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Askov American., 1943-08-26

ceived recently by Mr.. and Mrs.
S. V. Gage of Bruno, from their
son, Private Clifford V. Gage,
member of the armed forces:
Dear Folks,
I'm going to try to tell you little
about army life. In every camp there
is "Joe," the soldier who is last in
everything. Well, it seems like I'm
"Joe the Dope"
We sleep on things called beds,
made out of two by fours. There are
no bed-springs or inner-spring mat
| tresses. They tell us to fall out at six
o'clock. You are always half asleep,
your face and teeth not washed and
your hair standing on end. Just to
watch them run the flag up and tell
one another that we are still here
l guess they must be expecting us to
leave just any time. Then we eat.
Scrambled eggs and fried potatoes to-
day, fried potatoes and scrambled
eggs tomorrow. After chow we run
back and change our clothes. We try
and get our clothes and leggingS on in
a hurry and we usually manage to get
there with Logging in one hand and
a rifle and cartridge belt in the other.
We all line up in rows and spend
about Is minutes with one arm stuck
out like traffic cop till they are
satisfied that we are in straight
line. Then they tell us to fall out
again and get our packs. They are
dainty things. You should see one. 1t
is what the well-dressed man should
wear at an afternoon tea. The pack
| is composed of half a tent, one slight
ly smaller than Ringling's largest tent.
Five tent pegs, one tent pole, rope,
haversack, pack flap, two blankets,
toothbrush, soap and towel-for what
I don't know, we never use them. An
overcoat, two plates and knife, fork
and spoon thrown in for good meas
ure.
Well, we get the darn things packed
last stages of Mysteries from holler-
ing. We Stagger out from pure eX-
! haustion and the sergeant walks up
and down in front of us waving his
stick, asking us, where in b. have
you all been. Well about that time Joe
the Dope (and if you remember that
is yours truly comes out with his
pack in hand, cartridge belt and rifle
in the other. Well, this is the pay
off. The sergeant hits the jackpot and
really blows his top. He proceeds to
put my name down, not for medal
of bravery but for little light exer-
else after chow tonight till about
nine o'clock.
Then we march off for a little
jaunt of possibly 10 miles, sometimes
more (probably more) because some
of the boys are more suited for bunk
fatigue and not for hiking. The SER
geants and their stooges, the CORP
orals, run up and down barking at
our heels, making us keep closed up.
1t reminds me of Tippy back home
after the cows at milking time.
After day of practically nothing
to do you rush back to your hut and
change clothes like madman. Then
you 60 out and watch them run the
flag down and hear the officers tell
one another that all the yardbirds
are still here
From the above quotations you may
gather that 1 am still in the army
Be sure and have the band out when
l come home.
Your putting private,
CLIFFORD V. GAGE.
Askov American., 1943-08-26
LINCOLN ON LAW

Let every man remember that to
violate the law is to trample on the
blood of his father and to tear the
charter of his own and his children's
liberty. Let reverence for the laws
be breathed by every American
mother to the lisping babe that
prattles on her lap. Let it be taught
in schools, in seminaries, and in col
leges. IS Let it be preached from
the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative
halls, and enforced in courts of JUS
tice. And, in short, let it become the
political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln.
Askov American., 1943-08-26

