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Evening star., 1945-05-31
Civilian Meat Supply
For June 10 Fall 7%
Below May Average

Consumers will receive about
13,310,000 less pounds of meat
per week during June, a 7 per
cent drop from the weekly av-
erage this month, but red ration
point values for the new period
beginning Sunday will be un-
changed except for a rise in a
few pork cuts and certain types
of cheese, according to the Off1ce
of Price Administration.
At the same time, point values on
canned tomatoes and spinach will
be increased, while the ration cost
of tomato juice and vegetable juice
combinations will be trimmed, OPA
said today.
In hiking the pork cuts from one
to three points pound, OPA ex-
planned the action was taken to pre-
vent diversion of these meats into
lard. Lard, shortening and salad
and cooking oils will remain at 10
points a pound, the value assigned
to them the middle of May, when
values were increased two points.
Bacon Up Five Points.
Fatbacks, clear and regular plates
were increased three points pound
making the new value eight points
the same as for regular bacon, which
remains unchanged; bacon (break-
fast plate) was increased three
points to eight points, and pork
sides (aged and dry-cured) one
point to nine-point value.
The only other change in red
point values involved cheeses in
group 3d. These cheeses. mostly soft,
perishabie types, will require only
points a pound, a decrease of
points. Group includes limburger.
camembert and liederkranz.
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles predicted an average of
about 2ol 100000 pounds OF meat
weekly in June for sale over retail
counters, compared with a weekly
average of 2l4,32O, 900 in May.
Here are his weekly estimates for
various types Of meat:
Beef. 73,530,0oo pounds, compared
with 8o,220,00o in May; veal, 49,
040,00 pounds, compared with IT,
100000 pounds; lamb, 1l,01O,Oo
pounds, compared with 11,670,OOO
pounds; mutton, 100000 pounds
compared with l,110,000 pounds:
pork, 9l,240,0 900 pounds, compared
with lO3 $50 900 pounds.
Lard Supply Down 20 Per Cent.
Mr.. BoRles estimated the total
supply Of lard and of cooking and
salad oils for June would be about
20 per cent below May supplies.
The blue point revisions boost
the value on No. 2 cans of toma-
toes to 40 points, up 10, while a can
OF spinach of the same size will re-
quire 20 instead of 10 points. Spin
ach in No. 2h cans also will be up
10 points to 80.
Ten points will buy two cans of
tomato juice or vegetable juice
combinations in containers through
size 21a. But the current value of
10 points per can will continue for
single purchases. In 46-ounce con-
tainers both kinds of juice will have
value of 10 points, down from 20
The reductions for juice were
made because supplies have been
moving too slowlys On the other
hand, tomatoes and spinach had
been moving "at faster rate than
the supply will permit" OPA said
In the case of spinach, the civil
ian share is expected to be only
about quarter the amount
available last year, the agency
added
Evening star., 1945-05-31
France Holds Italian Zone
In Occupation Dispute
Sy the Associated Press,

Sy the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, May 81
France told other United Nations
delegations yesterday she intends to
hold the Aosta Valley in Northwest
ern Italy until the Allies answer her
request for definite occupation
zone in Germany.
The official France Journal, dis
tributed at the Security Conference
said that the French had made
this request six months ago.
1t added that enough French
troops had perished in the Italian
campaign ITO give the French Army
the right to occupy italian soil it
had conquered"
Evening star., 1945-05-31
District Blood Donations
Appointment,

Appointments
yesterday ---- 432 persons
Appointments broken
yesterday ----- 81 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District 5000 between 9 am. and
$50 pm. weekdays, and 9 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Volunteer women are needed
as daytime drivers in the Mo-
tor Corps, which transports 30
per cent of the blood donors.
Call Republic $500. Branch 1877
Evening star., 1945-05-31

the first word they had of his safety.
1t. Shreve went overseas last
November. He was born in Wash
ington and was graduated from
Gonzaga High School. He attended
Virginia Polytechnic Institute for
one year and also George Washing
ton University before he went into
the Army more than two years ago.
He has brother with the 1st Army
in Germany, Infantry Sergt. Robert
F. Shreve. His father is employed
in the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Falls Church Flyer, Downed
Over Austria, Is Safe

