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City of Death

_ By Jack Bell

| (Ernie Pyle’s dispatches from the Pacific front are expected to start in the neir future).

HOUFFALIZE, Belgium, Wednesday, Jan. 17.— (Delayed.)—The villages, in the most picturesque setting catch hell. This dread, quiet-city of death Was “Erushed int® shapelessness by bombs dropped with unerring aim from planes which came in beautiful « formation; by big shells, their

precision. . Today a few villagers returned and. walked through the long street of the town. They looked with awe at this mass of brick that was home. They told of 100 killed by our bombers on CHristmas day, and a few more recently. They told of 70 humans who were in the woods south of the town for two weeks, in bitter 7 cold and eating only frozen potatoes. And they smiled at us, whose planes had wrecked their homes, and thanked us for delivering them from German hands.

Pinned Down!

TODAY THE 3d armored division fought fiercely to the east as the withdrawing Jerries hammered with everything they had. Most of the Hay they had our foot troops pinned down. Pinned down! : I wonder if you realize what that means? Well, your correspondent was pinned down for an hour yesterday and it is like this: ’ We drove boldly to the outskirts of Houffalize. Suddenly a shell swished low and we dived for a stone house. A mine-sweeping lieutenant was at the door. “Are -we under observation?” we asked. He pointed to a hill half a mile.away. “They €an count your fillings,” he replied. And we ducked inside as a serenade. started. Two soldiers drove up, hopped out and asked for more to go to Houffalize® No one stirred. “We wouldn't leave the house for any man,” growled a sergeant. The two unslung their machine pistols ana started on foot. . - The lieutenant watched at the door and when one man got 50 yards he would say, “All right, Joe, it's

up.-Like yesterday, when we indicated that next Tuesday—Jan. 23—would be the only time you could

The ink. was hardly dry on the paper when Elmer Wallace, sharpeyed navy inspector at Electronic Laboratories, thumbed through his calendar and found another— next December 3. At that time, the date can be written: 12-3-45, Hope we haven't missed any others. , .. P. S. Officer Dan Smith of the State Police just called to say he, foo, caught the error. , . . We've heard several cemplaints recently about youngsters hooking : . their sleds on behind autos which were stopped for step sign. - It's dangerous practice, one that’s taken-the lives of many a child. Some of the complaints have come from 30th st, between Emerson and ‘Arlington, and from 21st at Emerson. . .. A reader in Fillmore, Ind., Mrs. L. B. Smith, is looking for a third editior of Weymouth’s New Testa ment, in book size, Know anyone who has one for sale? .. . Our servicemen overseas are quite ingenious at thinking up difficult foraging tasks for their folks back home. The object seems to be to keep our morale up by keeping us busy. For instance, Mrs. Wilbur R. Frye, 1132 E. Kelly st, has received an 8. O. S. from her husband, a, sergeant in the Netherlands East Indies. The sergeant asks her to rush him an ice cream dipper. She has tried -everywhere and.finds that ice cream dippers are next on the shortage parade. Some of thé soda fountains expect to start dipping with spoons when the present dippers wear out. Mrs, Frye thought maybe someone not in the business might have one he could spare. The sergeant, who is stationed right on the equator, devised sn electric ice cream freezer, which is highly popular with the boys.

The Name of That Song

REMEMBER THE musically inclined milkman who was haunted by the. theme song on the Kraft Music Hall program? Well, his worries are over. Miss Louise Qurazzo, 322 Sanders, was intrigued by that theme song, too. And having a woman's curiosity,

America Flies

TWO CIVILIAN ENGINEERS and five army men stood atop Pike's Peak in September, 1918, They had with them the nation’s first turbosupercharger and a world war I Liberty engine. The engine had given 350 horsepower at ground level at McCook fleld, Dayton, (now Wright field), On the 14,-109-foot peak it produced only 230 horsepower, But; with the-turbo« supercharger attached, the engine actually produced 356 horsepower on the peak. : : They did not know it at the time, but this experiment probably was directly responsitle for world war II's allied successes in the air over Europe and the Pacific. And, at Lynn, Mass., today the 381st bombardment group of the 8th air force in England presented to Dr. Santord A. Moss, turbosupercharger inventor, a Flying Fortress B-17 turbosupercharger “that has successfully withstood the rigors of 1004 combat hours on 102 missions against the enemy.”

