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PAGE 2 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS, FRIDAY. APRIL 30, 1943 GOP SENATORS McNUTT PLANS Point Values Rise And Fall Under New Schedule I Dare Say Sad Dilemma No. 2 Effective May 2, 1943 COMMODITY COMMODITY rib. COMMODITY OEEF DEEF VARIETY MEATS STEAKS POftSftMOtt. T-BOMJ Livers.

LA AID MUTTON STEAKS ANO CHOPS Loin Chops Rib Chops Leg Chops and Steaks Shoulder Chops blade er arm ROASTS Leg whole or Sirloin Roast bone In Club Rib 10-Inch Rib 7-tnch art. 2 4 4 6 3 '2 5 2 Joints). VEAL Yoke, Rattle, er bone in Yoke. Rattle, or Slriofn Sirloin toneless Tails (ex Tongues. Round.

Top Tripe. Bottom Round Round Tip Cnuck of Shoulder, Flan ROASTS Rib standing (ehfni bom m) (10 of) Blade Rib-stindlnf (cnine one on) (10 est) ftib standing (cMne bone en) 7 Ort)- Clad sm-stsndint (chine bono on) (TtuO STEAKS Lois Rib Shoulder Round Sirloin ROASTS 7 Rump and boneless Chuck or Shoulder, square cut bone in Chuck or Shoulder, square-cut Chuck or Shoulder, cross cut bone in STEWS ANO OTHER COTS Steak Steak er Chops. AND CHOPS 7 6 9 8 Breast and Flank Slriofn bono In Neck bone Sirloin boneless. Neck Shank bone in Lamb Patties lamb bone In. boneless Paints Ik.

COMMODITY PORK STEAKS ANO CHOPS Center Chops End Chops. Loin boneless, fresh and cured only Tenderloin Ham1 bone in, slices 8 7 7 Shoulder Chops and Bellies, fresh and cured only. ROASTS Triangle I Loin whole, naff, er and Triangle Loin center cuts Ham1 whole or half. Hara-butt aad. Ham1 shank Ham1 boneless slices.

Ham1 boneless, whole or batf. Shoulder shank half (picnic) bone In Shoulder shank half (picnic) boneless 3 4 4 butt) bone in JL ground Shoulder butt batf (Boston butt) bone! RagaUr Aiwt OTHER PORK CUTS Neck and Backbones Feet bone in Fat Backs and Clear Plates. Plates, regular. Jowls 2 3 5 3 3 5 Hocks and I Mf Fit VARIETY MEATS Brains Chitterlings rind on .7 8 8 11 1 Ears. rind Hearts.

Kidneys. piece Livers Sweetbreads. Snouts Jowl FATS AND OILS Natl IB. CHEESES Butter 8 5 5 5 Esaneles el Lard Shortening Cheddar (American). Margarine from necks, flanks, shanks, breasts, and miscellaneous lamb trimmings VARIETY MEATS Brains." 1 4 5 5 4 Livers Kidneys Sweetbreads 8 6 7 Round Tip.

Rump Rump tone Log Rumooonelott Brack ai Shouidor-toM in Shoulder Shoulder Chuck or Shoulder STEWS AND OTHER COTS Short Ribs. 4 4" 4 6 5 6 4 Plata bone to. Plate boneless. Brisket bone Brisket-boneless. Flank Meat.

Neck bone in. Neck boneless. Heel of Round boneless. Shank bone Shank bone HAMBURGER Beef round from seeks, flanks, shanks, skirts, keel of round, briskets, plates, and fnisetflantous beef trimmings and beef fat. Brains.

