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PAGE FOUR THE HUTCHINSON. KANSAS NEWS- HERALD SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943 Pay Boosts Is Awaited Telephone Girls To Get $2 Advance Hutchinson telephone operators nnd supervisors will, get $2 8 week pay hikes the starting pay will be on additional $1 a week higher if war labor board approves their new contract. Starting wages will advance from $14 to $17 weekly, according 1o information on the contract received by Mrs. Irene Flynn, chairman of Local 1027 vice chairof Kansas and western Missouri district, of Southwestern Telephone Workers, The new pay scalc, if approved, Is as follows: $17 a week first six months, $19 $18 a week week second second year, six $20 a week beginning third year, and increases up to $24 a week starting 10th year. Supervisors will receive $20 to $29 weekly, Evening and night differentinis will no apply regardicss of length of service, giving the new girls a "break." Mrs.

Flynn remarked. The differentials are 20 cents a day for work extending into the 7-9 o'clock evening period, 30 cents more if work extends into 8-12 o'clock period 40 cents more it on ful! night shift. Also $2 more will be paid operntors for Christmas eve and New Year's eve work. Differentials are now in effect for holiday, work. The pay advances be retroactive to Dec.

1, Eisenhower Is Chief In North Africa (Continued From Page One) Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference, The full meaning of Eisenhower's appointment was not immecircles did not interpret it diately clear, but London complete and final answer as 10 who would direct the U. British, and French forces in the showdown battle for Tunisia, (In Washington the department said the new theater of operations would include the northwestern section of North Atrica including Tunisia, Morocco, and Algiers, but would have no effect on the commands of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, British Eighth Army leader, or Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Middle East commander.) Such troops of the British Eighth Army as enter into operations in Tunisia will come under Eisenhower's command, however, authoritative sources in North At-1 rica reported.

Meanwhile, Mussolini's shakeup of the Italian government was seen AS more cheerful news for the Allies. Mussolini's sudden sacking of his foreign minister and son-inlaw, Count Ciano, and all but two of his Fascist ministers went far beyond his periodic "changing of the guard" and reflected the troubles piling up for the junior partner both in the military and domestic fields. Well-posted observers viewed the Rome developments as an attempt by the distraught Fascist chieftain to revive the Italian people's trust in him by cutting adrift those associated with the miserable Italian war effort: loss of the African empire, failure to subdue the Balkans; the loss of upwards of 300,000 Italians as war prisoners and many other thousands on the bleak Russian front; and the immense damage in the north and south of Italy by RAF and American bombers. the There also was speculation that Ciano ouster was dictated by Hitter because of personal dislike, or that Mussolini clipped the wealthy youngster's wings because he feared Ciano's personal ambitions. Must Count On Bombing Greater Danger With Germans On The Run New York -George S.

Van Schaick, director of the Office of Civilian Defense, second region, declared here the possibility of air raids on the United States east const is greater now than ever before as a result of recent German military reverses. "The lift in morale that the Germans need to check the detorioration of spirits that has set in in Hitter's unhappy land would, quite logically, be a raid on New York or Washington," he declared. "The reaction in Germany would be much the same ns ours when General Doolittle bombed Tokio." Van Schaick said "the danger of enemy air attack on our home front Increases us the situation becomes desperate for our encmies abroud." Recalling the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, he declared It "would be utter folly for Amerlcans to relapse once more into the casy, complacent attitude of "It can't happen and concluded: "Military and defense authorities are of the opinion that it can huppen here, and this is certainly no lime to discount such possibilitics." About Town Katherine Henning, 400 West Eighth, suffered a ruptured blood vessel in her leg in a fall on Zelgler-Rowlands alleys while bowling Friday night, Mrs. Emma Hughes of Arkansas City, former Hutchinson resident, is recovering at her home from an attack of flu. Loss of a 17-Jewel wrist watch was reported Saturday by Charles 301 West First, i 4P NAZI GUN SILENCED--The body of a slain German soldier lies in this Nazi machine-gun nest on the Russian front, Men In the background are Red army machine-gunners pursuing the retreating Nazis.