1st. 1t. William G. Shreve. jr., o.
year-old pilot whose plane was
shot down over Austria after a
bombing mission to that country,
is now safe and back with the 18th
AAF in Italy. he wrote his parents
who live at 913 Park avenue, Falls
Churcn, va.
1t. Shreve, who was listed as
missing in action by the Owl to-
Evening star., 1945-05-31

day, was shot
down April 25
while on his 36th
mission, accord
ing to his sister,
Mrs. w. o. Que
senberry. of the
S a m e address.
He and the crew
walked to Odes-
sa, Russia, and
from there went
to Italy. she said.
His family re-
ceived his letter
dated May Is a
week ago We'd
I ~
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-Fair with
temperatures in the low 70s this
afternoon, clear and quite cool, with
temperature near 50 tonight Fair
with moderate temperature tomor-
row.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to-
night. Generally fair with moderate
temperature tomorrow.
Virginia-Generally fair and cool
er tonight. Increasing cloudiness
with showers in the Southwest por-
ton tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac River cloudy. Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Ferry. Potomac muddy at
Great Fails.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

Warrant Officer Richard w. "Tex
Rideout, 81, son of Fred w. c. Ride
out, vice president of the Export
Import Banks here, was killed il
action over Italy last December, i
has been reported to his father
Previously, Warrant Officer Ride
out, a Royal Canadian Air Force
fighter pilot. had been declared
missing and presumed to be dead
by the Canadian government. Hi!
father makes his home in Wash.
ington at l735 Riggs place NV.
Warrant Officer Rideout enlisted
In the RCAF in January, 1943, ane
was later sent to Egypt and from
there to Italy. Before his enlist.
ment he lived here with his father
and attended Roosevelt High School
His brother, 1t. Frederick Whitney
Rideout, U. S. N. R., is stationed ir
Washington. A sister. Mrs. Ray
mond S. Morgan lives in Englewood
N. j.
Platoon Sergt. John Betzala, whose
widow. Mrs. frankie Betzala, lives
az S<Ot ~ oUI CCO wv, wa AlllIo III
action on Two Jima March 2 while
fighting with the 5th Marines, the
Navy revealed today
The 31-year-old sergeant was in
the Marine Corps eight years and
was stationed at the Marine Bar
racks here for two and half years
before he went overseas about eight
months ago, Mrs. Betzala said.
A native of Philadelphia, Sergt
Betzala was graduated from high
school and worked in plant there
before he enlisted. Mrs. Betzala is
an employe of the Columbia Clean
ing g. Dyeing Co., 3705 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV.
Hiram b. Waters, 80. pharmacist S
mate sc, of 405 Webster street NV,
has been killed in action. See story
on this page.
Pfc. George Franklin Payne. jr.,
son of Mrs. Luck A. Payne, Purcell
vile, Va, was also listed on today's
Owl casualty release as killed in
action The story was previously
carried in The Star.
Wounded
1st 1t. John Leslie Vandegrift, jr.,
%, U. S. M. c. R.. whose parents
live at 3241 Thirty-eighth street
NV, was wounded in action for the
second time when his leg was frac-
tured during the bombing and burn
ing of the carrier Franklin off the
coast of Japan, the Navy Depart
ment reported today
A Marine fighter pilot, 1t Vande-
grift previously had his ankle
broken when his plane crashed last
October 10. He has been overseas
since September.
1t. Vandegrift, graduate of
Woodrow Wilson High School, at
tended Dartmouth College prior to
his entrance into the Marine Corps
in September. 1912.
Mr.. Vandegrift is secretary of the
Employees Benefit Committee of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co.
Pvt. George L. Coulter, jr., is in a
hospital in England with frac-
tured skull he received May 4 in
Austria while fighting with the 66th
Infantry of the lst Army, according
to the Owl release today. His wife,
Mrs. Dorothy L. Coulter, 3240 South
Fifth street, Arlington. said he went
overseas in February after going
into the Army last July.
Born and reared here, Pvt. Coulter
Is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Coulter, live at 1920 N street NV.
The 35-year-old infantryman went
Evening star., 1945-05-31

Dam to Be Built
Mexico's $3,000,0OO Hermosillo
Dam, construction of which Is to
start soon, will irrigate $4,000 acres.
Evening star., 1945-05-31

Report for Last ?4 Hours.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-28

