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and Bridge Par ty GROUP of- friends was entertained at luncheon and bridge to­day at the Iron Fence Tearoom by Mrs. George R. Thayer of.

78 Matthews Street, who chose an Easter theme for her table deco­rations. Spring flowers,- all in pastel shades, and Easter favors formed the table appointments.,

Mrs. Thayer's guests included Mrs. William A. Struble, Mrs. Ruey Halpin, Mrs. William R. Stemples, Mrs. Carl I. Arwine, Mrs Raymond D. Dewey, Mrs. Harriett Bryant, Mrs. Leland R. Post. Mrs. George Palmer, Mrs. Herbert I. Jackson. Mrs. A. LeRoy Haw-Icy, Mrs. Paul C. Eisele. Miss S. Anna Bowen.

' Also, Mrs. Carl L. Schaefer, Mrs. George H. Hale, Mrs-. C. Win-ton Teal. Mrs. William H: Mellor. Mrs. Charles E. Miller, Mrs. Verne S. Stanford, Mrs. Edwin C. Wehle. Mrs. Thomas R. McCarley, Mrs. Ernest D. Roberts, Mrs.' Benjamin Booth, Mrs. George Garrick, Mrs. L. E. Anthony, Mrs. Edward C. Putnam, Mrs. Charles D. Humphries. Mrs. James Trask, Miss Barbara Thayer and her Mt. Holyoke College friend, Miss Marjorie Fox of Lancaster, Pa.

Moiidav Club to Hear War Talk *

Maj. Thomas Dittom, special correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, will.be the guest speaker Monday at the meeting of Monday Afternoon Club, replacing'Miss Lisa Sergio, commentator and lec­turer, who is unable to appear here because of illness.

Major Dittom, a "second front strategist," spent last summer in England and Ireland, gaining a bird's-eye view of second front strategy. He "was on the commander's boat and observed the entire Dieppe raid of last August. He will speak oh "Second Front Strate­gy," including in his talk where and when the final thrust against Germany may be expected and why action has so far been delayed.

The Department of Social Sciences of the Monday Afternoon Club is sponsoring Major Dittorh's appearance here. Mrs. Willard C. Hamlin, chairman, is assisted by other committee members, in­cluding Mrs. Brant S. Derr, Mrs. Harold A.*Gettys and Mrs. Joseph Deacon.

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Mrs. Donald Rogers Entertains Mrs. Donald Rogers was hostess lastjjughT"to~the Neighbor 8

Club in her home at Five-Mile Point, Spring flowers and gold tapers in crystal holders were used by the hostess in her decorations for the buffet table.

Mrs. Hugh Griswold, club member, entertained with piano selections. . .

Other members present were Mrs. Donald Cary, Mrs. Russell Heath, Mrs. Harold Griswold, Mrs. Roy Hubert, Mrs. Earl Rogers, Mrs. Alma Holland and Mrs. Edmund Kane of Susquehanna, Pa.

An Easter party, April 9, is being planned for the next meet­ing of the club. ,Mrs. Heath will be the hostess .in her home at Five-Mile Point.

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Couples Club Has Dinner The March dinner-meeting of the Couples Club of the -First

Congregational Church last night was attended by 75 persons. After ' the dinner in the church parlors, Clyde PowelLenterJained the group with acts of magic.

The committee in charge of dinner arrangements included Mr! and Mrs. Floyd Fish, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barney, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce JJartlett, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mplntosh, Mr. and Mrs. Jack

SchafinerT Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith. Mrs. Fish received reservations for the dinner.

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Somewhere in New Guinea, March 27—Eighteen xellow dewdrops, painted just 1 low the pilot's seat, adorned the A-20's fuselage. Every saffron droplet indicated successful bombing raid against the Japs. «

Almost on the horizon of the Coral Sea there was discernible, stranded on are the big, wrecked freighter which: American low-level bombers use as" a target. It v\ on this ship that were first practiced those devastating runs, preceded by raking n chine-gun fire, which is the Bismarck Sea Battle swept Japanese destroyers, transpo and freighters free of ack-ack, killing their gunners before.lethal bombs wasped h

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MISS ELAINE HARSH MISS BETTY BERRY MISS MICK1 McCAHILL THERE'LL BE MORE OF THESE-The first War Savings Bond to be purchased

by members of Delta Kappa Delta Sorority is looked at proudly by these three /D. K. 0 . members. "And you can bet there'll be. more of the same thing for us

in the near future," is the opinion of neve ry girl in. the sorority.

