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SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 1941

LONDON (By Wireless). —I went into an East End shelter, beneath a railroad track, with a friend who supervises repair work on shelter buildings. This railroad runs through the city on a high grade, the top of which is heavily arched over with : : stone. At the street level, under the tracks, are large rooms. And here underneath the rumbling trains, people sleep at night. It was about 11 p. m. It was dungeonlike and gloomy, with only a faint light, and. very cold. About 20 people lay on the floor, on mattresses, covered with quilts. Everyone was asleep, or so we thought. or My friend looked at the ceiling to see if recent work aimed at stopping the seepage of water had been finished. We didn’t say any-

. - thing, but suddenly from among the recumbent forms -- came a woman's voice:

: “When are we going to get bunks—after the war’s over?” . : : . The voice was old, but it wasn’t a complaining voice. There was gaiety in it. The remark opened up other sleepers. They lay on

their backs and talked about the discomforts of this

miserable place. : - There were old men and women with lined faces.’ There were middle-aged men who said nothing. There were children. And side by side lay two girls .

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Hoosier Vagabond = By Ernie Pyle

i People feel sentimental about Double-X, they have

been there s0 long. Some 10,000 people live there

every night. It is one of the biggest shelters in London. It is so big it is like a state fair. Openings iave been walled up, and shock walls built a few feet in front of the entrances. The great ‘vaultlike spade is divided into bays, each holding more than 100 persons. Each bay is numbered, and each one has its own submarshals. At first 10,000 people slept 6n the fioor. Buf now bunks are going in, Double-X has two big first-aid rooms, with Red Cross nurses in charge. It has canteens. It has a wagon refreshment stand. It has one vast long promenade . devoted to nothing but milling up and down on parade, just like the boardwalk at Atlantic City, except under cover. Double-X is not modern and not too.immaculate, but it has the saving grace of having become a social center. people, walking and talking and laughing. And it’s cosmopolitan, There must be somebody there from every nation on earth. ; Everything happens at Double-X, from births to deaths. Evening classes for adults are held. There is a library. | There are romances. Double-X| is a big, jolly city, all under one roof. It is a gigantic human omelet, fried in war.

The Anderson Shelter

Now to a private Anderson shelter. This is a half-above-ground cellar, usually built in a backyard. As I have said before, there are scores of thousands of

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. 10,000 in Double-X

And then in the midst of this conversation I heard —if you’ll excuse me—what seemed to be someone using the toilet. I didn’t believe: it could be true—here in public ~ before children and elders and two lovely modern ~ girls you'd have been proud to take tc the Ritz for dinner. The only toilet in that room was a public bucket. Nobody laughed or blushed. This vulgar intimacy -. had become accepted as a way of life under the whip _ of war. As we left, the old voice with the gaiety in it called - to me and my friend: “We'll all be dead before you - get this place fixed up, so you'd better leave a deposit on a wreath for me.” . They were all laughing gaily as we left.

2 Shelter Double-X is in the East End. I call it Double-X because I can’t give its real name,

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Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: John George Benson, . Superintendent of the Methodist Hospital, who was born in Richmond, Ind. just 60 years ago today. John G. Benson is a doctor of divinity, not a doc- - tor of medicine and he never gives medical advice : even though he runs one of the state’s largest hospitals. Dr. Benson is a 5-foot, 9-inch tall 200-pounder with something of a bay window. His straight gray hair is starting to recede at the temples. He has a wide mouth that breaks readily into a smile or a laugh and he is a distinguished story teller. He is “John” to all the doctors and a good many associates, plain Dr. Benson™ to others. He is very much the superintendent at

.. superintendent at home, much to his delight.

He has taken a deep interest in medicine and he has got to the point where he knows quite a bit 2. about the subject. He is forever looking up new medical words and when he runs across something he . doesn’t know he collars one of the city’s specialists and gets a free lecture on the subject.

