Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 26

PAGE TEN Tune in on KRBC THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Sunday Morning September 3 1944 Ej) aiMnu 3Rtporter-iirtntf Thought for Today Surplus Army Clothes Remade for Refugees A TEXAS NEWSPAPER Publlbe4 Twlrr lilv tvcept Hurt liilii bj tbs BIPOB1 EB PUBLISHING CO Ssrlh llpranl and i'ypfPM AbilPiif TmiI TLLIPIIONF: DIAL ttil anowee JO ahead Avenge not yourselves but rather give plare unto wrath: for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Romans 12:19 Then let the good Thy mighty name revere And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear Entered a Second CIim Matter Oct 4 1904 at the poetoffice Abilene Texas under the Act of March 2 1879 Camp Lee Va recently witnessed one of the most unusual bonfires In the history of this war when 7000 fatigue uniforms were heaped into a big pile by the military and burned They were burned because It was claimed the uniforms had be-come a fire hazard They had been lying unused in a warehouse for so long that according to Capt George Howson the dye in the green herringbone twill Jackets made a chemical reaction with a solution put on the uniforms to protect against poison gas This caused the uniforms to rot They had been stacked on top of each other for a long time as KOUHCI i Oii-nv Subscription IUifsBy Carrier: Morn In and Sunday or Evening and Sunday Stic a ween 85c a month Morning anc Evening and Sunday 33c a week gl 3 a month By MaiJ in West Texas! Morning anc 'Sunday or Eveniig and Sunday S5e a month Other rates on request Member ef Aneciated Pnsa Any erroneous reflection upon the character standing or reputation of any person firm or corporation which mat occur in the columns of THE BEPOR TTR-NEWS will be gladly corrected up on being brought to the attention of Um management surplus Furthermore it is estimated that 100000 other pieces of fatigue clothing are In the same condition -J In contrast far-sighted Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley has pioneered a unique system of saving old Army uniforms He has been remaking them into clothing for the relief of European civilians in the liberated countries During the early part of the war the Army brought back from overseas tons of old field Jackets worn-out socks shirts spattered with mud and blood put them in bales and sold them as rags on the' 1 Junk market Now instead Crowley la taking over these discarded uniforms and haa transformed a Park Avenue skating rink into a secondhand clothes factory where he makes new clothes out of old A pair of socks worn out at the heel are transformed into wristlets Two discarded and tom shirts are put together Into one A field Jacket with one arm shot off ta made into a vest These rebuilt clothes are then turned over to UNRRA for distribution in the liberated countries and Russia Formerly clothes were purchased new by UNRRA at a much greater cost to the taxpayer SACRED POLITICAL FLEDGE Among Speaker Sam Rayburn's cronies In the House of Representatives a political pledge Is as binding as a death-bed promises Or at least Sam himself so regards it If he didn't the make-up of the present House committee probing campaign expenditures might be different When the committee was being appointed fair-minded Rep Clinton Anderson New Mexican Democrat asked Rayburn not to put him on the committee as chairman unless he was given a work-lng majority "I am not going to conduct a witch-hunting probe" the tall New Mexican told Rayburn has got to be a fair and Impartial Inquiry And It cant be if you appoint Gathings reactionary Arkansas Democrat who will work hand in glove with the Republicans" promised Gene Cox of Georgia appoint Gathings to that committee'' Rayburn replied IH ask Gene if he won't release! me from the promise" However the reactionary Cox knowing what Rayburn wanted suddenly disappeared He dldnt come around the Capitol and couldnt be found at home So Rayburn to whom a promise is sacred and who is one of Cox's best friends felt he could not keep Congressman Gathings off the committee without release from Cox Even when Anderson camq to Rayburn and told him the room in the Wardman Park hotel where Cox was hiding out the Speaker declined to act But since the time was getting short Rayburn called Gathings Into hla office and In the presence of Anderson gave him a lecture "Now if I put you on this he said "it's got to be understood that you're not going to vote with the Republicans It's got to be understood that on matters of procedure you must vote with the i Democrats On matters of detailed fact naturally your conscience will be your guide" 4 The Arkansas Democrat did not demur He sat silent Speaker Rayburn took this to mean assent Fifteen minutes later the committee held Its first meeting with Democrat Anderson of New Mexico in the chnir and with Democrat Gathings of Arkansas on the committee But on the very first vote Gathings voted with the Republicans to start a witch-hunting probe of a Los Angeles publisher who sold copies of John Carlson's book "Under Cover" LITTLE-BUSINESS WAR CASUALTIES A How tough the problem of peacetime conversion la going to be for small business is Illustrated by butchers and the neon light In- aUStIn Philadelphia alone