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IN CASE YOU'VE been worrying about the younger

ration - here; cease worrying. They're just as

no sillier—than they are elsewhere. As a

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, They go by various names. Out at Shortridge, they've formed an organization known as “The Daughters of Frank Sinatra.” It

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“organization to be laid out in defs

almost a year older than I, so he . Later I went away too, and

n dn’t stop. had to dismiss class, and the three of us sat and talked. : Seventeen years later I miffled up in front of his cottage under the orange trees. He was glad to see

me, and I was glad to see him. He wanted me to

stay a couple of days and fish, and I was sorry I couldn't :

We don’t know each other so well any more, but

we are still friends, and I expect we always will be,

As I drove away, I was wondering why there wasn't

anything any more for us to giggle about.

Inside Indianapolis By Loweil Nussbaum

minutes.” . state chamber of commerce, writes that he has been “fighting the battle of Miami Beach ‘the last two months but think my days here are numbered.” . . . Capt. George Harvey Doane of the local army office of officer procurément, has been promoted to major. He's a West Pointer. . .-. Emo Hopkins, manager of the Fletcher Trust Co. exchange and travel departments, says we're correct in saying it's advisable to send money to overseas service men by postal money order instead of by check, but that we overlooked the use of American Express money orders, which also are easily cashable. Also, in most localities, it's possible to send money by cable transfer, providing the remitter is reasonably certain as to the country to which it's to be sent, he says. :

The Olsens Meet

WHEN HIS SON, Lt. Bill Olsen, was about to leave for service in: Africa, Bernhard (Ben) Olsen, general manager of the General Electric branch here, had a talk with him. Said Mr. Olsen: “Bill, you know how I feel about liquor, But if you happen to run into your brother, Ben, (Capt. Bernhard Olsen) over there, you have my permission to throw a binge on some of that wonderful red wine the natives tromp out in the bathtub.” Well sir, it's a small world, and ‘the brothers actually did meet, only a day or so after Bill landed. P. S. We forgot to ask whether the binge was thrown. . . . An elderly resi-

~dent in the A. L. Overstreet home, 151 E Fall

ngement acceptable to congress. This is the first united nations

Creek bivd., thought she heard the sound of coughing outside her window the other night. She turned off the light and looked out the window but saw nothing. She told the family about it at breakfast, but they scoffed at the idea. Then one of the family went outside, and sure enough. There beneath the window was a half burned cigaret. Also a set of false teeth—an expensive set, at that. The teeth are still on the window sill, in case the prowler needs them, ?

By Raymond Clapper

of “the senate “or rather -it—deprives the “one-third

senate minority of its veto power. But the senate

has opportunity, by majority-vote, ta join the house in approving appropriations, or it can refuse to grant appropriations. : sk

There is some broadening of the legislative interThis plan brings the house more directly into the process. Although it could be argued that in any case, even under treaty form, appropriations would have

to be voted by the house, the matter is raised to the

A Simple Action

. . Pfc. Patrick Cuddy, formerly with the

1939; Planes, Trains, Autos, Provide Market.

jobs for its vastly augmented forces of workers. All of the present huge output goes for war uses, about 90 per cent of it into aircraft. (Three-fourths of the average warplane’s weight is aluminum.) ‘ i* In the 1029-38 decade United

that more than met the demand. the Aluminum Co. of

country's only primary producer of this metal, had 250,000 unsold tons in storage.

Hitler Miscalculated

Germany then led the world in aluminum output, reporting 175,000 tons in 1938, and Hitler thought that lead would insure him air dominance and victory in the approaching war. It was one of his worst miscalculations. Alcoa alone now turns out, in the plants it owns and those it leases from the government, more aluminum than the axis powers combined. ‘Since 1938 Alcoa has spent $250,000,000 of its own money on expansion, but- it now owns little more than a third of the country’s alu-minum-producing capacity. The gov ernment owns more than half, hav ing put about a billion dollars into new plants. And two lusty private competitors—Reynolds Metal Co. and the Olin Corp.—have entered. the field. However, Alcoa is still dominant. It either owns or operates for the government all but three of the alu-minum-producing plants in the United States, and turns out from them about nine-tenths of the 1,050,000-ton annual capacity soon to be reached.

Comparison With Steel

Here in Pittsburgh, home of Alcoa and capital of the steel industry, there is intense interest in post-war competition between the two metals. Steel's producing capacity, now about 90 million tons a year, dwarfs aluminum’s million-plus tons. Steel's cost is less that a fifth of aluminum’s 15 cents a pound (reduced from 20 cents since the war began). However," one pound of aluminum bulks nearly as large as three pounds of steel. Aluminum {itself faces increased tion from still lighter magdum, War demand has multiplied magnesium-prodicing capacity nearly 70 times, to around 205,000 tons. a year, and the price has

Plastics also may compete importantly with the light metals, although ' aluminum experts think there are great possibilities for use of their product in combination with plastics; —— ET 2 RS ma en Aviation, of course, is expected to be a big continuing user of aluminum though not, at least until a

good many peacetime years have passed, to anything like the present extent.

