The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 101, Ed. 2 Thursday, September 26, 1946 Page: 2 of 18
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Twit ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER-NEWS
Page 2 Thursday Evening, September 26, 1946
Army Searchers
Look for Fliers
French Army Has Brassiers
But No WACs to Wear them
San Antonio Deluge
SAN ANTONIO, Sept 26.—(P)
—More than three inches of rain,
most of it within an hour's time,
fell here late yesterday afternoon,
flooding north side streets and
CHENGTU, China, Sept. 26—(P) i white men were seen is from two
—A U. S. army search team plung- to eight days march farther west-
ed deeper into China's wild and ward.
mountainous far west today seek -I Wurtzler hoped to talk with
ing long-lost American airmen
feared captives of the fierce slave-
holding Lolos.
On the second day of their mis-
sion into the land of cloud-capped
mountains, half savage, Mongolian-
featured warriors, and pandas, the
soldiers were believed to be from
five to 11 days march from their
Wurtzler hoped to talk
those who saw the white men. Then
he will try to locate the captives
through friendly Lolo chieftains.
Dr. David Crockett Graham of
West China University, who enter-
goal.
That goal is the valley of the
Chinkiang, which carves its course
from headwaters in the world’s
highest mountains in Tibet
Missionaries have reported at
least eight enslaved whites were
seen grinding corn or tending
flocks in that region, where few
white men save the missionaries
have ever ventured.
Lt. Col. Herbert W Wurtzler
and his detachment expected to
set up headquarters at a remote
Catholic mission and try to learn
there if the white captives are U.
S. airmen downed two and more
years ago on the perilous flight
"over the hump," from India to
China.
His party flew down to Sichang.
about 300 miles southwest of
Chengtu. The mission is an esti-
mated four days march west of
Sichang. The region where the
ed the Lolo country 20 years ago,
said here that the Lolos probably
would demand blankets and salt
for ransom because their economy
was based on the practice of slav-
ery.
Wurtzler was accompanied by a
French priest, who knows the
fringes of Lololand. So primitive
are communications that no devel-
opments were expected to be re-
ported here inside of two weeks.
Reports reaching here said that
an intertribal war was in progress
somewhere ahead of Wurtzler’s
party, and this might further delay
negotiations for the release of any
airmen found.
Crime Career Checked
MOUNT VERNON. Wash.—(UP)
—A—15-year-old—Skagit county
juvenile is in the detention home
after attempting a burglary but
committing arson instead Trying to
cut the lock off a strongbox la the
home of H. A. Southwick, the youth
used his blowtorch carelessly and
set fire to the house.
By TOM REEDY
(For Hal Boyle)
FRANKFURT, Germany-—
The French aupply officer tossed
off his glass of Rhine wine, looked
out the window and mused:
"Yes, the French WACS—as
you would call them—are abol-
ished. We do not have a WAC
corps, as such, any more. Would
your WAC corps, for instance, be
interested in a couple of dozen
thousands of rose - colored bras-1
sieres?"
No, we said, the WAC supply
officers probably would not be
interested at all, on account of all.
the channels the army has to go
through to buy things, get signa-
tures and vouchers, distribute
them, balance quartermaster books
and all that.
"That's too bad,” the French of-
ficer said. "This, I think, as a good
buy.” He shook his head in sad
recollection of what obviously was
a major problem and mused aloud
some more.
It seems that the French WACS,
sending a "small creek out of its
me out of it, because I said blue banks in east San Antonio.
ones."
The factory at Lyons wants to
know who is going to pay for the |
order, and when.
The government, in effect, says |
don’t bother us about it. There
aren’t any WACS, so obviously |
there aren’t any official WAC bras- |
sieres. 0
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FOOTSAVER—Comfortably borne by his mother, this little
Cherokee Indian boy will have no sore feet when he sees the
annual fair of Cherokees in western North Carolina
numbering about 2,000 or so in
1 7 occupied Germany, had decided
that they should be issued blue
brassieres as standard equipment
and somebody at Baden Baden.
French headquarters, has issued
an order to that effect.
The requisition order was placed
with a male quartermaster officer. 1
The color made no difference to
Thornton's Dept. Store
DR. RAYMOND WRAY
CHIROPRACTOR
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902 North Fifth
Phone 5264-5265
(00)20100:
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The new single hand beater . .
rotary blades spin with simple
one-hand action. Whips
cream, beats eggs . . . hund-
reds of uses. Easy to clean,
easy to operate
Sherwin-Williams
Has New Manager
New manager at the Sherwin-
Williams store, 373 Cypress, is
Leon Crow, who came to Abilene
last week from Lubbock, where he
I has been district representative for
the company. Crow succeeds C. N.
Mayes who has been made sales-
man for the Abilene-San Angelo
him, and he sent the order on to
Marseille.
At Marseille, another quarter-
the Sherwin-Williams company 15 master officer got to pondering
about blue brassieres. They re nuts
up there in Baden Baden, he de-
cided. and put an order in for
rose-colored bassieres, thousands
of them. The order went through
channels to a factory at Lyon.
At Lyon, the factory went to
work turning out thousands of
rose-colored brassieres
in Paris, the assembly went to
territory.
Crow has been connected with
years. For two years he was branch
manager at Corpus Christi and has
spent the past 13 years travelling
for the company.
