The White Falcon - 17.04.1943, Page 3

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U.S. Chiefs
PledgeAid
To FDR
President Roosevelt’s request
to defeat inflation on the home
front -while the Axis powers are
being whipped on the battle-
fields resulted in cooperative
messages from several war-time
Government agencies in Wash-
ington this week.
OPA Chief Prentiss Brown
stated that ceiling prices were
being placed on wheat, cotton,
fresh fish, apples and other fruits
as they arrive in season. Ceilings
are also being prepared for cert-
ain other products which are not
yet under control. Brown said
ceilings will not be placed on
commodities which have not yet
reached parity price levels.
The War Board under Chair-
man William Davis also met to
seek new definitions for sub-
standard wages or wages which
may he adjusted from now on
under the President’s virtual
wage-price freeze order. Previous
to the President’s order, the little
steel formula had been the yard-
stick for most Labor Board de-
cisions.
Economic Stabilization Head
James Byrnes declared he did not
believe it would alter his present
powers, hut instead would
strengthen them. He explained
that the Chief Executive’s order
would aid Manpower Commis-
sioner Paul V. McNutt in his cam-
paign to maintain manpower sup-
plies for the nation.
Lewis Ignores
Freeze Order
For Miners
President Roosevelt's order
freezing wages at the present lev-
els will not affect any change in
his plan to demand more than
a three-dollar-a-day increase for
his United Mine Workers, labor
leader John L. Lewis indicated
in New York this week.
Lewis openly denounced the
measure, asserting that the de-
mands of his miners were being
used as a political pawn. He
pointed out that the Presidcnf’s
orders still did not answer the
miners whom he described as
hungry.
The labor leader affirmed that
he would continue his efforts
to get the wage increase for the
mine workers. He was silent
when asked if he would call a
strike.
St. Louis Elects
1st Woman Alderman
For the first time in the hist-
ory of St. Louis, Mo., a woman
was sent to the city alderman’s
board when final tallies revealed
that Republican Mrs. Clara
Hemplemann triumphed over
Democrat Lawrence Yvalsh.
‘Janie/ Youngest Red Cross Hostess
Steps Forward As ‘Boss* Of The Girls
It’s frequently awkward to ex-
tend authority to “junior” mem-
bers of an organization, but that’s
hardly the rule among the local
Red Cross workers whose “boss”
is 25-ycar-old Jane Snodgrass,
youngest of the hostesses on duty
here.
Jane’s age belies her experience
as an arranger of recreation and
entertainment, and she’s equally
as well liked among her co-work-
ers as she is by the Servicemen
who frequent the No. 1 Rec Cent-
er. That, in itself, is a testimoni-
al to her charm because s&e’s in-
variably the center of an atten-
tive throng whenever pass-status
Cl’s reach the scene.
Born at Collinsville, Ill., Jane
attended the University of Chi-
cago for one year, just about long
enough to see the Maroons win
their last conference football
game and also make the acquaint-
ance of Dick Lounsbury, better-
than-average athlete. “That,” Jane
smilingly revealed, “almost deve-
loped into a real romance—but
not quite.”
Jane then transferred to the
University of Illinois where she
majored in dramatics and speech
correction. She was a busy stud-
ent there, producing and direct-
ing shows on the campus, broad-
casting regularly on stations
WILL and WDWS in Urbana-
Champaign, and still finding
time to earn her degree.
St. Louis beckoned after gradu-
ation, so Jane packed her make-
up kit and began working in
dramatic air shows for station
KSD in the Missouri metropolis.
In addition, she spent one season
with the St. Louis Little Theater
Guild, and gave promise of blos-
soming into a stellar actress with
a splendid future.
But the Theater failed to inter-
est Jane after Pearl Harbor and
she entered the American Red*
Cross in June, '1942. “I pushed*
my dad out of a job,” she laugh-
ingly explained. “The ARC had
a regulation that permitted only
one member from a family being
in the organization and he was
forced to resign so I could be
shipped overseas. However, the
ban was lifted shortly thereafter
and my father is now awaiting
orders to depart for overseas
duty.”
Servicemen here, not anxious
Plans for an overseas Army of
4,750,000 were revealed this week
at a Senatorial investigation into
the manpower situation in the
United States.
