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- ONE OF the newer and much trusted pilots in my squadron is a good-natured, tow-headed youngster named Lt. Leroy Kaegl (pronounced Keggy). He is from Ashland, Ore. . ' Lt. Kaegi had quite a day recently. Two mis-

the nightwatchife bldg. is mad at us. _ ‘We're told he denies the yarn we told Friday in which

intimates he knows who did it.

the fourth floor of the building.

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some refreshments. the lawn overflowing.

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These missions ~-so-lucky pals— Capt. John K. Rickles, Sunday, has about 20 messages from MassachuCalifornia. . . . Incidentally, John suggested read of books—“Target Germany” "—t0 get a pretty good picture

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Self-Made King

NEW YORK, March 15—~In the forthcoming oil investigation the senate’s special committee intends to probe our government's gift of 25 million dollars to King 1bn-Saud of Saudi Arabia. Here are a few : facts about him. ; England's first Arabian friend in the present Arabian world was by no means Ibn-Saud. The British had put their early bet on Husein-All, Ibn-Saud's bitter rival.

Thoughout world war I Husein helped the allies against the Turks by keeping certain Arab groups on our side. He spearheaded a proBritish movement among ' the tribes. For this reason Husein was entitled to consideration when made at Versailles. But in the peaceHusein decided to trade as heavily as on his wartime contributions. What is more, he decided to be a dominant power throughout the Middle East. Husein proved so persistent in his mounting demands that finally England had to get rid of him entirely. t Great Britain divided the country and put forward two of Husein's 17 sons as independent kings. These two offspring repudiated their father and their father’s claims and pledged themselves against the fulfillment of his plans,

Rise of an Opportunist

BUT BRITAIN had also made wartime p to Husein's bitter rival. Known as Ibn-Saud, his name was Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal He made his headquarters at Artawiya, and on his home grounds he was a threat to Husein. So, in December, 1915, Britain concluded a treaty of friendship with Ibn-Saud—and hoped for the best.

To Britain's dismay, however, Ibn-Saud did’ not

turn a hand in the war. He simply waited on the

PF] sidelines throughout the struggle, embarrassing the it has been going downhill ever since. By 1941 Mecca's

British and Husein alike as often as he could, ahd this turned out to be often indeed. : One high spot was reached in March 1919 when Tbn-Saud simply moved in on one of Huseins weak garrisons at Khlurma, Lord Curzon arbitrated that

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Tuesday. —Our first morning in Puerto Rico started with a visit to the Red Cross. The center here is very active, It runs an in-

"formation center in a busy part of town where boys can get information of any kind and a snack with a

center where volunteers have been " shelves are they are sending out a great y supplies are on Hand in suddenly, They also be turned into:

In civil life Maj. Cochrane is

‘ever, the pilgrimage trade hit a slump. With the

. and I was enormously amused at seeing young Charles

around the planes at take-off time for a week, just hoping, but nothing seems to come of it except that I get a lot of dirt blown in my face.

800 Holes in Plane

ONE DAY I was standing around an A-20 tomber when the crew chief came up and pulled a clipping out of his pocket. It was a piece about his plane

At that time the plane was the most shot-up ship in the squadron, with more than 100 holes in it. The crew chief, Sgt. Ear] Wayne Sutter of Oklahoma City, has had this same ship since just before they left England nearly a year and a half ago. He's very proud of its record. And it still holds the record, too. But now it has more than 300 holes in it. But Sutter and his gang just patch them up, and it keeps on flying. With all that riddling only one crew member has ever been hurt, and he only slightly. .

