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Washington, D. C. HENDERSON’S WARNING Price Administrator Leon Hender son told the house ways and means committee a lot more during his secret testimony than he afterwards disclosed to newsmen. Here are some items which weren’t made public: Henderson predicted that if the current levels of earnings are main tained, the total national income this year will approximate 117 billion dollars, or 25 billions more than in 1941. On the other hand, due to the enormous war production demands, the supply of consumer goods will be 26 per cent less than last year. This wide disparity between pur chasing power and available con sumer goods, Henderson warned, is the great inflationary “explosive” factor. With a lot more money in people’s pockets than supplies on which to spend it, a competitive situation develops that may set off a catastrophic price runaway un less drastically controlled. 17-Billiion Excess. Illustrating this problem, Hender son pointed out that about 31 billions of the estimated 117-billion national income will be absorbed by taxes and savings, leaving 86 billions in spendable money. However, there will be only 69 billions of consumer commodities. This 17-billion excess, he declared, is what must be kept in check in order to prevent it from setting in motion an inflationary spiral that would smash the nation’s economic system. Tough as this problem is, Hender son predicted that the situation will be even worse in 1943. He estimated that by next year purchasing power will.be three times greater than in 1932 while the supply of consumer goods will be only the same as in that year, the pit of the depression. The price administrator told the committee that the only way disas trous inflation can be averted is by the most stringent government con trols. He said he fully realized that such measures as rationing and price ceilings might cause boot legging and “blackmarkets.” But he expressed the belief that patriotic public opinion would powerfully militate against such lawbreaking. “In England,” Henderson pointed out, “bootlegging of food and other scarce commodities is causing so much public resentment that many are demanding that those who buy or sell on the ‘black market’ be taken out and shot.” • • • BIG BUSINESS MIRACLES No one ever would have suspected It, but Harold Ickes, the New Deal’s most violent baiter of big business, has been performing some quiet miracles in obtaining big busi ness co-operation. Not only is he now on good terms with the moguls of the oil industry, including such bitter political op ponents as Joe and Howard Pew, leaders of Pennsylvania Republican ism, but he has also been getting co operation from the railroads and trucking companies. This is one of the few good things that has come out of the war Ever since trucks began hauling freight, the feud between them and the railroads has been the toughest problem faced by the Interstate Commerce commission. But now Petroleum Co-ordinator Ickes has persuaded the ancient ri vals to make a friendly division of the tremendous oil transportation business whereby the railroads with drew from short hauls, and turn business over to trucks, thus releas ing tank cars for the longer and more economic hauls. For instance, a railroad tank car, with a capacity of 8,000 gallons, op erating between Whiting, Ind., and the west side of Chicago, requires six days to make the “turn around.” But a tank truck, capacity 7,500 gal lons, can do the same “turn around” in five hours. Thus, one tank truck, working 24 hours, (and all such equipment is on a 24-hour basis) would relieve the equivalent of 16 or 20 tank cars. These cars, in turn, are being placed on the longer hauls from the Gulf to the East coast. Result of such economies and overtime operations is that railroads which normally move practically no oil to the East coast, are now mov ing 650,000 barrels a day. Tankers (ships) normally supply 95 per cent of the East coast requirement, but with the withdrawal of tankers, tank cars are being rushed into the breach. * * * WIG WAGS The war department has asked congress for a $10 a month pay raise for West Point cadets. Pres ent rate is $65, the department says it ought to be $75 because the pres ent class will be $250,000 in debt when it graduates. The marine corps is urgently in need of Japanese translators and in terpreters. If you have a working knowledge of Japanese, get in touch with the corps at once, either by writing to Washington or visiting the nearest recruiting station. THE WOMEN’S ARMY Tramp, tramp, tramp, the girls are marching! * • • Women in uniform will be the 1942 feature of our war program. Girls will be doughboys. • • • The bill creating a Women’s Aux iliary Army has been passed and one creating a Women’s Auxiliary Navy is in the works. • • • It is soon going to be a ques tion whether to tip your hat to a lady or give her a salute. • * * There will be 150,000 gals in the new army, and it is fairly obvious that before long there will be so many of them in uniform that a woman dressed like a woman is going to feel conspicuous. • • • It is all going to be a terrific blow at feminine daintiness and charm. The boudoir is going to look like an army locker room, every clothes hanger is going to have a military garment on it and the male members of the family are going to have their troubles telling which are their hats and which belong to mother and sister. • • • We fear a big drop in charm. A woman has to have everything to project oomph in flat heels and an