Davis has also been assigned to an overseas staff job.
 Capt. Martha l.. Cross, Asst. Or ganization and Manning Officer, has departed this headquarters to assume a general staff position in the ETC. :
 Several new officers, all re- turnees, were assigned to the headquarters staff this week. Operations and Training section has claimed three of these off, ficers: Major Charles B. Priest, who has been assigned to the team which will train Air Serv- ice units assigned to FAF; Capt. Russell M. Harrington, IT,, Asst. Special Trg. Officer, and 1st It. William M. Fry, Air-Sea-Land Rescue officer. Major Priest has returned to this country after B months in the European, Medi- terranean and North African theaters of operation where he served as the supply officer of the Hq. Sq. of the 38th Service Group and later as O&T staff of- ficer of the 323rd and 517th Ser vice Groups of the 18th Air Force. He wears battle stars on his European African Middle Eastern Theater ribbon for the Algeria French Morocco, Tunisia, Naples-Foggia and Rome-Arno campaigns. Capt. Harrington, veteran of 65 missions and 19 months in the Southwest Pacific area, graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1943. It. Fry, co-pilot in the 7Oth Bomb Sqn. (M), 42nd Bomb Group, flew B combat missions in the Southwest Pacific Thea ter. He comes to First Air Force Hqs. from Columbia AAB, where he was an instructor pilot.
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Discharged Wacs
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) charge, (6) Employers circum- stances must not have changed to make unemployment unreasonable, CD She must be qualified to per- form the duties of her old job.
 There are four benefits for the Wac who can qualify for re-em- ployment:
 CD She shall be considered as having been on leave of absence from her former position, (2) There will be no loss of seniority, (3) She shall be entitled to parti- cipate in insurance and all other benefits of her employer in effect at the time she entered the army, (4) She shall not be discharged for one year without cause.
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Open nHouse
(Continued from Page One)

various buildings will be open to the public for inspection, including the Chapel, Theatre, Post Ex- change, etc.
 Dances Scheduled
 Following the visit by our neigh bors Air Force Day will be cele- brated by Base personnel with two dances. The Officers will hold a Wing Ding" at the Officers Club, featuring food and entertainment. Enlisted personnel, their guests and civilian personnel may attend an AAF Birthday Party to be held at the Rec Hall, which will offer indoor and outdoor dancing to the music of a ten-piece orchestra, a buffet supper and other special treats. Hostesses from the Windsor Locks USO and JWB-USO of Hartford will be present as danc- ing partners.
 Those who attend will be ad- mitted to the Base at the Main Gate. Upon entering they will be guided to the proper parking spaces by MPs and given a copy of this issue of the BEAM plus the picture supplement.
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THE CHAPLAIN
 Writes. Chaplain Vim. J. Van Cleve
Sign Post Sitters

The other day a soldier received letter from a youngster back home in which the boy wrote: There is big sign just outside Memphis that says, This Sign Will Take You To Memphis I crawled up on the sign and sat there for two hours and the thing never moved so I finally got tired of sit ting and got down and walked on into Memphis"
 Naturally the boy was only kid ding q hope) but there are plenty of people in real life that try to do this very thing. They want to get somewhere, but they don't want to put out the necessary effort to get there. We even have few of these people in the Army. They try to Ego off" on every detail and their chief aim in life seems to be that they may be the champion gold bricker in the army. This is not fair to the other fellows because somebody has got to do the job and if soldier doesn't do his part it simply means that some other sol dier has got to do it for him. Some of the fellows cry their heads off because the war isn't over and they can't go home, and still they refuse to do their part in getting it over. If all of our soldiers were like that we wouldn't have any homes to go to. Most of our Anne rican soldiers are not like that. They work and fight until they are exhausted, and they put so much pressure on the Japs that the Japs just can't take it.
 We find that this same thing holds true in religion. There are plenty of fellows that think that God ought to serve them their breakfast in bed instead of requir- ing that they get up and go after it. Sunday morning they would like to come to the chapel services but it is too far out to the chapel.
 These fellows would like to help others but they are afraid they would have to put out little ef- fort to do it. Some of them are proud of their ability to swear, and they brag about the way they break all of Gods laws. And then some fine day they find themselves in a really tough spot and they pray like mad for God to help them. Really, what do you think this type can expect of God? If God wasn't a God of mercy as well as justice He would just let them stew in their own juice.
 God put us here to help Him, and helping Him does take effort on our part. It is a privilege to work with God, and assure you
Bradley beam., 1945-07-28

