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1t occupied after Withdrawing from
San Stefano.
I'D give $40 for can of American
beer right now" remarked Capt. F.
L. Sparks of Miami, Ariz.
DO you really mean it?" asked
Capt. Jake Shapiro of Houston. Tex.
Damn sure I mean it," answered
Sparks.
Shapiro fished in his barracks bag
and drew out a can of beer brewed
in Virginia. He had carried it
around for two years, since some
body gave it to him while in camp
near Lynchburg.
Sparks handed over $40.
ut was hardly worth it," he said.
THE beer was too warm"
X X
What the h" remarked First
Sergt Howard Simpson of Chicka-
saw, Okla, as he opened a letter
brought by courier into the battle
lines during the fight on Motta di
Affermo.
1t was notice from his local draft
board to the effect that his case
would be turned over to the FBI I'M
less he reported to the board imme-
diately.
Simpson had been in the Army
two years. He did not bother to tell
the board about 1t.
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South Pacific Notes
.0fD.C. Men nService

Samuel J. Dick, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Dick, 1888 Princeton place
NV, has been appointed to the
rank of warrant officer, Junior
grade, somewhere in the South Pa
cific where he is serving with the
Army Air Forces. He was formerly
employed as legal examiner for the
Bureau of Water Carriers, ICC.
1t. Comdr. Lawrence v. Julihn,
U. S. NJ, is spending a short leave
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Edward Julihn, 1920 Thirty-ninth
street NV, after two years duty
in the submarine service in the Pa
cific. He is accompanied by his
wife. the former Miss Sally Sumner,
daughter of Col. and Mrs. Edwin
Miles Sumner of Arlington, Va.
Comdr. Julihn was recently
awarded the Nays Silver Star for
gallantry in action. He is a gradu-
ate of the United States Naval
Aca demv
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Pefrides TO Instruct Cadets
In Forced Landinq Tactics

ATHENS, Ga.-Ensign George A.
Petrides, Naval Reserve, 1902 Sea-
ton Lane, Falls Church, Va, has re-
ported for duty at the Navy Pre-
Flight School here for the VS. In
structors School at Chapel Hill, N.
c. He will instruct naval aviation
cadets in methods of survival after
forced landings in wild or isolated
sections. He is graduate of George
Washington and Cornell UNIVERSE
ties.
A former naturalist in the Ma
tional Park Service, Ensign Petrides
has also served as ranger natural
list at Yosemite National Park: a
United States border patrolman at
Del Rio Tex, an examiner in biol
ogy for the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission in Washington, and
a game technician for the West Vir-
ginia Conservation Department.
Fifteen naval aviation cadets from
the Washington area have reported
to the Navy Pre-Flight School here
for three manths' training: William
Bailey, l439 Fairmont street NV;
James r. Flynn, jr.. 9 V street NV;
Wilbur S. Anderson, 4101 Brandy
wine street NV; James T. Hagan,
1921 Hamlin street NE; William T.
Keene, 1348 G street Sc; John L.
Lincoln w, 2501 Calvert street NV.
James w. Lyons, 1923 Connecticut
avenue NV; Robert w. Moore,
2l0l Fort Davis street S. E.; Carroll
j. Bilbrey, 633 Girard street NE;
Francis E. Beeton, jr., 211 Webster
street NV; Bernard Borrow, 1927
Trinidad avenue NE; John v. Bal
lard, 1921 Fowler street, West Falls
Church, Va; Douglas C. Dolan, 1911
North Quincy street, Arlington, Va;
Benjamin Franklin Scott, 313 Will
lard avenue, Chevy Chase, Md, and
Charles Philip Lamm, 5400 Gallatin
street, Hyattsville. Md.
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ated from Bowdoin College and the
University of Wisconsin. He at
tended the Army War College and
since 1887 had been assigned to the
General Staff Corps.
Col. Bundy was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal last Octo-
Der for his work as adviser at the
Atlantic conference of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill, as well as for membership
on a mission to London and Mos
COW. He and Col. Kicker were
killed in the same crash.
1t. Col. Murphy, a pioneer in radio,
contributed much to the develop
ment of beams used by commercial
and military craft. He was killed in
action February 3, 1912, while in
service with the Allied High Com
mand in the Far East. Born in Ger
many, he was the son of George
Herbert Murphy, then American
Consul General.
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dorf was sent Capt. Lamensdorf.
overseas in August, 1912, and re-
manned in England three months
before being sent to Africa in No
vember.
1t. Young Promoted.
Second 1t. Harry H. Young, jr.,
formerly of Bethesda Chevy Chase,
Md, has been promoted to first
lieutenant somewhere in the Middle
East, where he is serving with a
medium bomber group as assistant
armament officer, assistant bomb
sight maintenance officer and acting
ordnance offer. A native of Homo
lulu. Hawaii, he enlisted in the Air
Forces in March, 1912, and has been
serving overseas for SIX months.
Edwards Advanced in India.
Second 1t. Neal j. Edwards, %,
son of Mrs. John Kip Edwards, 100
Linden avenue. Bethesda, Md, was
recently promoted to first lieutenant
somewhere in India, where he is
pilot of an MS bomber. 1t Edwards,
who has been overseas since Febru-
airy, has been awarded the Air Medal
for over 100 flying combat hours.
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ed we were reasonably certain about
where we were going.
The trip from England to North
Africa was most enjoyable-except
for the English mutton. Warm
nights and days. When we came by
the Rock of Gipralter it was so like
all pictures I have seen of it I ex-
pected to see life insurance sign
painted on its face.
On December we landed in Oran
and were taken to a hillside near
Flueris where we bivouacked several
days awaiting equipment. First
night was clear, rather warm. We
rejoiced at having left clammy, cold
England. We even took off our
long handles" It rained the Sec
ond day but we were told rain falls
only once every two weeks in North
Africa in the winter.
No Ack-Ack in the Rain.
We remained near Flueris an
proximately a week, then we were
sent to an airport near Oran to
provide our speciality "ack-ack." It
was the most unpleasant assignment
We have had. 1t rained hard all of
the week We we're there. This, then,
was why we left our galoshes in Eng
land and why we had drawn dust
respirators? However, laughing and
grousing about this helped keep up
our morale.
Here we first saw the filth and
squalor in which the Arabs live.
Only short distance from our
bivouac were several Arab huts,
one or two rooms, built of mud and
straw. The average Arabs coat.
always worn as a cape, though
originally white, becomes a dirty
gray. The women, completely
wrapped in what was once a white
piece of silk about the size of a
bedsheet, were dirty, too.
One thing we gloried in-plenty
of oranges and tangerines, the first
fruit, except a few apples, we had
seen since we left the States.
Here we saw our first German
planes, but they had been shot up
by United States paratroopers when
they took the airport. No enemy
aircraft flew over, so we did no
firing.
After about five days here we
started drawing additional ammu-
milton and the remainder of our
equipment, except transportation.
We were rushed and got little sleep
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BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