army hat. • • • There will be no generals, majors, colonels, etc., in the Female Re serve. Those responsible for the matter were smart enough to know that chaos might result. But there will be other less militant titles. The ladies will be ranked as directors, assistant directors, first leaders, second leaders, junior leaders, etc. The preliminary battles will be fought over the question who are tq be plain everyday members. * * • The gals will be paid. Directors will get $3,000 a year and expenses, assistant directors will get $2,400 and expenses, and those from junior leaders to first officers will get from $648 to $2,000 a year and expenses. • • • Expenses will not include bridge losses. * • • Just what the ladies will do has not been completely decided, but if the boys in the army could get their wish some of them will be assigned to cook, make beds and do the gen eral housework which the boys now have to do. • • • Nothing would raise the morale of the American buck private like be ing relieved of the job of making his own bed. • • • The Women’s Army will be non- combatant. (Except within its own ranks.—Ed.) • • * It may be sent anywhere in the world. And there is this one great consolation: it will not be sent out in those funny spring and summer hats. • • • DIMOUT “Get the flashlight, Willie! Popper’s gonna take us to New York to see the sights!” * * * It’s so dark in the heart of New York now that folks are doing their necking OUTSIDE the movie houses. • • • “U. S. to Use Alcohol to Make Rubber.”—Headline. * * * We suppose this will mean a return of those wobbly rear tires. • • * Private Purkey’s sweetheart, Har riet, says she supposed all those soldiers are being sent to Ireland because they are green troops. * * * THOSE MUSICAL COMMERCIALS Radio advertisers are going jingle mad. There is hardly a product on the air market today that hasn’t been set to music. * * * You can’t tune into the radio these days without finding yourself in the middle of some musical boost espe cially written for infantile intellects. • • • There was a time when an an nouncer would plug a drink, hair oil, bon bon or cigarette in a straight TALK. He didn’t need an orchestra to say a good word for a loaf of bread, or a choir to emphasize the value of a can of beer. * * * He didn’t have to set a Mother Goose jingle to music to beat down your sales resistance. • » • Radio is the most imitative of all the arts. Let some sausage maker come on the air with a sales talk via a male quartette and a dozen other business men will have their commercials musicalized. Are you a cigar manufacturer? Very well. You’ll want something like this to convince the American public that you have the best smoke. Health and vigor’s what you need, You can get ’em, yes, indeed; Smoke Bazooker’s new cigar ... Tra la, tra la, tra la lar! THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ JUNE 12, 1942 1 At Barrage Balloon Training Center Barrage training center, Camp Tyson, Tenn., where crews are trained to handle, sail and re pair the huge gas bags. Upper left: Trainees seated around their instructor. Lower left: Gas filtered through the purification plant being forced through the high pressure manifold to be stored for re-use. Right: Sewing a seam in a bar rage balloon—“a stitch in time.” Flock for Service on Navy’s PT-Boats The successes of our motor torpedo fleet in Philippine waters have brought a flood of applications to the navy from young officers who want to serve aboard the boats. Special schools have been set up for this purpose. At the left a group of officers is receiving, instructions in the use of depth bombs. Picture at right shows a group of them gathered about an Orlikon automatic anti-aircraft cannon. Salvage Work in Desert Battle Zone New War Bonnet This pile of shell cases is part of the huge collection of material salvaged from the battlefields of the Libyan desert by the British. The cases will be used again, for they are of valuable brass and copper. In many instances the British have taken Italian guns and ammunition and have used them against their former owners. Arnold Headley, seaman, second class, is a full-blooded Arapahoe In dian from Ethete, VVyo. Here be is demonstrating with machine gun bullets at the U. S. naval air station at Corpus Christi, Texas, just how his ancestors looked with a head dress of war feathers. Headley is the station boxing champ. To Manage All-Star Service Team Lieut. Gordon (“Mickey”) Cochrane has been appointed manager of the all-star service baseball team composed of former minor and major league players now in the navy. Shown above are (left to right) Comdr. Gene Tunney, in charge of sports activities for the navy; Col. John Thomas Taylor, assistant director, bureau of public relations (war department), and “Mickey” Cochrane. Gal in Every Port? “Just one gal is enough for me,” says an old song, but this sailor seems to be of a different turn of mind. While his arms are quite full, hU wink speaks volumes. ring? The recent death of Chuck Wig gins brings this ar gument into the spotlight. For Com mander Gene Tun ney says Chuck Wiggins was the roughest piece of hu- man rawhide he ever met in a ring —and Chuck picked Harry Greb. It might be men tioned that Tunney Grantland Rice places Greb a close second to the un breakable Chuck in the way of toughness—not as a fighter. Gr^b was the fellow Tunney always placed on top as the best man, pound for pound, he ever met. Commander Tunney is now help ing dynamic Stan Griffis in the Navy Relief drive. We were talk ing about Wiggins (almost national ly), and about Harry Greb. “I’ll give you two examples,” Gene said, “which bring in both men. On my way to my first Dempsey fight I met Chuck Wig gins. At the time I was working on a right uppercut to the body. I was still raw with this punch. As Wig gins came in I happened to hit him low punches on two occasions. Each time the referee warned me. Wig gins could have dropped and claimed a foul either time, and would have been awarded the fight. “But when the referee warned me, Wiggins turned to him with a snarl. ‘Leave us alone,’ he said, ‘Tunney didn’t hit me low. It was a fair punch.’ Naturally that stopped the referee. The Gamest Fighter “About the fifth round,” Tunney continued, “I whipped in with a right body uppercut and I used all I had. Chuck had come in fast and the punch landed low—way be low the belt. Again the referee warned me and once again Wiggins told him to get away, that the punch was belt high. “But as we moved into a clinch Wiggins whispered, ‘Say, Gene, keep ’em up a little. That last one hurt.’ “That was Chuck Wiggins, the gamest, toughest man I ever fought. He could have claimed the fight three times against me that night, and gotten away with it. But not Chuck.” “Wiggins always said Gieb was the toughest man he ever fought,” I suggested to Tunney. “I can’t say he was wrong,” Gene said with a grin. “I’ll tell you something about Greb, too.” “The last time I met Harry he was blind in one eye. Msybe the other wasn’t any too good, but he was still something to handle. In one round as Greb came charging in I nailed him with a full right to the body. I could feel my glove against his spine. I saw his mouth fly open and his eyes start rolling. 1 stepped back to let Greb fall. I knew this was a knockout punch. “The next thing I knew Harry had me on the ropes trying to hammer my head off. I felt for a few sec onds that I was in a cage with a wild tiger. I had to finish the round protecting myself. That was Harry Greb.” The Making of Tunney Commander Tunney will tell you that his battles with Chuck Wiggins and Harry Greb were the two main factors in getting him ready for the first Dempsey fight. Tunney won’t admit that he thinks both Wiggins and Greb were even tougber than Dempsey, but that’s how he feels down in his heart. I don’t mean harder punchers. Nei ther was a killing puncher. But I mean rough, tough, to-hell-with-the- ruies, anything goes. In getting ready for Dempsey I’ll say for Tunney that he never picked the rose-patched or the violet- bordered road. When he selected Chuck Wiggins, Harry Greb and Rubberman Risko he elected to walk through a garden of thorns and poison ivy. Anyone who could wade through this trio, especially the Greb part, even though he was half blind, was about ready to walk into a cage and grab the raw meat away from a Bengal tiger. Tunney still rates Greb the great est fighter he ever met. So does everyone else who ever met Greb, especially the bigger fellows who were his meat. Or you might ask Mickey Walker, on the smaller side, and about as good and as tough as they happened to come along. The ring knows a far longer list of great fighting men under 150 pounds than over that mark—Jim my Wilde, Joe Gans, Kid Lavigne, Joe Walcott, Benny Leonard, Owen Moran, Frank Erne, Terry McGov ern, Driscoll, Welsh, Attell, Nelson, Wolgast, on and on. And how many fighters, pound for pound, ever could match Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchell, Sam Lang ford, or Jack Blackburn? Greb at 160 almost murdered such heavyweights as Gene Tunney, Tom Gibbons, Jack Dillon and others from 190 to 200 pounds. T ET’S take pattern Z9396 to the workshop. There, from scraps of plywood and with the aid of jig or keyhole saw, we can make these clever flower holders. Out lines for a dachshund, two blue birds, a muffin-cheeked cat and his quizzical companion, for the sad-eyed hound, a wise owl, and a cute deer are traced to wood, sawed out, assembled and painted. These are fascinating to make, and you've practical as well as decorative Items when you’ve finished. Directions come with the pattern, which is IS cents. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA Box MS-W Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address When armored knights met, was customary for each knight to raise the visor of his helmet as a means of identification. This ges ture has come down through all armies in the form of the salute. Traditional, too, is the Army man’s preference for Camel Ciga rettes. In the Army, Navy, Ma rines, and Coast Guard, actual sales records in their Service Stores show Camel is the favorite. Favorite gift with service men Is also Camels by the carton. Local tobacco dealers are featuring Camel cartons to send to men in the armed forces anywhere.—Adv. CORNS 60 FAST Pain goes quick, corns speedily removed when you use thin, soothing, cushioning Dr. Scholl's Zino-p&ds. Try them! D-Scholls Zino pads Old Age and You b Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.— Victor Hugo. 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Taken regularly thruout the month — Plnkham's Compound helps buUd up resistance against such symptoms. Follow label direc tions. Worth trying! LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S "All the Traffic I Would Bear" • There was a time in America when there were no set prices. Each merchant charged what he thought “the traffic would bear.” Advertising came to the rescue of the consumer. It led the way to the estab lished prices you pay when you buy anything today.