Conducted First Experiment

FOR IT WAS Dr. Moss and his assistant, Wavery Reeves, who conducted that experiment on Pike's Peak during the first world war. ’ The message accompanying the turbo, sent as a Christmas gift, read: “As a tribute to the genius of a great scientist and inventor from the mechanics and airmen. of the 38lst group.” The presentation was made at the River Works of General Electric Co. Dr. Moss and other General Electric engineers have

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—I had a very. troubled letter the other day on the subject of the sale of 28,000,000 first aid dressings by the treasury -procurement division, Though I know it has already been explained, 1 "think so many were troubled by it who are working in the Red Cross that it will do no harm to tell them again the exact facts about these particular bandages. The treasury department report says: ° wit “The dressings were bought by the army in 1942 as a part of the stock pile of medical equipment ‘built to meet anticipated lendlease needs. In ‘purchasing for 4 the stock pile, the army provided J _ centralized procurement for various lend-lease countries and assured rapid delivery of essential supplies, - ; “Purchases for the stockpile were made on the basis of the best information available on war needs. ‘Eighty per cent of the’ total lend-lease requirements - were satisfied from this stock pile, lL “After the bandages were acquired, the anticipated

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window... :

- has his shoulder bones broken. Bill is buried in a

your turn.” He was getting the men out the best’ way she. could. 51 There came a wild, frightened cry that no soldier can forget—"Aid man, aid man.” And a young medic

and the two who had plunged in, “The roads ‘are zeroed in,” they panted. nearly got. us.” Our driver asked, “Think I'd better turn the jeep around?” : “Them shells will do it for you,” was the apt remark.

That's Our Men

THE MEDIC came, half-carrying a wounded boy. |. “Somebody drive him to the aid station, quick.” he said. ' > : “I'll go,” said he who had vowed he would leave for no man. “There. are two wounded on the hill,” came another cry. ; “God, that’s our men,” cried a little soMier#ind he dashed out with the medic. I'he shelling grew heavier and the walls seemed thinner. Time after time’ the hoys closed the door. A soldier carefully stretched a blanket across the

started for Houffalize

The little soldier returned from. the hill, “They! got Joe, the lousy Krauts,” he half sobbed. “Chris

hole; they're diggin’ him out.” » The jeep returned. “They shot at me with a selfpropelled gun,” cried the driver.. “How the hell did he get in here?” “Gotta take two more back,” said the medic. “Give me that jeep,” cried a tall lad, grimly. . Americans under fire—typically nonchalant yet respecting the flying death all around them. Every man on a hill or in a hole: bridges, in houses—and oh, how they wished the a Jerries would run out of ammunition, When it finally ceased we dashed for the jeep. And never have I felt so naked as driving with the Krauts. just yonder looking at us. That's what we mean when we write that the unit was pinned down.

‘Copyright, 1045, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

mes Flying Dog

cross-country priority Blaze, Col. Elliott Roosevelt's big bull mastiff, brought new expressions of displeasure on Capitol Hill today despite the war department's promise to prevent repetition of such

clined ‘use of his name, -angrily--to-.reports. that. an. army major had met Blazé when landed in California after his trip from Washington and escorted the 115-pound dog to the home of Col. Roosevelt's wife, movie actress Faye Emerson.

‘SECOND SECTION

+ dashed into the falling shells. The door burst open) AIR CARGO —

Linked With

Service Act

By EULALCIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. flight

“mistakes.” One prominent senator, who depointed

“If the army has so much help

that it can send majors around chaperoning dogs,” he said, “I fail to see how it justifies the admin|istration’s arguments that the manMen in ditches, under| power situation is so critical that

national service act is needed.” The disclosure that the dog was

met by an army éfficer was made by Miss Emerson during her trip here from California to attend the fourth-term inaugural ceremony tomorrow,

She arrived shortly before 9 a. m.

19. — The of

write the date in consecutive numerals, as: 1-23-45.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IN THIS BUSINESS, you just’ can't get positive about anything. As sure as you do, you get tripped

she decided to find out for herself. She did—by writing none other than Bing Crosby, himself. Bing wrote

back that the commercial theme song is “Hail KMH.” |

Evidently, it's a theme song written expressly ‘for KMH—the Kraft Music Hall. Bing's theme song, of course is: “When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.” Well, now that's settled. . . . We're almost sorry we ever started this war on pigeons, after reading today's mail. C. H. Sweetser, 748 N. Grant, gently twits us with: “From your writings, I take it you JUSS" i by. Tr, & 200 is not complete i y Sweetser, hadn't 3 is: “Don’t coop Wylie writes: “ ting a newsree e instead of a zoo, which is | we would get one. It would stir people more for the war effort. Is there any reason why Indianapolis doesn’t have one?” No reason, so far as we know, Mrs. Wylie, other than not enough squawks for one,

Free Advice Dept.

