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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1042 Fuller Role in Salvage Drive Sought for Women Over Nation RAILROADGIVEN TO SCRAP DRIVE JOB LURE HITS POLICE RANKS, APPQOYAAATUY 32 TO TH MJLt Oti smt-tTS WHQ TQOLUY BOARD SPEEDS CONVERSION OF CARS TO SCRAP Washington Fuller partici TGACXS HAVE pation by women in the national No Need for Sign; Scrap Pile Gets It Elmira T) The mmira Star-Gazette turned over its big, rooftop electric sign to the n-tion'a scrap pile yesterday with Put-lisher Frank Tripp declaring: "When the war is over we'll get another. If we don't win we won't need one." The Star-Gazette is ono of "he Gannett Newspapers. vatious partj of th country uorit with local lvige official.

I'm 1 age campaign is being sought BY CONTRACTOR CHIEF CLAIMS: he War Production Hoird. The WPB announced yesterday OIT OF THE DCMP rr Added to th that it was holding conference with a group of business and prv women to ti rua means Middlehurg acrap pile yesterday of bringing about greater ctlviVWM oM Mfn ty in the campaign. nettr A street in the village after After the conferences her, having been buried there i-oce WPB aaid. the women will go to Parley's Speaker Assails Federal Service New York to Raze 9,000 Buildings For Metal Auto 'Graveyards' Failing to Fill Mill Needs that railroad is needed up said RosofT. "There's enough steel in it to make 400 medium tanks or 280,000 machine guns.

New York X'P) An offer by told, fc-verythmg i have owe Sam Rosoff, subway contractor to this great nation which gave turn in a who railroad 41 miles me my start. We must win this lone and containing 7.000 tons of I war. If my railroad, converted WtshinRton T.D War Produc-tion Board officials yesterday asked Americans to turn in all the iron and teel scrap they can find in New Toik UP) The U. S. Employment Service Is "raiding" the ranks of police departments.

Police Chief Charles F. Dulle of San Francisco told the 49th annual Y. Madein. Edwards Sells cs. their cellars, attics and yards des steel to the national salvage drive lnto guns and armament, can help was topped yesterday by plans of if thls end- 1 want to craP federal and municipal authorities Ut." pite the fart that they may see old automobiles in "graveyards" or Junk yards.

in New York to wreck 9,000 build- Knthuslantic Jtoftpnn ngs and get scrap. Tan! Cabot, deputy chief of the Both Rosoft's offer and the pro posal of the New York authorities, spurred by Park Commissioner Pure Silk or Nylon PARACHUTES for ony Robert Moses, grew out of the current country-wide scrap drive sponsored by the American News WTB'S industrial conservation bu-rea i. predicted that all old automobiles in the hands of junk dealers oon would be on their way toward Berlin or Tokyo as bombs or shells. He said old cars are being broken up by the Junk yards four or five times as fast as autos are going off the highways into the hands of Junk men. And these old cars won't provide nearly enough scrap.

paper Publishers' Association. Razing of the first building in New York probably will atart next conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police yes-terday. In a panel discussion of "Selective Service and the Police" on the closing day of the convention, ether police chiefs voiced grievances against the Selective Service System which they said had taken many of their most valuable men. Chief Duller said that men in his department received cards from the U. S.

Employment Service seeking to place them in Industrial employment. "Something has got to be done about this," he aaid. "They are raiding our ranks." The metal drive in the New York area found an enthusiastic response everywhere. In factories, offices and apartment buildings, thousands of tons of metal articles ranging from coat hangars to automobiles were offered. The wife of the former movie magnate, William Fox, donated two Rolls-Royces and a Hispano-Suiza car from her home at Woodburgh, I.

Mayor Vincent J. Murphy of Newark, N. turned in set of plumbing tools. "I haven't worked at the plumbing trade for 20 years and I hope to stick in City Hall for few week under the direction of War Materials Inc. the new federal $150 in WAR BONDS salvage corporation.

