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J THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, AUGUST 14, 1942 Washington, D. C. WAGE STABILIZATION You can write it down that the Prervic-.i will use his executive powers to keep wages in check rather than ask congress tor any new legislation dealing with wage stabilization. There are two reasons for this: (1) Wage control legislation would be sure to stir up another bitter congressional controversy, as bad or worse than the brawl over farm parity prices. It might even re quire months to get both houses to agree on a bill satisfactory to the administration. (2) The President believes that the policy proposed by the War Labor board’s recent steel wage decision— limiting wage increases to 15 per cent over scales prevailing on Janu ary 1, 1941—plus additional ration ing of consumer goods, will be suf ficient for the time being to brake inflation threats to the working man’s pocketbook. Inside fact is that the War Labor board is contemplating only one fur ther step in its wage stabilization program, and this is not so much an anti-inflation move as a conces sion to certain labor groups and a contribution to the prosecution of the war. Wages in certain industries, in cluding shipyards and tool-and-die plants, are above the 15 per cent ip- crease ceiling set by the board. This raises the question—shall wages in these industries be brought down to conform with scales in other war plants which pay below the ceiling? The answer is—there will be no reduction in wages. The President has decided definitely against this. Instead, to prevent piracy and mi gration of workers away from vital war plants paying below the 15 per cent ceiling, the War Labor board is planning to amend its wage policy to permit the payment of “premi um wages” (above the ceiling) in such plants. Note: One industry sure to be al lowed “premium wages” is aircraft, which has lost many workmen, by piracy and migration, to higher-pay ing shipyards. • • * NEW ARMY FOOD To save shipping space, the army is sending food overseas in dehy drated form. Experiments in taste- preserving dehydration have been carried out and tested on a group of army cooks. At the Chicago depot of the quar termaster corps, the cooks sat down to a meal of dehydrated foods, prin cipal item on the menu being scram bled eggs made by adding water to a yellow powder. It has been discovered that one pound of dehydrated turnips will serve 28 persons, after water is added. « • * BEHIND THE AIR CORPS This war will be won or lost in the air. But despite that fact the air forces will win or lose the war on the ground. In other words, the success of operations in the air de pends on ground crews, who out number air crews ten to one. Featured in the headlines and the newsreels every day are the pilots and machine gunners. But the un sung heroes of this war are the ground crews. Real fact is that it takes only one man to pilot a fighter plane, but it takes eight or ten maintenance men to keep it in shape to fight. A four- engine bomber requires a flying crew of nine, and a maintenance crew of 25. Often a ground crew will be assigned exclusively to one plane, and will become attached to it with the affection a stable boy has for a race horse. Chief of Staff General Marshall has revealed that the over-all strength of the air force is expected to reach 1,000,000 men by the end of 1942, and 2,000,000 by the end of next year. If the war is won in 1943, it will be won by these 2,000,000 men. But 1,800,000 of them will be “fight ing” on the ground. They are the overall-boys, the grease monkeys, the men who spend all day overhauling an engine which has been flying all night, the men who know what heat is like in the deserts of Africa, because they don’t get up in the air for relief, as do the pilots. • • • OVERSEAS CANDY The quartermaster corps is in the market to buy 2,500,000 pounds of hard candy: peppermint, orange, lemon, lime, anise, and cherry. The hard candy is being bought for overseas troops, as part of the regular field ration. Official expla nation is that candy is an excellent source of energy. • • • AFRICAN CAMEL CREWS They are the mechanics, the ar morers, the metal workers, the welders—yes, and they are the pick and shovel men who build the land ing fields in foreign posts, and re pair them after enemy bombers have passed over. They are also the cooks and the mess boys, the pay masters, the doctors, and the truck drivers. In short, they are the men who perform every duty that keeps a plane in the air. They do everything except replace the African camels. PRIVATE PURKEY IN LOVE AND WAR (Harriet Joins Up W’ith the WAACS) Dear Oscar— Don’t look now, but I’m in the WAAC. If you’re in an army why not me? I got to thinking of you do ing your bit as a soldier and I thought I would feel better about it if I was following your example. Well, anyhow, here I am out in Des Moines and already I appreciate all those complaints you used to make about your feet. Right now the girls have made the army reverse the usual routine and give us a light noon meal and the heavy one at night. At noon we just get salads and drug store quickies but I wasn’t here three days before I saw it was all a mistake as the work gives me an appetite like a horse. And I don’t mean an ordinary horse. • • * Mess Sergeant Harry Decker says tee will all be shouting for big meals at noon in no time and I admit he is right. / guess the girls all figured that they must take care of their figures but this was so much wasted worry. This army routine will take care of their shapes. • • • The