OPA SEEKS TO CUT
FURNITURE prices
cuTvrTON Feb. 27—(U.R)—
'VA ^ home furnishings are go
Price- PbV rolled back soon Price
.:“-ator Chester Bowles re
Adn'J”-;'d .v He also predicted the
vea 6“ 'itbsck on clothing prices
r(ttn'‘ L. these costs six or
will re‘ L' nt by August.
S6fLPg the Senate Banking Com
Askm* ,ld 0PA-S life anotner
»:t:eehe said that furniture
18 " have gone up 14.3 per cent
PnC ,,a, 1943. This is the largest
since n-ea-e in the cost of living
price tnciea.
^f eared the clothing price in
: he c- ;|bo;;t 13 per Cent-the
crM a •leprous” since issuance
T£ hold the-hne order "If we
" ’ in hold the price line this
’■e VT. must continue control
fitting prices.” he saich
■‘npi's life expires June 30 un
. f renewed. There is not much
„i,e«onal opposition. Its pro
i ‘to low er home furnishing
!ie= is being prepared.
Bowles said the average price
, all cost f living items has
increased only 1.5 per cent since
1943 He added that food
‘bees ‘ which account for about
h, per cent of living costs, have
gone down 3.9 Her cent.
Taft Proposes Minimum
Of Eight Months Army
instruction For Youths
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— (JP) —
Senator Taft iR-Ohio) demanded
today that the Army require at
least eight months training before
putting an 18-year-old into com
bat.
Taft told the Senate he had heard
of numerous boys sent into the
fight "after seven months in the
Army and without the vestige of
any training except the basic 13
weeks."
Senator Walsh (D-Mass) express
ed belief nothing would satisfy par
ents but a statement that other
troops were not available and that
'I don't believe that situation pre
vails."
Kaval Aviators Increase
Ratio Over Japs to 9-1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— tfP) —
Naval aviation, with a better than
five to one record against the
Japanese since the start of the
war, stepped up its margin to nine
to one in operations since Decem
ber 1.
Tn a recapitulation of operations
of carrier forces for the past t^ ee
months, a naval spokesman report
ed today that 1,610 Japanese planes
had been destroyed against 178
American planes lost in combat. In
addition, the carrier borne craft
damaged 1.078 planes, sank 187
enemy vessels of all types and
damaged 402 others.
Japanese pilots are becoming
more and more unaggressive,”
the official said.
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Swiss Fighters Down
Two American Planes
ZURICH, Feb. 27 —(U.R)— Swiss
fighter planes shot down two Am
erican bombers today, one crash
ing near Olten, in the Soleure Can
t"n. and the second going down
in flames near Lucerne.
Five other U. S. aircraft landed
at Duebendorf airfield.
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Shell Heads Navy Problem
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—(U.R)—Offi
cers of the Third Naval District
in charge of selling suplus naval
material have solved many prob
lems, but finding use for 18,000
outmoded shell heads has them
stumped. The five-and-a-half-inch
cones are made of brass, a half
inch thick. The Navy would appre
ciate suggestions on how they
could be used bv civilians.
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Before rubbing oil into shoes to
preserve the leather, have the oil
sightly warm and the shoes at
room temperature.
U.S. SKIPS SEND ROCKETS AGAINST IWO'S DEFENSES
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ROCKETS FROM U. S- *M!P* off Iwo Jima can be seen shooting through the air toward the rugged terrain
of that blood drenched Island where three Marine divisions have been engaged in the toughest battle of
Leatherneck history. Capture of the central airfield strip came after days of bitter fighting. (International)
Work-Or"Fight Bill Controversy
Has Newspaper Reporter In Fog
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—CU.R)—
When I got into the newspaper
business the boss said the main
thing to remember was to write
only about things I understood. He
said that was fundamental.
He didn’t take into considera
tion the U. S. Senate. I'm warning
him and you, too, that I am about
to write an item about the work
or fight bill. I couldn’t find any
two senators who agreed what it
meant or even if it was a work
or fight bill. Some admitted they
didn’t know'. Sen. Harlan J. Bush
field of South Dakota said it prob
ably would eliminate labor unions
altogether.
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore of West
Virginia, who wrote all but the
last two paragraphs, said it did
not, either. The boys went on from
there and I must say that you’ll
be wasting your valuable time if
you read any more of this. You’ll
come to the end of this dispatch,
feeling groggy, with sweat drip
ping from your chin.
Turn to the comic page (I beg
you). From now on, the respon
sibility is yours:
The House wrote a 12-page work
or-fight bill, providing jail terms
for those who wouldn’t do either.
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee scratched out neatly all 12
pages. Then it started fresh with
a bill which said, please.
A couple of the experts said
politeness wouldn’t get anywhere.
They added a rider which would
send farmers to the clink, if they
threw away their hoes. They hitch
ed on another paragraph providing
a $10,000 fine and a year in jail
for certain other violators.
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas of Utah,
the Military chairman, said these
certain others included only the
bosses, not the workers. Other
senators took the other view.
