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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-03-30
NEWYoRsKA PISMA
Pise Frank Kerse
KAJ PA MI?

stdil poldgoI1la SUM kO pOpef.
Kaj .bo -potem? Nekaj .vzorcev
imamo il zadnje depresije. Mo-
goce poklicejo tiste V zivljenjeI
ali 81 pa izmislijo nekaj novega
-ce bodo 'namrec ljudje cakali.
Mnogo jih je, Xxi pravijo, da bo
delovno ljudstvo zahtevalo svo-
je, pa maj pride cd koder hoce.
Kako Sc DO to izpeljalo, ne mo-
rem povedati, ker Sc mi zdi ta-
ko, da ne pojde brez tezav in
zrtev.
Pricakuj torej iisto, kar je
bilo po prvi svetovni vojni. Mo-
goce vse V krajsi obliki, mogo-
&c V drugacni izdaji-toda V
bistvu eden in tisti problem !:
dosti ljudi in malo della.
Mad yse vazno je, brate moi,
da hranis danes, dokler je cas-.
Denar denes lahko V vojne bon
de, XII SO tako varni, kakor je
sploh mogoce ma tenn svetu. Ban
ke in hranilnice ne piacajo do
sti ma vloge, ampak to maj te ne
mott. Prihrani, kolikor mores,
ker ii bo vse prav prislo.
Pc pravici receno: mixer Sc
toliko ne prihrani danes, kakor
pri piiaci, XII JIG postala tako
draga in tako saba, da je res
skoda vsakega centa. Vlada je
nalozila tolike davke, da prese-
ga vse meje. Danes jih ne zmo-
reno, kako pa DO potem, ko ne
bo dohodkov?
Mislim sicer, da Sc ne povrne-
mo vec prohibicijo, ker je ce-
ma pijaci TAXA, da imamo Mi
trikratno prohibicijo. Tako sc
mi zdi, da bodo kmalu zaceli To-
viii kotle in kotlicke. Cloveska
narava Sc ne premani in kdol
misli, dal DO mani zeje ma sve,
tn zdaj, ko imamo devet dollar.
| jev davka Ma galono viske, tistt
Sc mott.
Mnogo ljudi misli, da je do.
i bro ce sc kaj kupi. Res je to
ako Sc izpoznas vsaj nekolikc
ma zemljO, stavbe in vrednost
Kdor 81 preskrbi svoj dom, sto
ri vselej prav. Zakaj pri domu
Sc ne vprasa, koliko velja, pat
pa, kaksnega zmoreS. Cena zem
ljisc po mestih je Sc dosti zmer,
ma in nizka. Gotovo je emo: kdol
caka ma kaj novega, mai racu
na $ tem;'da bo posteno placal
&c te scaka kaj popravil-
maj lepo gcaka, da Sc voina kon.
ca. Ia zdaj popravi samo toll,
ko, koliker mora biti. Pride cas-
j ko bo polna zaloga ma trgu ir
ljudi, da Sc bodo tepli ia vsak
koscek kruha.
Ne svetoval pa bi kupovat:
farm, to pa zato ne, ker je na
veliko cudo cena farm ze davnc
vstala tako, da je skoro vsaka
kupCija slaba invesucija. Po,
sebno tisti, XII so. novinci, mai 81
kar izbijejo vsako farmo il gla,
We. Nj kruha, brate. Res je, da
nekdo dobro uspe. A &c bi vi.
del in zasledoval delo, XII je bi.
10 dano, bi sc temu ne cudil.
IL Clovek tako rad misli Ma far,
mo. Malo vrta, kokosi, nekaj vi.
nograda, vsaj ia domace potre,
be in par presicev, pa bi bile
dovolj "a zimo. Dober racun, ce
81 farmo placal do zadnjega
centa, vlozil Sc nekaj stotakok
ali tisocakov vanjo in ce imaS
craven Sc nekje nekaj, kar Ii
donasa kak dohodek. Kdor pa
zacne 2 dolgom, lahko Ma prste
preracunas, kdaj ga DO konec
Ne kupujte tudi praznih 10.
TOW. Posebno takih ne, koder
moras placevati davke ia tlako-
vanje, vodo, kanalizacijo in dru-
go. TAX lot samo IRE, ne nosi pa
Itnicesar. Pravis, da 81 ga kupil
ma spekulacijo? Nikar brate
So ze .drugi poizkuaali pred ia.
DO in bili-tepeni. Danes nj Gas
'lade v Sovjetski uniji, ter IL
i'm vrstam rodoljubov, XII Sc
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80. marca, 1914