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

her family home but neglected to mention his name.

to her husband in England in January and even December have yet to catch up with him. He's Lt. C. Kiefer Ober, secretary and assistant treasurer of the Business Furniture Co. here. Slightly different was the story of a New Year's greeting mailed Dec. to one of the Obers’ army friends, now also staoned in England. A paragraph from his reply: “My army career is on that one envelope and I am to frame it as a keepsake. You sent your greethome in Denver. It then went to Kearns, to Sacramento, to Santa Maria, Cal, to Fresno,

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Sweet Gratitude

A GRAY-HAIRED mother visited the internal revenue offices the other day and had one of the clerks young woman—help her make out her income tax report. - The gray-haired woman was so appreciative of the courteous help given her that she went right out and bought a box of candy and delivered it to the clerk. The latter was. flustered—and pleased. «++ Mrs, E. H Pfaffenberger, 1519 N. Jefferson ave. read our note the other day about April 4 being written 4-4-44 this year, and points out that her husband,

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Cleaners, will have a birthday that day. Hell be 40, “yp wu 00 0 BO Lo ing

supporter in the state, Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Cambridge City, was atjtending the national Republican women’s meeting in Washington.

tried everywhere to get the magazine, but no luck and Dt * is the national committee-

she is very disappointed.” Can anyone help her with!

on 4-4-44. . . . Mrs. George Thompson, whose phone number is Ch. 0605, is trying to find a copy of the Dec. 27 issue of Life She writes: who has a boy overseas wrote her to get Life magazine, Dec. 27, and she would see his picture in it. She has

copy of the magazine?

By Henry J. Taylor

particular upset. He decided in favor of Husein. But neither the British nor Husein ever were able to persuade Ibn-Saud to follow England's order and move out of Khurma. He has remained there to this da;

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and began to rely on Husein's offspring, Ibn-Saud saw his real chance. He simply stepped to the front, spoke a few pointed words, and called on England to make good her promises to him, To enforce his conversations Ibn-Saud gradually took over what was left of Husein's pro-British movement among the Arabs and finally deprived the British of any support they had in Arabia unless they came to him. This left the puppet princes right in the middle of nowhere.

Moves Into Mecca

BY OCTOBER, 1924, Ibn-Saud had Husein's eldest son actively on the run. And by December Ibn-Saud quietly moved into Mecca. On Jan. 8, 1926, he crowned himself King of Hejaz in the great mosque of Mecca and in 1932 he changed the name of Arabia and his other dependencies to “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”

The British had gone out on the end of a limg with Husein. But<they had given a saw to Ibn-Saud. Ibn-Saud sawed off the limb, :

Once he was snug in Mecca, the Arabian chieftain’s fortunes rapidly improved. With a glint in his eye Ibn-Saud saw new gold in the form of the Mecca pilgrims. He refined all earlier imposts in such-a way that his royal treasury soon flowered and bloomed with the shuffling of each of the faithful down the Taif road and he instituted other special tolls and revenue raising schemes until the Pilgrims’ problem became not how to get to Mecca but how to stay solvent enough to get home. :

Beginning with the Ethiopian wér in 1985, howtightening of wartime conditions in the Arab world,

pilgrim depression had put a terrible crimp in King Ibn-Saud. And members of the senate commit. ‘tee find that it was in that year that he turned, first to the American oil companies and then to President Roosevelt, for relief.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

navy installations, I am afraid you will begin to tire if I tell you of all the barracks, mess halls and hospitals I go through. You can take it for granted that in each military area, I visit all of these things and in addition all the recredtional facilities and the post exchanges. : : I was particularly glad to see Adrian Dornbush,

ways in which it may be achieved. The army and navy photographers, as well as the press photographers, have been quite busy on this trip,

of the navy suddenly dive down for his extra

photographers. I have watched him ever since with the greatest amusement. He has now entered into the joke, and reminds me that one of the things which

will make me remember Puerto Rico is the peculiar y in which navy photographers carry their flash

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SECOND SECTION

WILLKIE RACE

DEAD IN STATE, ‘SOME BELIEVE

No Chance to Be Favorite Son,, Capital Writer Is Informed.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY = Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 15.—Wendell L. Willkie’s Republican presidential candidacy is almost as dead in Indiang right now as that of Paul V. McNutt in the Democratic party—and Mr. McNutt isn’t running this time. That was the report brought back here by Hoosier Republicans who went home for the week-end to attend the Republican Editorial association meeting in Indianapolis. They declared that “as of today” there appears to be no chance for Mr. Willkie to become a “favorite son.” He might get from 3 to 8 of the state’s 29 convention delegates, they said. Governor Dewey of New York is far out in front in popularity among the professional Republicans

who always attend the editorial

meetings, particularly in an election year, they asserted.

