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educational instituons ‘ he wiedied rapidity after the : el) gem Have you : THE ORACLE —eoeneemereanermanee (06 WONT BEAT REDS tet Mates through its govern- « . @ ‘femmendeus assistance to woke te assist them in re og (om We devestaten and disloca = cooret wer and te aid them = in { Communiem during 4 tee aod stem * @etuteble etether the United eee Gs genrequs poluy for Derteiniy, it is im od Mates to finance wid that offers a amu mine eter of | two months im through Eu m Ch Pad hevat Ree a va e ‘he etting ( aie 7 ea « vue he wantties exce aga he pure hane pOvba ts newts fesert an ett ( MOTMAS GREETINGS road ® i, Ofte f « fm posta eco { Bae posta — : kt ’ 4 easor retting ere eae re same oe && were wap. ha ard g Ker Wea, wh to ® mtete bat Santa -— « a the Ch . eal the ation and DID RUSSIA GET SECRETS? The allegation that ion that ubinium secrets were sent to: Russia during the war, made Key W by a former air force major, Mr. George Days Ty Racey Jordan, and broadcast over the ng Pd TAREE nO TES tion, created considerable discussion but frase 20, 1938 there are reasons to discount the sen-| sational aspects of the allegations. The former officer alleged that..the late Harry A. Hopkins aud Henry &. Wale lace were interested in speeding up A- bomb secrets to the Russians. The charge Was somewhat decontaminated by Maj. Leslie B. Groves, retired head of the Bro- fect which developed the atomic bomb. He says Hopkins exerted no “pressure” on him and that he “never met, talked, wrote | Dhich wos called by the National. or had any dealings” with anyone who Youth Administration with the| e d in view of bring, ic pretended that he was talking for Harry aay egg S ae if ploee Hopkins. the city and the bus men As to Mr. Wallace, the General says | was well xttended. that the former vice-president received one report on the development of the pro- | y; be coor ‘by Sone BE cr Internal Improvement Fi continued in a sheaf of ' docu. if Clerk Ross-C. Sawy; F Pets secretary } The meeting Monday bight im the Harris School auditorium, George Fisher, of Gloster, N. J., ho arrived Sunday with Mrs. ject but none afterwards and that Mr, {Fisher and their four children, | Wallace “practically divorced himself” |>Foke the fishing recor of his . ns S visit yesterday. He went fishing from interest in the project. with Leo Stanley and his. son, Gen. Groves told a congressional com: Corte: ae at Ne pete Key and ‘ a aug! wo jewfish, one, ‘weigh- mittee that he “just couldn't imagine” ing 148 pounds and one 124 ealled heavy water, alleged by, Mr. Jordan | pounds. to have been sent through in carboys by waa aati si 4 “ die Bush returned -to ey air, to have been shipped and that if the | y.:; today to take up prdfession- | Russians got carboys marked “heavy | al duties at West Country water” they were being hoodwinked. Club, fresh from his seventh suc- Poi he = hevake 0 cessful se at Norway Coun- ‘ointing out that prior to the war 10 try Club, Norway. tons of uranium salts were used commer- | played the Mia cially in this country every year, Gen. |@™ent. Groves said that known shipments of uranium material sent to Russia in the war would have been of little value to them. One shipment of 200 pounds of uranium oxide and 220 pounds of uran- ium salts were allowed to go through in the spring of 1943 because it was felt an embargo would have aroused suspicions and they were of little value anyway. Nick After hearing the testimony of Gen. | Pople, ¥ Groves, Rep. Francis E. Walter, of Penn- | Thom: fee s ; - at eir homes in wivania, said, “There are so many dis- Fort Myer to spend Christmas erepancies in Jordan's story that it is high- | with their families. ly improbable that the things he said eoeaane. with 3:30 o'clock at St. C at Convent of Mary @ passen- s maship yee going isit with relatives and friends. and Herbert shing for the eft on the oc- aalian : Fermin Vidal left on the early curred did occur. , : bus this morning going to. Miami Rep. Burr P. Harrison, of Virginia, }on a business trip, and will re- said, “Jordan’s story was inherently in- | tua Saturiay eredible” and Rep. Morgan M. Moulder, of Missouri, decided that while Mr. Jor- dan may be sincere, “he has an exagger- ated suspicion and imagination.” J. S. Kelly, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who had. been the guest of Ernest Hemingway, since Monday, left yesterday for Tampa, and from there will go to| New York and then to Los Anst If you have to direct speeding traffic | ¢le= for the wint f along modern highways you should be equipped with a locomotive headlight ror signalling and a machine gun for defense. Today The Citizen says editorial par ‘aph: “The he in an whale, > of Cleve- —_—— land. Plz und that’s A STEER ISN’T ALL STEAK! no eho pary, The American Meat Institute has pub- i [STRAND conan! hed a chart called “The Saga of the |! rueedag shal Weidner = Steer” which is designed to help consumers The Secret Garden understand why there is such a_ wide /# with spread between what packers pay for beef it ORE AIGA aeRO weit on the hoof, and what is charged for such it na 3 : mcious cuts as steaks at the butcher’s on Coming: Soar svEst the corner | ‘Technicotor-Chifa Story If steers are selling at 26 cents per i Heehin pnmnce, On pound, the packer pays $260 for a thou- | - aii gl send pound animal. It dresses out to 600 || AAQNIR@E cootzn pounds of beef and, curiously enough, he |j{ a“ at to the retailer for $252. That |] _ Tuesday and Wednesday accomplished by financial legerde- | Million Dollar Week End nain—the erence between what he [« AD wid for the animal and what he got for ! the beef is made up by the value of by- |{ win ee, pr cts, such as fats, hair, hides, ete. | Gauttieia, 1 The butcher sells his $252 beef to con- | ners for 3309. That m look like a big profit, but it isn't. The $ he grosses has ver rent, labor, depreciation, shrink- ay » weight of the carcass when con- 1 into retail cut So the 8, and so on. t r, like the ker, earns a very modest profit for the service rendered. WOUSE PAINT BRINGS YOU Finally, nobody has been able to pro- eer which is all steak. The porter- house section of the animal which weigh- d 1000 pounds on the hoof amounts to ands e. Other cuts, due to consumer and obviously must bring preference and other such factors, must be d for a low price. The force which determines the price f meat wholesale and retail levels = Wiuios supply and demand—as the very sharp ' price drops which have recently taken SWP HOUSE PAINT ace prove Whites are whiter... colors cpio more beautifull Honest fila HOW BIG WE SRE! cine achce. SUT beeps cmenieeraniene ts “freshly painted” look \ The biggest business in the whole! con re eet a | round World is wrapped up in a $42,000,- The Pi. Enterprises, Inc. 000.000 ¢ sovernment business. Fed- eral Government now writes 267,000,000 aie heeks « year to pay its bills and meet its Whew—how big we are! ments just received by Circuit marriage. froma} =~ if ee pion years ago § ans. : dogiphees’, flashbulbs. for better “NATIONAL coal Rov Major & Small Appliances Crosley and Gibson Refrig- erators = Universal and Gi wom Ranges - A. 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