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SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1945

Trouble Shooters n

WITH THE U. S. 18TH AIRBORNE CORPS, Belgium, Jan. 12 (Delayed) .—“We lay in a shallow ditch with automatic weapons. We let ‘em come until, they were almost on us; then cut loose. We had an automatic gun on the left flank—and no Jerry lived. A second wave came the same way, and we took them, too. It wasn't bravery, or even good militarily, It was crazy suicide.” Capt, Charles Howland, Tallapoosa, Ga., told the story—one phase of a wild four-day battle that the 500th parachute infantry battalion won from Hitler's choicest. It tells the caliber the Germans faced— and the saga of the brilliant American orphan battalion, trouble-shooter for the U. 8. armies since November, 1942, when it jumped at Oran. That battalion fought in Africa’ with the French, and with the Americans at Tunisia. It fought at Salerno, Naples, then in the Italian Alps, in Southern France, and finally here, where every awailable unit was rushed to hurl back Germany's December drive. Perhaps no American battalion has such a record of gallantry—a congressional medal of honor to Sgt. Paul Huff, Cleveland, O. nine distinguished service crosses, four legion of merit awards, 56 silver stars, three soldier's medals and 23 bronze stars, also a unit won a war department citation.

} They Don't Fiddle Around

"BO 1 WENT to §ee how such an outfit-operates— and again was proud I'm an American. These men don't fiddle around. They had units surrounded, whq, fought it out with their non-coms leading. They found the enemy behind them and calmly liquidated them rather than running wildly. They were ripped asunder by tank columns but, with cool desperation, dyg in, fought off the foe and were reunited.’ And finally, securing roads and villages, Maj, Edmund Tomasik, New Bedford, Mass. reported, “Our objective has been reached.” That didn’t tell how Cpl. Warren Booth, Covington, La., sat all day, exposed beside his mortar, and fired 400 rounds into the attacking foe; how Pvt. Aloysius Hill, an Oklahoman, with a cluster of ammunition under each arm, was blown through the air by a high explosive shell, picked up ammunition and carried it to Booth; how Cpl. Walter Pope of Alabama spent a day under fire splicing telephone wire between battalion and company outposts, patching 16

| Communication breaks caused by exploding shells.

Such acts are a part of the routine where, as Pvt. Tony D. Errico, Gloversville, N. Y., puts it, “It

| &In"t “exactly healthy.”

Capt. Howland is battalion executive officer with

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GOT ANY GOOD ideas as to likely sites for a

i800? If you have, here's your chance to help. The

Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce has agreed to help the Indianapolis Zoological society by

making a survey of the various site possibilities.” The committee has several sites to inspect, but the very best site may have been overlooked. So send us your ideas. We'll pass them on to the committee. The site could be either inside or outside the city, maybe in one of the present parks. ‘Somewhere: between 35 and 70 is the proper acreage. The liaison committee named by Roger A, Beane, president of the Jaycees, includes Lyman G. Hunter, chairm; John W. Houghton, Thomas J. Cholis, William A. Pearson and H oy This committee has named a subcommittee to inspect the sites. The subcommittee includes Galen L. Parks, chajrman; H. Burch Nunley, Goodwin G. Danner, William T. Burnes, Donald R. Kindred. Prank M. Fitch, Richard L. Glasser, Robert Springer, Earl G. Blanchard and J. Worth Baker. The committee hopes to have its survey completed by the time of the Zoological society's first annual meeting next month. . . . Incidentally, we notice via the Cleveland Press that Cleveland has adopted a plan for improvements costing about 2 million dollars to the Cleveland zwo. That just goes to show you what they think of their zoo in Cleveland.

| Broom for Governor Gates

ONE, OF OUR agents wants to know if Governor Gates is trying to “outdo his predecessor in this comExplaining, he reports having seen Governor -Gates using Illinois street cars seve eral times lately for transportation between his office in the statehouse and the governor's mansion. Prob. ably the governor just hasn't gotten used to having an official car with a state policeman to drive it. . The governor has been receiving so many letters of

