The Brownsville Herald from Brownsville, Texas • Page 23

November 17, '1943' THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD, BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS Pajre 8 Pre-Peal Harbor Fathers Aid Senate, House Press Ahead To Halt Or Delay Compromise Out Plan Acceptable To Congress WASHINGTON (ff) -Senate and House conferees pressed ahead today for final action on legislation they predicted would immediately slow down or hali entirely the military induction of pre-war fathers. There Is an outside chance the House may act today on-the measure, worked out yesterday by the compromise group, with the senate ready to vote ns soon as the House clears the way. Agreement Reached Because of the sudden unanimity of the conferees, after a. two month deadlock, Chairrcan May CD-Ky) of the House military committee predicted final approval of the legislation this week and said he had no doubt the President would approve it.

As approved by a point committee, the legislation would strip the war manpower commission of nil jurisdiction over administration of the selective, service act, repeal the WMC non-deferrable occupation order, nnd generally permit the Induction of pre-war fathers only after all available non-fathers have been called. The legislation recognizes dependency as a prime factor In deferments by providing that pre- rwar fathers, regardless of occupation, shall not be called up while there are available anywhere in the state In which they live, or In the entire nation, non-fathers not deferred because of essential occupation or for other reasons. FD Final Say To meet an administration objection, the legislation provides need. We can got the 90 per that the Induction procedure be cent that we've got to squeeze followed only insofar as it Cross-channel Invasion Depends On Few Critical Items of Supply AT Britain Is One Vast Storehouse For War Ma terials, But General Says The Final "Tenth Of Vital Needs Will Determine Final Success By TOM WOLF NEA Staff Correspondent If Churchill and Roosevelt had given the first orders at the Quebec Conference for an invasion of northern France, that invasion would be almost impossible before next spring. This is not giving away any military secrets, (The first Orders for such an invasion must have been given almost as scon as America entered the war.) It is only another way of stressing the fact that the supplies for modern war cannot be marshalled overnight.

The gigantic scope of the supply problem behind any second was brought b.ome to me on a recent week-long hour of installations here of the S. Army's Services of Supply, The Services of Supply has been called the front echelon of American industry. The first line of S. S. offense is the factory worker at home.

So this is a re- port to America's war Tremendous Quantity First of all, the war materials which you are turning out are pouring into the United Kingdom at nn unprecedented rate. I have seen thousands upon thousands of these supplies from pistols to tanks; from toothpicks to tractors; yes from soup to nuts, They have overflowed the formal depots so that now they're being stored in former dance hals, race tracks, private estates, even former amusement parks. At one of the ports here there's a gag to the effect that if much more stuff comes in, this island is going to sink. Eut this is not enough, "Our greatest supply problem is not the difficulty of getting the bulk of what we need," Jtfaj. Gen, John C.

H. Lee, commanding general of the S. O- S. here, told me. "It's getting everything we as it does not interfere with the orderly flow of manpower to the armed forces, the president to make the determination.

Rep. Kllciay (D-Tex), author of the original Kllday bill which the new legislation embodies in principle, said: "This means that few, if any, fathers must go, since the quotas after December can be met largely from teen-age boys becoming of draft age." Gasoline Station Robberies Serious that a wave of gasoline service station burglaries In which, as a rule, only gas coupons are taken, offers a serious menace and an affront to rationing enforcement, w. j. Holt, OPA District Enforcement Attorney, said Tuesday his office investigate such coses as federal offenses. for.

Last Bit May Be Vital "The last '10 per cent may be the most vital," he continued. "It might be sights for our guns. The guns are useless without the sights. Or it might be scalpels for our doctors. We've got hospitals by the score.

We've got huge stockpiles of medical supplies-- many of them given us by the British on reverse Lend- Lcasc. Eut a hospital is only as as its operating room. If' a doctor doesn't have the scalpel he wants, lives will be lost. that last 10 per cent, of supplies that pays off In battle. They are the modern horseshoe nail, for the want of which kingdom is lost." To get an idea, of the size of the problem behind any offensive move from the British Isles, you have only to visit one of the huge S.

O. S. depots here- In one warehouse of one depot nlone there are separate bins for 235.000 different ordnance Mothers Urged Not To Get Too War-Minded Guard Home Against Juvenile Delinquency Other Threats, Texas Speaker Urges A USTIN Mothers tempted to over-indulge in activities outside the home were called upon today to guard against the many-sided forces of war that nrc attacking homes and families. The speaker was Er. Alice Sowers, directors of the Family Life Institute of the University of Oklahoma, before the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers in the opening session of its annual convention.