Crow has brought his family,
Mrs. Crow, and two daughters,
Martha Gene. 8. and Barbara, 3,
with him to Abilene from Lubbock.
They are temporarily living at 1141 ...__________________
Peach, but expect to move to 1142 work abolishing the French WACS.
Peach Oct. 1.
Reduced AE
To Only l.e
Headaches Yield Quickly
When I go to Work!”
Now, said the French officer:
The quartermaster at Marseille
has to explain why in the name of
a name of a name he ordered sev-
eral dozen thousand rose-colored
brassieres.
| The quartermaster st Baden
Baden can, and does, say, "Keep
BANOWSKY
HARDWARE CO.
"30 Chestnut NIIIIENANIDII Phone 4435 I
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CHE & NEURALGIA
The quick-acting ingredients
in "BC" work faat to relieve |
headaches. That’s because
“BC”is a special combination
of several time-tested relief-
WAA Explains
Mystery Memo
giving ingredients. Keep a
package handy. Caution: Use
only aa directed.
Also Relieves
NEURALGIC PAIN-MUSCULAR ACHES
CD AN‘9Q KNOWN FOR VALUES
1 0 READY FRIOAY
_ CLEARANCE
4 SALE
1. W CHILDREN’S. TEENAGE
WASHINGTON. Sept 26-
Congressional investigators prob-
ed deeper today into the "docu-
ment mystery" as the War Assets |
Administration suspended an offi-
Icial who acknowledged he wrote
the memorandum that caused the,
furore.
Walton Bostwick, assistant price
chief of WAA's electronics sec-
tion. told the house committee in-
vestigating surplus property dis-
posal that he authored the docu-
ment. He added in effect he
thought the committee was mak-
ing a mountain of a mole hill
The memorandum, which inves-
tigators said turned up mysteri-
ously in WAA files, recorded an
"authorization" of a $4,500 price
for each of 200 or more radio
trucks, although the price pre-
viously had been put at $7,500
each
Moreover, the authorization was
written in April while the sale oc-
| curved in the fall of 1945 The
Hallicrafters Corp. of Chicago was
the governments agent in the
Washbourd
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reg. 49... 44€
Sauce fan, 3 Qts., Side Tabulator
reg. 59...548
Combination Coeker Pot, 3 Qi.
1.19
8-Cup Percolafor,Non-Burn Handle
1.29
Seamless Tea Kenle, Five Quarts
1.79
Drip-O-Lator
Spring clip holds top
firmly — men-spill fee
Galvanized wash beard
with corrugeled rubbing .__.__. .
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Tea Kettle
Seemien 20-govge el
minum with cool pler
lie handle, leek 1 70
proof spout 5 of W./ 7
JERKINS
GIRL'S SUITS
Jerkins in plaid and plain colors.
Sizes 7 to 14 Regularly $4.10
and $5.10 — SALE PRICE
CARDIGANS - JERKINS
Smart Cardigans and Jerkin styles
in plaids and plains. Sizes 7 to
14. A regular $6 10 value. SALE
PRICE-
SHETLAND
AND JERKIN
Checks, plaids or plains in either
shetland or jerkin styles. Reg-
ular $11.20 value.
JERKINS
Jerkins In checks, plaid and
ploins. Sizes 7 to 14.
OIL CLOTH fTauh 48 vJ TOWELS
W.T. GRANT CO. 300 PINE
57
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837
transaction
The “mystery." that has puzzled
the committee for days, began to
crack yesterday when a former
WAA stenographer told the law-
makers she typed the memoran-
dum. that it was dictated by Bos
twick in April and he ordered her
to date it as of Dec. 18, 1945
Bostwick, called to the stand,
said he merely “filled a gap in the
files” and regarded this as a
routine matter until he began to
read about It in the newspapers
this week
He Mid one of his superiors
told him to find out how the $4,-
500 price was reached, but “I am
hazy on who told me to do it."
Bostick related that he March
ed the files but found no record
of the radio trucks transaction.
Then he called the Hallicrafters i
company for any information they
had on how the trucks were priced ,
The company had no records, but |
J Gerald Mayer, the company at-
torney. told him. Bostwick said,
the $4,500 figure was arrived at.
orally at a conference between
three WAA officials and company 1
representatives.
Bostwick Mid he wrote up the
account of the oral agreement, as
described by the company lawver.
and had it put in the WAA files
He could not recall, he added, that
he had checked Mayer's data with
any of the WAA officials who were
reported to have participated in
the oral agreement.
Witahin an hour after Bostwick
left the witness stand, George H
Moriarity, director of the WAA
electronics division, announced
his suspension “pending further
investigation.”
Bostwick emphasized to the
commitee that the truck transac
tion occurred many weeks before
he joined WAA last February 27.
after serving as a captain in the
army signal corps.
The committee set out today to
determine if sny higher official
had an interest in the "mystery
document.’*
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Receiving each week a car of
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We hove plenty of White Pine
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Several cypress water tanks at
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Electric hot plates, two burners
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Steel post hole diggers $3.00
each.
Steel Lawn Rakes $1.25 eocr.
Electric Rubber extension cord
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Plenty of Sewall Enamels and
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Boat owners, we hove plenty of
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Chopping hoes $1.30 each.
Electric % horse hand drill
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