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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18
LET'S GARDEN

There will be flowers in Kenne-
wick yards. There will, no doubt,
be more space given to vegetables
and fruits, however, than has been
the case around here for many years.
To plant for victory, in England
people who haven't enough space to
garden, rent, ground for small
fee and get their produce. They
are vitality interested in their home
grown food for otherwise in that
country there would be a greater
shortage than there is already. Here
we might well follow their lead in
planning right now to have some
section of ground around to offer
us such crops as the space allows.
We need to know intelligent plant
ing in order to rotate crops to as
sure a steady flow. of vegetables.
We must know the proper food to
give plants in order to produce a
healthy supply. Let's read up and
all Of us have a hearty vegetable
garden plot to economic and con-
serve. r-sfu
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18
SOMETHING WRONG HERE

1t is alarming the number of ac-
cidents reported on workable farms
and in defense plants, today. They
grow more frequent and more work
ing hours are lost when time is so
valuable. They blame the i'm
proper use of machinery and deaths
from tractors, on farms. And with
new and inexperienced hands taking
on more of this labor today and to-
morrow, there will be more acct
dents. In the manufacturing state
of Michigan, women in defense
plants increased the accident rate
81 percent in six months while men
rose only 21!9 in the same length of
time, mainly due to inexperienced
hands. The condition is most serious
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18
SEW AND SAVE

AS a rule we go in for things
sprouting fads and following fancies
for periodic spells until something
comes along to take its place. 1t
isn't that we are foot-loose and fan
cy free in sticking to things, but
just that the fanfare and advertis-
ing dies down. The spirit is US
ually still willingi
Just because you go in for a spell
of knitting doesn't mean that you
are ever going to entirely lay aside
those needles. You just won't click
with as much fervor. Folks who
played Chinese checkers with every
spare moment, haven't thrown away
their marbles. Backgammon and
NAH Jong, cross word puzzles, tat
ting and crocheting, the hobby of
collecting, all still give pleasure
though they may have suffered a
relapse as fads. We are told that
it has become fad now to make
your own clothes. There have al
ways been those who sew and like
it, others who sew because it's eco
nomically necessary and dislike it..
But today, with priorities, rationing
and taxes it. looks as though more
folks are going to dust off the sew
ing machine. This might seem far
out of line with checkers, runmy,
knitting, since sewing to many peo-
pie constitutes LABOR. But with
simple patterns, lovely materials,
free instructions in the construction,
they tell us that sewing can be fun.
During the week of Feb. 20 to 81,
American women will observe Ma
tional Sew and Save Week and
Kennewick women will' echo 1--WE
knew it all the time"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

ALI. good strategists agree that
Hitler, instead of running out on his
10th anniversary should have been
present and made his usual bonn
bastic speech. Not that anyone
would believe his dogeared speech
any more, but the psychological eff
feet would have been better if he
had beaten his breast a few times
and choked with rage before the
microphone. Instead, Der Fuel1rer
sent note to be read while he hid
in a bomb cellar. There is more
significance in the incident than
appears on the surface. a."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When we are stuck for some ma
tiona1 cure for national ailment, so
often we resort to some bit of wis
dom offered by heroes of days gone
by, who prescribed certain laws and
procedures for the people Of his day.
Much of that wisdom then will
will stand the test of time, yet cir
cumstances alter so much in poll
tics that the general trend changes
drom year to year. So we can't say
that our President should act as
did Lincoln or washington, be-
cause certain truths that held in
1898 or 1861 wouldn't hold water in
exactly the same manner in 1913.
But we can follow every day in
every year the spirit of such ma
tional heroes. Washington had the
quality of patience and the fondness
for hard work. He was an Indian
fighter, a surveyor, a soldier, and
an executive. He had to obtain
mis- education through his own eff
forts, lacking college training.
Though as a leader of a revolu-
tionary movement, still Washington
was moderate in his thought for
founding this new nation. He be-
1ieved in developing and progressing
as nation, in conservative style,
with stress laid upon devotion to
ones country. He brought out of
chaos an army unframed and
brought into being through military
genius a country free for rich de-
Velopment. Using wisdom and re-
straint Washington continued tol
mold and shape this new land and
if it was worth the fighting for in
the 1700's, this beloved country of
the patriot George Washington, then
surely today it is more truly worthy
of being fought for, held and cher
ished. d.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