a total of 1700 retail meat dealers went out of business when rationing came In There wasnt enough meat to handle their assistants were drafted Many of the butchers drifted Into war Jobs or enlisted In the Army After the war a lot will want to stage a come-back but wont have the money to gel started Along with the butchers the neon light manufacturers also took a bad economic licking Because of the dim-out along the coasts neon lights were fcnrbldden in hundreds of cities In addition tne materials going Into neon lights were needed for military lights radio sets As a result a total of 3500 neon light manufacturers closed They were silent casualties of the war No obituary notices were published There has been no mention of their demise in the news-1 naprs But they were casualties just the same To get back Into business most of the butchers and neon manufacturers will need money but most of them cant borrow at tha banks However the Smaller War PlanU Corporation now study-lng this problem and la prepaid to loan them money if their reputation was good and If they had been In business a certain number of yean before war broke This la Just one small sector of little business which may hate a tough time getting back on lta feet but which Smaller War Plant la planning to help McLemore And Nip Snipers the French and the Russians absorbed the first shocks again and the ocean was still a protecting moat Next time the aggressors will hit us first knocking out the greatest production center on earth The rest would be easy The ocean is no longer a it is just a lot of space for planes to fly over Buzzbombs directed and controlled by monitor planes could set out from Berlin and Tokyo simultaneously and blast our war factories into rubble while we wrung our hands in impotence Planes capable of carrying entire companies of infantrymen huge field pieces and all the paraphernalia of blitz warfare including tanks are just over the horizon of time Our only shield against such a catastrophe is to be prepared To permit our defensive forces to lapse into impotence again is to invite destruction and enslavement We must maintain a strong army navy and air force Of equal importance is a large body of reserves capable of picking up arms at the in- stant of alarm and giving a good account of themselves as fighting men The only answer to that is compulsory military training for our young men It be done any other way We must not let our hope for and faith in a world organization to maintain the peace to blind us to the fact that the only safe peace is one based on the strength of its guarantors In last Sunday's Dallas Morning News we read with something of a shock an editorial dealing with compulsory military training Much of this agitation said the editorial comes from organizations of veterans of this and other wars It argues that these organizations represent only a minority of veterans and these few of "militaristic views" It insists that a veteran who has suffered in foxholes and endured the rigors of military training wouldn't admit it but he favors compulsory military training because he wants others to undergo the discomforts he has suffeied The of revenge is likely to be the basic explanation of his He not think far enough to realize that much of such training would be wasted and that all of it would threaten American security by causing other nations to fear us and gang against Citizens who would prefer to climb into the ring with Joe Louis instead of Caspar Milquetoast will please form on the right and wait their turn Also if this point is logical why don't we abolish West Point and Annapolis on the theory that they make us a militaristic nation? Also why not abolish policemen and courts of law on the theory that these breed crimes and criminals? Is it logical to assume that a person who has been vaccinated against smallpox is more susceptible to that disease than one who has not? This extraordinary editorial in a respected and influential newspaper at the very moment we are locked in a death grapple with our enemies says in effect that veterans want their own sons and grandsons to suffer because they themselves have suffered in defense of their country It says in effect that training isn't much good It says in effect that Germany and Japan and other aggressor nations would respect us if we were weak and gang up on us if we were strong When views like these can appear in a responsible newspaper enjoying a high reputation for integrity we say that the cause of military preparedness as a means of preserving this a free nation is indeed in peril We say there is real danger that this second world war will have been fought in vain and that the next gang of aggressor nations that comes along will find the United States of America as easy to conquer as Poland was in 1939 and prance in 1940 We say God save the United States of America from its own inexplicable folly The publishers are not responsible for copv oirtmtsslnns typographical errors or any unintentional errors that may occur other than to correct in next issue after It is brought to their attention All advertising orders are accepted on this basis only Thought For Labor Day A (what we call editorial) in the London Daily Mail's transatlantic edition uses