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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1941)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, May 1, 1941 Page Two Under the \\ ing of the American Eagle Washington, D. C. SAVING MONEY One of defense price regulator Leon Henderson's staunchest sup porters is Donald Nelson, dollar-a- ycar OPM purchasing chief. At a meeting of his lieutenants. Nelson said: “We’ve got to watch price advances like a hawk. Our national economy won’t stand for any price skyrocketing I want you to catch every bid where prices are out of line, and if we can't scale them down, we’ll turn the case over to Leon.” Several days later an assistant, examining cotton gauze prices sub mitted by three companies holding army contracts, smelled a mouse and showed the figures to Nelson. The prices of two of the firms were okay, but the third had boosted its bid 10 cents. Checking. Nelson found that wages in mills had not ad vanced and that a large stock of cotton was on hand. So he called the manufacturer and firmly informed him that unless his price was put back into.line the fur would fly. Next day the company submitted reduced figures. Note—Nelson's biggest problem in keeping defense prices from soar ing is the military brass-hats, who are rated chiefly for their ability to get materials for the army and navy, and not on the price the gov ernment has to fork out. • • • U. S. Civil Service Job« Offer Chances for Many Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Front Pages: The Jap-Bolo toast to love each other to pieces, the story of the year for The Daily Worker, caught that Commy sheet with its tongue tied. It offered no lowdown on the pact on the day when the yarn broke. Next day (maybe on a tip from the Kremlin) it decided the treaty was an instru ment of peace. The sheet claimed Russia remains a “staunch friend” of the Chinese. Of course, the pact gives the Japs the green light to ex terminate these "staunch friends,” but the Bolos feel that anybody who points this out is a dirty counter revolutionary capitalist . , . Alsop and Kintner don't agree with The Worker’s rose-tined picture. They canvassed the State Dep't and couldn’t get anybody to deny that Stalin signed on the dotted line be cause Hitler cracked the whip . . . Gen. Robert C. Richardson makes a Greenland came under U. S. protection when the government signed an agreement with Danish officials. good start as boss of public rela tions for the army. ."Don’t try to Thus the Monroe Doctrine spreads northward in scope. Photos show the fishing colony at L'manak (below) and conceal information from the news fishing boats at Scoresbysund (upper right). Circle: Hendrick De Kauffmann, Danish minister to the V. S., papers,” he advised his helpers. recalled by the German-controlled Copenhagen government, for his role in the negotiations. “They will only get it anyway— from unofficial sources” . . . “Com munist's Wife Accused as Killer,” headlines The Post. Say, we know people who think being a colum nist's wife is a sure-fire defense for murder. Cherry Blossom Time in Washington The Wireless: The radio Is one BILL OF FRILLS ' of the busiest Nazi weapons in the Press gallery wits have taken to Balkans. 7heir prize flash was the referring to the stymied $150,000,000 lie about the British quitting emergency defense housing meas Greece, but they landed some im ure as the “bill of frills.” This is a portant minor falsehoods on the lo soft impeachment. Not in a long cal networks. One newscaster is a time has an important piece of legis pushover for thoir alarms. His lation suffered more from congres late-at-night defeatism never holds sional obstruction and inconsistency. up in tne morning, but it nelps Introduced several months ago to Goebbels a lot by adding to the wor meet an urgent defense situation, ' ries of Americans. A dope at the the bill was stalled for 10 days in mike is just as useful to the Nazis the house rules committee by a As a spy . . . Gen l Johnson took a noisy row over the installation- of belt at some of the war “predict “frills,” such as refrigerators and ors,” meaning air commentators. gas stoves, in homes for defense The Gen'l is an odd one to object workers. to forecasters. Consider all those Finally, after Inserting an amend uneaten guesses of his left over from ment barring these appliances, the tht* November elections . . It was House passed the measure and it strictly knock - down • and ■ drag-out went to the senate. There it ran when Col. Breckinridge and Sen. head on Into another "frill” tangle— Tobey clashed on a forum. They in reverse. This time a “frill" was junked the issue and grabbed at put into the bill. each other’s throats. This ringsider Brick makers protested that the scored a win for the Colonel. $3,000 limit specified fof each hous- , ing unit barred the use of bricks, ' Typewriter Ribbons: Masaryk’s: and demanded that the ante be Dictators always look good until the raised to $3,500. One of the chief F Scott pro-brick spokesmen was Sen. Bob last five minutes This photo shows how people walked or rode to view the splendor of the hundreds of Japanese cherry Taft of Ohio, a leading economy ad Fitzgerald's: He had begun to have trees as they burst in full