SICILY (By MaiD When a 45th
Division infantry platoon started up
the rocky and almost vertical slopes
of Motta di Affermo, near the be-
leaguered town of San Stefano
Camistrata, they were joined by a
coal black kitten about months old.
He ran, purring happily, at the heels
Of the men.
When they sought foxholes or nat
ural shelters in the rocks, the men
petted the kitten. They began to
consider him as a symbol of good
luck.
Then the Germans, under cover of
artillery, launched a counterattack
down the hill. The kitten saw them
coming and promptly advanced to
meet them, deserving his old friends.
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visor of mental ward at St. Eliz-
abeth's Hospital before entering the
Army two and half years ago. He
held the rank of technical sergeant
in an Army hospital before attend
ing OCS. His brother, R. w. jane
sson, is corporal in the Air Forces.
Three Washington men are mem
bers of detachment of combat
military police stationed in Eng
land: Staff Sergt. Joseph E. Stead
man, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. j. E.
Steadman, 910 Evarts street NV;
Sergt. Charles D. CAN'T, Is, son of
Mrs. Bessie I. CAN'T, 1920 r street
NV, and Pfc. Elmer M. Pinckney,
rs, son of Mrs. Mary Benjamin, 6l5
G street NV.
Sergt. Steadman, a former en-
ploye of the Civil Aeronautics Board,
entered the Army three and one-half
years ago. Sergt. CAN'T, who has
been in the Army three years, was
formerly employed at the Washing
ton Navy Yard. Pvt. Pinckney has
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CIOSS ana is now It, j. N. Morton.
slated to receive the Air Medal.
In $50 combat missions, during
which he spent more than 900 hours
in the air, 1t. Morton shot down
five Jap planes. On one occasion
his own plane was disabled in action
and he had to make forced land
ing at sea and was later picked up
in rubber life raft.
1t. Morton, stationed at Pearl
Harbor at the time of the japanese
attack, has had Is months of 'front.'
line service. He participated in the
battles of Midway and the Bismarck
Sea and was with the original in
vasion force of Guadalcanal.
1t. Morton is now stationed at
Williams Field. Chandler, Ariz, as
engineering officer.
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in order to move out at am. two
days later. But, in spite of rain and
mud, and in quartermaster trucks
we moved out on time and headed
east. For this we later received a
letter of concentration from the
American brigade we served.
How far we we're going no one
knew-at Blida we were to receive
further instructions. 1t was raining
when we arrived at our first night S
bivouac AREA plowed field half
way to Algiers. Sunny Africa! The
further east we went the more peo-
pie cheered as We went through
towns, and everywhere Arab chill
dren ran alongside the trucks shout
ing cigarettes, shooing gum, bon
bon,'' all of which we threw to them
with great abandon.
When we arrived at Blida we were
met by British colonel who had
our orders-we were to become a
part of the British LIST Army and
were to set up at various places
around Algiers-guarding an airport
docks and approaches to the city
Headquarters battery was set up in
the business end of a monastery, the
men living in wine watts.
In the Forbidden City.
The only place that was "off
limits" to Americans was the famous
"Casbah," the old native section of
which European criminals repaired
when things got too hot for them II,
Europe. In this section a life is
supposed to be worth less than a
song. One day when I was in AL
giers all dressed up in my Class A
uniform I employed native guide
to show me through two of the most
famous mosques. and before knew
where he was leading me, was In
the forbidden Casbah.
An interesting experience, indeed
10000 Arabs in an area four blocks
square. The streets were only mar
row passageways wide enough fol
two people to walk abreast. Each
story projected beyond the one be.
low so that at roof level the building.
were only about / foot apart. I wa.
nervous; but. having been through
wouldn't take anything for having
seen the Forbidden City"
Our first action in Algiers, in fact
our first action in Africa, came or
Christmas night it looked like
Christmas in the South, with al
the fireworks. Our batteries put ur
quite a barrage that night, and the
| tracers were beautiful sight. Jerry
,, dropped few bombs, but nom
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; Get Conduct Medals

