★ RATION DEADLINES
GASOLINE—AI4, 4 gals., Mar. 21
MEATS—Red Q 5 thru Z 5, A2-D2
FOODS—BIue X 5 thru Z 5 and A2
through M 2.
SUGAR—34, 5 lbs. thru Feb. 28, and
35, 5 lbs. thru June 2.
VOL. LXIV.
Miss Bullock
Prisoner-Missing
Details Program
Parents And Other Relatives
Hear Address Bv Charles
Skarren.
Miss Nancy Bullock, of this City,
who has been named chairman of
the Red Cross information commit
tee on service men and women who
are reported as missing in action
or as prisoners of war, is expecting
to have a second meeting of her
group at some time during the first
week in March, according to an
nouncement made Thursday night
at the first meeting of the group,
which was held at Person Court
House in the Grand Jury room,
with Red Cross Field Director
Charles Skarren, Jr., of Beaufort
and recently returned from over
seas service, as speaker.
It is understood that Miss Bul
lock as a member of the informa
tion committee will work with the
families of persons reported as miss
ing or as prisoners and will help
Mrs. Sue Featherston, executive se
cretary of the Roxboro Chapter, of
the Red Cross, in getting as much
information as possible to the fam
ilies concerned. One of the chief
sources of information can be de
rived from correspondence between
various families who have a com
mon bond in the easulaties concern
ed.
This method is being followed by
.many families, particularly in in
stances in which missing airmen are
involved. The gathering at the Court
House for Skarren's informal talk
filled the Grand Jury room and
many questions were asked. Skar
ren did his best to reassure his
hearers and asserted that he would
by no means give up hope as to
persons reported missing in action,
most certainly, not until hostilities
are ended. He also urged patience.
»„«»d. requited.-that .all inquiries for
information be placed through prop
er Red Cross channels.
Earlier in the evening, at Hotel
Roxboro, Director Skarren address
ed members of Roxboro Rotary
club and special guests, giving an
account cf His varied experiences
with Red Cross service, both in this
country and in Europe. He said
with emphasis that apparently the
Germans who had lived in occupied
France and even in Germany, had
enjoyed a certain measure of lux
ury before the American troops and
their allies drove them out. He said
also that he came upon an atrocity
scene in Belgium, where a dozen or
more of the leading citizens of a
town there had been slain by Nazis.
John W. Jacobs
Listed Missing'
In French Area
Sgt. John W. Jacobs, 22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Jacobs, of Long
hurst, has been reported as missing
in action in France since January
16, according to an official mes
sage received last week by his par
ents. A confirmatory letter was re
ceived Friday from Maj. Gen. J. A
Ulion, adjutant general, saying
that other information will be dis
patched as soon as it is received.
Sgt. Jacobs, overseas for the past
eight months, went in service in
1942 with an infantry unit. He went
to school at Longhurst and worked
at Longhurst mill and in Durham
before going to the service. He
served three months in the Navy
before being called up for Army
service.
A brother, Harry G. Jacobs, is
now with the Navy. Three sisters
and another brother at home, aie
other members of the family.
Calvin C. Milan
Now Sergeant
Calvin C. Milam. 21, son of the
late Mrs. Lillian E. Milam, of Rox
boro, engineer-gunner on a B-24
Liberator, has recei/ly been pro
moted to the grade of sergeant. He
is with the 15th A A.F in Italy.
Sergeant Milam entered the army
on January 28th, 1944, in South
Carolina, and attended several ser
vice army schools prior to arriving j
overseas in October of last year.
He is a graduate of Bethel Hill |
High school.
Sergeant Milam is authorized to
wear the Distinguished Unit Badge
as a member of a heavy bombard
ment group which has been cited
by the War Department for “out
standing performance of duty while
in armed conflict with the enemy.”
Before entering the service, Ser
geant Milam was employed as an
aircraft mechanic, with the Glenn
L. Martin Corporation, Baltimore,
Maryland. 1
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Has
JLuquire Asserts
Women Needed
For Vital Jobs
Attractive. Important Open
ings Available In Ar
lington, Va,
Claude Luquire, cf the Roxboro
U. S. Employment service, has re
ceived announcement that Lieu?.
Francis H. Matson, of the U. S.
Army Signal Corps, is at the Dur
ham office of the USES to secure
young women for vital position:: of
; a highly confidential nature at' Ar
lington, Va.