A BUS DRIVER'S view of ‘our city street department: “Aw, they don't know how to take care of slippery streets. They put the salt and cinders right up near the intersection. But that doesn’t do any good. They ought to put it farther back, back where you start applying your brakes.” (Note to the street department: No charge for this free advice.)

peaking of slippery streets, you can be patriotic |:

by watching your step. Don't fall and break a leg. Because of the shortage of nurses, anything you do to keep well and out of the hospital is a favor to those who can’t help themselves. Also, it helps free nurses for our wounded servicemen. , . . Note to the man who visited the Indianapolis, Symphony orchestra box office inquring if his teeth had been found: It’s possible that you might find your teeth by calling at 1215 E. Vermont. Emerson Smith, who lives there, found a man’s upper denture in the alley back of his house. And that’s not far from the Murat, where you thought you lost yours, . More views on whether snow has a fragrance: E,. J. Rohrman, 2242 Union st., suggests: “I think we all can see the logic in how a good snow cleanses the air and I believe that what the lady smelled was a good whiff of that rare thing called FRESH “AIR.”

By Max B. Cook

supervised production of nearly 300,000 turbosupercharges during this war, The “gift turbo” began its record in England during February, 1944. I; was used on the famed B-17 “Mizpah”—now one of the historic four-motored bombers of the air force. The “Mizpah’s” original crew began each mission with a short prayer meeting over the interphone,

Established Record

IT ESTABLISHED a record of 71 consecutive bombing missions ‘without a single turnback before reaching its target. It was dropping bombs on Hamburg when it clocked its 1000th hour of combat operations and carried oul, its 102d mission. During the life of the gift_turbosupercharger, the “Mizpah” dropped more than 300 tons of bombs on. German industries. The turbosupercharger is essentially a combination of compressor and gas turbine, Flaming hot gas exhausted from a combustion engine operates a turbine which drives a compressor for supplying air to the engine. The engine thus is enabled to “breathe” normally in the thin air of high altitudes. It spins at whirlwind tempo with the turbine ‘blazing hot at approximately 1500° FP, The compressor, only a few inches away, compresses air as cold as 76° below, Thus many problems in metallurgy and design engineering had to be overcome before the turbosupercharger would operate successfully.’ Solution of these problems place General Electric s0 far ahead in that field that “the company was se-

today but had “no comment at this

phers who met her at the station. Miss Emerson was accompanied by

time” for reporters-and photogra- |

e In

ianapolis

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945

Times Foreign Service FIELD. MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S ‘HEADQUARTERS, Wed., Jan. 19. —The brilliant orderliness of Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's withdrawal from the Ardennes salient, and the successful extrication of the bulk of the SS armor of his™6th army can-

- not obscure the fact that his drive «has failed utterly

Jectives. Von Rundstedt did not gain the Meuse river crossings. He did not

vast stores of materiel which made that region the central supply area for the U. 8. 1st and 9th armies. He did not employ the lavish stacks of booty there ~—particularly gasoline—to nourish his thirsty Panthers for a further race right through to cur great northern supply port of Antwerp.

" o » BUT HE PAID a heavy price. He dipped dangerously deep into his precious stocks of synthetic oil. He sacrificed at least 400 tanks—perhaps more than 50 per cent of the total armored strength

to achieve its primary military ob- .

seize 'Liege and Namur and the:

RUNDSTEDT PAYS A HEAVY PRICE—

Drive Ends

Ignobly

for Nazis

sorts be :

This photo symbolizes the failure of German Field Marshal Karl

up to do]

garet O’Brien,

of Roosevelt grandchildren, here for tomorrows fourth-term tion ceremonies, shouted encour-

dog was a “dead ringer” for Blaze unconcerned about the furor and}

copcentrated on course in the American way of life

her 4%:-year-old son by a previous| he had been able to scrape to|marriage, William Wallace Craw- gether for his big plunge. ford III. The heaviest blows were suf- | +A “complete report” fered by his 5th Panzers, which

on Blaze's |aerial travels was demanded by have been eliminated as an offensive force for the time being.

|Rep. George P. Miller (D. Cal). His congressional district includes| pat army had already been |the home of one of the three serv-| heavily drawn on to plug leaks |icemen forced off Blaze’s plane jn the German line which devel{while the dog was permitted to] 5504 opposite the armies of Gens. {complete the flight to Hollywood.

r C Patton, Hodges, Simpson and Miller said the serviceman, Sea-| pempcey, all the way from Hol‘Tp Ledh Leroy of -Antio Strasbourg.

