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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27
Gotta Buy Bonds
To See This Show

AS an inducement to buy bonds,
the Liberty theater is putting on
a special show next Thursday
night featuring seven acts of
vaudeville, together with a popu-
lar movie Heaven Can Wait, "
starring Don Ameche. The pur-
chase of a bond is the only way
to get ticket to this show, which
will run but once that evening,
starting at eight. Tickets may be
obtained by the purchase of a
bond at the ocal Roxy theater.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27
GALLUP DIFFERS

The conclusion is contested by
the Gallup poll. Mr.. Gallup (unat-
tache0 gives Dewey leadership
with SO percent Cup percent since
september. Willkie Is percent
(off a, Macarthur Is (unchanged,
Bricker 10 Cup q, Stassen 6 Gun
changeO, and Taft S (unchanged.
Henry Luce's Fortune magazine
'Wlllkle supporter is currently
printing a poll indicating Roose-
Welt would get SIS percent of the
vote II the war is on, so percent if
only over in Europe, giving the
best Republican" Cunnamed an
astounding minority of only 80
percent, with IL percent of the
people in the don't know class.
Even more astonishing, Fortune
gives Willkie nearly 2 to / popu-
iarlty rating over Dewey among
Republicans.
POLLS are worthless except for
argumentative purposes at this UNI
settled stage of the race.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27

On Tuesday evening a fare
well party was given at the home
of Wilma Gravenslund for. Don
Shipley, a senior classmate who
left for the army Wednesday
morning. He was presented with
an Identification bracelet from
nine of his friends who were pres
ent. A show was attended, and re-
freshments were enjoyed after
wards.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27
Local MasOns Confer
Higher Degrees on Is

Local Scottish Rite Masons are
holding their spring reunion today
and tomorrow, comforting the
higher degrees on class of IS. w.
S. McCrea, Sovereign Grand In
spector General, Of Spokane, is
present at the ceremonies. De-
grees from the fourth to 14th are
presented today and this evening,
while tomorrow's sessions cover
those to the 18th degree.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27

importance
in your mind
IN making up
q 5h billion
dollar total
for individu-
alS.
But multi.
BY 900
~~A AA> 1p~s~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27
To the People
Of this Community
you ARE IMPORTANT

There is no such thing as a
little" investment in the Fourth
War Loan.
Your $25 or $50 or 500 Extra
War Bond may not have great
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27

Mrs. Everett Aman left this
week for a two-week visit with
her son, Loren, and his wife in
San Diego, Calf.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27
News ( n
BEHIND I ||||| z|
IHENE''|||(|l!SE|!|5El|11
STEEL STRIKE TROUBLE
STILL COMING UP
By PAUL MALLON

If anything could have been
worse than the coal strike settle
ment. it was the railroad settle
ment. but worse than both to-
oether is the steel strike trouble
coming up.
k.Steel unionist Phil Murray al
sy9ady is pressuring the War Labor
Board and the White House for an
other wage increase. This is a
campaign year and he knows 1t.
Unless he gets something, he prac-
tically says he will lose the CIO
to John Lewis, and the White
House would sooner lose the build
ings and fixtures to Dewey than to
allow that.
But how to do it? Up to now,
old Doctor "Win-the-War" (who
has replaced Doctor New DeaD has
been getting around his own Little
Steel wage observation-disclosures
ing wages more than it allows
by especially concocted devices
such as more overtime allowances,
vacations VIII pay, but chiefly by
reclassificat ,ns. But this steel
case is the formula itself, and get
ting around it without seeming to,
will take some doing.
Preserving behind Murray are
a national array Of unions, ship
builders, textiles, automobiles, air
craft, aluminium, radio, shoes and
half dozen others-with similar
wage increase demands beyond the
Little Steel formula.
OF course, most, if not all these
unions, already have received in
creases beyond the Is percent al
lowed in the formula. Aluminium,
for instance; got that Is percent
and about 8 or 10 more hidden in
1eclassifications. On an average,
= ElMnk these unions have received
from 5 to 10 percent above the for
mula, chiefly by upg.ading.
But this, Of course, is never dis
cussed aloud. Only the base pay
rate is used in arguments and Off
cial papers, the reclassifications
being mentioned obscurely, if at
all, and never in such a way that
anyone except the particular union
industrial wage experts involved,
can figure how much actual in
crease these amount to.
What is likely to make the trou-
BILE is that the unions have dis
covered the more recalcitrant and
troublesome they are, the more
they are apt to get. The coal
miners got SITS a day increase
from the government, a few hectic
months after they would have TAX
en- $1.25 from the operators. The
operating railroaders won II cents
an hour increase, a few trouble
some weeks after Economic Stabil-
izer Vinson decreed eight cents
would be inflationary.
They also have discovered they
can get more by needing their
way straight up to Mr.. Roosevelt's
desk, rather than playing along
with Vinson or the War Labor
board. s@
A situation, indeed a predica-
ment, thus has been created which
sugurs i'll for union tranquility and
,smally invites strife.
My guess is the way Mr.. Roose-
velt'will get around it this time is
to let his Davis committee con-
coct some new devices allowing
steel at least to get another hike,
probably less than 10 percent. This
is the committee appointed to look
into the official labor bureau sta
hStlcS on the cost of living. III. -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27