"He Hates Hospital Smells

**. DR. BENSON BEGAN studying for the clergy __Wwhen he was just a boy and he pursued his studies at »-DePauw (’06), Boston University and Ohio Northern University. He was a pastor in Terre Haute from 1910 to ’13, at Brazil from ’13 to ’16, at Detroit from ’16 to ’19, and in New York from °'19 to 25. He's \ :been superintendent of the hospital here for about 10 years, coming from Columbus, O., where he had a similar post. He hates hospital smells and although he grants ~« that jou have to use disinfectants a lot of the time, ‘he still thinks soap, water and elbow grease should ‘ ‘be used often. That combination doesn’t smell,

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i WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Two birthdays come to- + gether, one dedicated to saving life, the other to { killing it. &. Europe has its Nazi birthday. Marking what? tnEight years of raw, brutal, treacherous force. The * black catalog of these eight years is long. Suppression of speech. Liquidation of labor unions. Robbing of businessmen. Beating of Jews and their exile into barbarous ghettos and concentration camps. ‘Grabbing and looting of weak neighbors. Betrayal of pledges to keep the peace. Eight years of what they laughingly called peace in our time. Conquest in Scandinavia. Slaughter in Belgium and Holland. Millions of personal tragegE ; dies, like that of the little Dutch boy and his sister of whom we have been reading; 1 like those of the refugees who packed the roads, flee5 ing in terror and wringing the heart of Quentin Rey- + nolds, the American reporter; like those of the thou5 sands of old men and women, living as moles in cold -London subways, that made Ernie Pyle shudder and { Wendell Willkie brush an eye. Eight years of tears. { . No wonder the Nazis didn’t celebrate. Hitler paused ‘In his work on this Nazi birthday only to promise * nore of the same, more than we have seen, enough ‘ to .extinguish the last light in Europe and to shut down liberty and human dignity in the one stubborn \i outpost left across the Channel.

: The Same Eight Years

4 America had its Roosevelt birthday, marked by bright lights and dancing. For what? To fight. i: Fight what? To fight crippling disease. To save « lives from infantile paralysis. To bring comfort and « theer and, most of all, hope, to afflicted children. $ President Roosevelt has dedicated his birthday to that

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—Yesterday, Sister Provilencia, a daughter of Congressman Tolen, held an exhibition of work done by the Indians in the Pacific Northwest Reservations, in the Indian Affairs Committee room at the Capitol. Sister Providencia has been at work five years and she has succeeded in reviving some of the old arts and crafts among these people and adapting them to the modern market. Their gloves are a joy, soft and warm, and anyone who lives a country life would be most thank‘ful to possess a pair. I was late for my appointment and rather afraid that the exhibition might be. closed. But I found that the room was still .crowded with people, : which shows that there is ac‘tive -interest in this type of Indian handwork. .| The President’s birthday .dinner last night wag a great success. We had, as usual, an abundance of ‘ igmateur talent displayed by every member of the group. Our only professional entertainment was prosided by Lauritz Melchior, who sang a group of songs us which lifted us far above our usual level of and entertainment. We are all grateful to him. Every one at the table contributed something in

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them in Britain—in the suburbs, the small towns and the country) they hold more people than all other kinds of shelters put together, Any person making less than $20 a week is suppliec. free’ with the material for an Anderson. Others must buy their own. An Anderson shelter is formed of walls of sheet iron, heavily banked on the outside with dirt. A direct hit will demolish it, but it is good insurance against a nearby blast and flying debris. The other day. I saw ohne standing unharmed not 15 feet from a bomb crater that was 20 feet across. But four people are miserably cramped in an Anderson shelter. Often the owners have trouble with water seepitig up through the floor. And it is a problem -to heat them without suffocating. At first the Andersons vere considered wonderful, but now the government is thrashing over a new policy of shoring up and fortifying one room in a house as a healthier and sefer shelter. id hdine a fortress and a hideout — what a world

Dr. Benson makes about 30 talks a month and spends a gtod deal of time writing out his speeches in longhand. Then he never reads them, but speaks extemporarneously.

Ah, Boston Baked Beans

HE LIKES ALMOST ALL kinds of food, but has cut down lately to keep his weight steady. His favorite dish is Boston baked beans. He is a prolific reader and has a big personal library. He reads adventure stories, theological works, biographies, political books, magazines, newspapers—anything that’s interesting. { z He doesi’t smoke or drink. He is fond of clean, funny comgdies and he ses a lot of plays. He has been seen, though, to get 1p and leave a play if it’s dirty or dill, but he never bothers the rest of the group. He¢ just takes a ‘axi home and leaves the car for the rest of them. ‘ He is férever buying old walking sticks. He likes to play phionograph records at home (he does not like jazz music), he doesn’t; like dull or serious people and he won’t have his photo taken.

