Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 9, 1994 TAG: 9402080157
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The sales director for the nylon division of the DuPont Co. said that nylon production had expanded so much during the war that when military demand dropped, yarn supplies would be sufficient to satisfy the needs of most of the domestic hosing industry. A bootleg pair of good grade nylon stockings was selling for $7 a pair, down from $12 a pair at Christmastime.
Henry Ford, 80, said in a rare interview that America could realize full prosperity and employment after the war "if we think straight, use our men and machines wisely and teach our young people to do things for themselves."
Former Cleveland pitcher Bob Feller struck out 15 batters and drove in three runs in a baseball game played on a South Pacific island. Feller was stationed on a battleship.
C.H. Nininger, fuel-rationing officer for the Office of Price Administration's Roanoke District office, warned that the fuel-oil rations of many homes and businesses would run out before the winter was over, simply because thermostats were set too high.
Henry J. Fowler, son of Mrs. M.J. Fowler of Patterson Avenue in Roanoke, was appointed an adviser to the Harriman Mission, which coordinated lend-lease and other war-related matters between Great Britain and the United States. Fowler had served as assistant general counsel for the war production board for the previous two years.
Powerful German forces - including Himmler's own elite SS troops in their first action in Italy - were savagely attacking the allied beachhead south of Rome, causing the allies some reverses. To the east, bitter street fighting continued at Cassino on the main 5th Army front.
Russian troops fought their way to within three miles of the heart of Nikopol on the lower Dnieper River and proceeded with the slaughter of 75,000 German troops who had been ordered by Hitler to hold the manganese center at all costs.
A state Senate subcommittee studying raises for state employees on "starvation wages" asked for figures on the cost of giving all employees making less than $2,000 a year a 5 percent increase.
American boys stationed in England with the armed forces are good church-goers, Dr. Ronald Allen, a British minister, told the Roanoke City Council during a visit.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt turned away a question about his intentions to seek a fourth term. He also scoffed at questions about the possibility of his running on a coalition ticket with a Republican vice presidential candidate and about the chance of elections being put off for a year. People who have suggested the latter have not read the Constitution, he said.
A black reporter, Harry McAlpin, of the Atlanta World and representing the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association, was admitted to President Roosevelt's news conference and given full White House credentials.
William Patrick Hitler, 32, a nephew of Adolph Hitler, soon might be serving in the United States' Navy. Hitler, a British subject, came to the United States in 1939 on a lecture tour. His mother was separated from the dictator's half-brother, Alois.
British churchmen in the House of Lords criticized the allied bombing of German cities. The Bishop of Chichester said if Rome was similarly blasted it would "rankle in the memory of every good European as was Rome's destruction by the Goths."
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