Show aa I 1 I 1 6 0 U 0 1 NO MORE SISTER R SUSIES BOCKS civilian consumers will benefit li it the postwar posta ar period for or a humber ol oi wartime discoveries by army chem chemists and researchers not only will they have synthetic soups and self heating cocoa to use on camping trips but they will find that they can purchase such things as woolen socks the days when tho the socks of sisters raised the blooming blisters have been ban dished forever in the army all army socks are now shrink proofed and efforts are being ma made de to apply the same treatment to all types of wool cloth A now new synthetic cloth has also been developed which can be rolled up into a ball and will rebound from a wall with the force of a rubber ba ball 11 if all allowed owed to remain on a level surface for a quarter of an hour however the material will flatten out completely the bibet wears extremely well but the difficulty still to be worked out is that it will not stand more than 15 to 20 launderings I 1 CAPITAL CHAFF flin view of the lumber shortage and the ter terrific rifle wartime destruction of forests in the south and northwest a drive has started for a renewal of vie the civilian conservation corps after the war this may be the answer to conscription t 0 0 4 C while old fashioned brass hats talk about a big land army after the war general bayerlein Bayerl eln commander of the panzer lehr division now a prisoner has given some interesting information to U S officers abroad he reports that it if the U S army had stepped up tactical air warfare last august after our breakthrough into france we could have won the war sooner at that time U S planes were bombing german factories but not concentrating heavily on tactical bombing in other words bombing of enemy troops wonder what the effect would be if the new goop bomb which spreads unquenchable atre in every direction were dropped wholesale on jap troops in action 0 V U S and francos radio top officials of are seriously considering using the american taxpayers money to buy time on francos spanish radio network up until recently was broadcasting over theA the rabat abat can station elation which is french in order to reach the spanish people according to executive thur man barnard several programs a day carrying the american story are broadcast to the spanish people but despite the recent action of the san francisco conference in flatly vetoing the admission of fascist spain into the united nations is considering a radio hookup hookup over francos government owned network 4 41 BOOST IN COFFEE PRICES A debate has been raging inside the government over the price ot 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 that she sha Is turning to cotton in th that t case she would be our chief competitor instead of our chief customer labor costs in brazil have risen to such an extent that brazilian coffee growers cant produce at the 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 the cost of a cup of coffee one eighth of a cent the state department favors such a price rise the OPA anxious to hold the line is opposed 0 MERRY GO ROUND C 1 senator carl hatch of new me mex too has been sitting on the anti poll tax bill until the san franc francisco isco united nations charter is out of the way lie he does not want a poll tax filibuster to upset ratification of the charter C e forthright fred vinson the war is going to be put on the spot soon by the surplus war property board it is about to hatch a ruling whereby 11 billion dollars of government owned war plants and machinery would be sold merely on the basis of price not on the basis of where they could stimulate business and c competition ti i if the surplus board has its way war plants machinery etc will go to the duponts general motors ford and others with the most cash to buy them fl 41 unsung heroes of the airplane carrier carriea franklins rescue were capt john gingrich skipper of the cruiser pittsburgh and his executive officer ed rivers CIA capt leslie gehres of the franklin expressed astonishment that the pittsburgh kept its towline on the burning airplane carrier with jap suicides hitting at both the answer is that for over 37 V hours ging rich remained on the bridge with rivers assigned to the fantail to watch the towline neither had a moments momento sleep during those 37 hours I 1 I 1 mai i 4 I 1 4 an |