The positions are , of a clerical,
analytical, and research type and
the wages range from $146 per
month up. Lt. Matson explained
that while these positions were un
der Civil Service, and enjoyed all
normal Civil Service benefits, no
examination is required. A variety
cf duties, in many categories pro
vides. unusual opportunities for most
; every type indivdual;
Girls with as little as 2 years’ high
sehcol education are eligible and
there are exceptional openings in
the semi-professional positions for
high school and college graduates.
No. previous business experience is
necessary, first, class transportation
is provided, and housing is guaran
teed.
The United States Employment
Service office in Durham is at lit
Church Street.
Security Numbers
Not To Be Used
For Identification
Durham, Feb. 12.—Occasional
complaints, that social security ac
count number cards are improperly
Used as identification for check
cashing purposes, today. led Mr.:.
Nina H. Matthews, manager of the
Durham Field Office of the Social
Security Board, to issue the follow
ing cautionary statement:
“The Social Security; Account
Number card is not intended to
serve as identification, for check
cashing purposes,: and should not
be accepted as such.
“A social security card is issued
to any person who applies for itj
It is issued for one purpose, and
only one. That is to identify a so
cial security account on which the
wage record of the possessor may bo
posted as credit toward old-age and
survivors insurance benefits. The
account number is used with the
person's name to identify his social
security account, because many peo
ple have the same name but no
two. can have the same number.
Thp Social Security Board, in pay
ing benefits requires that the bene
ficiary identify himself fully.''
Col. Younts Gives
Air Medal To
Mrs. B. G. Clayton
Col. Paul R. Younts, post com
mander, AAF Overseas Replace
ment Depot. Greensboro, presented
Mrs. Grace O. Clayton, of Roxboro,
the Air Medal, for her son, S'gt.
Burleigh G. Clayton, Jr., who is
reported missing in action in the
European Tjheatre of Operations,
Saturday at Greensboro.
Lt. Col. V. H. Wohlford. base sir
inspector, and Lt. Col. Charles W.
Rose, Jr., base mess officer, were
photographed with her. The award
was presented Saturday morning at
the Kitty Hawk Big Top on the
post, before massed troops.
Mrs. C. B. Kirby and Miss Claire
Harris, both of Roxboro, ‘ went to
Greensboro with Mrs. Clayton.
Huel Tuck At
Traux Field, Wis.
Huel O. Tuck, 37, formerly a carp
enter and painter in Roxboro, has
been promoted to the rank of Cor
poral at Truax Field, Madison,
Wis., it was announced today by the
post commander.
Now a member of the supply and
maintenance squadron at Truax
field, Cpl. Tuck formerly was sta
tioned at Atlantic City, N. J. He
and his wife, Margaret, live at G 53
E. Gorham St., at Madison.
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Army And Navy—One Family
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LT. W. C. PULLIAM, JR, F IX L. W. PULLIAM
Lt. William Cary Pulliam, Jr., 26, and Fireman First Class I.ar
rence Bradshcr Pulliam, 20, are sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pulliam
of Roxborr. and Olive Hill. Lt. Pulliam, who received his commis
sion last November after a long an,.- varied Army career, including
twelve months in Hawaii, is now in Germany with Patteli’s Army.
His Navy brother, recently at home, volunteered for the Navy in
1943 and has been at Camp Bradford. Norfolk.
Kids Who Fight And
Grin, Gain Praise
Capt. H. K. Sanders, Jr., Savs
American Fifth tint; Spirit
Wonderful.
Having highest praise for tire
fighting spirit and the ir.rn.ie of
the:.American soldier. Capt, Harper
K. Sanders, Jr., of this City, son of
Person Farm Agent and Mrs, H. K.
Sanders and recently returned from
Italy, France and Germany, where
he has,been since June 1943. is like
wise Convinced that a ’•hero” is a
guy who finds himself in a tough
spot and gets out—or tries to.
Capt. Sanders, 25. and an alumnus
cf State College, has been in tough
spots Himself, but he won’t speak
of them, although he received a
severe hand wound just after Sal
erno. That wound, incidentally,
looks good now, because of an ex
cellent job of skin-grafting. Capt.
Sanders went to the Army as
a Second Lieutenant in June 1941,
after having had ROTC training at
State.
Being ,the son of Agent Sanders,
he is naturally interested in farm
ing conditions as he found them in
France and Italy. Production meth
ods are at least fifty years behind
the times judged by American stand
ards. lie says, and the houses, al
though of stone, lack .many conveni
ences. Stable : and house combina
tions are frequent.
