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PAGE SIX FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 19 Swedish King Sets Potion Tells Tall One rent of parity for two years after the war ends. He urged that government farm agencies be authorized to make special rash payments to farmcQ in lieu of price supports, whenever as a result of a decline in domestic consumption or exports it is determined that the support prices are resulting in surpluses. New Demands Made To Keep Youths 18 Out of Frontlines WASHINGTON, March $l-(JP) New congressional demands that 18-year-olds be kept out of army front lines arose today as the allied advance acrosi Germany heightened Washington's scent of victory in Europe. With lawmakers expecting an early collapse of nazi arms, Senator Revercomb (R-WVA) rallied bipartisan senate support behind an amendment to the draft act which would keep those under 19 out of combat units. Rebuffed by the military affairs committee, which rejected the Record oji Throne STOCKHOLM, March 31 (AV-King Gustav of Sweden will become his country's longest-reign-ing monarch tomorrow and the chances are that he will celebrate by playing tennis.

If he does not play, it will be only because the weather still is a bit too crisp to play outdoors at hia beloved Drottningholm castle amendment by a 6 to 3 vote, Revercomb announced he will offer it again when the senate takes up a house-approved measure for extension of the draft act, possibly week. The West Virginian said Senator Stewart (D-Tenn) will join him as author of the proposal. Senator Johnson (D-Colo) said he will support ij. Revercomb told a reporter that the United States is the only allied nation which permits men less than 18-years( and 6 months old to enter infantry combat. He said Britain had fixed that 'limit sta NATION MUST PULL IN BELTS, SAYS BYRNES Continued from Page One all grade and high school children can participate.

Some idea as to the possible extent of such an expansion may be gained from the fact that 5,175,000 school children are now receiving full or partial lunches at an annual cost of about Byrnes estimated that about 20,000,000 would be eligible under full expansion. Byrnes said he foresaw possible difficulties in carrying out congressional mandates that prices of war-expanded farm commodities bo supported at not less than 90 per 1 CLEW ISTON MAN 'DIRS M. N. Gundholm, 75-year-old Clewiston fisherman, died last night at Lee Memorial hospital. He 'was born in Denmark.

Ai BOB outside Stockholm, where he plants to spend the day. Even at 86 the rangements are in charge ct'' Spooner and Engclhardt, HI Hi 1J LUJi A bee usually gathers pollen from only one kind of flower in a. single day. ft tall, lean monarch played an average of two or three times a week throughout the winter on the indoor courts of the royal tennis hall in Stockholm. It will be thirty-seven years, three months and 24 days tomorrow since Gustav ascended the throne Dec.

8, 1907,. to become Sweden's 2lst monarch of modern times. The longest previous reign was that of Gustav Vasa, who be tute, adding that the Russian draft act covers men from 19 through 50. Gen. George C.

Marshall, army chief of staff, recently defended before the military committee the army's policy of using youths under 19 as replacements in the European theater. Revercomb said .111 have the sensational new miracle sqmo A owmp came king in 1523 and died in 1530, However, the present king's tenure falls considerably short the rec 4f lmmt he sees no reason why victory in Europe should not eliminate the need for using inductees with minimum training. Senator Hill of Alabama, the democratic whip, said he is opposed at this time to changing the rules under which the army operates and Senator Maybank (D-SC) pointed out that the navy (A ord set by Emperor Franz Joseph, who ruled Austria for 68 years. Get firestonc FACTORY-METHOD RECAPPING No Certificate Ndd Despite his age, Sweden's king wall finish remains in excellent health. He attends to all business of the lj crown, presides regularly over 1.

ONI COAt COVHIm meetings of the royal council and is the leading exponent of Swed en's neutrality policy. One anec smthi ml takes volunteers only 17 years old. Hill added, however, that the end of the European war might make a material difference In the attitude of the senate on a question about which many members have been receiving protest letters from parents. 2. amm um tunc 3 Mrs om usut 4.

Mitt wm waiw dote has ij that when it once was suggested that Gustav should take up golf instead of tennis he de FIRESTONE STORES FORT MYERS 9. -rutin clined oh the grounds that golf was an old man's Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) meets three of his top-ranking commanders' somewhere in Germany, and laughs good naturedly as one of them, Lt. Gen.

