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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
SUBSIDIES:
You'd Limit Expenditures

If President Roosevelt's subsidy
program to "roll-back" the price
of retail food was to become the
administration bulwark in it's an
ti-inflationary program, Congress
indicated that it would retain a
voice in such policy by limiting
the governments expenditure of
money in it's operation.
In considering a new Commodity
Credit Corporation bill which would
allow subsidies, the senate banking
and currency committee heard Sen
ator Robert Taft propose an sppro-
priation of 525 million dollars TO
"roll-back" prices to Jan. ], 1914.
Unless such a limitation were
made, Taft said, the government
could borrow any amount from the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion.
President Roosevelt declared it
was necessary to "roll-back" food
prices to equalize the sterilization
of wages. Subsidy opponents con-
tend that such payments will only
increase the public debt, and wages
generally have risen to a level at
which consumers can well afford
TO buy food at present prices.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
CANNED GOODS:
Increase Prices

To absorb higher labor and ma
terial costs, Gamers of vegetables
and professors Of frozen berries
were authorized to increase prices
of the 1943 pack by the Office OF
Price Administration.
Prices of canned tomatoes, corn,
snap beans and peas, however, will
remain at the 1912 level. Seeking
to stabilize the prices of these es.
sential commodities, the govern
ment will pay subsidies to Gamers
to make up for increased costs.
The 0PA also acted to place spe-
cific increases on spinach, aspara
gus, mustard and turnip greens. To
reflect wage boosts, Gamers of
spinach were allowed Al per
cent boost. Price of the No. 2 can
Of asparagus was raised 4 cents
and mustard and turnip greens
were increased Ia cents.
Increases ranging up to 3 cents
a pound were allowed to professors
Of blueberries, cranberries, cur
rants, dewberries, elderberries,
nuckleberries, Johnson berries and
Olympic berries.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Fight Over FSA
Not Over

WASHINGTON, July 14-(FP)
The fight over the Farm Sc
curity Administration is not over,
National Farmers Union spokes-
men indicated July IL. While final
Legislation passed before Congress
adjourned did cut down FSA
funds so drastically it scarcely can
function, a demand in the fall TO
an expanded, not shrunken, FSA
program will be renewed.
Support for it is expected to
come from the President and from
Department of Agriculture off
cials.
The attempt to turn FSA over
to American Farm Bureau FEEDER
ation-minded county agents failed.
But the farm bloc, the Wall Street
farmers, who in the house once
succeeded in wiping out FSA
funds, did plenty OF damage else
where in their crusade for hunger
at high prices. They defeated a
move to authorize incentive pay
ments of 100000, 900, and ordered
the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.
liquidated for the coming year.
The big farmers the farm bloc
speaks for don't need the help the
FSA provides to small farmers.
The entire national income for
1912 was s114,OOO, 900, 900, repre-
senting a 24as increase in the
country as whole. But the in
crease to farmers was 500.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Stars OF Tomorrow
by Ethel Vine

In "The Youngest Profession"
Virginia Weidler comes into her
own '(as a veteran should) by ap-
pearing in the starring role. She
takes the part of Joan Lyons,
president of an autograph hunters
club. The cast also includes Ed
ward Arnold John Carroll, Jean
Porter, Dick Simmons and guest
stars who are Lana Turner, Greer
Carson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert
Taylor and William Powell.
Just fourteen years ago Miss
Weidler made her screen debut in
"Moby Dick" with the late John
Barrymore. From the moment she
stepped on the set she displayed
temperament by refusing to carry
out the directors orders which re-
quired her to remove her dress.
Affronted by the strip-tease sug-
gestion, she began screaming and
kicking and finally had to be car
ried out of the studio by her har-
assed mother. And so, at the ripe
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
JAPAN:
Parcels Out Territory