bloom around the Tidal Basin in the nation's capital. Inset: Nancy Alden Strong is vocate, who touglff V’ slash the k*nd- that harassed and aghast feeling of crowned Queen of the Cherry Blossoms. With her is Sen. John Overton of Louisiana. About a quarter of a lease appropriation on the ground those who live always on the edge million people attended the coronation. of solvency . . . Emerson’s: Every that it was excessive. On the argument tbtit savings in hero becomes a bore at last . . . Waves leaped paint, repairs and heating through Emma Squire’s: the use of brick would n)ore than against the bow like rowdy dogs H W. Beecher's: offset the $500 difference, the sen- ' eager to play . . ate approved the boost- and added Poverty is very good In poems, but another delay. For now the amend very bad in the house . . i . J. Remember I that when ed measure has to go back to the Graham's: house for it to decide whether bricks you're in the right you can afford to fall in the same "luxury" category keep your temper and that when you are in ttie wrong you can’t af as refrigerators and gas ranges. ford to lose it. Note—In an effort to make up some of the time wasted by the frill-' conscious boys on Capitol Hill, De Notes of a New Yorker: fense Housing Co-ordinator Palmer Bob Considine, Arch MacDonald has gone ahead with plans for a and others were talking shop and number of projects, ready to start about Damon Runyon's genius . . . the moment the bill becomes law. “I remember once.” said Considine, One will be the largest low cost “at a World's Series first game— housing project ever undertaken by all of is in the press-box ran out of the government. fingernails trying to dream up a snazzy load paragraph. And all rt Ml RRY-GO-ROUNH us kept tearing the paper out of the Mrs Roosevelt has been invited typewriter and starting over and to address the national Townsend over again striving to be clever. Plan convention in Buffalo early in Except Runyon. He began his July. Meanwhile. Sen Sheridan story: •Yanks, 2; Reds. 1.’ ” Downey of California, chief Town- three mast distinguished sendite spokesman in congress, has told leaders of the movement that he will force a vote on their old-age One alert lad suggests that pension plan in the senate by offer a symbolic connotation in ing it as an amendment to the tax syllables of their names. bill next month. We lles WII.L-kle WIN-ant. Justice Stanley Reed follows the practice of the late great Justice Maj.-Gen. H. 11. Arnold, chief of Max Miller, author of “I Cover Oliver Wendell Holmes in picking a the U. S. army air corps, shown as new legal clerk every year, explains the Wateitront," “Reno," and oth As the Nasi air blits shifts from nation to nation only faces in the he boarded a clipper plane in New that he does it chiefly for his own er book*:, i ves in La Jolla. Calif., York for flight to Europe. General benefit to get the difTerent view- in a tome right >n the edge of the amiliar pictures of ruined homes are changed. Censors are quick to Arnold will go to London to act as ealise that photos like the one above, taken in Greece, do much to invite Pacific. The excessive Winter points of bright young men. an official observer for the war de Feature of the latest issue of the rains, aided by faulty drainage, ynipathy of neutrals. Here three generations of Greek peasantry weep partment. Republican, monthly party mag». shoved several tons of the beach imld ruins of their "blitsed" home. zine, is an article by a Democrat on sand and dirt into his basement and . . Angry, he filed ’ What's Wrong With the G. O P.” furnace room In a p»oll of 5.765 college students on suit against the city tor damages. the “greatest weakness” of the Re All he got was a lot of horse laughs publican party, 35 2 per cent an and a newspaper headline which “Max Miller Used to swered “Lack of touch with com taunted: mon people”; 24 4 per cent held “No Cover the Waterfront and Now the co-ordinated program"; 25 6 per Waterfront Covers Max Miller.” cent "Divided leadership”; and 14 8 hooks about Winston per cent “Other reasons.” Several The late Sen. Morris Shepard of Churchill have come out suddenly, Texas was known to the public One contains the story of the Indy, chiefly as tiie father of prohibition, who harped on British war aims* but on Capitol Hill he was consid- She wanted to know what Britain ered a great worker for prepared- was fighting for. To which he grim- ncss .is well as a tolerant, kindly ly told her: •'If we left off fighting you would soon And out.” friend. Veteran New Dealer Leon Hendvr son. defense price regulator. rat, • Heywood Broun'» best colyums OPM Production Chief John Big- (collected by his son) belong on (Oh, gers, one of the country’s biggest the required reading lists. A beauti glass manufacturers, and Priorities how he is missed!! . Chief Edward R Stettinius. former ful humane philosophy is summed U. S. Steel executive, as two of the up in these words by Broun: "It is fairest and most enlightened big not fair that I should thwart and business men in the defense organi crush great eagerness for existence for the sake of the extremely mild sation. To Wall Street the No. 1 “nasty diversion which I get from Ashing. 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