ARCADIA, Calf Three men
from the Washington area have
been awarded Good Conduct Medals
here at the Ordnance Training Gen.
ter. They are: First Sergt. William
P. Gardiner, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Gardiner, Bryantown, Md;
Staff Sergt. George F. Tucker, jr.,
son of Mrs. Fife Tucker, 724 Fiji
tenth street Sc, and Sergt. James
P. Yates, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
L. Yates, 1919 Otis place NE.
Sergt. Gardiner was formerly en-
ployed by Bowling g. Gardiner, real
tors. Sergt. Tucker formerly was
employed by the District govern
ment.
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from a 5-gallon can in the open in
cold weather; how to live for a
couple of weeks out of a field bag;
how to dig a foxhole while lying on
your stomach-things which were
not taught use, but which we learned
the hard but most effective way.
1t. Fitzgerald, who is now in
Sicily, has been in the service since
he was commissioned second lieu
tenant from the Reserve in April,
1912. A graduate of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, he was form
erly employed by the Duponut COM
pany in Seaford, Del He is a native
of Richmond, Va, and has been in
North Africa since December 6.
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Ire e we ks
there was par Pfc. Robt. Baeschiin.
ticularly heavy fighting, and always
we were under shell fire."
While he had little to say on his
own behalf, the 2l-year- old marine
was full of praise for his comrades,
particularly Sergt. Milownskie Of
Baltimore, who was awarded the
Navy Cross for conspicuous bravery.
The platoon sergeant lost his life
when his platoon, consisting of AZ
men including Pfc. Baeschlin, was
caught in an ambush in the jungle
and % of the marines were killed
or listed as missing.
Sergt. Milownskie, taking up a
Browning automatic rifle, fired from
the hip, Pfc. Baeschlin said, and
held off the Japs until the remainder
Of the platoon got away. Out OF
the AZ men originally in the platoon
only seven are left.
Pfc. Baeschlin was in action three
months before he was incapacitated
by malaria.
THE States never looked so good
to me as they did them" he said.
The biggest moment of my life was
when I got sick leave and got home
to Washington where I did bit Of
celebrating"
Pfc. Baeschlin, so fas as known, Is
the only United States Marine in the
British Isles to wear the Guadal-
canal Blaze. He has been in the
Marine Corps two years, and his
landing at Guadalcanal was the
first time he had been in action.
He was formerly employed as q
crane operator for the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad.
The LIST Division of the United
States Marines, of which he was
member, was cited by President
Roosevelt for outstanding achieve
ments at Guadalcanal.
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A German soldier stopped to pat It.
He didn't see the Americans. As he
stopped he fell dead, a bullet through
his head.
Then the kitten, as If nothing had
happened, walked back to his old
friends.
But, says the platoon lieutenant,
who vouches for this story, his men
now shooed the little animal away,
with horror written on each face, for
it suddenly came into the thoughts
of all of them that this black kitten
that had appeared so mysteriously
was a symbol of death.
1t was just chance, they thought,
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Murroy in Louisiana