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Is Honored at Shower

Miss Lamphere Is Married

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Sorority Pians Rush Par ty

At a committee meeting last night at the home of Miss Shir­ley Bailey, 72 Cleveland Avenue, plans were made for a rush party to be held Friday night by members of Tau Phi Gamma Sorority. •

Invitations' • to the rushees were .to be made this afternoon. Committee members include Miss Bailey, Miss Dawn Wood-row, Miss.Anna Mae Perry and Miss Mary Lou Traub.

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Personal Mention Mrs. Daniel Raymond, the

former Miss- Barbara Fish, who has been making her home at Fort Pierce, Fla., where her husband, Capt. Daniel Raymond is stationed, is spending a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Fish of 130 Beethoven Street.

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The-marriage of Miss Marlene Naoma Lamphere to Edgar Seth Woodman was solemnized March 20 at 8 p. m. in the Castle Creek Methodist Church, .the Rev. Wil­liam E. Bartz officiating.

Mrs. Richard Hoyt, pianist, and Mrs. William Hale, vocalist, furnished the music- for the ceremony which was performed before a background of palms, spring flowers and candelabra.

The bride, daughter of^Arthur Auhrey Lamphere . of Castle Creek, was given in marriage by her father. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Woodman of Port Crane.

Miss Ruth Lamphere was her sister's maid of honor and only attendant and James Kneibler of Binghamton was best man. Ushers were Malcolm Brooks and Lester Brooks, both of Castle Creek.

For her candlelight wedding, the. bride wore a gown of white musseline de soie with lace trim and molene veil attached to an orange blossom headdress. Her white bridal bouquet was of roses and sweet peas.

The maid of honor wore a blue gown and carried a bou­quet of pink roses and pink sweet peas.

A reception for 75 guests was held after the ceremony in the

• church parlors, where the bridal table held arrangements of daf­fodils and yellow and white tapers.'

After a short wedding trip, the couple will reside at 909 Tallman Street in-Syracuse. Mr. Woodman being employed there by the U. S. Army Engineers.

Confirmation of Land Faces Fight in Senate

Washington; March 27 W) — A drastic difference of opinion over the activities of the Maritime Com­mission today promised to trans­form a normally routine Senate confirmation of an appointment into a Ave and a half .hour battle ] Hon" for privately owned ships over charges of collu&on and mis- j requisitioned for war service'. The management. (.dispute, which has deadlocked the

After delaying for nearly two'two agencies for months and weeks a vote on President Roose-! blocked payments of upwards; of veltV nomination of Rear Adm. ($200,000,000 pending a decision, Emory S. Land for another six- was turned over to former Attor-ycar term a"s commission chair- ney General William D. Mitchell man. the Senate agreed to devote j for thorough analysis and recom-its entire session Tuesday to a mendation.

Farewell Party A farewell party was given

Thursday night at the Arlington Hotel for George Wethers, as­sociated here with the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., who has left to become a member of the OPA.

Friends honoring Mr. Wethers and Mrs. Wether's included Mr. and Mrs. John Zeder, Mr. antl Mrs. R. D. Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stark, Mr. .and Mrs. E. R. Mclnnis, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Robillard, Mrs. Martha Gru-schwitz, C. H. Baxter. John Hewitt of Elmira, Mr. and Mrs. William Sheldon and Mrs. Mabel Huntley.

A NOTHER in the list of week-—f\ end showers honoring a

bride-elect was the one last • night for Miss Judy Lawlor.

Miss Jeanne Anderson and Miss Isabelle Downey were the show­er hostesses at the former's home, 33 Schubert Street. .

Miss Lawlor. is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lawlor of 13 Helen Street and the pro­spective bridegroom, Aviation Cadet Richard W. Felton, now stationed at Miami Beach, Fla., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil­liam H. Felton of Akron, Ohio, formerly of Binghamton. The wedding is scheduled to take place the first part of May.