(Associated Press Radiophoto from Moscow.) FDR Plan Congressmen Demand Subversive Clean-Up Washington (AP) President Roosevelt established An official committee Saturday to handle "complaints of subversive activity" by' federal employes but the action came far from satisfying congressmen who have been pressing for a housecleaning. "What we need is fewer investigations and more action on investigations alrcady made," commented Rep. Hendricks, (D-Fla). "Congress expects to press this fight until real action is taken and we are not going to accept a whitewash by any board." Dies (D-Tex) of the house committee on un-American activities expressed the view that instead mental of a committee of departofficials which the president appointed, the public would have "more confidence" in a board composed of representatives of the American Legion, the CIO and AFL and business groups. mittee in an Roosevelt executive set up order the which comdirected it to "serve as an advisory and coordinating agency in all matters pertaining to the investigation and disposition of complaints of subversive activity on the part of employes of the execu-! live branch of the federal government," except the war and navy departments.

The committee will act in cases involving those departments upon request of their secretarles. The committee, set up within the justice department, consists of Herbert Gaston, assistant secretary of the a treasury; Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of interlor; Rudolph M. Evans, member of the Federal Reserve Board of governors; Francis C. Brown, solicitor or of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and John Q. Cannon, Jr.

legal adviser to the civil service commission. Missing Claflin Boy Gets Legion Of Merit Washington -Award of the Legion of Merit, newest United States decoration, to nine officers and enlisted men of the army and three officers of Allied Nations for distinguished service was announced by the War Department Saturday. Eleven of the decorations were in the degree of Legionnaires and one was in the degree of officer. The degree of officer decoration awarded Col, Johannes K. Meljer of the Royal Netherlands army who acted as Intermediary between American forces in Surinam and the Netherlands government there.

Among others decorated were: United Captain Ralph B. Praeger, States cavalry missing in action sinco May 7, 1942. His wife, Mrs. Verda Ames Praeger lives in Claflin, Kas. Coupon Calendar Sugar Coupon No.

11 in war ration book good for three pounds Feb. 1 to March 15. Coffee Coupon No. 25 in war rution books issued to: persons 15 years old or over good for one pound Feb. 8 to March 21, inclusive.

Gasoline good No. 4 for coupons four in gullons booles Jan. 22 through March 21. Tire Inspection Holders of books First inspection deadline March 31, with inspections every six months thereufter. Holders of and "C' books First inspection deadline Feb 28, Subsequent inspeclion for book holders every four months, for book holders every three months.

Fuel Oll In zolle inclusive Reno and adjoining counties, coupon No. 3 good for 11 gallons ench Jan. 5 to Feb. 10, inclusive. No.

4 coupons valid 27 to March 20. wood for 10 gallons cach. Undisturbed By Rationing Mrs. Prentiss Brown Takes It In Stride Washington (P)-Mrs. Prentiss Brown, whose husband tells every homemaker in America how much and store can be had at the grocery is unperturbed by it all.

Truc, she couldn't get sugar at her store this week and Prentiss, did lose his ralion book, but locel board in St. Ignace, replaced it, Meat can be hard to find too, the wife of the OPA chief admits, but her husband likes fish and thinks they should have baked beans three times a week. There was a truce of nostalgia in the remark that he used to broil steak over an open fireplace. can't get excited over rationing." the slender, silver-huired mother ot seven said Saturday. "You can always come back with something.

You don't always get what you thought you wanted, but think the discomfort is in not finding It in the nearest store." Sho doesn't plan menus a week, or even a day ahead. "It depends on how hungry we are and what's left over," was her comment, Restrictions on the purchase of canned goods simply don't interest prefer to cook fresh vegetables and cat fresh fruits." Mrs. Brown said that "we did put up 25 quarts of beans and tomatoes from our own didn't garden," then explained, "I get A chance to put up what I usually do. We weren't there at the right seasons." Reel Life Hero Freed By A Jury (Continued From Page One) bench sharply. The other two acquittal verdicts were read amid dead silence.

When the final verdict was TCported, Flynn Jumped from his seat and rushed over to Mrs. Anderson, shaking hands enthusl-1 astically, Flynn then went down the line, shaking hands with all the jurors. Glad To Be American "My confidence now has been justified in essential American Justice. I really mean it. I didn't become an American citizen for nothing.