Nine other buildings have been selected to go, including the 15,000,000 22-story Hudson Towers, long a Manhattan white elephant. Started in 1924, i it was to have been a big private hospital. Actually it never has COULD 36 cur AWAY SCGAP QRtVt been occupied and is owned by the ctiy. It is expected to yield 1,000 more years, I giving up my tons of steel. i tools' he said.

The New York Worlds Fair Contrary to what some believe, dealers are turning over their in-! ventories of old, discarded cars at least every 60 days, Cabot said. The most recent check of some junk yards showed that the old cars stayed in them an average of 45 days before as scrap it was on its way to the mills. AH Kinds Xeeded Cabot and other officials stressed that all kinds of scrap had to be collected this fall if all the nation's furnaces were going to run full blast during the winter. As indicative of how old cars are moving into steel mills where they are converted into metal for guns, shells, ships, planes and tanks, Cabot pointed out the decline in cars on hand. A survey in Febru You can save the life of an American pilot! You can Kelp a United Nations paratrooper destroy his objective.

Buy three $50 Bonds for only $37.50 each today. Happy Lancing, Soldier! To Ka.e. Tenement Most of the other buildings to Vi lu, Many chiefs agreed that rookie policemen could be spared to Selective Service but complained that when men of more than five years experience were taken into the armed forces the efficiency of departments waa greatly impaired. Chief of Police James M. Bougrv ton of Portsmouth, recom be demolished under Moses' determined plan, are "old law" tene grounds in Flushing Meadows were turned to as a source of scrap, but the haul there was disappointing.

Missing Professor Sought in Lake ments. Moees said that the owners. who have evaded the new building code while reaping profits from these slum apartments, will get short shrift now. mended prosecution of prostitute and operators of houses of ill fame "We'll ask Washington for quirk under the federal sabotage law. action, if the owners try to fight," Joseph T.

Owens, chief of police Syracuse County authorities dragged a lake at nearby Fayetteville yesterday in a search ary showed approximately 1,500,000 Buy War Bonds at Ed wo Service Desk- of Rome, N. was elected presi in junk dealers' hands while re he said. "Either this is a war or it isn't and if it isn't we're the victims of a monstrous practical Joke." dent of the association. Owens. 5.1 a World War veteran, has been ports to the WPB showed 328,244 cars were in dealers' hands at the ONE POTENTIAL SCRAP SOURCE Along Rochester streets where trolley lines once operated arc hundreds of these poles which formerly supported power wires.

Now they are useful only as street lamp posts. The portion of the poles above the lamps, in some cases as much as 15 feet of metal, is a potential source of scrap metal for the drive opening1 Monday. The tops could easily be cut off without interfering with the usefulness of the poles. chief of the Rome force for 1H Buy War Sfamps at Edwards years. He succeeded Capt.

Donald S. I Leonard of the Michigan State Police to the presidency. Five other vicepresidenta ad Victory Window mVY WAR ST IMPS A ROT end of August. The August figure represented a decline from 401,437 cars on hand at the end of July. WPB officials said that it was imperative to get in the old automobiles just as it was to collect all types of available irran so that no steel furnaces would be forced to shut down this vanced a notch in the association system of promotions to the presi for Syracuse University Prof.

Alan D. Campbell, 51. whose wife reported him missing early yesterday morning. His automobile and pajamaa and a dressing gown he waa reported to have worn when he left his home, were found by police near the water in Green Lake State Park. A graduate of Rutgers College, Prpfessor Campbell has headed Syracuse's mathematics department nine 1929.

He had taught at Washington University, St. Louis; Northwestern, Cornell, where he did graduate work, and the Universities of Arkansas and Rosoff, a Russian-born immigrant who made a fortune building subways, will have to get permission of the. ICC to scrap his railroad, the Delaware A Northern, which serves eight towns in Delaware County, N. with two trains daily and one on Sunday. To own a railroad was an early ambition to Rosoff.

He bought the D. N. in 1928 for $70,000 and spent $600,000 on it. He claim It waa appraised at $10,000,000 in December, 1937. "It's a going concern, but the dency.