Want More in Autos

{States aluminum production aver-|:N aged only 91,000 tons & year, and ®

At one time during the depression |i America |g (Alcoa), then and until 1941 the

comme -down to 20% cents & pound. |,

This was Salerno, and it was hell, It was a green but grim army walking right up into the waiting guns, and taking everything the Germans had, but going on. They waded through the surf, and crawled through the wire, and dodged through the dunes. A lot of them died, but the attack moved on because the men never thought

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of . + » « This picture heroic and inconceivable panorama of miles, but it represents a specific bit of action that is typical of how the Americans went in. It was drawn by Carol Johnson, NEA staff artist recently returned from North Africa, and whose battlefront sketches caught s6 much of the reality of the Tunisian opera-

shows only a few feet out of an

‘tions, . .. In this drawing, a few Americans are working up through : the dunes after first destroying the opposition that had come right down to the beach to await them. A grenade lobbed behind a barrier of sand and driftwood at lower left has killed the German ma=" chine gunner, and a 77-mm, antitank gun has blasted the stillsmoking Mark IV at upper right.

TO REPATRIATES

Letters Prior to Arrival Of Exchange Ship.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. P.). ~The state department today announced arrangements under which relatives and friends of approximately 1500 Americans being repatriated from Japan aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm can get in touch with them prior to the ship's arrival. _Next of kin of those tentatively scheduled to be exchanged have been notified. It was pointed out, however, that not until the ex change is made in Portuguese India will the precise list of Americans be available to authorities.

You Can Send a Wire

instructions said, may be sept if addressed to the name of the repatriate with the notation, “repatriate on M. 8. Gripsholm.” Telegrams, if sent on or before

Union of South Africa.” If sent on or before Nov, 10, the address should

de Janeiro, Brazil.” Airmail letters sent on or before Nov. 1 should also. be’ addredsed in care of the American embassy at

Next of Kin May Send

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ARRANGE MAIL |Allies Must Feed Italians ntil 1944 Crop Arrives

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WASHINGTON, Sept.” 28. — The {allies are reported to be helping feed

wheat crop is esti- , 8, department of ‘be the biggest ever

in t country.

Ordered Home? - WAC 'Just Sick’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (U. PJ),

J Nicholson of St. Louis recalled today. “We had a clean, straight-shoot-

be, “care of American embassy, Rio|(orney, WAS exect

Rio de Janeiro.

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How much of it will be available to Italians is a question. Their wheat areas are in the Po valley and to the north, where the country is now infested with the German forces, The winter fruit and nut country is also in the north. Fish food from the Mediterranean can supply much of the need If fish= ing experts show the way and equipment is furnished. Italy, surrounded by water, has never de-

and tuna from Sicilian seas have constituted the principal export catch. - Much other fish may be taken and the Mediterranean is safe now for activities, “Agricultural production in Italy during the 1943-44 crop year is not expected to be handicapped by any serious lack of commercial fertiligers,” states the department in a recent release, “unless the Nazis damage or requisition the output of domestic. plants which in. recent years have supplied most of the country’s nitrogenous fertilizer requiremen

“Adequate phosphate should be available from North Africa. Potash,

heretofore ‘supplied almost entirely 4d1by Germany, {part of Italy's

constitutes a minor annual fertilizer consumption.” Productivity of Italian soil is dependent .on commercial fertilizers. The amount used in the last dozen

Hn-previous years.—Italy-was cut off from North African phosphates for only a short while, so that the soll has not been impoverished by war conditions. :

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The real answer to what creates the farmers’ present war prosperity is maximum employment at productive jobs in this country. with rationing, 73 per cent product American civilians.

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\ \: Fo | Pi LL A soldier with a basooka turns to yell at his loader (the projectilecarrier of the two-man team) to hurry up, for God's sake, with those rockets, One soldier has been hit but others are hustling into position beside the man already firing. Overhead roar allied strafing and bombing planes, masters of the skies and vital spear -

heads of the attack.

WALI KEEP OWN PEOLE I FEAR

To Stamp Out Defeatism In Reich.

STOCKHOLM; Sept. 8 UP) oe Nazi appeared today to have given up trying to hoodwink the German reverses and to have launched a new

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German concern over the war situation was evident In censored dispatches reaching this neutral capital. The Berlin propaganda mill tried to draw favorable aspects from their retreat in Russia, the successes in the Mediterranean and the guerrilla warfare in the Balkans with scant success, Himmler's Technique At the same time, the new reich minister of interior, Heinrich Himm+ ler, who developed the gestapo, was conducting a campaign of ruthless executions to combat defeatism, TWO

sition would be weakened by ridicule if they try to belittle the current re-

front, but the Wehrmacht together, not on the conviction of victory but the admission of what might happen with a shattering defeat. “Psychology of Fear” “A great psychological problem

people about war