Pvt. Frank B. Larsen, who used
to live at Richland, is at the sta
ton hospital at Ft. Lewis, await
ing transfer to the hospital at Van
couver for surgery. He is a broth
er of S/Sgt. Larsen shown on
this page. -- ...- r
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-27

UNPOPULAR
UT OPPOSITION IS SPLIT
SoHgressmen came trooping
continued on Page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

ner, the best fighter of them all.
would have told you that.
''Buzz, with single P-40, had
done job that ordinarily would be
assigned to an entire squadron. a
fighter squadron is Is planes.J Buzz had
been sent out in the early morn
ing full of ammunition for his six So
caliber guns and with 30-pound frag-
mentation bombs under his wings,
so he was ready to tackle almost
anything he saw.
HE was out over the sea north
of Luzon, sitting on the overcast,
when suddenly terrific ack-ack bar
rage came snorting up at him
through the cloud layer. There was
so much of it Buzz figured it must
have been at least Jap battleship
shoveling it up at him, SO he was
pulling off to the south-still stay
ing above the cloud layer-when he
spotted four Jap fighters high above
him. He was tempted to dump his
bombs-which would give him more
speed and maneuverability-and go
up there to tangle with them, but
those bombs, according to his brief
ing, were destined for some planes
the Japs had just put ashore on a
field near Lingayen, SO he kept on
his course.
"But all of a sudden about three
bushels of red-hot Jap tracers came
whizzing by his cockpit. He pushed
the stick forward to nose her down,
and then in a climbing turn to
the right pulled her back up into the
sun-and then he looked back to see
that two of the four Jap fighters had
detached to work him over.
"They were coming hell-for-break-
fast, so he pulled cute maneuver-
throttled back suddenly to let them
60 roaring on by him, and then
opened up on their vanishing tails.
His first burst put them both on
fire. Those good old .50-calibers-
the P-40 had six of them and when
thev speak they do all the talking.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