In development of the great east
Asia co-prosperity sphere" Japan
ceded four Malay and two Bur-
mese states TO the kingdom of Thai
land. North of Malaga and east of
Burma, Thailand, by it's alliance
with Japan at the start Of the war,
provided the Nipponese with a
backdoor into these British posses
sions.
The cession of the Malay states
gave Thailand rich rice, tin and
rubber producing territories. The
population includes more than a
million natives. The two Burmese
s&ates constitute $4,000 square
miles.
The cession was made on occa-
sion of Premier Hediki Tojo's visit
TO the Thai capital at Bangkok.
Tojo later went to Shanghai,
where Chandra Bose, exiled Hindu
nationalist leader, called for the
organization of all rebels for the
defeat Of the British in India.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
NAVY STRIKES:
Jap Fleet Hit

The battle in the Southwest Pa
cific grew in intensity, with the
Japs throwing the full weight OF
their air and sea power against
the advancing Allied forces.
Drawn out by the u. S. Navy's
shelling of the Jap anchorage of
Bairoko, through which supplies
have been carried to the big enemy
air base of Munda on New Georgia
Island, formations of the japanese
fleet engaged the American ships
in the Kula gulf, coming off a
poor second best.
According to communlque from
General MacArthur's headquarters
no less than ak enemy vessels
probably were sunk and four dam
aged. We lost one cruiser, which
with a destroyer sunk in the Bair-
oko bombardment and transport
knocked out in the earlier landings,
brought our own losses to three.
All along the 700-mile front the
Japs hurled their aircraft at Amer
lean positions. Enemy fighters and
bombers flew over newly occupied
Rendova, struck at General Mac
Arthur's beachhead below Sala-
maua in New Guinea, and attacked
Darwin in northwestern Australia
in force. At Salamaua, Allied forces
had worked their way through
Jungle 10 the northwest, so that
with General MaeArthur's position,
that Jap base was now ringed from
three sides.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

especially in their place in the
army, officials wanted the best
possible qualifications to go with
the first experimental group. All
of us realized what spot we were
on. We had to deliver the goods or
else. Or else there wouldn't ever
be another chance for women pilots
in any part of the service.
The attitude that most nonfliers
have about pilots is distressing and
often acutely embarrassing. They
chatter about the glamour of fly
ing.
Well, any pilot can tell you how
glamorous it is. We get up in the
cold dark in order to get to the air.
port by daylight. We wear heavy,
cumbersome flying clothes and
30-pound parachute.
You are either too cold or too
hot. If you are female your lip-
stick wears off, and your hair gets
straighter and straighter. You look
forward all afternoon to the bath
you will have, and the steak. Well,
we get the bath, but seldom the
steak: sometimes we are too tired
to eat and fall wearily into bed.
None of us can put into words
why we fly. 1t is something diff
ferent for each of us. / can't
say exactly why / fly, but l
know" why, as I've never known
anything in my life. OF this l am
most positive.
| knew it when I saw my plane
silhouetted against the clouds,
framed by a circular rainbow. I
knew it when flew up into the ex-
tinct volcano Haleakala on the
island of Maui, and saw the gray
green pineapple fields slope down
to the cloud-dappled blueness of
the Pacific.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Quufroins

Some days are dark and dresry
>. with a drizzling rain which be-
comes monotonous, as it fingers on
and on. Most of us prefer bright
days . :. yet welcome sudden,
refreshing shower.
So, in the lives of men +. some
live many years, which are filled
with trivial nothingness. Others
are like Mozart =. their lives are
short but packed with accomplish
ment.
Poetry is no exceptions choice
of words should express n thought
yet permit brevity.
Thus, ! shall attempt in this
weeks column, and for the next
few weeks to follow, to present the
brevity of poetry. ..- .-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
WAR PRODUCTION:
Up and DoiCn

Declaring that we are on the
verge Of one of the greatest trials
of our national history, War Pro-
duction Chairman Donald Nelson
revealed that the nations arms out
put for May had gained for air.
craft and naval vessels, but fallen
in other lines.
On a weight basis, airplane pro-
duction jumped per cent in May,
Nelson said, with bomber deliveries
up but fighter manufacture un-
steady. A total of 100000 tons of
naval vessels were completed.
In other lines, ground ordnance,
such as tanks, artillery, etc, was
down 3 per cent; merchant vessels
were down 4 per cent, and miscel-
laneous munitions were down per
cent.
For the first half of the year
Nelson said the estimated output
fell below the goals marked out.
Merchant shipping was A per cent
OF the years objective; army ord
nance and naval vessels, 40 per
cent, and aircraft So per cent.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