The Good Old Circus

DR. BENSON USED TO play golf, but gave it up a few yelrs ago, complaining the water hazards were too fnuch to contend with. He loves football and basebill games and when he goes to a game he wlhoops lke a college boy and waves his arms, He is wild about circuses and an out-of-town minister who tame to see Dr. Benson last year mentioned it frankly, The doctor’s secretary told the minister that the (loctor had dashed out saying his “grand-| mother wis very sick.” ‘The minister looked at the | secretary sadly, shook his head” and noted that Dr. Benson's, grandmother became ill every time the circus care to town. ’ In other words, Dr. John G. Benson is a very human, very tolerant, very likeable minister whose business i$ running a hospital. What's more, he’s fond of publicity and he’ll probably like this.

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cause. The nation has dedicated his birthday to that ase, Nr. Roosevelt’s severest critic, Gen. Hugh JOhnson, has been slashing out his anti-Roosevelt columns with one hand and with the other collecting

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powder plant at Charlestown will be ready for operation about May 1, according to a recently revised Government estimate. The powder is made in these squat buildings that run in a long line, each unit separated from its neighbor for safety’s.sake, The walls of the powder buildings are reinforced with steel and the roofs are “laid on” so that only the roof will blow-off in an explosion and the concussion will be limited to the individual building. The picture was taken by the Army Signal Corps.

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VINSON TO ASK CURB ON LABOR

20,000 Workers on Strike; Roosevelt Mentions ~ Commandeering.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).— Ccngressional advocates of legislajive restrictions on labor union activities in defense industries today mapped plans to force a showdown on that issue immediately after action is completed on the Administration’s British aid bill,

Sentiment appeared to be growing in support of some yet-undeter-mined compromise plan to provide compulsory mediation of labor disputes which might impede arms production. Strikes in progress tcday affected about 20,000 workers. The talk in Congress followed a warning by President Roosevelt at his press conference yesterday that the Government is prepared to commandeer any plant if it becomes essential to the national defense and its owners refuse to co-operate in production of defense materials.

| Vinson Abks Concessions

{He made the statement when asked whether he was ready to take over Ford Motor Co. plants if that company persisted in refusing defense contracts conditioned on written agreement to abide by all labor laws. Substitute the phrase any plant for the words “Henry Ford,” he said, and the answer would be “yes.” | ‘The new controversy between Ford and the Government grew out of the War Department’s rejection of Ford's low bid on small trucks because of the company’s refusal to ggree to a clause specifying compliance with labor laws. : | Later, Mr. Ford was quoted as saying “We and all the other manufacturers ought to make anything we can (for the Government) without a profit. We shouldn't quibble about, anything the Gov-

money for the celebration of the President’s birth-[wrnment wants us to do.”

day. This rhakes eight years of it—the same eight years that Hitler has had. America’s eight years have been devoted fo trying to be the good neighbor toward other nakions, to discouraging war and conquest, to freedom pnd equality of opportunity for all. Rights and privileges of men have been added to rather than taken away. Liberty has been saved for all. Those who don’t like it have the liberty to say so, and no cbncentration camp awaits them.

Now We Are Awake

These two birthdays in themselves tell the story of what it is all about. We have had to begin making guns, planes and warships. We have started that reluctantly because we wanf to preserve the kind of America that this birthday means in our country. We have been driven to it by what that other birthday in Europe means. We viere late in starting because we were too trusting. Wg thought others would be reasonable, would

limit their ambitions, would be content to live in|

peace once they had breathing space. We thought, since w¢ were not looking for more territory, that nobody elds was. We thought, because we were offering a program that would open up trade channels and bring all nations info reciprocal agreements, that no one would feel the need to resort to armed conquest. Leasl of all did we suspect that a combination of tyrannical powers, operating in ways completely alien to ours; was about to try conquering the rest of the world cutside of our hemisphere. But the unsuspected happened and woke us up. We have learned to understand better the meaning of the Nazi birthday and how it differs from the meaning of our own.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

that a% least during this dinnertime the President must have felt that he was having a personal birthday celebration. I feel, occasionally, that this day has become such

it has rather slipped away. But the small group who have - attended these reunions ever since 1921, remindeil the now augmented gathering last night that this was the 20th year we had met together on this occasion. Many of those years had no connection with public functions, therefore, it is only right that a shoit period of this day should be devoted. to a purely personal celebre tion,

| Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee said that he expects his group to act on his bill to compel mediation of labor disputes and ban closed shops in connection with Navy construction work as soon ac the British aid bill is disposed of. { “I have no quarrel with labor but everyone must make concessions in this emergency,” Rep. Vinson said.

