The Ville Platte Gazette from Ville Platte, Louisiana • 5

THE GAZETTE, VILLE PLATTE, LA. THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945 THE ARTflY ANSWER Blucnoso Club for Arctic Sailors To His Peop'3 of this Ccmnuniiy "My Thinking My Money stay 1x1 ti war to the finish PERSONAL WAR PROBLEMS Ted R. Gamble. National rector of the Lost Or Estrayed a i nance Divi- leaderofthe millions of Lost or stolen, near Yidrine, 4 cows, 1 yellow 9, 1 bluehh 3, 1 red 1, 1 beef 1 year old, spotted white and yellow. The tcef is branded on the two ears.

One cut square and the other cut into three pieces. The others are branded thus: '5 vui unxeer who are selling you the extra War Bonds needed to beat the Japs and com 1 WANTED Telephone Operators, Experience preferred but Not Necessary. Apply Person or Call Telephone 2061 Southwestern States Telephone Company Ville, Platte, Louisiana jl trt liic war JOO in Europe, put the wartime credo of Americans in these 14 words It 3 good advice to follow not only during war loans but every day. You can't help too much to win a war. Today's community and national war loan totals should reflect your personal determination to see the war through.

Regardless of what the War Bond score is today, it is not high enough unless you have gone to bat and bought bonds to the actual limit of your buying power. THE EDITOR i Photo at tcp shows a convoy being made up for the Murmansk run. At right Is a Canadian sailor, member of the Bluenose Club, trying to unravel an ice coated line after arrival at Murmansk. Anyone finding said cows will be rewarded. EYODE FONTENOT, Route 5, Box 82 6-3-Cts.

pd Ville Platte, La- 111 1 LI ALL sailor3 whose ships carry them into the Arctic Circle in line of duty are eligible for membership in the Bluenose Club, into which several hundred more Canadians were welcomed recently when a group of Royal Canadian Navy frigates not only helped escort a convoy safely to Murmansk and back again, but also accounted for one of three enemy aircraft shot down during the trip. All certified members of the club born in the fertile minds of a LETTER all icebergs, polar bears, whales. Your questions on allotments, insurance, legal problems or other matters as they relate to Army personnel ard their dependents will be answered in this column or by letter. Write Headquarters Service Command, Dallas Texas. Q.

My husband is an Infantry Reserve officer now on active duty overseas. When he is released from service, will he receive five hundred dollars for each year of active duty? A. No. The lump payment of five hundred dollars to officers for each year of active service applies only to those holding commissions in the Air Corps Reserve, who are on flying status. Q.

My daughter is a WAC and she is married to a soldier. Both are overseas. Her husband has been wounded and believes he will be returned to this country for limited service. Could my daughter request a return to duty here, because of her husband's case? A. Yes.

Theater commanders are authorized to return to duty in the United States any member of the Women's Army Corps who requests the return and presents satisfactory evidence that her husband has ben sent back from permanent overseas assignment for such reasons as hospitalization or honorable discharge. Q. Is it true that soldiers over 42 years of ape can be discharged from the Army? A. Yes. The War Department has announced that an enlisted man 42 years of age or over who applies will be discharged from the Army unless he is undergoing1 disciplinary action or requires further medical or surgical treatment.

This policy does not apply ot WACs. Q. My son wants to go to college under the G. I. Bill of Rights when he is discharged from the Army.

Would he have to continue the same course of study he was following before he entered the service? A. No. narwhals, sea lions and other crea tures of the frigid North to show Royal Navy chaplain and leading iff Yf'-'- 'UJtrA I stoker receive an inscribed pro D. Larcade, Jr.) TO CUT ARMY AFTER '-y It was disclosed Fri- 3 week by the House -4 Affairs Committee that rv-EDay the Army Will set -on the wheels to discharge xrately 1,300,000 men. A screened force of clamation, signed by "Neptune Rex, ruler or the raging main." The destroyers Iroquois and Huron were the first Canadian warships to qualify for memberships.

i Latest additions are the Monnow, .) men will De retameu to n-of ap-flinst the Port Colborne, Saint John, Nene, and Stormont. Membership in the Bluenose Club including Royal H. M. C. S.

Iroquoi3, a Tribal class destroyer, veteran of the Murmansk convoy run, on shore bombardment and heavy Channel fighting, has established a record for destroyers. In 23 days of August It steamed some 10.000 miles, fired more than 3,500 round3 of heavy ammunition and aided in sinking 23 enemy ships. The corvette. H. M.

C. S. Cam rose, has also had a career that is the envy of many ship3. In addition to Atlantic escort duty. Its activities have included runs in the Bay of Biscay, service in the Mediterranean and invasion work In Nortli Africa and Normandy.

Tho Cam-rose has also participated in tb sinking of a German blockade runner and shared credit for a "prob able" sinking of a German U-boat -tea uic -a enemy, with probably a of them being retained in iHtry for administrative Navy, R. C. and United States Navy personnel is approximately 20,000, only a small portion which is Canadian. Lieut. James Bradley of Port Credit.

OnU In H. M. C. S. Saint John, was one of the first to obtain his membership proclamation, which declares him a "loyal and trusty Bluenose" and calls upon OPS TO GET SO-DAY -KGO.