For seven long years, Betty
Desir has suffered from the raw
ages and after-effects of infan-
tile paralysis, yet to hear her
pleasant talk and see her infec-
tious smile, you would think she
was carefree and happy-and she
is.
Betty isn't the kind who sits
around peering inside her own
soul trying to find an excuse for
feeling sorry for herself. In
deed, Betty is strictly objective.
She is adjusted and has a philos-
ophy of life that might well be
copied by everyone.
Perhaps it is because Betty
thinks of herself as another per-
son and asks no odds or ends of
anyone, that she's little by little,
building her own little business
which she has named "Betty's
News Agency"
Betty is crippled from her
waist down. She has not walked
for seven years, yet she manages
to get around in a wheel chair,
conducts her business of selling
magazine subscriptions over the
phone, uses a typewriter with
one hand, writes, reads, knits and
does things many women with
the full use of their limbs do not
do. @
When Betty's family, due to
sickness, was hard pressed, the
CIO War Chest gave them a
lift, and Betty and her persever-
ance, her will to do for herself,
is more than ample evidence of
the value of the War Chest, for
it tided her family over a rough
spot and gave Betty a chance to
continue to build her magazine
business.
OF course, Betty Desir isn't
entirely self-supporting, but she
will be before long of the people
who read this will give her
break and order their magazines
or renewals through her. She
can supply any magazine or pa
per in the country and she will
gladly welcome your call. Incl
dentally, Betty sells subscriptions
to the TOLEDO UNION JOUR-
NAL.
IL you don't want a magazine
yourself, refer your friends to
Betty. Better still, go to her home
at sS2 Superior st. and give her
your subscription in person. You
will find her pleasing personality
tonic and she will make you
feel good just to talk to her.
Betty's father, Russell B. Rex,
now a patient in the Veterans
Bureau Hospital in Dayton, was
member of Local IL, UAW-
CIO, and worked at the Ameri-
can Can Co.
Give Betty a call at Main 3942
if you need magazine, or your
renewal on any magazine is
about to expire.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

July 10.
The firm, a wholly owned sub
sidiary of the anti-labor Curtiss-
Wright Corp, passed off defective
engines, many of which later
crashed, on the government by fal-
sification of tests, destruction of
records, forged inspection reports,
by improperly recording results of
tests and by other means, the COM
mittee charged,
The committee undertook a pre-
liminary investigation ater receiv-
ing complaints from army inspec-
tors at the Lockland plant in Janu-
ary 1943 and found considerable
basis" for the complaints. The COM
pany and the Army then held their
own Investigations and later as
sured the committee that nothing
irregular existed which required
action" The committee began its
own closed hearings April l and
discovered that the company was
producing and causing the govern
ment to accept defective and sub
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

standard material" through intimi.
dation of Army plant inspectors
with the active cooperation of
Army higher-ups.
After the committee returned -
Washington, it withheld disclosure
of its findings until an Army board
headed by Lieut.. Gen. William s..
Knudsen, conducted it's own inves-
tigation at the Lockland plant. A
separate investigation by the OF.
flee Of the Air Inspector into the
committees charges Of misconduct
against army officials is now under
way.
Although the Knudsen committee
found itself in agreement with 900
of the facts uncovered by the Tru-
man committee, it's final report
was a substantial whitewash of the
company's actions. The Truman
committee found that the Knudsen
report assumed an unnecessarily
defensive attitude"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Murray Warns
Judiciary
Committee

WASHINGTON, July 14-(FP)
Senate Judiciary committee mem
bers were warned July IL by CIO
President Philip Murray that de-
Jay in reporting favorably HR 7.
the Marcantonio anti-poll tax bill,
would be seized upon by the propa-
ganda machines Of our enemies.
Looking to the committee for
action needed to assure them "their
full status as equal participants in
our nations life" said Murray,
were 40 million American citizens
working, sharing, fighting and
giving equally with their fellow
citizens for the defense of our
nation"
He urged immediate action on
the bill as a war measure, saying
extended hearings were held on the
same bill and that more were un-
necessary:
Finally" he wrote, important
bodies of peoples and nations
among the United Nations through
out the world are looking to your
committee and your action on this
bill as a demonstration Of our ma
tional good faith in the achieve
ment Of the ideals for which we
and all the United Nations are
NOW stl1I opEnr.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