Hearts. Kidneys. Tongues and STEWS Breast Breast Flank Meat Neck Neck Shank Shank and less. Ground veal flanks, and trimmings. VARIETY ANO OTHER CUTS bone in.

bone In bone Heel Meat bone Veal and Patties ground from necks, shanks, breasts, miscellaneous veal MEATS BACON Bacon slab or piece, Bacon slab or piece, 3 5 8 6 5 Bacon sliced, rind Bason Canadian or sliced. Bacon rinds Bacon plate squares oft style, and MEATS (lit tin or glass containers) 2 Bulk Ctilfi Con Came 3 Deviled Ham Deviled 6 Dried Beet 12 Hams and Picnics (whole or half) 10 luncheon Meat. 7 Meat Loat 6 Meat 6 Pigs Feet, bone 2 MEATS FISH (In tin or glass HJT (In any hermetically containers) sealed container) Pigs Feet, boned Cutlets. 3 Bonite 7 Potted and Deviled Crabmeat 7 Meats 4 7 Sausage In Oil 4 7 Ta males 2 7 Tongue, 7 Sea 7 Tongue, 7 Sea 1 Tongue, Pork Shrimp 7 Tongue. Veat 7 Tuna 7 Vienna Sausage 6 Yellow Tall 7 At Other 7 Another 3 Salad and Cooking Oils (1 plnt-1 pound) Brick Munster.

Llmburger CHEESES Rationed chCMt inclose natural chaajaa aad prmi acts ceotaioint SO par-cent aw lara ht weight Gouda Edam- at Italian (afl hard frees caotaiea. stress). Far seta aarrkuet see OBkhl Table el acSsfcee'U pertaeaeste 1 enchase Sekeat Hast, QMepee1 Hare, seal Cheesed' Perk, aetaat Uea fire l) (na abnd4 inta aits af teaoea Some veal and pork variety meats have dropped a point in value, spareribs are down one point, and fresh sausages have been revalued into four groups. Salad and cooking oils are down one point. YOU'LL BE PAYING THESE POINTS for meat, fish, cheese and fats during May, so you had better clip this table and save it for reference.

Notable increases over April's values are the one-point-per-pound boost iri round and flank steaks of beef, in round and sirloin steaks of veal, and in sliced ham. FINALLY PASS PAROLE BILL Measure Takes Part Of Board's Personnel Out Of Civil Service From Press Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG, April 30 After three months consideration of measures to abolish or restrict the new State Parole Board, the Republican Senate majority yesterday finally passed the Jones Parole bill to reorganize the Board and take part of its personnel out of civil service. The vote on the measure was along party lines. 26 to 14. with only one Republican, Senator George Woodward Philadelphia) join ing minority Democrats in opposing the measure.

The measure now goes to the House, which will have only five legislative days to consider it before the proposed end of the session. Size of Board Cut The measure, sponsored hv term Senator Adrian H. Jones Hazleton), would, reduce the Parole Board from five members to three. and remove District Parole Super visors from the classified civil service, making them direct aonointees of the Board, with approval of the Governor. Before final Senate nassace of the bill.

Senator John Fremont Cox Munnall). suDDorter of the new parole system, urged that it be given a fair trial and cited the 25-cents-a-day cost of handling a paroled prisoner as compared with the cost of keeping a convict prison as justification for a scientific parole system. Patronage Seen "We all know the appointments or District supervisors by the Gov ernor would be political patronage appointments," he told the Senate Until two weeks ago, the Repub lican Senate leaders still were giv ing serious consideration to the Jaspan bill, introduced early in the session, to eliminate the Parole Board and put the State parole system back where it was until a special commission recommended the new Board as a means of stop ping "back door" paroles and pro' viding an equitable system. Lacking votes to put over the Jas pan bill, however, the Senate group killed it by sending it back to committee and took up the Jones bill, instead. In its original form, the Jones bill proposed to wipe out all civil service appointments in the paroie system.

U. S. Official Communiques Allied Headquarters North Africa. April 30 In the Eighth Army area, a small local attack was made yesterday and one objective was gained. An enemy counter-attack in this sector achieved slight success.

On the First Army front, there was various bitter fighting. In the Medjez el Bab sector, the enemy launcnea determined counter-at tacks with tanks and infantry against our recently-gained objec tives, the main thrust being against Djebel Bou Aoukaz. Fighting continued throughout the day. With the exception of one small gain in the Medjerda area, all attacks were repulsed with heavy loss to the en emy and our forward positions were maintained. In the north, further local ad vances were made by the Second U.

