Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH War Surplus Property of 103 Billion Dollars Will Be Made Available to Public Goods Earmarked For Farmers Balance to Enter Trade Channels Some WALTER A SHEAD Cerreteeadeat Waahlaf by Waatarn Nawipapcr Union D WASHINGTON a half billion dollari worth of consumer goods from surplus war stocks will be offered for sale durthe ing the coming year through divimedium of the procurement sion of the United States treasury according to reliable sources here Treasury procurement however Is only one of six governmental agencies involved In the sale of surplus war properties so the total may run to double that sumThe other agencies are Reconstruction Finance corhanporation and its subsidiaries dling capital goods lands and war A large number of horses War Food administration plants the ering Iowa and foodstuffs selling food Kansas Missouri and Maritime commission handling all Nebraska marine equipments Uieanriya-n— Ration- - 9 — Denver: covering Colonavy disposing of materials abroad rado New Mexico Utah and Wyoand certain small stuff here at home ming and the Federal Housing adminis30 Van Region 10 — San Francisco which will handle sale of Nesa avenue covering Arizona tration Calihousing projects fornia and Nevada Estimates are that the tetal Region 11 — Seattle 2005 Fifth avepotential value of surplus war nue covering Idaho Oregon Monwill run approxiproperties tana and Washington mately 103 billions of dollars or Large Assortment Given more thaa the total sales of In advertising the products for sale Sears Roebuck A company for treasury groups them under eight a hundred yeara at their present general heads as follows: furniture annual rate of oalea autogeneral product machinery During the first six months war motive paper and office supplies properties have been on sale only medical and surgical textiles and $139164000 was realized out of a wearing apparel and hardware at valued total declared surplus Furniture may Include mattresses $986000000 From thla fact it can bedsprings household furniture to readily be seen that sales must be office shop beauty parlor barbersstepped up considerably if the govhop tables stools and numerous ernment Is to realize a high perother furniture supplies cent age of tho appraised value of the General products may Include Of the amount already property from live animals anylhlng 79 sold receipts were approximately water coolers lighting lamps fixtures per cent of appraised value photographic goods For this reason treasury procurestorage batteries and thousands ment which will handle about 60 of other Items surdeclared cent of the total per Machinery may Include powered plus la planning Increased activity trucks tractors agricultural maduring the coming fiscal year and and implements farm chinery of trailers farm service tires wagons la now askpg an appropriation $20790000 to virtually double Its dairymen's poulterers’ and apiaripresent personnel of about 9000 emsts’ supplies ployee! In Its 11 regional offices Automotive Includes all- sorts of motor vehicles and trucks throughout the country automo This surplus material will cover conceivable Item of and every goods commodities from small hardware itemi to defense plants and shipIt must be borne In mind yards however that the government Is not in the retail business and the general public la not eligible to purchase this stock direct Farmers te Get Break Intent of the law governing sales of surplus properties is that farmers are to get at least an even break tn to buy these comopportunities modities which are in demand and applicable to farm usage In some cases farmers are given preference For instance the Defense Plant corporation a subsidiary of RFC has held several auctions for the particular benefit of farmers of commodities left over after war plant construction This property Included hoes shovels spades paint construction hardware and other items Treasury procurement toe holds some direct auctions ef livestock such aa horses and mule for benefit ef farmers bile parts and accessories but tires otherwise all commodities ara and other automotive motorcycles sold through bona fids dealers equipment One of the Any dealer Including farm cooplargest stocks is surgical and medical equipment Includerative! hardware stores general stores grain elevators Is eligi- ing drugs ble to bid on any of tha commodiTextiles and wearing apparel may ties offered for sal In his region include shoes rubber goods shirts Twice each week treasury procureraincoats gloves sleeping bags ment sends out a publication called cots pins needles and dozens of the “Surplus Reporter” from each of other articles the 11 regional offices listing Items Other Items include thousands of to be up for sale method of sale hardware articles such as kitchen etc Dealers can readily be placed supplies screens wire nails on the mailing list by writing to wheelbarrows saddles pushcarts the nearest procurement office in tableware Jewelry musical instrutheir territory Procurement offices ments small arms