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_ AT'THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, Dec. 27 (By ° ‘They chased him out of the gun pit.

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Wireless) —Shells and big guns cost money, but jt's , When the battery moves, each gun is pulled by a - better to spend money than lives, ‘huge Diamond-T truck. It's no picnic moving these| SECOND SECTION Along that line a bunch of us were sitting around guns over the mountains and through deep mud. On! ne ; : conjecturing, the other day, on how much it costs to a recent move our gun turned over twice in one night | . r= : etme Kill ODL. (EIMAR- With-—oub—attil~-—When-it-skidded-eff-the-read rs sass : lery. = Te ; When ‘they arrive at a new position the whole When you count fe great cost crew turn to with shovels and dig a pit for the gun | of the big modern guns, training and bring up logs to keep the gun from kicking itself

the men, all the shipping to get out of position. I imagined it would take hours to | ‘ y everything over here, and the big lay in the gun mathematically, get it all braced andi shells at $50 each, it surely would everything, but the boys say that on extreme occasions | -

cost $25,000 for every German we they can fire in eight minutes after reaching a new

Germans $25,000 apiece to sur- There are several of my gun crew whose names render, and save all the in- I haven't had a chance to mention, so I'll put them ’

between process and the killing? down in order that their folks may know how they | Even If Nazis Collapsed

| TI bet they'd accept it too.” It's a novel theory, but &re living and that they are all right. The remainder | . personally I bet they wouldnt ? of the crew are Cpl. James Smith of Dogwood, Tenn; | Tomorrow It Would One forenoon a nice-looking soldier walked up Pfc. Roy Christmas and Pfc. Oscar Smith, of Marion, ; Take Time and sat down on the earthen bench behind our gun S. C.. Pvt. Wayne Hedden, Hawarden, Iows; Pvt. | .

0 ditor's : 's address lost | pit. All the boys knew him, for they were all from John Borrego (Editor's Note: Borrego's at i By A. T. STEELE the same part of the country. This young fellow was ID transmission), and Pvt. Charles Hook, St. Joseph, : . Cpl. Bubble Perritt, of Peedee, S.C. His job is string- Mo. } and the Chicago Daily News, Inc ing telephone wires. Ordinarily powdered eggs are fairly hard to get. I NEW DELHI, Dec. 27 —Alli

4 - think the worst I ever ate were those in England, and military men in Asia.are frankly | Kid Him, About His Soft Job i “the best were the work of Mess Sgt. Clifton Rogers of : SEE 7 pe ; Mullins, 8. C., who cooks for our artillery battery. perturbed over the loose thinking | . THE OTHER boys were kidding him about having Rogers cooks with imagination. Here's his recipe at home about the war against 1 a soft job and he was saying he walked more in one for powdered eggs for approximately 100 men: | Japan. i day than they did in a month. Finally he said in a He takes two one-gallon cans of egg powder, ) feb asrr X tis Ul { soft southern accent: pours in 16 cans of condensed milk and four yuarters| VY hat disturbs them most is the “Say, I've been in the army three year and ain't of water, mixes it up into a batter, then dips it out popular assump- | fard a gun yet. Why don't you let me shoot off that with a ladle and fries it in bacon grease. tion that after thing?” The result looks like a small yellow pancake. It's | the collapse of “All right, come on,” said Sgt. Jack McCray. “You frizzled and done around the edges like a well-fried | Hitler, it will be can shoot the next one.” egg, and although it tastes only Yaguely like an egg | possible within ‘a |

So Bubble came over, pulled the lanyard, and sent it still tastes good. And that's all that counts. few weeks the big shell on its way. He dusted off his hands and Speaking of powered.eggs and all the various other said, surprised-like® forms of dehydrated stuff we get. one of the soldiers “Ho, I always thought you boys had something said the other day we were now sending over de- | to do.” . hydrated water from America. to the Pacific f

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum “ste = 77

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Lo accommodate immediately mo completely bald, confided to a friend the other day handed out $5 and $10 gift certificates on the stores,

instead. . . . The governor's office staff chipped in and than a. small part of the shippin

. p our ny iis nd Chir ‘mestic relations in the last year. rows, back from Guadalcanal with a medical dis- [Tom Europe for India anc !