the phrase: fact has to be recognized that the war may collapse at any time in the near future" It is an apt descriptive term for compared with the laborious process of launching a war of getting it organized and going of switching from a peace to a war economy the ending of a war always comes so suddenly that the only word that describes it adequately The democracies are always caught unprepared for war Britain no less than the The S64 question now is Are they equally unprepared for the explosive appearance of peace? One condition can be almost as disastrous as the other Peace caught us unprepared in 1918 but then our economy had been hitched to chariot wheels a much shorter time than in this war and a far smaller percentage of our nation's manpower was involved directly or indirectly This time organization for war went much deeper took in infinitely more territory' was felt in every nook and cranny of the land and in all circles of commerce industry and agriculture The reaction from the collapse of war will consequently be much more unless we are prepared to cushion the shocks Are we? Well congress is still haggling over most of the details It seems determined to hold down unemployment compensation to war workers and veterans to as low a level as possible and equally determined to see that none of the big industries is caught holding the bag when contracts are cancelled If wages and soldier pay have been comparatively high this time so have the profits of most of the big war industries but certain elements in congress seem bound and determined that most of the shock of reconversion' must fall on the workers and veterans They forget that our most dangerous postwar situation for all concerned would be several million jobless men forced to eke out an existence on a state-based unemployment compensation that could be as little as $7 per week God Save the United States of America in the future we are attacked by a powerful enemy we may be sure that we will not be given the time to mobilize our industries and to extemporize an army from the untrained youth of the said Secretary nf War Henry Stimson recently The American people would do well to ponder the warning words of this wise old statesman who as secretary of stale under Herbert Hoover raised his voice for collective action to stop Japanese invasion of Manchuria back in 1932 Had Stimson been heeded then there probably never would have been a second world war We need to heed his voice more than ever now Modern blitz warfare in its initial phases favors the nation that strikes treacherously as aggressors always do Always heretofore the aggressors have been prepared the peaceable nations unprepared In 1914 we had time to prepare because the British the French and the Russians absorbed the first blows and the wide ocean gave us a splendid isolation In this war the British By SGT HENRY McLEMORE This Is the first signed article by SgL McLemore since Joining the Army It was written in the South Pacific battle area and released for newspaper publications by pedal permission of the War Department WITH THE 37TH DIVISION ON BOUGAINVILLE notes for this story were made while we were sitting on a log on a hill scarcely 300 yards away from another hill on which the Japanese have a trailblock and outpost If you are at all interested In how it feels to take notebook and pencil In hand with the possibility that a Nip sniper la peeking at what you write through the telescopic sights of his Ariska Sanpachl 8hlkl rifle we ean tell you Uncomfortable Makes a man a mite restless Doesn't help his handwriting either Flawless Spencerian has a way of turning into a kidnaper's scrawl And there was little comfort in the warning of platoon leader Lieutenant Bernard Raskin of 1S53 38th Street Brooklyn: "Better not write anything bad about the he cautlnn-edo "Might make 'em mad and theyll take a shot at you" It Is this rasualness In the presence of the enemy characteristic nf all the 37th veterans men' and officers that makes It touch on a newcomer to the Jungle The tryo to protect his pride to preserve his dignity must behave as if he too were perfectly at home when in the vicinity df men who want to see him get a Purple Heart The novice to warfare Is never sent out with other novitiates This makes sense of course but a fellow surely could be more natural if he were surrounded by men who were as new as he was and could allow hla knees to shake his teeth to chatter and his heart to beat the way they want to HE'S A GOOD ACTOR We out-acted a Barrymore all the days we were at this outpost When we strolled to a commanding position on the hill with the forward artillery observer to check the bursts of the shells we didn't wnt to stroll at all but wanted to Join an ant colony under a mahogany log When we walked outside the little perimeter near dusk to check on the booby traps all we needed was a slice of bread In our mouth to have a tasty heart sandwich When we went out on finger patrols from the outpost we wished we were back at Fifth and 42nd standing right beside a big cop It's unbelievable this sangfroid of the men who have fought through two nasty campaigns They're not careless mind you but they don't seem to give a damn about danger Nightfall Is when the newcomer