., both reported that parking lot rates had jumped. Many cities, however, Including, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Salt Lake City re ported no major Increases and said manufacturers were hoping to keep prices as low as possible. International Harvester Co. an nounced a nine per cent increase in the price of tractors and farm implements, based on "present higher wages and material costs." The company said it would not attempt "to anticipate future Increases In these items. Many large manufacturers and wholesalers said they would try to hold the price line for the present, but could not predict that would happen in the future.

Spokesmen for the soap industry said that despite the higher prices.