For example: The Anaconda Cop
per Corporation sold more than S.
100000 worth of defective copper
cable to the U. Sand entered a
plea of guilty to the fraud. The U. S.
Steel Corporation has been exposed
as having sold defective steel and
armor plate to the government. The
Curtiss- Wright Aeronautical Corpor-
ration has been selling the U. S.
bombers at $1,277,OO each-bombers
which were estimated to cost $66, ,799
per plane. The Western Cartridge
Corporation has been caught red
handed in selling defective ammuni-
ton to the government, and the
Sandusky Foundry and Machine Co.
has plead guilty to selling defective
sleeves for airplane propellers.
So Johnston-who may have pres
idental ambitions in the same meas
ure former Governor Harold E. Stas-
sen dreams of serving the GOP-is
now out Slamming labor and having
his radio addresses beamed to Amer
icas fighting forces in the far the
aters of war. Someone has to divert
attention away from the stencil Of
''free enterprise" and Johnston may
think he is killing two birds with one
stone-just as Harold Stassen reck-
oned in his last address to the Mime
sofa legislature.
Rehashing all the old fables under
the general caption of ''absenteeism"
Johnston is trying to make a case
against government officials who have
repeatedly declared that the time lost
as result of strikes is mere frac-
ton of one per cent of the total
time worked. He thinks the War
Production Board the War Labor
Board, the army, the navy, the U. S.
Maritime Commission, the War Man.
Power Commission and the Depart
ment of Labor have all lied about
strikes.
The youthful head of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce wants to poi
son the minds of the armed forces
of the U. S. A. because he wants
their vote for the COP in 1914. He
does not feel that the labor vote can
be won away from the New Deal, so
he fights labor with the weapons of
Hitler. He wants to incite resent
ment against the army of production
here at home. He wants to spread
distrust, envy and supicion. He
knows that millions of men in the
armed forces feel sorry for them
selves because they are getting $50
month while workers, in some in
stances, get as high as $100 week
in defense plants. But the boys in
the foxholes do not know that the
"$100-a-week" workers are being bled
white by profiteers; that they have a
substantial amount of this income de-
Quoting under the withholding tax
law, that they pay rent, doctor bills
dentist bills, ever-increasing food
costs, insurance and countless other
costs-not one of which is common
to the man in uniform.
Johnston has lot of weasel words
about labor, but not syllable about
the frauds committed by great cor
porations reeking with ungodly and
unconscionable war profits. He talks
about strikes as though the nation
is overrun with strikers, but not
word about the government of the
U. S. A. forcing industrialist to dis
gorge more than two billion dollars
OVercharpeS in war contracts
Apparently any labor-hating indi-
vidual can get clearance papers to
Askov American., 1943-08-26
Cooperation With
Reservation

Whether it is something that con-
Germs the individual, the organization,
the community, state or nation, or
even the world, actions speak louder
than words. The word 'co-operation"
is being banded around much these
days. Some who use it have this
thought in reserve: We are willing to
cooperate with anybody we can
control.
Askov American., 1943-08-26

tice among nations as exemplified in
our form of government?
Will we have cooperation or
domination?
Any plan of world organization
based on domination by the few is
bound to fail. We must face that fact
now. Failing to do so we will later
be confronted with World War III
because of lack of foresight and
craftsmanship.
Askov American., 1943-08-26

Il am an agent of the government,
and l am gathering information in
regard to the medical situation in
this war emergency and would like
to get little information from you,"
said a solemn faced individual to
doctor. "All right, what is it you want
to know" asked the doctor. "Well,
when doctor gets sick and another
doctor doctors him, does the doctor
doing the doctoring have to doctor
the doctor the way the doctor being
doctored wants to be doctored, or does
the doctor doing the doctoring of the
doctor, doctor as he wants to DOCTOR"
was the reply.
Askov American., 1943-08-26
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
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Signed articles always are more eff
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be withheld).
Askov American., 1943-08-26
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or MAY Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
ASkov American.
Askov American., 1943-08-26
w E 0 G e
The atlantic Charter