SUGAR: About third less
acreage was planted in sugar beers
this year than last. Leaders of the
industry blame shortage of labor,
and competition Of other crops
more favored by governmental aid.
BANKS: The Chase National
Bank of New York, the worlds
largest, reports total assets of 81.
4o2,6O6,435 in its latest statement
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
HIC LIGHTS. in the ,oeek's ne,os

CONSTRUCTION: All building
materials and construction facilities
have been placed under the control
Of the War Production Board, 'in
order to eliminate all non-essential
construction"
GRAIN: Oats sold at the highest
in % years on the Chicago market
at 73h cents a bushel, while rye
reached $1.121s recently.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

knew l was going to join the
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying squad
ron before the organization was a
reality, before it had a name, be-
fore it was anything but radical
idea in the minds of a few men who
believed that women could fly air
planes. But / never knew it so
surely as / did in Honolulu on De-
cember z, 1941.
A dawn that morning | drove
from Waikiki to the John Rodgers
civilian airport right next to Pearl
Harbor, where I was a civilian pi-
lot instructor. Shortly after $50
/ began landing and take-off prac-
tice with my regular student.
Coming in' just before the last
landing, l looked casually around
and saw a military plane coming
directly toward me. jerked the
controls away from my student
and jammed the throttle wide open
to pull above the oncoming plane.
He passed so close under us that
our celluloid windows ratified vi
olently and I looked down to see
what kind of plane it was.
The painted red balls on the
tops of the wings shone brightly
in the sun. looked again with
complete and utter disbelief.
Honolulu was familiar with the
emblem, of the Rising Sun on
passenger ships, but not on air.
planes.
l looked quickly at Pearl Har-
Dor and my spine tingled when l
saw billowing black smoke. Still
thought hollowly it might be
some kind of coincidence or
maneuvers. 1t might be, it must
be. For sure. dear God!
Then ooked way up and saw the
formation of silver bombers riding
in. Something detached itself from
an airplane and came glistening
down. My eyes followed it down,
down, and even with the knowledge
pounding in my mind, my heart
turned convulsively when the bomb
exploded in the middle of the har-
Dor.
l knew the air was the the place
for my little baby airplane and
set about landing as quickly as ever
/ could. A few seconds later a
shadow passed over me and stimuli
taneously bullets spattered all
around me.
Suddenly that little wedge of sky
above Hickam Field and Pearl Har-
hor was the busiest fullest piece of
sky ever saw.
We counted anxiously as our lit
tie civilian planes came flying home
to roost. Two never came back.
They were washed ashore weeks
later on the windward side of the
island, builet-riddled. Not a pretty
way for the brave little yellow
Cubs and their pilots to go down
to death.
When | returned, the only way |
could fly at all was to instruct Ci-
william Pilot training programs.
Weeks passed. Then, out of the
blue, came a telegram from the
War Department announcing the
organization of the WAFS, and
the order to report within "a hours
if interested. / left at once.
Because there were and are so
many disbelievers in women pilots,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

The rich are like canaries,
High and pampered with life's
riches sit;
The poor are like the purring cat,
just go stewin' round and wish
in they had il. 1.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
Jingle Rhymes
ond Poetry

Jingle rhymes may bring out laugh
ter, as a ballby Altrock hurled,
But profound thought of deeds we'll
wrought, makes poetry which
rocks the world.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
War 31 fte1,. A,!t

(WNU Festure-Through special arrange
ment with Women's Home Companion.
(Hers is one of the most remarkable
stories ever published personal story
duty in American history. Shortly after
it was written, Miss Fort, "a, of Nash
vile. Tenn, was killed when the bomb
er she was plotting crashed in Texas.)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
'Curfiss-Wrighf Subsidiary
Accused Of Fraud

WASHINGTON July IA FP)-The Wright AerOnautca Corp.
audueny supplying defective and subsandad
engines and Navy through connvance of Army Air
report the aircraft industry
Committee investigating national defense
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