MONROE, La.--Aviation Cadet
Donald Edward Murray, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. w. e. Murray, 27l9 Wilson
boulevard, Arlington, Va, has en-
tered the advanced Navigation
School here at Selman Field. Muir
ray attended Staunton Military
Academy and Catholic University
and was formerly employed by the
Shipyard a. Dry Dock Co, Newport
News, Va.
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bIdIlulIl8 ace OF
It he Unite ID
States Army, &C
scording to word
received by his
cousins, Mrs.
Fr e d erick A.
Humm and Mrs.
Howard C. Vic
;ory, both of Ar
llington, Va.
| 1t. Morton has
alre dy been
decorated with
the Silver Star
and the Distin-
guished Flying
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and was graduated from the Miami
Beach, Fla. (OCS), last January. AS
an enlisted man he was the editor
OF the camp newspaper at Boiling
Field.
Capt. F. H. Jerdone, a former
student of George Washington
university, has been transferred to
Austin, Tex.
1t. Larson at Camp DAVIS.
CAMP DAVIS, N. Cit. Andrew
Il. Larson, 4412 Faraday place NV,
land Pfc. Philip H. Manzon, IS
adams street NV, are attending
the Antiaircraft Artillery School
sb>re.
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the Washington
bureau of Unit
ed Press, has re-
ported to the
Army Air Field
here as base
public relations
omcer. He pre-
viously was the
assistant public
relations officer
at Minter Field,
B a k e r S field,
Calf. 1t. Bran
n e n attended
Georgia Military
G oil e &c, Mil
lefIpeyi11e 20
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half ago and was
an armorer with
the rank of cor
poral before he
attended OCS.
His brot h e r,
Richard, II, is in
the Navy.
1t. Jane S o n,
who was COM
missioned in the
Medical Admin
lStrative Corps,
Is the son OF
VILLA m M.
Jameson, 10 3 6
Park road NV.
ua VI,oc c1iner
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been In t n e
Army six years.
j a m e S w.
Thorpe, techni-
clan fifth grade.
son of Mr.. and
M r S. H arv e y
Thorpe, Anacos-
tia, has been
prom o t e d to
t e C h n / C / a n
fourth grade.
JOnn kenneth
Kersey, 20, son
of Mrs. D. Ker-
sey, 308 Seventh
street NE, Is
now serving with
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H a vey H.
Warwick, jr., 10,
seaman, second
class, on of
Mrs. G. fifth
Warwick, 90
G o n n e c t / cut
a v e n u e NV,
has been serv-
ing W t h t h e
Seabees some
W h ere in the
Southwest P a.
cihc since last
April. Seaman
enlist
ed in the Navy
lnrf Nalrar,,knr
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we nave long
wanted to write
about.
When we were
alerted for over
seas duty from
England we were
not told where
we were going.
However, t h e
N orth African
| n v a S ion had
S t a r t e d, and
when our ga
| o S n e S W er e
taken from us
and dust respi-
ratOrS substitute
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Sergt Aubrey Joseph Connolly
and Sergt. Richard Maurice Con-
nelly, sons of Raymond A. Con-
nelly, 731 North Albemarle street,
Arlington. Va, are together some
where in New Guinea after a period
of 16 months. Sergt. Aubrey was
indicted into the Army in April,
1912, and left for the South Pacific
area in August, 1912. He was pro-
NOTED to corporal April /, 1912, the
same day his brother received
corporal stripes in the United
States.
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! 0 + N e I / y o !
Washington, re-
c e n t ly W a S
a W a r d e d the
D S t / nguished
Flying eros
here at t h e
heavy bomber
base. The cita-
ton read:
For extraor-
binary achieve
ment in the Sol
ON on Islands
while participant
ing. during the
period from De-
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D. c. Lieutenant of Gunnery, Veteran of Sicily,
Writes of Routing Germans From North Africa
Men Learn Hard Way
But With Benefit of
Airplune Superiority

