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HERALD AND REVIEW Sunday, February 27, 150, PICTURES DECATUR SUNDAY Stoy Flour Package Line Goes Into STOY 23 STOY STOY STOP A STOY FLOUR Cases of the new "Stoy" flour roll from the package Semelka, shown in front holding the box, and Georgia lines of the A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. to the storage depart- McRae, behind Miss Semelka.

A similar track delivers ment where they are lifted from the rollers by Loretta cases to the shipping department. JOIS Until the casing machine can be instal- conveyor to be taken to the shipping or led, Bonnie Jenkins places the sealed storage departments. Packages flow from packages in cases and places them on the this end of the line at rate of 60 per minute. U. S.

Trust Suit Against A Danville (AP) The Government dropped one and started another anti-trust law ac11011 yesterday against the New York Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company and subsidiaries which the Department of Justice called the nation's largest food and food products handler. A criminal information charging the parent company and 30 officers and subsidiaries, called the group." with conspiracy to control prices and to injure and destroy food manufacturers. processors. canners. wholesalers and independent retailers was filed in the Danville federal district court.

This was almost simultaneous with action in the federal court at Dallas, Texas. by which an indictment containing similar charges, which had been returned by a grand jury Nov. 1942, was nol prossed on motion of Wendell Berge, assistant attorney gen- cral. Dallas Case Dismissed After the information was filed here, Caruthers Ewing. A.

P. general counsel, said in New York: expected the government to lodge an information which is simply a charge by a special assistant attorney general without the necessity of going before a grand jury. It is reassuring to know that our government is so alert and active in the protection of the people's rights." Ewing said the original charges were "vague and Berge said at Dallas that the case there was dismissed because action of District Judge W. H. Atwell in striking portions of the dictment cast grave doubt on the continued validity of it.

Berge described the case. however, as "one of the most important in the antitrust division's program covering the food industry." Prices Too Low Horace L. Flurry, special assistant to the attorney general in Operation at Staley Plant The new $500,000 modern building and equipment is located in the northwest section of the Staley plant grounds. Foreman Guy Goodwin checks the automatic packer where the Stoy is poured into boxes as they make their way down the lines of the packaging system. The most intricate and sensitive of all boxes.

Mary Bauman keeps the complithe machines is this automatic tight-wrap- cated machine in operation. per which wraps and seals labels around the (Herald-Review photos by Les Colliflower) Cerro Gordo Boy Co-Pilot of Burning Fortress That Got Back By HENRY B. JAMESON A U.S. Flying Fortress Base In Britain (AP) Like a boxer who bloodied his opponent's nose but could not knock him out. five German "rocketeers" chased the blazing Flying Fortress "Eight across the sky for two hours but finally had to give up in the face of plain Yankee guts.

Coming back from a raid Friday a German shell pierced the fuselage of the bomber and exploded in a pile of flares starting a blaze that swept through the ship like a prairie fire. Rockets fired by the German planes ripped the Fortress full of holes but under the masterful handling of its crew it kept fighting back and won. Bare Handed Fire Fighting In defiance of the onrushing enemy fighters three crewmen, one of whom already was injured. drove into the blaze and with bare hands literally tore the inside out of the plane until they extinguished the fire. That enabled the struggling pilot.

Lieut. George J. Williamson, 23. of Columbus. Ohio, to shake off the enemy and bring the battered bomber home.

A rocket exploded in the right wing. which "blew up like a balloon." Another in the tail barely missed the gunner, Sgt. Donald Degan, Washington, D. C. Then a shell whizzed through the left waist window and exploded, searing the face and hands of Sgt.

George T. Kruithoff, Grand Rapids, Mich. He was not seriously wounded but it cost him his mustache. The next shell knocked the radioman-gunner to the floor and started a fire. His body was peppered with shrapnel and he was bleeding profusely, but he picked himself up and started beating out the fire.

Threw Flares Out Sgt. Walter J. Hencik. Omaha, the top-turret gunner. rushed to his aid followed by the co-.

The flattened cardboards pass through the automatic box-maker at the left under the watchful eye of Dorothy Crist, who checks the machine and replenishes the supply of cardboards. Alert inspectors check the sealed and wrapped packages of Stoy for imperfections. Lillian Horton inspects the packages as they leave the tight-wrapper. charge of the Dallas case, was hand in Danville when the information was filed by United States Attorney William Hart and his assistant, Ray Foreman. They did not say why the Danville district was selected.

