Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1945 — Page 11

B ourial at ea

ABOARD U, 8. 8, "BENNINGTON, ESSEX-CLASS CARRIER, Somewhere at Sea , (Delayed).—War or peace, the navy takes care of its own, Capt. Howard H. Crosby, U. 8. N, chief of staff of the naval war college, Newport, R. I. who died recently, was buried at sed as a result of a request he had made just prior to death. Brought aboard this carrier at an. undisclosed port, his body was prepared for,sea burial, At 0980,

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with a high, raw wind that drove:

«through the open side of the ‘hangar deck, several hundred officers and men stood at attention while ‘a ehaplain services,

Six sailors, standing precari-

“ously on thé very edge-of the’

enormous deck, held the slide-container steady for nearly a half hour. An.American flag- was draped over the body,

Armed with riflés, a squad of marines stood rigidly

through the services: and the carrier's band played goftly. “As the service ended, tilted the container and the body slipped from under the flag and plunged to its final resting place In the sea. ~ The whipping of the waves against the sides of the earrier was punctuated by a rifle salute, It was-war, but there were no-dry eyes.

War Goes On

AS THE MEN scattered, general quarters sounded, with everyone taking "p battle posts. War goes on, And there are other ways in which Capt. J. B Sykes, skipper of this carrier, demonstrates tegularly that navy -has a heart.

ANYTHING ‘18 likely to happen during the Christmas mailing rush. For instance,’ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tucker, 2352 Broadway, received an envelope ~the size used for greeting -cards—from Wichita, Kas. The envelope had been ‘canceled in the usual place, but there was nd stamp on it, and.never had been. And furthermore, it was unsealed and had nothing in it. Maybe a postal clerk decided it ought to go free because it was empty. . Toner M. Overley, the Better Business Bureau director, is unhappy. The army gave his dog, Bum, an honorable discharge ‘and sent him home. And being a law abiding citizen, Mr. Overley went: down = and got Bum a city dog tag. That ' was just ‘a couple of weeks before the city council voted K-9 veterans free roving lioenses. Now Toner would like to trade the $1 license in. on one of the free ones—and get his dollar back. . Florence Emmelman, daughter of the Lee Emmelmans, was very happy, as you can imagine, when her fiance, Ensign Bill Hardy, was transferred from the New Guinea area to Norfolk, Va. From Norfolk, he can call her frequently. One day last week, he.called and said he wanted to have a long talk. He suggested she hurry over to the home of his mother, Mrs. Lucille Hardy, 2610 N. Harding, where “you can talk better.” She thought maybe he wanted to charge the call to his mother’s phone. She hurried on over, without taking time. to change clotlies, or put on makeup. Imagine her surprise when she arrived there and was met at the door by Ensign Hardy, himself. It was just his way of breaking the news he was back in town on leave,

He Just Borrows Em

intoned the burial :

the sailor-pallbearers

"By Max B: Cook|

(Ernie Pyle's first dispatches jrom tHe Pacific war front are expected ‘to start in the near future.)

“Coming before him regularly are the cases of young crewmen who inadvertently have violated some of the ship's rules. Each case is given individual treatment.

napolis

SECOND SECTION

If it is sufficiently serious it reaches Capt. Sykes’ at- HEADS | TROOPS—

‘tention, Now and then a kind-hearted under-officer will pass along a case in which he believes the captain's ability as a judge of human nature may save sonfe heartaches and a future good ‘sailor, is one such case.

Grandmother Said No =

A YOUNGSTER of. Italian parentage had returned to the ship three days overdue on his.shore leave. “My grandmother wouldn't let me come back,” he|

replied to a gruff query. “We questioned him,” said Capt, Sykes, *

that to him his grandmother's word was the first law. | | Louisville, Ky., He did not try to cover up. He | | commanding officer of the I troop

‘It seemed strange.