army has figured it out that a girl soldier needs 2,700 calories a day to a man’s 4,000. But it must have reached that conclusion after watching you eat. It will take 4,000 a day to keep me at normal weight. For years I have been nipping at let tuce leaves to keep my weight down but in the WAAC I can see my wor ries are over. They can pass me mashed potatoes from now on. A man is boss of us. He is Colonel Faith, which is a pretty name for a colonel and he will have to live up to it if he is to get any results from this army. He is reputed to be a strict disciplinarian but the news should never have leaked out. You know how a woman reacts when she hears that any man who is to tell her what to do is a disciplinari an. He has two strikes on him from the start. * * * Quite a few army men are out here in general charge. They try to be stern but they look pretty un comfortable. I can tell they would rather be anyplace but here. Susie Graham says they must have been detailed here as punishment for some army crime. The first big laugh came when army men showed us how to make beds and insisted that we make them their way and no back talk. They made them pretty good at that but we made ’em all over again as soon as they finished. We have steel lockers at the foot of our beds and you are my hang-up boy, of course, dear Oscar. One of the girls asked me if it was a snap shot of Abbott or Costello. It was just because the picture was taken in too bright a light. • * • Well, dear, I hope all is well with you. How I wish we were in the same army! Your Yankee Doodle girl never stops thinking of her Yan kee Doodle boy. I love you. Harriet. P. S.—Send me a mousetrap. I just heard some funny noises. * • • VOICE FROM THE END OF THE LINE Obstructors of progress, Whose act is a crime, Are those who pick change up One coin at a time. Pier. « * » “Banana Farms to Grow Rub ber.”—Headline. Okay, as long as the rubber farms don’t grow bananas. • • • TO THE LADIES “The WPB has restricted the purchase of nail polish, mascara, perfumery, rouge, powder, lipstick and facial creams.”— News item.) Lips that look a little human, Cheeks that are authentic, too, Help some Yankee bomber’s crew men Blast a Jap out of the blue. Noses that are sometimes shiny— Faces that are real McCoy— Aid in trimming Moe and Heinie And that Hirohito boy. Hands that are as God intended— Nails as nature made all ten— Help to keep explosives blended As a help to fighting men. Gals with all mascara missing, And with faces as designed, Move a foe to angry hissing As his legions fall behind. Just a little touch of powder, Not so many facial creams, Tend to make a hopeless chowder Of the Axis hopes and dream*, • • • “A man isn’t really a good poli tician until he learns to have his picture taken without looking direct ly into the lens,” says Merrill Chil- cote. • • • “Shortage of Meat in East.”— Headline. Anybody who has asked for a hamburger in a lunch-wagon lately could have told you so. • • * “Nobody,” says Elmer Twilchell, “is too far in the rear to yell for a second front rght aw y.” Here’s Why U. S. Navy Is Proud of Its Chow Pictured at the left, officers of the U. S. navy make sure that the rigid standards set for navy food are not lowered. Here they sample corned beef to determine content of fat, gristle and lean meat. This year's navy order for fresh beef amounted to approximately 60,000,000 pounds. Right: this navy cook is ladling fresh peas, an important part of navy chow. During the year ended July 1, the navy consumed about 192,874,500 pounds of fresh vegetables. As Saboteurs Get Bad News From High Court Shown at left are five army prosecuting attorneys arriving at the Supreme court building in Washington, where they saw the seven Nazi saboteurs lose in their attempt to escape jurisdiction of President Roosevelt’s military commission. Left to right: Maj. Gen. Myron Cramer, Col. F. G. Munson, Col. S. M. Weir, Col. E. M. Trousch, Maj. William Thurman. Inset, right: Soldiers arriving with evidence used in the court’s ruling. Reds Defend Vital Rail Line Soviet troops are pictured as they battled to keep a vital rail line from falling into the hands pf the onrush- ing Nazis somewhere on the south ern Russian front. A shell burst sends debris soaring as the Russian soldiers advance with their light machine guns all ready for instant action. The Germans attacked un tiringly, despite heavy losses. £ The Boys Win Race Against Time It’s mighty close to midnight—the deadline hour—so these sailors and marines stationed at Navy pier in Chicago, having bid farewell to their various girl friends, get back to their quarters “on the double.” The sentry is used to these nocturnal rushes. He knows it’s duty first, l«ve second, or else the brig. Helpful Fan When Chuck Sylvester, Hollywood first baseman, reached over to grab Peanuts Lowrey’s pop foul in the first inning; this rabid fan decided to assist. The ball shown in Sylves ter’s glove plopped to the ground, but the umpire ruled the batter out. U. S. Chiefs in London Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, (left) commander ih chief of U. S. forces in the European theater of war, strolls London streets with Maj. Gen. Mark Clark. Released by Western Newspaper Union. The Wagon 1 Box Fight A UGUST 2 of this year marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most remarkable engagements in American military history. That was the Wagon Box fight on Little Piney creek near the present town of Story, Wyo., and it is noteworthy for several reasons. With the possible exception of “Custer’s Last Stand” on the Little Big Horn river