Provides Waiting Period

| Rep. Vinson’s bill would “freeze” jabor disputes for 80 days, during which employer and employees would try to settle their dispute or send it to mediation by a board appointed by the President. No strike would be permitted for 30 days after the mediation board reported to the public. For the second time in a week the House yesterday voted down appropriations bill amendments which would have banned the closed shop in construction of merchant vessels by the Maritime Commission and aboard vessels subsidized by the Commission.

Seven Strikes in Progress

Largest strikes in progress were those at the Milwaukee, Wis., AllisChalmers Manufacturing Co. plant and at the Chicago Internatienal Harvester Co. tractor plant, affecting a total of more than 12,000 workers and defense orders totaling 43 million dollars. A strike at the Elizabeth, N. J., Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp. plant involved 1400 workers ‘and halted production of materials essential to the making of defense materials worth 200 million dollars. Negotiations between Allis-Chal-mers officials and R. J. Thomas, president of the C. I. O.-United Auto Workers Union, were under way today. Harvester negotiations for the Chicago and Rock Falls, Ill. plants’ were to begin Monday and Phelps-Dodge negotiations were in their second day at New York.

Assoon as dinner was over, I started to visit the|

different birthday balls. It seemed to me that the crowds were ‘larger ard more enthusiastic than usual. | I met the different stars at various hotels and cut a’ most begutiful birthday cake at the Wardman-Park. + Then I dashed back to the White House in time to Join those stars who were able to be there during the President’s broadcast. They continued on their rounds after the broadcast was over, but I went gratefully

| Federal conciliators were seeking ‘to end strikes of 3400 C. I, O. ship- | builders at Mobile, Ala., 600 U. A. W.C. I. O. workers at Cleveland's ‘Standard Tool Co. and 200 mem‘bers of the Steel Workers Organiza‘ing Committee (C. I. O.) against the Mountain State Steel Foundry at { Parkersburg, W. Va.

to bed, and actually nad a little time to read an ar-| ticle by Irwin Ross in Harper's Magazine of January, KILLED BY TRAIN

1941. | I collect articles that I want to read and am always several months behind. Today is a much more peaceful day. I hope from now on, since the busiest month of the year has come to a sonable life in the White House,

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| LEBANON, Ind. Feb. 1 (U. P.).— ‘Paul S..Moss, 54, Boone County Farm Bureau employee, was killed last night when a Big Four passenger train struck the car in which ‘he was riding at a local crossing. : $iagin Co nal

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WILLKIE TARGET

By ROBERT J. CASEY

Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times ns The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

ON THE LIBYAN FRONT, Feb. 1.—Undoubtedly, a chief feature of the triumphant British maneuver against Derna, 175 miles west of the Egyptian frontier was, as always in this desert campaign, spectacular efficiency of transport and communication. Armies have to be fed, and the successful work of dragging food— and at times water—across 500 miles of * sand trails and shell-pocked roads was just as painful as Marshal Rodolfo Graziani’s more noisy performance of tankers and artillery. “It's not a new technique,” a British transport officer said. “It’s old. Aurelian used it against Palmyra over sands that were just as hot as these. It’s like a firemen’s bucket brigade, one man passing on the bucket to the man next to him. “But here, as the man in front

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Critical Resolutions Written At Des Moines and at

17-State Meeting.

DES MOINES, Iowd, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—The National Young Republican Federation decides today whether to repudiate the leader ship of Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 G. O. P. Presidential candidate, because of his indorsement of the Administration's defense aims. Strongly-worded resolutions condemning Mr. Willkie and declaring him unqualified to speak for the Young Republicans were taken

under atlvisement by the resolutions eommittee of the federation’s fifth biennial convention. The committee was expected to reject many of the vituperate resolutions and modify others in an attempt to prevent an open breach on the convention floor. ° : Spokesmen for a group leading the opposition, however, said they were determined to take the issue to the floor despite any. action in committee. They said there was little chance that the federation would specifically repudiate Mr. Willkie, but said adoption of any resolution condemning the Administration Lend-Lease Bill would be regarded as a rejection of Mr. Willkie, who indorsed the objectives of the bill before he left for England. x Republican National Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. said at Washington he would “regret it” if the Young Republicans “seriously considered” any resolutions attacking Mr. Willkie. In London, Mr. Willkie said “I am not interested in the resolutions.” While the Young Republicans were considering the resolutions, G. O. P. policy makers from Indiana and 16 other states met at Omaha, Neb., to discuss party or-

moves forward, you put another man in behind. So the line doesn’t stretch. It moves. It gets longer, but it doesn’t get thinner. Now, when the Americans took Derna, it was different—" “When the Americans—?” You remember having heard something about American activities somewhere in this neighborhood—“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.” There was something in the school books about successful naval operations against the Barbary pirates, early in the history of the new republic. But Derna—somehow you associated it with the preaching of the Gospel by St. John. More particularly, as an important - village in the district whence—legend has it—came ene Simon of Cyrene who was to help a prophet called Isa Bin Miriam to carry His cross up the hill road out of Jerusalem. America seemed far away from such a place as this and you men-