And here|

Col. Johnson New Chief at

TUESDAY, JAN DARYY

. 1945

“Pelicamien nd Firemen’ Recolve Citations Here

Stout Field

Col.; George P. Johnson, former |

‘and found commanding officer of Bowman, field, | has been appointed |

simply looked up with honest eyes #nd: repeated” that | carrier command ‘at Stout field.

he wanted to come back but that his grandmother |

would not allow it. So what was he te do?” A member of the crew was sent to the boy’s home. He reported that the boy's father and mother had died when he was a small child and that his grandmother had brought him.up—and well. Heér slightest order had been obeyed throughout his school life. Capt. Sykes gave the boy some extra duty, later breaking it off and sending him back home on another short leave, He wrote a personal note to the ‘grafidmother telling her what her refusal to allow the boy to return to the ship was costing the boy. He suggested that this time she tell the boy when if was time to return, Then he sealed it and asked the boy to deliver it,

“That boy was back a couple of hours early with [i

his eves shining,” 8aid the captain. And that is another sample of How=the navy cares | for-its men, ‘

when Fabien Sevitzky mailed back the last hotel towel picked up en route. Like many other travelers, Mr. Sevitzky always returns. home from a trip with one or more hotel towels. But, unlike most of the others, he always returns -them. ‘Actually, he insists he brought only one home this trip. ‘It was from a hotel in New York City.

leading the orchestra. at that time. ... light bulbs.

George M times. Burpee—mailed it yesterday. = It calls worth of vegetable and flower seeds. for a farm, George; garden an inch deep in seed.

What'sin a Name?

Binger.

ment: Checks issued 'by the Irvington Church of Christ bear the signature of Roy E. Money. He's the church treasurer. . ,. And we just learned that there’s a Dial working for the telephone company. He's Tom’ Dial, general contract agent, . . . Every once in a while, someone “discovers” the “current” vice presidents over at the light company and gets a big kick out of the discovery. They are A. C. Crandall and D. C. Hess. (AC. and D.C. current, you know.) Now someone suggests that President Harry Pritchard's initials also are appropriate—H. T. standing for high tension. . Folks over at the telephone

for $26.84 | vanced That's enough | tion at Toul enough to plant a backyard! signed to the

He will succeed Lt. Cpl. Wright J.|

Sherrard, who will remain as ex-| 8

ecutive officer: of the base. Capt.

Robert L. Goad, | |

executive of the. field

Tas ecutive. Col.

officer | for | the past several] months, will serve | ASSISTANT eX

Johnson is |

a veteran of more than 27 years in

the holds manent,

service the

Col. Johnson

in the United States army.

in charge of until last February. » »

Commissioned in 1917

He received his commission as a second lieutenant in the field ar‘reserve corps, Aug. 15, 1917, and transferred during the same year to the aviation section

He took it with him ‘to Carnegie of {he signal reserve corps as af, Hall . to wipe off the perspiration generated while | second lieutenant. =

tillery, officers’

gunnery at ‘Mt. Clemens,

. Yésterday's note about the Burpee |Mich., prior to sailing for duty with seed catalogs being in the mail brought a call from|the American expeditionary forces George says we're behind thelin France in world war I He says he, already has his order in with|

attended for aerial

The colonel school

258th

After the war, with the 12th and 96th aero squad-

rons on Mexican border patrol, be-| He later received pilot training at Ar-| and advanced training Kelly

ing stationed at Douglas, Ariz.

cadia, Fla, as bombardment pilot -at field, Tex. » 5 =

Serves as Adjutant

Upon completion of his training company got a kick, a while back, out of the fact|3S 8 Pilot he attended the air corps that when Harry Bolt, a telephone employee at South | tactical

school, then located at

the base

He attended the He dropped it in with his|fret class held for aerial observers musical scores and forgot to restore it to the hotel |,¢ the school of fire, Ft. Sill, Okla.,

Sunday night scene: Bomar Cramer, ang also attended the school of the pianist, hurrying past Ayres’ with an armload of | aerial

the adobserva- , France, and was asobservation squadron for duty in France .and Germany. He later was detailed as air service liaison officer with the ea Hy | staff of the 2d division air forces in HERE'S ‘ONE for the appropriate names depart- | Germany.

he was assigned

and perrank of lieutenant colonel He went to Louisville as commanding officer of Bowman field when that! base was opened Nov. 18,1940, and | | remained

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MEMBERS of the Indianapolis police and fire departments were the recipients of honors last night at the annual presentation ceremony at Bruce P.. Robison post No. 133 of the American Legion. Carl Gates is commander of the post. Top photo: Firemeft receiving citations for meritorious service during the past year were, left

to right, Edward McGovern, Russell Iverson, Irwin Fossati, Thomas Hannon, Howard Robinson and Robert Gray. Middle photo: Policemen receiving citations were, left - to right, Officer Charles W. Schaubhut, Sgt. Jack Alkire, Sgt. Edward Higgins, Officer Bernard Marks and Sgt. Marion G. Ostermeyer. Sgt. Alexander Dunwoody also

received a sitation but was not present at the ceremony. Bottom photo: Medals for outstanding service during the past | year were also given. Those receiving medals were, left to right, Sgt. Joseph Klein, Sgt. Ralph Bader, Officer Thomas: Flannery, Detective Sgt. George Sneed, Herbert Dwyer, R. H, Brandes, Cecil Scott, Glen Wills'and D. “C. Emhardt. .

