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i ill: Troops Cross Moat in Ranger-Type Attack Illinois Lags In War Bond Sales Chicago Ap) A new "V-rlat-i Eight Interned Children Fatally Burned in Africa Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (AP) Eight German and Italian interned children from Tanganyika burned to death yesterday and four others were critically injured in i Sept. 24 f. to tapper cent lag in th. Support Gained By Farm Bloc For Parity Hike "Washington, D. C.

AP) Senate advocates of writing 14 Army Fliers Die as 2 Planes Crash irr Maine Two army planes, each carrying two officers and five enlisted men, crashed in the vicinity of the Presque Isle, Me, air base yesterday, killing all 14 occupants. Presque Isle, Me. AP) Two officers and five enlisted men perished Kaiser Employs 2 Trainloads of New York Men New York (AP) Master Builder Henry J. Kaiser, who likes to move in giant strides, stepped into the New York labor market yesterday and hired two trainloads of men to work in his Portland, Ore, shipyards. 000 September war was announced yesterday by man Collins, administrator Illinois war savings statt Collins i im a fire in their kindergarten school.

a I 1 workers, already the navroll sttd 1. higher farm parity price ceilings into the pending inflation bill gained support at such a rate yesterday that Administration leaders ordered an early adjournment and began a hurried survey of the crease this by another 100.t Sale of bonds, popuW payroll and other small invest-jumped to $18,127,000 on COmDarpr! ti-itH en ow 11 yesterday in the of an army plane six miles northeast of Pres Out to get 20.000 workers to AS" probable voting alignment 9 Sen. Prentiss M.Brown author of the bill, designed to give President Roosevelt his requested But saips Au il oonds. ored by larger investors. gg power to stabilize the cost of living, frankly conceded that the out aj 25 Believed Drowned in Bay Midland, Ont (AP) A picnic to celebrate the completion of a war contract at the Midland Foundry and Machine Co.

came to an abrupt and tragic ending in Georgian bay Monday when the party's 75-foot, twin-engined motor launch Wa-Wi-Net. suddenly listed, righted itself and sank, drowning probably 23 of the 4L.men aboard. Among the missing was Bert Corbeau, foundry superintendent and former National league hockey star, who owned the launch and was believed to have been at the wheel when the unexplained accident Elmer Shaw, of Midland, formerly, of Toronto, come would be close and apparently was in doubt Asked for his view of the situa- Pared with $12,826.000 Aug. "7" WPB Gets NeToT tion. Senator Alben W.

Barkley D-Ky), the Administration floor ueaiers Hoarding Scrap leader, grinned and replied: May Come to Vote Today ft mri Robert Tiekpn "Do you expect me to say we are beaten?" Earlier in the day, Administra vreorge Eisenberg, co-chairmen of the defense councils salvage tee, announced yesterday they hi given the names of four junk deA ers who had large accumuhtioni of scran nn ihoiw build ships without lost motions or wasted time. Kaiser's hiring representatives said the first 600 men selected yesterday would probably be bound for Portland on Friday aboard a special train. 1,600 Workers Appear The second Kaiser train will pull out early next week and hundreds of men are lining up for the next Kaiser special. Workmen poured into a vacant store taken by Kaiser's agents as a hiring hall, and by closing time 1,600 had appeared. Of the 1,400 who gained admission, 1.200 were accepted.

The others were turned down because they were already employed in a vital industry, or they were 1-A in the draft, or were 18 and 19 years old and facing a possible draft call. Company lias Barracks Thomas Murphy, employment chief for the Kaiser organization, said men hired as helpers would be paid 95 cents an hour and would work a 48-hour week. They tion leaders had claimed "more than enough" -votes to reject the que isle. On Routine Flight They were the complement of the plane, which headquarters cfl the Presque Isle air base said was on a routine flight. Base- headquarters identified the men as: Second Lieutenants R.

L. Drog-ula, the pilot, and J. Q. Crocker, the co-pilot; Staff Sgts. William H.

Finch, Billy J. Hill, George E. Simmons, Lawrence A. Robinson and Joseph Mortino. Neither ages nor home addresses were available.