Refuse to Back Dewey

One of the formerly outstanding Willkie supporters and a party leader for decades, Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette publisher, wanted the association to go on record for Governor Dewey for the presidential nomination. It was decided, . however, that it would be best fof the state to send an “uninstructed” delegation to Chicago, which is the party organization plan. “They will be ‘uninstructed’ except against Willkie,” one of the returned Hoosier congressmen declared. “Both Governor Bricker and Gen. MacArthur have larger followings in Indiana right now than Mr. Willkie,” an Indiana Republican congressman reported. “In fact Senator Taft, although not in the race, would have more support. Resentment Reported “Some of the Republicans in Indiana seem to dislike Mr. Willkie

politically even more than they do President Roosevelt,” he said.

woman for Indiana and a member of the Republican national committee executive board. She heads the Willkie campaign for women. Those attending the Indianapolis meeting reported that there is considerable resentment against Mrs. Reynolds holding a party post and taking sides in the pre-convention campaign. They cite one-time state and national chairman ' Will Hays’

an: “It's the organization job to elect and not select the candidates.”

AUXILIARY POLICE

Twenty-seven auxiliary police, one of the largest classes to receive the civilian defense training, will be graduated at 7:30 p. m. Friday at police headquarters. Inspector Donald Tooley will be in charge, assisted by Cpl. Kenneth Luke and Mrs. Juné Turner of the training school. The men to be graduated include Sargent Banks, John Frazee, Tony Glenn, Lewis Haley, Floyd Hassler, Robert Heiner, Robert Hester, Charles Holmock, Don Hoover, Harlan Jean, Charles Jonas, Victor Jones, George Katzenberger, Herman Koehler, Paul Krier, Sidney Liebing, Elverse McDaniel, Joseph Moorman, Bernard Nicewanger, Frank - North, Harold Ruch, Alphonse Schmidlin, Ralph Stroebel, FP. Kirk Tucker, Joseph White, John Wilson and Claud Rutledge.

SUSPECT QUESTIONED ON JAP SYMPATHY

F. B. I. agents and police here today questioned a New York man held on a vagrancy charge regarding his alleged expressions of sympathy with the Japs. The man was arrested when he reached the bus terminal here on a bus from New York. . A merchant marine had reported

tinually expressed sympathy with the enemy and had a brief case filled with literature. The bus driver telephoned ahead to police here and the man was taken into custody and his belongings confiscated.

NAVY ISSUES CALL FOR RADIO STUDENTS

The navy today issued a call for

| Indiana men from 17 to 50 to take

radio technician training. Applicants may qualify by the Eddy aptitude test, a com

mathematics, electricity,

evident that there are still many problems in the civilian life of Puerto Rico which have not

the | technician

shop work and radio. They will attend pre-radio school and primary school and receive a rating of radio

GRADUATE FRIDAY

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By JANET S. MADISON United Press Staff Correspondent

curmudgeon is 70 years old today, and thinks maybe he is ° getting mellow. “Well, maybe not mellow,” said the curmudgeon on second thought, probably concerned lest somebody think he is getting soft. “Perhaps philosophical is a better word.” With that, Harold L. Ickes— secretary of interior, petroleum administrator, solid fuels coordinator, fisheries co-ordinator, etc, etc, and also author of “The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon” —adjusted himself if a philo~ sophica] attitude. He said he had finally learned not to expect stone walls to topple over as soon as he butted his head against them, Not, of course, that he expects to stop head-butting all at once. Did the secretary ever hanker to retire and take it easy? Well, yes, he did think about retiring once in a while, but he didn't “think he could ever learn to take it easy. “I've always worked hard and I don’t know how to do anything else,” he said. “I expect to work as long as I can totter around; until I drop, probably.”