ammunition and are In ths following cities: others These lists merely give an Idea Region 1— Boston covering Maine Massachusetts New comof the thousands of different Hampshire Rhods Island and Vermont modities which will be offered for York Empire sale on bids — and Important to Region 2 — New State building know—bids under celling covering Pennsylprices vania New York and New Jersey which have been fixed by the UPA D C— On some occasions OPA has not Region 3 — Washington Covering Delaware Maryland and fixed a celling until after the artiNorth Carolina and Virginia cle have been sold to what hapRegion — Cincinnati covering Inpens then the treasury doesn’t know diana Kentucky Ohio and West Virtrained in warEven dogs fare carrier pigeons and monginia Region $— Chicago 209 N LaSalle keys have been sold as surplus street covering Illinois Michigan war property A large number of Minnesota South North Dakota monkeys have been sold to aeos Dakota and Wisconsin after they have been nsed by the air rorpa to test altitude la Region $— Atlanta covering Alabama Florida Georgia Mississiptanka compression Through these tests the lives tf thousands pi South Carolina and Tennessee of sur aviators bare been saved Region 7— Fort Worth covering Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma and Some of the objectives of the regulations governing the sale of this Texas Region $— Kansas City Mo cov- - tremendous volum of surplus war By WNC Raleaaad ta ' are being surplus controlled dumping to avoid dis- locations of the domestic economy to encourage and foster postwar emto assure opportunities surplus property Ir such and on such terms as will discourage to speculadisposal tor or for speculative purposes to prevent Insofar as possible unusual and excessive profits and to afford veterans an opportunity to returning establish themselves as proprietors of agricultural businesses This last objective brings up the regulations regarding the sale of lands by the RFC All government owned land which is declared surplus will be offered for sale to the original owner from whom it was purchased by the government at the price paid If sale is not then made it is offered to heirs or assigns Then the property is divided Into family sized plots and war veterans are given preference as buyers Thus farmers will have an opportunity to buy back their land and if they do not war veterans are given preference Although much of this land la farm land hundreds of acres are included in suburban plots near or adjacent to cities and towns How Farmers Can Act Procedure for farmers to obtain a military-- ' vehicle - either truck or automobile is as follows: Make apto your local triple A ofplication fice The farm transportation committee WPB PAW or ODT regional offices are authorized to issue letto essential ters of certification users After ths certificate of need has been obtained sales must be negotiated through a dealer who has purchased the vehicles from proautos or curement No trucks other vehicles will be sold direct to consumers There bas been some complaint from farmers about the Indirect method of purchase but the procedure outline Is about as direct as possible under the regulations A trip through the sample room of the treasury procurement division in Washington is a revelation It’s the most amazing collection of commodities Imaginable: overalls khaki shirts (leeping tents and blankets rubber lifeboats for five people rubber and leather nurses’ shoes tarpauovershoes lins tool boxes table ware ware of all descriptions kitchen medical supplies surgical end dental Instruments snow shoes jungle knives Imitation rifles hsrdware of all descriptions such aa huts bolts chains hooks and metal gadgets: saddles signal lights flashlights boxes which spotlight would be suitable for mailboxes or for locking away valuable papers suit woolen mittens leather gloves supphotographers’ plies even cameras Patently It la up te the dealers In tile 19900 small towns or adder population of S000 throughout the country If farmers are to bo able te bay this surplus war property The dealer who is alert and watches for the sales date may be able to lay ta a stock of commodities Farm Cooperative particularly who deal la most everything the farmer Deeds might well be able to stock up oa at price surplus commodities would bo favorable to which their customers or member In an effort to further Inform these dealers about prospective sales and Commodities for ' sales the procurement office In each reof an Imgion notify newspapers sale through intermittent pending releases ployment the sale of quantitites Surplus Planes Also Available Civilians who have been suffering from growing pains around the shoulder blades may now permit their wings to begin sprouting And it’s all with the blessing of the United States government through adits agency the Civil Aeronautics ministration It Is now tn the process of unloading approximately a million surplus airplanes for which it Is finding civilian buyers These are being unloaded through auction held at