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House Republicans are planning to ask for an investigation of all domestic shortages and their relation to Lend-Lease shipments to the United Nations, it was learned today. Sentiment is said to be still divided on the best method for conducting such a probe, with some favoring an independent inquiry by a budget subcommittee of the House and Senate, while others have proposed that the House Appropriations Committee take up that investigation as part of hearings on President Roosevelt's proposed 1944 fiscal year budget of $109,000,000,000. One Republican spokesman declared that he will "present evidence that Lend-Lease materials are being used for the manufacture of foreign products which shipped back here in direct competition with domestic producers." That concern is reported to be of particular significance to farm bloc Republicans, who will call for no limits on the manufacture of American farm equipment on the grounds that Lend-Lease goods are being used in the manufacture of farm equipment abroad.
A Windsor Terrace boy who gave up a job with the Brooklyn Trust Company to join the Navy was listed today as one of a Navy patrol bomber crew that sighted a "wolf pack" of at least six Nazi U-Boats and sent at least one of them to the bottom. Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class James J. McGuire of 82 Prospect Park Southwest is a member of a nine-man crew that combed the North Atlantic for German submarine activity for six months before catching sight of a single U-Boat before the six-sub pack was spotted. His mother, Mrs. Catherine J. McGuire told the Eagle that she had recently received a letter from her son last Monday in which he mentioned that he was "getting along fine," but didn't say anything about exactly what he was doing.
In North Kingston, Rhode Island an Army private was turned loose by kidnappers who searched him and his truck without finding whatever it was they wanted. Private First Class Raymond L. Mosher of Springfield, Massachusetts told FBI agents, Army Intelligence officers and the Rhode Island State Police that he was driving along the Boston Post Road near the Jamestown Highway when he stopped for a traffic light. Two men approached the truck, and, "in a friendly fashion," asked the way to Boston. While Pvt. Mosher was giving directions, one of the men drew a revolver and commanded him to keep his hands on the wheel. Two other men then emerged from the shadows and all four boarded the truck. Ordering the soldier to drive into a remote wooded area, the four men then searched the vehicle and its driver. Pvt. Mosher told authorities they made no effort to rob him of money, but examined all his papers, and all documents on the truck, with careful attention before declaring "it's not here." The gunmen then released Mosher and drove away in an automobile parked nearby.
("A lurid and for the most part an unprintable story." Well, that depends on the paper.)
A drop in the registration in city public schools of nearly 52,000 students during 1942 is being blamed for the current surplus of school supplies, the Brooklyn Eagle was told today. Commission of Investigations William Herlands reported that thousands of surplus textbooks are on hand, but a school official stated that this may easily be explained by noting that every student receives seven or more books at the start of each term. Enrollment as of October 1942 totaled 949,468 pupils, down from 1,001,450 at the start of the fall term in 1941.
In Albany, opposition looms to the plan put forward by Transport Workers Union president Michael Quill to have Governor Thomas E. Dewey appoint an independent board with authority to settle wage and other differences between the union and the Board of Transportation. Senator Arthur Wicks, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, declared that he is "unalterably opposed and will fight any attempt to compel a unit of Government to arbitrate questions with its employees." Governor Dewey and his advisors continue to maintain a rigid "no comment" declaration on Quill's proposal, in which the union leader and his aides have gone over the head of Mayor LaGuardia to seek state intervention in their clash with Transportation Board chairman John Delaney. The Mayor told the City Council last week that he "would not tolerate a transit strike."
A bill that would make the teaching of United States history compulsory in all New York State public schools for students from the eighth grade up has been proposed by Assemblyman William J. Glancy, a veteran of the First World War and an official of the State Democratic Committee, who declared that the measure would have the support of veterans' and patriotic organizations in the state. "The surveys have shown that some of the schools have not been teaching U. S. History," he explained, "and with the youth of our state, especially those of the teen-age groups, facing the call to duty, it's time that this condition was corrected." The Glancy bill specifies that students receive at least 40 hours of history instruction per school year, and mandates that the subject may be taught "only by U. S. citizens." Non-citizens, under the bill, would be specifically banned from teaching history in any New York State school.
A plan to bring down the retail price of milk is under consideration by the Office of Price Administration for the New York Administrative Area. Under that plan, the sale of milk in pint bottles would be banned, as would the production or sale of all "special kinds" of milk, including but not limited to chocolate-flavored, homogenized, and high-butterfat varieties. Under the new regulations, only one grade of milk with a standardized butterfat content would be allowed to be sold. OPA officials indicate that the new rules would be expected to reduce the retail price of milk by approximately one to one and a half cents per quart.
("Springtime in the Rockies" and "Cat People." And to think people complain about double features.)
The Eagle Editorialist congratulates Brooklyn Trust Company president George V. McLaughlin in advance of tonight's testimonial dinner at the St. George Hotel, where a record crowd is expected to salute the former Police Commissioner, vice president of the Triborough Bridge Authority, highly respected Brooklyn civic leader, and devoted Dodger fan, for his many accomplisments.
(Hey, how are you people getting heat?)
Dodger president Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Rotary Club yesterday that it's time for the borough to "have its day in the sun," and his belief that this is so motivated his decision to come here after twenty-three years as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mr. Rickey stressed that he did not "come here by compulsion -- there was a modicum of election above and beyond the inducements that were offered. Brooklyn to me as a city, as a baseball crowd, as a baseball opportunity, was not uninviting. Brooklyn appealed to me as a municipal entity, as a part of America, with a very genuine jealousy that Brooklyn should have its own place in the sun, that it should have its own entity in its own right. That is my viewpoint." Rickey pledged the Rotarians that the Dodgers will win the pennant this year, "if a lack of manpower doesn't interfere, and if, further, Brooklyn wants it enough," and he stressed that his philosophy in operating the club will be to "ask no quarter -- and give none!"
(If you don't think Dixie is wearing those glasses in order to impress upon Mr. Rickey the seriousness of his committment to his new executive duties as a way of encouraging him to sweeten the pot for 1943, then you haven't been following Dodgerology very closely. No doubt we'll see Camilli next wearing a pair of farmers' overalls.)
("All right, Pola Negri, you can tone it down now. I'll see what I can do.")
(Maybe they're just being distracted by the ju-jitsu classes.)
("They'll never suspect we are spies! I mean, look at us!")
("'Such a crust?!!!' explodes George Bungle. "STEALING MY CATCHPHRASE? SUCH CRUST!" "Hmph!" hmphs Jo. "The bold faker!")
(Serves you right for not cleaning up the rocks in your yard.)