Net .too optimistic about the war
tin Europe) being over soon, Capt.
i.Sanders says there is lots more to
be done than the newspaper ac
counts would lead their readers to
believe. Individual groups he praises
'for their war work include the U.
S. Army medics, who frequently risk
their lives in saving our boys, and
the French Forces,of the Interior
(the underground).
Capt. Sanders, who had brief but
informing stays in Paris and Rome,
savs he saw Dorothy Clements, of
the Red Cross, Greensboro, in Italy,
People in Rome were hungry, he
recalls, but the citizens of Pari« ap
pear to have suffered less. Women
of that. City, as beautiful as they
are said to be, dress almost exclu
i sively like Americans now.
■‘The ultimate goal" of every sold
ier is to come home”, says the Cap
tain, who has been with the 45th,
"Thunderbird” division, and expects
“Pep” Taylor At
Alumni Session
j The newly organized Person
'County State College Club held a
| supper meeting at Hotel Roxboro
I recently, with a short business ses
sion at which ‘ Pop" Taylor, secre
tary of tlie State College AlUmni
| Association discussing the develop
! ment of State College.
Officers of the Person State Col
lege Club are: Rev. Rufus Womble,
president; L. C. Liles, vice-pres.; C.
C. Jackson, seer.; and J. M. Wil
burn, reporter. Others attending
; the meeting were Errol Morton, Mr.
| Timberlake, Archie Sink, and H. K.
Sanders. The next meeting will be
held on April 30.
Masons To Meet
Tuesday Night
Person Lodge 113, A. F. and A.
M., will hold a regular meeting
Tuesday night at the Lodge Han,
in the third degree. All visitiilg
Masons will be welcomed. Active
in the program will be W. W. Mir
ren. Worthy Master is J. Av.
Green and Secretary is C. C. Gar
rett. * 1
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1945
to return to duty after his leave is
up. He has brought home lots more
souvenirs, including a P-38 but
right now he- is.: relaxing and en
joying homo, with' side trips to
South Carolina and New York Cits*.
Bitt try as he will, he cannot forget
his wonderful comrades, mere kids,
some of them, who face death with
a smile and then laugh over the
whc>_' business once the danger is
passed. :
Roxboro Red Gross
Girl Has Mo Story .
Miss Emily Bradsher Turns
From Scholar To Hostess.
Quite convinced that she has no
story although she has just return
ed from eighteen months of Red
Cross service club work overseas in
Africa and Italy, is Miss Emily
Bradsher, cf Rcxboro. who says that
living and working at Casablanca
and, at Foggia, in Africa and Italy,
was a tame affair as far as danger
went. The work, ot course, is a
different thing, and it is wonderful
to help good American boys, many
cf them Tar Heels and not a few
from Rcxboro, who come into a ser
vice club. tired and weary, wanting
the relaxation of coffee, bridge and
dancing.
Incidentally, says Miss Bradsher,
who is herself a graduate of Mere
dith, southern girls make grand
Red Cross workers. They are popu
lar and know how to talk and enter
tain. The Yankees may laugh at
accents, but they flock around just
the same. Miss Bradsher. who has
practically completed requirements
at the University of Pennsylvania for
a Ph. D. degree in English, keeps
that fact to herself when she is on
duty at service clubs. But she need
not bother. She may be, and prob
ably is intellectual, but she is also
interested in people, which explains,
maybe, why she left graduate re
search in favor of G. I.’s and Italy's
mud and rain and that big stature
of Benito M—just outside the Naples
service club.
Roxboro folks whom Miss Brad- i
sher met while fcv Italy include Pfc.
Elbert Stanfield, who has now re
turned home with a medical dis- !
charge. Odis Day. Donald Carver
tin Africa), Robert Montague, Lt,
W. C. Bullock. Jr., and two Moore
boys, Rufus aiid John, of Roxboro,
and Raleigh, not to mention a shv ;
but attractive Roxboro youngster ■
who used to bring her his Courier- ;
Times every time he had one. Miss |
Bradsher also remembers , blonde j
Mrs. Hazel Beacham Shore, of :
■ Alo*Uf *lUe Watf. m
J. W. Noell, my partner in crime in this office, took a dirty crack
at me the other day and now I want to get even; hence this story.