S. Corps. On the night of April 28-29. Wei lingtons of the Strategic Air Force bombed El Aguina Airfield in Tu nisia. Yesterday medium bombers and fighter bombers of the Strategic Air orce and nghter-bombers of the Tactical Air Force with fighter escorts continued their attacks on enemy shipping in the Gulf of Tunis and the Sicilian Straits.

Two vessels were sunk and direct hits were scored on others. During these attacks strong forces of enemy them being destroyed. Attacks on enemy ground positions and troop concentrations were maintained by nghter-bombers of the Tactical Air Force and fighters carried out con tinuous onensive sweeps and pa trols over the battle area. During the night of April 28-29, two enemy aircraft were destroyed From all these operations 10 of our aircraft are missing. Light naval forces operating in the Sicilian Channel on the night of April 28-29 met and engaged a flotilla of fast motor craft.

One of the enemy vessels was rammed and cut in halves. Two others were damaged by gunfire, one being probably sunk. Navy No. 360 SOUTH PACIFIC (all dates East longitude) 1 On April 28, during the morning, a Japanese patrol of one officer and eight men, attempting to escape from Guadalcanal, was intercepted and wiped out by U. S.

troops in the vicinity of Beaufort Bay on the western coast of Guadalcanal Island. 2-On April 29: (A) During the early morning. Flying Fortresses (Boeing B-17) heavy bombers -bombed the Jap anese-held area at Kahili in the Shortland Island area. Poor visl bility prevented observation of results. (B) Later in the morning.

Avenger (Grumman TBF) torpedo bombers and Dauntless (Douglas SBD) dive-bombers escorted by Lightning (Lockheed P-38) and Corsair (Vought F4U) fighters, bombed Jap installations at Gatere of the southwestern coast of Kolombangara Island in the Central Solomons. An anti-aircraft position and a pier were destroyed. (C) During the afternoon, a group of Avenger torpedo bombers and Dauntless dive-bombers, with lightning and Corsair escort, attacked Pelpeli, two miles northwest of Gatere on Kolombangara Island. A fire was started. (D) A formation of torpedo bombers and Dauntless dive-bombers, supported by Wildcat (Grumman F4F) fighters, attacked Japanese positions at Munda in the Central Solomons.

Hits were scored on the runway, on the revetment area and on an anti-aircraft position. (E) All s. planes returned from the above missions. CONTROL OVER ALL JOB SHIFTS Prosram May Depend On Whether Labor Pressure Forces Change By The United Press WASHINGTON, April 30 Man power Chief Paul V. McNutt plans stringent controls over all job transfers In essential activities In stead of just those Involving wag increases.

WMO officials have been describ ing the forthcoming national em ployment stabilization plan as one-which would ease Mr. McNutt's re- cent regulations by permitting in all areas a Job transfer at higher wages if the change was in the interest of the war effort. Wage increases can be realized under that condition now only in the areas and regions with local stabilization plans. Unless labor pressure forces Mr. McNutW to change his plans, the WMC will be able to block any worker from transferring to another essential job at similar or lower wages in areas not covered by local plans.

This wider scope of the plan was disclosed during a press conference with WMC officials. Inquiries were made immediately upon conclusion of the conference to members of the WMC Management-Labor Policy Committee. One labor member said a McNutt aide had explained that the clause would not be "applied universally" but wovld be used for "greater flexibility" in administration. He said this gave him and others the impression that no new restrictions beyond those in the recent wage restriction regulations were intended, and on this premise the clause was approved. The labor member, who asked that his name be withheld, added: "If they try to enforce it as worded, there Is only one thing left for ns to do walk off the committee." v.

He said the new Interpretation of the clause shows that there has been "a deliberate violation of the intent of the order." It was disclosed, meanwhile, that due to administrative questions being raised in discussions of the plan by 12 regional directors now meeting here with Mr. McNutt and other WMC officials, the issuance of orders stabilizing all essential work ers might be delayed until Monday. WMC officials had said the na tionwide plan would be in the foan of an agreement between management and labor, but now they say it will be through an administrative order. Girls Under 17 CURFEW RINGS MONDAY NIGHT Special Police to Make Pick-dps After 11:30 A curfew for girls under 17 will be put into effect Monday night at 11:30, Safety Director George E. A.