eight regional offices every sold as property as set out by the war properties board seek to foster wide distribution of sur pi us eemmroditie to consumers at fair prices to achieve prompt and full utilization of the property with due regard for the protection of free markets to prevent dislocation of price from un- to Public An average of 90 planes Monday are distributed to each office and a total of 400 a week are finding their way into the hands of happy owners through competitive bidding The airplanes thus sold are those which have been ‘used by training centers and civilian Right school in which army dyers have been A listing of the planes on trained sale is mailed to all who request to be notified arm these invitations o bid list the type of airplane trsettea Is sae af el automobile Is winter traveling Inadequate traction can be due te smooth tire that should te recapped D C Washington Notet of a Newspaper Man: PLANS FOR PACIFIC WAR This they tell you happened at It bas all been kept very the Big 3 conference One evebut top army officials havs ning afUr dinner Roosevelt Churchdecision ill and Stalin started speculating on made a vitally Important what nationality they'd prefer to be on war production after Germany’ If they couldn’t be their own defeat schedules Churchill said: “If I couldn’t be Original war production called for a 40 per cent cutback British I’d want to be American” Roosevelt said: “If I wasn’t after Germany caves in permitting a vast reconversion program and American be British” Stalin Id said: "If I wasn’t Russian I’d be the early production of automobiles ashamed of my self !" refrigerators radiosand other goods However the army plus have now decided to keep the Daring the recent run of the Theater Guild’s "Embezzled Heaven” war machine rolling full tilt not cutback was the star Ethel Barrymore ting any but a few items until rushed to the hospital with pneuJapan is defeated monia Behind the vital decision Is an She was placed In an oxy-- President Roosevelt "Important “ new plan t “speed gen and Winston Churchill were among In the Pacific Confivlctery the many who sent posies and teledential war department surveys disclosed grams and for a few weeks everythat It would take one despaired of her pulling through over a year to returnEuropean veterans together with their the worst was over and Finally the star was permitted to sit up in equipment mneb of It geared The hed and answer the phone for winter rather than tropical first caller was the Guild's Theresa Allied shipping shortfighting Helburn ages would make it a long job “Hello” she cheerily aaid “how’a to crate sort repair and your cold?” heavy equipment from the Atlantic to the Pacific The other night a Hungarian playin addition the army survey diswright was told an actor had arrived closed that a lot of European equipfrom Hungary “Do you know ment will be obsolete for Pacific him?” he was asked would have to bo rebuilt fighting was the retort “Know him?” taking valuable time Instead the I hate him!” “He's my beat friend new plan caUa for bringing the men back at once issuing them new specifically designed for equipment Oar recent paragraphs about Far Eastern combat Later the commas brought the misplaced army wUl bring back overseas war one (boat the London Dally Mall gear and use it for Pacific replacewhich has a reputation for makments AU sorts ing fewest error blows This should speed final was emof editorial supervision against Japan and shorten the Far ployed — bonuses were offered the Eastern war by many months staff to maintain the highest Aa a result 1949 production schedstandards etc Bat the Mail was ules will probably be a billion dolstill less than perfect lars higher than those of 1944 The Finally the editor summoned war department which had a pile “Herethe staff and announced: of telegrams two feet high cancelafter the first copy will be printing war contracts to be sent out the ed on special stock and sent to day Germany is licked has now the King of England” culled through them and may only Editorial blunders dropped 90 cancel a few dozen orders per cent Texan In London was trying to with the Impress some Britishers “Do you size of his home state know" he said “that in Texas you can hop on a railroad car at 8 in the morning and still be in Texas after riding 24 hours?" "We” replied a Britisher "have trains like that in England too” A at the premiere of It happened The curtain “One Man Show” waa up and a woman was making a big as she got into her seat Seated near huffing and puffing her was George Luddy the He polished her off author neatly by audibly remarking: “Don’t worry about her She’s so used to the second balcony— that sitting in the orchestra tonight has given her the shakes” The exciting stories from Manila Included the one about an American radio reporter who was freed after three years as Bo was forced a Jap prisoner off the sir one day as the Japs entered the city The other morning aaid the papers he resumed broadcasting this way: "As I was saying when 1 was so rudely