Show early bird U I 1 I 1 4 at I 1 philadelphia PA first veteran to appear on the scene for the national encampment of the veterans of foreign wars here atvas aas jack parley farley known as the irish traveler ile he hitchhiked to philadelphia from louisville ky and is being rewarded at convention hea headquarters d by getting the first badge I 1 HOSIERY and the jomen the governmental placing of silk in in the vital raw material category closed down the silk hosiery industry and sent american women in a wild blitzkrieg on the silk stocking counters of the nation there were no tears shed over the situation the women apparently regarding the whole thing as a sort of a gay lark and dashing into the stores to stock up just to be doing something more than for any other reason for surveys of opinion showed that the ladies were perfectly willing to go barelegged bare legged if necessary to spray makeup stockings ings on their legs or to wear cotton if they could be made good looking it was obvious that the new nylon industry would not be able to supply the demand at least at prices women were willing to pay but as to the cotton situation the 9 government overn ment had finished researches at beltsville md from which had come types of cotton stockings many of them pretty stylish looking philadelphia with a a year hosiery industry and other nearby cities and states with smaller organizations began changing over to cotton right away one mill already had out a line of samples of cotton lisle stockings several of them of the mesh type these were displayed by pret pretty ty models and the salesmen sta started arted out to see what the reception of the american woman would be on that they said depended what the factory would do close up or continue to put out the cotton stockings LLOYDS and war bets lloyds was reputedly offering odds on the end of the war even the likelihood of washington D C being bombed circumstances which told their own story the war is more likely now to be over december I 1 than it was at this his time last year lloyds was offering 7 to I 1 last year and now has reduced the odds of the war ending in 1941 to 3 to 1 As to the bombing of washington the odds were 1000 to 1 however as it was pointed out the odds really that much for it was simply the offering of a premium of 1000 for 1 that no property would be lost within a year in washington thus really meaning that lloyds was betting 1000 to 1 that no particular private property in washington would be damaged SPIES meet doom the reports issued constantly to british citizens that even the walls have ears were given point when it was told that two nazi spies karl theo Dru drueke elce german citizen and werner heinrich a swiss were executed as s spies pies the story was romantic enough the two men equipped with rad radio sending and receiving sets flew near the english coast and were set down from a seaplane they then rowed ashore in a collapsible rubber boat both had foreign passports and spoke english for a time they evaded discovery they had split up and were heading for edinburgh scotland by different routes their bags were examined and when the radios were found the jig was up later the government said they were found to have food including sausage made in germany they were hanged R RAF A F busy over reich better weather renewed reports of increasingly heavy RAF raids over cities of the reich including berlin itself the told of bombers braving storms and high winds to make their raids although clear skies over germany gave the pilots q a visual idea of the damage among the towns raided were the industrial centers of mannheim frankfurt and karlsruhe |