George S. fat ton. waves his hand above his head and explains a point. Watching with obvious amusement are Lt. Gen.

Omar N. Bradley (second from right), 12th army group commander, and Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges (right) of Perry, U. S.

first army commander. The impromptu conference took place Mar, 25. 7, uvman coutt Clean Out That Motor SAVE 76 WITH 1 tyX sary for the government to take over the mines to avert a work stoppage, he probably would be LEWIS, MINE LEADERS BOW TO WLB ORDER Continued from Page Onel the federal mine boss as he was i iiw'iiiii i I 1 aV7 I in 1943. have 17,000,000 rooms been More Power, More Mileage with MIX-I-GO In Your Gas L'se Or-lo in Crankcase Ask your dealer or call Milf ord Weigle 410 Second St. Phone 506 The operators had asked for an i arrangement to provide that anv 1000 Firs! St.

Phone 901-902 Fort Myers, Florida em Coal Producers association, retroactive pay provisions in the said, "We can never agree to any! eventual new contract be limited such stipulation as Mr. Lewis is to cover only 30 days. The board asking." Burke told reporters Lewis get no limitation. This means that would have to back down if there it takes two or three months to decorated was to be any extension of the work out an acceptable contract, contract. land it carries higher pay rates "We will never budge an inch on Ithan the old one, the higher rates with that point," Burke said.

He add- shall apply to all the time from ed that he was unable to bind the April 1 on. various groups comprising his as- f01 'fA Statement oi Condition Florida Realtors Back Sales Tax sociation, for example, to "such a financial commitment." One source close to the conference said other operators, on the other hand, were ready to sign some sort of stipulation in order to speed agreement on the extension. A split in the operators' ranks TAMPA, March U(P)A state sales tax was endorsed to day by the board of governors of the Florida association of real estate boards, to solve inancia HERE'S WHY: Because em-Tone, a new resin-oil paint, covers wallpaper, paint, plaster and does the avera ge room or only 2 98 Your Kem-Tone walls are durable, richly beautiful. There's no finer fiat wall finish at any price I 1. FOR FINEST DECORATION! 1 GOES ON LIKE MAGIC! 3.

ONE COAT COVERS most wallpapers, painted walls and ceilings, wallboard! 4. DRIES IN ONE HOUR! over this issue was viewed by this source as a possibility. Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Ickes was reported in touch with developments to be prepared for eventualities. If it becomes neces- problems. The board also endorsed acts to simplify existing documentary stamp laws and to.

tighten power and authority of the state realty commission to revoke and suspend licenses of brokers and In FORT MYERS, FLORIDA 1 1 flggffiV salesmen for unethical offenses, The board is composed of heads of AYTINAL virtually every realty board in the 5. NO "PAINTY" ODOR state. March 20, 1945 Stewart Bowman of Clermont, chairman of the legislative com In All) Multiplt Vitamint VI mini B6, C.Ti, aiaia amid, and calcium mittee, called the retail sales tax one of two solutions of the state's financial difficulties. The other iH u. jpantothenact.

Ik i.37 BAY DRUGS sours Monarf Cash Government Bonds 3,588,629.78 Municipal Bonds 190,107.36 Loans Discounts Overdrafts Federal Reserve Bank Stock Accrued Interest Furniture Fixtures Bank Building KEM-TONE TRIMS Smart wall border (J IEM-T0NE RCUER-IOiTER fJT Quick, easy way to apply Kern- on( was state liquor control, he said. But he favored the sales tax. Vanholt Garrett, president of the national association of real estate boards, opposed federal rent control and its possible extension to business and factory properties. He also spoke against government restrictions on buildings. The board approved a donation to the national board with which to help effect changes in rent control over the country including an increase in rents.

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We want to avoid imposing the penalties contained in the city ordinance governing the use of city water. WE APPEAL TO ALL WATER USERS TO CONSERVE WATER IN EVERY WAY AT ALL TIMES. WATER and CAS DEPARTMENT Cleaning and Pressing Ladies Work 6 days Men's Work 4 Days Pressing While You Wait Vapour Cleaners 23 1 3-1 Dean St. Opp. Morgan Motel 2219 Hendry St.

Phone 239 AUTHORIZED DEALERS Reaves Electric Service M. Forth Hdwe. Fort Myers, Florida I'uiita Oorda, Florida KJ.

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