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B na lo Ss 2a A correct,” Miller wrote to Secrets v points.” of War Henry -L. Stimson, “this in-

cident is deplordble and cannot, in my estimation, be justified.”

5th army the Germans hate sf ceeded in saving most of the 6th SS Panzers. But they cannot any

The White House agreed that the longer regard the latter as whole incident was “regrettable” stratégic reserve. : but declared that Col. Roosevelt im.

had not been responsible for getting Blaze an “A” travel priority. In fact, no one here professed to know just who did make the arrangements, but the army promised to take steps to prevent such an occurrence again, Seaman Leroy and two companions were put off the army air transport command plane at Memphis, Tenn., because room had to be made fer some “high priority” cargo. They held only ““C” priorities while Blaze who boasted an “A” rating, stayed on the plane, New Mystery Note Meanwhile, the controversy took ona new note of mystery with the disclosure that roaming the White House, grounds now is another bull dog that bears a striking resemblance to the more-famougs JBlaze. But whether it was the Bfide, son or daughter, or in fact any kin to Blaze, no one knew. Nor was it known whether it was the animal that Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt had in mind when she said there was “another” dog that was shipped from London to Washington by air. As in the case of Blaze, it remained a mystery as to who arranged for the second dog to make the wartime transoceanio hop. The “mystery dog was very much in evidence at the White House yesterday after a special march-of-dimes broadcast in which Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mar-8-year-old screen

WITH THE Russians bearing down in the east, the 6th SS Panzer army is the only force Von Rundstedt has left in the west to counter-balance renewed allied pressure whenever and wherever it threatens a breakthrough. Will elements of it show up quickly to oppose Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's new’ armored and infantry thrust from the Masseyck’ sector of Holland? One of the great disappointments to German leaders was unquestionably the poor perform-

The Rev, Thqmas

April 15. The Rev. Mr. Kline is at, Lutheran church, Akron, elected president of the Pastor Kline -has been chairman of religious education and youth work of the Ohio synod, established a youth camp and serves as chairman of its board of trustees. He was graduated .in 1931 with honors from Gettysburg college, is a mem= ber of Tau -Kappa-Alpha, national forensic society, and Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his degree from the Lutheran Theological seminary,

star, took part. Philadelphia, in 1934, the Rev. Mr.

Spotted by Reporter The young movie star was seen playing with the ddg in one of the White House halls while a group

seminary. Dr. H. E. Turney, president of the Indiana United Luthéran synod, will conduct the formal installation ceremonies of Pastor Kline. He will arrive with Mrs. Kline in Indianapolis shortly after Easter to reside in the parsonage at 1121 Linden st. Pastor Kline succeeds the late Dr. R. H. Benting, longtime pastor at St. Mark's.

inaugura-

agement from nearby. An _ observing reporter said the

but had no success in learning if it were any Kin to the Hollywood trav-

Rev. Kline to Be Installed As St. Mark's Pastor April 15

B. Kline of Akron, O, who this week accepted a call to St. Mark's United Lutheran church, will be formally installed

present the associate pastor of the Trinity serving with Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, newlyUnited Lutheran church.

Kline taught for two years in the i

Von Rundstedt’s- desperate gamble to break through the allied defenses

to the Meuse river.

It is a picture of an American doughboy walking

down a snow-banked street in a Belgian town toward the body of a dead German left by his comrades in retreat.

ance, offensively, of their Vclksgrenadier divisions in tnis drive. Defensively, these hastily organized “austerity divisions” have had considerable

against the British in Holland. gd troops who began by re- : ¥ LY

hind the secure shelter of & # bank can do a lot of damage with a machine gun, even if he is the victim of a flagrant case of flat feet. But when Von Rundstedt tried to employ these men as an adjunct of his proudly refitted PanZer armies, it was a different story. Time after time, German armor broke tarough, but the infantry could not follow up.