Hi, nut the where a couple got a divorce, the a Japanese bugle he'd like to sell for $25. . , . One Put where would we put then

man walked into Ayres’ Thursday and, going to the Asia and China are receiving we

company’s personnel and public relations department

visiting Elmer Taflinger's studio and noticed a student

- personnel office, asked for the help of “a mature have a gift exchange the day before Christmas. Last Under 10 per cent of the vast pro ~ ucts . . $1000 4 Married woman.” Asked why, he explained Christmas y,,; Gertrude Davig Niemever, secretary to Wallace duction-_of British and American 5 Rea IS oo i 19.20 | had slipped up on him and he had to buy something O. Lee, and Dorothy Settles, secretary to Roy Badollet, arsenals ’ ce Mills * Lkins post 162 500 4 for his wife. Rowland Allen began making sugges- exchanged and each received the same thing she When the Eiopean war is over Ameriean Legion Non : 1 tions of things he could buy, but the man hushed him had given the other—bath powder and cologne. Last this trates IE eter] am i po ! with: “Hell, man; you-don’t know any more what she Friday, there was another exchange. And sure trom the pottoniol ihe priority list Previous total Co $10 ner] Ste wants than I do. What I want is a mature married enough; it happened again. They both gave and re- 10 the op, ASK: any neva) here Mie, b ho cress X Po a0 1 woman to help me.” - He got the help. . .. Every once ceived bath towels. . . | Leonard Mayhugh, supervisor how he is Boing to handle this mass HOTTIES - ) Co f 4 in a while the army gets a round peg in a round hole. benefit payments for the Indiana employment se- of rower and achineC and] TOTAL CONTRIBU. 4 For instance Cpl. Jack T. Patterson. Jack, who is curity division, reports at Ft. Harrison Jan. 3 to make where he is going to deploy them. | roe ! C5540.92 : over in England and has been assigned to the rail- it 29 from that section ‘how in service i. . Sign on a gis first impulse is to throw up See So | § road shops, showed one of his officers some of the w New York st. fruit stand just before Christmas: pic hands in despair: then he starts 3 cartoons he had drawn—including one of Merle -Exmag oranges” .. Yeoman 1-c William Bell was talking about plans. SABOTAGE ACTS | Sidener—and the first thing he knew he was trans- : 1}

: SORA) It will take an enormous amoun ferred to the special service section as an artist. Tom O Loughlin, doing a still life of the usual collec- of planning and construction by ti “1 wonder what ever happened to the other half of junction with the India command MAXWELL DROKE, the publisher, has come to the apple you assists paint. There's always a half to renmiove the existing bottlenecks

the realization that he “must be getting old.” He eaten apple, but never anyone’ in sight who might increase existing facilities and sc

e E v ! J 5 Si Byes jt 3 : Now Ie's Convinced tion of fruit. After a bit of cogitation, he remarked: southeast ‘Asia command, in con- SWEEP FRANCE ; oli § : ! ) Photos ‘hy UU 8 Signal Corps

wasn't convinced when he began losing his hair some have eaten the other half * Not even Elmer knew the cet the stage for the bloody grand Co years ago. But he was convinced, just the other day, answer, . . . Mrs. Ralph Pope, 3142 Guilford ave. re- finale of the Pacific war This long- Official when a small boy—about 7—politely got up and of- ceived a letter with a tuberculosis Christmas seal in range planning problem is not being

, r | ta the proper position. ge . : fered Max a seat on the streetcar, Max was so em- the upper right hand corner in place of a stamp. It neglected | Reveals Mass Scale {| — = = = barrassed that he took it. . .. Some of the state offi- was from Washington. D. C. . « By the, way, have Since the.southeast Asia command | of 0 tb k ANE . . . cials who are accustomed to receiving gifts of liquor vou sent in a check for your Christmas seals yét? If came into being. the task of plan- | utoreaks. S P f Wh All Sm A d N for Christmas failed to get it this year. But they you haven't, now's a good time, ning the groundwork for the im- | — I an 1€ ro, } ere es as e ais, ; some mense operations which are to fol- By HELEN KIRKPATRICK o

i j eparatory op-'. i ‘hh Copyright. 1943 bv the Indmnapolis Timees lOWer slopes of which had.to be able to remain safely ensconced in WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—8o the New Deal is out main objectives were in effect, and anyway at- this MaJ0T emphasis on preparatory op-'come into the hands of the French °P%nd the Chicage Datly News Tne Peake . % » villages deep © t ere ready 1 i ; ! erations, so that every possible ship. ca taken in order to take the villages deep caves until we were ready 10 of date, says Mr. Roosever: oo time there was just one thing that mattered, which rank and landing boat may be here. It reveals sabotage Inside! o,u PIETRO, Italy Dec. 22 to the south the ground slopes attack, whereupon they moved That man Roosevelt! He picks out Christmas eve was winning the war. utilized in Europe to assure vic- France to be on a tremendous scale (Delayed). —The semi-open char- Away ever a series of terraces to- quickly to necessary positions, une to tell us there isn’t any Santa Claus after all. At any rate I suspect that is about what the - ! This official document is such 48 f

