The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 17, 1943, Image 11

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943 MUSTERING OUT PAY IS FAVORED Washington, Dec. 10—Legislation providing $200 to $500 mustering out pay to honorably discharged ser vicemen won unanimous Senate Mili tary Affairs committee approval to day as a young, one-legged soldier told a house committee the boys in the foxholes “wonder what they’re fighting for and whether it’s worth it.” The Senate bill sets up a pay scale based on length of service at home and overseas. Benefits would ac crue equally to all service men from the rank of Army colonel and Navy commander on down and who are discharged or relieved of active duty under honorable conditions. The scale: Scale Of Payment $500 for more than 18 months overseas service. $400 for more than 12 monts, but less than 18 months overseas service. $300 for less than 12 months over seas service or more than 12 months service in continental United States. $200 for less than 12 months serv ice within this country. The men would be paid on an in stallment basis—one-third of the money on the date of discharge and one-third in each of the succeeding two months. The pay scale was taken from a bill introduced yesterday by Sen ators Styles Bridges, (R., N. H.,) and Warren R. Austin, (R., Vt.,) and attached to Senate Democratic Leader Albem W. Barkley’s original bill. Barkley had proposed a flat $300 up through the rank of army cap tain cr navy senior lieutenant. Bridges said the substitute form ula would be more expensive than the estimated $3,000,000,000 cost of the Barkley formula, but no esti mates were available. 600,000 Be Eligible Some 600,000 servicemen already discharged would become eligible immediately. The War department has estimated it would cost about $250,000,000 to pay them. Meanwhile, T-Sgt. Lemuel Hen dricks, Council Bluffs, la., warned the House Military Affairs commit tee that “if Congress doesn’t act on adequate veterans’ legislation there will be another bonus march on Washington.” Hendricks, who had a leg blown off by a tank mine in Tunisia, ask ed for adequate vocational training and assurance of jobs for returning servicemen, saying they do not want to “live at the mercy of others dr go home and live off our folks.” Saying the boys “over there” are wondering what they’re fighting for and whether it’s “worth it to lose some of their limbs,” he said, “we want to get news to those boys about what the 78th Congress is doing to help hem.” THE NEWBERRY SUN “MAKE IT DO” y A Pecan Buyer Returns For Last Buying Sat. 18th. a Gather all the nuts you can and bring them £ to us SATURDAY. Although the market has sagged some in prices you still will get from our buyer the tjp of the cash market and you will* be pleased with returns. A T. B. Young, Inc., Florence, S. C. V STOKES offers Christmas which will please and delight you For HER For HIM COTY SETS SHAVNG SETS by— MAX FACTOR SETS COTY HOUB GANT SETS OLD SPICE TANGEE SETS WILLIAMS EVENING-IN-PARIS SETS WRISLEY DRESSER SETS HOUBIGANT POPULAR PERFUMES MANICURE KITS MILITARY KITS HAND BAGS FURLOUGH BAGS BILL FOLDS FINE SOAPS AND OLD SPICE TOILETRIES STATIONERY SHAVING. LOTIONS CRYSTALWARE in the BILL FOLDS Latest Patterns Parker Pen DESK SETS C* M SOLDIER AND SAILOR DOLLS r or i ne comb and brush sets Kiddies MMANICURE SETS CONSTRUCTION SETS STOKES’ DRUG STORE S 944 MAIN" STREET y x