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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tuesday Evening, February 29. 1944
Tuesday
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Senators Demand Halt to
other
Iran
Street Strip Urge Physical
STREET PTRIP .
Standards Cut
By NANCY PHILIPS
We once heard someone say you
sever can tell what a Texan will
WASHINGTON, Feb 29.—PP
Demands that the drafting of fa-
thers be halted pending a review
of 5,000.000 occupational defer-
do. . . and we’d like to, add that
you never can tell what a Texan ments were renewed today by sen-
will do when he meets another Tex-
an away from the old stomping
grounds.
Mrs Mikey Reddell and her sis-
ators who challenged a L.edical
commission s report that present
physical standards should not be
lowered.
With reports from nearly every
ter-in-law, Dolores Reddell, of Tus- state showing that draft quotas are
cola recently went to New York to not being met. Senators Johnson
(D-Colo) and Wheeler (D-Mont)
. criticized both the physical stand-
ed there in the Navy. He had leave I ards and the continuing father
and was to meet them in Pennsyl- (draft.
"The armed forces.” said Johnson.
visit Mikey Reddell who is station-
vania station.
Enroute to New York the two
women met another sailor and told
him they were going to meet Mikey
in Pennsylvania station
The sailor, who seemed wise
in the ways of Penn station,
told them it was a mighty big
station and that they had bet-
ter wire Mikey to meet them at
a certain spot. .. he suggested
the esculator.
They thanked the sailor and sent
the wire, feeling they were doing a
very smart thing indeed.
When they arrived at Perm sta-
tion they rushed up to the infor-
mation booth and asked the girl
the whereabouts of the esculator.
“Well,” the information girl
said, “there are 18 that I know
of but I’ve only been here two
years.”
Eventually they did find Mikey,
visited, and then made ready for
the return trip.
They went to the station It was
crammed and jammed with people
also planning to take the same
train U was discouraging Then
they ran into a negro porter ... a
negro porter from Texas. ... from
Amarillo, Texas.
That’s all they needed
The porter, delighted at seeing
someone from so near his home,
told them he would speak to the
conductor about getting them a
seat on the train.
He was a very convincing porter.
He told the conductor that these
two women were returning after
visiting their husbands in the Navy
He went on to say that their hus-
bands were big shots in the Navy.
He repeated that several times
making them bigger big shots at
each telling.
The conductor was impressed He
told the porter to bring the Texans
sround the back way about an hour
before train-time
This the porter did
The Texans had their choice of
seats and rode home m style.
• e e
Minrue Lou Brown, daughter of
Marshal-and Mrs C S Brown, has
been employed for the past six
months as reservationist for the
American Airlines at La Guardia
Field, N Y
The other day we heard that
her parents had r--eived a 30-
page letter from her. We thought
that over and our curiosity got
the beet of us so we called Mrs.
Brown and asked her what in
the world Lou had said for 30
pages.
We knew it would be pretty in-
"have their manpower sights too
high
“When I see 4-F‘s playing
football and baseball and doing
all the other things that require
physical strength and endur-
ance. I can’t be very much im-
pressed with the standards un-
..der which they are exempted...
from service."
Wheeler, noting that a review of
5,000,000 occupational deference
has been ordered, said:
"The least they can do is stop
drafting fathers now—as I asked
them to do early last summer—un-
til this review of deferments in In-
dustrial plants and other occupa-
tions is made
"You don t have to be an expert
to know that there are many thou-
sands of men classified as 4-F for
some minor physical defect who
could be used by the army if the
army would take them.
“It’s scandalous the way they
they have deferred young men
of 18 to 2« years in the various
war plants and taken fathers
with large families.”
Meanwhile selective service di-
rectors throughout the country re-
ported almost general failure to
meet quotas. At least nine states,
an Associated Press compilation
showed, have failed to meet goals
by amounts ranging from 10 to SO
percent. These include New York,
Michigan, Kentucky, Nebraska, Flo-
rida. Iowa, Colorado, Georgia, and
Utah.
Other* said they had failed to
meet their goals but did not dis-
close the margain. Four states-
Oregon, Montana, South Carolina
and Rhode Island—said quotas have
been met.