J. W. Noell must have the most unique touch on a typewriter
of any man living. The other day he wrote a check on his type
writer. Every word on it was typewritten but he forgot to sign his
name hence the check was mailed tb the person without any sig
nature. The person who received the check did not notice that it
was not signed and duly deposited it in the bank along with many
other checks. Then the bank officials saw that there was an un
signed check but there was no way to tell whose it was as they even
had no handwriting to go by. Now what do you think! the bank
officials did. They charged the check up to J. W. Noell. How
they decided whose it was is more than I know. That's why I say
that he has the most unique touch of anyone on a typewriter.
Page Mr. Ripley! 5 u
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
White Men Go
To Fort Bragg
List Os Men Reaching Eigh
teen Given By Selective
. Service.
With Gilbert Dickerson as lead
er. twenty five Person white men
left Friday for examination at Fort
Bragg, according to Miss Jeanette
Wrenn. chief clerk of the: Person
Selective Service Board.
The list is as follows: George
Hayes Averette, Riley Martin O’Bri
-1 ant, Jr., George Lambeth Soloman,
Elbert Stephens, Clifton Alex Clay
ton, Ollie Clyde Brown, William
Maxie Perkins, Franklin Bedford
: Talley. Bennie Lee Smith, Thomas
Irvin Humphries, Kerb Clifton Rob
ertson, Ernest Franklin Wheeley,
Erastu's David Jones, Clifton, Bruce
Duncan, Hezekiah Ivory. Dixon.
Also, Joseph Herman DPnevant,
William Ellsworth Head, John Ervin
Lcwery, Charles Augustus Gentry. Jr.
Preston Ross Morton, Cecil Everett
Carver, Elmer Hinton Watson, Jes
sie James Walker. For another board
was Cabell Richard. Irby.
White boys who registered, as
I eighteen years of age during Janu
ary are as follows; Louis Warren
Hawkins, Jr., Ernest Monroe Oak
ley. Henry Thaxton Slaughter,
George Caryle Barrett, Elwood Louis
Barrie, Oscar Hicks. Robert Julious
Jones, Burley Walter Dunn, Fred
Wilson Yarbrough, Wilton Kury
Hicks, Lewis E. Pulliam.
Negroes registering were: Neman
Ahum Riley. Charles Earl Winstead,
Cannon Arejius Gentry, R. T. Ram
sey, Ivey Lewis Neal, Bedna Lee
Obie, James Raymond Smith. Ed
ward Barnett, Clyde Solomon Bowie.
Charlie Curry, Ivery Ramble, Gar
field Baird, William Matthew Law
son.
Greensboro, the one who wrote a
long piece about the North Carolina
colony in Italy, and is still on the
job.
Africa, according to Miss Brad
sher, who is now in Roxboro with
her sister. Mrs. J. A1 Martin, is a
wonderful, exotic place, full of color
and charm, while Italy, at least a*
Foggia, is rainy and muddy. The
people of Italy. are having a hard
time, thinks Miss Bradsher and not
enough credit has been given to
them for what they have done,
America. With its war-time abund
ance, would seem like a paradise or
fairyland to them, as it does at this
moment to Miss Bradsher, who has
no opinions as to when the war will
end, but joins Capt. H. K. Sanders
in praise for our fighting men.
Hickory. Feb. 11.—Approximately
25 milk producers from Catawba.
Burke, Caldwell, Cleveland, and
Iredell counties have served notice
that after February 22 they will
start selling their product in an
other market unless they are given
as high a price for their milk
as is being paid in nearby areas.
In an ultimatum to the office of
price administration, the producers
demanded an increase of 35 cents
per hundredweight on bulk milk
sold to distributors and an increase
of 1 cent per quart for that sold
to consumers. This would make the
price of $4.40 per. hundredweight,
and 17 cents a quart. A pint weighs
about a pound.
Sufficient milk still will be sup
plied for hospitals and babies,
spokesmen for the producers said.
Ash Wednesday services, com
memorating the beginning of Lent,
will be held Wednesday night at
St. Mark’s Episcopal church, with
rites in charge of the rector, the
Rev. Rufus J. Womble.
Dairies Threaten
To Boycott Area
Ash Wednesday
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Commissioners Fail To
Select Auditor-Supervisor
Wounded Twice
.
>v jig. -9
WILIIAM < . IIAMLETT
Mr. and Mrs; .1. M. Hanilett,
formerly of Lcasburg; Route 1.
new of Roxboro. R< ute 3, rec eiv
ed a telegram that their son Pfc.
