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Bitterest Battle

the near WITH THE U. 8. 3D ARMY, Belgium, Jan. 23 (De-

| layed) ="Elements of the 17th airborne division hold

Noville, on the Bastogne- -Houffalize highway,” ‘read

the communique. It didn’t tell the whole story of how

g te Germans, with their characteristic tenacity in important positions, forced us to pay dearly, driving back a unit of the 101st afrborne division not so long * ago, Noville was a little Belgian village nesting between high hills; the quiet home of peaceful people =until the war came rolling back to them. We reached Bastogne that first time with Jerry's breath hot on our necks. We rolled on,

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| ously, guns blazing. So I write, Noville was a village.

| Because at that time the German troops were fearbh Jess and cocky, and at Noville ran into Americans who | would fight a buzzsaw-—which was about what they | faced.

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| graphic storyI have heard from a ‘solater. rr

_“Stanfield’s learning,” said Capt. Herbert Minton, “He shot at a tank

house.” “He sure blew a fuse when I shot at him” Stan“From then on, I was shooting,

THE AMERICANS who reached the hill tops didn’t

stay long. Jerry had tanks and infantry swarming

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and our troops joined the others in the town.

They came

who hadn't found shelter—at first,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

SOME ONE of our many non-admirers has achieved the distinction of being first to send us 8 oomio valentine. We'd begun to think we were going to be forgotten this year. This one is entitled Office Pest,” and recites that “You are the fellow that always picks on the office gang to pull your tricks. You stand aside and laugh with joy, you gosh darned pesky office boy!” We've got our suspicions where it came from. ... Glancing over the Ravenswood Clatter, we learn that the White River Yacht club is getting ready for the annual flood. The Clatter reports: “Commodore Dan Nickel reports that at the club's annual meeting and ball it was decided an emergency flood squadron It will consist of six boats.” . . .

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would be formed. The Arts and Skills corps of the Red Cross is look-

ing for white bath towels. They’ll be glad to buy them, if they can find some for sale, and also would gratefully receive donations. The towels need not be new, but must be firm and without holes. - They are to be used by patients at Billings hospital for making toy animals. Phone Mrs. Ruth Murphy, Li, 1441,

A Whole Trunkful

"THOSE PICTURE postgards showing the local

" Scottish Rite cathedral and referring to it as “com-

pleted in 1727,” still are iy circulation, amazing all who see them. Mrs. Makkl K. Norwood, who used to teach school in Perry township here, but now lives in Durant, Miss., received one recently from her husband, who was up here on a business trip. She writes: “To think Indianapolis had a skyscraper completed in 1727, I didn’t even know the grist mill was out on: Fall creek at that date.”

America Flies

18 THE REPORTED shortage of shells and ammunition an actual shortage of shells and ammunition not produced, or a shortage on the European combat front? It seems like only a short time that these contracts were recommended for curtailment of production. The same thing can be said for aircraft and the training of combat airmen, .If the shell shortage is on the combat front, the comments of combatmen that we outran our facilities of supplies after the invasion are correct. The Nazis did the very same thing four years ago when they poured through the Maginot line, outrunning their supplies, surprising themselves, their general staff and their supply experts as the French army folded and dissolved, You will recall there was a distinct and lengthy pause after the initial Nazi. break-through in Holland, Belgium and France in 1940,- which permitted the English to clear for England via Dunkirk, while the French rout streamed southward. The four biggest seaports of France are still in the hands of the Nazis, particilarly Bordeaux; hence the fierce allied fight for Antwerp, a port nearer the combat front, Are we actually low on shells and ammunition, or are we low on these vital items at the combat fronts?

Why This Fluctuation?