Since the Casablanca Conference
declared for the unconditional sur
render of Japan it is perhaps just
as well that Joseph Stain of Russia
was not present. Russia is not at
war with Japan. In fact she is de-
sirous of maintaining peace with
Japan at least until Hitler is dis
posed of. For Stain to have joined
in a pact of unconditional surrender
of Japan would have amounted to
a declaration of war by Russia upon
Japan. Whether by chance or intent
Stain was absent. y NJ I.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

Why didn't we think Of this ra-
tioning plan during the depreSsionP
The mere mention of the fact that
canned food, sugar and coffee and
other items were going TO be ra-'
toned at some future date would
have resulted in a buying rush that
would have broken the depression
in three weeks. 1t seem natural for
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

One can get a pretty good line
on person by noting what he
spends his money for. If he spends
it wisely he is a sensible sort of
a person. If he spends it foolishly
he is that sort of a person.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

in regard to women since the labor
supply to be drawn in the near
future will be of women not familiar
with jobs they undertake.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

A local man suggests that the
government of the people, by the
people, and for the people is in
danger of becoming a government
of the pressure groups by the pres
sure groups and for the pressure
groups.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

A local man in commenting on a
peaceful world after the war, said
yesterday, that in his. opinion as
long as there were people in the
world there was going to be more
or less trouble.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

They inform us that girls TIA.
are preferring the sewing Of Sea-.
to the sewing OF wild oats y MN.
is a hopeful note. "'"Sa
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

man to want most that which !.
thinks he may not be able N ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18

READ COURIER REPORTER an.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-18
cHINS UP!

One way to do this war Job,
is to keep morale high
to rodiote courage and
confidence :. every one
of US, all the time.
That means keeping our
selves we'll dressed - but
economically, by planning
carefully. buying qualities
thot. will stand repealed
dressings and eleonines. II
means shopping where
fashions are designed for
lone-ronge smortness.
And that means keeping
our chins up, and sowing for
War Bonds =. two ports
Of the some Job: winning
the war!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Southern Coal Mines
Strike Ayerted by
Presidential Move
Operators, UNIV Agree
To Continue PorIey on
Wages Until April 30
Ely the Associated Press.

Ely the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 30.-Con-
tract negotiations between Southern
Appalachian soft coal mine oper-
ators and the United Mine Workers
will continue to April 80, says DR..
John r. Steelman, director Of the
U. S. Cancellation Service.
This announcement, made yes
terday by DR.. Steelman after he
had entered the negotiations, re-
vealed the removal of the posi-
bility of production stoppage in
the bituminous fields with the ex-
piration Of the present contract at
midnight tomorrow.
Northern operators and the UNIV
had agreed previously to such an
extension. Under terms of the
agreements with both groups of
operators any pay increases granted
In a new contract would be retro
active to April /.
DR.. Steelman. who Is remaining in
New York for the negotiations, took
part in the subcommittee sessions
of the Northern Appalachian group
which reconvened this morning after
being in recess since Thursday. 1t
had been announced that the long
recess was taken to study cost of
living data.
John L. Lewis, president of the
UNIV, also took part in the sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
West Point Rites Held
For Gen. c. W. Russell