World of Science

THE BONE MARROW and spleens of human be

| ings are required for the preparation of ‘the. new

serum which the Russians claim is an effective treatment for cancer. Preparation of the serum was described to me by Dr, Harry Goldblatt, associate director of the Institute of Pa- _ thology of Western Reserve unis versity, who is testing the Russian claims. A fund of $15,000 has been ‘put at his disposal for this Pp 3 : Dr. Goldblatt has produced about a quart of the serum to date. The spleens and bone mar row were obtained from bodies six hours after death with the consent of parents or other relatives. The serum {is the one produced by Dr. A. A. Bogomolets and known variously as the anti-reticu-locytotoxic serum or the anti reticular cytotoxic serum. The first name seems more correct from the standpoint of word formation but it i an unwieldy

| word and the second way of ~riting it, which is used

by the American Review of Soviet Medicine, may

| come into general use,

| Name May Be Inexact

THE NAME, incidentally, is more than unwieldy, Many medical men are inclined to regard it as inexact. There are numerous tissues in the body all com-

| posed of types’ of cells known as reticular cells or

reticulocytes, These tissues occur in the bone mar-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday—I spent all day yesterday

| —morning, afternoon and everiing—at the meeting | of the Southern Education Foundation, Ine. This is | a group under which the Jeanes teachers work, and

there is no group of teachers for whom I have a higher regard. The Jéanes teachers rarely. confine themselves. to one séhool. They are concerned

with the. school and the com-

munity, Trained in home - economics, they help the women in the home fo raise the standard of living. Naturally, they have to know about -the techniques of teaching and the methods that are considered best at the present time, But.

their conception of education is

a yeoman's job.

his mark upon the New England town where he

no line duties, but he whipped together cooks and office workers, to hold the flank. Then he spent two days in ‘the. open directing artillery and mortar fire. Lt. Wiliam Pahl, St. Louis, Mo. was surrounded with his company at 3 a. m., and a tank knocked down his command post. The leutenant ran down the street with a Jerry beside him and an American yelled, “Shoot the Jerry b——d.” Bullets sang, the German fell dead and Pahl. wasn't scratched. “We didn’t wanna hurt you,” his men said later: During this confusion a German motorcycle officer rode into a group of Americans on the street. .Suddenly realizing his predicament, the officer ejaculated, “Thees- is wrong.” “Maybe, but we don't mind,” replied’ the Americans, conflscating him,

‘It Don’t Look Bad’

NOR DID the official report tell the story of thed corporal in the hospital with a fractured: skull. He heard that his outfit was going into action and on thé morning of the attack, walked up to Capt. Carlos Alden. Buffalo, N. Y, with an X-ray photo under his arm. “Hey, Doc, look at this,” he said. “It don't look bad and I feel better so I went AWOL from the hospital. I might needed.” Sgt. Harry

~to the Jerries. “We were advancing south and got fired from the hills behind us. I sent:the sergeant to clean it up,” said Lt. Jusiin McCarthy, East Orange, N, J., “and didn't get ‘em hack till evening.” Spoeneman grinned in embarrassment, “Well, we went up the hill on the double and picked off iwo nests,” he explained. “When we drew fire from the gully I figured we'd got them too, 50 we did. Then two Kraut 77's opened on us from the woods and made us mad, so went after 'em. They had some infantry there, so we had to get the guns and the foot soldiers, too. “'Bout then we ran into the damndest fire I ever saw and I began to look around. We found we were headed the wrong way, and the platoon was trying to lick the whole Kraut army. It seemed like a good time to get to hell outa there, so we did. That's all.” Yes, that's alll The battalion official Jerry count is 274 killed, nearly 100 prisoners, and there is no record ‘of the enemy wounded, So another east- west highway was wrested from the Germans.

(Copyright. 1045 by The Jndianapalis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc

congratulation since taking office that he has had trouble keeping up with them. Included in his mail this week was a very carefully wrapped broom sent by “The Otwell Republicans,” at Otwell, Ind. A note accompanying the broom read: “A sweeper out. Yours for a clean sweep and a clean administration. We believe you will do both.” . . . The Jan. 12 issue of Yank, the army weekly magazine, includes a picture and story on Sgt. Anthony M. Lopilato, who has been active in affairs of the Illinois st. branch of the Servicemen's Centers. The picture shows him entertaining Carmen Miranda with some of his feats of | magic. In the story Sgt. Lopilato. an instructor in the bacteriology departntent of the laboratory school at Billings General -hospital,. is referred to as: the founder of the servicemen's magic club at the center. . . , The same issue of Yank has a story— and picture<—on ex-Senator William E. Jenner. He is described as the “first veteran of this war te get to congress.”

Get Some More Signs!