A doll dressed in a skirt of crisp, new one-dollar bills was presented the honor guest as her shower gift. It was presented In the form of a treasure hunt, with instructions for finding it inside' colored balloons.

The shower colors of pink and blue were carried out in the ta­ble decorations, which included a cake for Miss Lawlor, who was observing her birthday.

An unusual feature of the evening was a music box that played "Here Comes the.Bride" as the guests entered the dining room of the Anderson home for refreshments. G a m e s—were played during the evening.

The shower guests included Miss Irene Berry, Miss Irene Balansky, Mrs. Arthur Brown, Miss Norma Rockwell, Miss Irene Micha, Miss Mary Van-devort, Miss Kathleen Burke, Miss Beverly Conklin, Miss. Eleanor Page, Miss Betty Moyle, Miss Dorothy Corey, Mrs. M. Wellington Ball. Miss Camilla Beach, Miss Ruth Norton, Miss Mary Thayne, Miss Kathleen Thayne, Miss Carolyn Rosen-crants, Mrs. Daniel Kelly, Mrs. Eugene Martin, Miss Ruth Thay­er, Miss Alyce Doian and Mrs. Theodore Rockwell,

Members of the Victory Knit­ters Club continued, their knit­ting for the Red Cross at their meeting Thursday night at the home of Mrs. Edwin Siebold, 22 Ferrell Avenue. ' A guest of the club was Mrs.

Thomas Garrick. Members pres­ent included Mrs. Harry Moore, Mrs. Albert Schaefer. Mrs. Ver­non Smith, Mrs. William Mark-ham, Mrs. Howard Sweetland, Mrs. Frank Davis, Mrs. Alexan­der Dickie and Mrs. Albert Cros-sett. •

Mrs.. William Shireff of 55 Mitchell Avenue will be hostess to the club April 22 at 8 p. m.

* * * Farewell Dinner

A farewell dinner came by way of a surprise last night for J. W. Stopper, assistant manager of S. S. Kresge store, who -is being transferred to Elmira. Co­workers of the honor guest ar- . ranged for the dinner, which was held .at Milasi's Restaurant.

Present were Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Smart, Mrs. Ruth Sprague, Mrs. Ruth Bowman, Mrs. Mabel Wetsel, Miss Hazel Truex, Miss Martha Fink, Miss Sally O'Con­nor, Miss Grace Connors, Miss Rosa Klein. Miss Marjorie Far-rell, Mrs. Elizabeth Norton, Mrs. Pauline Zeigler, Miss Gladys Youmans.

Also, Mrs. Gladys Getchell, Miss Virginia Wyak, Miss Rhea Holcomb. Ralph Smith, Samuel Tacci.'Miss Mary Teresa Smith, Miss Teresa Mennichelli, Miss Louise Schwartz,, Miss Ruth Smart, Miss Betty O'Laughlinr Miss Margaret Abdallah, Miss Rosella Troy, Mrs. Helen Bush, Mrs. Ruth Denny and Miss Phyllis Mulderig.

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Meeting: Postponed The meeting of chairmen of

Chapter 411, Women of the Moose, which was to have been held Monday night at the home of Mrs. David Griffiths, 7 Robin­son Street, has been postponed.

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Phi Delta Psi Sorority will meet tonight at 7:30 at the home of Miss Joyce Meadows, 44 Lathrop Avenue.

Lois Norton, Bride-Elect, Is Honored A PERSONAL shower was

given last night by Mrs. Kenneth McDavit and Miss

Phyllis- Launt at the former's home, 30 Riverside Street, with Miss Lois Norton as the honor guest of the evening.

Miss Norton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Norton of Che­nango Bridge, and Richard Ban-ford, son of Mrs. Louise D. San-ford of 12 Grand Boulevard, will be married April 4.

Pink predominated in the shower decorations, with flowers and tapers being used on the buffet table. €ames were in­cluded in the evening's diver­sion.

The guests present were Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Banford^Mrs. Edith F. Launt, Mrs. Rolland Watrous, Mrs. James Every,_Mrs. James Ellis, Mrs. John Congdon, Miss Martha Whittaker, Mrs. David Martin, Mrs. Edgar Severson, Mrs. WilliaiiLKunkle, Mrs. John Huber. and Mrs. Ralph Robin­son.