Chief Joseph Kluchesky of Press Joins to Emphasize Milwaukee, Wis, waa elected sixth 'icepresident. Peter F. Bradv of Harrison. N. Nation's Scrap Metal Need and John L.

Sullivan of Pittsfield chiefs of their cities" depart ments. were re-elected secret try and treasurer of the association. New York (AP) The crying for was Irummed into the ears of Americans in cities farms and ham country needs the scrap worse than 'Nebraska. 1 respectively. lets yesterday, preparatory to the great nationwide collection campaign starting next week in most states.

In many a community, it was winter as they had to last winter Viecause there was not enough scrap. May Requisition Old Cars WPB officials explained that they hoped to send approximately 500,000 automobiles monthly into the steel mills during the rest of the year. This would be more than any period except the months of June and July of this year. They pointed out that approximately 6.R0n,000 cars 10 years or older were registered in the country. If necessary, officials said they were prepared to requisition old care not actively participating in the war effort put this bluntly: ment, which explained the need "Whose boy will die because you for immediate all-out scrap collec-' Selling Like Wildfire! tion, was this question in large failed?" failed to turn in that old lawn mower, or that old griddle.

type: "Whose boy will died be-, I Schemes, prizes, ceremonies, were cause you failed?" oeing rapidly devised to make Next to that question, the Bul America understand the supreme letin carried this note to the urgency of the problem. readers: Newspaper executives, from coast "The front page every news to coast, were starting the collec One of Cabot's associates said paper Is reserved for the most im portant news of the day. The Bul-j an automobile was either transpor tion drive rolling, in response to the request of Donald M. Nelson, War Production chief, that the tation or junk. If it was not letin considers that the most lm-j portant news today is the fact that! a shortage of scrap material sferl-' carrying on its first function, then newspapers take the lead.

More than 1,600 daily newspapers he said, the government might i have to step in and take the old car at the prevailing rate of from ously threatens the production of have pledged their support. Indi arms and ammunition for the fight vidual newspapers and state press $7 to $15 a car as old junk. ing forces of this country. associations so far and the ffgure is rising have put up $27,150 in "The front page of this news paper is therefore dedicated today 4 Children Won War Bonds and cash for the best scrap collecting jobs in their area to a plea for your help In over coming this Imminent and im These prizes are in addition to By Writ Stand by mediate peril to our armed forces. other thousands of dollars in Scrap Must Be Had awards "being offered by various groups and businesses across the Father at Death The point emphasized by the country.

The mills could be turning out 6000 Prs. Superfine Weave New York UP) Alman Harring government and the newspapers is that scrap must be turned in, no millions of more tons of steel for matter how. tanks, planes, guns and ships if It can be given to municipal or i ton, 23-year-old father whose four small children were returned to him by court order to brighten his they had the scrap with which to work. Steel is made half from iron charity scrap piles or it can be A i oL sold to a junkman. 51 Gauoe last hours, died yesterday in their ore, half from scrap metal.

The mills have the furnaces and ore for The government cannot accept i I II It Ur 1 I 5 I presence. a gift of the scrap but any citizen the job. But scrap is short. His wife, Anna, at liberty in wishing to help the government Campaign to Continue $2,500 bail on a charge of felonious directly can sell his scrap to a The WPB has been campaigning assault, was not present. She is ac junkman and then buy war bonds m-iA for scrap collection for months.

cused of shooting Harrington in 4: jili with the proceeds. will continue till the end of the the spine during an argument last The newspapers and other war. But this intensified newspa June. prizes are mostly in War Konds per drive officially starts next Mon Only yesterday, Mrs. Florence MM II flffafll and will be awarded for the outstanding effort to Individuals, day, ends Oct.

17. In some areas Kelly, Harrington's mother, said the drive will start later, end la groups, communities and coun ehe was served with papers by ter. In other sections newspapers ties. Mrs. Harrington's attorneys seek In some states the newspapers already have led such campaigns, will do so again, are doing it now, ing to regain custody of the chit are still formulating their plans dren for the mother, from whom but those which elready have set The newspapers' job is to get housewives, farmers, business men they were taken Aug.