W.N.u.FEATuREs

battery cases used to run the field
lights.
~ didn't need to, though, because
there was a little concrete cellar at
the foot of the tower ladder we were
to use as an afraid shelter. There
was an alert at least once an hour
all day-the bell seemed to be ring
ing constantly, and it seemed most
of my time was spent shinnying up
and down that ladder.
"My job of course was to handle
the tower lights-give the boys the
signal when they could come in to
land on the field-but the Colonel
wasn't taking any chances losing
any more on the ground. He said
when any Fortresses came back, to
keep them in the air, circling the
field, until he changed the order.
Presently there comes scooting
in one of those little low P-26's that
were used by the Filipino Air Force
AN old stick-and-wire job with non-
retractable landing gear which is
.ractically d 1tdseuni piece. ! give
him the green light, because I can
see he is already so full of bullet
holes I don't see how he can stay in
the air-and out jumps this little
Filipino fighter pilot. All he wants
is more gas and more bullets for his
little .30-caliber gun, and he's back
up in the air for more of it. Those
kids did magnificent job for their
islands with that decrepit junk.
Everybody was jumpy-we didn't
know what minute the Japs would
come back. I watched one truck
that was wandering around the field
with a gang filling up bomb craters.
Suddenly the afraid bell sounded,
and those guys dived out of the truck
in every direction to run for fox
holes, leaving the driverless truck
to keep wandering right on over onto
its nose in a shell crater. Those
phony alerts were constant strain,
even though each one was called off
fifteen minutes later. I've since
wondered if maybe fifth-columnists
weren't turning in most of them.
"That morning our fighters (yes-
terday's raid had left maybe fifteen
out of the two dozen which had
been on Iba Field were doing a
magnificent job. And learning, too
this was their first day of real
fighting, and there is just a hell of
lot about war that you can't find
in any book and that they can't
teach you in maneuvers. Buzz Wag-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16
@WHlTE
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER I: The story of the famous
18th and 7th Bombardment Groups. OF
Lieut.. Col. Frank Kurtz and his Fortress
crew in the tremendous air campaign
that saved the day for the United Nations
in the Southwest Pacific. Lieut. Kurtz,
who was pilot of the old Fortress. known
as The Swoose," which escaped from
Clark Field. in the Philippines, tells of
that fatal day when the Japs struck. He
pedals to the wreck of Old SO. finds eight
OF his crew lying in an irregular line.
CHAPTER ii: Lieut.. Kurtz tells how
orders to camoufage Old 80 were coun-
fernandez: instead they were to load
bombs. Then he was ordered to jerk the
bombs. reload with cameras and rush
the camoufage. Preparations made for
taking pictures of Formosa. Someone
shouts. Look at that pretty navy forma-
tion.' The navy formation happens to
be fight of Jap planes.
CHAPTER III: Bombs hit the mess
hall. The Japs move off. They hear
another hum. 'P-40s," they think, but
they prove to be Zeros coming in from
the direction of Corregidor. The boys
duck back into their foxholes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

system flaming, and all eight got
out, and I suppose carefully counted
one thousand-two thousand-three
thousand like it says in the book,
before they pulled their cords and
their chutes blossomed.
"But by the time the last one was
out, and Colin got his own chute on
and opened his top escape-hatch win
dow above that fume-filled cockpit
and crawled up through it-well, he
cleared the plane all right, but he
was so close to the ground that he
never had a chance to crack his
chute.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

STATE OF OHIO
Joseph t. Ferguson--Auditor OF State
Bureau Of Inspection and Supervision of Pub
lie Offices for City. Village. Exempted and
Rural School Districts
FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
For Fiscal Year Ending December S1st. 1913
Blutfton Exempted Village School District.
County of Allen. P. @. Address BluTton. Ohio
Date. February f6, 1914
certify the following report TO be correct.
LELAND DILLER
Clerk of the Board of Education
Tax Valuation ................S 81. .5s5. 900. 90
Tax Levy Observation-Disclosures. 1910
School Enrolment Observation-Disclosures 490
Salaries and Wages ...........s 45,27l.23
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16
Malt Unnecessary

Scientists in the Agricultural Re-
search administration report that it
is possible to produce industrial al
cohol from wheat without the addi-
ton of malt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

Miscellaneous
General Supplies ....-........... 1898
Memorial Dav Expenses ......... $500
Civilian Defense a72
Withholding Tax ............-.. 1877
Total Payments ...........s Sc, ,326.2S
Summary of Operations BY Funds
General
Township
Funds
Balance January l. 1913 fClerks) s 6.o27.34
Recents During Year r....... 7.s83.47
Total Receipts and Balance ....... 13.e10.S1
PAYMENTS During Year ........ e.326.2S
Balance Dec 81 1e43 (CIerk'sl... 4,3s4.53
Balance in Depository, Dec. 81. 1913 4.5s4.53
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio.
Allen County. IS.
Estate of John Althaus. Deceased.
Levi Althaus. of r. X. No. ?, Biufton.
Ohio. has been appointed and qualified
Executor of the estate of John Althaus, late
of Allen County. Ohio. deceased
Dated this 2sth day of February. 1914.
RAYMOND p. SMITH.
Al Probate Judge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio.
Allen County. IS.
Estate of Eliz tEliza) ]. Lewis. Deceased.
Belle Augsburger of Button. Ohio has
been appointed and qualified as Executrix of
the estate of Eliza ]. Lewis, late of Allen
County. Ohio. deceased.
Dated this 2eth day of February. 1914.
RAYMOND p. SMITH,
AZ Probate Judge.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16

Make it habit-Buy War Bonds
and Stamps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
Counties
Get Fund
Time. staff Correspondent