Toda trpljenje velikega petka
Sc nadaljuje z vsemi grozotami,
kot ga je lapovedal svoji
pesmi Alojz Gradnik:
Crni dez ma zemljo LIE, LIE.
Crne ptice letajo po zraSu.
Crne zvezde sijejo ma nebu.
Dale lajajo skoz zrak gra-
nate.
Dale rjovejo povsod topovi.
Dalje rusijo Sc v prah do
movi. ~
Dale zro mrliee vranov jate.
Taxa je triletna usoda tvoje
in moje rodne zemlje. Kaj sva
napravila "a to trpeeo in uni
rajoco slovensko grudo?
Napravila? Malo, zelo malo?
Morebiti sva Sc v svoji domis-
ljavi pameti sporekla, da bo ma
jina pomoc nlalo pomagala. Ze-
10 malo bo pomagala, &c bova
"cesnala," cegava pomoc DO
bolj pomagala, in &c bova ime-
la najin nesporazum Ia vzrok,
da ne bova prav mic dala.
Morebiti Sc prepirava, komu
bova dala? Ali maj bo delezen
najine podpore oni, XII je vzdi-
gnil COLO pest proti sovrazniku
slovenske zemlje, ali bova pod
prla omega, XII Sc je "pobratil"
sovraznikom?
Tudi to vprasanje DO reseno
OBJ svojem casu, ko DO rodna
zemlja resena krutega sovrazni-
ka. Tega vpMsanja ne bono
resili mi ameriski Slovenci, to
vprasanje resuje narod sam ma
svoji krvaveci zemlji.
Toda emo je gotovo, da Sc We
Gina nasega naroda bori Ma svo-,
il zemlji "a povrnitev svobode
in demokracije. Tia vecina nase-
ga naroda Sc bori v istih vrstah,
kjer Sc borijo ameriski vojaki
in ostali nasi zavezniki; V teh
vrstah je tudi nasa stran in ma
sa dolznost; druge strani nj Ia
mas ameriske Slovence.
Vsem tenn bojevnikom je ma
menjena nasa .pomoc, ko pride
cas- in prilika, da jim bo mogo-
ce pomagati. S tako razlago in
proSnjo smo tudi dobili dovo-
ljenje V Washingtonu, da sme-
mo nabirati denarne prispevke
med ameriskimi Slovenci.
Jugoslovanski pomozni orbor,
sloVenska sekcija, je to ze Ira
zito povedal V svojih pravilih
in izjavah, katere je tidal te-
kom zadnjih treh let.
v nedeljo 2. aprila, ma cvetno
nedeljo, priredi lokalni odbor
st. 2 JPO,SS V Slovenskem ma
rodnem domu ma St. Clairju V
Clevelandu, Ohio, zopet zabavo
V korist pomozHe akcije. Tride-
janska igra "Roksi" Sc pricne
tocno OBJ pol stirih popoldne.
Kdor cuti z nesrecno domo-
vino, bo tam, ako ne bo incl
tehtnega zadrzka. Kdor iz ma
lomarnosti ne mara priti, ia je
.obsodil svoj narod V domovini
" pogin in smrt. Toda TAXA
sodba nj zadnja, besedo bodo
imeli Sc drugi, XII bodo sodili.
Sodila boda usmiljena srca, XII
bodo dajala, a Sc bolj bodo So
dila tista upehana in izkrvavlje-
ma srca, XII bodo uzivala sadove
usmiljenih slovenskih src v
Ameriki.
Spet prihaja vigred tuzno,
poteptano, ranjeno in sveto slo-
vensko zemljo. Pomladansko to-
plo sonce taja mrzli in okryav-
ljeni zimski sneg, ,kaplja "a
kapljo izpira krvave in rdece
lise, ki SO snastale iz gorece slo-
venske krvi. nasih nepremaga-
.nih borceV "a svobodo malega
naroda. Zazelenela bodo zopet
polja, Invade, travnik i1f gozdo-
Vi Y nasi rodni zemlji. Gorka
nasa zemlja DO puhtela pod
gorkim pomladanskim soncem,
IL tie zemlje, ki je prepojena q
nedoEno in junasko krvjo ne
n SfraSauih harcaxr bn r,,b+I
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voaskega aaseja Purceve Wade Sovetski un ter IL
lazam zelo da prikljucim vrstam rodoljubov XII
bore pod Vasm eljstyom. '-Miodrag Lozic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