AT HOME IN Sfee of theatres i far as possible, men who a be sent from the European to fight the Japanese will ntM back through the A Sates and given a 30-rjiough at home. iOFIC VETERANS TO I HOME At the same Wa-im troons in the THE BESTPRODUCTS Producers Bonds Over America through the screening process for a discharge. A year to eighteen months is given as the time expected it will take to get men who have won their discharges back to the United States. NAVY, MARINES, NOR COAST GUARD PERSONNEL AFFECTED It is made clear and the point emphasized that this procedure and the figures used refer only to the Army and has nothing to do with the Navy, the Marine Corps, nor the Coast Guard. These branches of the service will continue to need and use their entire strength in the Pacific.

DRAFT MAY" BE LOWERED A reduction in draft calls for a period of five or six months following June 30 is expected. It is likely that draft calls will remain the same for the next couple of months and will drop considerably after that and level off for the next five or six months. It is possible that at that time it will be necessary to increase the number called; however, this largely depends on the progress of the war in the Pacific. BUDGET ESTIMATES AND REDUCTIONS President Truman, in a letter to Congress, has recommended reduction in Budget estimates for several Federal agencies for fiscal year 1946, while recommending an increase of $15,000,000 in the overall Federal Security Agency Budget. The House Friday passed, without amendment, and sent to the Senate H.

J. Res. 177, to transfer $3,100,000,000 from the Martime Commission construction program into the Treasury, and to provide for the cancellation of in contractual authority. CURRENT MEAT SITUATION The House Special Committee to Investigate Food Shortages, headed by Representative Clinton P. Anderson, this week filed its first report which mainly concerns meat supply problems.

The report states that the estimated meat production in 1945 is 22 million pounds, a 2-miIlion-pound increase from that of 1944. It is also estimated that there is enough effective consumer demand to support annual production of 170 pounds of meat per capita; the production level established for the second quarter of 1945 averages lly pounds per Lt, many of whom have seen -a in several hard-fought I ms under the most trvinsr person. The present shortage of meat, the report continues, has been brought about in large part by military developments. During 1944 military officials thought the war in Europe might end during the Fall, so that purchases of meat for the fighting forces were reduced. At the time, there was a great abundance of hogs on the market.

Point values were taken off pork and some meat cuts in order to help farmers and slaughterers. Now, however, pork production has fallen off because of price declines in 1944 resulting from the market glut and subsequent loss in confidence of the farmer. In addition, prolongation of war in Europe has necessitated high military demands. RECENT TEN-POINT MEAT PROGRAM The Committee be-lives that this program, announced on April 23 jointly by the Office of Economic Stablization, OPA, War Food Administration and the War Department, is mainly unsatisfactory. "The program will not restore confidence among producers legitimate processors and distributors are still required to lose substantial sums in order to comply with ceiling prices," the report emphasizes.

COMMITTEE RECOMMEND-TIONS The Committee recommends (1) that food production be given first priority and that farmers be allowed adequate machinery and manpower; (2) that the President consider inauguration of a program to coordinate food production, rationing, distribution and pricing; (3) that "fair and equitable margins" be allowed meat producers, processors and distributors; (4) that hog sup- port prices be advanced to $13.50 per hundred on drove weight (5) that special inducements be given the fishing, egg, and poultry industries to increase supplies; (6) that steps be taken to induce greater sugar production in the United States and Territories and 7 that storage facilities be increased along with production, separate meat points be used, and rigid black-market controls be set-up. Nazi Surrender Announced Here Tuesday Morning (Continued from page One) stride to celebrate the victory in Europe. "This is a solemn but glorious LOST conditions, will be io the United States as a replacements from Eu- zi this country are avail- GKOCERIE Af your neighborhood grocer One hydraulic Jack in Mamou between the Kenneth Reed Gin ot the residence of Arteon Vidrine. Finder will be rewarded. Contact: HILARD BLANCHARD, 4-26-3ts.

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It was the guiding hand for peace and happiness in the parish, worth fighting to preserve and worth buying War Bonds for. (. S. Treasury Department 2-Coat House Panning System Gives 3-Coat Results SOLDIERS TO iJZ The present plan fe EuF.ion men to reparable discharges under s-'5em" quite ob- ail these men can not back to the United Lf es aer they have gone I 1 Same high quality, strictly pure HOME ON FURLOUGH hour," said the chief executive in a 9 a. m.

Eastern war time radio address as he joined Prime Minister Churchill in announcement of Germany's defeat. Premier Stalin, who had been expected to speak simultaneously, was silent. "I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day," the president said. Actually the western front guns were stilled Tuesday to prevent further bloodshed as all the Allied world celebrated V-E Day.

The last shot on the western front was fired in Czecho-Slo-zaki by the 80th Infantry Division of General Patton's Third Army, the last to remain in action. Patton issued his cease fire order at 8 a. m. Tuesday. The stubborn Nazis in Czechoslovakia the last to submit agreed to the terms of unconditional surrender, and a "cease fire" order was issued in Prague at 7:25 a.

m. The final terms were signed at 2:41 a. m. Monday (British Double Summer time, 7:41 p. m.

Sunday, Central War Time) in a red brick house in Reims, which for months had been General Eisenhower's headquarters. The fact of this historic ing had been first reported to the world 24 hours before the official announcement by Edward Kennedy, chief of the Associated Press staff on the western front. In a ringing order of the day, Eisenhower told his armies that "the crusade on which we embarked in the early summer of 1944 has reached its glorious conclusion. "It is my especial privilege in the name of all nations represented in this theater of war to commend each of you for valient performance of duty," he said. "Though these words are feeble, they come from the bottom of a heart overflowing with pride in your loyal service and admir- ation for you as warriors.

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