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Radio Widows Do War Work

The Radio Widows met .this week at the home of Mrs. Ber-wyn Benedict, 18 Linden Street, spending their time quilting for the Red Cross. Members pres-

. ent were Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mrs. Harry Spencer. Mrs. Ross Baxter, Mrs. Carl Young, Mrs. Kenneth Kenyon and Mrs. John F. Maxian.

* * * Marriage Announced

Mrs. Harold D. Thornton of 57 Bevier Street announces the marriage of her daughter Arlene to Joseph P. Mazzola of 15 West Street, Buffalo. March 19. at the home of the Rev. Ferris D. Cor­nell, 47 Belden Street, pastor of the Methodist Church. Kirk-wood, who officiated at the mar­riage ceremony. •.-. .«

Maritime Commission Upheld on Ship Payment

Washington, March 27 (/TV—The Maritime. .Commission has won strong support in its long-standing and bitter dispute with Comptrol­ler General Lindsay Warren over what -constitutes "just compensa-

Crowds Cheer Wallace, Met by Rios in Chile

Santiago, Chile, March'27-(/P)— The shV smile that has won Vice President Henry A. Wallace im­mediate applause in all of the countries he has 'visited on his South American tour brought a thundering ovation from Chileans as the United Stales vice president swung into his 10-day official good will visit here.

The visit starts officially today with a formal call ,on President Juan Antonio Rios and Mr. Wal­lace will address a plenary session of Congress this evening. His wel­come here yesterday produced the greatest ovation yet tendered him on his tour. Tens of thousands roared their greetings at the air­port as President Rios clasped him in a typical Latin embrace and a band played the anthems of the nations. ,

finish fight- Senator Aiken (Rep. Vt.) asked an investigation into charges of alleged collusion be­tween the commission and subsi­dized shipbuilders.

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Mr. Mitchell, in his report, sup­ported some of the commission's contentions. However, legislative action to clarify the issue appears certain..

Restaurant Owner Held BANQUET ON THE WING fA- A . . : » :« M J > « > . n ~ , a L Chicago, March 27 (/P)—Almost t o r \JU1Z i n ITian S D e a t h on the eve of meat rationing a

Buffalo,' March 27 (flV-Police C0CK- pheasant flew into an open are holding a restaurant proprietor %*?"*?} $} ' lhc Wilson Motor for questioning in connection wi th r T r a n s l t . 8? r a« c- Four workmen, the death last .night of" Thcofil Frankowiak, 43. who was found un­conscious near his home March 14.

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J. Golombeck said Mr. Frank­owiak died of a fractured skull and

* brain injury which he may have received in a. fight with the sus­pec t .

remembering what pheasant tastes like, quickly slammed shut all the doors and windows—to keep the bird in and any other men but. After five minutes they cornered the pheasant, grabbed it . and plopped it into a box. Estimating the bird's weight at 2'/fc pounds, the four, captors looked forward to a grand banquet.

Convicted Trucker Faces Chair for Killing Wife

Wampsvilie, March 27. (4*)—Con­victed of slaying his second wife, Joseph C. Mascari, 31, awaits sen­tence April 3 to death in the elec­tric chair,

Mascari, a former Watervliet truck driver also known as Patane, was found, guilty of first-degree murder last night by a Jury of six men and six women who deliber­ated about nine hours. He was ac cuscd of killing Mrs. Rose O'Con nell Patane, whose body was found Dec. 10 in a ditch near Canastota The verdict was returned without recommendation of mercy and the death sentence is mandatory.

Re -on hand when opportunities are being handed but — read the Want Ads every day*

Ration Reminders GASOLINE—Remember to write your license number and state of

motor vehicle registration on the back of every rationing coupon.

Coupon of A, B and C values are worth three gallons of gasoline each. The commercial T coupon is worth five gallons. Sheet No.' 5 of A book is good through July 21. Other coupon values: D, for motorcycles, one and one-half gallons; E, one gallon, and R, five gallons.

FUEL OIL—No. 4 coupons are valid until April 12 and are worth eight gallons each. No. 5 coupon may now be used. They are valued at 10 gallons each.