Judge Walter C. Lindley did not immediately set any date for arraignment of defendants or hearing counsel. The Government said the A. P. group did a gross business in 1942 of $1.375,000.000 in its 6,400 stores.

The information alleged that A. P. lowered food prices at times below cost in certain areas until their stores acquired volume business. using profits from other areas to make up losses, also that the defendants obtained lower prices. discounts and rebates which competitors could not obtain.

After the Dallas dismissal but before he was aware of the Danville filing. John A. Hartford. A. P.

president, said in New York he was confident that "no court would ever find anything wrong with our continued effort to give people more food for their money." Mrs. Mary L. Mowry Dies in Lincoln at 77 Mrs. Mary L. Mowry, 77, of 739 North Union street, died at 4 a.

m. Saturday in the home of Mrs. Paul F. Hickey, 525 Seventh street. Lincoln.

where she was receiving nursing care. Mrs. Mowry was born at New Holland May, 4. 1866. and was married Jan.

4. 1899, to J. W. Mowry. who died Sept.

23. 1943. The couple lived in Middletown and Wilmette before moving to Decatur some years ago. She leaves two children, Dr. Dean Mowry, St.

Louis, and Mrs. Donna M. Sutton, Chicago; two sisters. Mrs. Ryan Ginther.

New Holland, and Mrs. D. F. Nickols. Lincoln, and four brothers, O.

William James and D. Logan Holland, all of New Holland. The body is in the Sheets funeral home. Lincoln, where funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m.

Monday by Rev. D. E. Kerr. pastor of the Lincoln Presbyterian church.

Burial will be in Union cemetery at Lincoln. He was graduated from Cerro Gordo high school in 1939. worked as a switchman for the R. G. Le Tourneau company, Peoria road machinery manufacturers, after he left high school until he enlisted in the army air corps on Dec.

20, 1941. Three Brothers in Service Mr. Stogsdill, to whom the Herald and Review read the Eight Ball story last night, said the last letter from his son was received last week. At the time it was written he had not yet reached England. The Stogsdill family is well represented in the armed forces.

Three of Lt. Stogsdill's brothers are the service, Ralph at Camp McCoy, Clarence in England, Robert in Maryland. The youngest brother, Claud Ray is in Cerro Gordo high school. There are two sisters, Charlotte (Mrs. Lyle Helm) who is with her parents in Cerro Gordo since husband is in the army and Marie (Mrs.

Herman Shineman) living on a farm five miles south of Cerro Gordo. John A. Schrear, 80, Of Warrensburg, Dies John A. Schrear, 80, retired Warrensburg farmer, died at 2:25 p. m.

yesterday in Decatur and Macon County hospital where he had been a patient since Feb. 12. Mr. Schrear was born at Mt. Pulaski Aug.

19. 1863. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schrear.

His wife, the former Loua Ann Piper. died March 1, 1933. Mr. Schrea: was a member of the Mt. Pulaski Evangelical church and the Warrensburg Masonic lodge.

He leaves a son, Dr. A. F. Schrear of Darlington, a daughter, Mrs. E.

B. Verner of Dayton, Ohio; brother, Garrett Schrear of Stanford, three Miss Ann Schrear of Warrensburg, Mrs. Sofia Allen of Stanford, and Mrs. Mary Smith of Kingman, and two grandchildren. The body was taken to the Dawson Wikoff funeral home.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Stoy Package Into Operation One of the new "Stoy" package lines, part of the recent $500.000 expansion program of the A. E. Staley Mfg. went into operation this month.

On the request of the War Food Administration to expand the national production capacity for edible soya products, the new ing and production lines at Stalcy's were constructed to produce soy flour to fulfil both civilian and governmental demands. Turning off the colorful red and gold packages at the rate of 60 per minute, the entirely automatic system of packaging, sealing and casing the new Stoy requires a minimum of workers. Neil A. Young. soybean division superintendent.

said in explaining the packaging process. By Automatic Machines After the first load of flat cardboards. with their few slight creases for folding purposes, are placed on the line, the boxes es pass throughout the intricate system of belts and machinery to be turned off at the end of the completely filled. sealed, and cased. There no need for workers on the line to touch the packages or machinery except for imperfect wrappers or minor adjustments to the chines, Mr.

