Show t tl i l OR W EA ON ONNO I NO MORE SISTER SUSIES SUSIE'S SOCKS SOCK Civilian consumers will benefit U iI iII ui I 1 the postwar period for a number ol of wartime discoveries by army chem chemI I I Isis and researchers Not only will wil they have synthetic soups and self self- heating healing cocoa to use on camping I trips but they will find that they can purchase such things as shrink shrink- I i i proof woolen socks The days when the socks of sisters raised the banished ban banished blooming blisters have been forever In the army All 11 army socks arc are now shrink proofed and efforts are being made to apply the same treatment to all types of wool cloth A new synthetic cloth cloUt has also I been developed which can be rolled I up into a ball an and will rebound from froma I Ia a wall with the force of a rubber I ball If It allowed to remain on a a. a level surface for lor a quarter of an hour however the material will flatten out completely The fiber we wears rs extremely well but the difficulty difficulty difficulty dif dif- still to be worked out is that it will not stand more than 15 to I 20 launderings CAPITAL CHAFF FF C. C In view of of the lumber shortage and the terrific wartime destruction destruction destruction tion of forests in the South and Northwest a drive has started for fora a renewal of the Civilian Conservation Conserva Conserva- tion corps after the war This may be the answer to conscription C. C While old-fashioned old brass hats talk about a big land army after the war General BayerleIn commander command command- er of the Panzer Lehr division now nowa a prisoner has bas given some interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting information to U. U S. S officers abroad He reports that if it the U. U S. S army had stepped up tactical air warfare last August after our breakthrough into France we could have nave won the war sooner At that time U. U S. S planes were bombing German factories but not concentrating concentrating concentrating concen concen- heavily on tactical bombing in in other words bombing of enemy troops Wonder what the effect would be if it the new goop bomb which spreads unquenchable fire In every direction were dropped wholesale on Tap lap troops in action U. U S. S and Francos Franco's Radio Top officials of OWl are seriously considering using the American taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' tax tax- payers' payers money to buy time oe oo 00 Franco's Francos Francos Franco's Francos Franco's Fran Fran- cos co's Spanish radio network Up until recently OWl was broadcasting broadcasting broadcasting broad broad- casting over the Rabat North African AIri- AIri can station which is French in order to reach the Spanish people According to OWl executive Thurman Thurman Thurman Thur Thur- man Barnard several programs a aday aday aday day carrying the American story are broadcast to the Spanish peo peo- But despite the recent action of the San Francisco conference in flatly flat flat- flatly t- t ly vetoing the admission of Fascist Spain into the United Nations is considering a radio hookup over Francos Franco's owned government net net- work BOOST IN COFFEE PRICES A debate has been raging inside the government over the price of coffee which this time may be boosted Chief problem is that Brazil our biggest coffee shipper and our best friend In Latin America is finding it so uneconomical to grow coffee that she is turning to cotton In that case she would be our chief competitor competitor competitor instead of our chief customer Labor costs In Brazil have risen to such an extent that Brazilian coffee cof cof- tee fee growers cant can't produce at the theOPA theOPA theOPA OPA ceiling price which averages around 13 cents a pound They want the price boosted to an average of 18 cents a pound This would increase increase increase in in- crease the cost of a cup of coffee one-eighth one of a cent The state department favors such sucha a price rise The OP OPA A. A anxious to hold the line is opposed ROUND MERRY-GO-ROUND C. C Senator Carl Hatch of New Mex Mexico Mexico ico leo has been sitting on the poll anti-poll tax bill until the San Francisco United United United Unit Unit- ed Nations charter is out of the way He does not want a tax poll-tax filibuster to upset ratification of the charter C. C Forthright Fred Vinson the war is going to be put on the spot soon by the Surplus War Property Prop Prop- erty board It is about to hatch hatcha a ruling whereby 11 billion dollars of ot owned government-owned war plants and machinery would be sold merely merely merely mere mere- ly on the basis of price not on the basis of where they could stimulate business and competition If It the Surplus board has hns its way war plants machinery etc will go to the DuPonts General Motors Ford and others with the most cash to buy them C CI Unsung heroes of the airplane carrier Franklins Franklin's rescue were Capt John Gingrich skipper of the cruiser Pittsburgh and his executive executive executive tive officer Ed Rivers Capt Leslie Gehres of the Franklin expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed astonishment that the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh kept its towline on the burning burning burning burn burn- ing airplane carrier with Jap suicides suicides sui sui- hitting at a both The answer an nn is that for over 37 hours Gingrich Gingrich Gingrich Ging Ging- rich remained on the bridge with Rivers assigned to the f fantail to watch the towline Neither had a aI moments moment's sleep during those 37 I hours t I l |