Pairley announced today. After 11:30 young girls found on the streets "unescorted or under suspicious circumstances" will ba taken in by special squads of police and policewomen, Mr. Fairley said. Preliminary arrangements have been completed to provide detention places in North Side, East End and downtown, where such girls will be held pending decision on whether to hold them for a hearing, notify their parents, or take them home, depending on the circumstances, he announced. Supt.

of Police Harvey J. Scott has been in Philadelphia studying operation of a similar curfew there, Mr. Fairley said, and will outline detailed plans for operation off. curfew here at a meeting Monday. Sixteen other major cities already have placed a curfew law In effect for young girls.

Speeders to Lose Gas Ration Books The motorist who violates the 35- mile speed limit after tomorrow will risk not only a fine in traffic court but the loss of his gasoline ration as well. cibMourgn pouce ana ine umce ol mil Price Administration will work to gether to curb speeding and reckless driving after the Better Traffic Committee cited an increase In deaths and accidents due to these causes, it was announced today. Alter disposition of the case In traffic court, the record will be turned over to OPA, which will then recommend revocation of the fender's gasoline ration to his Wa Price and Rationing Board. "Such offenders merit and will re ceive, at our strong recommendation, nrnmDt and decisive action at. hands of their lnr.n.1 War Priro nH Rationing Boards." district OPA manager Alvin J.

Williams declared. Luck! Wave Washes Seaman 1 From One Warship To Another By The United Press WASHINGTON, April 30 Seaman John Andrew Urtchok of New York City, was washed off the deck of his destroyer by a big wave and deposited on the deck of a sister ship by another wave after he had bobbed around in rough seas for 40 minutes. This astounding story was vouched for by the Navy today. And it had the official report of Urtchok's commanding officer to back It up. Urtchok had stopped for a word with a friend at an aft-gun position.

He expressed hope that he would be home on the morrow. His friend answered, "Maybe." "What do you mean; what could happen?" demanded UrrE chok. He got his answer almost im mediately. A mountainous wave hit the after part of the ship. Urtchok was washed overboard.

Comparison of Old and New Values Shows Differences New point values on meats, fats and oils go into effect on Sunday, May 2. Many commodities will have a higher point value, while a few will drop in point value. The following is a partial list of rationed foods showing a comparison between old and new point values: New Old Point Point Commodity Values Values BEEF Steaks Porterhouse 8 8 T-Bone 8 8 Sirloin 8 8 Sirloin bonless 9 9 Round 9 8 Top Round 9 Bottom Round 9 Round Tip 9 Flank 9 Roasts- Rib standing (chine bone on) (10-inch cut) 7 Rib standing (chine bone on) (7-inch cut). 8 Round Tip 8 Stews- Short Ribs 4 Hamburger Beef ground from necks, flanks, shanks, skirts, heel of round, briskets, plates and miscellaneous beef trimmings and and beef fat 5 Variety Meats- Brains 2 Livers 6 Sweetbreads 3 Tails (ox 2 Tongues 5 Tripe 2 VEAL Steaks and Chop Loin Chops 8 Round Steak 9 Sirloin Steak or 8 Roasts- Leg 7 Variety Meats- Brains 3 4 Livers 8 8 Tongues 5 6 Sweetbreads 6 6 Meats in Tin or Glass 2 Bulk Sausage 6 Meat Loaf 6 Vienna Sausage 6 3 7 7 7 Dried Beef 12 Hams and Picnics (whole or half) 10 Luncheon Meat 7 Tongues, Beef 7 LAMB MUTTON Steaks and Chops-Loin Chops 8 Rib Chops 7 12 10 7 7 Leg Chops 7 Shoulder Chops blade or arm chops 7 Roasts- Leg whole or part 6 Sirloin Roast bone 8 Chuck or Shoulder, square cut-bone 6 Chuck or Shoulder, square cut-boneless ..8 Chuck or Shoulder. cross-cut, bone in 5 Stews and Other Cuts-Breast and Flank 3 Neck bone in 4 Neck boneless 6 Variety Meats-Brains 2 Livers 5 Sweetbreads 3 Tongues "5 PORK Steaks and Chops-Center Chops 9 Loin boneless, fresh and cured only 10 Tenderloin 10 Ham, slices 9 Roasts-Loin whole, half or end cuts ..7 Loin center cuts 9 Ham whole or half 7 Ham boneless 9 Other Pork Cuts Spareribs 3 Neck, backbones 1 Hocks and 2 Variety Meats-Brains 2 Chitterlings 1 Tongues 5 Tails 2 Snoots 1 READY-TO-EAT MEATS Dried Beef 12 Tongues 9 Spareribs 5 BACON Slab or Pierce, rind 7 Slab or Piece, rind 8 Sliced, rind off 8 Canadian Style, piece or sliced 11 Rinds 1 SAUSAGE Dry Sausage Hard: Typical items are Hard Salami, Hard Cervelat, Pepperoni 9 Semi-Dry Sausage: Typical items are Soft Salami, Thuringer and Mortadella 8 FATS AND OILS Butter 8 Lard 5 Margarine 5 Salad, cooking oils 5 CHEESES All rationed 8 10 10 8 ia 8 6 7 8 8 11 1 OPA Head to Speak On Crisis in Prices By The United Press WASHINGTON.