really has to take hold of him- elf The jungle Is full of sounds and lights How Is a man who was raised on the honk of automobile horns and the flash of Neon signs to know that there la a certain kind of bird that make a sound like the crack of a rifle or that the unearthly glow he sees when he peeks firm his poncho Is nothing but a phosphorescent Illumination peculiar to these Pacific Islands? He cant so he sweats It out his foxhole a Turkish bath It doesn't help any either to hear the quiet breathing of his foxhole mates aslerp in the confidence that the men on guard will take care cf things YOU KEEP VERY QUIET You dont make a sound wire you get In a foxhole at night You dont gel out of that hole until daylight Have you ever had to cough when you knew you mustn't cough or want tn sneeze so badly that you'd sell your rights to rotation for a chance to cut loose? It's torture We came within one ounce of sneeze pressure of blowing up trying to smother a dandy of a sneeze The novice cant alwsvg do the right things and when he slips the patient and understanding of the veterans is heartwarming You'd think that they'd be short tempered bitter when placed In danger by what to them must seem a ridiculous mistake But they aren't We talked too loud during a "break'' on a trail "Wouldn't be so loud a sergeant cautioned Another greenhorn started to light a cigarette save that smoke for later" a BAR veteran advised "You ran see that smoke a mile nnd you can smell It for a couple of hundred We tripped over a vine and stumbled making a noise that sounded like a drum heat In the closeness of the jungle The only reproof we got was turned heads and grins that said "Take It easy fellow" Makes a man glad that he an Infantryman Distributed by McNsught Syndicate Inc) I From Capital of Movicdom ment sew up the pockets of the uniform he wears in Be Seeing You" I regulation ferbid stuffing pockets full of things like piiics keys wallet Jt Hccht seeking characterization lor an absent minded doctor In his new script has tha doctor with porkets sewed closed and carrying hla medical notations pinned to the back of know his coat lapel so he'll where to find them Reporter-News Ration Calendar MEATS FATS Book four red stamps A3 through Z8 and AS through G5 now valid and good Indefinitely PROCESSED Book four blue stamps A3 through Z8 and AS through L5 now valid and good Indefinitely Book four stamps 30 31 33 and 33 good Indefinitely for five pounds Stamp 40 valid for five pound for home canning through Feb 28 1945 Spare stamp 37 may be used with application for canning sugar Book three airplane atamp 1 and 3 good Indefinitely 13-A coupons are valid for three gallons through Sept 31 B-3 and B-4 and C-3 and C-4 coupons good for live gallons Abilene 25 and 50 Years Ago MORE BRITISH PERHAPS PUT NOT IN CHARACTER HOLLYWOOD Sept The technical adviser on a London street scene for Rita Hayworth's new vehicle was checking the extras "You there" he said beckoning to a man "Turn up your hatbrim old fellow won't you please Looks more British that way" Tire technical adviser drew a glare as the man turned happen to be A Hodson studio chief of pcllce and I don't rare whether I look British or not" he answered DKMIIIE FILMS PICTURE PLANNED 30 YEARS AGO HOLLYWOOD Sept MV-Cerll DeMllle preparing to film Flame" hla story of Mexico says he almrst made such a picture 30 years at Panchn Villa's invitation In the spring of 1915 Villa offered DeMUle various inducements Including $500000 in cosh In an American bank as hie insurance and a personal bedy guard to cross the border and make a Mexican film DeMllle was set to make the picture when Villa's power was overthrown ACTOR LEO CARRILLO IS S03IE FARMER TOO HOLLYWOOD Sept Leo Carrillo coming to town from his 4000-acre ranch near Carlsbad Calif to appear In "musical roundup" gave this account of farmer Carrillo's activities: Sold 1000 pounds of avocados Shipped 177 steers 280 pigs to market Supervised harvesting of 600 tons of hay Counted 1000 chickens and 500 turkeys growing fat for market "Snme people who laughed at my farming" he said nnw rating their and maybe my aveendna" EVERYTHING IS GRIST EOR HEN IIECIIT'S 51 ILL HOLLYWOOD Sept Ben HeqJil will pick up material anywhere It fils his writing needs Hrrht was talklna to his filrnd Joe Cotten who mention that tv: 1 so absent minded he had the studio wardrobe depart INGRID'S SHINY BUTTON IS CAUSE OF CONFUSION HOLLYWOOD Sept lAV-Being known as a funny fellcw) isn't always nil asset as director Alfred Hitrhcofk working with Ingrid Bergman in "House of Dr Edwardea" found out During filming he noted a button on Miss Bergman's blouse mirroring light into the "Makeup for Miss Bergman's button!" hollered The makeup man rushed in started powdering the lady's nose "Nel" yelled button!" "Yeuh 'clipped on the (he makeup man reminded himself as he laid the powder on Ingrid's chin Finally they got a dab of paint on the the right and work was resumed BOMB SHELTER- Continued from Page 1) Montgomery secretary-treasurer Members of the board of governors are M-Sgl Edward Reddy S-Sgt John Riley T-Sgt William Snyder M-Sgl Walter Lesntak Sgl Blrkby and M-Sgt Hai' old Healy Invitations to Saturday's gala affair were extended to Col and Mrs Harry Wcddlngton MnJ and