UNION PRESS COURIER Thursday, Jamuary 8, 1942. Washington, D. C. = WILLKIE AND F.D.R. ; | Seldom in political history has a ‘President of the United States re- ceived such wholesome support on major foreign policy from a defeat- ‘ed candidate as Franklin Roosevelt ‘has received from Wendell Willkie. {Few people know how active Willkie ‘has been behind the scenes. For instance, Willkie has even done some missionary work on Joe Martin, chairman of the Republican National committee and opposition leader of the house. Willkie remains on very friendly terms with his old campaign manager, even though they differed on foreign policy. Shortly after the congressional vote to repeal the Neutrality act, An which the Republicans nearly de- feated Roosevelt, Willkie phoned Joe Martin. “Joe,” he said, “those Republi- cans who voted against repeal of neutrality are going to have a tough time being re-elected. They're go- ing to find the country is behind Roosevelt on this.” The Republican national chair- man replied that he would not only re-elect all the Republicans who voted against Roosevelt, but he would also elect a lot of new Repub- licans to fill the seats of the Demo- crats who had voted with Roosevelt. “Listen,” said Willkie, “if you re- elect 80 per cent of those who voted against the President you'll be the greatest political genius of all time.” “And,” said Willkie, in telling the story to a friend afterward, “a few days later there was Joe himself voting with Roosevelt for a declara- tion of war.” —Buy Defense Bonds— ; SHIP-BUILDING PROGRAM B : The action of the house naval af- { fairs committee in slashing the pro- posed expansion of our two-ocean vessel oul ] navy was due chiefly to shortages of ES i materials and construction equip- We pledge ourselves to this cause A Statement by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company We make this pledge publicly to our national government and to the people of the United States: That we will cooperate unhesitatingly in every effort of authorized govern. ment agencies to prevent unwarranted rises in prices of foods. That we will continue our efforts to reduce the spread between prices paid to the grower and prices charged to the consumers. That to this end we will continue to do everything in our power to assist the farmers and growers of America in the orderly marketing of their products at the fairest possible prices to them. That we will make every effort to hold our inventories at the lowest point con- sistent with good service to our customers because hoarding, whether by whole- salers, retailers, or consumers, will cause higher prices. : MN" va That we will endeavor to continue to pay our employees the highest wages and to give them the best working conditions in the grocery business generally. fy That we will make every effort to continue to sell food at retail at the lowest gross margin of profit in the history of the retail grocery business. ment. However, Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson, chief of the bureau of Sy ; ships, ran into a blunt barrage of Today we are providing food for our customers at the lowest gross 4 uestiions abou e wor 0! e . . . ° . . alice i : a modern combat profit rate in the history of the retail grocery business. This means home here dS sy members that we have achieved efficiencies in the distribution of food never , daughter The Daileinins Jecord iu ails war, before attained. More of your food dollar goes for food and less for kg more. sei Se : i“ overhead expenses than ever before. No other great retail business in Robi t that is . . . . . parents WOE, be Harta as ae the United States in any field is operated with such a low cost of : United States needed battleships ‘if distribution ; our enemies continue to use them . ae yome for combat purposes.” : i : ; 1s, Wiat is your honest private opin- No one in the food business can control the wholesale price of food. . f this ion of the battleship? _ he was . : Sr § asked. “Do you think this type of Only the government of the United States has power to do this, and > Me hip i t th ey it cost . . . » efense job et le nn Las for the protection of our people this power in the government is now build them?” oF Wagh “I'm su... , gentiemen, but it’s not a necessary power. 3 2 my function to answer that ques- 3 . ; 2 J of Nanty- tion,” sidestepped Robinson with a Today, with the nation at war, we believe that no private interest Fhome in smile. “I'm not a policy man. My job is to build ships after it is de- cided they are needed. However, has any rights in conflict with the general public interest. sburg vis- I have my own ideas about the bat- . .“ ome here tleship.” didn: 4 The armed forces of the United States are today receiving more = TR Fi Mog 2d and better food than ever before in our national history. It is equally e on the Robinson also was quizzed close- important that all of our people working and living behind the lines, obert E. ly about the high cost of certain . . ffered in- vessels which the navy proposed men, women and children, shall be better fed and better nourished n Christ- in the expansion program, chiefly h f . . 1 hi ient for a an aircraft carrier at an estimated than ever be ore 1n our nationa story. 1 $85,000,000. “Higher labor and material costs are the biggest factors,” Robinson explained. ‘For instance, we have a new type of armor plate for our ships which is far stronger than that used by any other nation. It costs $60 a ton, three times as much # as the armor plate we formerly 5 used.” “How about the labor supply?”’ “We have plenty of labor to carry out our shipbuilding program,” Rob- inson said. ‘‘Also plenty of facili- ties. Getting materials and ma- chine tools is our big problem right now. However, the shortage doesn’t amount to a bottleneck. In fact, production is running a little ahead of schedule and will be greatly ex- pedited by next spring.” —Buy Defense Bonds— CAPITAL CHAFF The outbreak of the war obscured the incident, but the house ate crow in a big way on its action last sum- mer barring David Lasser, former head of the Workers Alliance, from government employment. After a careful investigation, the appropria- tions committee completely exoner- ated Lasser of any Communist af- filiations. Representatives John Ta- ber, N. ¥., J. W. Ditter, Pa., and Everett Dirksen, Ill., who made the original accusation ducked the com- mittee session when Lasser was cleared. Puerto Ricans wryly recall that U. S. navy’s radio towers at Cayey, 25 miles from San Juan, were dis- mantled three years ago and sold as scrap iron to the Japanese. JOHN §. HARTFORD, President Emeigh for the Christmas holidays. | NANTY-GLO MINERS BUY The young man, who had been em- | $20,000 IN DEFENSE BONDS ployed for some time by the General | Ete Electric Co. in Bridgeport, was met Purchase of approximately $20,000 at about 1:30 a. m. at the Altoona station by his two brothers, George worth of defense bonds has been aue | ears to keep an otherwise healthy | thei ailments through the selective [registrant out of the armed forces, | service system. ’ {and even those thus aflicted and | It is indicated that within a short OF SELECTEE WON T those with total deafness in one ear [time draft boards will re-examine and [wil be accepted for limited duty. | reclassify men now in Class 1-B. In COUNT SO STRONGLY There will be few turndowns be- |this class are almost half of all reg- cause of weight or height, according |istrants examined heretofore by many | ané John, who had planned to drive | thorized by more than 1,100 miners to the new physical regulations. Con- |% the boards in this territory. |him from Altoona to his home. : sidered fit for general duty are men fecti . i i sis- | Short time after meeting his brothers | You Can Be Blind of An Eye, and | 8g Defective teeth and impaired vis Minus A Lot of Teeth, and Still Be A Soldier, RE A | employed by the Heisley Coal Come pany’s mines at Nanty-Glo. The mi= between five feet and six feet gix ion, according to national figures, he complained of feeling ill and col- ners agreed to sign slips authorizing {inches tall. “Shorties” or those taller {have accounted for approximately 37 12psed and died before a physician |the company to deduct $2 per pay bas 3 inchiss can be accepted for | per cent of the 1-B group. Reclassi- jolie ke Smmonsd: 5 : {from their envelopes and to apply the | limited duty. fication under the relaxed regulations osep + oalchmer was born in | money on the purchase of bonds, The It's going to be much easier to get | Unless a man’s weight is greatly it was foreseen, will result in hund- | Emeigh on August 26th, 1918, a son money will be deducted from each into the Army from now on and more |out of proportion to his height, he's {reds of these men being certified as [of John and Anna (Trusak) Katch- pay, starting this month, and contin- difficult to evade selective service by | practically in the army, according to [available for service. jmer. Surviving are his parents and | wing until $18.75 or the price of a des virtue of physical defects. The draft [new standards. | Draft boards have been notifieq |IiVe brothers and sisters. |fense bond, has been obtained, army's physical standards, relaxed | mpg age-old regulation which re-|an old regulation which required the | —_— — - - and simplified, are in the hands of | quired a soldier to have a “trigger | boards to give a ten day notice to any the selective service boards, and are | finger” was wiped out by the new |registrant scheduled for reclassifi- now in effect. rules. Even if a selectee has lost |cation was rescinded as of Jan. 1, At- The detailed rating of vision, num- | three fingers of either hand, provid- | tention was drawn to this clause in bering and rating of teeth and height, | ing the thumb remains, he will be | the selective service rules when the | weight and measurement tables used | qualified for limited service. Absence | boards were instructed to start im- | for more than a year by selective | of the index finger is no longer a bar { mediately on reclassification of all { service boards have been scrapped by | to service. {1-B registrants—those who had rea- | ety, Office of Civilian Defense is pre- paring a handbook on “What You Can Do For Civilian Defense.” Au- the new orders under which local | boards and physicians are function- | ing now. Defects are now listed in two parts. Those in Part I bar a man from any | service and they are all either pro- | | ched their 28th birthday. In addition to whatever punishment | is provided for Army deserters, those The new regulations bar a man [gressive cases of diseases or Serious who “walk out” on Uncle Sam dur- from service only if he is totally | malformations, including mental de- ling the war will lose their American blind, or has some progressive dis-|fects and other obviously disqualify- | ojtizenship, ease that cannot be remedied, Men | ing conditions. Part II lists the less | with but only one eye are admitted | serious defects. i iv ” % er THE for limited service and all others are| Duties of the examining physician | EMEIGH YOUTH DIES AFTER qualified for general duty. | are simplified under the ew regula- | Heretofore selectees were required | tions. Part I men are disqualified. | to have a certain number of “bites” | Part II men are qualified for limited | with their teeth. The army now will | service. All others are passed as phy- take men with no teeth if they have |sically fit, T ee no disease of the mouth. | Men listed as fit for limited ser- caused the death of Joseph P. Kat- | From now on it will take a rather | vice (Class 1-B) are subject to call chmer, 23, of Bridgeport, Conn., who | srcenmammasen Serious degree of deafness in both [for general duty after correction of [was enroute to his parents home in | thor of the handbook is Eleanor Pierson, wife of Export-Import Bank President Warren Lee Pierson. Australia’s able Minister Richard § G. Casey drives about Washington in a British car with a transparent top and right-hand drive. Apparently not having enough to do with the war, representatives of the Pure Food and Drug adminis- tration now ask drug firms the ques- : tion: “How much business did you { ( do last year?” 3 i i Iv ww A SUDDEN HEART ATTACK | Please let us know now if ° you're going to move—if you want any changes made in your present listing—or need an additional listing in the new directory. Call, write or visit the Bell Telephone Business Office. | A heart attack he suffered while |in the Pennsylvania Railroad station | (at Altoona on Christmas morning |
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