KATHRYN COTTRELL, who presides at the Indlanapolis C. of C. telephone switchboard and information desk, is convinced most people don't believe in signs. Although there are large signs at the head of the stairway indicating the direction of the Red Cross offices, more than half the persons stopping at Mrs. Cottrell's desk ask for the Red Cross. . . . Col. Thomas D. Drake of Indianapolis, now on duty in Washington, is mentioned in an article in the January issue of the Cosmopolitan magazine. It's

By Jack Bell

eneman, Long Beach, Cal, got his| 7g platogn lost, and the resulting carnage was terrific

INEW AS TOMORROW — Expert Tells How We Beat

By: WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent

HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 11 (Delayed) —“We always try to land-where they ain't,” said Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of the amphibious forces of our Pacific fleet. In an interview with correspondents here today he explained some of the primary factors en= tering into a successful amphib‘fous

was referring to Gen. Douglas "MacArthur's famous disclosure of battle method. “But he added, “there are not so many of those 5 © “places left now.” Mr. McGaffin The 60-year= old, three-starred admiral is recognizably our Pacific fleet's No. 1 expert in the science of amphibfous warfare, » » » THIS TYPE of warfare is as old as King Cyrus, who attempted it on the Bosphorus. . It is as new as-tomorrow. 1t is simply the science of combining airplanes, warships and troop ships into an organization that forces its way ashore on enemy ‘beaches after crossing large stretches of water. ” s »

FIRST, suitable technical equipment had to be developed. Attack transports had to be invented to carry troops safely across great distances but disgorge them quickly and easily on their arrival] at the target. There had to be smaller craft carried by larger craft—like alli“gators—for taking troops from mother transports across coral reefs and short remaining stretches of water to enemy beaches, Many of these strange-looking craft, some of them hybrids—-at home-on- both land -and- water— come straight from the ingenious brain of the admiral himself who has been -directing our ambhibious invasions ever since the Pacific war began. n » .

SECONDLY, an ample number of troops must be taken along. They must. be protected by a sufficient number of warships and carrier-based planes so that the enemy cannot intercept them en reute. Thirdly, once arrived the warships and planes must be prepared to put up very strong bombardment so as to get the troops

entitled, “A War Prisoner Speaks His Mind.” Col, Drake was a prisoner of war in Germany from early in 1943 until last September, when he was exchanged. . G. C. Underwood, Bloomington, sends us a suggestion for building: a bird trap “which has proven ‘successful on crows ahd English sparrows and which I think “would give similar results on pigeons if properly built, baited and tended.” Thanks, Mr. ‘Underwood. We have forwarded the plans to the park board. . . ., Wartime shortages seem to hit about everywhere, Shortridge’s January seniors can't find any class ribbons, Any suggestions?

row, the liver, the spleen, the lymph nodes and some other organs. Together they are known as the reticulo-endothelial system. This system is not completely understood as yet but it is ¢oncerned with the formation of anti-bodies, the chemical entities that confer immunity against many germ diseases. It also stimulates the growth of connective tissues, Now any substance that would be poisonous or toxic to a reticulocyte might be called reticulocytotoxic. And anything that counteracted such a toxin would be anti-reticulocytotoxic, or, to make it easier on the eye, anti-reticular cytotoxic, There you have the deriviation of the name.

Describes Technique

DR. GOLDBLATT described the technique of manufacturing the serum as follows: The bone marrow and spleens are ground up, made into a saline solution which is then centrifuged and filtered to remove all solid particles, The resulting solution is then injected into animals, either rabbits, sheep or goats at intervals of two dayss A week after the fifth infection, some of the blood of the animal is withdrawn, allowed to clot and then centrifuged to remove the solid porticles, The remaining clear fluid or serum ig the anti-reticu-lar cytotoxic serum. Dr. Goldblatt said that to the best of his knowl edge the Bogomolets serum was béing studied in only one other American laboratory. That is at the Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles where the work is being done by Dr. Rueben Strauss, former chief pathologist of the county coroner's office in Cleveland and a former student of Dr. Goldblatt's at the Western Reserve Medical school

By Eleanor Roosevelt

"Their work is in rural communities, and one lone Jeanes teacher in the Virgin islands has been deing