26 despite up prizes include: her objections. to root" out from their factories Kentucky, statewide effort by office buildings, homes, farms, At that time Supreme Court Denis O'Leary Cohalan ruled all papers, Louisiana, state wide, Oklahoma, statewide. basements, attics and garages those items of iron and steel no that 'the most important thing a South Dakota, statewide. longer needed, such as rnetal beds present la that the children be with their father. While the North Carolina Press Association, Texas, statewide.

springs, irons, tractors, garbage cans, metal golf clubs. xwner is alive the children will 7 It 2 pairs i 1 for 3.4S 1 and the newspapers among them lay with him." selves are seeking to raise Getting those items found, out and collected calls for plan The four children, Carol Ann, 5 Virginia, statewide, in I ning that varies by cities, towns viman Anthony, 2, and Tennessee, the Nashville Banner, I villages, counties and states. Alien, 1, have seen their fathe Memphis Commercial Ap Heart of the effort is voluntary since then. peal, Knoxville Journal and KT i In response to a telegram, Mrs iiewa-aenunci, ouu; wasnington work by men, women and children business and women's groups, fra Harrington herself visited her hus Spokane Spokesman-R i and New York Post, $1,250. rand Sunday and again on Mon ternal organizations, truckers and workers who pitch in to help when day.

He appeared to recognize her hut was unable to speak, Mrs their regular day's work is done Lost Puppy's Name Nerve center of this intensified A Regular 135 Value Needs Explanation said. College Recesses drive is a small committee of out-of-town newspapermen, experi enced with scrap collection cam Painesville, O. (UP) C. E. Par paigns in their own cities, who have come to New to work ker, who lost rua black scotty or Vineyard Jobs puppy, phoned a newspaper here around a conference table high in to place a "lost" advertisement.

a midtown office building. Swap Suggestions The girl at the classified desk From them flow suggestions and started to take down the dog's queries to the nation's newspapers on the drive. Back to them flow description, then suddenly flushed telegrams, letters and long-dis in anger. tance telephone calls in which the Sheers for every Day Very Sheer for Dress Business Sheers We cannot praise tKese stockings highly enough for they are revelations of what is possible with the new Rayon yarns developed since the war. You will be amazed at their beauty, their fine weave, their xquisiteness of appearance and colorings.

These stockings are the product of one of America's finest hosiery mills. Eye them, buy them, try them today. Buy now for Christmas. GLORIOUS: a rosy beige VALOROUS: A soft neutral beigo EDWARDS Strttl fUr xou neednt swear about individual papers or state associa Fredonia Up) The Fredonia State Teachers College will close its doors tomorrow morning for a 10-day period to permit students to work in nearby canneries and vineyards. Dr.

Leslie R. Gregory, college president, said the faculty and 6tudents approved of the plan yesterday after the school was besieged by farmers, canneries and the Chautauqua County Farm Bureau for help to relieve an acute labor shortage. About 100 male students will aid she snapped. tions explain what they are doing Patiently, Mr. Parker spelled out in their areas.

One example of the kind of di nis pet name: "Dammit." Did Simple Simon Scold His Pieman Because of Stomach Acid Pains? I pie did to Simple Simon what It dorm to lip canneries in the processing of tomatoes and grapes, while about rect appeal being made to newspapers appeared in Virginia's Martinsville Daily Bulletin which got right to the point in a way that probably has had few parallels in American journalism. Sweeping aside all war or dornes-tio news, the Bulletin devoted its entire front page to an advertisement on the scrap drive carried at its own expense. In the center of the advertise many or tnose who are distressed with atomach acid patna, lndlgeaUon, gas pains. 20 girls are available for work in vineyards. They will he paid pre nearumrn, burning aenaatlon, bloat and other condition cauaed by axeesa acid, no wonder he acolded.

Sufferer should try 1 Udga. Get a 25e box of Udga Tablet from I vailing wages. Dr. Gregory said the Christmas and Easter vacation periods will be shortened to make your druggist. First dose must convince ori return box to us and get DOUBLE YOUR up the time lost.

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