WASHINGTON, March 15.—The

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 194 :

Ickes, Self-Styled Curmudgeon, Gives His Advice on Life as He Reaches 70

Harold L. Ickes

Remembering that people who reach three score and ten some-

. times like to tell how they did it,

this reporter asked Ickes if he had

any advice on the subject. He said that people ought to live their own lives in their own way and that he didn’t believe in giving advice—not that kind anyhow. But, then, since he was being philosophical, he gave some anyway:

1. Live your life in a natural way. 2. Don't worry about the future. 3. Have as good a time as you can, going along from day to day, but don’t overdo it. Ickes not only has lived for 70 years, but, come tomorrow, he will have been secretary of the interiog. for 11 years—three years longer » than anyone else ever held the job. What did Ickes think was his greatest achievement? He didn’t know, he said ruminatively. Maybe public’ works, maybe work with the Indians, maybe the great reclamation projects, maybe oil, maybe SaudiArabia. Only time would tell, he said. What would Ickes like to have for a birthday present? Nothing in particular, he declared. But then, thinking better of it, he said, yes, he would like | to have something. One day, he recalled, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was in his 80's, was walking down the street with Justice Louis D. Brandeis. They passed a young and pretty girl. Justice Holmes looked at the girl, turned to Brandeis, and said, “Oh, to be 70 again!” That's how I feel, said Ickes. “Oh, to be 60 again!”

- Editor's Note: At the recent Founders day celebration of Boston university, Eric A, Johnstca, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, spoke on the respective roles of management and labor in meeting human needs. Believing that this speech deserves wide attention, we are reprinting it in three “installments. In the first, Mr. Johnston listed monopolistic practices as No. 1 among “seven deadly sins” of which both sides have been guilty. Here is the second installment.

By ERIC A. JOHNSTON President, Chamber of Cémmerce of the United States. Sin Two (on the side of labor). Arbitrary crushing fines imposed upon union members. Arbitrary suspensions from the union. Ar--“bitrary expulsions, , When the union has a closedop contract or a union-shop contract, the expulsion from the union Means oo oc that the work- { & er must be dis- | charged by the employer. He loses his job. He and his wife a nd children | lose their bread § and butter.

Mr. Johnston the union officers and oppose

p workers criticize

them in union meetings. Don't tell me that such things don’t happen. The records of our courts contain plenty of instances. Sometimes, too, although a member may not be suspended or expelled, he cannot. in practice get a job unless he has the union” business agent's personal okay on his union Tard.

Unfair Competition

The parallgd in management was when a firm in an industry felt free to throw other firms out of the industry by unfair competition. There were hundreds of forms of unfair competition, in advertising, in secret rebates, in preferential discounts, in pricing tricks in sales contracts. But when they happen today, the aw exacts a penalty. Gentlemen of management and gentlemen of labor, if you really want a free and fair America,

Employers Entitled to Know Truth About Unions, Says Johnston; Lists 5 More Sins

you have got to go after it together. Sin Three. Some - unions do not hold regular meetings or regular conventions or regular and free and fair elections of officers. In such unions we often get union bosses who pay themselves big salaries and perquisites and who can’t be dislodged. And I have heard of top-flight corporation executives: who by proxies and other devices get such a control of the meetings of their stockholders that they become corporation bosses who vote _ themselves big salaries and bonuses and who can't be dislodged.

Both Evils Opposed

“The American people are against both of these evils. Union autocrats, corporation autocrats, po-litical-machine autocrats, are all of them contrary to American democracy. Sin Four. Failure to make public proper financial accounts. On this point I think that we of management have done better than you of labor. Some of it has been forced on us by law. For instance, our banking, railroad, insurance and public-utility managements must all by law render detailed financial accounts not only to their stockholders but to the public authorities. The principle is correct and should include all corporations and all unions. Corporations and unions are not bingo and fish-fry clubs. They are agencies of the general national economic welfare. They should disclose their affairs fully. Some unions do it admirably now. They will send you their latest financial report by return mail. In it you will see their receipts and expenditures detailed to the last dime and verified by a certified public accountant. Other unions, on the contrary, protest that they do not want to reveal their financial condition. It is an alibi, I think which will soon go down the drain.