; tory ove ermany in the winte It was all because that preacher from Cleveland President said, because Columnist Lupton: Wrote an r Ger y in the winter

; . of 1944. to do in Italy is perfectly illumi- nano and Cassino— "The Road to went to work like so many factory looked like a good guy on whom article about how he could say “with complete Help to Grow its nature would reveal the means nated by the battlefield of Sang Rome” hands. to plant the news. } authority” that President Roosevelt “would like to ’ by which it was brought to London. | pietro where we won a hard-| | Over to the west. between San | You want to know how it hap- have the term “New Deal” discarded In the meantime, aerial heip to But your correspondent saw, - ex- fought victory Pietro and Cassino, .tand a num- | jfantrypMovesyln pened, how it was that this time So the President is not waiting this time until China may be expected to grow, amined and read carefully the orig- we attack San ber of hills varving in altitude hu’! We took San Pietro with a great Smelly id shoot Santa Claus the convention to announcé that he will ACCePt numbing operations against vital INAl document and is prepared 0 pie tro Wednes all offering excellent cover for combination 3 forces. but in the just ore Christmas another term. He begins much earlier this time, ) 0 on record as to its genuineness. da ee, 15, and artillery... Olive groves and ravines » i Well, Dr. Dillworth Lupton indicating that it whl be a harder fight. than Japanese bases may be expected to © It is a report for one month re- Rn Lon make. the ar around and nes Anal instance, It’ was the (nfantry once was a Unitarian minister in in 1940. increase In intensity, and the allies cently—this autumn. as a matter of Friday % of San Pietro perfect for infantry. (‘hat had to move in and dig out Cleveland. One of his parishioners You never saw anything like it arobind Washington may attempt certain limited mili- | fact — of sabotage throughout Here we met a | The Germans had strengthened; the tnemy. We would not have

was Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the when the word flew through the town. Secretary tary actions. Buf the emphasis hy

thing about Dr. Lupton that made, phrasé” had done its work and should be pickled in command will be on preparation Editor Seltzer think he would" history. It was a phrase, he said, born in 1932 and planning. make a good newspaper columnist. This was 1943. (N. B.: Next is 1944 —R. C.). | To appreciate the magnitude of

He was sympathetic with much of what President The Republicans took instant note. Republican the problem of preparations wkich Roosevelt was doing which for a preacher with a National Chairman Spangler said he had great lies ahead of us, it is necessary to

of guts that a columnist must have to stay in the record of his administration for the last 11 years, [in East Asia, business. So Editor Seltzer persuaded Dr. Lupton to LS

become a columnist for the Cleveland Press. What Is the Heritage? in Asia is shaped like a mammoth i ! hourglass, .with India at one end Something for the Book YOU DON'T want to know what I think, but I and China at the other. connected

think the term New Deal has acquired such a bad by a narrow neck through which COLUMNIST LUPTON thought he should visit name that President Roosevelt feels obliged to get trickles a small tonnage of madteri-

Washington and see something for himself. He rid of it for political purposes, and that many things als. Our only access in this whole

arranged to, visit a White House press conference Which were done in the New Deal period will stay area is through the seaports of |

with Néd. Brooks, Washington correspondent of the as part of the heritage of America: India.