Anril 30 Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown will make a Dedal nation-wide radio broadcast at 9:15 p. m. tonight on -roe price stabilization Crisis," the Office of War Information has announce. It gave no other details except that Mr.

Brown will deliver a. 15- minute talk which will be carried over the Mutual network. iThe addrtss tciZI Je heard in Pittsburgh over WCAE.l Dim-Out Thief Gets 20 Lashes, Year Term By The United Press DOVER, Del, April 30 Leroy smith, 24, convicted of robbing sev era! stores during dim-out periods, received 20 lashes In Dover prison yesterday. Warden J. P.

Clarke administered the whipping. Smith, a Negro, must also serve a prison sentence of one year. Judge Charles I. Perry Jr. said anyone convicted of robbing during dim-outs would receive similar treat ment.

commooity rlto. READY-TO-EAT MEATS COOKED, BOILED. BAKED. 9 7 10 10 9 6 AND BARBECUED Dried Beef 12 9 11 9 8 11 8 10 9 2 Ham tone In, whole or half. Ham1 bone m.

slices Ham1 butt end Ham1 shsnk end Ham boneless and tatted. Picnic or Shoulder-tone ui.J Picnic er Shoulder boneless Tongues, Spareribs 7 9 7 7 6 9 8 Pigs Feet-bone ta. RtfiM (UmI The peint TaJua af act (W fady te -Mat iter ahaD determined by adding 2 points par pound to the point value par pound ol the uncooked item from which it is prepared if it ia told whole, er 3 pea per pound haB be added if it is cooked and stkad. SAUSAGE Dry Sausage-Hard: Typical Items are bard Cervelat and Semi-dry Sausage: Typical Items are soft SatmL Thuringer, and Mortadella. Fresh, Smoked and Cooked Sausage? Typical Items are Pork Sausage, Wieners, Bologna, Baked Loam.

2 4 and Liver Sausage Group 100 mat con tern Group 2: Not less than 80 meat; Liver Sausage Included regardless of higher 2 1 1 3 2 3 2 1 meat content Groups: Not less than 50 meat Group 4: Lessthan50but more man zu meat: Souse and Head Cheese Included regardless ol nigh- er meat content. "Mart" cental tarMtt aa tertol caarttf ay (bttM Ore It, Far MWtton raw te OSUaJ iuu Tn fm nam PeiBts CHEESES Mnti e. ratieaed Greek (all hard varieties). Process Cheese Foods. AB 8 Seme chmaa are eat rationed.