Employees Get Facts There are corporations today which circulate among their employees an annual statement showing exactly what happens to each dollar of the corporation's income. Then the employees do not need to rely on rumor and suspicion. They know the truth. I think that employees should know the truth about the firm for

NEW YORK, March 15 (U. P.).— A small grant of $1280 led to the development of the wonder drug penicillin, Raymond Fosdick, presi-

DETAIL FOR TODAY G. I. Brats

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G. I. BRATS are officers’ children. In a large post they usually live with their parents in or near the camp. There isn’t very much they don’t know about the army and they can generally give the non-coms a few pointers—which is not relished by the non-coms. G.I. brats are especially adept at “bright sayings, such as, “Daddy, .when are you going to be a cap-

Discovery of Penicillin

Financed by $1280 Grant

dent of the Rockefelier Foundation, revealed today. In review of the Foundation’s activities during 1943, Fosdick related that in May, 1936, the Foundation received a letter from Dr. HA W. Florey, professor of pathology at Oxford university, asking for a grant of that amount. The scientist explained hat he was developing a chemical approach to problems of pathology, had added two chemists fo his staff and needed funds for additional labofatory equipment. Request Granted “The grant was made at once,” Fosdick related, “and seldom has so small a contribution led to such momentous results. For it was this isbordtory, this equipment and this group under Dr. Florey that .pioneered the clinical use of peniFlorey's work with the drug, which has already saved the lives of thousands of "wounded service men and is considered one of the most revolutionary discoveries in modern medicine, has been support ed since that time by annual grants from the foundation. The present aim of the penicillin research program, Fosdick said, is the discovery of a method of synthetic manufacture. It is obtained now as a by-product of a greenishblue mold after laborious processing. - Fosdick

which they work. I think that the firm should know the truth about its employees’ unions. I | think that there can be mutual confidence between a firm and a union only when they come clean with each other. I hope to see the day when all firms and all unions will wholly abandon the sin of financial secrecy. Sin Five. Too many strikes. Strikes called arbitrarily by dictatorial business agents. Strikes called without “warning, even to the mass of the members of the union, at a meeting attended by a few hotheads. Strikes called for reasons that the strike leaders will not even disclose to the employer. Strikes called against employers who have nothing at all to do with the dispute. Jurisdictional strikes.

Public Resentment I have already said that strikes can be the fault of the employer. Just the same, gentlemen of labor, if you fail to support the nostrike pledge given by your leaders at the beginning of the war, you will get what you got after the great disastrous strikes that followed the last war. Public resentment set your program back a decade. ? I think that you should resolve on fewer strikes. And so should management. A strike by a union is a withholding of labor. But there can also be a strike that is a withholding of product. When a corporation gets a new invention and declines to use it and declines to let anybody else use it and thus withholds a product from the market, that’s a strike. I'm for fewer strikes all around. Sin Six. Violence on the picket line. This sin is ‘clearly seen by the public and makes unionism a host of enemies. But I want to be fair. There are three kinds of picketline violence. First, violence by the pickets themselves, and plenty of it. Second, instances of vio- . lence in a dark past incited by thugs hired by employers to start trouble and make the strike unpopular. And, third, violence incited by “energetic” policemen: who start cracking the skulls of pickets who are peaceful.

Reform Proposed. Nevertheless, gentlemen of labor, in this matter there is one reform that you can. accomplish all by yourselves. You often send your pickets four or eight abreast in a closed circle around a factory so that nobody can get in, while the pickets sweetly and innocently sing songs. Well, don’t think that you fool anybody when you call it peaceful picketing. It is mass intimidation, mass coercion, mass violence. It is forbidden by law in Britain. It is beginning to be forbiden by law here, and with frills that you won't like. It is only a step from mass picketing to the sit-down, and only a step from the sit-down to revolution. Watch your step, gentlemen of labor. Stop mass picketing.