Badgett Quads Are2 Years Old

GALVESTON, Tex. Feb. 1 (U. P.) —The Badgett quadruplet sisters—Jeraldine, . Jeanette, Joyce and Joan—celebrated their second birthday today. Ga Mrs. Esther Harper Badgett, 38, ° their mother, said ‘they would be given cake to eat for the first time, but that they probably would prefer their regular canned food. Highlights of the day for them will be the visit of their father, W. Ellis Badgett, who will come home from his ranch at Bay City for the occasion. The ‘girls are all blue-eyed blonds.

PELLEY REMOVAL TO; CAROLINA IS ASKED

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Extradition of William Dudley Pelley to North Carolina because he is charged with a crime in that state was asked in a petition on file here today ‘with the U. S. Court of Appeals. The case will be argued Feb. 18. : Pelley, founder of the “dissolved” Silver Shirts, is the reported backer of The Fellowship Press, Inc. at Noblesville, Ind. His connection with the publishing company recently was investigated: by the Dies Committee. The petition here was presented by District Attorney Edward J. Curran. Ordered extradited to North Carolina last March to be sentenced for a six-year-old conviction on a “blue-sky” law charge, Pelley thus far has resisted his removal success-

fully. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat ordered Pelley extradited in District Court at that time but the decree was stayed when Pelley applied for a writ of habeas corpus. He charged North Carolina authorities wanted to jail him for political purposes. Justice Jessie C. Adkins denied the petition but Pelley won another stay

ganizational harmony and consider similar action against Mr. Willkie.

TEXARKANA, Ark, Feb. 1 (U. P.) —Mrs. Dorothy Garner, 19, received a message in the fall of 1939 from her mother and her step-

father that her grandfather was dying. She bundled up her baby, left her husband in De Queen, Ark., a hurried back to McKinney, Texas, to comfort him in his last hours. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Miller took her, not to the bed of a dying grandfather, but to a cotton field, white with bursting bolls. “There’s your grandfather. get busy!” they told her. They thought a girl Mrs. Garner’s size (186 pounds) should pick at least 2560 pounds of cotton a day. She couldn’t and the Millers undertook to punish an undutiful daughter. .

Their methods were described .to a Federal Jury yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Joe Hall of Grayson County.

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charges of kidnaping. “I went to the cabin Mrs. Garner was occupying with the Millers in response to a call from neighbors,” Hall testified. “She had bruises on the insteps of both feet and ankles, and her feet were a mass of bloody looking bruises. There did not appear to be anything but bone on her insteps.” Mrs. Garner had testified that she was held in slavery six months, until she managed to escape with her two-year-old child and sought refuge in the home of a De Queen physician. ie Mrs. J. S. Hendricks, wife of the physician, said: “She was the most ghastly living person I've ever seen.” Mrs. Miller's side of the story was that she had caught her daughter in immoral relations with various men. : She sald her daughter hadn't

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Like Giant Bucket Brigade, British Advance Supply Lines Across 500 Miles of Hot Sands

tioned as much. But the officer knew his chronicle,

There were four expeditions by sea against the Barbary pirates— he sald—Youssef Carmanali, Pasha of Tripoli, had offered to keep his strongarm men off Yankee shipping if the United States would pay him for his trouble. The States sent four naval expeditions against him, all of which came to no good off Tripoli. Finally, a land expedition was put ashore near Alexandria and came along the coast, just as the British armies have done in this campaign. In a month and a half the troops reached Derna, took it in a surprise attack, held it against Youssef in a decisive battle, and continued to hold it until the Pasha agreed to suspend his racket. They. left in 1805. They must have been good soldiers— And, as you pictured how a New England marine must have looked, rolling about on the deck of a camel, you agreed with him.