Their concern, of course, is Negro education in the South, but it is of value to the whole community, since no part of it can suffer wjthout the whole | community suffering. Similarly, if any part of the community ¢limbs upward it must push or drag the rest of the community along. In the evening, the Rev. Mr. C. M. Gallop gave a talk on the founder of ‘the Slater fund. James Slater, a resident of Norwich, Conn. not only ‘left

lived, but Negro people all thryigh the $outh are still profiting from his interest. 1 forgot to tell you. eouple of days ago that I had a visit from Sgt. Jack Kreismer, crestor of

By David Dietz|

ashore, We have copied some of the Japs’ boats and techniques, according to Turner. They were good at this sort of thing long before we began. » » » THE A. B. C's of amphibious warfare will remain the same in the coming year. But Turner recognized that larger landings— in China or Japan, for example— mean “increased complexities necessitating. the devising of new techniques.” Asked’ if he had developed a technique against land-based enemy airpower, the admiral replied in the affirmative, “Sending in fast carrier task forces to clean ’em out is one of the best techniques,” he replied. He continued that in the next enemy landing fields “it is going to be tough.” » t J ~ I ASKED if it might be deduced that future landings in the Pacific will be more costly. The admiral replied “Unquestionably.” Among reasons for this answer, the admiral cited land-based enemy air power, larger bodies of enemy troops in areas such as Luzon, permitting maneuver, and

. greater supplies of weapons,

“Weapons and equipment for the war machine are’ manufactured chiefly in Japan,” he said. “Due-to loss of their shipping, they cannot push this material to forward areas. But they've got it there at home, piling up waiting for us.” » ~ . THE SECURITY consciousness of the Japanese will be to their further advantage. Turner, who commanded "the cruiser Astoria, which carried the ashes of Ambassador Saito to Japan, recalled with a smile how the Japs before the war were constantly arresting people whom “they thought were spying on them.” ; “Maybe the Japanese weren't as silly as we thought,” said the ad~ miral. “Some people’ might have been spying.” He laughed, One bold correspondent put an audacious question. “Did you get any good pictures when you were in Japan?” The admiral laughingly countered with: “It was foggy.”

i 1048, by The Tha I Ridin aafiolis Times

PEDESTRIAN STRUCK AS CAR JUMPS CURB

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A MPHIBIQUS FORCES.

operation, |’ The admiral

“This is a German soldier. . . . He is a fighting fool. There is death in this man. . . . Death for any of us. «oo What matters right now except killing Yhis Hun?"

in Washington Wednesday.) Only 91 officers and men sur vived the sinking of the de-

vessels of the Farragut class, and the U. S. 8. Spence, a 2100-ton ship of the Fletcher class. » n ”

THREE officers and 24 men of the Hull, whose bodies or identification tags were recovered, were listed as dead. “ The remainder of the comthe three vesssl, except for 23 from the Hull and six from the Monaghan, were listed officially as missing, For two days the typhoon had buffeted the ships. The storm followed an erratic, unpredictable course which the naval formation was unable to evade.

THE DESTROYERS lost steering control while attempting to get clear of the storm area. First the Hull, then the Monaghan and the Spence overturned and were swallowed by the seas. The capsizing was followed by 50 horror-filled hours for most of the survivors in storm-tossed, sharkinfested waters. Chief Machinist Harry J. Deeters, 28, of Boston said a huge wave rolled the Spence aver on its portside while it was flounder-

control gone,

500 Men Lost in Storms That Claimed 3 Destroyers

By LLOYD TUPLING

United Press Staff Correspondent WITH ADMIRAL HALSEY'S 3D FLEET, Dec. 29 (Delayed.)—A swirling tropical typhoon caught a group of 3d fleet vessels attempting to refuel from tankers at sea after extensive operations, Five hundred men were swept to their death, Three destroyers were sunk. Three other craft were damaged. (Loss of the destroyers was announced by the navy department

stroyers—the- U, 8. S. Hull and | the U. S. S. Monaghan, 1500-ton |

| cleared and dived out, landing on

plements of more than 600 aboard -

survivors from the Spence, 62 |

ing helplessly with the steering’.

5 2 8 “I WAS standing on the starboard side when the last big wave hit us,” he said. “Men were falling all over each other fighting their way to the hatch.

“I just waited until a hole

a bulkhead. Then I grabbed a life jacket and ran out on the smoke

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent

PARIS, Jan. 13.—When political arguments and rumors of command changes, as well as ApgloAmerican relations begin to perturb the fighting :sel-

dier, it is an indication that |

such things are serious enough

troop morale.

