The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-21

that genial General Simon Army airplanes to fly to in G. I. was not even given a
 This columnist also reported that, when the Interior Depart ment had refused to give Gen. eral Buckner a hunting license, he went before local Alaskan judge, who issued a mandamuS or dering the Interior Department to show why it should not give a licence to Buckner.
 The General immediately issued hot denials, though later the Jus tice Department eased out the Judge who got the hunting license for him.
 Now, however, the Interior Department has received an Of- ficial report that General Buck ner has been at it again. This time, according to that report, he cracked up an Army plane while hunting walrus. Further more, the Interior Department says he shot 8 walruS, which is against the law. Walrus are rare and reserved entirely for the ESkimOS.
 The Interior Department, long peeved at General Buckner's hunt ing activities, this time is going into the matter thoroughly. An investigator was seen to St. Law ence Island, the scene of the gen. erals reported walrus hunting, and Interior Department officials say the facts in the case have been clearly established. The in- vestigator reported that the Gen. eral not only cracked up his plane but after shooting the walrus, took trophies away with him, which also is against the law.
 Interior Department officials say they have not decided whether to take legal action against General Buckner but that they are considering it. Such action is complicated by the fact that the General has left Alaska and recently was in Hawaii, where the Hawaiian press reported him hunting sheep.
 NOTE - Wild-life experts in Washington state that the only sheep anyone could hunt in Ha- waii are tame sheep which have Strayed.
 60 MILLION JOBS
 One of the most significant dis cussions affecting the postwar world and the 60,000,000 jobs promised by Roosevelt is now talk ing place behind the scenes among Administrationites. It involves the price which manufacturers can charge for peacetime consumer goods when they begin making them, as some companies will shortly.
 A certain amount of peacetime production already has been auth orized by the War Production Board, and to prevent imitation, the OPA will set the price of these goods. This is where the backstage debate has WaXed hot and vehement.
 On one side have been EcOn- Omic StabiIizer Judge VinsOn, War MObilizer Jimmy Byrnes and, for a while OPA Adminis- tratOr Chester BOwles, all argu- ing that prices of civilian ar- ticleS produced now must not rise above the prices paid for the same articles in 1942. .. ..
 On the other side are indus try members of OPA, led by James Brownlee, formerly of ; Frankfort Distilleries, who arr que that prices must be above 1942 in order to allow for in creased wages and the higher cost of raw materials. They have worked out a substitute formula based upon I941 prices plus wage increases, plus the in- creased cost of raw materials, and they have now sold this for mula to Bowles, despite his for mer speeches for the 1942 price base.
 Judge Vinson, however, points out that increased wage and raw material costs in many cases have been nullified by labor saving de- vices. Most striking example of this was in OPA study of the steel industry showing that de-