LANSING, April state High
way Commissioner Ziegler's at
tempt to control disbursement of
state funds TO county road COM
missions for postwar planning
purposes was overruled today by
the state planning commission.
Instead, the commission. with
GOV. Kelly's blessing, decided that
the 100000 fund would be con-
trolled by the county units.
The commission also decided
that funds will be apportioned on
a population basis plus per
centage of county road mileage
in ratio 10 total state county road
mileage.
Projects which will be con-
sidered eligible for consideration
include public health. tranSporta-
ton, education. public housing,
recreation, administration, natu-
raj resources conservation and
agriculture,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
Denies Violating
Sanitary Code

Recorders Court Referee Han
nan today instructed police 10
serve a warrant, which had been
temporarily pigeonholed. on Alfred
G.. Traeder. 1902 Charlevoix. for
alleged violation Of the sanitary
ordinances.
Records Of the referee and Sani.
tary inspectors show a history m
the case, they state, OF TraedeI
failing 10 provide proper garbage
and rubbish receptacles at hi'
home and his failure 10 appear in
court on three occasions.
In an effort TO prove he was mol
p violator. Traeder took garbage
can 10 the sanitary board offices,
and later flied complaint at the
mayors office that he was being
prosecuted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
State Pays
First Pension

LANSING. April 7 A 60-year-
old Kalamazoo State Hospital en-
pioye today became the first state
worker to benefit under the newly
enacted state retirement law.
Because he is physically dis
abled, Joseph + Eicher a state
employe for 30 years. will receive
S7S9 year the rest OF his life
Board members explained that
retirement benefits do not start
until January, 1915, except for
those claiming physical or mental
disability, After January, retire
ment is compulsory at 20.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
Job Dispute
Up TO Mayor:

The full civil service commission
and all parties involved We're
ordered to meet with Mayor JEFF
fries today TO iron out the dispute
Hbetween Edward Wallinske, head
Fof the real estate division of the
corporation counsels office, and
the civil service commission.
Wallinske complained that Dom
aid j. Sublette. commission secre-
tary was stalling on his recon-
mendation made March 10. that
Is OF 20 helpers be promoted 10
the grade of general building
tradesmen.
Jeffries assumed the role Of ar
bitter after Sublette charged that
Wallinske had recommended the
promotion of his brother, Harold,
although the latter had failed TO
pass the qualifying tests.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
Experts 10 Explain
Renegotidtion Law

Washington officials Of the War
Contracts Price Adjustment Board
viii discuss phases Of the recently
amended contract renegOtlation
law Wednesday evening at Z 80
in the Rackham Bldg. auditorium.
# was announced today by the
meetings sponsors, the Detroit
Board Of Commerce and the l..
OF VI School Of Business Admin
istratlon.
w. James Mcintosh. counsel for
the newly formed board viii
speak on The Renegotiation Act
OF 1913
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
wv ar Fills
Wires

Since Pearl Harb0r there has
been 50 per cent increase in the
number of kilograms sent and re-
ceived by Detroit, and 300 per
cent increase in the number of
wire money orders, w s. Fowler
vice president OF Western Union,
revealed today
Despite the fact that Detroit
has been ono of the cities hardest
hit by the loss OF manpower. serv-
ice has been maintained training
new employees, and by the expert
enced workers gained by Western
Unions recent merger With Postal
Telegraph. Fowler said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
Flower Show 10 Open
Saturday at Belle Isle

The department Of parks and
recreation flower show at the
Belle Isle horticultural building
viii open Saturday at 9 a. m,
the commission announced today.
The building, displaying Easter
lilies and other early season flow
erS. will be open daily.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07
5PendIized
Here by0PA

Five Detroit business houses
were under penalty today for vio-
lation of the rationing regula-
lions.
Penalties ordered by OPA
Hearing Commissioners Frederick
S. Glover were:
The Robert l.. Bar Grocery
1904 Scotch. prohibited from
dealing in meats or process foods
until an overdraft of $4,000 points
is Cancelled. A similar sentence
was given Louis MAJOR, 10520 f.
Jefferson, who had an overdraft
of 1894 points.
Annie Ozadoveck, Abs Third
barred from dealing in rationed
foods for 30 days because of a
shortage of 28,335 points.
The Farmer Johnson Co res
tauTant. 1883 T.. Jefferson, sc
days probation after making VI
a point shortage.
Joseph Merem, store owner al
$500 Third and 5000 Third, right
10 sell meat suspended one week
for upgrading meats and fixing
prices above the ceilings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07