5 5 » SS TANKMEN—superb soldiers and savage fighting men—were left out in front without rations or gasoline and with supply

routes cut behind them which should have been seized and con-

Rey. Thomas B. Kline

eler, : As for Blaze, he appeared to be

LYNHURST MASONS TO BE ENTERTAINED

Lynhurst chapter, 505, O. E. 8.

the six weeks’

that he is undergoing at a Holly-

SKATING RACES SET

lected by Gen. H. H. Arnold, AAP chief, to be the first in the U. 8. to develop and produce jet propulsion engines for the AAF, The same problems fit basically into jet propulsion production, .

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wood kennel.

1, triedsto help a cat who at-|

The only time he|officers and members with a pitchlost his temper came when a re-|in dinner at 6 p. m, Tuesday at porter, who Was paying a personal | 1239 8. Lynhurst dr.

will entertain Lynhurst F, & A. |

A meeting and social hour will

{from 220 yards to one mile, will be on the program of competitive

FOR CITY ICEORAMA

Séven races, rapging in distance

success since they , were first employed in October --

mediate surrender with a defiant

conceded that both the very young

units, had been rushed to the

said Heinrich Himmler, chief and commander of the German home army, had taken over

. to discu could be of help to

develop. At the same’ time, the aimy shifted

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tracted Blaze's attention, The cat go away, but Blaze got

hunk of the reporter's trousers, -

fromthe use-of white to a brown first aid-bandage; as a result of its combat experience. “In the Southwest Pacific, white first aid bandages made wounded men a target for snipers. Because of, this, brown dressings replaced whité in kits issued to troops in all theaters of operation: “Unwrapping the white first aid dressings, dyeing the outside bandage and: reéwrapping and repackaging proved more expensive than to buy the brown bandages" new, “These bandages were machine made and designed for one purpose only, and therefore had almost no hospital use. They are not to be confused with dressings ‘made by the American Red Cross, which: are folded by hand and which are used primarily in surgery. : : ., “There is still an urgent need for Red Cross bandages.” HA ® ¥ I got back from New York City this morning. A group of dramatists met with me yesterday afternoon the ways ‘in which writers in this field 0 the public and to returning servicethen, dh ; ; ; A + Last evening before going to the midnight train, J took some young friends of mine to see “The Seven Lively Arts” Mr. Bose has certainly put on a won-

state when 1 year of

Seri, show and Beatrice Lillie was as amusing’ as

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LeRoy E. (Toby) Yoder,- Goshen, has been appointed a member of the Indiana public service commission. : . Announcement of his appointment was made today by Governor Gates. Mr. Yoder succeeds Hugh W, Abbett who resigned. In the monument and fuel

+ business 37 years at Goshen, Mr.

Yoder long has been active in Republican politics,” Herhas been third district chairman since 1b41 and was Elkhart county. commissioner two terms. Mr. Yoder also served on the Goshen safety board-in 1926, * ., .* A native of Kansas, the new commission member came to this and recelved his education in the Goshen public schools. He is a mem-

follow. Mrs. Lola Cadwell is worthy

a matron and W. E. Pelley, worthy patron,

LeRoy E. Yoder Named to

Public Service Commission

LeRoy E. Yoder ber of the Shrine, Rotary club,

Elks and Masonic lodges. Married, he ,has three children, En-

{Inc, will vie for speaking honors with the graduating class of the

Hotel Washington. .. + _1__Talks will be given by Harold E,

events at the Iceorama given by the city recreation department Jan. 30 at the coliseum. : Entries, limited to boys and girls under 20, will be accepted at Lake Sullivan, the coliseum and the recreation department in the city hall until Wednesday ribon. Preliminary trials will be held at Lake Sullivan Thursday. | The list of speed skating events consists of the 220-yard, 440-yard, 880-yard and mile races for boys, and the 220, 440 and 880-yard races for girls,

SPEAKING CONTEST SLATED FOR SUNDAY

The Indianapolis Speakers Club,

McCammon course in effective speaking at 2 p. ma. Sunday in the

Boyer, ‘Magdalena Fred, Velma Gordon, Robert E. Springer, Carol | Bain Young and Golden L. Reynolds, all of the McCammon’ course, and Roscoe Stovall, Everett Prince, Leota Love, Francis Dixon, Richard

solidated by quiCkly following infantry. ~ The striking gains of Von Rundstedt’s armor, as a result, were never exploited nor extended as they should have been to give the Germans the elbow room vitally necessary in the early ‘stages of the push

sively, no tributing heavily” to the of Von Rundstedt’s drive, be read by tactical historia one of the most significant les. of the battle of the Ardennes. The failure, according to this opinion, was not so much the heterogeneous quality of the Volksgrenadier soldiers as their lack of mobility, They rely almost wholly for mobility. on horsedrawn transport. A modern mechanized war cannot be fought with. Horsedrawn transport, even in the Ardennes in the middle of one of Europe's severest. winters.