in Montana in 1876, no other Indian fight has been more written-about nor inspired more fic tion masquerading as fact. Certain ly no other event in Plains warfare ever resulted in more extravagant statements as to the number of Indian opponents and losses inflict ed upon them, even though the white man invariably exaggerated both in telling or writing about his battles with the red man. The Wagon Box fight is so named because it was fought in and around a small fortifica tion composed of 14 wagon boxes set on the ground, end to end, to form an oval cor ral. Into this flim sy protection fled a detachment of 30 soldiers of the Twenty - seventh infantry, com manded by Capt. J. W. Pqwell and Lieut. J. C. Jen- ness, when, on the morning of August 2, 1867, they were attacked by a force of nearly 1,000 Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. The soldiers had recently been supplied with new breech-loading rifles, a vast improvement over the old muzzle-loaders of Civil war days and they had nearly 7,000 rounds of ammunition for these weapons. But, despite this fact, it seemed like a forlorn hope for them, for they were outnumbered 300 to 1 and the mem ory of the disaster which had over taken Capt. W. J. Fetterman and his 80 men the previous December was fresh in their minds. Resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible, they immediate ly opened fire on the savages who began riding in an ever-narrowing circle around the corral and for the next three hours they fought off re peated attacks by the Indians, both mounted and on foot, until they were rescued by a relief party from Fort Phil Kearney, six miles away. One of the remarkable features of this fight was the number of charges made by the Indians and the de termination with which they pushed Capt. J. W. Powell This inconspicuous “monument” (a section of iron pipe capped with a brass plate) marks the site of one of the fiercest battles in Indian war fare—the Wagon Box fight. home their attacks in the face of the incessant fire from the breech loaders of the defenders of the cor ral. Both were unparalleled in the history of Indian warfare. In view of these facts, the wonder is that the Indian casualty list was not larger than it actually was. After the battle Powell reported that his men had killed 60 Indians and wounded more than 100 while suffering a loss of three soldiers killed, including Lieutenant Jenness, and three wounded. Some of his men later boosted the Indiem losses to 300 killed and wounded. Then the myth-makers got busy. It started with Col. Richard I. Dodge in his book “Our Wild Indi ans,” published in 1882. He set the number of Indians at 3,000 and their losses at 1,137 killed and wounded. Later “historians” repeated his fig ure of 3,000 warriors but reached a new height of absurdity by placing their losses at 1,500! Indian participants tell a vastly different story. They say their losses were six killed and six wounded. This is a bit too conservative, espe cially for the number wounded, but it is probably much nearer reality than the usual accounts by the white man. In his biography of Chief White Bull, who was in the Wagon Box fight (published under the title of “Warpath” by the Houghton Mifflin company), Stanley Vestal, who is probably the best authority today on the Sioux wars from 1866 to 1891, points out that Indian losses rarely ran to more than 1 or 2 per cent and that the highest known casualty list in all Sioux history was only 15 per cent. Therefore, says Mr. Vestal, “even Captain Powell’s estimate is fantastic.” Certainly the claim of a 50 per cent loss is preposterous. Salt fish are qui'' , '"st and best freshened by soakii, i sour milk. • • • Food bought in season will help to keep that part of the budget within reason. • • • Onion juice should be added after a mixture is cooked rather than cooked with the mixture if the best flavor is desired. • • • That fish may be scaled much easier by first dipping them into boiling water for a minute. • • • To keep bread in the best condi tion, store it when cool in a clean, well-aired, covered, ventilated container and keep in a cool, dry place. • • • Each time bed sheets are changed the mattress should be turned end-for-end or upside down. • • • Sweet corn, green string beans, green peas, pumpkins, squash, cel ery and greens are best vegetables for home drying. Apples and ber ries are adapted to drying in the home among fruits. ALL-BRAN FUDGE SQUARES-BEST YOUEVERTASTED! Ever; mother In the land will want to bake these scrumptious cookies. Chil dren will demolish a plate of them In a wink. Grown-ups rave about their •‘different” taste and new crunchy tex ture. They’re made, of course, with the famous cereal, Kellogg’s All-Bran. KELLOGS’S ALL-BRAN FUDGE SQUARES 3 squares tin- 1 cup sugar sweetened % cup flour chocolate % cup All-Bran % cup butter % cup nutmeats 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Melt chocolate over hot water and add butter. Beat eggs well, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add melted chocolate and butter. Stir In flour, All-Bran, chopped nutmeats and fla voring. Pour Into greased pan, making a layer about one-third Inch thick. Bake In moderate oven (375°P.) about 20 minutes. Yield: Sixteen 2-lnch squares (8x8 Inch pan). »nn RHEUMATIC PAIN Wilt a MtdMsa tkat sill Prsve ItaaH If you suffer from rheumatic pain or muscular aches, buy C-2223 today for real pain-relieving help. 60c, $1. C-2223 at druggists. Buy a bottle today. Use only as directed. Pur chase price refunded if not satisfied. 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