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BROWNWOOD (T.,.i| BULLETIN, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, IT44
Collapse of Prices at End of War
Not Probable, Statistician Says
AUSTIN, March 3—(AP>—
There are no grounds for fear
that commodity prices will col-
lapse. as they did In 1918. at the
end of World War II, a University
of Texas economist suggested to-
day. -
Dr. F. A. Buechel of the Bu-
reau of Business Research also
said that while the industrial pro-
duction index of the nation may
only-physical production but also
distribution of goods, sale of ser-
vices, transfer of property and the
level of employment and payrolls
—will slump as drastically as in-
dustrial activity alone.
Outlook Optimistic
Among the optimistic factors in
favor of sustained general busi-
ness activity he listed: Diversion
of substantial numbers of war
temporarily be cut in half when personnel to service and
Germany is defeated, business ac- other industries; disappearance of
tivlty in general may not drop off
more than 25 per cent.
priee collapse is remote, he said.
since with the exception of farm
products and food. commodity
prices have risen comparatively
little during the past four years.
Output to Continue
"Until Germany s defeat. *11-
*ut production is certain to con-
inue on the highest plane possi-
ble of attainment.” Dr. Buechel
taid.
•The defeat of Germany will
usher in major readjustments to
a peace economy. The initiation of
overtime work, thereby spreading
employment; cushioning effect of
unemployment insurance, possible
snd liq-
uid savings of individuals; reten-
tion of many workers to perform
reconversion tasks; accumulation
by corporate management of in-
ventories of raw materials and
semi-finished products well before
their own plant conversion per-
mits production of end products.
“If. as It is expected.” he add-
ed. ”the oriental phase of the war
| is prolonged for a considerable
time after the European victory
has been won. war production in
certain lines such as aircraft and
ACCUSED OF KIDNAPING BABY
German Prisoners of War Meet
With Failure in Escape Efforts
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a high level, possibly even higher
than the present rate of produc-
tion for these types of war equip-
ment.
In conjunction with this situ-
ation. the output of civilian goods
may be expected to increase im-
mediately upon the release of raw
materials.”
The War Today!
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP WAR ANALYST
these readjustments will not await shipbuilding will be maintained at
the surrender of Japan
"Industrial activity is expected
to drop precipitiously soon after
the surrender of Germany but will
remain comparatively high in
lerms of the 1935-39 base period
now used by the Federal Reserve
System.
"At present, this index stands
at nearly 250. and it is expected
that there vwill be a temporary
lrop to between 125 and 160 dur-
ing the aeute stage of the recon-
version period.”
Dr. Buechel does not anticipate,
bowever. that indexes of total busi-
ness activity—which includes not
Deaths and Special
Elections Cou d
Prevent Majority
WASHINGTON. March *—tAP>
—Deaths and special elections
may prevent the Democrats from
regaining an abeoluta majority in
the House of Representatives this
session and reduce their member-
ship to the lowest 1* more than
ten years.
Today's division stood at 919
Democrats and 309 Republicans,
with five Democratic vacancies
and ewe Republican while four
seats are held by miner party
Nine of If vacancies have been
Oiled, seven by Republicans and
test bp Democrats, with Republi-
cans seerlng a net gain ot on* seat
in the nine special elections.
I* the forthcoming six special
alaadeni. Rep. Chariee A. Halleck,
of Indiana, chairman of the Re-
pubHean Congressional committee,
is conceding only one seat to the
Democrats. He said be baa no
doubt that the seat vacated by the
death of Henry B. Steagall of Ala-
bama. will be filled by a Democrat.
. Susck claimed the four re-
maining seats at stake in special
elections “are in the bag for our
aide.’*
They are in the seventh and 19th
Illinois districts, the first Colorado
disfeict, and the second Oklahoma
district. Ail hut ibe 19th Illinois
district were held by Democrats.
DALLAS. March 3—(AP)—Nail
prisoners of war have used Ingen-
ious methods in trying to get
away from camps in the five-state
area of the Eighth Service Com-
mand .. .there was the tunnel that
led to nowhere, for Instance.
Colonel Daniel B. Byrd, who
supervises the Commands' war
prisoner camps under Major Gen-
eral Richard Donovan, command-
er of the area, today told the
story of the tunnel:
“Under a building in tine
camp.” he related, “prisoners aank
a shaft of approximately 10 fe*t..
then began a tunnel that they
hoped would lead them to free-
dom. The camp authorities learn-
ed of the tunnel but they did not
spoil things by letting on. They
decided to 1ft the Nazis just go
ahead and dig.
