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Show ;-,S:-rviceir.2nln PcrJrTfin2JcI)s Br EDTYAKD L. TITOMA. Vnlted Press War Cenrespeadeat! UQXOLWAJ 0173 Hundreds of Army and Navy enlisted men have: obtained nart-Ume civilian lobs,f ranging trout 'boa driving ana nasn sungto to tree turnery andprinting, in Honolulu during the past tlx "months through a tmlmie XJ. S. O. hiring hair that 'l Interview sat average oJT IflOO Job-hungry servicemen very rnomn. It Is not at all stranre to see khaki-clad corporal with an air-force air-force insignia on his shoulder drivin a bns.ior a sailor behind counter dishing op.hamburgers Via Honolulu, and a swank new nightclub recently was remodeled and decorated by a gang, of Set- bees working fn their xree umav Miss Jean Wood, U. 8. O. See? retary who does all the Interview In in the.-hirin hall." said the boys seek jobs when off duty euuer w neij cbdumi wwu dom and loneliness or to pick up little extra money, tr both. The art nunibtf of servicemen working in Bonolula on their off Hours cannot no compuwa oe-K oe-K cause neither the Navy nor the I Army keeps any official record and the U. S. O. handles only part of the Job-seekers. Many em- , pioyers ao weir mring macpcw 'ently. Unions in Favor Labor 'unions have welcomed the GX labor supply. The GIs sometimes work side by side with union members in otherwise closed shops. Some GIs who belonged be-longed to organized labor in the United States contribute volun tarily to local union funds, miss Wood said. While some employers offer wages higher than the WLB ceil ings to lure tne bis, most employers employ-ers stick to the stabilized rate. Miss Wood started obtaining work for the boys six months ago " as part of her regular duties as hostess. But the demand grew so ' rapidly that In October she inter-' inter-' viewed 920 Job hunters and U. S. O. officials decided she should devote all her time to managing the "hiring hall." She fined 585 Jobs in October. M a J UM In JKm - W t lolia t oiz. one put iYiwiucu " part-time Jobs in December, after interviewing 1,231 applicants. Seabees First to Work Those famous Seabees really started it," Miss Wood said. "One day last July a bunch of cooks came in. They were bored to death and were sure they had exhausted ex-hausted the city's recreation pos sibilities. They thought working would be a good way to get acquainted ac-quainted here as well as to get r selves or to send home. As soon as the word got around that we could get them Jobs, my desk was swamped with requests from both job-seekers and prospective employers. em-ployers. "Now I think Z could get you w almost anything. A law office found a legal secretary. Business firms have found accountants, business-machine operators and even CPA's. X even had a tree surgeon." But the saddest lot are the 25 to 50 homesick lads who file up I to Miss Wood's desk ever day looking for odd-Jobs around someone's some-one's home. "They want to do yard work. they want to wash windows, put up cupboard shelves, or anything AJ ny UVU1C IWUU UUh she said. X "But mostly, they Just want to get Inside a home.' . Sugar has again disappeared from some restaurant tables, XXXX marks the spot where they've cut down. rem- 'fa U Xft West Center St Greater DeaotylGrcaterValue! lower Insurance Rates! I with Colon that "fit in" with the color seheme of your home! Styles to complement (and compliment!) the architecture architec-ture of your house! PABCO SHINGLES exceed IT. S Government spec&cations. k Reduce nre insurance rates! Tri-State Lumber Co. Phone ft todkuCroolced No wonder the world seems cockeyed to Fritz Loew, above, 41-year-old German soldier captured cap-tured at Mete, France. How else could it look with him and his fellow "supermen" taking a beating on every front? That ain't the way be heard it from Hitler. Blind Family Keeps Home Neat As a Pin STOUGHTON, Wis. (U.B One of the neatest homes in the neat little community of Stoughton, Wis., is cared for by four per sons who never see the results of their labors. The four two brothers and two sisters of the Erdahl family all are deaf, dumb and blind, yet they manage their household chores with practically no assistance. as-sistance. The youngest, Mabel, has the job of keeping her brothers and sisters In touch with the outside world because she has learned to read Braille. She also adds to the family income by selling her dainty crochet work. The task of caring for the furnace fur-nace and supplying the house with Irlntltntf falla PlaranAA WW . . II I I I 1 1 HI I I. W W.WL . 