as a result of what happened TO Eth
opia. For that violation of an indie
pendent country viii only encourage
aggression. A terrible conflict lies
ahead
/, told him there was still hope of
averting the conflict, but he turned
his big black eyes on me and slowly
shook his head. Then he went on:
As in the case of Ethiopia, the
weaker nations viii fall first. But
the powers of evil will be overthrown,
and the weakest of theSe-MusSoLniS
Italy-wiH be the first 10 fall. fol-
lowed by Hitler"
He spoke almost as if he were in
a trance, and l am willing TO believe
now that there was something mystic
about the entire evening, because the
next thing he said TO me was:
1T will take three years 10 defeat
the rapaciouS Fascist and his crew"
Mussolini fell from power just
three years after his stab in the
back" at PROSTATE France.
AS we walked down the chilly cor.
ridor of the Bath villa on my depar-
ture that evening, the man who was
known there as "Mr. Tafari" Oh
served almost casually:
One year after the fall of Italy
the Allies viii be victorious in
Europe. The victory viii take place
around ArmiStice Day, sometime near
November II, 1914
II was then remembered the ninth
prophecy, another that he had made
that night in the Hotel DIES Bergues
in Geneva as we sat around him:
There will only be a lasting peace
If the United States of America takes
leading hand in the moral leader
ship of the world"
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

in his own cold, cruel blood He
who lives by the sword shall perish
by the sword
In 1911. Bruno was killed in crash
while testing a bomber that had been
assigned to his squadron.
Halle Selassie was a sickly child.
but he always seemed TO be envel.
oped in a dignity that lifted him
above those near him He drew il
around him like a cloak when. in
Geneva in 1886, he faced the assem-
bly, OF the League of Nations and
made his third and perhaps his most
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27
H XIV NV,
The Ruler of Ethiopia Hos Made Nine Forecasts
of World History; Seven Have cIieked-No. 8
Picks November for Victory

May 5, 1911, five years to the day
after il had been taken
That very evening of his speech,
as he sat in his apartment in the
Hotel des Bergues with a few faith
ful friends and League delegates, the
exiled emperor told them:
we. the weak shall see the god
less Mussoiini perish. devoured by
disease and his family asssSSinated
or in misery. And the curse of the
bombed Ethiopian people viii be on
his soul for all eternity"
next saw Halle Selassie in 1887 in
Fairfield. Bath, England. He had
retired there with his family. The
little man in the black coat and
trilby hat was as dignifed as ever
- and as far-seeing He told me:
There viii be second World War
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and centuries TO come were spread
before them like an open book. But
Halle SelasSie has much more rea.
son than most 10 consider himself
as an infalliblc SoothSayer.
LEGEND says, and Ethiopians be-
lieve. that the Imperial Family is
descended from King Solomon and
the Queen OF Shcba. and that much
of the wisdom OF that mighty king
has come down 20 those who sit on
tho Ethiopian throne.
The first Of Selassie's nine proph-
cCicS was told 10 me after / had
successfully terminated my search in
northwestern Ethiopia for the mines
OF that same King Solomon.
Il was in 1893. The Lion Of Judah.
sitting on the golden throne of the
GiDh, the imperial palace at Adds
Ababa, and fondling the ears OF his
Belgian griffon, said:
We shall be attacked by MusSoIini
in two years"
Wenty.fOur months later, on oct 2.
1898. the Fascist armies swarmcd into
/ Ethiopia. sweeping Emperor SclasSic's
40 100000 subjects before them
Two days after the battle of Lake
Ash1ngi, l was with the melancholy
monarch as he looked into the skies
and watched bombs dropping from
a plane piloted by Mussolini's son.
Bruno. In the soft Amharic language
Of his fathers SelasSic predicted:
The day is not too long distant
when that vuiture of the air viii perish
August II, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

amazing prophecy:
Il shan return TO
my capital on the
Nfth anniversary of
IT'S capture.
II is now history
that the King OF
Kings re-entered
Adds Ababa on
Crowds Celebrating
the ArmiStice on
Nov. IL, 1918. Halle
SelaSSie Predicts an
Allied European
Victory on or With.
in "a Few Days of
the Same Date This
Year.
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BY BYRON DE PROROK