The fair play I received during to the trial those proves who that. I want thank all stood by The me during the criminal trial." long proceedings against the 33-year-old Flynn gan last October when Miss Hansen, 17, former Lincoln, girl, signed 2 complaint that he had raped her last Sept. 27 during a party at the mansion of Fred McEvoy, British sportsman. A week later, Miss Saiterlee, a night club entertainer, came into the district attorney's office with a juvenile officer and swore to a complaint charging Flynn had twice been intimate with her more than a year before aboard his yacht Sirocco on a cruise to Santa Catalina island. The actor was charged with three counts of statutory rape, which, in California, means an intimate act with a girl under 18 without regard to consent.

Denied Charges Flynn denied categorically and detail that he had ever had relations with either girl. As for the two girls who found themselves thrown into the limelight with one of America's most glamorous male figures: Miss Hansen, in custody of juvenile authorities, will be sent home to her parents in Lincoln. At Sacramento, Miss Satterlee said she thought the acquittal of Flynn was "horrible." She sald in an interview: "I hate Flynn more than anybody else in all the world. Maybe I'm better off the woy it turned out, but I dicin't want. it this way." Expects Betty Home Lincoln, (A)-Mrs.

Anna Hansen, mother of Betty Hansen, in the Errol Flynn case, expressed 17-ycar-old Lincoln a involved surprise today when informed that the actor had been acquitted on charges of raping her daughter, Mrs. Hansen said her daughter has not written her anything about the case, but that she expects her to return home. She did not know when. Fish Need Pawhuska, Okla. (A)-Pawhuska fishermen want to tell fish stories too.

Osage county anglers, convinced that the growth of fish in Lake, Pawhuska is being stunted by a mysterlous cause Saturday appenled to Tulsa to send A. D. Aldrich, its fish culturist, to Pawhuska for an Investigation. "Our citizens catch whoppers in Tulsa lakes but. just get littie fellers here.

We thinks il's lack of vitamins, not the abilIty or our fishermen that's at fault," City Manager E. E. Jones said. Fire Damages Car Firemen extinguished an auto fire in the first block West Saturday night. The car WAS damaged slightly.

Identity of the owner was not learned. Asthma Mucus Loosened First Day For Thousands of Sufferers Choking, gasping, wheezing, spaama of redlonts Bronchial in Asthma ruin and a enervy. Inthe proscription cu quicky circulate through the blood and commonbelp Arst loosen Clio thick strangling the day, Focurring aiding choking nature in spasms, patilating and promoting 18 freer breathing and restful Mendwoo not amoko, or 10- tableta Section Just pleasant, tasteless palliating torera. that Irou Have helped thousands of ourclad back unless for completely AcE your druggiat today. Only 60c.

Deaths Levi K. Hale Levi K. Hale, 56, retired farmer, died nt 3:45 o'clock Saturday morning, at a living local at the hospital. home of Hel his son, Walter Hale, near Pretty Prairie. He was taken to the hospital Friday, The body was taken to Mt, Hope and the funeral will be 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at home near Pretty Prairie.

Burial will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery. Mrs. Minnie Janc Lightfoot Mrs. Minnie Jane Lightfoot, 74, died at 3:05 o'clock: Satufday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eugene Graham, 141P North Main.

She had been ill five weeks She came here five years ngo from Bonner Springs, Kas. Sho war born Sept. 16, 1868 at Tama, la. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Graham: Mrs.

Clarence S. Chase. Dallas, and Mrs. Robert Rilcy, Little Rock. a brother.

A. L. Berry, Bonner Springs; four grandchildren, one great grandchild. The body was shipped Saturday night to Bonner Springs for funeral and burial there Monday. She was a member of the Christian church.

Mrs. Emma A. Disbrow Mrs. Emma A. Disbrow, 88, died at 1:15 o'clock Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Edna Pearl Bell, 1005 East Second, after five years of illness. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Bell and Mrs. W. R.

Ervin, Kensington, 12 grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was born. Nov. and 16, came 1854, here at live Newburgh, years ago from Edgewood, Md. Elverna Mao Seibert Great Bend-Elverna Mae Seibert, 45, died nt the home of her brother, Grant Seibert here.

FuSunday 2:30 p.m. at the Method st church, burial near Dundee. Mrs. Mary Ann Holmes Mrs. Ann Holmes, 87, 330 Mary West Sherman, died.

about 9 o'clock Saturday morning at a local hospital. She was the widow of Joel B. Holmes. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. B.