Such indication was forthcom-

ing yesterday in a stronglyworded editorial in the army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Its author, Maj. “Arthur Good-

friend, is no armchair editorialHe fought as combat iafan- |

ist. tryman—a private—before Aachen. He speaks to Soldiers as a sol dier. - -- " » ” » YESTERDAY his box editorial carried a picture of a German infantryman, crouched, with a tommygun in hand. Aboit the German, GoodIriend “Look, Britain! Look America! Look, people ‘of the united nations! This is a German soldier. Good, bad or indifferent, -he is a fighting fool. His future is hopeless. He is fighting as he has never fought before. Listen, America! ain! Listen, the united nations! This man and millions like him are the enemy. His gun is loaded, When the trigger is pulled it shoots. 5 » » “THERE 18 death in this man. Death in his gun. Death for any of us who, for as much as a minute takes his eye off the peeps. “Whatever we soldiers have— all we have—we need to beat him. Single-mindedness, solidarity. Skill. Confidence that every man behind us is dedicated to one end—the death and defeat for this foe. “To do this job our leaders are chosen. Chosen by us—by the people. , They, in turn, chosen our supreme commander, He leads us in the west. He disposes the troops, chooses the generals. Moves: them here today, there tomorrow. “Shifts men and materials to meet the tides of war. " » ” “AND SO the British fight under Eisenhower. The Americans fight under Montgomery. The French-fight. under: Bradley. The British and Americans fight uner the French. French, British, merican, what does it matter? “What on God's ice-crusted earth matters right now except killing this Hun? “What Eisenhower does is for Ike to decide. For us to obey with, understanding, the under-

under him from the beaches to the borderlands of the Reich. a8 8

stack which was lying flat in the watér and jumped into the sea. “The - ship rested about 10 seconds on its side and then the bottom turned up.” : » ” »

A. GUNNERY officer whose ship picked up 556 of the 91 survivors said it was “just accidental” that the first survivor was rescued. “The seas were high and it was dark, but we happened to see a small light bobbing onithe water,” he said. “It was a waterproof © light pinned to a life jacket.” { His = ship searched the area through the night and picked up half-drowned men one by one. » . ”

“MOST OF the men were alone but some were clinging to rafts,” he said. “Sharks hovered around the men and we fired machine guns to drive them off. “Some of the men had long slivers of flesh torn from their feet, apparently by barracudas, but none was seriously injured.”

war labor board.

Rule,” a Bell religious enterprise, to join the teamsters union (A. F. of L) if they want to work at the church-operated Dos Palmos dairy near San Jose, Cal. i » » ” JOHN SILVA, secretary of the dairy and creamery workers’ local 304 asserted the church had vialated a union contract by firing union employees and replacingthem with church members who allegedly were given board and room. but no wages for their services. * “Everybody working here is a member of the church,” said W. Toblin, assistant superintendent of the dairy. “We have only our own people.” x 8» A SIMILAR situation arose at the Hotel Cecil, San Francisco, one of the numerous real estate properties taken over by. the church. The San Francisco 'labor council voted a boycott against “Mankind United” and “Christ's Church of the Golden Rule” on the complaint that Bell discharged union employees and | substituted his followers. Yio a ? Bell, once: described by Federal sete i ‘Hammack as the

Workers in Church's Dairy Ordered to Join Teamsters

By ROGER JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent SAN. FRANCISCO, .Jan. 13:—The unofthodox labor policies of convicted seditionist Arthur ‘(The Voice) Bell-former director of “mankind united” who professes to live in a world of wonders denied to0 most mortals—today had suffered a Utes at the hands of the

The WLB instructed members’ of “Christ's Church of the Golden

natural power.

-dition. ‘}. un-American activities, after an SBiendive 1nauley. réported it had |

dest individual in the | States,” said church mems | satisfac

tion” from wageless work—a theory hotly challenged by” union leaders.