~ - NV AFAA hNDANDh
HURING the past II
years, nine prophecies
49, have been made by a
fragile little man with tiny
fluttering hands, a thin
hooked nose. a ruff OF
coarse black hair, a long
black beard and dark eyes
that glitter. when ne talks
of the future. as though he
were precnDceiving some
fthinE far beyond human ken.
He is King Of Kings. the
Lion OF Judah, Defender OF
the Christian Faith, Halle
Selassie, Emperor OF the
Ancient Kingdom OF Ethi.
opia. the Chosen OF God.
Seven of Halle SclasSic'S
prognostications, il is
claimed. have come true.
The lives of thousands. the
happiness OF millions. and
perhaps the fate OF the
VIII ole world hinge on
whether he is as infallible
about the remaining two as
he was with the others.
Emperors are prone 10
speak as though the years
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August II, 1914
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
POLITICS:
FDR, Dewey Lead

With the Democratic and Repub'
lican conventions still two months
off, the candidates. of President
Roosevelt and Gov. Thomas E
Dewey, N. Y, have picked up steam
as a result of the popular favor
shown them in the selection OF
nominating delegates.
AS of April IL, 46 delegates were
openly pledged for the President and
157 others claimed for him, for a
total of 2O3 out of 236 already picked,
At the same date, Is delegates stood
pledged to Dewey and 1913 others
were claimed for him, for a total
of 148 out of 356 selected.
While the President polled a large
vote in the Nebraska preferential
primary, big highlight was the
heavy WRITTEN vote Dewey obtained.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
PACIFIC:
India Threatened

With their backs against the rug
ged slopes of the Maya hills in CEN
trail India, British and Indian troops
fought desperately against per-
sistent japanese attempts to cut off
their supply lines and entrap them
in a huge pocket.
While the British and Indians
were locked in their death struggle,
U. S. bombers operated over a wide
range in the Pacific, blasting Japa-
nese installations in the KuJ lie
islands, strung out to the nortl of
Nippon, and plastering enemy
bases on New Guinea, as part of the
grand strategy to wipe out their
strongholds on this flank of the Phil
ippines.
In India, the Japs' continuing
three-pronged drive pressed against
British and Indian supply routes
running both north and south and
also to the west to the Assam-Ben-
gal railroad, used to feed Lieut..
Gen. Joseph Stilwell's American
and Chinese troops clearing a COM
munications highway in northern
Burma to China.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
u. S. ACES:
Rick Topped

To army air force Captains Rich
ard I. Bong of Poplar, Wis, and Don
S. Gentle of Piqua, Ohio, went the
honor of breaking Capt. Eddie Rick
enbacker's famed record of shooting
down &c enemy aircraft, established
in World War 1.
Operating in the South Pacific in
a Lightning fighter with the portrait
of his fiance, Marjorie Vattendahl
of Superior, Wis, painted on the
nose, Captain Bong was credited
with destroying his 9th enemy craft
in the air on April IL.
Previously, Captain Gentle had
been credited with bagging 80
enemy planes in Europe, but seven
of them were shot up on the ground.
During World War I, Captain Rick
enbacker's total of 26 included five
observation balloons, so that Cap
tain Bong paced the field in the
number actually knocked out in sky
fights.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
INDUSTRY:
Postwar Reserves

Looking forward toward the prob
lens of postwar readjustment,
U. S. industry has set aside hun
dreds of millions of dollars out of
profits for switching back to civilian
production, rebuilding plants or pro-
viding lay-off payments to workers
during the period of change.
To meet the emergency, United
States Steel company has estab-
lished a nest egg of $104, 153, 557;
General Motors, $76,O 51 ,8O5; Cen
eral Electric, $73, 1862, 1877; E. I. Du
Pont, S31,613, $50; Sears, Roebuck,
$28, 500, 900; United Aircraft, $28,004,-
1854; international Harvester, $780,
900, 900; Goodyear Tire and Rubber
company, SIS, 1862, 912; Borden COM
pany, $11, 305, 1856; National Dairy
Products, $40, OOO, 900, and General
Foods, $4,492, TIP.
Since such reserves cannot be
taken out Of income before taxes
like deductions for depreciation,
debt retirement and depletion, they
must be put aside out of industry's
profits.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
GatewOOd Reviews
History Of Beets

