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That’s the wav I like to see them,” said Cen. That’s why there’s a Fifth War Bond drive on
MacArthur when he saw the rows of dead Japs now, a drive in whicf you'ni^ieeded to support
in the Admiralty Islands. In this war — the the men on the fighting fronts who are facing
costliest, cruelest war of all time— the most treacherous forces Ameri
our boys must fight w ith savage cans have ever met in combat. We on
fury. Kill or be killed! And on how the home front can’t let them down
well each plays his part depends the — and wre won’t. So resolve nou? to
live* of many of his buddies. at least dottbU your bond buying in
Here on the home front, too, just the 5th War Loan drive. This is the
cbttrinjf the attack on isn’t enough. i time to do better than your best.
8ac&Me4faet/- BUY MORE THAN BEFORE
BRONSON WATER DELIVERY
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WHAT IT MEANS—
Aid For Returning
Service Men
By NED NORDNE3S
WASHINGTON — The folks
back home, and especially the
dads who fought in World War
I., aren’t forgetting GI Joe and
Jane when they come marching
home.
Congress appears heartily in
support of the American Legion
proposed 33,500,000,000 “GI Bill
of Rights." The Sena'e. which
now has it, almost unanimously
regards the bill as one of the
most important that has ever
come before Congress.
The veterans of the last war,
who were discharged in good
physical condition were Ameri
ca’s forgotten men. Although
they eventually received bonuses
years after the war, very little
else was done for them. Those
same veterans and administrative
and legislative leaders are deter
mined the men and women in the
present conflict shall be given a
better break.
The bill represents a scientific:
approach to the readjustment of
America’s 13,000,000 fighting men
and women back to civilian life.
It has been estimated it will af
fect the lives of more than 40,-1
000,000 Americans.
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Actually, the measure offers an
opportunity for the veteran—able
•or disabled—to re-enter civilian
Hife in a useful capacity. It is de
signed to educate him, support!
him and start him in business.
Undoubtedly, one of its major
aims is to prohibit an aftewnath
similar to the mad '20s, when gen
eral lawlessness and wild living
prevailed and many a jobless ex
soldier, trained to kll, drifted
into gangsterism.
Here is what the GI bill pro- j
vides:
1. Unemployment compensation1
of $15 a week for a maximum of
52 weeks.
2. A year’s educational or vo
ca’ional training for any man or
woman of the armed forces with
six months’ service, plus $50 a
month for the single student, $75
a month for the married, with
tuition fees up to $500 a year.
3. $500,000,000 for construction
of additional hospital facilities
and full care of disabled soldiers;
or sailors until provision for their
rehabilitation is made.
4. Loans up to $1,000 for the
purchase of homes, farms or small
businesses, interest free for the
first year, and carrying three per
cent annual interest thereafter.
5. A veteran’s placement board
to obtain jobs for former service
people.
6. Designation of veterans’ ad
ministration as an essential war
agency entitled to priorities on
personnel, equipment and sup
plies.
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Compare this with benefits of
the last war: discharge pay of
$60; bonuses—awarded some 15
years later—averaging about $1,
000 counting in the discharge pay;
vocational and rehabilitation
training for disabled veterans;
some pension and insurance pay
ments.
Referring to the pending bill,
Sen. Bennett C. Clark (D.-Mo.)
says:
“The men and women of the
armed services * • * not only
hold the fate of this country in
their hr.; is, but they will hold it
for a generation to come. On the
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| extent to which they can be
| speedily reintegrated in our pop-.
| ulation as decent law-abiding cit
| izens the welfare of ‘his nation
| depends. If we shall fail in that
j endeavor, as most of the partici
| pants in the last war failed, the
I eohsequences of our future m:ghf,
well be tragic . .
Apparently most senators think
the same thing, for 79 of them
aided and gave advice in minor
revisions and then sponsored the
bill—constituting a record in the
history of the senate.
NO COMEBACK FOR
CHUTE TESTERS
A U. S. BOMBER BASE IN
BRITAIN —CAP)— Nine hundred'
times a month Sgt. William Tka-j
chug and half a dozen fellow'
angel-cheaters pull their parachute
ripcords.
And they open every time
right on the big table in the chute
inspection hut That’s their job
—opening, inspecting and repack
ing chutes for fliers.
“Every time we test a chute
we sign our name and the date,”
Tkachuk said. “In case it doesn’t
open when the ripcord is pulled, j
the guy who packed it has to
answer a charge of involuntary
manslaughter.”