BY the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, N. Y, March 3d.
Military funeral services were con-
Quoted yesterday for Brig. Gen. Gin
ton w. Russell, 81, Army liaison
officer in headquarters of the COM
mander in chief of the United States
Fleet. Gen. Russell died last week
at Fort Jay, N. Y.
Services were conducted in the
old chapel here by the Rev. John B.
Walthour, Military Academy chap
lain. Honorary pallbearers included
Col. F. Trubee Dawson, former As
sistant Secretary of War; Brig. Gen.
Howard =. Davidson, Army Air
Forces, and Col. Joseph w. Viner,
member with Gen. Russell of the
academy's class of 1918. Burial was
in the post cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
II Army Flyers Die
In Crash Of Bomber
Plane Wrecked on Coast
During Training Mission
BY The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EPHRATA, Wash, March 30
Eleven Army aifmen were killed yes
terday in the crash of a tour-motored
bomber miles north of the Ephrata
air base, Warrant Officer Harry YER
ner, base public relations officer, an
nounced last night.
There were no survivors.
The crash occurred during a rou-
tine training mission, probably about
3 am, and the cause was not de-
termlned, Mr.. Werner said. A board
of inquiry was formed to establish
the nature of the accident.
Maj. Ellis Emo, commanding officer
Of the base, located the Wreckage
from the air and directed a ground
crew to the scene Members of the
searching crew reported the wreck
age was scattered over wide area.
The dead were listed as:
Second 1t. Marvin R. Furch,
Great Falls, Mont;
Second 1t James A. Calnon
Portland, Greg;
Second 1t. Joseph J. Whalen. Port
Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y;
Technical Sergts. Harold L
Mason, Sterling, Colo; Herman E
Stephens, Ashland, KY: William T
Freeland, Goodland, Ind; Harold
w. Bunce, Lynn, Mass; John G
Bowen, Killeen, Tex
Sergts. John D. Naus, Glendale
Calf. Abe Kadem. Brooklyn;
Staff Sergt. Joseph E. Brielman
New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Farley Called in Florida
Shipyurd Tie-up !
the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PALATKA, Fla, March 3O.-Com-
pany and union officials are ex-
pected to confer tomorrow on a paw
boost demand which has resulted in
about las workers staying away
from the Palatka Shipyard Corp.
and the closing of the night shift.
Local No. 1900, United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America (AFL), has asked a fiat in
crease of 10 cents an hour in wages,
which now range from 40 cents to
Sl.20 an hour, R. H. Ward, produc-
ton manager for the corporation.
said.
Until the wage dispute is settled
and the night shift is resumed. the
day shift may work 10 hours instead
OF the usual eight, according to off,
Gals of the shipyard, which builds
landing barges and Coast Guard
patrol boats. BY transferring the
remaining night shift workers to
the day side, enough men will be
available to operate the plant, they
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Door 10 Accord on India
Still Open, Commons Told

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 3d.. S. Amery.
Secretary of State for India. told
the House of Commons today the
door remains open" to agreement in
the Indian home-rule dispute and
the whole situation remains under
constant review"
He made the statement in opening
a debate on the Indian situation.
Mr.. Amery charged that the ALL
India Congress party had become
a dictatorship aimed at non violent
revolution, and that Mohandas K.
Gandhi was dictator of by far the
largest, best-financed and most
rigidly drilled party organization in
India"
Capt. L. D. Gammans, a conserva-
tive member who recently returned
from visit to the United States,
urged the Government to explain
the Indian policy more fully to
Americans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Nazi Troopship Sinking
Reported by NorwegIans
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated PRESS.
LONDON, March 30.-The Nor
wegian government reported yester-
day that a German troopship had
been sunk at Trondheim Fjord on
the west coast of Norway during
widespread sabotage recently IN that
area. No details were available.
There have been numerous re-
ports recently of increasing re-
sistance to the Germans through
out Norway.
The Moscow radio quoting a
Stockholm dispatch to Tass, the Of
ficial Russian news agency. said last
night that 1900 German soldiers
had deserted from the Narvik gar
rison in the last three months and
were forming an armed band in
the mountains.
The dispatch. recorded here by
the Soviet monitor, said the de-
serters had clashed recently with
SIS troops guarding provision train
and had wiped out the escort and
seized provisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Draft
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'Contlhueu FROM First Page
100000 men who become 10 years old
each month, it was said that pool
would be exhausted by the end OF
March.
In April, May and June, boards
Will have to rely on married men
without children, men whose occupa
tlonal deferments are expiring, men
deferred for collateral dependents
where other arrangements have been
made, men whose physical defects
have been corrected and few
youths.
Also entering the manpoWer pool
IN the next month are the men on
the non-deferrable list, regardless OF
dependents. They are officially con-
sidered an unknown quantity" since
there are no estimates of the num-
Der OF men in the listed non essen
tial activities nor how many OF them
can be released
Manning Tables Being Adopted.
Toward June, it is hoped. the
manning tables now being adopted
in the Nations war plants and large
business establishments will begin
having an effect on the manpoWer
pool. Plant executives, in adopting
the manning tables for an orderly
withdrawal of their employees,
Gickered to keep their employees as
long as possible, but since the man
ming tables are arranged on six
month basis, the bulk of factories
which have made use of the man.
ming tables will have to release as
many as so per cent of their draft
eligibles before the six-month PEI
Rod is over.
In July and August graduating
high school and college students
will make up large part of the
draft call. On how successful local
boards have been in discovering
missing men" will depend the draft
Of fathers this summer.
1t is expected that by fall most
local boards will be in the same po-
sition, with no choice but to take
fathers. The idea. however, is to
put off that day as long as possible,
and Withholding the notice giving
draft boards carte blanche in the
father pool is considered one method
of doing it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30