1 CANNOT €ONCEIVE a sound reason upon which any belligerent leader could dare to estimate that he had to6 much airpower or too big a reserve pool of sombat airmen, Why then this fluctuating demand for more and then less combat airmen? I don't know what other items of modern warfare anyone could

‘My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday—Yesterday was chiefly taken up with short visits from a variety of people. One lady came to ask me to come to a meeting in the Midwest, which unfortunately I could not arrange . to do. Another told me of recent activities of the group interested in Union Now. At 5 o'clock my husband and 1 received some distinguished guests from overseas. Among other things, we were distressed to hear that the Nazis have imposed a particularly cruel regime on the - Dutch: people. The Dutch have some ships that can carry needed supplies to their country, and as soon as it is possible I hope the war fund and #4 other interested agencies will send var whatever they can ‘to the ald of

these courageous Dutchmen,

Last evening my husband’s- aunt, Mrs. Price Coller, stayed with us, as did Mrs, Peter Cochrane. After dinner we -saw the movie, “Meet Me in St. Louis,”

which ‘was charming and gave ‘us all a . Pleasant :

evening, + .- 1 found myself, however, hurriedly finishing up the mail after” saying t to everybody, Miss

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; By Jack Bell}

(Ernle Pyle has left or the Pacific fighting front and his frst columns trim. that area will start i Pn

future.) / 8 — i " “I remember, as the first shells hit, how a big one SECOND SECTION WEDNESDAY, Nee 24, 1945 . PAGE o exploded beside » Mie Boy: J S2V His Body BY ar BE I i a: |FRIGID FOXHOLES— JUDGE NEEDS EXTRA HAND TO SWEAR 'EM IN— Manpover—

then turned back, looking for someone, they had forgotten. Houses would be standing—then suddenly would break and fall, Trees would snap and tumble onto houses or streets. ‘The dead lay in the streets, and many who were not dead were screaming for help. “you couldn’t hear anyone because of the thunder of exploding shells. Pretty soon the town was, full of smoke. It was late afternoon and we couldn't see. I'll never forget the strangeness of the silence when the guns stopped. I wasn’t quite human. Soon we heard the rumble we knew so well—tanks,

‘They Messed It Up’

~ “THEY CAME nosing through, stones and tree pranches on the streets. If Jerry had sent infantry with the tanks, none of us could be alive. But they

Yanks Fight Against Odds In Cold Italy

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

ROME, Jan. 24.—American troops on the 5th army front are shivering in their

messed it up. We were in a strong building and felt|. fovholes today — not from

safes, That was stupid. We sent'men with bazookas to catch the tanks on the flanks, shoots from alleys. We got a few that way, too. But two big Tigers rolled straight-to our burding and calmly Saris

“Well, we crawled out Bt tHE The ~rest- ofthe night was pretty bad.. We couldn't tell who was friend or Kraut. The tank guns banged away, their machineguns shot at everything, and about midnight they began pounding with mortars and kept it “up until morning. “When we could see, we got the men together, still expecting the infantry, but it never came. At one house the Krauts sent seven tanks to route a platoon of us. Nothing to do but move, so we left. Halfway to Bastogne we ran into a village full of Jerries, we simply shot our way through 'em, and got in with what we had left. When we went across the hill I looked back to where Noville had been, a nice town the day before. I saw nothing but flames and smoke.” The 17th moved to contact the 3d armored division, east of Houffalize, hardly remembering the village that was Noville.

(Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chitago Dally News, Inc.)

We first noticed these postcards-a couple of years

But the Standard Sales Co. must have printed up a whole trunkful of them. ,,. Note to E: R. M. at the Eagle, Bloomington: In answer to your query, the place to apply for a discharged K-9 dog is Dogs for Defense, 222 E. 60th st., New York City. But there are many more applicamts than there are dogs available. . . . One of our readers wants to know why share-the-ride drivers have to blast away at their horns, awakening everyone within the block. “Some are ill, others who have worked most of the night are just getting in their best sleep when this bird starts blowing his horn at 6:30 on Carrollton near 25th” this réader complains. “Can’t the person being honked for be ready ahead of time and spare the noise?”

An Insult to Wally

WALLACE WEATHERHOLT, the deputy state treasurer, says he's thinking of suing the Evansville

editor, Wallace, you may or may not know, is so Republican that he declined even to apply for a ration book until about a year ago when he just had to have some shoes. And he lives at the Columbia club. Well, sir, the Evansville Courier printed a story about Wallace's reappointment as deputy

that of his cousin, Ernest. That wouldn't be so bad, except that Ernest Weatherholt happens to be a Democrat—and very much so. In fact, Ernest is, the eighth district Democratic chairman. That's why Wally is indignant. . . . We see by the United Press that over in Columbus, Ohio., “an enterprising" newspaperman today pointed out that you can write the date (yesterday) as 1-23-45.” Shucks, our readers were way ahead of that—and the 12-3-45 date, too. The only thing new discovered over in Columbus is that “you won't be able to write it that way again until Jan. 23, 2045.” For which we, and probably all of you, are duly grateful.