Dug for Weeks
“And the Nazis dug . .for weeks
they toiled In their tunnel. They
still had 75 yards to go when
camp officials finally called a halt
and made them fill the tunnel up
again. Not one of the prisoners
ever admitted knowing anything
about the project but aome of them
said they gladly would have help-
ed dig had they known about It
"At another camp, prisoners
were chipping rock into small pie-
ces one day when alert guards,
feeling somehow that aomethlng
was brewing, ordered the Nazis to
line up and be counted. Two were
missing. They were found immed-
iately. Their comrades had burled
them under piles of chipped rock
so that just their notes were show-
ing. They were prepared for their
get away... they each had a suit,
carefully fashioned from white
cloth, to facilitate escape.”
The colonel revealed that Nazi
prisoners of war who have at-
tempted escapes in the Eighth
Service Command have had no
success.
"Nazis are stumped by the great
distances in the United States and
in the Southwest.” be explained.
Embraces S States
The Eighth Service Command
embrace* Texas, Oklahoma. Ar-
kansas, New Mexico and Louisiana
In this far-flung area, the colonel
disclosed are more than 30 per-
manent prisoner of war camps and
almost 40 side camps. The latter
were set up mainly to furnish la-
bor to short-handed agricultural
and forestry sections.
Colonel Byrd, big-framed and
good-humored, bolds the Distin-
guished Service Croce, the British
Military Cross, the Purple Heart
and the Victory Medal with three
stars as the result of participation
in the first World War. Prisoners
of war, be said, art wall treated,
explaining:
“They are handled In strict ac-
cordance with the Geneva conven-
tion. Our way Is to treat them
firmly and squarely. Moat prison-
ers are satisfied with the clean
barracks, whole soma food, hot
showers and the opportunities for
work and recreation. Some, of
course, are not One Nazi was
heartily indignant when he was
placed in a camp and spoke out
vigorously against such things as
barbed wire and armed guards.
"He had heard MRt the United
States is a nationAf free men and
he had expectefto b# one when
he landed.
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Kouadvorai
MUM rMl
l*«k* pmI ar
•hill I Watch
Eighth Service Commend '
Director Rulos on
Muiftring-Ou* Eligible*
DALLAS, March 3—<AP>—Co*
on#] B. X. Sawyer, fiscal director
of the Eighth Service Command,
announced that former soldiers
honorably discharged from the
Army for dependency reasons
tine* Dec. 7, 1 341, are eligible for
mustcrlng-out payments.
Col. Sawyer taid veterans whose
applications hsrs been refused
under War Department regulation*
heretofore In effect ih<^an submit
new requests.
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Jap Flyer Seized
Native of Mineola
Assumes Command
Of Middle East Forces
CAIRO. March 3.—(AP)—Brig.
Gen, Benjamin Giles has arrived
her* to replace Maj. Gen. Ralph
Jtoyee aa commanding general of
all ILS. forces in the Middle East,
h was- officially announced today.
Giles was formerly the com-
manding general of the Ninth Air-
force troop carrier command.
Giles, a native of Mineola. Tex.,
Is a brother of Maj. Gen Barney
Me. K. Giles, chief of Air Staff
under Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
GoV. Stevenson !
Speaks at Ranger
RANGER. March 3— AP>—Gov
Coke Stevenson said here yester-
day that through all his efforts to
reduce state expenses and balance
the budget, funds for schools, for
the unfortunate and the aged had
not been reduced.
Speaking on an Independence
Day program at Ranger High
School, the Governor said that the
Texas Declaration of Independ-
ence complained that Mexico bad
not provided public schools in
Texas, but thgt today Texas has
more state-sdppdrted institutions
of higher learning than any other
state in me Unimi. exclusive of
junior colleges anil high schools.
The relations of Turkey and
Spain to the Allies—a matter
which has a highly important
bearing on the length of the war
—again are in the International
limelight.
The Turks have caused heart-
burnings by being too good,
whereas Spain has made the mis-
take of leaning too heavily to the
bad side.
Britain reportedly has suspend-
ed delivery of supplies, both mili-
tary and civilian, to Turkey and
American lend-ltaa* la said to be
included. Some In tbe Turkish
capital are Inclined to Interpret
this a* calculated to fore* the
Turks to get into the war on the
Allied eld*.
Be that aa tt may. there’s small
doubt that should Turkey march
her army up the Balkan peninsu-
la, an early effect likely would be
to make Bulgaria desert the Axis
and precipitate ar upheaval which
would uncover the right flank of
Hitler’s battle line in Russia. This
would compel him to make a quick
retreat or face disaster. **
At the time of the recent con-
ferences of America. Britain and
Russia, it was generally under-
stood that the Big Three had
pressed Turkey to join them in
the war. I was informed by a high
source that the Turks acquiesced
but said "not today—tomorrow.”