A-&V V kS%A( h AOOh 60 CAAC A4SW books in the field of non-fction!
 FROM FOOTBALL TO
 STREAM FISHING
 Sgt, Batting the Ball with Bob" Lewis sudden departure from the Field leaves the Base Library staff holding the bag on this review. Bob was going to call your atten- tion to "Esquire's First Sports Reader" in an original review ours. is right off the book jacket of the book itselfi Herb Graffis, the editor, says that the book was put together to keep the Esquire staff from having to look through the files when fans want to know about some vaguely remembered story. Now he can throw the book at them!
 Addicts who take their sports neat should like it. There are 38 articles and stories in all, and each one is head-liner. It includes such sports classics as Are Wrestlers Human," by Westbrook Pegler; "Is Basketball a Killer" by Marshall Diebold; Learning Golf by Good Sense," by Ben Hogan, and writ ings by such sports head-liners as Ernest Hemingway, Walter Hagen, Clark Shaughnessy, etc. In addi- tion there are two of the notable Esquire Sports Polls included. You'll like it!
 G-EYE VIEW OF THE WAR
 Most of the stories in Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down." have appeared in the New Yorker, and they are tinctured somewhat with the urbanity com i monly associated with that maga- zine. But for all that, they repre- sent excellent reporting. Some of the tales are funny, some of them i deeply moving.
 The articles deal with the au- thor's experiences in the Army from the spring of 1941 to the spring of 1914, beginning at Fort Benning, Georgia, and ending in Marshal Tito's headquarters in Yugoslavia. They bear such titles as "Action in Georgia" "A Roller Coaster Is Worse," "Juke Joint" "A Night in the Guardhouse," "In- hale! Outhale!", which are descrip- tions of his training days and are mainly humorous in tone. "Night Watch" "The Taking of Ficarra," "Busy Morning." 'I Love Noun tain Warfare" are brief stories of fighting in Sicily and Italy, where as correspondent for TANK he covered those campaigns. Some re- viewers feel that the last story, "Walk Through Yugoslavia," is his best. In this he describes his over land march with 50 Partisans from the Dalmation coast to Marshal Tito's headquarters. This book is not the story of correspondent writing about the fighting men, it's soldier writing about himself. You'll like this one, too!
 OH SAY, HAVE YOU SEEN
 HAVE you seen the six new Adj rondack chairs set out under the trees in front of the Base Library? Thanks to the USO-JWB, who do- mated them, you can sit out-of- doors while you read, that is, of course, if the Weather Station CO., operates! We expect they'll be used lot on Tuesday evenings too, for with the Library windows open, you will be able to sit out-of-doors and still hear the program of re- corded music! We'll be seeing you!
Bradley beam., 1945-07-28

To emphasize the importance of the new method of allotting funds to the Continental Air Forces by bulk allotment, a three-day con- ference was held at FAF Hq,, 12-14 July. The conference was opened by General Hunter, who spoke to the delegates, including a repre- sentative from AAF Hq., two rep resentatives from CAF Hq., the commanding officers and budget and fiscal officers from all the FAF bases, and the Hq. FAF budget and fiscal staff.
 General Hunter, Col. R. T.
 Nichols, IT,, Asst. C/S, Person
 nel and Administration; Col.
 James H. Wallace, Asst. C/S,
 Operations and Training; It. Col.
 Huey, Deputy Maintenance and
 Supply Officer, and Major Ed
 ward Ochs, Organization and
 Manning Officer, attended a con-
 ference on command matters at
 Hq. AAF on July IA.
 
 Major A. A. Forest, former ex- ecutive officer of the Hq. FAF Operations and Training section, has joined the Personnel and Ad- ministration staff at Greenville AAB. Maj. H. s. Hensley has been named as his replacement. Two other OFT officers have recently departed this headquarters. They are Major L. Lippman, former as- sistant redeployment officer and veteran of the European Theater of Operations, who has reported for duty at Hq. Troop Carrier Command at Stout Field, Ind, and 1st Lieut.. J. A. Wyatt, who has re- ceived his discharge on points after having served 12 months in ETC before assuming his FAF position as Training Aids officer. It. Wyatt has been succeeded by 1st It. Will liam s, McCready, former naviga- tor-instructor and Asst. Director of Training at Morris AAB and Navigation Officer at Columbia AAB. A 50-mission man, It. Nc Cready served as navigator with the Seth Bomb Sqn., 47th Bomb Group in North Africa, Malta, Si- cily and Italy, and wears the Flu ropean African Middle Eastern Theater ribbon with battle stars for the African, Sicilian and Italian campaigns.
 It. General Lewis E. BreretOn,
 who recently returned from three
 years service in the Middle East
 and European Theaters to as-
 sume command of the Third Air
 Force, was visitor at Hq., FAF
 on July IA.
 Officers of Hq. FAF bade a re- luctant farewell to Col. Malcolm N. Stewart, former Deputy Chief of Staff, and It. Col. R. E. Davis, Deputy Personnel and Administra- tion Officer, at cocktail party held at the Officers Club on Thursday, July 12. Col. Stewart will attend Army Post Hosfilities School at Princeton, N. J., and will later as- sume an overseas post. It. Col.
Bradley beam., 1945-07-28
RECREATIONAL SAFETY