CONTINUED from Page One.)
synthetic rubber are to quite an
extent dependent.
After citing the reasons, Gate
wood predicted that the beet sugar
industry will be under protection
for some time to come. He men
toned also that there is now a
constitutional way to control pro-
duction. Control is likely to come
again when the war is over, and it
is probable that ALLEGATION of lands
for growing the crop will be gov
erned to quite an extent by the
record made in the present emer-
gency. At that time the past his
tory will count for something.
In this region the industry is
needed, the speaker avered, as an
important item or backbone of agr1-
culture, which embraces livestock
and profitable feeding.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
The Outlook Says:

Mrs. Lyle Roessler of Bozeman,
who was the guest of Mrs. Homer
Sheets was complimented at a party
at Mrs. Sheets home. Invited
we're Mrs. Fred Scheidecker and
Miss Ambernetta Klampe of Bill.
lings, Miss Vera Anderson, Miss
Elizabeth Cooke, Miss Alice Mat
thews, Miss Gertrude Zepp, Miss
Linda Johnson, Miss Florence Shirk,
Miss Rosetta Fritz, Mrs. L. c. Foote
and the honor guest, Mrs. Roessler.
At bridge during the evening Miss
Matthews and Miss Fritz won the
score awards and Mrs. Roessler re-
ceived a guest prize.
Cpl. Herman Sorg arrived Mon
dav from Camp Livingston, La, to
spend a weeks furlough with his
wife and with relatives and friends.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
WOOL:
Big Stocks

With an all-high stock of foreign
and U. S. wool, the Commodity
Credit corporation was directed to
go into the market to support the
1914 domestic clip estimated at
$50, 900 900 pounds.
Whereas U. S. stocks stand at rec
ord levels today, there were pros
poets of serious shortages when the
Japs launched their South Pacific
drive, threatening the Australian
and New Zealand producing areas.
Approximately 400, OOO, 900 pounds of
foreign wool is now owned by this
country, with the Defense Supplies
corporation holding $50, 200, 900
pounds and dealers and manufac-
turers the rest. At the same time,
$50, 900 900 pounds, is being held in
this country for British account.
Because the U. S. clip sells about
10 cents a pound above foreign wool,
the CCC has encountered difficulty
disposing of the domestic stock, al
though the army now specifies its
use in purchases and about 10 per
cent of navy orders T expected to
call for it.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
u. S. NAVY:
Plan Bigger Growth

To provide for the heavy fighting
ahead, congress was asked to pass
a naval appropriations bill OF
$32, 647, 600, 900 for the fiscal year be-
ginning July 1.
By July of 1945, the navy will have
1924 self-propelled ships, N,925
other craft, including landing YES
sells, and 37,735 airplanes.
Also by July of 1915, naval per-
sonnet is expected to reach 1867, 900
officers and men, including women.
Biggest planned expansion is for the
marine corps to a total of 478, 900.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
WHEAT:
Good Prospects

Because of improved prospects as
a result of a recent rainfall, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
predicted a winter wheat crop of
601, 759, 900 bushels for 1914, 70, 49,
900 more than 1913 production.
Based on official returns, the
domestic supplies Of wheat for
I944-'45 were estimated at 1,130, 000,-
900 bushels, compared with last
years LAO, 900, 900 bushels.
Although moisture deficiency in
western Kansas and the adjoining
wheat sections in Texas, Oklahoma,
New Mexico and Colorado was off
set by rainfall, Nebraska was re-
ported in need of precipitation.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19

ing the protection for farmers,
Byrnes also proposed to help labor
laid off from slackening war indus
tries, through a system of federal
unemployment benefits to be paid in
addition to regular state payments.
To relieve the problem of future un-
employment, Byrnes suggested that
workers be shifted from tagging war
plants to buster ones now while jobs
were available.
Byrnes advocated legislation for
quick settlement of cancelled war
contracts to aid industry in the re-
conversion to civilian production,
and he also called for congressional
action to facilitate the orderly dis
posal of surplus war goods without
disruption of regular markets.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
LABOR:
Hit Pouer Politics

Asserting that territorial and
frontier problems of Europe should
be settled by popular vote of the
affected people, the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor's Vice President,
Matthew VOL, assailed Soviet Rus
sia's alleged alteration of the con-
tinent in defiance of principles of the
United Nations.
Taking his place beside Vol,
David Dubinsky, president of the
AFL's International Garment Work.
ers Union, deplored the development
of policies designed to divide the
world up into spheres of influences,
in which the big nations would
dominate militarily and politically.
Decrying the proposal to compen-
safe Poland for the loss of terri
tory to Russia by giving her part of
eastern Germany, Dubinsky de-
clared: This means that Po-
land, or what remains Of her, will
remain a center of bitter and con-
slant struggle - a football for the
powers"
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
On furlough until about May !