It's difficult to see why tbe Al-
lies should stop supplies to Tur-
key solely for the purpose of forc-
ing her into the war. However, it
would be quite understandable if
America and Britain suddenly
found their equipment and sup-
plies needed elsewhere. Prepara-
tions for the coming invasion of
western Europe may be calling for
more equipment than originally
anticipated. Still, if* obvious that
the halting of supplies to Turkey
is a stone which might kill two
birds at once.
Aa regards Spain, all that Amer-
ica and Rntain ever have asked
has been that Franco adhere to
strict neutrality. There has been .
no effort to force him into beiiig- And Management War
ereney against the Axis. The trou- « , , . . , . .
ble is that the Spanish dictator Training Heads Matt
right up to the present has been
to all intents a belligerent in Hit-
ler’s camp, even going to the ex-
tent of sending troops to fight
against the Russians.
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MUD WITHOUT BAIL ON K1DNAF1NO CHARGi, Ada Fox. 18. aoba on
the shoulder of her cousin. Mrs. Evelyn Coyle, mother of the 17-
month-old baby Mias Fox is accused of abducting and then leaving
with a gypsy girl to be sold to gypsies for 9100. (International)
Memorial to Students Who Lose
Lives in War Planned at U. of T.
THU JAPANtSI carrier pigeon was
rescued by a U. S. transport hun-
dreds of miles from the nearest
Jap territory. Bird's new bosa is
C. E. Anderson, signalman 2/c of
BiekaeU, lad. (International)
Engineering, Science •
AUSTIN, March 3 —<APi—
Plans were studied today for a
memorial on the campus to the
students of the University of Tex-
as who lost their lives in World
War II.
Memorial stadium was built in
remembrance of those who died
ip World War I, Railroad Commis-
sion Chairman Beauford Jester
reminded ex-students at their an-
n-ial banquet last night, and it is
time to begin considering a me-
morial for those who die in this
war. He suggested:
Construction of an adequate
athletic field house; completion
of the original architectural plan
for memorial stadium; construc-
tion of a memorial chapel on the
campus. He said these were mere-
ly his own preliminary ideas.
Jester, former regent and stu-
dent in the University, said that
'already there were three times 4
more battle casualties among ex-“
students in the service than there
had been in World War I. and five
times more students in the armed
forces. ?
President Homer P Rainey, in
a messace for ultimate delivery to ‘
75.000 former students all over
tbe world, said that the universi-
ty is deep in plans for post war
expansion in educational policies
and physical plant facilities.
Ex-student reunions were held
in Italy, the islands of the Pacific,
Australia. England, and in war-
ships around the world, alumni of-
ficials said.
I representatives, including:
Texas A &M College. University
I of Mexico. Baylor, Hardin-Sim-
mons College. S M.U., T.C.U., Tex-
as College of Arts and Industries.
I Texas College of Mines and Metal-
lurgy. Texas Tech. University of
Houston. West Texas State Teach-
ers College. North Texas State
! Teachers College, University of
Texas.
AUSTIN, March 3—(AP)—New The sheer wj
Mexico and Texas representatives ; Gorge in Grant
of the engineering, science and feet high
management war training program
met here today.
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Mexico's RR Unions
To Accept U.S. Rail
Bosses Temporarily
MEXICO CITY. March 3—(AP)
—Mexico's railroad unions have
agreed to accept members of the
U. S. Railroad Mission as tempor-
ary bosses under a move In which
the U. S. Mission will take over
the Monterrey division of the gov-
ernment railroad* for several
weeks.
The action was designed to give
an example of modem methods of
railroad operations and at the tame
time clear up • serious freight con-
gestion in Monterrey.
Previously the Mission, sent here
to give advice in. improving train
service, has acted only In a con-
sulting capacity. First action of the
Mission will be to establish three
shifts in tbe railroad repair shops,
switching yards snd warehouses.
Factory owners of Monterrey,
industrial center ojLoprtfaern Mex-
ico, will\end mechanics and ms-
„ FACE B/AUTY.
, financed ESMWT
program sent
Fourteen institutions engaged
training skilled technicians for war iy V/AllD
industry under the government-; IN YU[1|\
Thousand* ofyfien and women
have benefitfcc^y C P. Dickson's
chinists to the railroad for an in- 20 years of fife moulding experi- ■
definite period to repair cars and ence. WrinUf^CAN be removed!
locomotive* j with onlyJoe m of any kind of'
Mexico's rail system, overloaded f#c* cre« and\y employing.the
hv th. r.w m. proper Rlethods oAexerrlse At no
by the movement of raw war ma- write to\ace Moulding,
lerials to the U. S., has piled up | p. nTnox 341, to HWiaton. Texas. |
cargo at Monterrey and caused the i for A free folder des^tbing face
congestion. t ■ . IfcMflding at home.
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