INVESTIGATIONS: Anything for the Boys

The great American game of gouging the G.I. is going full blast. Wherever the training camps are full to overflowing, the nearby towns small, and housing scarce, the chiselers are out. So reported the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, headed by Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, this week, after inspecting more than 20 such localities. They issued a first report on three of them: Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Camp Rucker, Ala., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Camp Rucker and Fort Leonard Wood were bad enough, but Camp Breckinridge took all prizes: CJ An old doll house, built by a widow for her daughter, was...

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