committee meeting today for the
first time since closed sessions began
two weeks ago -, 80
The Southern group will meet this
afternoon.
approximately 100000 soft coal
miners in the Northern and
Southern Appalachian regions are
involved in the negotiations. The
unions major demands include a
S2-a-day basic pay increase rr'N-
imum of So day for mine field
workers and the unionlzatlon OF
minor bosses.
The extension agreement signed
by the Southern operators and the
UNIV and announced by DR.. Steel
man said:
1T is agreed that the mines rep
resented In this conference shall
continue in operation under all ex-
listing agreements for 80. days after
April l, 1913, in accordance with
the request, of the President of the
United States as affecting a con-
tinuation of work on a retroactive
basis
Without going into detail as to
the role President Roosevelt was
playing in the negotiations, DR..
Steelman, in response to a direct
question. said:
Naturally he is concerned" @
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Seeing Eye Dogs
| Get Meat Ration
| By OPA Order
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, March 30-Cora
and Minnie today were granted spe-
cial ration coupons for a pound of
meat a day by the once of Price
Administration. But they're used
to twice as much
Cora, 6, and Minnie, 2, are the
Seeing Eye dogs of Paul Oliver
blind Philadelphia, and very spe-
cial Seeing Eye" dogs, because each
was the gift of a Governor of New
jersey
Mr.. Oliver says the story goes back
to 1887, when he entered a bank at
Trenton, N j., just in time to walk
into a holdup. The original Minnie,
he said, leaped at one gunmar's
throat, but was shot herself by an
other bandit after delaying the gang
long enough for the police to capture
them.
In recognition, Mr.. Oliver said,
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman presented
Cora TO him, and later Gov. A. Harry
Moore gave him the second Minnie.
Mr.. Oliver brought the OPA a vet
erinarian's certificate stating both
dogs were suffering from inadequate
diet. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Nine. Chang Greets
Labor Gathering as
Fellow Workers
Increased Output Urged
In ToIk Before 1000
In San Francisco
Ey the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30
Nine. Chang Kai-shek, in an appeal
for labor cooperation and increased
production, enrolled Americas work.
ing men and women as fellow
workers" with herself in the cause
of victory.
The wife of China's leader, near
ing the end OF her five-day visit in
San Francisco. appeared last night
for an unscheduled talk before a
labor gathering and heard a thun-
dering yes, yes" interrupt her deter
mined declaration: You want to
win this war"
1000 Jam CLIO Hall.
Addressing 1000 CLIO, AFL and
Railroad Brotherhood members who
jammed the CLIO hall for a meeting
called on brief notice. Mime. Chang
started by saying simply, Fellow
workers" Only few hours before
she had greeted hundreds of society.
military, diplomatic and business
leaders at an elaborate reception.
when I called you fellow work
ers,'" Nine. Chang told the labor
meeting, Il meant it, because
know that am speaking to a cross
section of all labor in America, both
men and women. What I am going
to say to you is meant for every one
of the laborers in America
The speaker, dressed in a plain
back Chinese gown. pounded the
table. Because my own people
have suffered and bled for' six long
years l have a message which l
would like to bring you" she said,
and that is: Unity is strength"
Increased Output Urged.
The workers task, Nine. Chang
declared is not one whit less i'm
portant than that of the fighting
forces at the front. You must exert
every ounce of your energy to CO.
operate to help win this war. -
Production must increase. We
must let no dissension, no difference
of opinion come between US. because
II we do we will be defeated.
do you want to lose this war?
(The audience shouted NO. You
want to win this war. Here came