Prime reasons for limited induc-
tion. as given by the state directors,
were:
ill A hesitancy about drafting
fathers, although it was indicated
that this feeling is diminishing
(2) Efforts to keep the draft from
hindering war production
(3) Delays brought about by a
change-over from the for er sys-
tem of screening examinations by
draft board doctors to one of mili-
tary physical examinations prior to
induction.
Taylor Dads List
Election Judges
teresting because Lou usually runs
into something pretty interesting.
Mrs Brown laughed and said
such lengthy letters from Lou were
not unusual, that she got them
about every two weeks, and cards
in between times.
Lou s job is to map routes and
make all sons of travel suggestions
to those making plane reservations
As a result she has met Wendell
Willkie, Tyrone Power Dick Powell
and a number of noted musicians
In her last letter she said she at-
tended a party given by Postmaster
General Walker and hit daughter
and met Ilka Chase, famed author-
ess and actress
No wonder she can write a 30-
page letter.
Desperado Trio
Return to Cells
UNC
IRON AND STEEL
AND PRODUCTS
$1,194
ALL
HIPWAYS
$1,977
ORDNANCE
$4,607
I
Alt FIGURES IN MILLIONS
NON-FERROUS METALS
AND PRODUCTS
- a CO
5 ma
AIRCRAFT
$3,226
$1,21
mu
dest
OTHER INDUSTRIAL
FACILITIES
$2,891
An AP FEATURES PICTOGRAPH By ALANiai
FROM July 1, 1940, through the end of 1943, the United
I Stoles government spent $15,108,000,000 to finance in-
dustrial plants producing war equipment This Pictograph
shows the volume for the leading industries.
Illinois Amends
Production Rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 29.-
(A) __Federal spacing restrictions
on Illinois oil wells will be relaxed
| March 15 and the modification
property will boost present daily
production of 209.000 barrels by 18,-
000 to 25,000 barrels. Director Ro-
bert M Medill of the state depart-
ment of mines and minerals an-
nounced today.
Under the new order four instead
of two sand wells will be permitted
on each 40 acres to the base of
the aux vases sand strata regard-
less of depth, Medill said, and two
In City, County
General and special election
judges and assistants whose duties
likely will not begin until Novem-
ber were appointed Monday by Tay-
lor counts commissioners
Little other than routine busi-
ness was transacted at the bi-week-
ly meeting with authorization be-
ing made for the purchase of four
Chevrolet automobiles, one for each |
commissioner’s precinct, to be
bought at a coat of $900 from the
U S Treasury procurement divi-
sion For Worth
Officials listed by precincts and
box locations are:
I No 1, county court house, Z. D.
| Halley presiding, Ivan McKee, C
C Shaw;
I No 2. fire station Sth and But-
| ternut streets, Buford Ellis presid-
Ing. Mrs W T Hemphill, Mrs
Dave Clark, assistants; No 2. Fair
Lloyd Bynum presiding. T. J Key.
assistant
Number 21, Home State Bank.
Trent. Hubert Beckham presiding,
Tom Williamson, Leonard Quattle-
baum, Lester Tittsworth, assistants;
No 22, Cape, Edgar H Kendall pre-
siding. George W Brewster, assist-
ant; No. 23, Hunter’s store. View, H.
U. Drummond presiding. D. T. Pe-
tree. assistant: No. 24, First State
Bank Tuscola, Floyd Hodges pre-
siding. Elmo Jones, A E. Fogle Ham
Williams, assistants.
No 25. First State Bank. Ovalo,
Floyd Hodges presiding. Elmo Jones,
A. K Fogle. Ham Williams, assist-
ants: No 26, Rhodes house Iberis,
Ray Trammell presiding G. F. Dun-
can. assistant: No. 27, Tye. N D.
Teaff presiding, Walter McCartney,
assistant: No. 28. Lawn, Amos Pat-
terson presiding. Arthur Wade,
Luther Cannon, J. C Raper, assist-
ants; No 29. Blair school house, Z.
V. Moore presiding. D C. Doan, as-
sistant; No. 30. Bank of Bradshaw,
D. Jones presiding. Henry Steen,
Malcom Holleday, Wayne Hunt as-
sistants No. 31. Lisman school
house, J. D. Coffman presiding H. *
E Baldridge Jr., assistant.