J. Farney, 330 West Sherman, and Mrs. Oscar Barlon. 319 West two sons, Oral Holmes and Orval Holmes, Liberal: five sisters, Mrs. Belle Glendenning, Lebanon, Mrs.

Ola Salce, Indianapolis, 0. L. Caldwell, Indianapolis, Mrs. Barbara Matthews, Wetmore, and Mrs. Otis Morton, Indianapolis.

11 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, She was born Jan, Franklin county, Ind. The funeral will be at 4 o'clock Tuesday niternoon at Johnson Sons parlor. The body will be sent to Liberal Wednesday for burial. Harvey Musbach Ness City Harvey Musbach, 66, for twenty years janitor of the school here, died at his home after an illness of several weeks. Surviving are the widow and six children, Mrs.

Grace Beck, Lebanon; Allen, with the armed forces somewhere in the southwest Pacific; Arthur, of Ness City; and Irene, Viola and Arlene, at home. Will Johnson Liberal Will Johnson, 73, retired farmer of the Hardesty community, died of pneumonia, at the hospital here, He homesteaded! in the Grand Valley community, cast of Hardesty, 45 years ago. The only survivor is a sister in Iowa. Mrs. James Craig Mrs.

Emma Craig, 89, who had made her home for tho past 20 years with her nephew, G. P. Jones, 623 East died Saturday night at a local hospital. She was in good health and walked downtown nearly every day until Good News For Piles Sufferers FREE BOOK On Causes And Related Ailments The McCleary Clinic, HD223 Elms Excelsior Springs, Mo. is putting out an up-to-the-minute, 122-page book on Colon Disorders, Piles and Constipation and commonly associated chronic ailments.

The book is illustrated with charts, diagrama and X-ray pictures of these ailments, Write todaypostcard will do--to the above address and this large book will be sent you FREE and postpaid. Schools Help In War Effort Kansas Colleges Are To Be Utilized Washington (P)--The Manpower commission announced Saturday approval of 281 non-federal schools, colleges and universitics for utflization by the war and navy departments for specialized training of men and women needed in the armed forces. Located throughout the country, the institutions were the first to of be sciected by A joint committee navy and manpower commission for the new war training program. Many others will be designated Every institution in tho country is being considered for possible use, The commission emphasized that actual contracts will be to Institutions whose facititles, prove acceptable to the interested branch of the services. Contracta for training made before creation of the remain in force.

There between 000 and 700 of these. Among the 281 approved Suture day are: To the war department for training engineers: Arkansas: University of ArKansas State college of agriculture and applied science, University of Kansas. Missouri: Unlversity of Missouri, School Washington Mines university, Metallurgy. Missouri of To the war department for the training of army aviation cadets: Arkansas: Arkansas State Teachers college, Jonesbro; Henderson Slate Teachers college, Arkadelphia, and Ouachila college, Arkndelphia. Fort Hays Kansas State college.

Kansas State era college, Emporia, Kansas college of agriculture and applied science, Municipal university Wichita. Missouri: Jefferson college, Northeast Missouri State Teachers college, Rockhurst college, St. Louis university, Southwest Missour! State Teachers college, University To the of war soupartment for premeteorological training for the army air crops: Missouri; Washington sity. To the war department for training WAAC members: Arkansas: Arkansas Polytech- most loved practical most THE NEW Nan Rogers CLASSIC FOR SPRING as seen in "Glamour" $8.98 So beautiful you'll love to wear it from dawn to dimout 50 practical it's at home in any setting. The skirt is gracefully gored; the flap pockets are scalloped; the yoke back waist is shirred for casy action.

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Missourl: University of sourl, Of All Foods Is Demanded GREATEST ACE Capt. Joseph Jacob Foss. Sioux Falls, S. who, having destroyed 20 Jap planes, becomes greatest American air ace of all lime. Eddie Rickenbacker, World war I hero, shot down 23.

German planes in that conflict. week ago when she suffered 8 stroke. The body will be taken to Denver, her former home, for burial. Surviving are other, nieces nephews. nois.

Her husband, James Craig, died about ago, and other members of her immediate family are dend. Funerals Mrs. J. Floyd Burt Burt, The funeral for Mrs. J.

