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THE PITTSBURGH PRESS. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29. 1942 PAGE II (LQDTnlAnlInlS IF VG? Ah5 Continued From Page One I Price Ceilings Fix DR. BEHAN OUT AT WOODVILLE County Economy Ax Falls On Medical Post tween the Administration and the Senate farm bloc.

The ceilings placed over farm commodities after they have passed through the initial stages of pro-cesing will act as an effective brake on soaring prices, it was believed. But at the same time agri-cultrual producers will be permitted some increases. For example, the price of bread will be held at the highest levels reached in March. Nevertheless. Administration economists believe I O) ret "It must not be impeded by the faint of heart.

"It must not be impeded by those who put their own selfish interests above the interests of the nation. "It must not be impeded by those who pervert honest criticism into falsification of fact. "It must not be impeded by a few bogus patriots who use the sacred freedom of the press to echo the sentiments of the propagandists in Tokyo and Berlin. "And, above all, it shall not be imperiled by the handful of noisy traitors of America, betrayers of Christianity itself would-be dictators who In their hearts and souls have yielded to Hitlerism and would have this republic do likewise." 1-. SERGEANT YORK READY AGAIN Sergeant Alvin C.

York, Number 1 hero of the First World War, registers in the draft again with the 45-64 age group at Wolf River, Tenn. His pastor. Rev. R. C.

Pile, with the pencil, also registered him in 1917, at the same table. Sergeant York today appealed; to the War Department for approval of his plan to organize a battalion of mountaineers from Kentucky and Tennessee who have been rejected by the Army because of illiteracy. wheat prices can be increased and absorbed by processors and "middle men" the pet targets fen- assault by farm state senators. Harvard Man Heads Price Ceiling 'Police' By The United Press WASHINGTON. April 29 Price Administrator Leon Henderson today selected a Harvard professor.

Dr. Merle Fainsod, to head the new re tail trade and services division of the Office of Price Administration. Dr. Fainsod will be responsible primarily for interpreting the new regulations covering millions ox commodities. Dr.

Fainsod's, division will be set up under Dr. J. K. Galbraith, deputy OPA administrator. Grocers Ruin Seen In Price Order By The United Press CHICAGO, April 29 MrsT R.

M. Kief en secretary of the National As sociation of Retail Grocers, said to day that "unless amendments are made to protect grocers from the squeeze, of the Government's, price freezing order, hundreds of thou sands of them will be forced to the wall." Mrs. Kief er said the "squeeze" would be caused by lags of between nine and 20 per cent in markup of merchandise, "because grocers, in their attempts to keep prices down had based markups on inventory costs rather than replacement costs." In the meantime, she said, cost from wholesalers is up and in many instances, due to the price freezing order, grocers will be forced to sell merchandise at. cost. Los Angelas Hes Alert LOS ANGELES, April 29 Radio stations were silenced for 33 minutes early today while a preliminary alert was in force in Los Angeles and an area of 50-mile radius.

The Fourth Army headquarters in San Francisco said the alert was called because of presence of an "unidentified object off the coast." ICappels Greatest Highlights of President's Talk on All-Out By The United Press WASHIJJU TON April 29 Hlgnugnis OI resiaeni Kooseveu. arc side chat: VICHY "The United Nations prevent the use of French territory powers. Sacrifices will take measures, if necessary, to for military purposes by the Axis power and our engineering genius Umtf. European development during the offensive against Germany." PRODUCTION "We have stepped up our tear production on a scale that is testing our industrial and our economic structure to the RUSSIA "The most important past year has been Russia crushing YANKS OVER EUROPE "Soon be fighting for the liberation of the AXIS JITTERS "In the German and Italian peoples themselves there is a growing conviction that hopeless. They cannot fail to contrast the present frantic- speeches of these leaders with their arrogant boastings of a year ago, two years ago." Dr.

Richard J. Behan, whose ap pointment as medical director of the County Home and Hospital at Woodville caused an uproar in medical circles two years ago, will be out of a job Friday. The County Commissioners fired him yesterday by abolishing his $4000 a year job and naming Dr. Gerald P. Hammill, staff physician at Woodville, "to take over the medical services." They explained it was an economy move in line with curtailed activities at Woodville which has only 700 aged patients and indigents in stead of 3000 inmates.

When Dr. Behan took the job, the Allegheny County Medical Society tried him and formally reprimanded him for breaking a rule he himself had written into the society's by-laws as its presidents that no physician should take away another doctor's job. He and Dr. Thomas J. McCul- lough, who since has resigned, were sharing the duties of Dr.