Today's truth is tomorrow's error,
Bubbles of knowledge burst every
where; s,
Looking for truth! Want a meas
uring rod?
Forget men--seek God.
The Bard of Flatrock"
DON PARSON
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
knowIedgs and
Wisdom

knowledge is a bag of answers
You can purchase for n cost,
Wisdom never can be purchased
But guides you when the bag is
lost.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16

EDITORS expressed these columns they those Of
necessarily OF HeWspsperJ
by westen
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-07-16
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Strong Allied Drive in South Pacific
Threatens Jap Base in Solomons;
Nazis Make New Bid to Cripple Russia
Through Attack on Belborod Line
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Montgomery 0CD Unit
Gets Short-Wave Permit

A high-frequency broadcasting
license has been granted to the
Montgomery County Civilian De-
fense War Emergency Radio Service,
Radio Aide William D. Blair an
nounced yesterday The new station
will be known as WMMD.
Mr.. Blair said his service is pre-
pared to begin providing radio COM
municatioE between the control CEN
ter and the report centers at Silver
Spring. Bethesda and Rockville in
time for the mobilization drill May
3, when all protective services will
undergo an hour of drill
The sending and receiving appa-
ratus has been constructed by the
radio service personnel from old
radios and equipment by residents
of the county. Additional radio
equipment is needed, especially
peanut tubes, and residents who
have spare radio parts or tubes
are requested to leave them at the
nearest county police station.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Maryland Heiress Faces Trial
On Cruelty to Animals Charge

Sheriff Woodland Jackson said he
had visited the big estate and found
carcasses and skeletons of dead ami
mails.
Mrs. Muir bitterly denied the &C
cusation, saying that I'VE are not
neglecting our stock. There's nooh-
ing more can say"
Her foreman, 54-year- -old Joe
Pope, explained, however, that the
shortage of farm labor had made it
difficult to care for the large prop
critics, adding that Il swear we are
working day and night to keep the
stock fed and watered."
He also said that "all We want is
justice, and when the truth is out.
we'll get cleared away"
Mrs. Muir was 13 when she in
herited the bulk of the estate of DR..
Tull. When she was 20, she married
17-year-old, Frank Muir, son of a
Princess Anne plumber.
Mr.. Muir, now in the Army. is sep
aSAted from his wife. Their 6-year-
osd daughter, Edna. lives at the,
estate.
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Maryland May
Waive Penalty
On 7ordy Taxes
the Associated Pres


ANNAPOLIS, April II. - The
State income tax division indicated
today that penalties for late filings
Of returns may be waived this year
because of uncertainty of the Leg
islature in approving a one-third
reduction in payments on l94l in
comes.
Officials emphasized, however,
that this did not mean the State
would countenance unnecessary de-
lay in filing returns, which were due
midnight Thursday.
The recent Legislature approved
a one-third reduction in income tax
payments on 1941 income. and the
tax division has been working long
hours in an effort to tabulate late
returns.
There was no estimate on the
number of returns filed to date since
more than 35 employees from the
Annapolis office have been in Balti-
more most of the week helping late
comers complete their statements
Evening star., 1943-04-17
Japan Broadcasts Threat
To Bomb America Soon
BY the Associated Pres s


On the eve of the first anniver-
sary of Maj. Gen. James H. Doo-
Titles raid on Toxic. the Japanese
chief of the war ministry's military
affairs bureau Mai. Gen. Kenryo
Sato. today broadcast a threat that
japanese, German and Italian air
men were going to bomb the Ameri-
can mainland soon
The Toxic broadcast recorded by
the Associated Press was similar to
one recorded in London Wednesday
The Japanese radio quoted Sato
as saying: The only difficulty in
carrying on devastating air raids
upon the United States mainland is
that there is a wide span of area
between Japan and America-the
Pacific Ocean.
Japan already has solved this
question technically.
1T is clear that Germany and
Italy also have made necessary
preparations to raid the American
mainland. 1t will not be long be-
fore the Axis air force will wing
their way to the United States to
drop rain of bombs and blast the
skyscrapers."