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Show Wsfiiagfon NO MORE SISTER SUSIE'S SOCKS Civilian consumers will benefit in the postwar period for a number oi wartime discoveries by army chemists chem-ists and researchers. Not only will they have synthetic soups and self-heating self-heating cocoa to use on camping trips, but they will find that they can purchase such tilings as shrink-proof shrink-proof woolen socks. The days when "the socks of sisters raised the blooming blisters" have been banished ban-ished forever in the army. All army socks are now shrink-proofed, and efforts are being made to apply the same treatment to all types of wool cloth. A 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 ball. If allowed to remain on a level surface for a quarter of an hour, however, the material will flatten out completely. The fiber wears extremely well, but the difficulty dif-ficulty still to be worked out is that it will not stand more than 15 to 20 launderings. ... CAPITAL CHAFF C. In view of the lumber shortage and. the terrific wartime destruction destruc-tion of forests in the South and Northwest, a drive has started for a renewal of the Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion corps after the war. This may be the answer to conscription. ... C While old-fashioned brass hats talk about a big land army after the war, General Bayerlein, commander command-er of the Panzer Lehr division, now a prisoner, has given some interesting inter-esting information to U. S. officers abroad. He reports that 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 concen-trating heavily on tactical bombing in other words bombing of enemy troops. . . . Wonder what the effect would be ii the new goop bomb, which spreads unquenchable fire in every direction, were dropped wholesale on Jap troops' in action? ... U. S. and Franco's Radio Top officials of OWI are seriously considering using the American taxpayers' tax-payers' money to buy time on Franco's Fran-co's Spanish radio network. Up until recently, OWI was broadcasting broad-casting over the Rabat, North African, Afri-can, station, which is French, in order to reach the Spanish people. According to OWI executive Thur-man Thur-man Barnard, "several programs a day carrying the American story are broadcast to the Spanish people." peo-ple." But despite the recent action of the San Francisco conference in flatly flat-ly vetoing the admission of Fascist Spain into the United Nations, OWI is considering a radio hookup over Franco's government-owned network. 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 compet-itor instead of our chief customer. Labor costs in Brazil have risen to such an extent that Brazilian coffee cof-fee growers can't 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 in-crease 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. ... MERRY-GO-ROUND 0. Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico Mex-ico has been sitting on the anti-poll tax bill until the San Francisco United Unit-ed Nations charter is out of the way. He does not want a poll-tax filibuster to upset ratification of the charter. C. Forthright Fred Vinson, the war mobilizer, is going to be put on the spot soon by the Surplus War Property Prop-erty board. It is about to hatch a ruling whereby 11 billion dollars of government-owned war plants and machinery would be sold merely mere-ly on the basis of price, not on the basis of where they could stimulate business and competition. ... 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. C Unsung heroes of the airplane carrier Franklin's rescue were Capt. John Gingrich, skipper of the cruiser Pittsburgh, and his excru tive officer, Ed Rivers. Capt Leslie Gehrcs of Ihe Franklin ex pressed astonishment that the Puis burgh kept its towline on the burn ir.g airplane carrier with Jap sui cides hiumg at both. The an swer is that for over 37 hours. Ging rich remained on the bridK''. wilh Rivers assigned lo the fainnil 1c watch the lowlinu Neilber h;id a moment's sleep ui thnso hours. |