William Hanilett was wounded
the 2Uth of January in Belgium,
the second time he has been
wounded. Pfc. Hanilett has been
overseas since July 1944. and has
a brother. Sgt. Thomas L. Ilam
lett who has been overseas for two
years anil is now in France.
Pfc. Hanilett was reported missing
November 22,. 1944 but was back
with his outfit within five days.
Limit Os Debt
May Be Raised
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Con
gress Will be asked this month to
raise the public debt limit again
The. Treasury wants the ceiling
boosted from 260 to 300 billion doll
ars before the beginning of the Sev
-1 enth War Loan, in May or June.
Bills are expected; to be introduc
ed soon in both the House and Sen
ate.
It became evident today that the
present ceiling will be too low to
allow safe growing roam for the
beanstalk-like debt, during another
bond drive—that is if the Seventh
War Loan compares with previous
drives in sales,
The Treasury announced in a
routine monthly statement; that on
ly 818,980,169.147 of United States
Government securities cat face
amount > can be issued before the
debt limit is reached. That is, the
debt when translated into face
amount i maturity value) now is
$241,019:930.853,
The actual debt, at current value
of tlie *scurities, is around 233 bill
ion but one lias to. translate it into
face amount—adding interest to be
earned in the future by the securi
ties—to compare the figure with the
260-billion limit set by Congress.
During the Sixth War Loan drive,
more than 21 billion dollars of se
curities were sold, and that was the
actual purchase price. The face
amount would be considerably more.
President Roosevelt in his budget,
message, Jan. 3 merely commented
that a further boost, in the debt
Unfit would be necessary some time
before the end of the next fiscal
year on June 30, 1946.
Highway Group
To Meet Here
■ ft
Regular meeting of the Bifth s
District unit of the State Highway 1
unit of the State Highway Cominis- 1
Sion with Commissioner George W. j i
Kane, of Roxboro, presiding, will; t
be held here on Wednesday, Feb l
ruary 14, when road requests will c
be heard. The meeting will be at e
Person Court House in the Grand t
Jury room and will last from 10:30 t
in the morning until three in the 1 j
afternoon, with intermission for,
luncheon, according to Tom Burton.
Pvt. Bunnie Blalock
Missing In Action
Pvt. Bunnie Blalock, of Roxboro
and Person County, has been re
ported as missing in action in Bel
gium as of January 5, according to
an official message received by his
family. Pvt. Blalock is a brother
of the late Coy Blalock, who several
months ago w'as reported as killed
in action.
No Applicants File. Need Office
In Court House. Meet Again
Georgia Women
Responsible For
Poll Tax Reform
Issue Remains Only In Seven
States.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.—It was
the women who started the Georgia
poll tax reform drive, the success
ful completion of which in that
State leaves only seven other South
ern States now requiring payment
• of a cash fee as a right to vote.
The Georgia League of Women
Voters took up. the fight in 1938
when they were practically the on
ly regency in the State which chal
lenged a 75-year institution which
had become the accepted order of
tilings. ■ .
Gradually they won support. More
and more State newspapers joined
in. The ice began to crack. In Wash
ington, the Hop.se of Representatives
twice passed a Federal antipoll tax
bill, only to see it thwarted by a
Southern, filibuster in the Senate..
Now young, vigorous, liberal Gov,
Ellis Arnall iDi of Georgia has
signed the completed law that takes
Georgia out of the diminishing list
of states putting a cash tax on the
right, to franchise at a time when
America itself is fighting a war to
support democracy.
The whole atmosphere round the
poll tax fight is.beginning to change.
Here in Washington a diminished
number of Southern Senators pub
licly defend the the tax which limits
the number of the home electorate;
their argument now shifts to the
arugment that if repeal comes it
should come from the indivdual
states.
This does not satisfy antipoll tax
leaders, however. Once again the
fight to pass.a federal law forbidding
imposition of a .cash tax for the
right to vote is coming before this
Congress. The last two Congresses
have seen this bill pass the Lower
House. But in each case a Southern
filibuster has blocked it in the Sen
ate. Some Republican Senators de
clined to aid in shuting off the fili
buster, apparently because they did
not wish to weaken conservative
Southern allies. Observers general
ly believe the antipoll tax bill would
pass the Senate if it could be
brought-'to a vote.
Under such conditions the anti
poll tax agitation is a lively issue
ill the remaining seven states that
employ it. Alabama, Arkansas,
Mississippi. South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas, and Virginia actu
ally passed a poll tax repealer
two years ago, only to have it de
clared unconstitutional, three to
two. in the State Supreme Court.