By Maj. Al Williams

dare to set a limit for. But certainly we never can dare to believe we ever will have too much airpower until the last Nazi plane is downed and the last antiaircraft gun is silenced. If you think that inferiority of American combat planes is an impossibility, read Hanson Baldwin's article, reprinted in the Congressional Record of Jan. 10. Mr. Baldwin flatly states, and claims these facts are well known to American combat men: “We are inferior in guns, tanks and/ in our inability to match the performance of Nazi jet-propelled fighters. The estimated performance of our latest fighter on the drafting board is equal to that of. the latest Nazi fighter operating in squadrons over the combat front, n he says,

Nothing New

THERE'S NOTHING new about that, and we know .it.” There's rio shortage of engineering-brains or creative engineering in this country. Where then is the jam, and who is responsible for it? The answer plainly is “red tape”’—paper work and cumbersome bureaucracy. A whole newspaper page could be filled with instances of the unbelievably monstrous red tape debacle. In fact, those who know often express wonder that we get anything done on time and in time. The Nazis have beaten us to the gun in almost every revolutionary development in this war. They beat us in the use of rockets. They beat us to the draw on the, robot, We have lost enough time minimizing each new Nazi gdevelopment and ridiculing its importance, .all the way from the magnetic mine to the jet-propelled fighter and the robot, to have launched a mass production flow of the same modern weapons to all com= bat fronts. This war isn't over yet. We can’t laugh the enemy out of the fight. We may be able to win by main strength and awkwardness—but that is a long and costly gamble,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

‘ ' Pirst, at Judge Jonah J. Goldstein's invitation, I am going to sit in his court for an hour this morning to observe the new methods used in handling youthful offenders." Then I am Toing to a luncheon given by a group of organizations comprising: The - American Education fellowship, the Child Study Association of America, the editors of the Survey Publications, the National Child Labor com= mittee, the Nafional Committee on Housing, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Council for Parent Education and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The subject is the future of. the American family. The changes have been so great in our way of living in the last few years. that sometimes I wonder if people stop to think what they mean when they talk about the American way of life. It meant something quite different three generations ago than it does today. I think most of us, when we use the phrase, think

of the way of life which Whittier described, and not |

at = ‘the way of life we face in 1945, was largely a rural life, “with small towns and ath ne the phrase “the American way of life”

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fear but from cold. The* temperature has dropped below freezing in the coldest spell

Italy has seen this winter. And "the Ameticar &. T.5 are bogged 1 down in the Apennine mountains which are rugged almost beyond

jackets

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These G. I's have everything the people in the United States can give them in the way of warm

But I know from experience that in those mountains there is a point where no amount of clothing can prevent a chill from crawling up your backbone.

FOR THE WANT of stimulating exercise the American Fifthers even think up new patrol sorties in order to drum up enough activity to keep warm.

Their outfits consist of: Long woolen underwear. Olive-drab woolen shirts and

Heavy flannel lined water re-

and

White plush teddy bear-like

Water resistant reversible raincoat with one side white and the

Plush-lined caps with earflaps, high boots and galoshes.

MOST OF the region where the American salient. is pointed towards Bologna probably would delight the hearts of a lot of soldiers in the summertime. It is thick with fragrant phe forests and small creeks. But in the winter it is a definitely in-

Few roads are sufficiently trave eled to eliminate the snow. Then when the mercury climbs a few degrees above freezing they are ankle-deep in mud. In the bitter deadlock of the Italian front neither side has moved appreciably,

MOST OF ‘the G. Is at the front eat nothing but cold canned The Germans are too close. and too tough to ‘permit lighting of fires to cook hot food and communications are too bad to bring it from the rear lines. The German artillery is becoming one of the main concerns of

It is getting more intense as the months go on, sometimes even equaling or surpassing the: volume of allied shelling. The Germans are said to have started producing ammunition in Italian cities immediately behind the front, particularly in Bologna.