"It Is Important that mothers consider the care of their families and the companionship with them ns important contributions to the home front during wartime, and that they keep this in mind when considering duties which require them to spend many hours outside the home." she said. Dallas Teachers Can Now Marry DALLAS W) The teacher shortage has caused the Dallas Board of Education to rescind its Rule 58, over which there has been a controversy for half a century. The rule stated that "the marriage of any woman after her election or doing a scholastic term shall be considered a resignation and cancellation of her contract." The rule was modified last year tattle extent that women teachers ttfo married men In the armed might continue teaching for the duration. "This does not mean that the mothers must remain at home all the time but it does mean' that today, when children are feeling more insecure than many adults realize, parents need to determine its effect upon each member of the family." She urged, for example, that dinner not be allowed to degenerate into a "sort of lunch wagon affair" despite the inability to obtain paid help and because mother is busy nnd father is absent. Everything possible should be done to maintain family unity, she said.

Migration of families, family separations, working mothers, boys working in men's Jobs, ill- considered marriages, and changing housekeeping standards, were listed as important factors brought on by the war that hold daneer for the home. TO CAMP POLK PHARR Lt. Max D. Maule has been transferred from Ft. Bcnnlng, to Cnmp Polk, He received his commission at Ft.

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Time-tested VAPORUB In a huee supply depot somewhere in England, the only American-built and operated railroad In that country runs on 17 miles of. track. The Army co strutted the line to haul jrar supplies from the British unloading point to U. S. warehouses.

supplies-- and these are only two-thirds of the total number of ordnance items, Auto Assembly Lines At the same depot there are assembly lines, for trucks and Jeeps, which are only slightly less spectacular than Detroit's. To save space, mother vehicles are shipped unassembled to get the greatest number of parts Into the smallest package. For the same reason, ground troops no longer bring most of their equipment with them from the States, It was found more ship-economical to send the supplies in bulk and to distribute them after the units arrive In this theater. Or take another depot-- an ammunition dump, where, hun- dresds of thousands of rounds of everything from pistols bullets to the biggest shells are carefully stored. I spent most of one day driving: around this huge depot-formerly one of England's "stately without ever covering the same spot twice.

And still I had inspected only part of it. Add to this the fact that ordnance is only one section of S. O. S. There's the Medical Corps, with its special problems-- like the construction of prefabricated hospitals which can be set up right at the front in accordance with the Corp's principle cf "taking the hospitals to the men, not vice versa." And there are the Signal Corps, the Chemical Warfare Service, the Quartermaster Corps and the Engineer Corps.

The engineers have special problems. The equipment nsed- ed for an Invasion at, say, Bordeaux, is entirely different from that needed to invade, say, Le whieh comparatively Is only a few miles away. There'll be different rivers to be crossed, "different to be made, different reconditioning problems in each port. The engineer's prob lems are only one reason why plans for invasion must be made months and months in advance. Unloading; Problems Finally, there" are the problems of the Transportation Corps, the'newest of the O.

S. branches. Because of England's proximity to the Luftwaffe, supplies cannot be stored right at the ports, as they can in America. Eoats. and supplies must be gotten out of the ports as soon as possible, This in itself creates new problems.

If there were plenty of time at the, ports, for example, ammunition could be unloaded the same way it is stowed--by manufacturer's lot. But there isn't plenty of time. So ammunition is unloaded hit or miss, and the mixed lots must be sorted when they arrive at the depots for storage. When the time for invasion comes, what happens will be something like this: Headquarters S. O.

S. will notify each depot how much of what is needed. Then the depots will give the Transportation Corps the "Dizzy Depot Shipment Supply Data, which tell the size and weight of the items ordered. On the basis of this data the Transportation Corps will "stow" its ships, on paper. Use "Credit" slipi The whole movement then works on 'credit" basis.

Headquarters gives the Transporta- tion Corps backed up by depot supplies, for the items necessary to' the invasion. The Transportation Corps then cashes in its credits as fast as, and In the order that, it wants the materials. The supplies must move right from the Inland, depots onto the ships. The experience and lessons of the African invasion, for which many of the supplies at first -ame from here, prove that this is the best way of "mounting a show." The only way it can seriously break down Is if there are no supplies to back up the credits--if every bit of the stuff that's needed just isn't here. That last bit is the horseshoe, nail which could lose an Invasion.

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