Mrs Fiignne Elliott MaJ nnd Mrs Gerald Karl Maj and Richard Decker MnJ George Parker MnJ nnd Mrs Rlrhnrd Elaiichurd Cupl and Mrs Grnvrr Coe gnd Lt nnd Mrs Garret ColoncJ Wedding! on Is command lng offlrer of the Abilene Army alr base The Abilene Daily Reporter of 25 years ip Included the following: NEW Dr Paul Alten-dorf former member of the American military intelligence service who recently detailed German plot to stir up a Mexican Invasion of the United State Issued a statement today directly charging President Venustfano Carranza with being directly Implicated tn the plot Scores of vacant lots In Abilene may bloom out like an Arab encampment before long If the expressed Intention of several local citizens are translated into action High rents the impossibility of Unding houses and Ihe high cost cl building a home made many old and new citizen (urn longingly toward the lent idea The lame of Jim Ned Valley Taylor eoutity has gone abroad throughout the length and breath ol the land Recent newspaper stories concerning the valley have spread Ha renown Tandy has been selected as the candidate from Ihe Citizens sortition lor commissioner from Ihe unit haute to fill the varanry hit by the resignation of Ft rgeison It Armstrong and family left Wednesday of McKlunry where I they will sK-iir several dnys with irliilivrs and friends Misses HI fir and Elsie Hines Della Hunter Osla Brooks and Bob Barksdale visited friends and retain rs hi Jlaird Bunriay Mr and Mu A Webb hate refused to their home In Abilene after spending the summer at Los' Angeles Calif and other places on the Pacific slope Fletcher Scott has just returned from Drsdrmona end reports considerable damage tn the town from the rioting that occurred there some days since Howerton lias returned from a business trip to western points Littleton has returned tn his home tn Hamlin after a visit with relatives In Abilene Mrs Weir and son have returned from a two months vacation spent at Manllou and Colorado Springs Colo Principals of the Abilene schools entered upan their Julies for the new session this week They will he busy for the next few dais cei-l ting the buildings ready and plans' outlined for the opening of me' schools Sept 15 Dudley ls the new principal of the high' school I The Abilene Rrpnrtrr of 511 I years ago Inrliulrrt (he Billowing: Marsh Northlngton's rrsirienrr was burned Wednesday ninning i The fire boys got out promptly and did some good work Foust and Miss Carrie Inl limore were married at Ihe home nf the bride's mother In Dublin tlilj week Mr and Mrs Foust will make 1 this cliy ihrir home i Mesdamrs Christian and Alj eighty have returned to their homes from Warn Misses Katherine and Aflie Yrpir are at home after spending llic summer in Virginia Mrs Hart sough gave a very pleasant hop at the Palace hotel this week Mrs White and daughter Miss Mable left yesterday for Waco where Miss Msble will attend school Mcsdiimes Kenyon and Lowdon are visiting Mrs Ken-von's mother Mr Stephenson In Oak Cliff this week Those who responded tn the lnvl Ini ion sent out by Mrs Evans to luncheon for 5 o'clock Wednesday enjoyed a rare treat and will not soon forget the pleasure It was i successful and elegant entertain mrnt considered In its machlnacal leatures while srnclally It was mer ry delightful The occasion wa complimentary directly to Mn Morris who is Mrs Evans' guest lor the week and Incidentally the Cactus Chautauqua rlrele nearly every member In the city being present The opening of the public schools has been put off until Sept 17 Instead of Sept 3 as was announced last week Col Parra more and Mrrrhant have returned from the Indian territory Sherilf Cunningham la Improving his home by adding another room nnd generally remodeling It 1iwdnn of this city got Uie tn unlnnt ion for state treasurer on Ihe republican tlrket and Kenyon for congress Joe Cockrell fi Hardwick Wiigstnfl Merchant and White are In Henrietta to attend the congressional convention Two Nergoes Face Charges ol False Draft Registration Two 17-yea r-old negro boys charged with giving raise informa-tloh concerning their ages to lorn! selective service board No 1 have heen placed under $500 bond following a hearing before Commissioner Ida James' Arrests came after invest iga I Inn by the FBI of boys undrr 18 registering wllli loral draft hoards nnd giving false Information in order tn obtain selective service cards Rome of the csrds FBI agents staled were used for purposes such as obtaining employment Other boys registered under 18 In order tn gsln entrance Into thr armed forces whlrh Is a violation nf federal lew and ran he proreculed according to a statement nf the 8 attorney Boys are reminded that they are to register on their 18th birthday unless that day comes on Sunday nr a legal holiday Tn thst rase they are to register the follow r1 dnv They ean register st any board in Untied States and give their home address Only ones not lo register on reaching 18 are those who are In enlisted reserves ROCKETS IN BA A Two RAF fliers operating with a forre In Yugoslavia In support or Marshal Tito adjust a rocket for use on one ef their Hurricane Grease-snaked reeds were used for light In early American homes where time nnd materials were nut available fur candle-making tf.