THE 5th ARMY, spearheaded by the Americans, has not made any spectacular advances since it smashed the Gothic line last September. But it and the 8th

army have made a real if not noteworthy contribution to the

Between them they have tied up about 25 German divisions in Italy——divisions that the Wehrmacht desperately needs on the Western and Eastern fronts. Only recently Lt. Gen, Mark -eommander—of..._allied | paratrooper. ground forces in Italy, told a house military affairs committee that the two armies seldom were numerically superior to the Germans even when on an offensive. As a result, Clark considered that compared with G. Is in other theaters, American soldiers in Italy were swinging more than their normal weight.

ONE OF the sore spots among American soldiers is the fact that no one back home seems to real ize that a static front in which two savage enemies are dead-, locked, does not mean that fighting is easy and nothing is hap-

In fact it is quite the contrary. It means that the enemies are so equally matched that victory will go to one with the most en-

Several very unhappy letters about this situation have published in the Stars and Stripes

been

These letters are from soldiers complaining they received from in which their relatives congratulated them on being “safe” on a front like Italy rather than on a more

active

HELD IN CAB DEATHS

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Jan. 24 (U.P) ~Joseph Smith, 28, taxicab] driver, was freed on $2500 bond to-|' day after entering a plea of mnot|. guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges filed after his cab ‘struck and fatally. injured two Indiana university Negro students Saturday

-' HONOR NEW BISHOP

' LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 24 (U.] P.).~Governor Gates and Dr, E. C.|. Elliott, Purdue university will, speak tonight at a civic a

By SHERLEY UHL AN anybody lend a hand to Judge Mart J. O'Mal-

ley? He probably could use an extra one. Since November, when he became chief justice of the Indiana supreme. . court, Judge O'Malley’s right hand has seen consid-

erable action. Reason for this is that he has

diana ‘officials than anyone. else in the statehouse. By now he’s a practiced elbow-bender (not in. the usual sense), ” " »

THE SITUATION is -no laughing matter tO the greying, seri= ous-minded judge. He rightfully considers cathe taking a solemn, almost religious function. “It's a marvelous -thing to see how much it impresses the af-fice-holder,” says Justice O'Malley. “When he takes that oath he realizes he's assuming tremendously important responsibilities. That's what it's for.”

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IN THAT respect, the swearingin ceremony, in the justice’s opinion, is similar to a marriage. Its subjects become aware of the fact that ‘the words they are saying are not just another string of casual syllables, but words of great import. Each swearer-in, Judge O'Malley revealed, is privileged to compose his own oath as long as he retains the essential elements as defined in the state constitution. These elements are promises to

WITH FIRST ARMY AT ST.

Belgian bulge.

I counted only three houses intact in the city. The rest are crumbled ruins with an occasional dreary column of smoke rising through a hole in the three-foot deep snow where there's a subsurface shelter. What the American air force didn’t knock down, the artillery did and, judging from the number of shells hitting tS. ¥ith today, the three remaining houses ‘won't be left very long. Infantry Fans Out From the top floor of a house 300 yards from St. Vith I watched the infantrymen, accompanied by paratroops, fan out on both sides of the road. They waded through three feet of snow as they advanced against mortar and machine-gun fire,

the human touches that go into fighting a war. A medical unit private with a glassy look-in his eye, wandered in and said: “I'm looking for Company B. Do you know where it is?” A paratrooper told him it was down the road about 100 yards. “Would you advise me to go there?” asked the private. “Brother, I wouldn't go there because I don't have to,” answered the

Maj. George 'ITéece of Lafayette; Ind.,, heard the conversation and advised the medic to go. “I can't, sir. I lost all I have got in me,” the medic said. Maj. Treece then walked quietly alongside the medic to Co. B. When the doughboys entered only a few walls remained standing. Only two streets were clear of the great masses of wreckage caused mainly by bombings.

officially-sworn. in more new In-

MOST BATTERED TOWN—

Yanks Push Beyond St. Vith; Ply 3 Houses Left Standing

By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent

of the 7th armored division today moved out of the snow-covered ruins of St. Vith, pushing across the hills to the east and rooting out a few do-or-die Nazi rearguards left to protect what remains of the

Behind them was left probably the most battered town in Belgium.