Now we get to the real confu
sion. Thomas said he was against
the idea of a work or fight bill,
but he’d support this one because
the main general and the main
admiral said it was necessary.
Sen. Kilgore approved only that
part of the bill he wrote. Senator
Happy Chandler of Kentucky was
against any kind of bill; he said
it was Fascist. Sen. Burnet R.
Maybank of South Carolina said he
wanted the original House bill.
These gentlemen, you must re
member, are members of the Mili
tary Affairs Committee. If they
can’t agree, then how in the name
of Moses ( the first newspaperman)
does the boss expect me to under
stand it?
The argument will continue a
while longer and no matter what
the Senate decides eventually to
do, it has got to make its peace
with the House.
A committee of senators and a
committee of representatives will
go into the silence and try to come
up with some kind of compromise.
I don’t envy them.
As for you, I told you not to
read this. I know it doesn’t make
much sense. I bet the Senate knows
it, too.
In The Service
WINS AIR MEDAL
Second Lieutenant David E.
King, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. U.
King, 1913 .Nun
street, | member
of a P-51 Mus
tang fighter
group, has been
awarded the .iir
Medal and one
Oak Leaf lus
ter for excep
tional meri
torious service
in| flights over
the E u ropean
theater. He nas
KING also been pro
moted to First Lieutenant, accord
ing to an announcement by his
Eighth Air Force station. Before
entering the Army Air Forces in
February, 1943, Lt. King was em
ployed by the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad.
RECEIVES INFANTRYMAN
RATING
Pvt. Paul H. Hutchens, son of
William H. Hutchens, 106 South
Jackson street, has been awards
the Combat Infantryman’s badge
for exemplary conduct in aciion
against the enemy in the European
theater. In the service for ever
two years. Pvt. Hutchens attend
ed school in New port News, Va.,
and later worked as a painter be
:ore entering the Armed Forces.
WOUNDED
Pvt. Luke G. Scott, Jr., 25, hus
aand of Mrs. Edith Scott, 120
south Fourth street, and soil of
Mrs. L. G. Scott, Union, S. C.
las been wounded in action near
;he Belgian border during the Nazi
aush from the Ardennes sector,
according to an oflficial announee
nent. Pvt. Scott suffered wounds
n the right hand, back and .nip
rom enemy shrapnel but is now
•ecovering in a U. S. hospital in
England. _
GRADUATES
Flight Officer
Hubert L .
Owen, son of
Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas J .
Owen, Eliza
b e t h town, re
cently graduat
ed from Aloe
Army Air Field,
Victoria, Texas.
Owen has been
at home for a
brief leave with
OWEN his parents.
PROMOTED
Staff Sergeant Troy W. K^lly
son of Mrs. Iris Kelly, Carolina
Beach, was recently promoted
from sergeant to staff sergeant in
France according to an Army pub
lic relations announcement. S-Sgt.
Kelley has served as platoon guide
in an infantry rifle company in
an infantry rifle company in the
camnaign of northern France.
IN NORTHERN FRANCE
Lieutenant Clarence W. Fisher,
son of Mrs. Ansel Fisher and the
late Mr. Fisher
of Eli zabeth
town, was re
cently promoted
from second to
first Lieutenant
and a few days
later received
the Air Medal
with three Oak
Leaf Clusters
for meritorious
service. Lt.
Fisher is pilot of
a P-47 Thunder- FISHER
bolt fighter and is now located
with a fighter-bomber group in
Northern France. Overseas since
May, 1944. he saw his first a’Hon
in Italy and later worked out of
Corsica during the invasion of
southern France. Lt. Fisher enter
ed the service February, 1943, and
received his wings the following
December. He has complefod over
50 combat missions.
RATION ROUNDUP
By The Associated Press
MEATS, FATS, ETC—Book Four
red stamps Q5 through S5 good
through March 31. Stamps T5 through
X5 good through April 28. Stamps Y5
and Z5 and A2 through D2 good
through June 2. Next series—E2
through J2—will be validated March
4 and be good through June 30.
PROCESSED FOODS— Book Four
blue stamps X5 through Z5 and A2
through B2 good through March 31.
Stamps C2 through G2 good through
April 28. Stamps H2 through M2 good
through June 2. Next series — N2
through S2—will be validated March
1 and be good through June 30.
SUGAR—Book Four stamp 34 good
for fi'vfe pounds through February 28.
Stamp 35 valid for five pounds
through June 2. Another stamp sche
duled to be validated May 1.
SHOES — Book Three airpiane
stamps 1, 2 and 3 valid indefinitely.
OPA savs no plans to cancel any.
GASOLINE—14-A coupons good ev
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March 21. B-5. C-5. B-6 and C-6 cou
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NURSES OF BATAAN
PAID $6,500 EACH
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27—(>!*)—
Accumulated pay checks for the
68 Army nurses held prisoner three
years in the Philippines averaged
$6,500 apiece, before allotments
to families were subtracted, rec
ords showed today.
The highest ranking officer’s
check was for $12,000. But many
of the nurses, besides contributing
to families at home, also ordered
subtractions for war bonds, which
have piled up also.