The President of United States America
Prime Minister Mr. Churchill representing His Maestys
in the United Kingdom, being met together,
deem right make known certain common principles
the national policies of their respective countries which
they their hopes for better future for the world
Their countries seek aggrandizement territorial
other
They desire territorial changes that do not
with the freely expressed wishes OF the peoples
concerned
They respect right of all peoples choose the form
of government under which they will live; and they
wish sovereign rights and selfgovernment re-
stored to those who have been forclby deprived them
They will endeavor respect for their existing
obligations further the enjoyment by all States great
small, victor vanquished OF access, on equal
terms the trade and to the materials of the
world which needed for their economic prosperity
They bring fullest collaboration be-
all nations in the economic field with the object
of securing for ALL improved labor Standards economic
advancement and social security.
final destruction of the Naz they hope
established peace which will afford to all
nations the of dwelling safety within their
boundaries and which will afford assurance that all the
all the lands live out their lives in freedom
from fear and want.
Such peace all the high
and oceans without hndrance.
They believe that nations the world, for
realistic we'll spiritual reasons, must to the
abandonment of the of force. Since future
be maintained if land, air armaments con-
tnue to be employed by nations which threaten, may
threaten aggression outside of their frontiers, they be-
lieve pending the establishment of wider and perma-
nent system of general security that the disarmament
of nations is essential They will likewise aid and
encourage all other practicable measures which will
tighten peacelovng peoples the crushing burden of
armaments.
FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
Askov American., 1943-08-26

Employed persons in the United
States in May, 1943, totaled more
than the country's population in $780,
Askov American., 1943-08-26
News From The
Victory Front

The following letter was re-
ceived recently by Mr.. and Mrs.
S. v. Gage of Bruno, from their
son, Private Clifford v. Gage, a
member of the armed forces:
Kodiak mirror., 1943-03-20

Phyllis Gall, 13, of Tacoma, Washington, and formerly of Bis marck, North Dakota, displays the chains she said her father, Gust Gall, attached to prevent her running away. Gall was held at Tacoma in Sl ,0O0 bond.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-03-20
Registration Notice

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registration Book for the registration of Voters at the General Election to be held on the 9th day of April, 1943, is open at the office of the Regist- rar, in the City Clerks office on Alaska Way.
 The said registration book will be kept open each week day from 9 am to 5 pun.
 FURTHER notice is given that the said registration book will close Saturday, April 3 at 4 pm of the said day
 The registration books will oe open until 8 pm on the evenings of next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, to allow out-of- town workers to register for the com ing city election.
 Catherine Blankenburg
 Registrar
Kodiak mirror., 1943-03-20

This latest in the bathing zoot suit, modelled by Actress Lucille Ball, is intended by her studio to supercede the sarong. The strapless effect is to conserve material.
Kodiak mirror., 1943-03-20

Harlen, Frederick and Andrew Mahle were recent passengers to Juneau, where the three brothers will be entered in a children's institutional home.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Food Prices
Continued From First Page. J