Tea hmarUnt esaneles are Cream Oiaeia, Neat dutal. Cottage, Caneax feert. Uessrkraes, Brie, Bhn. (For eeaelete Set af tfcaaiai eel ratiewae, see the Begelatiena.) Ail 8 varieties) Trass Pee Vi GAS FIRM RATE UNDERATTAGK Anne Alpern Charges PUC Gives Too Much The Pennsylvania Superior Court today had under advisement the five-year-old rate case of the Peo ples Natural Gas Co. following ar ments yesterday in the appeal of the company from the decision of the Public Utility Commission.

Intervening on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh, City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern also attacked the Com mission's order in the case, claiming that the rate reduction ordered was entirely inadequate. Small Consumer Suffers "The small rate-payer, not the utility, Is entitled to relief from the clearly excessive rate base and rates established by the commission," Miss Alpern told the court. Under the Commission's order, based on 1941 consumption, the cost to residential and commercial consumers would be reduced by 232 1 for 1942 and each future The Commission found the rates for 1939,. 1940 and 1941 were "exces-ive and unreasonable" and directed thr.

consumers be paid refunds $2,146,958 for the three-year period. Only $708,000 Asked But Miss Alpern contended that the base rate fixed by the Commission should have been drastically lower. She sharged that the company's average net annual earnings over a 10-year period had been $728,000 and that the company. In Its original claim for a rate Increase, had asked an annual net earning of only $708,000. Yet the Public Utility Commission.

she said, had granted a rate sched ule which would permit an annual earning of $1,400,000 but the company now is protesting that rate. PUC Doubles Earnings "In other she said, "the company is now complaining about a net return which Is twice as much as they originally asked." "The burden of the new rate falls upon the small consumer who can least afford it," she argued. "The true complainant In this is the small consumer, not the Peoples National Gas Co. Allegheny County was represented by Assistant County Solicitor Na thaniel K. Beck while Attorney Samuel G.

Miller represented the Commission. Housing Authority Duys U. S. War Bonds The Pittsburgh Housing Authority has invested $99,974 in Series War Savings Bonds, Chairman George E. Evans announced today.

The money consists of reserve funds for repair, maintenance and replacement for the Bedford and Ter race Village communities. The reserves are set aside, Mr, Evans explained, to allow for in creased expenditures resulting from normal use. The Authority estimates that $1,200,00 will accumulate in this reserve fund over a 10-year period. Purchases from one account are lim ited to $100,000 per year. By FLORENCE FISHER PARRY to be Eleanor, Dorothy or Mrs.

Ferguson! to write a column that would Stay Put! When Eleanor sits down to write My Day, she just has to ask Miss Thompson what city this is. and she's off to her chronicle. When Dorothy starts her column she knows she's going to get Mrs. Parry mad at something. When Mrs.

Ferguson begins her daily chore she knows it's going to be In Defense of Woman. But me, I never know, and you never know, where I Dare Say is going to lead us. It has no Plan nor Order. It has no subject nor predicate. It wields no Cudgel, it carries no Weight.

There's no telling what tangent it's going to take. It may start with the moon and end with a mongrel. It may be about God or guppies. It has no direction, it follows no pattern, it is born on the breath of the moment. Nothing could be as accidental as what gets set down in its space.

Its complete lack of method appals me. How it ever takes shape is a minor mystery which will never be resolved. That it ever is read provides me a constant source of wonder. Wlfrn it excites praise, I can truthfully say I am dumbfounded. When attack is its portion I am equally astonished.

For it holds no brief nor pretension. It is, rather, a kind of extension of my own subconscious stress of thought, no more. Object of Pity This bothers me. For on the face of it, such indulgence must be vagrant and irresponsible, and not deserving space or attention. I know that to be granted a daily space in an organ whose printed words reach the eyes of thousands constitutes a privilege and a responsibility; and with all my heart I wish that I could embrace the opportunity with dignity and planning.

But I cannot. I Dare Say is now and will remain, I fear, a kind of outlet, undisciplined and unpredictable, a sort of weathercock to the winds that blow through my own heart and mind. I cannot order it to function. It proceeds of itself, each day taking shape independent of my will. Now I have tried, above, to describe to you the processes by which I Dare Say gets itself set down each day, because I feel an explanation is due those orderly souls who conceive a daily column to be a thing of lofty design.