Cleveland, Press, What is that heritage? Collective bargaining. Social, The most vital of these seaports At the epd of the press conference, Brooks intro- security. Regulation of the stock market, which before Are already operating under severe duced Colunist Lupton to the President as a Roosevelt was run as a private club. TVA. The Strain and it will take considercolumnist who was friendly to the: New Deal. principle that-the federal government has a respon-| able improvement in their facilities It must have been quite a shock to Mr. Roosevelt, sibility to see that there are jobs for those who cannot | © handle even double their current because there are not many friendly columnists. find private employment. The transfer of the rea; Volume of traffic. But Columnist Lupton seemed sincere in what he seat of power from Wall Street to Washington. | said to the President. The next minute you could Let's face it. Yes. there's been plenty of waste, '0NNage must be moved to places have knocked Washington Correspondent Brooks over plenty of mistakes, plenty of weak sisters. But this “here .it is needed, over railways

witha pin-feather. The President was saying that country will always be a lot better for what was "“PICh even now are groaning under |

he ‘wished newspaper men would quit talking about done in the name of that now despised phrase—the |'N€ Weight of wartime traffic. the New Deal. The phrase was outmoded. The New Deal Complicated Problem

The problem is complicated by the fact that materials for the InMy Day By Eleanor Roosevelt dia-Burma front, and for China. } must follow the same route into the HYDE PARK, Sunday, Dec, 26.—Pirst, I want On Christmas eve, when the President broad- extreme northeastern corner of Into thank all the kind people who have sent us cast to thé armed forces and to the country, we all Christmas cards. I think there were more this year Enibires in oe Franklin D. roosevelt jibrary, from [are least able to stand the strain. ) ch he spoke. . me of our neighbors and; all the| That narrow sector is the only than ever before, and so many ol) them have kind ,. 1c who are ethployed by us on the place were place where the Indian armies are messages written on them. It is, unfortunately, with ys. The big. tree stood where it has stood each in direct contact with the Japanese; impossible to write to each person year in the middle. hall. - that is where American and Chinese who sends in a card, but my hus- We all joined in the Christmas carols as they engineers are pushing the Ledo road band and I both look them over came over the radio; and then, after distributing our forward toward China; that Is and they bring us a great deal gris every one h&d ice cream and cake. There is where China-bound transports must of happiness each, year. - certainly no dearth of children on our place. - (be Yoaded and where the big fighter This has beef 4 very wohder- Friday night ‘we had early supper so that as many and bomber bases are located. ful Christmas, for which we per- of our grandehjldren as possible could have it with| Congestion in that narrow supply sonally feel deeply grateful. In us and listen for a little while to their grandfather's funnel is already great and the job spite of hardships and difficulties reading of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” He cuts the |of expanding facilities will be a big throughout the world, our men whole story, of course, but he is so expert at read- one. Yet, until we recapture Burma are winning victories and every ing it now, he can hold even the small children’s at- and the port of Rangoon, this must victory means one step nearer to tention for a little while. {remain the allied supply channel to peace and the happy day when It is the first year since we went to Washington southeast Asia. : they will be. home with us again. . that my husband has not been in ‘the White House.| To find a solution for such probThough two. of our boys and our son-in-law were 1 have been gone twice, once when Franklin Jr. was lems as these, so that we ‘will not far away, two of them. were able to be home. One / In the hospital in Boston, and once wher I went to,be caught. unawares’by the sudden was. here only for 24 hous, but the other one for Seattle because Anna was ill.” ‘The older grand- termination 6f the European war, two or three days’ * Our ‘daughter was with us and children and our own childred were $0 anxious to is the immediate task of: Mountbat-

kill with’ our shelling. position. ~~ “Why wouldn't it be beter” Nowmos Other Gun Crew Members one fellow #&id, “just to offer the

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blow against Ja- shows Saturday. one in the mess hall of the Ft. Harrison Station hos

FIRE CHIEF HARRY FULMER ho | Imost gained in the long run because some, of the givers tomorrow it would be impossible Ben Yost's “Singing Vikings,” and Pfe. Robert Skilling, pianist, «pl. The Times fund Altogether 1250 patients in the county military MER, who is a " se $ 1

> \ " ” - | i i wer aval streng! d| that he still possesses six of the long blond curls he gave him and Mrs. Schricker eight butter spreaders air power, na . s ene hn ond . Wore as a youngster. . . . Superior Court Judge Ems: |, natch their solid silver pattern. . . . Now if they Armament available in the Eur Times Yule ley W. Johnson Jr., who is finishing his first year as only had some butter! . . . American- Legion head- bean eater Sy | oo se Judge, says he has learned a lot quarters has received a letter from Mrs. H. O. King, 1000 . . airplanes taking he Donors | he never knew before about do- Tyndall, S. D, saying that her nephew, Truman Bur- ° ore RItpIAneSH Rin LY

. er § 1 “p pr He says he always assumed that charge after two operations, brought back with him [ght after the German surrende

5 7 . » ick y factlit husband probably was to blame. of our readers suggests that all you folks join the Where are the docking facilities