The Army contemplates an Air
Force equal to the entire aerial
strength of the Axis by the end
of 1943. The huge ground force
figure is expected to be reached
late in ’44.
to hear of people joining the un-
employed, nevertheless are happy
that Jane’s dad stepped aside for
his daughter. Otherwise, they say,
she might not have reached the
local Command, and that would
have been a pity.
and eight bombers each.
Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney,
deputy chief-of-staff, said that of
22,000,000 men between 18 and
38 now registered, only 11,000,000
can be expected to pass physical
requirements. He pointed out
also that shipping is the main
bottle-neck in getting men over-
seas, and the Army could use
more abroad now.
When the Signal Corps photog saw pretty Jane Snodgrass, he
rightfully surmised that two such charming Red Cross hostesses
would be more attractive than one. So he rigged up a mirror,
and here’s the result.
U.S. Air Force To Equal
Axis Strength Before 1944
Workers Strike,
Then Mediate,
At Ford Plant
Two separate striking groups
of war workers interrupted war
production schedules in the Ford
Motor Company’s Detroit plants
this week, but were quickly ad-
justed.
One strike was threatened be-
cause company officials wanted
to punish eight employees who
were found gambling on. the pre-
mises. The result was a brief
work stoppage among some 2,700
war workers.
The second strike involved 430
men in' the River Rouge trans-
portation division, and was caus-
ed by a wage dispute. However,
both sides met and adjusted the
two disputes.
The investigation revealed that
the Axis probably will retain a
superiority next year in ground
forces despite the growth of the
American armed services. Ger-
many’s armed forces are estimat-
ed at 9,835,000, plus 1,350,000 mili-
tary auxiliaries, while the Axis,
including Japan, is reported to
have about 900 aircraft squad-
rons of about 25 fighter planes
Chicago’s Mayor
Keily Re-Elected
Mayor Edward ,J. Kelly set a
new record for holding office as
Chicago’s chief executive when
he was re-elected, running his
successive' term to 14 years. Kelly,
backed by the powerful mach-
ine, polled 687,000 votes as
against 570,487 cast for Republic-
an candidate George MeKibbin.
Canadians
Cross Border
For Liquor
Residents of Vancouver and
southern British Columbia are
crossing the border at Point Ro-
berts, Wash., for beer and hard
liquor, according to American
customs reports.
Canadian restrictions have cut
liquor supplies, causing this sud-
den increase in border traffic.
Point Roberts is an isolated
point of land on a peninsula ex-
tending into Puget Sound, fropj
British. Columbia, Ibis soctntn
was also popular during the dry
era in the United States for
thirsty Americans who used this
point as a crossing into Canada.
Cook Held
For Murder
Of Mrs. James
Robert Folkes, colored dining
room cook, faces a charge of
murder in a Albany, Ore., court
after confessing to the slaying
of pretty Mrs. Martha James, wife
of Naval Ensign Robert James
and member of a prominent Engl-
ish family.
Mrs. Martha was stabbed while
she was sleeping in her berth
aboard a Southern Pacific flyer
in January. She was enroute to
California from Oregon to meet
her husband.
Folkes, who dashed through
the Pullman car a few minutes
before Mrs. James’ dead body
rolled into the aisle, was captur-
ed in Los Angeles, Calif.
The confessed killer appeared
in court wearing an exaggerated
zoot suit. When the prosecutor
asked Folkes questions concern-
ing the crime, Folkes replied,
“My lawyer will do all the talk-
ing.”
Jeeps Bring
Bonus Cash
To Italians
Special monetary rewards are
being offered to Italian soldiers
by the Italian High Command for
the capture or destruction of al-
most any kind of Allied equip-
ment, according to E. T. Willi-
ams, a correspondent with the
British Eighth Army in North
Africa.
Williams declared this was re-
vealed in a document which fell
into the hands of a British tank
unit during the advance from El
Hamma. The paper was signed
by Gen. Amelio Gigoli, command-
er of all Italian forces in North
Africa.
The American Jeep, Allied tank,
American plane, all bring the
lucky Italian soldier who de-
stroys or captures one—$100!
However, the document stress-
ed the capture of a Jeep by not
only giving the Italian soldier
$100, but by giving him a special
leave of absence as added re-
ward.
W.C. Fields Gulps;
Says He’ll Appeal
Mingled between deep gulps
from his flask and requests for
“more ice,” Film Comedian W.
C. Fields declared he would ap-
peal the verdict which found him
guilty of plagiarism.