Bend, left for the army, he was succeeded ‘by Adrian |:@ngley field, Va. For a number of

Nail. phone. r— publicity department,

. Ask Emmett Belzer, genial member of the | Years he was stationed at Chanute who he | field, Rantouls Ill, serving as adju-

STORY OF AN EPIC

Yanks Fight On ‘Like Hursed Animals’

By JACK BELL

RETREAT—

able ‘to believe

"PAGE 11 Labor Must Drafted 4-F's Pay Union Dues?

(Continued From Page One)

plan a compromise to head off the more sweeping scheme of a national service law. But even with regard to 4-Fs, there are .many questions to be answered. Many men-— some say most — so classified by draft boards { are already in essential] war services. The presumption is they would not Prem o veh Other ques-

tions include:

Where men qualified for hard physical work but ruled out under the medical standards of the army are assigned to essential industrial jobs, in establishments wifi union-shop or closed-shop agreements, what will be their relation to the union? Will they be required to become dues-paying members, or will the law carry out a declaration once made by. President Roosevelt, the government will never force a man to join a labor organization? : ”- WHAT HAPPENS to the 4-F with a wife and five children, plus a mortgage on his home? Will he get the full military allowance for dependents?

Or will he be expected to get along on the. pay scale of the establishment to which he is assigned?

that

» Presumably he will not be in uniform, and_will, be subject only to remote military control—but

" when the need for his war -serv-

ices end: will he have assurance

“ (which the selective .service law

gives to men in the.armed forces) of restoration to his old job? n ” s WILL THE 4-F be given the honors and privileges now accorded to men in uniform? Or at the end of his war service will he be caught between his shadowy relationship to labor unions and his remote connection with the military?

Will a physical fact he couldn’t control make the 4-F a chief economic victim of this war? These are questions not to be answered until congress has determined on the form of the legislation it will pass in answer to one of the President's requests.

it “They were guns while the Jerry infantry caprunning, armored. cars and tanks, [tured their mortars. everywhere, all over us “We got orders tq withdraw and “I fired in three directions. defend another town but found the tanks were coming. I called for |Jerries there. We went by an al{artillery.. We got.some. Then they |ternate route over the hills, taking {said they had fired their last and [vehicles and blowing bridges.” that was all, * And “D” company: The Jerries “We asked for tank destroyers. |stormed them “yelling and raving They never came. We lost contact [like drunks—and we shot them withthe other platoons: We killed down.” :

THE INDIANAPOLIS Symphony's Nov. 27-Dec. 10 road tour now is ended Officially. . Finis was written

works for, and he always answers with a smile: tant,

diana Bell, sir. Get it?

World of Science

IT 1S NOW apparent that war will continue to

“In- Times Foreign Correspondent In 1929 and 1930, Col. Johnson| WITH THE U. S. 1ST ARMY, commanded the 23d bombardment! Jan, 9.—This is a story of retreat. squadron in Hawaii, after which he | It is an heroic story of a regiment returned to Langley field to serve as|overrun by Germany's crushing executive officer of the-2d bombard- | armjes during the early days of] ment group. He commanded the|the mid-Deceinber offensive. 2d bombardment group during the| This is the story of the 112th incommand and staff exercises on the fantry of the 28th division, west coast during “1933; -and later Col, "GM. Nelson; Paris; Ili;

By David Dietz

* The navy announcement in December concerning |

We, The Wome Why Not a Party for Party-Liners?

By RUTH MILLETT

and] COMMENTING on afew

oall the tune in the world of science ‘at the start of 1945 just as it did in 1944. The hoped-for end of thé German phase of world war II did not materialize in the year just ended. Viewing: the present crisis in the European theater of war, one does not dare to speculate when that end will come. After Germany, there is Japan. Meanwhile the post-war wonders that science has promised must wait, The big heed at the moment 1s more artillery and more ammunition. (I take only a melancholy satisfaction in the fact that I always insisted that air power alone could not do it, pointing out that the Soviet success in driving back the Germans was in large part due to the superiority of Russian artillery.) + It seems reasonable to suppose that major scientific efforts will be turned to the development of the rocket weapons. Our inability during December to make full use of our air force in Europe because. ot the weather while the Germans continued to fire their V-2 robot bombs deserves thoughtful attention.