APPROVE YOUTH

Some Voters in Gallup Poll Add ‘Don’t Copy Nazi Work System.’ By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion «

PRINCETON N. J, Feb. 1.— Should training camps be provided for boys and girls in their late ‘teens, for the purpose of instructing them in various skills and vocations useful in national defense? Some such program may actu- | ally come into being if defense planners take up he recent suggestion of Mrs. Franklin D. ANE CAN Roosevelt that vs “every young per- | PUBLIC’OPINION son, boy or girl, in this nation should give a year of service to the nation,” and added that she “would like to see us go further than voluntary work camps.” While such a program has, of course, not been widely discussed and debated by the public, the American Institute of Public Opinion has completed a survey to see what the average citizen’s first reaction would be. Voters in the survey were asked: “Do you think that boys between the ages of 16 and 21, who are out of high school, should spend one year in a training camp learning things useful to our defense program?” A similar question was asked regarding girls 16 to 21. The results:

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The suggestion vo organize such training camps has been attacked in some youth circles as a forerunner to “forced labor” camps on the Nazi mould. Voters in the survey sontetimes qualified their support of the idea by saying, “it’s all right as long as we don't copy the Nazi work camps.” Americans who have watched this country’s reaction to the Civilian Conservation Corps idea—one of the most popular programs ever devised by the present administration —will not be surprised particularly by the public's first reaction to young peoples’ training camps. Today's study shows that many persons, especially in less well-to-do neighborhoods think training camps would go a long way to solve the problem of idle boys, and, frequently, of idle girls with no funds for further. school and no chance of an immediate job. “But in the case of the girls,” voters frequently added, “why not give them extra training in schools instead of shipping them off to camp?”

MORGENTHAU ON TRIP WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.)— Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, left Washington

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SHOUT ACROSS TEPELINI LINES

Greeks, Italians ‘Arrange ‘Truces’ to Get Good Night’s Sleep.

By MARY MERLIN United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE GREEK ARMY BELOW TEPELINI, Jan. 28 (Delayed). —At places on this sector, I was told, the battle lines are so close together the Greeks and Italians hold shouted conversations and oce casionally the soldiers arranga “truces.” “Let's have a good hight's sleep tonight,” the Greeks may yell and the Italians reply, “that's all right with us.” Sometimes, instead of taking ade vantage of the truce, the Italians lie awake talking among themselves, When their talk turns to politics, the Greeks told me, the Italian offi cers take a hand, firing some trench mortars to wake up the Greeks. Then everyone goes back to battle stations the rest of the night. Slept in Battered Inn I spent last night in a. half ruined inn just out of range of Italian machine guns. When Mo= hamed, my Albanian guide, woke me just before dawn I could hear artillery firing from a barricade half a mile down the road. Outside, the Viosa River mist was thicker than a London fog. A gun carrier loomed out of the haze; it was an anti-tank unit moving up for action. An hour later the wind came up, the mist cleared and the Italians came into view—an advance guard headed by 20 tanks. Greeks fired their 75-millimeter field guns point blank into the tanks which blocked the narrow road. Five tanks were destroyed; two captured intact by a Greek sergeant from a mountain village, who told me: “We call them

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mediately they can’t hurt you.” : Crushed Like an Egg ; A young Greek soldfer gave me a. “joy ride” east toward Klisura in a truck. I saw an Italian armored car crushed like an egg shell; 60 or 70 Italian prisoners heing lined up; the twisted forms of dead Italian soldiers, black against the snow, being piled along the roade side for burial, A young Italian’ lieutenant, who said he was from one of Italy's oldest families, told me: “Our men are not cowards; [they just don’t believe in this war. They're nos blackshirts; they're fathers of fame ilies. They will fight for their homes like the Greeks. But send them into these terrible mountains to attack a country half of them never thought about? That is a different . matter.”

FLIGHT TEACHER KILLED HICKSVILLE, N, Y., Feb. 1 (U; P.).— Flying Instructor Matthew Kerr, 42, was killed today when he fell from the plane in which he was teaching a student acrobatics, The student jumped to safety. "i

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

The first accession to the terrie tory of the United States came through the Louisiana Purchase; what was the second accession? 2—What do the initials C. M. T. C, stand for 3—Which three New England States border on Canada? 4—Of what country is AdoM Hitlex a native? ; x 5—At what temperature does: water boil at sea level? 6—Name the Undersecretary of Age riculture, 1

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1—The Floridas. : 2—Citizens’ Military Training Camps. = v8 3—Maine, New Hampshire and Vers mont, 4—Austria.” - 5—212 degrees Fahrenheit, 6—Paul H. Appleby.

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