48, who can split wood as easily as it he could see his woodpile. Earl, 51, is the family gardener. He also fetches water from a next-door pump by following a clothesline as a guide. The family's meals are prepared prepar-ed by Clara, 55, who can cook a tasty dish on the stove invisible to her. Moving with sure steps, she also keeps the home in first-rate first-rate order. Born deaf and dumb, the Er-dahls Er-dahls early learned to become independent in-dependent despite a double handicap. Then, as each neared the age of 20, his eyesight began to fail and he had to learn to live in an Invisible as well as silent world. The only assistance the Er-dahls Er-dahls now receive is from a neighbor woman, who talks with them through the "hand' language lan-guage and who helps buy their groceries, handle their finances and assists with the washing. The rest of the chores, including Ironing, Iron-ing, are managed by the Erdahls alone, and they freuently help their niece with the field work at her farm. Maine Church Beats. Bible Reading Time WARREN, Me. (U.R) Members of the congregation of the Warren War-ren Baptist church have beaten by five minutes the record time for reading the Bible from cover to cover. Starting at 12:02 a. m. New Year's Day, reading in series, the 45 persons participating in the project finished the book in 17 hours and 40 minutes. FREE INSPECTION! FREE ESTIMATE! j. Prison Lawyer Succeeds For 66, But Not Self "JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. 0JJ91 While 66 ex-convicts enjoy their legauy won freedom, wyae Meeks, whose amateur law practice prac-tice showed them the way, stlU site behind the walls of the Missouri State Penitentiary seeking seek-ing the legal loophole' that will set him free. The stooped, balding Meeks has soent 18 of his 40 years behind bars, with two years ,of freedom out ox tne last zo. now serving a sentence for forgery, he was pre viously Imprisoned on charges of burglary and highway robbery. rob-bery. Meeks legal lore was acquired through a brier correspondence course in one of the "learn-law-by-mail" schools. While he skill fully avoids being charged with practicing law without a license, he has let it be noised around that he Is available for pertinent conversations. No Fees, bnt 'Gifts' Despite his statement that he "had no desire to burden the courts with useless litigation," the petitions flowing from Meekr ready fingers have aver aged 15 to 20 a month. He said at least 66 former inmates have been freed because of his legal extorts since 1840. Meeks said he charges no fees because he has no law license but accepts "gifts" from grate ful clients. It is estimated that he ceives about $10 from each "client" for his services. Those who have read briefs prepared by the convict-lawyer say they are wordy, correct in detail, legally styled and expertly typed. Meeks' legal career got off to a bad start In 1939. during a par ole from a 15-year term for robbery. rob-bery. Meeks was charged with forging a check in his home town. Springfield, Mo. He was convicted and sentenced to five years. Fresh from the final lesson in the mail order law school, he demanded and got a new trial on the grounds that the man whose name was alleged to have been forced was not in court He was convicted again and this time sentenced to seven years instead of the original five. He acted as his own lawyer at both trials. Bale Change Frees 59 Back at the penitentiary In No vember, 1939, Meeks began serv ing the seven-year sentence witn the prospect of serving the 35 months remaining from the 15- year sentence too. Ordinarily, the service of the Incomplete sen tenee would begin at the end of the new sentence. Through petitions which Meeks said he prepared the Supreme Court invalidated the prison policy. The new rule was that prisoners must serve out their original sentence under the pa role revocation, then serve the new sentence. The new regulations freed 50 convicts who had served their second sentences and were finishing fin-ishing their first The releases did not apply to Meeks. because he was still serving the forgery sentence and hadn t started on the incomplete portion of the -other. Again, Meeks' love of the legal left him in a spot If he had waited to file the petition after completing the term for forgery, he would have gone xree with rest . Meeks is now employed in the prison auditor s office as a book keeper and typist His primary object Is to get his own release from prison; then he wants a war job not a legal career. JUST HAD TO BE GOOD RIVERTON. Wyo. (UJ!) CpL Edward L. Bogacz, with the armed forces in Belgium, wrote his wife In Riverton that he ate a turkey dinner out of a can and that it tasted exceptionally good. because be felt sure that his moth er packed it The canned turkey came from a firm in Omaha, Neb., where his mother works, packing chicken and turkey for the armed forces overseas. r The name of Corby's In Canada stands for fine whiskey tradition and Corby1 as produced in America today merits the approval ap-proval of the most critical. Yon, too, will enjoy the fine pre.war quality of this light, sociable blend. AskforCorby'sncxtOraeyoubuy. PRODUCED IN THS U.S.A. under fhe direct ivpwvision of our f xperf Congdion 6ender 86 Proof 68.4X Groin JA$vJA?CIAY CO.. IIMITED, HITTING THE ROAD TO CHINA lsTiw Texas Colonel Brings Back The Decorations FORT WORTH, Tex. (U.R) Texas' CoL David L. Hill the only white man besides Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault to be awarded the Starred Wing of China is having a reunion with his wife in California, the