A first group of eleven of the
nurses, after health check at Let
terman hospital here, left by Army
plane today for Washington and
their homes in Eastern and Mid
Western States. They include:
First Lts. Rita Palmer, Hamp
ton, N. H.: Evelyn B. Whitlow,
Leasburg, N. C.; Kathryn Dolla
son. Suffolk, Va.; Anne B. Wurts,
Leominster, Mass., and Helen Cas
siani, Bridgewater, Mass.
Letters of commendations from
President Roosevelt and General
George C. Marshall have been re
ceived bv the women.
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GI Prizes German Harp
RUSHVILLE, Ind„ Feb. 27.—(U.R)
—A small German harp will be
PFC. William Talbert’s favorite
souvenir when he gets home. When
he sent the- musical instrument
home, he said that it had been in
his sbirt pocket when a German
machine-gun bullet glanced off of
it, instead of going through him.
He had been shot through the el
bow a few minutes before by an
other slug.
HOUSE OPPOSES
FARMERS DRAFT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— m —
The House reasserted in emphatic
terms today a Congressional pro
hibition against the drafting of
“necessary” young farmers into
military service.
It passed by voice vote a reso
lution declaring that if a man is
“necessary to and regularly en
gaged” in agriculture and is “irre
placable,” he shall not be inducted
— regardless of the manpower
needs of the armed forces.
The legislation now goes to the
Senate for action. It particularly
affects approximately 360,000 farm
ers in the 18-25 age group.
The House struck from the meas
ure, written by Chairman Flanna
gan (D-Va) of the House Agricul
ture Committee, a stipulation that
no farmer classified as 4-F should
give up his farm occupation for
work elsewhere, under maximum
penalty of five years imprisonment
or a $10,000 fine.
Effect of the resolution was to
re-declare and strengthen the ex
isting Tydings Amendment to the
Selective Service law, which Flan
nagan resolution supporters claim
ed had been utterly disregarded
by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
Selective Service chief.
Opposing the legislation, Rep.
Russell (D-Tex) declared: “There
were a lot of drug store cowboys
who discovered they were farmers
when the Tydings Amendment was
passed.”
Opponents called the resolution
“class legislation.” Backers said
it is needed to assure adequate
food production.
An amendment by Rep. Robert
son (D-Va) to put miners on the
same basis as farmers in draft
deferments was ruled out on a
point of order.
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Photo Of Flag Raising
On Iwo Is Compared To
Famous 'Spirit Of ’76’
BOSTON, Feb. 27.—(#)—A den
tist was so impressed with the
Associated Press wirephoto show
ing the raising of the American
flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo
Jima, that he wrote Secretary
Morgenthau suggesting it be used
in poster form in promoting the
next War Bond drive.
Dr. Edgar L. Abt said he re
garded the picture as an inspira
tion “to every one who saw it.”
It was taken by AP Staff Photog
rapher Joseph Rosenthal and
transmitted over the wirephoto
network for newspapers of Sun
day, February 25.
“It is one of the finest pictures
of the war,” he added, “and it
should rank with the ‘Spirit of
j’76‘.”
Ninth Army Orders
Blackout Ol Units
In Rhine Advance
WITH THE U. S. NINTH
ARMY IN GERMANY, Feb.
27.—(U.R)—Effective at 6 p. m.
today, the Ninth Army imposed
a news blackout on operations
of all divisions that now have
broken through German de
fenses west of the Rhine.
The Army announced that un
til further notice no indication
would be given of advances be
yond the announcements made
this evening.
The reason given was that
the Germans did not
where the advanced American
forces were, as some units were
out of contact, and that pub
lication would be giving infor
mation to the enemy.
There was no indication how
long the blackout might last
or whether place names well
behind the actual American
lines would be released.
100-Ycar-Old Escapes Fire
STONEHAM, Mass., Feb. 27.—
(U.R)—When fire swept the town
almshouse, 100-year-old Mrs. Eld
ridge Sweet escaped uninured.
U. S. ‘Goop Bomb’Held
Bane Of Berlin People
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—(F—
Very likely it’s the “ Goop Bomb”
that is bothering Berliners.
Washington officials advanced
this possibility today, after a
Sewedish dispatch reported new
type incendiary bombs have been
dropped on Berlin by the U. S.
Air Force, causing fires of “un
ecedented extent” and baffling
man fire fighters.
The “Goop”, which the AAF
says “cannot be extinguished,”
is no military secret. Use off the
500-pound missile was disclosed
several months ago, but it is as
sumed here that it has been modi
fied since.
It contains a mixture of jellied
oil, powdered megnesium and
other highly inflammable agents.
The Swedish report, received by
the OWI from Stockholm’s Tid
ningen, also said that the AAF’s
1.200-plane raid on Berlin Mon
day caused from 25,000 to 30,000
casualties.
Whether any large number of
these casualties were caught by
the incendiaries was not stated.
It was considered possible here
that the exposed condition of Ber*
tin’s population, brought about by
the destruction of many shelters,
made them vulnerable to the fore
bombs, which ordinarily are not
regarded as an anti-personnel
weapon.
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