Floyd McPherson, formerly of Hutchinson, will be at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Quiring chapel at McPherson, with burial in Greenburg cemetery, She died Friday at her home. Surviving the widower: two daughters, Eloise Burt, McPherson, and Mrs. W. P. Thomas, Claremore, four sisters, Mrs.

L. B. Sipple, Wichita: Mrs. P. E.

Lear and Mrs. F. M. Dodd, White Cloud and Mrs. J.

A. Sanderson, Compton, and a brother, Charles Maxwell, Los Angeles. airs. Matte James The funeral for Mrs. Mattie James, 54, 121 West will be at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon al Second Baptist church, Rev.

J. W. Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery, Washington (P) -The CIO exccutive board Saturday asked for "an over-all Democratic system of rationing of all foods and other necessities" to eliminate blackmarket operations, and a continue ation of the national wAge stabile Ization policy la strengthen the morale and health of the workers and to "guarantee maximum duction." In a statement, the board declared that although organized labor has "accepted wholehcarledly" the wage stabilization program "there has been a dismal failure on part of congress and government officinis to effectuate the remnining, stabilization portions of the econopollcy." The board said that because "of the absence of over-all rationing effective price control." the "ravages of the black market are beginning to sprend" and that "workers in war production ters are finding it either impossible to buy the goods they need or can buy them only at prohibitive profitecring prices." "Statements from government officials such n5 'butter is too scarce to ration' sminck of Alice in Wonderland," the board said. The Hutchinson Nows-Herald A consolidation nt The Hutchinson News Inquiring Reporter Do you think Income taxes ought to be "pay as you go?" PHIL WILSON, bowling alley! manager: "I think it is all right in this way--there are a lot of it, and it they don't have it, the people making big money now.

Maybe in a year they won't have government won't get it." F. CURLEY MILLER, stage manager: "Certainly. These projests won't last forever. There's a lot of them working on projects who are spending all they make, and they won't have it next year." BERT SNYDER, Chamber of Commerce secretary: "Better get it while the getting's good." HARRY TIDD, bank president: "It is sound financing there is no question about that, I'm 100 per cent for it. In regard to paying or not paying 1942 taxes, there are many who could pay both, but that's another question.

A lot of people are making darned good moncy now, who may not have it from now." HARRY BAKER, post office clerk: "it it's taken out of your never check, see right at but it the source, it you you get have fo pa; a year from now it's hell." MARK LUMB, grade school! principal: "It's all right. We can pay it along with the rest of the bills." MARGUERITE BURRIS, farm management steno: "It would be OK. These income tax blanks are terrible to fill out." To Hear FDR Salary Views House Committee Defers Action Washington -House ways and means committee members, pondering the question of nullifyIng President Roosevelt's order limiting salaries to $25,000 after cision taxes, to give the chief postponed a executive, deSaturday at his request, a chance to submit his view. The committee deferred action until. next Saturday mid strong signs that the move to erase the executive order by would have won a committec mojority had it been to vote.

In a letter to Chairman Doughton of the committee, Mr. Roosevelt expressed his "earnest hope" thot a pending bill boost the nation's debt limit to $210,000,000,000 would be passed without amendment, Those advocating nullification of the salary limitation plan to tuck it on to the debt limit measure as a rider, thus giving the president the alternative of uccepting both or nelther. Mr. Roosevelt said in his letter that if the committee did not agree with him that the debt limit legislation should be kept free of unendments "not related to the subject matter the bill I will later submit my view as to the merits of the proposal." Any White, Woman Looks Good To Them Topeka (A)--A 21-foot letter from an American bomber squadron somewhere in Africa was the response Lila Mae Weaver got after sending a picture of Alpha Phi sorority pledges to Sgt. Bill Davis of Topeka, Davis and 50.

of his buddies teamed up to tIll scroll with endearments, but the Washburn university coed took it calmly, "The men were so happy to see somo white women after those Ubangi babes that they decided to write to us," sho explained. Booked As Drunken Driver When ho saw an auto swervo past several other cars on South Main Saturday night, Patrolman: F. C. Weatherman reported, he gave chase and arrested the driver, Lowis Navarro, 528 West who was booked for drunken driving and jailed. and The Hutchinenn Herald Published daily and Bunday at Second and Walnut streeta and entered at the Post office In Hutchinson.

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