Next: “From “the economic ‘point of view. Sin Seven is the worst.”

PASSENGER TAKES JAXI DRIVER'S $12

- John Martin, a taxi driver of 3259 S- Rybolt ave, was taken to City

at 25th st. and Barnes ave. He said $12 and a watch were stolen

Mrs. Ethel Dixon, 128 E. Vermont st., reported that while she was

ware last night-a man grabbed her ration books.

iprimary a week later,

hospital early today after he was! : beaten and robbed by a passenger.

walking on Walnut st. near Dela- : purse which contained $250 and

NORTH WOODS

Guns for 3 Candidates Who Aren’t There in Wisconsin Primary.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 15.—Be-

woods will echo with something

'Imore than the call of a moose to

his mate. It'll be like a circus in the small towns. In the big cities therell be fun in the streets. Wendell L. Willkie, the man who would be President, is taking his one-man show for a barnstorming tour to rouse the folks to vote for a slate of delegates who will support him for the Republican presidential nomination in the national convention. It will be the opening act to revive his languishing campaign. Mr. Willkie is giving himself plenty of time. The primary is April 4.

MacArthur ‘Busy’

He goes to Wisconsin somewhat in the role of a mighty nimrod gunning for three fellows who aren't there, not even concealed behind the trees. Three other well-known figures have been entered by their spon sors in the, Wisconsin primary. Gen. MacArthur is busy with other matters in the Pacific, but still there is no sign from him that he is not a receptive candidate. Lt. Stassen, former three-time governor of neighboring Minnesota, is also in the Pacific on Adm. Halsey’s staff. Governor Dewey is chewing his silence at Albany. In the absence of the three other candidates, their local managers are busy promoting them. Senator Ball -‘tR. Minn.) is in the state now talking up his friend Harold Stassen.

Refused to Withdraw

Governor Dewey tried to get the delegate candidates pledged to him to withdraw, explaining that he isn't a candidate. ‘They refused.

nered contest whether he likes it or not. In 1940 he won the Wisconsin primary against Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.), as he did likewise in Nebraska. Wisconsin's primary is a vital affair for Mr. Willkie, If he loses there, he can pack up his bag of hopes and go back to practicing law or literature. Weak in the support of politicians, he is now basing his claims for preference on backing among rank-and-file voters. :Wisconsin will test that.” Should he win there, his campaign should benefit. If he wins also in Nebraska, which holds its he again would be counted a factor. He will take his road show to Nebraska. There his slate is matched against two others, one for Lt. Cmdr. Stassen, the other pledged to Governor Griswold.

Faces Uphill Battle

Mr. Willkie admittedly faces an uphill battle. In recent months he’s ‘become like the rich boy who had everything, and suddenly is thrown out on his own. This time four years ago he was rapidly becoming the darling of various interests who thought they had found in him the reality of

beat Franklin D. Roosevelt. The sun was high, the skies were bright, and everything was coming his way. On the day of his defeat he started running again for 1944.

Snubbed Politicians

But, in the campaign and later, something happened. He was partly to blame. He didn't pay enough heed to the politicians, He disregarded them, snubbed them in some cases. But he never stopped running. He ran clear around the world, to lift his star again high in national and international notice. Many Republicans didn't like this,‘ said he was playing too cozy with F. D. R. He began to try to cultivate the politicians, though never wholeheartedly it seemed, for he broke out, at odd moments, to insult them. . Can he come back? Wisconsin may tell

ELKS TO HOLD DANCE

Elks lodge 13 will give a St. Patrick’s dance Saturday night at the Antlers hotel. Warren P. Todd is chairman. :

HOLD EVERYTHING

ginning next week, the Wisconsin -

Cmdr.

So he is a factor in the four-cor-

their dreams—the man who could