NAZIS USE BOYS ON SOVIET LINE

Demand for Unconditional Surrender Is Answered

By Defiant ‘Never.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Stat Correspondent LONDON, Jan, 19.—The Germans threw boys of 16-and men of 50 or older into the breach on their Eastern- frontier today. They answered Prime Minister Churchill’s call for the Reich's im-

“never.” The official D. N, B. news agency

and very old, along with police

front, : The clandestine Atlantic radio gestapo

the military training of boys as young as 15. They will serve in the regular army and the Volkstrum (people's army), the radio said.

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sign: Donald L, Yoder, Daniel E.

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primary reason for this

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-Cabinet Jones Won't |» Like to Work For Wallace “|

By MARSHALL MeNEIL Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — It Vice President Wallace were tu become secretary of commerce. succeeding Jesse Jones, and’ th, job were to include all its presen duties, Mr. Wallace would becomes administrator of about 13 billion dollars in out- ' standing gov- #1 ernment loans and commit- § ments to . all § of busi- § ness. hig and little. And, if Mr § Jones remained head of the commerce de- pa ; partments Mr. McNeil lending agen-~ ” cies, which include the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and mo! of its subsidiaries, and Mr. Wallace became secretary of com-

merce, “Uncle Jesse” would Db working for “Hank.” But Secretary Jones and the

vice president once engaged in on of this administration's most hitter feuds, when Mr. Wallace was head of the board of economic warfare. And friends of Mr. Jone: believe that he would never work for Henry, as much as he is reported to wani to stay in the government. . However, if President Roosevelt decided to take Mr. Wallace into the cabinet, and decided to retain Mr, Jones as head of th big lending agencies, he coult take these agencies away from’ the commerce department. He put them together in the first place. ‘That was early in 1942. ” s ” IT WAS BACK in 1939 that the President, in his his first reorganization plan, created the federal loan agency, and appointed Mr: Jones as its administrator. , In 1940, Mr. Jones became secretary of commerce, and at the p he had more jobs than any br single person ever had in mgovernment, gut, in 1942, acting under ‘the war powers agl, the President dated the federal loan agency. angferred some of its paris gommerce department, and pther agencies. For ex

Corp Economic

went Hi 4 adminis earlier known as the B@¥ of Economic Welfare. And when later the Petroleum Reserves Corp. was organized, it also became part of the Foreign Economic Administration with the

| petroleum administrator for war

Secretary of the Interior Ickes as its active head. ; This left Mr. Jones with the commerce department, and all its various - bureaus and: agencies, plus the RFC, RFCMC, DPC, DSC, FNMA, DLC, RRC, MRC and WDC.

_ war wives fall.

We, The Women

Home Front ‘Wolves’ Are

Unattractive Lo

By RUTH MILLETT

AN AMERICAN correspondent writes from the European war Zone that the untrue wife at home is often the cause of shell shock on the battlefield. The new: that his wife is In love with another man is often more than a tired, battle - weary soldier can endure. -- There ' would not be so many

ing in love with other men if war wives were honest enough w#t h themselves to admit that there are only three types of men who make a play for the wives of men overseas, whe are too busy protetting their country to be able to protect their homes, : ~ » " THERE are the bored, not so young husbands who look on an under-cover romance with a war wife as an easy way of building up their own egoes and adding a little excitement to life without endangering their marriage or their positions in the community. Then there are the out-and-out wolves who never miss a chance, who figure that a lonely war wife won't be able to hold out against

, their irresistable appeal.

And then. there are the unattractive, uncaught men who are drawn to war wives because a war wife is always the odd woman at a party, and like any odd woman is grateful for any masculine at-

-tention--however boring it mignt

be.

a ’ THOSE are the three types df men who niake.a play for war

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