"At this time of year everybody feels the urge to participate in swimming, golfng, picnicking, horseback riding and other recrea- tional activities.
 But unfortunately, the lure of the outdoors often leads to disregard of the simple, common-sense rules of personal safety. For example, during May of this year, one of every four accident fatalities to AAF military personnel in this country was due to drowning.
 Personnel should be warned con- tinuously of the dangers inherent in swimming and diving, and there should be repeated emphasis on that basic safety rule-"Never Swim Alone"
 Studies of swimming accidents reveal the same unsafe acts or con- ditions repeatedly = diving into shallow water, collisions near div ing boards, diving into submerged objects, over-exertion, horseplay, and running on slippery surfaces in swimming areas.
 Through thoughtlessness or reek- lessness, any of the simple pleas ures of the great outdoors may prove hazardous"
 (Quoted from AAF GROUND SAFETY, Vol. 1, No. Al.
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that if you get to work helping Him, instead of sitting idly by and expecting Him to do it all, you will find you'll get somewhere worth while.
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I didn't know she was a golfer when she asked me to play around with her.
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(Quoted from AAF GROUND SAFETY, Vol. 1, No. Al.
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.3 SPEAKING 4. W R@ & 
JoE PRIVATE SAYS !;

Let's take a look at the new books in the field of non-fction!
 FROM FOOTBALL TO
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-03-10

pecor continues prospect and remains respectable member of
society spite of the failure his prospects become the
promoter is generally speaking either hero thief depending
entirely the failure of the prospect he has financed
matters not at all how honestly ne presents the gambling chance
he offers the public how he attempts safeguard the
received in proving the value lack of it of mining prospect
There only yardstck did the prospect make mine II it did
hero If didn't he crook There would have been
Sunshine mine without the whose passing the following
editorial
Romance mining the Inland Empire recalled by the death
Sunday Eugene Tousy While he did discover the Sun
shine the dAlenes greatest silver in the
world he organized the original company and prominent in its
development intermediary through Yakima
first became interested in the company and made millions
from their investment of them purchasing stock cents
share Sunshine stock has sold high $24 share and has paid
approximately $25 600 in dividends.
How tickle revealed in this While many made
Sunshine investments Tousey the promoter did not
this wealth. having retired before the mine became ia
dividend payer.
endless search for and fortune the prospecors and
promoters often failed find the bonanza which ured them only
another harvest they hoped Dauness
the spirit those Firm their faith the future With
prospeors wealth of the Coeurd Aenes might have
Spokane might still have been crossroads
village
Postery everlasting debt of gratitude to these pros
pector They had the and determination
the dsappontments May their tribe
increase" The Alaska Weekly
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-03-10
STATE BIOLOGISTS HOLD
MEET IN WASHINGTON

The Association of American
State Biologists has concluded its
seth annual meeting held in the
offices of the Geological Survey.
United States department of the in
terror. Twenty-Five of the 43 Geo
logical Surveys were represented.
Dr. Robert Dott, state geologist
of Oklahoma, was elected president
of the association for the coming
year DR.. Edward Troxsil, state geol-
ogist of Connecticut, was selected
as the vice president and Dr. Mere
dith Johnson, state geologist of
New Jersey is the new secretary.
Tentative plans were made for a
10th anniversary field meeting in
1916. The holding of such a meeting
is, however, entirely dependent
upon war and transportation con-
ditiOns.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1945-03-10
COLORADO SHALE PLANT
TEST SITE ANNOUNCED

The bureau of mines has selected
a site on United States naval oil
shale reserves in western Colorado
for a 81 SOC, 900 oiI-shale demonstra-
ton plant. one of the major in
stallations authorized by congress
in the synthetic liquid fuels act.
To be established in the Anvil
Points area, about seven miles west
of the town of Rifle, this plant will
serve as a proving ground for
processes being developed to con-
vert the nations large reserves of
oil-shale into an auxiliary source of
fuels and lubricants for the military
forces and the essential civilian
economy. 1t win be built on govern
ment-owned land and will be oper-
ated in conjunction with an oil-shale