Q hi A Friend 16.00 But after hearing several hun- “10 Penny Club.” Members are pledged not to keep [Or the thousands of et Crispus Attucks Hi-Y Club. 3.40] dred divorce cases he has decided more than 1p penhies in their possession at any time, Might be coming hema LO rs Morris Dee C20 the women are just as bad as the He adds: “Sounds reasonable in this time of copper 'S the relling Fk rte and. men. . . . Charles R. Ettinger, the shortage. Better to save something bigger and let where are the installations for War Hospitals Fund former county clerk and present the pennies roll.” . troops: Drv Stock Christmas Savings realtor, says he’s never again s . , ~~ | Needs Planning club, Eli Lilly Co $10.00 going to seek public office, He Two Minds—Single Thought “ : 5 i g i : ! | As things stand today, southeast Times Christmas Fund says his wife won't let him .. K A FACH YEAR the employees of the power and light

. . ) I ! ’ n > ak “apyright he Indianapolis T og > In Washingt By R d Cl primers mperanee me ernst Now a Textbook of Do's and Don'ts of War n as ng on y aymon apper Offensive activity in southeast! ; & Pg oF i } Asia, for the time being. is laying cret official Vichy document has' By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN [the lofty peak of Sammucro, the]! Thus the German soldiers were

Cleveland Press, There was some- Stephen T. Early confirmed that the celebrated Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's |

well-to-do congregation in Cleveland showed the kind sympathy with Mr. Roosevelt's desire to forget the Visualize the present supply picture |

‘| The allied communications map |

From India's ports, the incoming | , schools or barracks, used by the “oc- |

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Staff Sgt. Robert Schultz, 20, of Detroit, gunner, and 10 others were returning from a mission over Salerno when their Liberator crashed into the sea Three men were killed Schultz's neck was broken Schultz, in a cast from his head to his waist, was among hundreds of Billings hed patients serenaded for five hours Christmas day by Lillian Starost, violinist, and Jack Murray, accordionist, through

4 Ss orl Plc. Jack Mathers, tenor, was master of ceremonies when the ut Billings hospital swing band entertained at two Times Christmas Fund

pital annex, the other in the Billings recreation hall. The band led at by Cpl. Marino Beatrice, formerly with Gene Krupa, included specialty 1d | numbers by Pvt. Santo Fragilio, Cpl. Jerry Pavelchek, formerly with

re Roy Russell, trumpet player, wrote the theme song g | :

hospitals received gifts,

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12 Marmon-Hgrrington Cincinnat! Ordnance Inspection office $2000

John A. Rea, Linde-Al¥ Prod-

It takes an elaborate framework around the bed of Pvt. Edward McGeever, 30. of Los Angeles, to handle - . all the gadgets he needs to get well at Billings hospital. So there was plenty of room for elaborate . > Christmas decorations, McGeever, alr corps’ gunner, was accidentally wounded while on duty at LockVichy Document bourne airport, Columbus,«0. The left thigh-bone was shattered and the ropes and pulleys keep his leg

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LONDON, Dec. 27 —A highly «e-

- acter of the fighting we have. had ward the main road, between Mig- impeded by heavy equipment, and that it cannot be described because >

| their natural positions by building a heen able_to do so, however, if {t | series of well-timbered dugouts in! [the hillsides around the town, and | ~ ‘mprovised little strongholds in thé Our artillery and-.aircraft. formants, all terms in the document impede our prog- A ’ MANY caves that abound in and] San Pietro itself was not actually will be paraphrased in order to ress during the 4 / about Sain Pietro itself captured. It just became too hot avoid recognition.) advance from Sa- Mr. Stoneman | Their ira line consisted of several : lerno — mountains, open ground, hundred of these positions, most nf, . i. carefully prepared (German posi- them containing Spanday macliine Withdraw before our infantry, under 1. Breaking into and entering of- tions of a peculiar lype employed guns covering the approaches win cover of shelling and bombing,

France, baffling combina For official Vichy purposes, types tion of all those of sabotage are divided into tecur obstacles which groups: (At the request of my in- have served to