Desirable Weapon

OUR FIRST REACTION fo the robot bomb was that it was a poor weapon. because of the general lack of accuracy. But it seems to have done far more damage than was at first admitted. y = At any rate, it is clear that a ‘robot bomb approximating the accuracy of the airplane is a weapon greatly to be desired, >

My Day

WASHINGTON, Moriday.—We had a most delightful surprise yesterday. Dave Rubinoff, who is appearing at the Capitol theater for the second time in three months, "telephoned over and offered to. play for us in the evening. We happened to have a few ‘people’ staying ‘in the house. Everyone enjoyed hearing him, and I was very grateful, ‘ It" happened also yesterday that at luncheon we had the pleasure of having Mrs. Alice Rogers Hager, who has been for a few months in China for the magazine Skyways; and who had seen a good deal of Wy Red Cross friend, Miss Colletta Ryan. It was most interesting getting ” first-hand impressions and hearing of the little things in daily life which, as a rule, people do not consider impostant enough to write about. In the evening another newspaper correspondent, Mrs. Ella Winter, who spent six months in Russia for the New: York Post, dined with us and again gave us first-hand impressions which were most interesting. ~ Someone sent me an amusing clipping the other day on “What People Are Thinking,” by Elmo Roper of public opinion survey fame He tells some of the curious qidirks which illus-

“ trate our lack of information or our complete mis~

information on many things that: mast of us assume. pysIvTORY knows about. One"of the items Which My, Rope fcks out

which had been mdde In this country.

power of 45.000-ton battleship,

five-inch guns of a destroyer. Although nothing was said about the range of these weapons, one was left with the feeling that the range was short by comparison with artillery fire,

Greater Range Sought

IT WOULD SEEM, therefore, that the problem of 1945 is to extend the range of these rockets and this| brings out scientists into the fleld of the Nazi robot weapons. When: the war does end, one may expect a vast amount of scientific research to find new peacetime uses for the new materials developed during the war. These include new alloys, new plastics, and new synthetic rubbers. ..The field of synthetic rubber illustrates what can be expected. Because of the war emergency, the rubber program was frozen to the production of GR-S rubber. Researchers have already developed many types of special purpose- synthetic rubbers that are superior.to GR-S for many uses. : With. the end of the war one may expect a vast expansion of activity in this field. The same thing is true in the field of plastics. Nylon, for. example, which one usually thinks of in terms of stockings, will appear after this war in

. Sheets, tubes, bars, and heavy filaments as well as in

the form of yarns for textiles.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

that 51 per cent of our high school students, tested In one survey, were unable to name either of the U. 8. senators fibm their state. Curiously enough, I had a similar experience in teaching current events some years ago. I suggested that my class take a number of questions home dealing with their representatives in various branches of government, and find out the ariswers. Parents are obviously one of the first sources of information." In my rather small class of 10 or 12, only one child could tell me the names of her two U. 8. senators from«New York state. . Another child blandly told me she had been able to find the name of only .one, and that was Senator Borah, Senator Borah at that time was very much in the public press, and the fact that he wis the U. 8. senator from Idaho was probabfy} mentioned at least once a day. There:are many. other obvious things cited by Mr. Roper which make one wonder whether the great,

‘majority of people really read their newspaperf and

whether, when they listen. on’ the radio, they take in much of what they hear, Today this is rather serious, as the public questions to be decided on are going to affect each and every person in his daily life. 1f people-make up their minds without adequate

- knowledge, prejudice Which has come to them from

former generations will ‘many times be the only factor

considered, and the chance of making an intelligent i were ‘stripped of valuables and |

decisioft is pretty small.

| sages.

attended the command an rocket weapons indicated haw great were the strides | staff school 4 Jom the

It" will be| Kas. recalled that the navy described a rocket ship, slightly | °

at Ft, Leavenworth, |

*| remnants- together somehow.