It is hard to make them understand that my column has formed this bad habit of proceeding without me. If-I had the proper control over it, it would be easy to fill it with all kinds of material which I am really very anxious to use. There isn't a day-that a dozen estimable projects do not seize upon my interests. And I say to myself: THIS must be written about! THAT must claim tomorrow's column! As a citizen I owe it. As a columnist I am consigned to it! And I set my lips and put the sheet of copy paper in this portable and write a brave heading like: The WAACs!" or "Onward Christian Soldiers" (that one was to be about the Salvation Army); or something else equally Public Minded.

And I'm all set to Let Fly. Mas Alack! And then I happen to see, in the paper there at hand, a picture of John L. Lewis, glowering, and alongside, maybe, a picture of our President, grinning. And I get so mad. And that's when this column steps in and Takes Charge.

And no matter how I try to intervene do you think I can stop this portable? It just runs on, completely out of hand! Let's say it's one of those MUST days. I MUST do this, I MUST do that, I'm driven from pillar to post by my conscience. And among the MUSTS is a particular column I've promised to write. And then blame it on the Gremlins all at once this portable sails, anchors aweigh, on a completely irrelevant subject! Maybe about the bird I saw out my window this morning bursting with song. Maybe about the dog pound where I just KNOW they're going to kill some little boy's pup and break his heart.

Anyway, the MUST column flies out the window and I'm in disgrace with the Cause I had meant to serve. How can I expect its disciples to understand the ways of a column? How can I explain that much as I wish I could be like Dorothy and Eleanor and Mrs. Ferguson, disciplined daily columnists, and Do My Duty, I'm not. Instead I'm just an awfully busy harrassed provider who somehow has to wedge in a column a day which takes charge of itself because I haven't time to, a column that pays very little attention to me and my Earnest Intentions. STAMP VALIDITY Here are the periods daring which stamps in Ration Book 2 may be used: Blue Stomps and Today only.

and Now through May 31. Red Stamps A. and Today only. Now through May 3L May 2 through 31. -May 9 through 3L May 16 through 31.

May 23 through 31. Ration Book I Stamps in Book 1 expire on the following dates: No. 12 (Sugar) May 3L No. 17 (Shoes) June 15. No.

23 (Coffee) May 30. Gas Books 5 A coupons July 2L McArdle Rolls Up Sleeves For Fight With Alexander Councilman Promises 'No Holds Barred' Showdown Over Hospital Nurse Strike Charges Councilman Joseph A. McArdle, storm center of many a City controversy, today promised a "no holds barred" showdown with his administration opponents as a result of charges by Health Director I. Hope Alexander that he had advised nurses to strike at, Leech Farm Hospital. "It is a lie," he shouted when he read his copy of will be running for re-election.

What was supposed to be off the record before is going to be on the record beginning Monday." Mr. McArdle counter -chareed that "the accusing letter was dictated and written in the Mayor's office by the same man that wrote the one recommending Robin (Mr. John P. Robin, former secretary to Mayor Scully) for the job of Wel fare Administrator. And then the letter was sent up for Dr.

Alexander to sign," he added. Workman Falls Dead En route to work at the Thomson Yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad last night, W. A. Hormel, of California, collapsed and died of a heart attack. He was a County 75 Millions Short MEATLESS DAY FEAREDBY OPA Housewives Warned On Stamp Deadline The district OPA cautioned housewives to do their week-end shopping today or face the prospect of a meatless Sunday.

Officials pointed out that four red stamps in Ration Book 2 expire at midnight tonight, and that house wives who wait until tomorrow to do their shopping thus will have only one series of red stamps the stamps to "spend" for meat, butter, cheese and cooking fats. In all, seven food ration stamps expire at midnight. They are the blue and stamps (for canned and processed foods) and the red and stamps. Tomorrow, housewives will be able to use blue and and red stamps. Red stamps become valid Sunday for the month of May.