Bingham Boyce, whose job they jointly "took over." The Commissioners also abolished the $2500 job of district solicitor held by Harry Mcintosh, a veteran Poor Board worker. SPEEDING AUTO GAINS LITTLE Slow Car Arrives at Goal Almost as Soon By The United Press INDIANAPOLIS By a series of tests that will apply to any of the nation's highways. 4 the Indiana Highway Commission found that a sane speed of 45 miles per hour will lose the motorist only 33 minutes over a 100-mile route. The advantages more than offset the loss, the commission learned. Sending out two autos, one at.

a 60-mile clip and the other at a 45-mile speed, the commission proved that "the economy speed not only will save gasoline and tires, but it also will save lives." The test cars traveled In Identical weather and traffic conditions and obeyed all traffic regulations. The route covered 1273 miles, running through 30 cities of more than 3500 population as well as smaller towns and cross-roads. The driver averaged 46.44 miles per hour in the over-all mile age while the "45" motorist averaged 39.42 miles per hour. "The time loss. is negligible and greatly overshadowed by the ad vantages, said Samuel C.

tiaaaen, commission chairman. Using these figures the commis sion figured the time lost by the slower car from Indianapolis to: New York, 750 miles 2 hours 52 minutes: Washington, 575 miles 2 hours 2 minutes; St. Louis. 242 miles 55 minutes; Detroit. 283 miles 1 hour 5 minutes.

"Don't drive like '60' if you like your tires, your car, your pocket- book and your life," the commission warned. r- 5000 Workers Idle In Walkout of 700 Continued From Pag One) stain from work stoppages for the duration of the war. Mr. Gent said hs was unable to get the men back to work until the differences have been composed. 100 Per Cent on War Work Bethlehem Steel was said by one company official to be working 100 per cent on war priority orders.

Harry E. Roulf. War Production Board labor conciliator, predicted the entire plant, employing 15,500, would curtail output "progressively" as supplies of coke and its by' product gas dwindled. Complete shutdown, he said, "might only be a matter of 48 hours." S. D.

Evans, management's repre sentative, said that coke and gas shortage had curtailed blast furnace production, but declined to estimate how long the plant could operate without coke. A SMALL WHISTLE to use for calling children is much easier for them to hear than some parent's voices. And whistles intrigue children. They like 'em. DIAMOND PACIFIC OFFENSIVE "There is reason to believe that Japan's southward advance has been checked.

We are determined that territory lost will be regained." WATCH PROCEDURE SET ON UNION FIGHTS CIO and AFL Asree To WLB Proposal By The United Press WASHINGTON, April 29 Chair man William H. Davis of the War Labor Board today announced that procedure had been developed for final settlement of all jurisdictional labor disputes between AFL and CTC unions for duration of the war. The procedure, agreed to by Presi dents William Green of the AFL and Philip Murray of the CIO, provides for initial submission of juris dictional disputes to labor members of the board- for voluntary agree ment. "If any partcular dispute cannot be settled by the labor members. Mr.

Davis said, "Mr. Murray and Mr. Green will be so notified and they will thereupon promptly ap point a group of individuals to make a final and binding determination of the case." Mr. Davis said the agreement will dispose not only of disputes between CIO and AFL unions but also those between unions in the same national organizations. "Jurisdictional disputes have al ways been the most difficult to set' tie because of their very Mr.

Davis said. "The American people will welcome this agreement between the two labor organizations for final determination of all jurisdictional disputes until the war is won." Tornado Hits Town In Texas, Eight Dead BY UNITED PRESS The tornado season was on full blast in the southwest today. Latest victim of crushing winds was the northwest Texas town of CrtwelL with a population of 2100. The wind roared in from the northeast, killed at least eight persons, wrecked hundreds of small homes and demolished at least 40 buildinges in Crowell. During the night 150 persons were treated for injuries.

The tornado struck less than 28 hours after another devastating wind whipped through the defense-boom town of Pryor, several hundreds of miles northeast in Oklahoma, killing at least 125 persons. Canada Plans Drive To Get Old Rubber Special tc The Pittsburgh Press WASHINGTON A campaign de signed to collect 25,000 tons of scrap rubber in Canada during the cur rent year will be directed by the Scrap Rubber Division now being organized in the Department of Munitions and Supplies, the Department of Commerce reports. It is expected that approximately 18,000 tons of reclaimed rubber will be made available for war purposes and for essential civilian goods if the objective of 25,000 tons of scrap is realized. 'Wilful Tire Abuse' Leads to Divorce By The United Press LOS ANGET.ES. April 29 Wilful abuse of auto tires was added to the grounds-for-divorce list today.