He served as air cor hstru to! larger than a landing ship, which packed the fire| at the field artillery Pe at Ft

| Sill, Okla., for five years and served A description was also given of a rocket which|as executive officer of the second could be fired from an airplane or a ship and which | wing of the GHQ air force at Lang- | packed the wallop of an entire broadside trom thefley field for seven months prior to|

| going to Bowman field as command. ing officer, \ ———————

FORMER LEGISLATOR DIES

| fought fiercely, and ware overrun | time after time only to come up still fighting. Now they are doggedly smashing the foe and leaving thousands of them on the battle fields, The men of the 112th never will forget those days of torturing confusion as they fought and wandered like hunted animals in the forest. They tell a story terribly real in

KOKOMO, Ind. Jan. 9 (U. P.) —) its simple truth, The 112th had been Harry L. Matlock, 66, former How- | asked to hold a sector far too wide—

died in his | 6 o'clock,” Lt. Khalil, Oneida, N.Y., recounted, as if he were still un-

|ard county representative in the so they got Field Marshal Karl von Indiana legislature -and one-time { Democratic candidate for congress from the fifth district, West Kokomo home last night.

Rundstedt’s most powerful attack.

“I sat behind a machine gun at

Survivors Tell of Two Hours Of Horror in Jap Submarine

By JOHN J. ANDREW United Press Staff Correspondent

. COLOMBO, Ceylon, July 17 (De- |

moved among them with bayoneted

guns and iron pipes. Among the, Japanese was one who

layed) —Two hours of hell aboard {spoke English. He sald.he h#d at-

a Japanese submarine were described today by 23 survivors of a

torpedoed American Liberty ship.

The sub’s crew murdered 77 of

their comrades before an R. A. PF. !the submarine.

tended a junior high-schoel in San|

Francisco. : The men said he was especially adept at wielding an iron pipe. At one time 90 survivors we

plane appeared and frightened the |heaq the™Japanese élubbed him.

torturers into crash-diving.

The submarine commander

One phase of their ordeal ended |dressed his captives:

and a new one began when the

submarine crash-dived while they

sat on deck with their hands bound

behind tHeir backs. The survivors were picked up after spending 36 hours in the Indian ocean and finally brought here.

They included members of the

American merchant marine, army

‘and navy personnel and a civilian.

Their 10,500-ton ship had been torpedoed at sunset July 2, 11 days out of Australia en route to India from San Pedro, Cal. The 100 aboard, . including 41 crewmen, 28 navy - armed guard members and 31 army and civilian

passengers, were ordered to abandon:

ship after two torpedoes tore into the forward part of the craft.

Beforé abandoning his post,

Radioman Cullie ©. Stone of Tulsa

Okla., sent three “S. O. 8.” mesThéy were heard by stations in India and relayed to the R. A. F.

patrol station, ~ The submarine ordered survivors aboard. The first man taken on the deck,

a 17-year-old messman' who was making his first cruise, was led to shot in the back and

the bow, thrown overboard.

As the others were.taken aboard, |‘

surfaced and

West” food and water to them.

prayers I learned as a boy. agree I am willing to- say- alittle prayer now,

“You are now war,” he said, to you that Americans are weak. |

. Do you not know that

tom of the ocean?” The ship's officers were led to conning tower, seen again.

company commanders Kept the They

re on 10 heavy tank 0 If any lifted his| ys $ drove us out,

ad- |

my prisoners of “Let this be a lesson

. the entire American fleet is at the bot-

Krauts by the ‘hundreds that day, and got killed too: “The next morning more tanks were coming. The troops on our right flank had pulled out. We couldn't fight tanks with rifles, so|

toon, seven from the 2d, 15 from headquarters. “We were scared, but -still ready to fight.” Those other platoons? Well, they came out—somichow. Sgt. Earl Sikkila, St. Paul, Minn.,

the telephone even when the Ger-

Pvt. Bob Vanderford, St. Jerries all around him. “Wild Whirlpeol”

got away with it. Pvt. Marion Susak, Chicago, calm-

rifle grenades. Pvt. Ezra McDénnell, Tex. pinned down 25 Jerries for|

{war, with their flanking | pulling back everywhere. “The Jerries were on three sides,” weary Lt. John Peetz said. in.

try mixed. More engineers drifted in, a platoon from ‘K’' company ang, |other stragglers, “We were covered by our artillery | {when they hit us. Two platoons of | our men tried to cross the ravine. Those who made it said the tanks {had sprayed them with re |

sor vee | GAL DRIVER DIES

The majority of those left were |

taken aft and beaten and bayonet- | A number survived by diving|

ed. overboard. The appearance of the R. A. FP.

plane interrupted the tortures and

left others floundering in the water.