Burglars Get $300 While the family of Martin Joyce, of 26 Jacksonia was absent last night, thieves entered and took a bank containing $300. Of Bond Drive Before Midnight Saturday ance Stanley, area chairman, "but we are still short of the goals set for private and corporate subscrip tions in many counties. We must all dig deeper to put this drive across. We dare not fall our men at the fighting fronts." The Crucible Steel Co. of Amer ica reported sales of $49,100 to 720 out of 2700 workers, while Superior Railway products Company reported sales to 100 out of 140 employes.

These were in addition to purchases made through payroll deductions. All branches of the Peoples-Pitts burgh Trust Co. will remain open tux li p. m. today to take care of last minute orders.

Philadelphia Goes 12 Million Over Quota Bp The United Press PHILADELPHIA, April 30 Its 400 million dollar quota oversub scribed by more than 12 millions, Philadelphia today continued its sale in the second war loan dirve. The Third Federal Reserve District, comprising Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware, reported total subscriptions of $697,833,800. Its goal Is 707 millions. On Last Day Orders Reaching: Banks To Be Counted The last day. of the I3-billion-dollar Second War Loan Drive letters uirector Alexander naa aa dressed to Mayor Cornelius D.

Scully, Council President T. E. Kil-gallen and members of a committee investigating the Tuberculosis Hospital. Mr. McArdle received a copy of the letter as a member of the investigating committee and bitterly assailed any implication that he had told the nurses to threaten mass resignation unless they obtained pay Increases.

Charges Based On Survey Dr. Alexander's letter and charges were based on the findings of an independent Civilian Defense Committee which had been invited to survey the hospital situation. "You will note in the minutes a reference to the fact that the nwrses followed the advice of a member of City Council," Dr. Alexander's letter stated. "I was informed by a member of the nurs ing personnel, who visited Mr.

Mc-Ar die's office, that he advised them to send a letter requesting an increase in pay and, at the same time, to threaten to resign in a body if their request were not dealt with satisfactorily. He (Mr. McArdle) also Is reported to have stated this was the best method to awaken City Council." Nurses To Stay The minutes, however did not point out who had advised the nurses merely that they regretted their action and had been advised to take such steps. Meantime, the nurses 29 of them who threatened to quit unless they were raised from $105 to $135 monthly have decided to stay on tne job, according to Dr. Alexander, "The nurses regret very much having presented their request In the manner in which they were ad vised and have withdrawn their resignations, as they now realize they would have brought great discredit on the entire nursing pro fession," his letter stated.

Threat To Alexander The idea to resign, according to Mr. McArdle, "was the nurses'. own idea. But, what saved the Admin istration face was the War Man power Commission's order which the Administration used to keep the nurses in their Jobs." Speaking of Dr. Alexander, Mr.

McArdle said: "This guy has been having It pretty easy up to now. But he's going to have a tough four years ahead of him as long as I am a member of Council." On the Record' Now He warned that the accusation, which Mr. McArdle said was with out basis in fact, "might result in a complete investigation of the whole Department of Health." Prom now on, he said, "there will be no punches barred and that goes for all of them, even those who opened today with Allegheny County still short more than 75 million dollars of its 289 million dollar quota. Sales totaled yesterday revealed that $213,872,000 has been pledged in 78,297 subscriptions. Leaders of the local campaign, urgine intensified efforts, bv cam.

paign worjters, expressed me con viction the county was within 'striking distance" of the goal, since reports had lagged a day In recording sales. Orders reaching banks up to the close of business Saturday or "post marked up to midnight Saturday will be counted in the totals, leaders said. Pointing out that many orders have not been reported as yet, cam paign officials added that bank sub scriptions to two per cent Treasury bonds will add substantiality to the final totals. Declaring that many homes have been missed in house-to-house canvasses, Gwyilm A. Price, county chairman asserted: "We are beginning to get returns from our appeal to every worker to bring in at least, three more sub scriptions before the close of the drive." He praised stores for taking up the slack by running special ad vertising urging purchases of bonds.

Sales for the entire Second Area, of which Allegheny County is a part, also are far short of the 381 million quota with $284,368,000 subscribed. The area includes 23 West ern Pennsylvania counties. "We know that the banks will oversubscribe their quotas on the final day of the drive," said Clar.