8 » "

BELL IS a self-styled “walking | cash register.” He says he has seven doubles to do stand-in work | for him. He once told a stunned legislative investigating commit tée that he had taken spirit trips to China (elapsed time from San Francisco to Asia: Three minutes). “lI was ordered overseas by my superiors in September, 1930,” he testified, “and the first thing I knew I was. on the steamer City of Richmond in mid-Atlantic.” These phenomena were not ex- | plained - gcientifically, but Bell modestly disclaiméd any super-

~ Le

HE HAS been investigated by countless experts over a period of many years. The {Christ's Church of the Golden Rule” made its appearance shortly after Bell and 11 of his associates in “Mankind United”

A joint legislative committee on

traced approximately $3,000,000 in recent purchases of going busi-

were convicted of se- |

Ress eoncerns to Bell of hi, vephis

“HE WHO places pride above military policy is a fool. He who spreads rumor is a traitor. He who panders to local prejudices and pride at the expense of the great purpose of all peoples—

| the defeat of this German—is an

enemy. “An enemy who sells out the soldiers, the peoples, the pMnciples, the peace of an entire world.” What the soldier reads today is important. People ‘at home should know and understand.

Orchestra Plays,

. - . Averting Panic LONDON, Jan. 13 (U. P)~A V-bomb landed behind the stage of a crowded theater in southern England recently but the orchestra, some of whose members suf-

fered cuts, played for 15 minutes *

and averted a panic, it was disclosed today. The bomb struck behind the dressing rooms, wrecking that section of the theater. Water poured onto the orchestra from broken tanks above the stage. “The principal girl of a pantomime was on the stage alone,” F. Wright, a stage hand said. “The place rocked and some of the roof behind the stage and the scenery fell in. The stage manager went to a microphone and appealed to the audience to keep quiet. The orchestra started playing and went on for a quarter of an hour. It stopped any panic.”

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Another Mine Wage Crisis,

Is Foreseen

By FRED Ww. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Jan, 13.-<Two years ago the coal situstion looked pretty serious, : spondent, wrote<a- piece to the effect, Ahat the’government ought to persuade” John L. Lewis to advance the date of his biennial ‘Wage conferences with tlie bituminous _coal operators. Something was done, but n ot enough, and in 1043 there were four brief coal strikes, each of which reduced the nation’s wartime stock of its Jmost ‘essential fuek Twice the government took over operation of most of the coal mines. - This year the toal contract is

' coming up again for another two-

year extension. The present contract, which contains advantages to coal miners won by Mr. Lewis from the war labor board after the 1943 controversy that lasted 10 months, will expire March 31. » Lo . : : UNLESS the United Mine Workers and the coal operators are able to agree before April 1 on the terms of a new contract, or extension of the present one, there is a possibility of more coal shutdowns in 1945—which would be more serious than those in 1943 because coal stocks are less than they were then, and also because the war situation seems much more serious.

WHETHER MR. LEWIS would countenance coal shutdowns in the present critical period is problematical. Mr. Lewis got quite a going-over from the public two years ago, plus the war labor disputes act which was passed as a direct result of the public feeling. It is believed in official circles that the public reaction would be even worse this year.

Under the present contract the spokesmen for the union and the operators are to meet in Washington March 1. That would give a month for the new contract. Past experience has shown that in many instances a month has not been enough. . - "a . - .. THE MINERS’ union has a doctrine ‘of “no contract, no work.” so that even if the heid of the unjon opposed a work stoppage the rank and file might think the circumstances were against their breaking a union precedent. This despite the ‘fact that the coal miners as a whole are a group of solid citizens, with many sons and brothers in the armed forces.

As industry spokesmen see it, the things to do is to advance the coal wage conferences from March 1 as far as possible, so there will be more opportunity for a new agreement that will remove all danger of a coal stoppage.

Meanwhile Mr. Lewis has not announced his 1945 wage de- — INangs, Operators anticipate they “will be Plenty:* »

We, The Women=— Remember That Veterans

Are Heroes

By RUTH MILLETT IN COMMENTING on the shortage of nurses for work in veterans’ hospitals Dr. Clark M. Griffith says: “The thing we've got to do is to make our Amer an Bitls- tained and nearly trained nurses —realize that the veterans they will care for are not old men, bust youths whe only a short while ago were their next-door neighbors and schoolmates. I'm afraid many girls are not interested in serving with this agency simply because they're afraid of that word veteran.”

» . » THAT is a lesson not only nurses

* need to learn—but all civilians,

In our minds. we must come to have the samé kind of respect for the word veteran as we have for the word hero.

But our interest and sympathy shouldn't be founded on the fact that today’s veterans are fyoung, For they won't always be young. “They'll grow old like the rest of

us—only many of them will grow in. hospitals.

. wn» THEIR NEED for our under