establishment of fixed dollars-and-
cents ceilings on grocery items,
prices which will be understandable
to the housewife. Currently, selling
prices for most foodstuffs are de-
termined by application or fixed
markups over grocers' purchase
costs or by the general maximum
price regulation which established
as the grocer's top price the highest
charged in March last year.
Excessive Prices Admitted.
Food prices, OPA admitted, have
been excessive in most of the larger
cities. This, officials explained, was
partly due to misunderstanding by
grocers of OPA regulations, and also
due to considerable amount of
"chiseling." The housewife, in most
instances, could not figure out
whether or not she was overcharged
under the old method of computing
ceilings.
Top community prices for about
SO per cent of all grocery products
will be announced Sunday and be-
come effective the following day.
Within the next three weeks the re-
naming foods will be brought under
dollars-and-cents control. Some of
the items for which new ceilings will
be announced Sunday include poul-
try, fluid milk, bread, eggs, butter,
packaged cheese, sugar, cereals and
flour.
Price Administrator Brown, mean
while, disclosed that price increases
Tor some consumer goods will be
permitted under the Presidents
hold the line" order where in
creases are required to maintain
adequate supplies in local areas,
and keep suppliers from going out of
business.
A ruling approved by Mr.. Brown
and Sterilization Director Byrnes
permits increases of from l to 2
cents a loaf in the price of bread
in the State of Utah, Fargo, N. OAK,
and Moorehead, MINI. The two
officials agreed in an exchange of
correspondence that bread prices in
the areas were abnormally low be-
cause price wars" were in progress
in March, 1912, the period used in
computing maximum bread prices.
The low prices have squeezed"
bakeries out of business.
No General Breach In Prices.
Mr. Brown recalled that the
Presidents order banned increases
in ceiling prices except to the
minimum extent required by law"
Officials were quick to deny there
will be any general break in ceiling
prices as result Of the ruling.
r Under the new community prices
for foodstuffs, booklets will be placed
in the hands of housewives listing
not only the grocer's allowable
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Field Of II Named
For Jamaica Feature
RiverIond, Attention Are
Fuvorites on Final Card
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May IA field of
II, headed by Harold Clarks giant
gelding, Riverland, was named to-
day for the $15,000- added Grey Lag
Handicap, which will feature
Jamaica S CLOSING card tomorrow
Fresh from his victory in the Dixie
Handicap at Pimlico, Riverland un-
doubtedly will be top choice in the
betting for the mile and l furlong
fixture named after the Rancocas
Stables grand campaigner of more
than 20 years ago.
Max Hirschs Attention, second in
the Dixie, again will challenge
Riverland, and most experts figured
the Grey Lag would be strictly a
two-horse race between this pair.
Rounding out the field will be A.
J. Sackett's Hirsch-trained Tola
Rose, which will be coupled as an
entry with Attention; Boysy, Our
Boots, Bally Boy, Marriage, Anti
climax, Ahamo, Minne-Mo and Rob-
ert Morris.
Riverland has been assigned top
weight OF Ut pounds, ! more than
Attention. They were at equal
weights in the Dixie. Riverland
worked a smashing furlongs in
1:113s at Belmont Park yesterday
for speed sharpener, while Atten-
ton, on the same morning, stepped
that distance full second slower.
After tonaorrows Jamaica card,
the New York racing scene will shift
to Belmont Park.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Sweden May Resume
Overseas Commerce
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, May 7.-Sweden's
overseas commerce, which has been
virtually suspended since Germany
terminated a safe-conduct agree
ment in January, is expected to re-
sumo shortly as the result OF nego-
tiations which, an official announce
ment said last night, have just been
concluded.
Numerous Swedish ships, already
loaded with cargoes vital to the ma
tion's economy, are awaiting sailing
orders in the Azores, in Lisbon and
in North and South American ports.
A government spokesman said re-
sumption of overseas trade might
result in a relaxation of shoe ration
ing, which was imposed after sus-
pension of the safe conduct agree
ment.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Survivor of Crash
Which Killed Andrew,
II Hours
Reor Gunner Says Rain
Put Out Fire; All Of ID
Others in PIune Killed
BY WAR GUDMUNDSSON,
Associated Press Stan Correspondent

ASSOclateQ PRESS SCau correspondent.
REYKJAV1C, Iceland, May T.
Giving the first detailed account of
the plane crash in which 1t. Gen.
Frank M. Andrews and 13 others
were killed Monday, the lone sur
vivor of the accident said last night
that the craft hit mountain at
AIS pm. and tnat he believed all
died instantly.
The visibility was only about 40
feet and we had passed several
peninsulas along the coast" said the
survivor, Staff Sergt. George A.
Eisel, but the last one was just too
high. 1t happened so suddenly, and
nobody was expecting anything"
Il was the rear gunner" added
5ergt. Eisel, athrice-decorated vet
eran of both the European and
African fronts. my turret was
thrown right into the middle of the
plane, or what remained of it. There
I was for 26 hours before a rescue
party found me. 1t took them an
hour to dig me out"
No Radio Contact for Hour.
Sergt. Eisel whose wife, Iva, lives in
Columbus, Ohio, said the plane had
had no radio communication with
the land base from 3 o'clock on, but
found the airfleld. 1t was decided
to try another field, however, be-
cause OF the poor visibility.
From the conversation Sergt.
Eisel said he heard on the inter-
communications between the pilot
and navigator they could have
landed the first time, but decided
to go to the second airfeld. But
there it was impossible to land, so
we went back to the first one," he
said.
Sergt Eisel said Gen. Andrews,
who often piloted his own plane,
had taken the controls for part of
the trip over the Atlantic, but the
captain had taken over when we
crashed" The trip from England
had been uneventful until the acci-
dent, he said.
None of the planes crew ever had
been to Iceland before, the sergeant
added.
Sergt. Eisel was not badly hurt
HIS foot was cut and he also suf-
tered small cuts on his left hand.
Fire Put Out by Rain.
Il thought I would be burned in
side the plane, but luckily rain start
ed to fall and put out the fire." he
said. Then I started worrying /
would not be found until dead, and
l was terribly thirsty and hungry
before the rescue party came"
Sergt. Eisel was carried on a
stretcher for IL miles before reach
ing an ambulance.
1t was the second time he had
survived plane crash. The first
time his plane was shot down in
Africa and three of his comrades
were killed.
Evening star., 1943-05-07
Indictments
Continued From First Page