Mrs. Dorothy Benadon testified before Judge Georgia Bullock that her husband, Dale, "wilfully abused the tires of our car on a recent Sunday drive by ramming them re peatedly against a curb." Judge Bullock granted the decree Speed Trap in Daden BADEN, April 29 A speed trap was in operation by Baden po lice today in the main thoroughfare. Route 88. It is posted for 35 miles per hour. MAGNESIUM production in the u.

s. in 1941 amounted to 33 mil lion pounds. Now the goal is 725 million pounds annually. TO CHINA "No matter make, ways will be found to deliver the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Specials at All 3 Stores Tomorrow and Friday At Kappels you receive friendly kredit with a smile. Fine quality diamonds, nationally advertised and other jewelry are offered on easy kredit.

Immediate It TOKYO BOMBING "If is reported from Japan that somebody has dropped bombs on Tokyo. If this be that Japan has suffered such indignities." THE JOB AT HOME Everyone making whatever self' denial necessary to supply our- fighting men and rent control orders were Issued last night. Congress must act, too, If farm prices are to be stabilized and if Mr. Roosevelt offers a further tax program to impose limits on personal and corporate income. Within the Administration there is, also, considerable pressure to go a long step further to forced savings reaching far down among wage earners the little fellows where the bulk of income paid out is received and spent.

Mr. Roosevelt asked that every spare "dollar and dime" be put in war bonds, but there is some doubt of that objective without forced saving. He said we now are spending solely for war purposes more money than ever has been spent by any other nation. The rate is 100 million dollars a day and that will be doubled by the year's end. All of that money spent for munitions goes into the bank accounts and pockets of the people while the raw materials and manufactured goods available for civilian use stead ily ar diminished by diversion to war purposes.

"You do not have to be a professor of economics, Mr. Roosevelt added, "to see that if people with plenty of cash start bidding against each other for scarce foods, the price of them goes up." Program Points Interlock So he offered his plan to sop up surplus buying power and to prevent the upward spiral of living costs as presented to Congress in his message and as partly implemented by yesterday's announcement of price and rent controls. And he said each point, taxes, sta bilizations, limited incomes and all, was dependent on each other point But he complained of objections and seemed to point particularly to the farm bloc where proposed abandonment of statutory price advantages has not been well received. "Some people are already taking the position that every one of these points is correct except the one point which steps on their own individual toes," be said. "A few seem very willing: to approve self-denial on the part of their neighbors.

"The only effective course of action is a simultaneous attack on all of the factors which increase the cost of living, in one comprehensive, all embracing program covering prices, profits, wages, taxes and debts. "The blunt fact is that every sin gle person in the United States is going to be affected by this program. "Are you a business man," Mr. Roosevelt asked, "or do you own stock in a business corporation? "Well, your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. In these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

Cites Plight of French "Are you a retailer or a wholesaler or a manufacturer or a farmer or a landlord? Ceilings are being placed on the prices at which you can sell your goods or rent your property. "Do you work for wages? You will have to forego higher wages for your particular job for the duration of the war." Mr. Roosevelt contrasted the wage stabilization sought of workers here with the plight of French and Norwegian workers "whipped to labor by the lash." He asked if sacrifice of agriculture's "parity prices" could be compared with the looting of Polish, Danish, Czechoslovakian and French farms and the starvation of those farmers whose crops are stolen from their land. "The price qf civilization," he said, "must be paid in hard work and sorrow and blood. The price Is not too high.

If you doubt it "Ask the business men of Europe, whose enterprises have been stolen from their owners, whether the limitation of profits and personal incomes is too great a 'sacrifice. "Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether the rationing of tires and gasoline and sugar is too great a "We do not have to ask them. They already have given us their agonized answers. "This great war effort must be carried through to its victorious conclusion by the indomitable will and determination of the people as one great whole. Prices for Work On Goods Effected By The United Press WASHINGTON, AprU 29 The price of a haircut or a new gold inlay may go up, but after July 1 new heels for your shoes or the cleaning of your suit must not exceed the highest price charged in March.