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HOME ON HE RANGE,
WHERE COYOTES HOWL
SANTA FE, N. M. —(AP)—If
the coyote howling bothers New
Mexico ranchers this year more
than usual, they can blame it on
the war.
State Game Warden Elliott
Barker says coyotes are increas
ing bceause war jobs and the
armed services have taken most
of the trappers. The starfe em
ploys trappers but "they are no
more than a drop in the bucket
compared with the need,” Park
er commented.
Current market price for coy
ote pelts is $8 each.
About 4,000,000 extra farm
workers are needed in 1944.
HAIRY HEMINGWAY
RETIRES BEHIND BEARD
HAVANA—• AP‘—Ernest Hem
ngway. never noted for a retir
ing naiure, shies away from pub-j
iiciry about his luxuriant new
beard tha‘ in Havana is fast be
coming a landmark like Morro
Castle.
The bear i is fully-developed,
covers the cheeks, chin, jowls
and s wholly utili'arian. It keeps,
the Ij ting .tropical sun at his fav
orite fishing grounds off his ten
der facial skin. But he won’t
let cameramen near him.
HEAD MAN GOOD
IN REVERSE
TOPEKA. Kas.—(AP>—A wom
an, having trouble getting her
parked car away from a curb,
where the wheels were jammed
called the first man who came by.
“Are you a good backer-up
per’’’ she asked.
He obligingly got the car from
he curb and then walked down
to the state house. He was the
Kansas governor, Andrew Schoep
pel.
WOMAN TRAPPER
NABS 238 PELTS
AOUILA, Adz. —fAP>— Mrs.
Nellie Moore trapped 238 preda
tory animals last year for the
federal f'sh and wildlife service.
Mrs. Moore set her first trap
at the age of six and got caught
in it. Since then her technique
improved and last year’s ca’ch
included 191 coyotes and 47 bob
cats. The previous year 253 pelts
fell in her trap lines.
SO SOLLY, PEASE!
A NALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE
—iAP'—Army fighter pilots at
Aftu explain that the Japanese
language characters painted in
red on the backs of their lea’her
flying jackets mean: “So sorry,
please.’’
John Adams lived to be the
oldest former president of the
United States—he was 90 when
he died.
PRETTY BOAT CREW — Three prelty swimmers In a
I.us Angeles pool fry out one of the rubhei life rafts being built
fur L. &. waaplanes. Rafts are self - inflating and have sail, oars,
small radio and first aid equipment.
HE COULDN’T SLIDE UPHILL
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — lAF)
—A sudden and severe ice storm
which coated trees, broke power
lines and left families atop near
by Lookout Mountain without
electrici v for a e>up)e *of days,
dealt the Ted Nelsons a doubly
severe blow. 1 he r son, Ted, Jr.,
home on a brief furlough, eame
down the mountain, was caught
by the storm and couldn’t get
hack up lor almost two days be
cause of 'he ice.
A good relieving treatment for
sunburn, mosquito bites or poi
son ivy is to take a tepid bath
in which cornstarch has been
sprinkled and dissolved, and let
water dry on skin to leave a
thin film of soothing starch.
INJURED FLIER PICKS
HIS SPOT
dA i TANOOGA, Term. —(AP)
—IT Edwin C Johnson, a bomb
er pilot, wrote home recently that
i)v w Jo ced to parachute from
h plane returning from a bomb
ing mission and in landing severe
ly sprained his ankle.
He dragged h mself for some
distance before reaching a house.
It was the home of a noted Eng
lish specialist in the treatment
of foot ailments.
TRANSPARENT HOBBY
HUTCHINSON, Kas. —(AP>— *
Miss Ruth Sanders of Hutchinson
collects old spectacles as a hobby
and now has 50 pairs. Her prize
is more than 100 years old and has
steel frames with adjustable tern
bars
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He 'S OFF OH ms
FIFTY-FIFTH MISS f OH ‘
There he goes again—out to pour more Tojo crew* are ready to “call It quits.'
destruction on the Axle— once more to Thl#1s only your fifth mission—and a v
face the death of enemy fighters and fiakl 'Mission which is mighty easy In eompart- }
| He won’t hesitate to go out on his fifty- sorvevith the ones he makes every week \
sixth or his hundred and fifty- Stay In the fight by welcoming )
! sixth mission. He knows he the Victory Volunteers—at/yw# \
| might not eome back, but he double your Bond purchases and 1
ikec$s on going—giving more « then keep on. Your buying means /
f and more until the Hitler and “bombs a^ay" for the Axisl /
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