S~NA
ings and returned them to Packard
with new numbers. He said the de-
PENDANTS also are accused of misrep-
resenting the source of test bars
supplied to Packard.
The individuals indicted, Mr.
Biddle announced, are John L.
Schneider. president of the COM
pany; Frank I. Schneider, plant
manager; Edward Schneider, as
sistant plant manager and CHIEF
metallurgist: James C. Helm, plant
superintendent; Otto M. St. John
service engineer; Robert w. Chrysler
chief of the final inspection depart
ment, and Benjamin Prudenza, fore
man of the cleaning department and
chief inspector of rough castings.
Seven counts of the indictment as
announced by the Attorney General
charge that the defendants with
reason to believe that their act
might injure. interfere with and
obstruct the United States and its
associate nation, Great Britain, in
preparing for and carrying on the
war = knowingly, willfully, un-
lawfully and feloniously" made and
caused to be made the castings in
defective manner"
Face Heavy Penalties.
The indictment charges" Mr..
Biddle said, that in carrying out
the conspiracy the defendants gave
workers instructions as to the time
of day when castings destined for
Packard were to be welded CASUALLY
at night and ordered the castings
removed from the welding room
when Packard officials visited the
plant"
Mr.. Biddle said there had been no
accurate total of the allegedly de-
fective castings supplied thus far,
but that it was estimated that in
one 5-day period the defendants had
saved approximately $4,000 by
welding castings which otherwise
would have been rejected.
The maximum penalty under the
sabotage charge is 80 years impris-
onment and $4,000 fine on each
count. One count, charging con-
spiracy to violate the wartime sabo-
tage statute, alleges that the viola
ton extended from December 8,
194l, the day after the Pearl Harbor
attack, ito the present." Mr.. Biddle
said.
Company One Of Largest.
A Justice Department statement
described the National Bronze g.
Aluminium Foundry Co. as one o.
the largest manufacturers of alum
inum castings in the United States
It said the cast per-chargers we're
designed for Rolls Royce Merlin
engines to be installed in fighter
planes costing between $50,000 and
500 900.
The department quoted Packard
engineers as saying that castings
lose at least 20 per cent of their
tensile strength as result Of weld
ing. 1t said also that the welded
portions of the superchargers dc
not expand under the heat generated
by the engines to the same degree as
unveiled sections, thus causing
cracks or splits.
In statement issued through his
attorneys, the firms president said
I'VE believe when the entire story
is told and all the detail is filled
in, the public will be satisfied that
we have done good job. We have
produced castings for many years
and as good American citizens we
were anxious to do our part in the
war by producing - the best
castings that We were able to build.
Evening star., 1943-05-07

fixed markup but the top dollars
and-cents price as we'll.
Ofcials said they are depending
upon the natural desire of house
wives to keep abreast of prices as the
chief enforcement weapon of the
new program. They will be en-
couraged to report to their ration
ing boards any violations of ceilings.
The American housewife will not
pay penny more than she has to, Z"
one. official declared. THE prices Of
groceries had better be right, for the
housewife will carry her booklet
wherever she shops. We think we
now have prices fixed so she will
understand them, and that should
go long way toward easing the en-
forcement problem"
The official said that OPA's next
big job will be to whip in line the
prices of clothing.