1t. John Patterson Fitzgerald,
tprote this letter to his mother,
Mrs. John P. Fitzgerald, 2022 Co.
lumbid road NV.
Now that the African campaign
is officially over and censorship
regulations have been relaxed we
can tell you some of the things that
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was a member
Of the first ma
rine detachment
to nd on
Guadalcanal.
1--WE pushed on
Immediately and
late that night
came under fire
from a Japanese
CIR u err" Pfc.
Baeshlin related.
"The following
day we went out
after the Japs,,
and for the next
three W e e ks
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{ dduud, loll D
street Sc, and
w | | | / a m S.
j a m e S o n, 81,
husband of Mrs.
Helena S. jane
son, 1905 Nelson
place Sc, re-
c e n ly were
commits 81 o n e d
second lieuten-
ants upon grad
uation from an
officer candidate
S C h DOL some
where in Eng
land,
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ndlOT dllld TOdQ
NV, has been
70 m O t e d to
captain som E.
where in North
ern Sicily where
he is serving
with a fighter
group. He was
formerly associ-
ated with Alvin
l.. Newmyer and
is a member of
the Mississippi
and District Bar
A S S O C / a t ions.
Capt. Lamens-
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serrt. E, II. Evans, jr. cember 7, 1941,
to November IT, 1912, in operational
air flights totaling over 208 hours.
during which exposure to enemy
fire was probable and expected
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Browning in Navy School

GREAT LAKES, Ill.-William L.
Browning, 10, son of Edgar Brown
ing, 101l Otis place NV, is enrolled
in the Naval Training School for
Signalmen here.
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the Atlantic Fleet. A graduate Of
the Metalsmith Trade School, jack
sonville, Fla, he was formerly sta
toned at Norfolk. Va. He enlisted
in the Navy in December, 1910.
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1t. Paduda was 1t. G. J. Paduds.
formerly employed as an apprentice
machinist at the Naval Torpedo Sta
ton in Washington. He enlisted in
the Army more than a year and
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One Of I Survivors
OF Jap Ambush Lauds
VaIor Of Companions

NORTHERN IRELAND. - Pfc.
Robert Baeschlin. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William I. Baeschlin, 96 Balti-
more boulevard, Cottage City, Nd,
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D. {. Flyer 10 GET
Air Medal Soon

First 1t. James K. Morton, "a, son
or Mrs. Lola Morton and the late
James K. Morton, formerly of
washington, has been rated an out
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Benedict al Florida
Base as INSTRUCTOR;
Capt. Lewis Home

ORLANDO, Fla.-Capt. James E.
Benedict III, Army Air Forces En-
gineer Corps, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James E. Benedict, jr., $500 Warren
road, Silver Spring. Md, has report
ed here as an instructor. Capt.
Benedict entered the service a year
before Pearl HORROR, recently re-
turned from a years overseas duty
In New Caledonia. A brother, Pvt.
Joseph B. Benedict, has been serving
in the Air Forces since March.
Capt. Lewis on Leave.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa.-Bernard M.
Lewis, Dental Corps, recently pro-
NOTED to captain at Olmsted Field,
is on a short leave visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Lup-
shutz, 1409 Spring road NV. Prior
to entering the service, Capt. Lewis
practiced in Arlington, Va.
Public Relations Officer.
CART SpAn NJ Nav - er,{s A
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Black Kitten Is Friend of Foe
As Well as u. S. Troops in Sicily

that an enemy happened to be the
victim instead OF one of our men.
1t was sweltering hot afternoon
In the 45th Division rest area, which
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Podudo and Jameson
Commissioned in EnqIond

ENGLAND-George j. Paduda.
10, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
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GEIGER FIELD, Wash.-Techni-
cal Sergt. Edward H. Evans, jr.,
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Public Relations Officer

CARLSBAD, N. Next. Lewis A.
Brannen, formerly associated with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-18
0PA Speeds Meat
ToU. s. Consumers

WASHINGTON, July II up
To speed the increasing beef and
veal supplies TO clamoring con-
sumers, OPA today took the fol-
lowing actions:
!. Removed wholesalers quantity
discounts on less-than-carloads.
2. Reduced carload discounts from
rs cents TO 25 cents per hundred
pounds.
3. Raised the wholesalers mar
gins from 37ia to rs cents per
hundred pounds.
With a squeeze" on retailers
considered likel' OPA softened the
order by stipulating: IF it is found
that retailers margins cannot abb
sorb the slight wholesale increase,
adjustments will be made by re-
vising the wholesale prices down.
ward"