the cries of yes And so do we.
Therefore. let all labor cooperate
and increase production. That is
my message to you tonight"
Nine Chang is scheduled to leave
today for Los Angeles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Truman Group Asks
Limit on War Profits
To Defensib|e Size
Places Before Congress
Proposals to Revise
System for Refunds
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate War Investigating
Committee believes that it paws
both in personal satisfaction and in
dollars" for war contractors to tailor
their profits to size which. can
clearly be defended in the court of
public, opinions
Submitting to Congress series OF
broad recommendations for revising
present methods of renegotiating
war contracts. the committee de-
clared yesterday that contractors
themselves can do most to tighten
the Governments burden of con-
trolling war profits without impeding
production.
Will Minimize Burden.
Businessmen who are sincerely
interested in maintaining the Amer
lean system of free enterprise" the
committee said, must realize, as
many of them already do, that it is
their duty and responsibility to tailor
their own profits from war business
to that amount which can clearly
be defended as fair war profits in
the court of public opinion.
las soon as that attitude becomes
general and war contractors learn
from experience that it pays, both
in personal satisfaction and in dol
lars, to cooperate, the burden of
renegotiation will be minimized both
for business and for Government"
Noting that responsibility for re-
negotiation rests with the Secre-
tarles OF War. Navy, Treasury and
the chairman of the Maritime Com
mission, the committee advised leg
islation merging the agencies into
a single policy making and review
board, including a representative of
the War Production Board.
Presently, the committee ex-
planned, each group is subject to
the influence of different philoso-
phies OF the chairmen of the respec-
tive boards as to the job to be done,
with members of one organization
frequently functioning in ignorance
of policies applied and results
reached by members of other or
CARNATIONS dealing with similar sit
uations.
Army Saves S1,O45, 900, 900.
The report noted that up to jan
uary 80 the War Department Price
Adjustment Board renegotiated con-
tracts totaling S8,600,000, and
had arranged refunds of excessive
profits or obtained price reductions
of s1,045 100000 Navy records
showed recovery of $157 ,683 900 from
38 corporations up to March 10 and
price reductions of $273 900 900. The
Maritime Commission reported total
recoveries of S30,175 900 to March 20
and price reductions through re-
negotiations of ISL $4,000. The
Treasury Department reported no
recoveries.
The report also advised early
establishment of "a clear policy" of
reWardlng good producers with sub
stantially greater profits than poor
producers as means of obtaining
maximum production at minimum
cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-30
Land
Continued From First Page

position this year to meet its obli-
cations" than at any other time
since the outbreak of war in Europe
In 1899.
AS Of June 30, 1912. the commits
sion said in its final report, tonnage
available for commercial service was
approximately the same as at the
beginning of 1941, though much
tonnage had been turned over to the
Army and Navy.
In the 18-month period, the COM
mission reported, nearly 300 large
merchant ships aggregating more
than 100000 lightweight tons, in
addition to many smaller craft, had
been acquired from the commits
sion by the Army and Navy.
The merchant marine fleet jan
uary /, 194l, included 1850 ocean,
going vessels of 1000 gross tons or
more. aggregating approximately
10000 900 tons lightweight.
The report gave no indication of
the growth of the merchant marine
since June &c. Since then, however.
construction of new tonnage has in
creased steadily and this years goal
is approximately 100000 dead
weight tons, more than twice the
1912 production.