Price ceilings on services affecting goods were included in the general order issued last night. The OPA classed services in two groups: 1 Those which serve the individual. 2 Those which perform work on commodities. In the first group and therefore exempted from the maximum price order are dentists, lawyers, nurses, doctors, beauty operators and barbers. In the second group are auto repair shops, garages, tailors, laundries, dry cleaners, shoe repair shops, and all other establishments whose services are connected with the installation, maintenance, preservation, repair, storage and distribution of commodities.

Other exempted services include entertainments, services of a common carrier or public utility, ad- vertising, insurance, and services relating solely to real property. CERTAIN DEATH TO Sfe Inexpensive way to Sec nd of bedbugs. Results guaranteed a contact. Non-staining when used a directed. Simply poor Discovery I down Ha Vwt.

rA 2-. iu ubs waus or spray on beds-wherever bedbugs lurk sod breed. Over 1,000,000 cans of Pe term an soldlastyear. Your druggist sells the big economy size can. PETTECIAKI'S U.

S. Living Costs fCoaffevetf ron Past Owe! highest price charged by that store in March- Those callings became effective May 18. Exempted were, such food articles as fresh vegetables, fish and fruit, which are seasonal in character. Thus, peas in the pod can increase in price; peas in a can can't. Wheat likewise can increase in price but bread cannot.

Milk products, sucn as cneese. condensed and evaporated milk, and butter, were excluded, but not milk, cream oi tee cream sold at retail. gs and poultry, flour, mutton, lamb, dried prunes and beans, books. magazines, newspapers and motion pictures also were exciuaecu Service Prices Included The price orders prescribed high est March levels as the maximums for wholesale and manufacturers or producers' prices, but provided that they would go into effect on May 11. one week aneaa oi tne retau prices.

The regulations also prommtea rises in the prices of 'services such as shoe repairs, auto repairs, laundry and dry cleaning, and installa tion of such commoaiues as wasmng machines, stoves and other articles covered by the commodity price ceilings. The maximums' are fixed at the highest prices cnargea owing March but do not go into effect until July Mr. Henderson stressed that to lower the quality of goods in order to "chisel" on a definite price level would be violation: of the price ceilings. New Stores Included Dr. J.

K. Galbraith, deputy OPA administrator, said a new store would have to base its prices on those charged by its nearest neigh bor In the same competitive class. He said there was no intention of preventing" new businesses from starting. The average buyer will be pro tected by a regulation providing that stores post conspicuously the ceiling prices of a selected list oft so-called "cost-of-living" commodi ties which they may handle. The list contains about 170 com modities, with, many derivates.

A store cannot display any article unless its ceiling price is 'plainly marked. If the selling price is less, the price tag will have two quota' tions the ceiling and selling price. Buyer May Ask Ceiling In the case of hundreds of thou sands of unlisted commodities, the regulations, provide that a buyer may ask and obtain the storekeep er's ceiling price on articles in That regulation will pre vail unta July 1. After that, store keepers' will be required to have a written statement on the high' est prices of all commodities or services which he delivered or sup plied in March. When the regulations go into effect on May 18, all retail, whole sale and manufacturing establishments are automatically licensed to do business.

This automatic, blanket license will become more formal later, when written registrations will ne Licensees who fail to heed warn ings against overcharging may lose their licenses for periods as long as 12 months during which time they would be prohibited from doing business. Penalties Provided There are other penalties, too, for viniat.ifins rf nricn orders. Convic tion for certain violations may bring a fine up to ssooo, one year un niisnnmpnt: at hoth. Mr. Henderson said he had no plans to train housewives to be detectives! and terret out price viu latinne tto um that, three susriectine vio lations should communicate their beliefs to the nearest regional OPA office.

These are in Boston. New York, Cleveland, Atlanta, Daiias, Chicago. Denver and san OPA Will Grow nuu rffi-M are being enlarged HJTr- ftonrlm-snn disclosed that Att irw.ni hoards, now number ing more than 9000. soon, may be expanded to lu.uuu. ue.

aaueu uuu. h. 4. a nlan for freneral Ma ouuuj w. decentralization oz ur wminw t-mfti-a fiinrt.irns TUTt- nmrinsnn MIUSM IO.

sav now msnv mnlrnres' the OPA miffht eventually have although some sources suggested aw.uuu wmcu would make it the third largest gov eminent bureau. r. TTnrirsnn said manv com modities left free from regulation, ucts, will be covered by supplemen tary oraers. Coal, Gas Ceilings Set The maximum wholesale or re tail prices of bituminous coal, cov ered in a separate order, were fixed at levels prevailing from Oct. 1 to 15.