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and the (fermans were forced to List ‘Crimes’

ficial buildings. heré, and a wide! variety of good fixed lines of fire. moved in and caught them in their | , dq i i - / sk lly ndle : Fe | 2. Sabotage and industrial de- enemy weapons skillfully handled GermaniSirateay caves struction. by an experienced foe. %, | ) ene 5 3. Assaults on occupying author-| In our succeessful attempt to Reinforcing the machine. guns| We began operations against San ities. . lerack the San Pietro position we Were crews:with 50-mm. mortars and Pietro by heavily shelling all known | 4. Railway ¥abotage. |brought into use every type of farther back, 81-mm. mortars s1p-|oocitions, strafing and bombing

The document is merely an un-| weapon and. took full advantage of ported 1 Peld) guns and medium [Le and concentrations in fits colorful list of “crimes” committed (the lessons we have learned during sins aPpTeal immediate neighborhood, and then —places where offenses occurred, re- [the early part of the campaign. I'he Germans made full use of the . sults and arrests, if any. It is| The village of San Pietro is pro- svstem of spare positions. Many Pushing in an attack on Sammucro, chronological, and staggering in|tected on the east by a range nf dugouts, for which no immediate the great mountain to its north. length and number of “crimes” com- mountains pierced by a single use was found or which were made | A long series of attacks had mitted throughout France daily. winding road which formed the axis unusable by our barrages, were left lalready given us the heights of Again, I am asked not to give the of our attack. temporarily ~~ vacant but. fully ‘Monte Lungo and Monte Rotondo, exact number, so I shall understate. On the north it js dominated by cquipped with weapons of all kinds. | 44 the south and southeast, and them in rough figures. } ~~ |the final assault on the village For one month, more than 500 acts Tomorrow's loh— [last Friday was from the northeast jof “breaking into and entering” of- | {and south, ‘ ficial buildings are recorded. Most | { In fact, the battle of San Pietro

of these buildings were town halls, Urge Revision In Tax System was a textbook for soldiers and

anybody who wants to know the

cupying authorities” or Vichy ad- whys and whynots of this whole

iRisieators, and. articles stolen To Expand National Economy mon

rom them were all of the same —

type: Joon EARS its cards| By E. A. EVANS has said. “America was made great HOLD EVERYTHING Don dl OUT ATE fe os 2erippr-Hovard SAN Writer by ‘those who gambled their last Suspected of underg "| WASHINGTON, Dec 27.—Two re- {dimes on an idea or a product, and | Burn Warehouses lsearch reports on national policy the willingness to do this is what we |

Sabotage and industrial destruc- now nearing completion by the com- have to bring back. Unul we have (tion seemed to cover all kinds of = a ‘tax system that offers proper re=<abotage—burning grain warehouses ward for risk-taking, we ‘ane not gorequisitioned by the Germans will advocate specific steps which ing to have the impetus we need: cutting telephone wires shorts this business organization believes| Another of the C. E. D.'s fundacircuiting electrical systems, break- necessary to reach its goal of sus- mental tenets is that the health of ing dynamos and generally “throw- | tained high production and high em- free private enterprise :depends on

mittee for economic development

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ing wrenches in the works.” During | Ployment after the war, {the opportunity of small businesses the month, at least 800 such acts| One will recommend revisions of to be born, to survive.and to grow. are reported. {the tax system to encourage an ex-| In some quarters, however, it has

Assaults gn the occupying authori- panding national economy. The oth- been objected that these sentiments ties vary from outrigat shooting of er will propose solutions of the prob- are gendralities, .and that the C. E. German officers ' and soldiers to|lems of small business. iD. and other business or industrial masked bands breaking up barracks,| The C. E. D.’s chairman, Presi- organizations should get down to pitched battles in village streets, dent Paul G. Hoffman of the Stude- | cases and say, plainly, what kind and marked insolence and rudeness baker Corp. and other leaders have of tax system is needed to encourage designed to disturb the peace” stressed the importance, as they see risk-taking, and what measures are There were more than 250 of these it, of the questions dealt with in necessary to insure fair opportunity acts reported in the :nonth. these reports. , 4for small business. That's what the Railway sabotage is probably the! “America was never made great | fortheoniing ‘xeports will undertake

most impressive chapter in this un- by those who invested their money to do. | :

seven grandchildren, besides two old friends, 80 We be home this year; that I am glad the President felt 'ten's command, in collaboration wiih felt greatly blessed. ~~ ib, Mt was possible to do so. T ,/ the India command. / i ii

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witting testimony of ‘French re-|in mortgages ‘and sat around and |’ They probably will Be published| “I'm sistance, collected the parle i Hoffman in mid-January or soon after, ing toe