TIRES—If you have an. A gasoline ration, you have until March 31 for your first tire Inspection. The second tire-inspection period for cars with B and C books ends April 28. Inspection is neces­sary when seeking gasoline-rationing renewals or tire replace­ments. Official tire inspection stations have been established throughout the, 11-county Binghamton OPA' district.

p" COFFEF—Stamp No. 26 In War Ration Book 1 is good for one pound

through April 25. SUGAR—Stamp No. 12 is now good for. a five-pound ration through

the end of May. SHOES^-Each person is now entitled to three pairs a year. Stamp

No. 17 in War Ration 'Book 1 is good for one pair until June 15 Families may pool coupons of all members of the family.

MEAT", FATS, OIL, CHEESE, CANNED FISH—Retail sales forbidden . until March 29 on butter, margarine, lard, cooking oils, salad Oils, canned fish and canned meat Rationing starts March 29 on these commodities and hard cheese and all types of pork, beef, lamb and 'mutton. Each person will be allowed 16 points a week from stamps in War Book 2.. • -

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—The D, E and F (April) coupons of Book 2 may now be used to purchase canned, frozen and dried fruits and vegetables or soups. The A, B and C coupons remain valid through March 31. *

.WARNING—Tako care of your rationing, book*.. The Kastorn Broome County War Price and Rationing Board has announced that per­sons who apply for new books to'replace lost books may have to wait six months for replacements. The length of time you would have to wait depends upon the board's investigation .and, iU d i* JJJJJJ

the vessels be historical in American aviation for it was here that were formed self-taught lessons which have made American bombers feared equally by day or night in the Solomons and Bismarck Sea. •

"Well, are we going?" asked Lieut. Jack Taylor of Canton, 111.

Lieutenant Taylor is a tall, thin, tanned 23-year-old, of cheerful manner and great intelligence. The writer had first met him as he climbed out of his cockpit on the second morning of the battle of Huon Gulf, which had been called the battle of the Bismark Sea. Mr. Taylor was tired then, but now he is fully rested.

Our mission was a part of re­capitulatory bombing exercises that day to make a simulated attack on the battered schoolroom freighter with the writer as rear gunner and observer.' There were- no other crew members

The plane Jack Taylor actually flew in the Bismark Sea is named "Kentucky Red," after its regular boss, W. T. Givan of Louisville. The plane being under repair, our two-motored '-monster — much the biggest, fastest, two-place attack plane in the world today—was that called "War Bond Special."

In the Bismark battle, our plane, flown by Lieut. Charles Mayo of Greenville, N. C , cleansed a big Jap freighter's decks with 50-caliber slugs, then put two bombs in her body, one at dead center and the other in the stern.

Wearing a seatpack parachute and yellow lifebelt, your corres-spondent climbed up through the aperture under the tail and into the rear cockpit, facing backwards. The headphones were nearby, with the hand microphone. Immedi­ately the straps were locked and the writer sat with his head pro­jecting above the fuselage, pro tected by the sliding cowling of the plexiglas and with the gun nearby.

We romped rapidly down to the runway's end, whirled around and immediately started. It seemed at first that we took an extra long time to reach the grasshut where the operations officers were watch­ing. But when it was reached,-it went past like a smudgy brown postage stamp with transfixed dolls standing in front. They started to lift theU: hands to wave but their motions seemed excessively slow and we were gone too soon.

At the runway's end was a green notch in the hills partly blocking the takeoff. We left the gray me­tallic strip obliquely and just angled through the green notch with one wing lifted. All pilots must take off from this field that way. It is said that this notch matures them quite, as quickly as low-level strafing missions against the Japanese in Salamaua and a]ong Mambare River. It is like making -100-yard - dash men leap from a cruoching start through a hoop before they get running. That is New Guinea topography: runways are just- places between hills.

Climbing rapidly with a "great sense of evenness, stability and solidity, this large plane^—known to the-British as the Boston— quickly reached 5,000 feet. The wreck, like an old nail, lay on the sea's green floor, far ahead!

"First,, we're only strafing with out bombing," said Mr. Taylor.