first spot he hit after returning to the United States after months of combat action. The Starred Wing of China Is only one of many awards to the colonel. He wears the 4th, 5th and 6th Cloud Banner decoration, British Flying Cross, Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross (presented four times), the Air Medal, and the twice-awarded Starred Wing. He is credited with the destruction de-struction of 18 Japanese planes, a Japanese gunboat and much shipping and installations. He joined the famous Flying Tigers back in 1941 after completing his education at Austin College and Texas A. St M. College. And after the war, Col. Austin son of a Texas minister plans to put all those medals away, forget his experiences of World War II, and live on his 1600-acre ranch with his pretty wife, Mazie. PRACTICALLY A HABIT BRAZIL, Ind. (U.PJ Records revealed re-vealed that Clay Circuit Court Judge Robert B. Stewart was the fifth member of a law firm, es tablished in 1891 by the late Judge John M. Rawley, to serve in succession at that particular post Neutral Spirits f QIA, UN5)J : v. . :; .v . - ' r I inMSrT" r r "T f f1 " ir 1 ! TV X TT I Deserter Faces Gas Chamber Death RENO. Nev.. Feb. 8 Uh La- dell McKay, 24-year-old army deserter, today was under sentence sen-tence of death in Nevada's gas chamber for the fatal beating of nooert ranot in Keno Nov. 20. Judge William McKnlcht late yesterday also denied McKay's motion zor a new trial. He was convicted of first degree murder Jan. 25. McKay, a parolee, from Utah state prison, escaped from an army camp at Lemoore, Calit, where he was serving a 20 year sentence zor aeseruon. 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Go DomVFiU UiiflOO M I I -sat (I V ' STll , NO CERTIFICATE NEEDED I2D0 a4-HOUIl SERV1CB sw me- m jr w m J a a s liml cXg GQOBVEAn GiMeiiOTGns I ,ommmsKrt I mown? iTCfi S II f " TT.tt II 1 I lit A UViW swv t 11 11 1 1 1 11 11 "J 1 . - 1 - V O J - Q s "" """MTm',ul' Mi-mmiuiLU nil ... n n - Nfjggpv hAfc"B"rTaL-f -n 1r 1 1 it 1' 1 ji nrr'-rVi.- rtntiimi ij r.irjiur rn nil rtBise rti JIssVttisifcssaiBssewsse Historic achievement in the China-Burma-India theater was the piercing of Japan's land-blockade land-blockade of China by the final linking of the Ledo Road from India with the old Burma Road, to form the new "Stilwell Road,' named in honor of Gen. Joseph W. StllwelL Photo above shows Chinese soldiers who helped clear Japs from the area waving happily as the first supply-laden convoy sets out for Kunming, China. At left, Yanks and their Chinese allies, load precious ammunition aboard a convoy truck a tiny token of the river of supplies that will roar over the highway to China. Photos by Frank Cancellare, NEA Service-Acme Newspic-tures Newspic-tures correspondent for the war picture pool. WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM BATON ROUGE, La. (U.R) State capital building Manager Prank Orevemberg has ordered 3,000 gladioli bulbs to plant on the grounds ox the state house, where many large camellia bushes are now blooming. I r 1 w (AV.) I TS Sfr I I ,g I . M. I vWJ I DAILY uvssiinnficn Of CIu'js Pknnsd SALT IAKE CITY, Feb. 8 0JJ9 -investigation of state-chartered dubs wQl be made by Salt Lake police officials whenever a com plaint is received that they are violating city or state ordinances. Chief of Police Reed E. Veterli announced today. He added that in the past, the police had assumed that the jurisdiction juris-diction of the clubs lay entirely with, the state and that his department de-partment only had secondary supervision. Because of this no "visits", or investigations were carried out during the past year. He further added that all police officers, according to the law, have the right to enter any club roms Incorporated under the act to determine that the law Is not being violated. The only monument to Hitler; will be the bust the Allies are making of him. m tut 0mmr HELP THEM A ; s J ( MO0EKN OPTICAL OrTiOS TK20UCKOUT TK1 WEST e161 WEST CENTER IN PROVO Zenith Radionic Hearing Aid, $40 $5 Down, $5 a Month O ) Sight-Saving Class Dfg Holp To Handicapped NEW ORLEANS, La. Sight-saving classes, which New Orleans public schools have led the state in establishing, were inspected in-spected here by H. B. Aycock. state director of seiIces for the blind and sight conservation. - The program began here in 1921 and although occulists praise the classes highly. New Orleans Is still the only city la IooWana to have them. Administered under the division of special services of the Orleans parish school board, the classes help youngsters who might not be able to get an education in regular classes because of poor sight or who might lose their sight trying to keep up with children of normal vision. With the aid- of books printed In large type, typewriters type-writers with large "bulletin" type, and other equipment, the sight-saving sight-saving teachers maintain the same standards in their work as other pupils with better eyesight. o HELP YOU Stylish, Guaranteed GLASSES FACTORY TO YOU Nothing Down-Only Down-Only '1 A Week |