Base headquarters said that the plane "crashed in poor visibility" and that the cause would have to be determined by as special board of inquiry. Crashes on Wooded Hill Perham, Me. (AP) An army plane crashed on the side of a wooded hill in this tiny Aroostook county community yesterday, killing all seven of its occupants. After a difficult trek through six miles of woodlands, spldicrs from the Presque Isle aid base, 20 miles southeast of here, found the wreckage and base headquarters identified the victims as: Second Lieutenants J. F.

Watson farm bloc's amendment The ques picuuaes xo the War Poduction hnarH Lefiluse tion may come to a vote today. The Office of Price Administra mendation that the WPB requia. -2SSMKr-- president of the company, was tion, seeking the defeat of the farm bloc amendment, said last night it muii Kit- "Owners who refuse to sell their scrap are guilty of sabotaging tht war effort." the maneuvers at a U. S. eastern port U- troops cross a moat in a Ranger-type attack during Under cover of a smoke bomb and with aircraft sup- seaboard training center.

would result in a four or five per cent rise in the cost of living index. Under the provision in the House (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) vwium sain, adding that "in the national inte est, it is time to get tough with those who refuse to cooperate ia bill for loans of 90 per cent of par saved. The death toll originally was reported as 26, but in mid-afternoon Stewart Cheetham of Midland another widely known hockey player who in recent years was with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls, was found alive on Beausoleil island, about eight miles from here. Three other men, at first believed to be alive on the island, later were found dead on the shqre. ity, OPA said the cost of living ine war euori.

would increase by 670 million dol lars, involving a one per cent rise living cost of S13.50 wepklv are advised not to bring their wivn Tignt now. will be paid for 52 hours, however, on the basis of time and a half for all hours over 40. Special in the index. However, it added, under the new parity formula proposed by the farm bloc the cost of living would increase by 3 billion dollars to $3,500,000,000, with a jump of 4 or 5 per cent in the CLEAN UP YOUR HOmE bonuses will be given night workers. Journeymen workers will be paid and J.

W. Rieves, pilot and copilot respectively; Staff Sgts. J. S. Murphy Ouster Vote Near Peoria.

111. (AP) Francis B. Murphy's appointment as state director of labor was again the main topic before the Illinois State Federation of Labor convention yesterday, as delegates moved near a decision on whether to vote a formal demand for his ouster by Governor Green. Victor A. Olander, federation secretary charged in a 45 minute speech at Tuesday's session that For the winter months.

Nut can. Paper and Paints will brirhtea your rooms. For a better job till -1555. Parents Convicted of Chaining Infant Son Parsons, W. Va.

(AP) John and Margaret Loughry. whose two and one-half year old son, Wesley, was found chained to a bedpost in an attic room last July, were convicted by a jury yesterday of mistreating the infant. Sentence was deferred. Mrs. Loughry, 24, testified she tied the child only when she was away from home.

Prosecutor D. E. Cuppett reported at the time of the child's discovery that it was suffering from malnutrition and weighed only 15 pounds. The infant now weighs 23 pounds and still is under the care of welfare authorities. index.

Would Include Labor Costs his student, Stanley I. Davis, Jr, 24, of Jacksonville. Ill, was injured when their plane crashed near here yesterday on a training flight. Davis, who suffered face and head lacerations, was reported in good condition. Delano.

J. A. Kviz, E. J. Crozier, R.

K. Riddle and F. W. Rowbottom. The plane, on a routine flight.

$1.20 an hour, laborers 88 cents and sub-foremen $1.45. Company barracks at Portland will house 5.000 men at a minimum Meanwhile, a general discussion of the anti-inflation bill occupied the two chambers. It found farm MYER SON "crashed in limited visibility," base MAN state members contending that un headquarters announced, adding that a special inquiry board would New Barges to Take Oil East Kansas City fAPl Chester C. Thompson of Rock Island, 111, president of the Inland Waterways told the association yesterday that within 60 days the 'federal barge lines will begin receiving converted river barges with a carrying capacity of 5 million barrels of The placing of these barges in operation, proceeding from East Texas and Southern Louisiana fields up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to points of shipment to the East, will make up a large part of the shipping loss river traffic has had on account of the war, Thompson said. "This inland transportation, Thompson added, will help take the place of coastal traffic of tankers, hampered by submarine attacks.