The writer pressed the mike's button, muttered "Okay, Jack," and released the button

Then*the sky tipped up and we started down. We were such a distance away that the glide was not very oblique and the water seemed quite far away, for sever al seconds. There was no vibra-.tion except that of the .motors; it was like falling inside a barrel. Through the open aperture in the floor, through which I had been instructed to drop if anything happened and where I had seen the gray strip and then the green hills unroll, I now saw far across the sea, toward Port Moresby. Then suddenly the waves got big­ger, toothier and whiter, and we flattened out.

I knew then that we were head­ing in for the attack. It was im­possible to look ahead and as­certain how near was the freight­er. Suddenly, the whole plane shuddered with the stuccato roll of the .powerful machine guns. In stantly, the smell of smoke en tered. The plane shuddered again, then again. Then suddenly, the freighter appeared, dead astern, falling away and with a whole line of what appeared like little fires along her chewed, old decks I saw for the first time that she had only one mast and was brown with rust and tortured with thou­sands of ballets

As we climbed, another A-20 could be seen sweeping across the water toward the freighter. Then suddenly, at a distance from her that was impossible to estimate, bright orange flashes appeared all along her decks and dotted }jer shattered superstructure. It was as though many matches were all scratched simultaneously, or as though some great hand had drawn a single enormous flint the whojc length of the corpse, causing scores of momentary orange sparks. >

It was thus that A-20, Beau-fighter and B-25 attacks were' wit­nessed by Flying Fortresses and B-24s above them in the Bismark Sea.battle.

As the A-20 pulled high again and the sea became an unmarked blue, my earphones squawked again and Jack said:

"This time we'll do a bombing attack. This ship has not been bombed up yet so I'll just go down to do a strafing job and open the bomb bay doors at the moment of

wing, peeled off and started down. This dive was stiffer and you had to keep swallowing faster to keep ypur ears clear of the invisible cotton which kept blocking them up. In general, it was strangely quiet. Again we approached the water, again flattened out and sped along. Everything shook. Smoke came in. Everything shook again. Then suddenly, _tfi§r,e was a tre­mendous rush of air jumping up through the big square skylight in the floor.

The mechanic's cap leaped loose and ran like a squirrel around the compartment while the passenger tried to loosen his safety belt In order to stamp on it before it escaped through the hatch. He was just in time to see something brown snap underneath, apparently about two |ee t below his nose. Peering down, he could see the old cadaverous freighter so far gone that the water, visible through the plimsoll line stitches, made waves above the reef sup­porting the corpse. We had been so close that we were certainly below the level of the single re­maining mast. By the time I had climbed again on the—-seat, weighted down with the burden of my chute, the freighter was

izon's rim went away and waves got whiter and faster i the coral reef greener. This i all-out. You could feel soft very powerful fingers pressing your ears and it was impossible swallow fast enough to keep, ah of the pressure. Then you fel strong downward push into y seat. It was an effort to struj upward and get a look over rim and finally you saw the b healthy and unharmed, go by ri off the wingtip as you f lengthwise along it. Everytl looked clear and one underst how it was possible for pilots low-level bombing to see- e\ detail of what they strike register ft perfectly.

When we reached the ground slipped down into the notch green hills and raced the lei of the great strip, hauled up the brakes, and finally reached revetment. Jack Taylor descen still wearing his red, jockey-s cap wbich his gang in Califo once adopted.

Extending his six feet, one the cramped seat of a jeep, grinned and asked:

"How'd you like it?" I said fine, but how fast hac directly below and looked like a__gorie? Was it faster than

burned-out match fallen on a blue floor.

The microphone scratched again and I donned the phones, tossed aside in the scramble.

"See those ships over there?" said Mr. Taylor. "Suppose that's a Jap convoy—it's just about the distance_we were when we sighted the Japs and the same height. Now I'll show you the approach Rog and I made."—

Rog is Capt. Roger Dunbar of Portland, Me., on whose element Mr. Taylor flies a wing.

"Hang on." The sky disappeared and some­

thing blue and sealike, with things floating on it.jappeared overhead. Then we started down.

You could tell immediately that this was the business. The hor-

in that dive? "Plenty faster," said Mr.

l o r . • Had he sprayed bullets, the s

as was done by other A-20's ac the corpses on the decks?

"The same way, exactly. I walked my rudders real g< and the guns did the rest," Mr. Taylor.