How Sluggish Folks
Get floppy Relief
WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel
' punk as the dickens, brings on stomach
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take
Dr Caldwell’s famous medicine to quickly
pull the trigger on lazy "innards", and
. help you feel bright and chipper again.
Park auditorium. Mrs Dallas Bear- |
borough presiding, H. S. Fa erree,
JACKSON, Miss., Feb 29 c. W Rogers, Mrs Martin Metz-
ger, assistants: No 4, Shelton Webb
Just 47 hours after they sped down
the corridor of the Hinds county
Motor Co. North 1st and Orange,
DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful senma
sin to make x so easy to take.
MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparations
in prescriptions to make the medicine more
palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure
your laxative is contained i. Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON ML CALDWELL’Sthe favorite
of millions for 50 years, and feel that whole-
some relief from constipation. Even finicky
children love it.
C L Johnson presiding, Mrs Reid
courthouse, three youthful desper- •Johnson, presdinE M
ados, manacled and held firmly by McLemore and Mrs James P. Stin-
CAUTION: Use only as directed.
deputies were escorted back to the
son assistants
jail and put in solitary confine- No. 5 fire station, 4th and Cedar
ment last night streets. Will Schultz presiding
In their brief hours of liberty Pierce Rogers and Mrs J L Blan-
==========
ences All were taken st the porn Park school building Ed Francis, |
H R Arrant and Mrs Lee Curry
I assistants.
Number 8 Hamby school house. |
S J (Jack) Cannon presiding, T C.
Richardson, assistant; No 9. Ameri-
can legion bail. Abilene, Wendell
Foreman presiding Herman Rucker,
Mrs Glenn Eager, assistants: No.
to McMurry state highway barn.
Highway 158. Robert B Wylie pre-
siding Tom Brownlee and Pete
Thrane, assistants: No ,1. Mrs
Nancy Norcross residence. Caps.
Terrell Ferguson presiding. J O.
Keith assistant; No 12. WOW hall.
Tye, E D Thomas presiding, Theo
Kincaid, assistant.
Number 14, Rogers school house,
Jim Ned. Cyril Jones presiding. J.
A Cumby, assistant; No. 14 Moro
school house. W A. Jones presid-
Ing O C Grissom assistant; No (
16. Methodist church, Nubia, Dewell
DR. CALDWELLS
SENNA LAXATIVE
co-.- SYRUP PEPSIN
of guns and all had been shot at
many times in the two nights and
a day they were roaming the state
stealing cars, kidnaping hostages
and robbing homes
Lawrence Motari, 21. spokesman
for the gang and regarded aa the
leader waa handcuffed and escort-
ed separately when thev arrived at
the jail Roy Drake, 20, and Ralph
Ward, 23, were linked together
Numbered among their victims
in their flight to elude officers and
get out of Mississippi, was Olline
McKnight, 16-year-old high school
student of near Cleveland She
was held aa a hostage for 12 hours
and released at Belzoni about •
o’clock Sunday night
Miss McKnight was forced into
the family automobile by the men
after they had shot her father in
the leg severing s blood vessel,
and had stolen his car
Try Nature’s
Aid to Health
MOUNTAIN VALLEY
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Recommended
by many
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medical
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The FAMOUS
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from
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For comettv fitted glasses and
wye care Phone 9179 for appoint-
ment.
Dr. T. J. Higginbotham
Optometrist
318-19 Mims Bidg.
McLean presiding, Hoyt Horton, as-
sistant No. 17, fire station, Merkel,
Sam Swann presiding, Herbert Pat-
terson, Holland Teaff and B. T
Sublett, assistants; No 18, County
barn. Guion, W. A. Graham presid-
ing. J. D Harrison, assistant No
19, Shep school house, B H Pritch-
ard presiding, Henry Robertson, as-
sistant; No. 20, Potosi school house, 1
HELPS
Stimulates kidney function
Soothe Bladder irritation
Neutralize uric-acidity
Discharge excessive wastes.
Phone for a case today.
Free booklet on request.
BEN E. KEITH COMPANY
Distributor
702 North Third Phone 5271
Stockmen Hear
Talk on Prices
HOUSTON, Feb. 29—P—Presi-
dent Claude K McCan of Victoria
today opens the 68th annual con-
vention of the Texas and South-
western Cattle Raisers association
with a discussion of government
price regulations as related to the
nations meat supply.