1941. Maximum prices for gasoline and other motor fuels sold at service stations were fixed amid indications that the gasoline curtailment how confined to East Coast areas in the main soon may affect other areas. Persons with grievances against any of his regulations may apply to Mr. Henderson for an adjust ment. If his decision is not considered satisfactory; claimant then may appeal to a three-judge emergency court of review especially appointed for such purposes.

In event the petitioner is still cussatis-fied, be may take his case directly to the supreme Court. The OPA pointed out that since September, 1939, basic raw material nrices have risen 66 per cent, wholesale prices 31 per cent, and re tail prices of food, clothing ana house, furnishings 25 per cent. Farm Centrollmg Seen Price increases, the OPA statement of policy said, have increased the cost of the war production program by 35 billion dollars. The. program of food price ceilings was interpreted vs one which will avoid a head-on collision be SET OF TEETH NO MONSy DOWN MeW I.

DO. H. N. SHOn ear. Its Paie (Jeeksee tJij.) OalU MU I ML to protect the economic structure of WAGE CONTROL "You will particular job for, the duration of CIVILIAN DEFENSE "Many world have been and are being killed Our own American-civilian population is now relatively safe from such disasters." Parents Hear Tribute to Bomber Pilot BLOOD FOR AMERICA Mrs Mollie Greer, of Turtle Creek whose son is a sailor and whose nephew died in the Philippines, was the first worker to give blood today at the new Red Cross center opened for Westinghous Electric and Mfg.

Co, em ployes. Sugar Ration Card Stolen The first sugar rationing card stolen in the city was taken firom Alice M. Kerr of 138 Hawthorne St Edgewood, a teacher in the East St. School. East and Rostock' North Side, yesterday.

Thieves entered the school through a window and stole Miss Kerr's purse which also contained $28, a pair of glasses valued at $20, and a $5 pen and other articles. Police were notified. Nazi Combs Kill 50 CAIRO, April 29 At least 58 persons were killed and 11 wounded last night when enemy planes raid ed Alexandria, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed today. A communique said damaged buildings included the famous St. Mark's Church.

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39. 1 Smell jgL to President Roosevelt. From the President they heard Hewitt T. Wheless, whose bomber in t.n Philinnlnpa "Mother and I were sure pleased and the father said. The 55-year-old rancher said he had heard 'the story of his son's dramatic flight last December "from the boy himself, last month in Tucson, Ariz." Fall Story for First Time: "But tonight was the first time I had heard the full story Hewitt didn't talk about it much, the father added.

Captain Wheless has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In his radio address, the President related how the pilot brought his plane through a rain of Jap machine gun fire, losing one member of the crew, and with the controls crippled carried out the bombing of transports and returned to base. "Mother says hopes Hewitt UW.au HIKE JWUli gua noun, 'Hardlr None of Him' Captain Wheless, who graduated from Kelly Field? Texas, t.ee years ago, went to the last October. His father said he was now in this country "as far as I The 28-year-old flier is only 5 feet 6 inches talL The father said his fellow pilots call him "shorty." In the country around Menard, where Captain Wheless was raised, his nickname was "Nun." "That's a disfiguration of the word the rancher said. "Hewitt's young friends around here used to call him that because he was so small there was hardlx none of him at all." Son Did Duty, Mother Says Hy The United Press LITTLE ROCK, April 29 Mrs.

Albert Wassell. 86, listened intently as President Roosevelt told the world In his fireside chat of the heroism of her son. Lieut. Corydon M. Wassell, in Java.

did his duty as he saw it as he would have done had he known it would have taken th" breath of life out of his body," Wassell said. "I am satisfied ar happy that my son could be of -so much help to men wounded in the service of our country." neTsroeen tnrougw-paany battles, but I want hintoT- on giving it to the Japs." trie fatifcr said. Vj' i-) A Ajr i Mail Orders Promptly Filled. Write for our free illustrated Cstdog. East Uierty Store Of ea Every Dowatowa Store Opea ISem Wed.

4 Sat. North Side Store Opea FrL Sat Eves. LASH RENOUNCES YOUTH Joe Lash, long-time youth leader poses with John J. Morris, chairman of a New York draft board, as he was inducted into the Army. "After the war there will be no more youth activities on my part," he said.

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