On furlough until about May 1,
PFC. James Thorne arrived from
Camp Gruber, Okla, where he is
with the coast artillery, and is visit
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Thorne.
Evergreen Rebekahs, at their
meeting Monday evening at the l..
l.. club, made plans for the enter
tainment of Montana Assembly
Warden Anna Mcbride, who will
make her first official visit to the
lodge May l.. Hostesses at the
social hour which followed the
meeting were Mrs. R. C. Colson and
Mrs. P. d. Thomson.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
HICHLICHTS . in the weeks neps

EGGS: Another record in egg pro-
duction was turned in by Americas
Woodworking hens during March,
the third consecutive month of all
time highs. There were 6,763, 900, 900
eggs laid last month, a per cent
above March last year and 40 per
cent over the ten-year average,
1882. Number of laying hens in
creased 5 per cent from March,
1913, to 433, 1886 900.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19

Mrs. Gilbert Hirschfelt was hos
tess at a party Friday afternoon
%honoring the fourth birthday of her
daughter, Leanne. Guests were
Mrs. j. L. Tubman and Lauretta,
Mrs. John Fritzen, Johnny Russell
and Sidney Faye, Mrs. F. o. Hart
ley and Sandra, Mrs. Kenneth Wal
ton, Scott, Carol Ann and Christy,
Mrs. Hubert Walton and Ronnie
and Stephen, Mrs. Jack Wiechert
and Billy, Mrs. C. A. Lockwood and
Jimmie and jamie, and Mrs. E. M.
Kucera and Anthony and Kathie.
Table appointments were in yellow
and white when refreshments were
served.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19

MIDGET FURNACE: A tiny fur
mace, weighing only 81 pounds, may
be sufficient to heat a 20-room
house, if a new type of heating unit
now used only in military aircraft
a be applied to homes. The little
furnaces would be only about the
size of a waste basket and would
cost about $50. Demonstration mod
els have given encouraging results
it was said.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19

closures which fol-
lowed World War l,
the Commodity
Credit corporation
is empowered to
make loans at 80
per cent of parity
on basic o for
two years after the
end of hostilities,
w a r Mobilization
Director James F.
Byrnes declared.
w lille Outlin-
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
BLACK MARKET GAS

So extensive has the black market
in gasoline become that it is inn
perilling the whole civilian motor
fuel program, Petroleum Admins
traitor Ickes warned. He said that
more than 2,5O0,0 900 gallons a day
is sold through Illicit channels, with
counterfeit coupons n of the most
widely used means of evasion.
The most hopeful possibility for
an increase in the allowance to civil
ian drivers is through the crushing
of the nationwide illegal traffic in
gasoline, MI. Ickes declared.
Laurel outlook., 1944-04-19
EUROPE:
~TnUasiOn Path

While Russia's land armies car
ried the war into the Balkans, Al
lied bombers continued pounding
Axis military and industrial installa-
tions throughout Fortress Europe,
concentrating on the invasion path
in the west.
AS the Russians stormed into
Rumania, other Red forces drove
ahead in the Crimea, huge chunk of
land thrust into the Black sea and
guarding the water route to the east
ern Balkans. AS the Russians ap-
preached the Rumanian rail juno
ton of Jassi, they encountered
stiffening resistance from native
troops, fighting by the side of Ger
man soldiers, strengthened by
shorter defense lines.
In continuing their whirlwind as
saults to smoother an invasion path,
Allied bombers struck at airfields,
railroad functions and military de-
lenses throughout the French and
Belgium area. Far to the southeast,
u. S. bombers based in Italy ham,
rnered Nazi airplane factories in the
Vienna and Budapest regions. In
ground fighting below Rome, both
sides were reported making extern
sive troop movements in prepare
ton for a resumption of bitter fight
ing.