Even wooden barges are being BUY GIFTS NOW AND SAVE SUPPLY YOUR NEED FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR SAVE AS MUCH AS i BECK'S ARE Murphy and other state adminis tration representatives were here. less farm labor costs are included in any reckoning of parity prices, agricultural production and the welfare of the farmer are threatened. It found numerous Republicans asserting that more forceful leadership on the part of the Administration months ago would have averted the present threatened inflation. But it found virtually all agreed that action to stab attempting by "barroom tactics. be established the determine the case.

Jacksonville Flier Injured in Crash Minneapolis, Minn. (AP) Ensign Victor E. Mailins, 27, native of Saugutuck, Conn, navy flight instructor, was killed and fflpmcB meal behind the scenes," to block any anti-Murphy or anti-Green declaration by the convention. Thp tr t. executive board already has called upon delegates to go on record in favor of Mur- pny removal because ne was not Electric FOOD WARMER a labor union member.

The issue mav reach a vote on the conven tjlCLlvANER3 Many Newsmen Are Casualties New York (AP) Official casualty lists do not show it, but war correspondents, too, are falling in action, being wounded, captured, bayoneted to death and failing to return from naval and land engagements against the enemy. The latest newspaperman casualty was announced yesterday when the International News Service was Now Only tion floor today or Thursday. -Olander received a standing ova converted for the transportation of Keep Your Garments Nice With Our Quality Cleaning. tion by the convention at the conclusion of his outspoken attack on Our lease expires, so we quit. There is a selling job to be done here in record time not a piece of merchandise must remain.

Out it goes, regardless of cost. With substantial increases in jewelry prices in prospect ymi should buy now buy gifts for the entire year and save up toKne-half. 1.95 oil under a program financed by the Defense Plant Corp. 256 N. Park Phone 7156 ilize the cost of living was necessary.

During the day. the farm bloc brought up its amendment in the Senate, after the agriculture committee had met, considered and approved it by a vote of 14 to 1. It would require simply that all farm labor costs be recognized in computing parity price levels. The Administration is unalterably opposed to the new formula. Economists of the Agriculture department have estimated that the inclusion of farm labor costs would add about 10 per cent to parity levels.

Murphy. Murphy Present As "Observer." "For the first time, we have Not an rdinary food warmer, but a beautifully tyi4 item that will grace any home. In eayhue Formerly 44.9S. the spectacle of a state adminis tration, working through state employes and appointees under the "We birds aie experts! Just ask us Why Happy Blending rates A-plus' informed that Jack Singer, ac leadership of a man who has no right to be holding an appointive 2-DIAMOND WRIST WATCH position that belongs to labor, at credited to the S. Pacific fleet, had failed to return from a task force sortie in the Pacific.

In Washington, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox took cognizance of the intrepidity shown by cor tempting to make a raid on the delegates to this convention," Olander said. Olander took the floor to reply respondents in the gathering of to a letter from the State Paint Zazove, U. of I. Suit Dismissed Chicago (AP) Formerly these fine watches fold if to S39.75. Two brilliant diamonds tract the handsomely styled case.

Don't misi this opportunity. Never again will ye save so much. ers' conference, I. S. F.

L. affiliate, protesting the refusal to seat Robert Gordon, assistant labor director, as a delegate. He declared Gordon was barred under a Acting at request of defense counsel. Circuit Judge John Prys-talski yesterday ordered a nonsuit in the case in which Earl B. union rule against seating political appointees, and that Gordon was to "be a front for Murphy in this Murphy, who has said he was here as an "observer," made no comment on Olander's ad Zazove.

