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Show w Erowsing among words: "So rare they could be counted on the fingers fin-gers of one thumb." Meat prices for consumers have been prepared by the OPA and are available at the local price control board or district OPA information office. Atlas building, Salt Lake City.. Ceiling prices for various cuts and grades of meat, fresh, cured and frozen are listed for stores in groups 1 and 2. Housewives are urged to ubciin a list and use it as a weapon against inflation and the black market. from Japan. i The people were all very court- I ous to us. The policemen saluted every officer who came by. Some of the little kids walked around us smiling or saying "hello." 1 found two or three men who knew enough English to carry on a conversation. con-versation. One tried to sell me a Jap almanac for a souvenir. They use the same numerals as we do so we could buy from them without too much trouble. Everything they had to sell had just been dug out of caves and had an odor like a musty old potato pit. The mountains moun-tains around there are just full of caves. I guess I'll just stop now. This piece of money is worth one third of a dollar. It is 5 yen. I hope I'll be able to come home and see you all soon. Love, Val Gene. Ens. Val Gene Black is on the battleship U. S. S. Wisconsin, one of the ships now docked at Pearl Harbor, and will be in San Francisco Francis-co to celebrate Navy Day October 27. Letter Box . , Tokyo Bay, Sept. lo. Dear Folks, Here I am still in Tokyo Bay. When we came in I didn't think we were going to be here this long but according to all rumors we won't be here many more days. Yesterday is one of the days in my life I shall never forget. 1 had shore patrol duty in Yokasuka. I was given twenty-five sight-seeing sailors to be responsible for. Y'ou can guess just about how long I was able to keep the bunch of them together. But they all showed show-ed up when it was time to return to the ship. I was the first one from our ship to get all of my men aboard so 1 guess I didn't do so badly. Yokasuka is the dirtiest place I ever want to see. There had been very little damage done from the bombs but still the whole place was terribly run down. It looked as though it had been deserted for vears. The odors that drifted thru the air were awful. The people were all poorly dressed. All the men and boys wore, what looked like, parts of uniforms they had found in the trash piles. The women wo-men all wore pajamas. I didn't see any clothing for sale in the shops. There were long lines in front of two places that seemed to be selling sell-ing rice. They had plenty of trinkets trin-kets for sale but wanted much more for them than they were worth. Some of the Japs looked so much like monkeys I just about bought one for little sister, Thelma. But I was afraid she wouldn't know what to do with him, and did'nt know where she would get enough fish and rice to feed him. I did get something for her, tho, that she can show to all her little friends and tell them it came right |