Interrupted—” De Valera of Eire was arrested while speaking at a street several years age meeting When he waa freed years later kls first statement was: “As I was saying when I was a rudely Interrupted — ” G 111m ore the actress Margate was anxious to become a nurse’s aids but found she didn’t have eifough stamina for the work— being frightened by the sight of blood etc So she compromised by becoming a Grey Lady (one who reads to the convalescent servicemen etc) Margate was telling Carolyn Burke about her duties "Just what la a Grey Lady?” naked Carolyn “A Grey Lady in my case” said Margate “is a yellow nurse's aide” Therowas the time the late Alex Woollcott waa the victim of a typeTho critic once setter’s error referred to a famous recitalist as “a popular dieuse” It came out: "Popular disease” When critic Rascoe covered the new play “Hope for tho Beat” he was no little flattered that the prinlino (used Intermitcipal comedy tently throughout tho three acts) waa something be wrote many years ago It waa: "Something no wife can ever understand no matter if she lives with the man for 29 years is that a writer is working when he is star- ing out of the window” A group of newspapermen were the current college gabbing about stories— the basketball scandal and the race discrimination report oo One of the scribes dental colleges said: “No matter what kind of a college yarn I write I never have to worry about my “Howcum?” asked a cumer T just write” aaid the firat news' ‘Nicholas Butman Murray paper ler President of Columbia University could not be reached for comment’ ” AND MARINES MacARTHUR The boys in the Pacific long have known about the rivalry between General Mac Arthur and the U S navy Many are the wisecracks about MacArthur and the U S marines land army of the navy However In only one case so far as Is known has MacArthur ever come up against on of these jokes face to face It happened on one of the Philippine islands a few days after it was takrti and when MacArthur was specting a battery of marine artillery Solemnly he passed from gun to gun making no comment Then suddenly aa be came to one gun he turned on the marine lieutenant In command and let loose that the most terrific young officer ever had received The air was smoky with expletives The lieutenant at first stood bewildered The gun was carefully polished Everything was in place Then he looked a little closer Beside the gun an enlisted man had placed a sign It read: “With the help of God and a few marines MacArtbnr retakes the Philip- Inadequate causes the s Rubber hod a strong Influonco In tho spending of 17k billion dollars oo stroot ond highway construcIn tho 0 S tion and maintonanca In tho ton years ended 1942 asad la tfca Tho materials making of card fabrics for syathetic motor vehicle tiros ara tha sama as used In prewar natural rubber tiros— cotton and rayon lir POStS &Z7 BRAU OE GOIDEN FLAKES s HWEArARDBRA J comb wed mm I SC'EARStVEET I TEVDER delicious It's Post’s J RASYS HEW breakfast idea a magic combination of 40 Bran Flakes plus crisp ten- der sweet seedless raisins right in the same package You’ve never tasted anything so delicious Ask your grocer for Post's Raisin Bran in the big package— today pines” The lieutenant thought at first that But several he would be busted day passed and nothing happened-His now back in the United States and the story can be told LOBBY INSURANCE The insurance lobby la headed for trouble regarding its bill to exempt Insurance companies from the Sheract If the lobbyists man aren’t careful they will get a White House veto The bill passed the senate In a form which met with approval But in the house the insurance lobby sharpened its sx and quietly tacked on some amendments which will not bs acceptable either to the White House or probably to a majority of the senate Chief effect of the amendments was to make It impossible to revive the act regarding insurance companies without a special act of congress Senator O'Mahoney who was quite willing of Wyoming to give the insurance companies a reasonable will fight compromise this extra grab to the end So will a great many of his colleagues CAPITAL CHAFF C General Franco’s controlled Spanish press has been using the same line at Hitler regardpropaganda ing the recent Big Three conference C Despite the fact that American with Lithurelations diplomatic ania hang by a thread the Lithuanian delegation celebrated Lithuanian Independence Day even after the Big Three conference or fl The war department's military intelligence is being re- organized again partly as a result of failures to spot Nazi troop concentrations preparing for tha bulge at- tack C The Mexico City confab is the most sorrowful conference in history for Dr Leo S Rowe benign longtime director of Pan the American union This is the first important parley held outside the confines of his union Dr Rowe fays: “I cannot but my heart la turning speak - aver” ' easy way to UNCORK STUFFY NOSTRILS wonmq”m Nostrils dogged membra nes swollen? 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