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Page Two The Berkshire Evening Eagle, Pitteficld, Mass. Friday, March 26, 1943. England Brothers Ceiling Prices On Eggs Under Attack UAOLM WASHINGTON. A protest gainst the OPA's recently-an For YOU! Foundations nounced ceiling price on eggs as Stocks Advance To New Highs NEW YORK, (UP). Stocks advanced to new highs for mora than two yean today with trading running at a rate of more than shares for a full session.

Gains ranged to more than 2 points in the main list and some special issues had advances of as much aa 0 points. Dealings In the first hour totaled 630,370 shares, the moat for that period ad nee Dec. 8, 1941. Most of the leading Issues made new highs for the year and longer, Including United SUtes Steel, Beth-lehem, Chrysler, General Motors, Santa Fa, American Smelting, Goodrich, Goodyear. Johns-Man- Farm Croups Laud Davis As Food Boss Urge He Be Given Complete Control Over Farm Prices WASHINGTON, (UP).

Farm organization leaders led a drive today to give Chaster C. Davis, the new war food administrator, undisputed power over farm prices President Roosevelt, in announcing the "drafting" of Davis to replace Secretary of Agriculture "absolutely contrary to the beat Interests of the majority." was registered thia week by John B. Randall, manager of the Springfield Co-operative Auction Market Aa-aoclatlon. to a letter to Congreaa-man Charlea R. Claaon (R) oi.

Springfield. Congressman Claaon brought the letter to the attention of the House and had Inserted In the Congreational Record. Writing of ttfe "disastrous effects we expect unless remedial measures are instituted by the Office of Price Administration to help keep folka in business and raising food." Mr. Randall stated: 'The jumbled mess each succeeding OPA regulation plunges the food indus vine, Kennecott, Paramount, Sears Claude Wickard as food admin With woman engaged more and more in war activities, the need for effective corsetry is greater than ever. Average and heavier-than-average women particularly want garments upon which they can depend for dependable support in order to do the best job possible without tiring.

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An executive order is expected to be issued tries Into is doing just that much more to break down morale among our iood-producing elements the farmers and I don't mean the 10 Million Married Women For War Plants WASHINGTON. (AP. The census Bureau estimated today that there are 10,600,000 married women in more than 100 industrial centers in the country who are "potentially available for war work." The estimate was based on 1940 census figures, but the bureau said that "most of these women are undoubtedly still outside the labor force." The bureau made public its study of available female labor reserves in connection with the developing manpower shortage in war areas. Since married women without children can be employed much more easily than those who have young children to care for, the bureau said the number of women in the latter group who will be free to work "is severely limited unless day nurseries or other facilities for the care of their children are provided." Coupon Values To Be Higher WASHINGTON, (AP) Sunday morning newspapers will tell American housewives of new point values for processed fruits and vegetables, and the best guess is that coupons costs will be substantially lower. OPA officials declined to cite specific figures but indicated numerous reductions, and a few increases, could be expected when the new table is made public.

Various kinds of cans, bottles and packages, especially of fruits and large sizes of other products, apparently are due for reduced point values. Increases will be applied to items that are selling faster than they can be replaced on store shelves. Trade sources and consumers alike have criticized many of the present point values as too high. Gun Battle In Night Club farmers of the West and South Soon spelling out Davis' powers. Leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives all welcomed the appointment of Davis, but warned that he will need greater power than that exercised by Wickard.

I I i Corset Salon, Second Floor alone no we have just a great a portion of dirt farmers right her in the Bast, the Northeast, New England, and is particular, a uavis, now preaaaeui 01 in st. jtfgl Louis Federal Reserve Bank, has Roebuck. Montgomery Ward, United Aircraft, Warner Brothers Pictures, Westlnghouse Electric, and Southern Pacific. Following Is a selected list of stocks traded at noon today on the New York Stock Exchange: Alaska Juneau 4H Am Can 79 Am Tel 141 Anaconda 29 Beth Steel 65 Borden 25 Cons Edison 18 Gen Elec 36 Gen Motors 49 Intl Nickel 34 InUTsT 7 Johns-Manv 82 Mont Ward 39 Cent 15 13-16 Ont West Radio 8 Socony-Vac 12 Stand Oil 51 Tex Co 47 United Corp 1 Un Gas Imp 7 Steel 55 Westlnghouse Elec 91 Woolworth 35 Massachusetts." Commenting on the letter Pastel Felt Flatterers offered to the House, Congressman Clason aaid: "The American people have every reason to be gravely concerned with the orders of the OPA which are forcing out of business many thousands of factories which, in peacetime, furnish a most important contribution to the employment of out citizens." Shoemaking Essential naa long experience in wasning-ton, as head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and later as a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Wickard May Resign Wickard, as secretary of agriculture, appears to be left merely with management of the old-line, nonemergency functions of the department.

Friends said he had no present intention of resigning, but such a development within the near future would not surprise some of them. Congressmen, Republicans and Democrats alike, were enthusiastic over the appointment of Davis. There were growing indications that they may at least delay the Bankhead and Pace bills which, Price Administrator Prentiss Brown estimated would result in an 18 per cent increase in food costs. Davis, in St. Louis, said he hoped Reedy pretty hats just what you need to bring Spring into your Life end Looks! Refreshingly trimmed with veils, flowers, bows, lingerie accents all the news of the season at budget-minded, newsworthy, special price! 3.00 and 3.95 BOSTON.

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Men giving the names of Joseph Palladino, 44, of Medford, and Joseph Guerino, 42, of Boston's North End, arrived at CHy Hospital a short time later in a taxicab. Doctors said Palladino was shot in the right hand; Guerino in the right elbow. Palladino, known in Boston He is a man with a practical and Circus To Take To Road Again WASHINGTON, (AP). The song of the calliope will be heard again In the land this year, the government having decided that circus trains may roll once more. But the war Is still the greatest show on earth, and the Office at Defense Transportation hedged its permission today with a ringmaster-like announcement that circus train travel will have to be an aft-ershow to "all other train movements, whether freight, passenger or mixed freight and passenger movements." The official order authorizes railroads to transport the employes and property of circuses, carnivals and similar shows in cars owned or leased by the show companies.

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All our planes returned to their base. These raids raised to 25 the total Farm organization leaders, who Pre-Easter sporting circles as "Joe Beans," is a brother of Rocky Palladino, generally have supported Wickard personally, attributed the present muddled food situation to his lack of final authority over farm labor, I a number of air attacks on that Japanese base this month. machinery and prices. Brown's denunciation of the Pace and Bankhead bills and announcement of Davis' appointment apparently were timed to stem the Harm bloc's determined effort to get higher prices. In addition Brown linked the farm bloc's bills to union demands for wages higher than allowable under the War Labor Board's "little steel" wage whose race horse, little Beans, was a Boston favorite in the Kentucky Derby several years ago.

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