Between 2,500 and 3,000 stockmen
from 16 states also will hear ad-
dresses by R C. Pollock of Chicago,
general manager of the National
Livestock and Meat Board, and Joe
G. Montague of Fort Worth, the
association’s general counsel and
Washington representative.
Tomorrow U. S. Senator Elli-
son D. Smith (D-SC) and Rep.
Richard M. Kleberg (D-Texas)
will- speak. . Gov. Coke Steven-
son, announced earlier as a
speaker, will be unable to at-
tend.
McCan and Kleberg attribute the
nation’s meat scarcity to govern-
ment price regulation, both main-
taining that the solution lies in
giving the war meat board auth-
ority to control prices
“When the board was set up, it
was suuposed to bring supplies in-
| to co-ordination with demand.” Mc-
1 Can said in an interview, and it
• was supposed to be clothed with
authority to control prices
“But it was not And the result
is all the difficulties we have now
with periods of famine alternating
with glut of the market.”
WALLACE'S BACKERS CLAIM BIG
VOTEBLOC FOR RENOMINATION
WASHINGTON, Feb
Friends of Vice President Wallace,
29 —(AP)— I This view now is shared by some
president s easiest choice if a bat-
tle develops among others who havO
been mentioned as likely or possible
candidates. These include house
Soeaker Sam Rayburn, Edward R.
Stettinius Jr. under secretary of
state, Senator Truman (D-Mo),
Food Administrator Marvin Jones
and others. 0
practical politicians here who were
ready to count him out of the sub-
beating the bushes to line up sup-
port for his renomination, were re- sequently - reorganized Board
1 ported today to have received fa-
vorable responses from a large bloc
of prospective delegates in six
states having a total of 200 votes in
Economic Warfare.
of
the Democratic national conven-
tion
Allhough Wallace himself has
said his political future is “in
the Lap of the Gods," his lieu-
tenants have been actively
sounding out state leaders who
have much to say about the
makeup of delegate slates.
As a result, the vice president’s
friends believe he will receive the
backing of a majority of the dele-
gates from Pennsylvania, Califor-
nia, Minnesota, Iowa Washington
and Oregon as well as scattered
support elsewhere.
None of these delegations has
been elected yet, although slates
have been entered in some instan-
ces A California slate expected to
cast Its 52 votes for President
Roosevelt for a fourth term is
counted as favorable to Wallace but
the situation is not so well clari-
fied elsewhere. ,'
These politicians contend that
the president will have the fin-
al say in the choice of a run-
ning mate, as he did in 1940
when he forced Wallace’s nom-
ination despite his complete
lack of delegate support.
There have been some sugges-
tions that Wallace might be the
Early to Rise
FORT DOUGLAS, Utah . Feb. 29
—(PP)—Sgt. Lewis Newbaurer gets up
early each morning before the bar-
racks lights go on so he can shave
ahead of the wash-room rush.
—Noise —from—the squad —room
awakened him the other morning.
So he hustled down to shave. The
ablution performed, he discovered
it was only 1 a m, and some
of the boys were just coming in.
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lime wells instead of one will be
allowed on each quarter-quarter
section, to the base of the Mc-'
Closky lime.
Wallace recently returned from a
weern trip reportedly satisfied
that he was gaining in strength.
Childs Colds
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Players Present—
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Most dramatic and original
play on our modern stage.
H-SU Auditorium
Thurs.-Fri. Nites, March 2-3,
8:15 p. m. Admission
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To me coffee drinking is such a friendly habit,
whether F have companionship or am alone. When I first
started teaching, 1 boarded with a Swedish immigrant
family. The iady couldn’t talk English very well, and.
I couldn’t talk Swedish at all, but over coffee and cake
after school we tinted somehow.
This fall due to the teacher shortage, I'm teaching
again and I'm planning on a pot of Folger's rich flavored
coffee with each evening of study. The radio, (
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tangy coffee fill my evenings at home.
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Folger’s flavor has such a rare winey tang—such de-
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For you see Folger’s Coffee is a blend of rare moun-
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They even carry Folger’s with them
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friends they just can’t drink any
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