22, of Chicago, was seek 4 Si ine to compel the University of Illinois to admit him to the school's medical college. By the order. Zazove's manda dress, but Gordon called it "a mas terful piece of alibiing, which in mus case was dismissed from the court call without prejudice of any effect constituted complete sub future similar action. stantiation oi my charges of blind political partisanship. President R.

G. Soderstrom called for a showing ot "those who Earlier Zazove's father, Attorney Irving Zazove, said his son now was enrolled in the Chicago Medical college. Zazove charged the university with religious and racial will stand behind Olander and So var news when he said, upon learning Singer was missing: "The long chances war correspondents take fills me with a great sense of pride. Their work is very admirable and creditable to the profession." Knox is publisher of the Chicago Daily News, which has foreign correspondents on many world battle fronts. Singer 3d Recent Casualty Singer was the third recent newspaperman casualty.

Only last week Larry Allen, Associated Press Pulitzer prize winning correspondent with the British Mediterranean fleet, failed to return from a raid on Tobruk and is presumed to be a prisoner of the Italian army. About the same time the United Press received reports that Joe James Custer, with the Pacific fleet, had been seriously wounded in action near the Solomon islands. His left eye was pierced and two operations have been performed in Queens hospital, Honolulu, in an effort to save his sight. The known toll of American news-peper, news agency and radio reporters since the present wars began is 10 dead, 18 wounded or otherwise injured while in line of duty, five missing, 57 captured and 15 interned. In addition many American newspapermen have suffered torture in prison camps while awaiting repatriation on an exchange basis.

"ur life is one long bill-and-coo derstrom against the anti-union politicians." and the delegates again were on their feet, cheering him prejudice and discrimination. The as they had cheered Olander. university said the school capacity was limited and that Zazove had not been able to meet re What eke have Lovebirds got to do? Do we know Happy Blending? Look We're the, birds who wrote the book! quirements. Johnson Appears State Farm Bureaus Gain 17,000 Members Chicago (AP) O. D.

Brissenden. organization Both assistant Attorney General Ben Schwartz and Prof. Sveinbjorn Johnson, U. of I. legal counsel, ap Jo lend an ear, sir, while we tell Why CAL VERTS Happy Blend is swell -Why whiskey traits that merge and match Make CALVERT better down the hatch! director for the Illinois Agricul peared before Circuit Judge John tural association, said yesterday Prystalski to represent the school.

Schwartz pointed out that Attorney that about 17.000 new members had been signed up in Illinois Farm Bureaus this year, setting a new T7 1 General George F. Barrett had asked the state Supreme court to uphold his decision to impound Johnson's salary as the school's at or whiskey traits don't all agree annual membership record and bringing the total to about 85,000. Between 4.000 and 4,500 were torney, and declared that in the Some get along; some fight, you see. So CALVERT scraps the scrappers, quick And weds just happy traits that click! matter before the court "the peo signed up in a 10-day membership drive conducted by volunteers throughout the state' this month, 2 Diamond Band Diamond Ring Sl4.95 I $7.95 3 INITIAL RLVGsl BIRTH RINGS XVT3 thetJ Formerly tfteM IPf Wrist Watches 1. itf gor Formerly they tola SSV m9 Wm SSuTI if (SjSttXj I to S1S.SS.

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at an VkJf I "aasY portunity to save. sparkling diamond. 4 Mown brands, al an JJIVW I y. unheard of price I Brissenden added. Brissenden and other officials said the drive was an annual af Here's every quality you seek That's why this whiskey is unique.

So ask for CALVERT now. tonight! A single sip will prove we're right! ple ought to be represented." Judge Prystalski solved the matter by naming Johnson to act and permitting the attorney general's office to "sit in" on the proceedings. "Admits Charge" Attorney Irving Zazove, representing his son, asserted in preliminary argument that "the university admits the charge in that of 11 scholarships issued to Jewish boys, 10 were rejected." LEARN 1HE TRUTH ABOUT D017EL WORMS Nobody is tore to escape. And roundworm can real trouble inside you or your child. Watch for the warning signs: uneasy stomach, nervousness, itchy nose or peat.

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