The cover girls haven't cornered.
the market on smart dressing No
sir, you're best dressed in a smart
new Coat or Suit (from S2475l
then get a pair e. beautiful skins
OF genuine SILVER FOX at the
lowest competitive cash price in
town. Of only sos on budget pay
ments at FRANKLIN during
their daring Spring sale. Here is
a very special offer made ia a
drive for 500 new customers. a
smart new pair OF shoes or a
clever new hat ABSOLUTELY
FREE (VALUE So with your
purchase OF a pair OF GENUINE
SILVER FOXES at only sos, or
any other Fur or Chubbies priced
as low as 1896. with large Sc.
lection TO choose from. Just 81
reserves any Fur Take the choice
ot friendly FRANKLIN credit plan
that suits YOU best. with up to 81
weeks 20 pay. or a charge account
with NO DOWN PAYMENT. No
red tape, no DELAY Hurry and get
YOUR FREE hat or shoes \durng
this drive Use your credit "a
always Al FRANkLINS DE
PARTMENT STORE. 3I6 NIGH
GAN AVE. Shop any evening tHl
9 o'clock.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-07

Buy War Savings Stamps the
convenient way. Order them
delivered to your door from your
Detroit Times carrler-salesman.
Evening star., 1944-07-25

N o II WlQe "h'A' S"ep"eiosoh.
move by the ABA and Mr.. Shep-
herdson has had long experience in
credit matters. The commission al
ready has ample funds for the eX-
pected credit demands.
Southern's Gross Climbs.
Gross operating revenues of the
Southern Railway in June totaled
S2l ,59l 1856, an increase of $3.50 ,557
over June, 1943. Net operating in
come dropped from s2947,961 in
June, l943. to S2.635,374, balance
after charges being S2367,96 in
June this year, against S2,6l5, 1888
year ago.
James ParkS Nolan, investment
firm partner and president of the
Washington stock Exchange, has
returned from short visit to New
Hampshire.
Howard Moran, vice president of
the American Security & Trust Co.,
is back at his desk after short va
cation.
Eric Johnston, president of the
United States Chambers of Com
merce, has left the city to spend a
month in his Office at Spokane
Wash.
Years Postal Receipts Soar.
Postal revenues at the City Post
Office for the Government fiscal
year ending June 80 reached S14,-
96l17l. jump of 81, 1863 558 over the
total of s13, ,l9l ,6l3 for the previous
year
This was the highest figure on
record and compared with S10-
875,565 in 1912 and S9.1O2,325 in
19401. Ever since Pearl Harbor,
wartime postal receipts have regis
tered startling increases.
Evening star., 1944-07-25
Chicoqo Livestock

CHICAGO, July .5 1P1 (WFA).-Salable
hogs, $4,000: total, $4,000: active, un-
evenly 1885 higher on weights 24O pounds
and down. steady to 25 higher on weights
over 240 pounds; sows mostly 90 higher
good and choice 170-240 pounds. 1873.
the ceiling and top; good and choice 24l-
400 pounds, 90: bulk good and choice
800 -55O-pound sows, l325-15; complete
salable cattle 1900: salable calves,
| ! 600; strictly choice fed steers and year
lings steady. all others shade lower; gen.
eral market slow, largely fed steers and
grass COW run: heifers steady: cows steady
on medium and sood beef offerings, weak
on others; bulls scarce: steady: vealers
f1rm at 500 down; stock cattle steady at
.25-1 90 on medium to good Grades; top
steers, l!.65, some show type price offer
ings held higher; several loads l525-60;
best yearlings, 17.25; 1.l00-pound Mon
tana grass steers 10 1925. with medium
to good Montana cows, 1880: cutter
cows, $50 down: practical top shipper
type sausage bulls. 1900, and fat bulls,
salable sheep, $500; total, 6. 500: mar
ket opening fairly active, few early sales
fully steady; not fully established on native
spring lambs: I'VE doubles Washington
sprlngers, IA so. with q 5 per cent sort at
l2.15: odd lots good and choice native
sprinsers, 13. 14-14.25; medium and good
l2.0u-l 81 so; light Gull kind auotable down
10 300 and below: small lots shorn native
ewes, 4.u0-525