Either a changed court, or a differ
ently drawn repeal law is expected
to eliminate the Tennessee poll tax
in time.
Poll tax levies were directed in
the South not so much against
Negroes but against low income
bracket white groups at the time
of the radical Populist agitation.
Lt. I. C. Gentry
Receives Wings
First Lieutenant Ivey C. Gentry,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gen
try, Route 2, Roxboro, received the
silver wings of a pilot when he grad
uated from the Pecos. Texas,
Air Field Advanced Two Engine
School where he completed his
training as a student officer.
Lieutenant Gentry is an Alumnus
of Wake Forest College. Prior to his
entrance into the service in 1942, he
taught in the Canton schools. His
father is a Person County Commis
sioner.
Pvt. Otis Stephens
At Camp Blanding
1
Pvt. Otis H. Stephens, 19, an;
alumnus of Roxboro high school. ]
where he was active in softball and
baseball, is now stationed at Camp
Blanding, Fla. The son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. I. Stephens, of Longhurst,
he entered the Army in November
1944. Prior to that time he was
employed in Roxboro Cotton Mills.
At Camp Blanding he is serving
with an infantry unit.
0 Fatal Highway
Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1945
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
NUMBER 21
At a meeting of the Person Coun
ty Board of Commissioners this
morning, called for the purpose of
discussing the appointment of a
county tax supervisor and auditor
to take the position left vacant
by the death of J. S'. Walker, it was
decided to make no appointment
until next Saturday, February 17th„
when another call meeting of the
hoard will be held. It is very prob- ;
able that the tax supervisor and ■
auditor will be appointed at this
j time.
There were no applicants for the
job this morning. It was brought
out at today’s meeting that this
position pays $2,240.00 per year and
that the term of office for Mr.
Walker would have expired the first
of April of this year.
It was also pointed out that the
commissioners would be required
to find an office for this work in
the court house and that it would
be necessary to have a vault or
•safe in order that the tax books
and papers be locked, up at night or ,4
at times when there was no one in
the office. Prior to now all tax
hooks had been kept in the Build
ing and Loan office where Mr. Wal
ker maintained the county, office. .
At the meeting of the commis
sioners this morning it was voted
to give W. C. "Bill" Walker au
thority to countersign all county
checks that would come up between
now and the appointment of the •
■regular tax supervisor and auditor.
It was also voted to have an auditor
come to Roxboro at once and check ■
the tax books and other records of i
tliis office prior to turning them
over to the new official.
Senators Back
Byrnes For Job
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—Senate
1 supporters of the labor draft bill set
their sights today on approval by
the senate military affairs commit
tee this week of a measure which jj
would place compulsory manpower !
controls in the hands of war mobil
ization and reconversion Director
James F. Byrnes.
They said they would resist sub
stitute bills which are being pre
pared in the senate, including a
proposal to throw out the house
pasted bill and adopt in its place
a plan giving legal backing to war
manpower commission labor con
trols.
Such a plan is being drawn up
by Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, Demo
crat, West Virginia, to be offered ia :
the committee when it starts voting
on amendments to the house meas
ure.
Supporters of the legislation ex
pressed the hope that the committee
would conclude secret hearings and
approve the bill by the end Os thi|
week. This would pave the way for
senate action on the measure the i
following week.
Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, Demo- '
crat. South Carolina, said “it will';
be a shame if the committee does ;
not finish work on the bill and re- I
port it to the senate this week.”
Sens. Warren R. Austin, Republi
can, Vermont, and Chan Gurney, ■
Republican, South Dakota, declared
that committee action should be ob
tained this week.
"The time is ripe for reporting
the bill,’’ Austin declared.
Maybank said he understood tha.
committee would conclude its secret;
hearing on the bill Wednesday, and
thereafter would start voting on
amendments.
Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat, 1
Utah, committee chairman, would
make no prediction as to when the
committee would act on the bill or
when the hearings would end. Com
mittee action may be postponed un- .
til next week, he said.
Legion Sees Need I
For Job Plan 1
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Washington, Feb. 11 —The Uni tad'll
States may become socialist unless*
it produces plenty of “selling
after the war, the American ImH
ficn asserted tonight. II
“We are going to have to realisSl
sell for the first time our nattansgjMj
life or we may become a socialic£ji
state, with government
all production and distribution,”j||l |
Production has been «mphai|l|fln
too long, it added. Saler, and Siftl J
tribution jobs kre the sjningboard
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