Young said. Quickly the automatic box maker folds and seals the box, leaving the top open to be filled. The double-loading automatic with its meticulously accurate weighing device feeds the flour from a large bin into the package with never an ounce too much or an ounce less than the required amount. The top-sealer closes the box and a long compressor belt finished dries the sealed top. Machine Very Intricate Most intricate and impressive of all the machines is the tight-wrapper which glues the and silt-proof label over the entire box.

In one process the flat red and gold labels are folded around Line Goes at Staley's the box and glued tightly at both top and bottom to come out at the other side a finished package. This machine is so intricate and sensitive that only two companies in the country will build them, the plant superintendent said. The casing machine. which will place the finished boxes into cases of two-dozen boxes each, has not yet been installed but even this final process will be done automatically when the necessary ma-1 chinery can be put into operation, Mr. Young said.

Using Three Floors The only time that workers are required to handle the packages after the original cardboards are placed on the line is at the end of the case conveyor. This conveyor is divided so that some of the cases are rolled out to the shipping department to be loaded on cars for immediate shipping and others are sent to the storage department where they are held for future orders. The entire process is operated on three floors of the neat gray concrete building located west of the old soybean plant. On the floor above the package lines runs the Redler-type veyor machine which conducts the soy flour along a guide track which is entirely enclosed within dirtfree stainless steel. From this conveyor the flour flows into the bins of the double-loading packer.

The sealed cases are carried from the package lines to the floor below to the storage and shipping departments. Program Monday Night At Blue Mound High Students of the Blue Mound high school will give a program in the school gym Monday night, to raise funds for the opening of a recreation center. The freshmen will give a one-act play, "By Special Request." There also will be several music numbers and stunts. Better Beef Supply Short Chicago (AP) Shortages of better grades of beef are likely to occur in: some sections of the country during the spring and "probably will be accelerated materially by black market operations," the American Meat institute predicted yesterday. The institute, composed of 1 most of the nation's meat packing panics, said in a survey of the and livestock situation that meat marketing of cattle in the early spring is expected to be considerably reduced from present lev- els.

Similar To Last Year pilot. Lieut. Otis Stogsdill of Cerro Gordo, Ill. Stogsdill threw blankets around the spewing flares and heaved them out the radio hatch. Then.

with the flames licking at their flying clothes, the three together tore out the burning floor of the radio room and stamped out the fire in other sections of the ship. Other crewmen were Lieut. William J. Campbell of Philadelphia, navigator; Lieut. Ralph McKewn Leland.

bombar. dier, and Sergeants Roy Ness of Edmore, N. and Curtis Meinelt of New Durham, N. gunners. Co-Pilot Son of Cerro Gordo Marshal LIEUT.

OTIS STOGSDILL Cerro Gordo (Staff) Lt. Otis Stogsdill, co-pilot of the "Eight Ball." the blazing Flying Fortress saved by "Yankee guts" is the son of Cerro Gordo's day marshal. Simeon L. Stogsdill and Mrs. Stogsdill.

Lt. Stogsdill will be 23 on April "Our general analysis," the institute stated, "indicates the ply of beef for the entire year will be as large as in 1943, but this year, as happened last year, short; ages of better grades of beer are expected during April, May and Pork supplies during the spring and summer are likely to be considerably higher than last year, the institute said. It made no forecast on the veal and lamb ply. which normally is a very small part of total meat consumption. The institute gave these reasons for the anticipated smaller beef supply: 16 Per Cent Fewer Cattle 1.

There were 16 per cent fewer cattle in midwestern feed lots on Jan. 1, 1944, than a vear previous. Those cattle either have been marketed or now are being period of marketed after a short feeding on grain. Normally, such cattle are fed for a longer period and reach the market in the spring months. 2.

Cattle men will be reluctant to sell range cattle during the because they can be fed on spring grass in the western range states. 3. The shortage probably will be accelerated by "black market" operations "as was the case last spring when shortages were caused on the East Coast, the West Coast land in Texas.".