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Italy’s Pocket Navy
Ready For Action
By JAMES M. LONG
(AP Newsfeaiures)
TARANTO, Italy — It takes
about 30 minutes for the whole
Italian Navy to pass in review—
and that is steaming along at a
pretty fair rate.
Because the pre-war fleet with
which Mussolini tried to* make the
Mediterranean once more “Mare
Nostrum,” <Our Sea) has dwindled
*from sixth biggest navy in the
world down to 36 ships.
That includes everything down
to the vest-picked-sized motor tor
pedo boats with six-man crews. It
also includes three clean-lined,
former United States destroyer
escorts just turned over to Italy
under the arms aid program.
But American naval observers
here are not too discouraged over
prospects for that pint-sized fleet,
now a part of the Atlantic Pact
force of western defense.
SMOKING LAMP LIT
FOR MARINE PILOTS
WITH THE FIRST MARINE
AIRCRAFT WING IN KOREA (/P)
—To smoke or not to smoke has
long been a question bothering
Marine aviators, since their single
seat fighter-bombers had no fa
cilities for disposing of ashes.
But now makers of the Corsair
has solved the problem by install
ing not only an ash tray but a
- cigarette lighter to help pilots
soothe jaded nerves on the way
home from a combat strike.
The new cockpit fixture re
places the time-tested method of
opening the canopy and allowing
the slipstream to carry away the
ashes. The freezing Korean wea
ther made this and other 9top-gap
measures highly impractical.
Price-Cutting
Spreads To New
Sections of Nation
NEW YORK, (/P)—Price-cutting
spread to new sectors of the na
tion’s retail front, stimulating the
public appetite for bargains.
Shoppers swept into big New
York department stores for the
sixth day of the local price war,
and grouped about harried sales
clerks. But many items were sold
| out.
Across the nation, sporadic out
j bursts of cutting of former “fair
i trade” fixed' prices occurred.
At Oklahoma City, where a drug
oh a in had dropped prices on all
electrical home appliances 25 per
cent, Katz Drug, a southwest
chain, announced a three-day sale
■ with the ‘world’s lowest prices.”
At San Francisco, prices were
; reported leveling off at the re
| duced tags put on yesterday, while
I suburban shops joined in dropping
prices in ho’pes of keeping their
i customers from flocking to city
! stores.
Other cities that got into the
fight included Omaha, Newark,
N. J., and Baltimore, Md.
Unemployment In U. S.
During May Smallest
Since August, 1945
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Unem
ployment dropped in May to
1,609,000—the smallest total since
World War II ended in August,
1945.
The census bureau reported that
level was reached after a 137,000
decline in the number of jobless
between April and May.
The number of employed civil
ians meanwhile jumped 1,148,000
in May to 61,193,000, highest in
six months.
The upswing in job openings
brought 1,014,000 additional per
sons into the labor force last
month.
The great majority of the new
jobs—795,000—opened up in farm
ing rather than defense activities,
•however, as the season of spring
planting and cultivating work
came on.
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OLD MAIDS WANE
IN ILLINOIS
CAR BONDALE, 111., (/P) — A
Southern Illinois educator, Dr.
Sina Mott, says' the days of the
“old maid” teacher, who* lived in
one room and ate in the restau
rant around the corner, are just
about gone.
Dr. Mott’s statement is based on
schools. It showed that the “old
a study of 420 southern Illinois
teachers in nursery and primary
maid” with her book satchel, is
being replaced by the teacher
home-maker with her grocery bag.
Goods and service most prixed
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Dr. William F. Thompson, who is an internationally recognized authority,
the Institute carefully studies the habits of the salmon. The objectives of these
•studies are to prony>te the proper perpetuation and efficient use of the supply
of fish. The research program of the Institute complements studies being made
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