On his first mission in Guinea, Mr. Taylor was shot c by ack-ack at Sanananda but ] aged a forced landing.

When he got two direct hit a small freighter in the co battle, Mr. Taylor remarket! radio, as a tremendous expl< and flame consumed the vessc

"There she goes. It's too she's so small."

Bedrock Ecdnomy? Here's What ItMay Mean in V.

By S. BURTON HEATH Special to The Binghamton Press

N e w Y o r k , M a r c h 27—If w o r s e c o m e s to wors t—i do n o t de f ea t H i t l e r i n 1944, b u t h a v e t o fight on for t h r e e o r f o u r m o r e y e a r s — w h a t w i l l h a p p e n t o the li s t a n d a r d s of t h e r i c h e s t peop l e in a l l h i s t o r y ?

Washington talks about a "bed­rock economy"—a level below which the civilian population will not be permitted to sink unless the United States were actually to be blockaded by enemy forces.

What Is bedrock economy?- At what point have the planners de­cided that any further deteriora­tion in family living would harm the war effort more than would a shortage of fighting weapons9

years, a hat once In two and one cap each year.

The mother is permittee hats each year, a coat every winter a«d every fourth s two street dresses and four dresses a year, two sets of i things and night clothes' twelvemonth. She can hav< two pairs of shoes a yeai each pair will need repairing

The" Office" of Civilian SupplyL Children are hard on c has announced its conception of "minimum civilian consumer re­quirements" largely in percent­ages of previous usage. That is useful to the government in al­locating productive capacity, but with rationing it is meaningless to a housewife who is wondering what her family would be able-to buy if we should be driven to bed rook.

However, the OCS generalities can be translated—approximately, at least—into consumer "goods, A basic maintenance standard for healthy, respectable living has been worked out by the New York Bud­get Council, headed by Mrs. Luise Addiss and including home econom­ics and nutrition specialists of all public and private welfare agen­cies in Greater New York City.

The following picture is for an urban family of four persons. The man is a light laborer or mechanic, the woman a housewife with no outside job; there is a six-year-old

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and outgrow them. So th gets a winter coat and a coat every two years, four dresses, one skirt, two sw or blouses. The boy has a coat every second year, a hat year, one suit with extra pan spare knickers once a yea sweaters and three pairs of s year.

Obviously these Items vary with climate. They an dard for an area where tei

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girl just starting school and a 13 year-old boy. All are normal physically, mentally and otherwise

Such a family should have 17 quarts of milk a week, half a pound of cheese, 15 pounds of po tatoes, 13 pounds of green and root vegetables, two pounds of tomatoes, hajf a pound of dried beans, 8 pounds of fresh fruit, 14 eggs, about 4 pounds of meat, 10 pounds of bread, 5 pounds of cereals, 3 pounds of butter and fats, and a pound and a half of sugar.

These items can be juggled considerably, but the list is scien­tifically balanced,-Is based upon common foods generally liked and usually, available. —

The only items which might prdve difficult at present are but­ter and fats. Current or projected rationing would give more meat and more sugar than is required.

The "father can have one suit, two pairs of overalls, two drc,ss shirts and four work shirts every year. He can buy one pair of dress shoes, and one of work shoes each year, having - th ree repair jobs done on them. He can get a' winter* coat only-'once In four

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tures often are low. The accessories — sox, handke slippers, etc., not mentiona

Father can have his hi every four weeks. Son ev weeks and daughter eve months. Mother gets one lipstick, one package of roi one box of face powder If she were working she need more.

Two sheets and two pillo fo* each person are supp< last three years. Two bath two hand towels and twe cloths for each person ai posed to last two years cacl cloths and napkins can be r or supplemented once a yea dishes should last two yc glassware o..c year; most dishes two years and some i as four.

A family of five 'can get six electric light bulbs a y

The OCS is not interestt ally in cost so much as i and services.

If the exigencies of war drive us to bedrock, obvio millionaire, the corporate president, the Junior o the senior clerk, the laboi would pay his own price quality -of food,- clothing a ter that fitted his needs.«

The point is that, powcv he could and would pay, I ter of millions t a n get al< one suit a year perhaps bel his gardener Can; he nc could get no more meat c or shoes" or medical care.

That Is the true slgnifl bedrock economy—a true

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