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...that between May and August hide and skin prices advanced 38 points on the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale index while shoe prices advanced less than 3 points. (But hide prices were still under the peak of last November while shoes were well up from then.) Said Lawrence B. Sheppard, president of the National Shoe Manufacturers Association: "In the shoe industry, replacement pricing [i.e., raising the price of previously manufactured shoes to cover replacement cost] must be substituted for wishful thinking...
...Fred Sheppard, 76, of Baltimore, father of 25 children, went to the House of Correction for operating as a fence for a smallfry gang of 11- and 12-year-olds. Farmer Charles Mleynek, of Earlham, Ia, was found dead in his living room, shot by someone who knocked one afternoon at his kitchen door...
Died. Andrew J. Volstead, 87, tobacco-chewing, publicity-shy country lawyer who co-authored (with the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas) and gave his name to the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, which implemented the 18th Amendment; in Granite Falls, Minn...
Beggar's Holiday (book & lyrics by John Latouche; music by Duke Ellington; produced by Perry Watkins & John R. Sheppard Jr.) is "based on" John Gay's renowned and raffish 18th Century Beggar's Opera. The debt to Gay is not large. Beggar's Holiday has a present-day setting, a new book, new lyrics and new music. What it has kept is the general movement of the story, the principal low-life characters (one or two in name only) and the cheeky last-minute happy ending...
Originally a professional production of the play was planned for London this winter but Dr. Gerhardi has interested Firth Sheppard, the London producer, in having the cast of the Veterans' Theater act in the production...