While the mep were in the water makeshift raft Royal Canadian “Mae

air force planes dropped

life preservers and cans of

At dawn July 4, affer a* full day

and two nights in the water, Capt. John J. Gussac of Brooklyn, N.Y. a military police officer en route to

ndia, told the men on the raft: “Fellows. I think it is time for

prayer..

“All I know arg a few Jewish If you

. Glssac prayed. ‘Amen.” A rescue ship, a craft of the Cey-|

“They all said,

‘| Detroit, Mich., and Lt. John .R.

IN TRUCK- COLLISION

| Roy R. Ragsdale, truckdriver for|.

P. W. Roehl, Inc, 2803 Massachusetts ave, was killed early today when his tractor-trailor-truck collided with an army truck two miles north of Crothersville. Mr. Ragsdale, who was 42, lived at the Frederick hotel,- 460 E. Wash- | ington -st., and had hauled freight between Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky., eight years without previous accident. 3 A membét of the Orangeville Methodist church, he Will be buried in Orleans, St Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Demby H. Ragsdale, Orleans: six brothers,” Luther, Raeoul, and: Charles; all of Orleans, Virgil,

Ragsdale, ywith General Géorge 8. Patton's army in France or Ger-| many, and three sisters, Mrs. Opal

- Tomorrow .I will quote from a letter which a facing the bow.

Hustrate this fact,

Grinning Japanese. Srewminiinte

or ~ ga

Stackhouse, West. Baden, and. Mrs.

1hoys- -asked. for tank-destroyers-ind {got light tanks. which when they saw the hopeless situation. ; artillery and screaming mimi fire. Some of us got out—16 of our pla- | They found the flanks unprotected at dawn.

~| treated and dug in—were killed and wounded as artillery. hit them.

kept one ‘together bf staying at |Deld whenever possible, | roadblocks when such action seemed

mans threw gfénades in the room; necessary. Often Paul, | But every move delayed the Jerry stayed -at his machine gun with | advance while our reserves moved up.

One jumped in his hole and Ven- | same. derford pretended he was dead, and | repulsed attacks for two days, then| | were overrun by heavy tanks.

seven hours with an automatic rifle. | | of All ‘this ‘in the wild -whirlpoal of | armored divisions could. be.. swung friends | down to meet the panzer columns | It is a chapter in our military] history that is nohe too pleasant. “We dug | We ‘must read it with the grim The artillery was terrific and| realization that we almost | come to their aid fast enough. “We had 35 engineers and infan-| { Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times

Then in came te tanks. The retreated

So they dug in, under the

Retreat and Dig In They retreated and dug in—re-

But all the time they fought and throwing

it was svicide,

cent

unit is |

The story of each “A” company |

The men of

They lacked blankets and it was

ly abolished a machine gun with| bitter cold.

They were hungry, carrying the

Sweetwater, wounded, and often lost for days.

Their story is that of thousands Americans, overrun before our

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

Clifford |

Helen Dunn and Mrs. Pearl Hopes. x

y sik, Both of ndianapelic ie : : ld ®

> HANNAH:

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article in which I urged more .party telephones, a telephone company executive writes: “Party lines .offer quite a problem tc telephone companies for troubles reported to us are really sonal difficulties between those using the same line, It is a problem accentuated by wartime shortage facilities because © the number of party line users is continually increasing. Many have party . line service though the: would prefer an individual line. ” i” ® WONDER IF it wouldn't help 1 the local telephone compan; would make some kind of intro duction between users of a part line? ft seems to be a quirk of hu man nature that most of us ar pretiy polite to the people w know (specially if they know us) We wouldn't push in front o an old lady at a party, but 1 _lsn’t unusual to see a motors make some poor old soul hur across a street,

AND SO IT is with party lines The people who share them ar: just unknown voices. So is doesn’ seem so bad for one voice inconvience another voice b hanging on .to a telephone fo long, unimportant chats, to breal. into another’s calls out of impa tience that could be curbed, to ie children get on the wire and sta on it.

But if "the Joneses Kew tha the family sharing their line wa the Smiths, and if it were sug gested that they introduce themselves over the telephone-the: surely would be a little more con siderate of each other, and mor: careful of their telephone man. ners, i “People who don't care whit an unknown voice thinks of then. might -care a lot. about what & voice thought of them—if the” voice belonged to @n individua: with a name and address , and & place in the ity.

LIBBY A. F. OF L. ELECTS Larry Caristedt has been elected

president: of Libby lodge F. of L) for 1945. Other

courtesy between users oi...