And from that house I witnessed |

New Officials Rush my

Judge Mart J. O'Malley

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support the constitution of United States, (2) support the constitution of Indiana and (3) perform carefully the duties of one’s particular office. » M » LATELY, Judge O'Malley observed, oath-givers have referred to the “United States of America” rather than just the “United States.” This, he said, is meant to distinguish the nation from the United States of Russia, of which there definitely is one. Because of the tense atmosphere which usually surrounds induction ceremonies, it's best to make the oath as brief and simple as possible, the judge points out. This greatly reduces blundering. Ther whole business seldom re= quires more than 30 seconds. os 2 » JUDGE O'MALLEY'S first swearing-in client was Secretary of State Rue Alexander, the gen-

VITH, Jan. 24 (U. P.).—Americans

It was along these two streets) that the Germans fought bitterly from house to house in the final phases of today's battle. The town fell to the 7th armored

sound recording of her oath-

__obliged by making a record of the -oath prior to the ceremony.

tleman ‘from Pine Village, to whom he administered the oath in January, 1943. Of the new crop of state offi cials, he's inducted Lt. Gov. Rich~ ard T. James,. Atty. Gen. James Emmert, State Auditor. A. V. Burch, Mrs, Fern E. Norris, reporter of the supreme and appellate courts, Tax Commission= ers Otto Wulfman, Roy Jorg and Ray. Smith, and a flock of deputy attorney generals. » o ” NORRIS

MRS. wanted a

taking function, so the judge

Only trouble was that he ‘had a bad cold that day, and consequently scouldn't recognize his own voice when it was played back to him, 3 Despite the dignity of the | occasion, Judge O'Malley couldn't keep from smiling when someone in the audience made a funny face at him during the induction of Auditor .- Burch. That's probably the only smile that ever managed to force its way up to an official swearingin platform. But it reveals Judge O'Malley's innate sense of humor.

” » ” HE REFUSES to concede that he has had a remarkable “career,” shuns the title of “jurist,” calls himself “a small town lawyer” instead.

He comes from Huntington, has one son, Sgt. Norman O'Malley in the army in England, another, Jack, attending Broad Ripple high school. He and Mrs. O'Malley live at 3820 Kessler blvd. Oh yes, the judge insists there's nothing unusual about his being a Republican with that name —O’Malley. It's absolutely wrong to generalize all Irish as Democrats, he says. A bad mistake.

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division, the same division that made an epic stand at St. Vith last] month, Tanks of combat command B led| by Brig. Gen. Bruce ©. Clark of] Syracuse, N. Y,, entered the town. They were followed by infantry at tacking under mortar and artillery fire from the north and southeast.| I accompanied a task force, commanded by Lt. Col. Richard Chappius of Lafayette, La., which moved down the main Malmedy-St. Vith highway from the village of Hunnange. White Coveralls Worn

The infantrymen wore white coveralls over their regular uniforms,

Tanks and tank destroyers which supported them also were painted white. The attack was preceded by a violet artillery barrage. One battery must of had a few short rounds because - their shells fell among their own troops and caused some casualties. These armored infantrymen were about the calmest soldiers I have seen-under fire, “There ain't much point in being scared,” Sgt. Gilbert Hamby of Lockport, Tenn., said. ‘Sdy, what are the Russians doing?” “These boys are calm, all right,” added 1st Lt. Paul Good of Harris burg, Pa. ‘ “The reason for it, I guess, is because they have already ‘had it,’ as the English say. “They are good soldiers.”

Up Front With Mauldin

“| prehensive. inquiry” rather than an . | “investigation” and would go into

{P). ~The Vanderburgh county

Blaze Sets Off » . An Investigation . * . » Of Air Priorities WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U. P). —A senate military affairs subcommittee will logk into the entire matter of air travel priorities as it affects “both dogs and men” and cargo. : : The inquiry probably will get under way next week, and wit. nesses are expected to include war department and air transport command officials. The senate committee voted to undertake the inquiry at the

recommendation of Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H), who was moti-

continental airplane ride of “Blaze,” the hulking bull mastiff which Col. Elliott Roosevelt presented to his bride, Faye Emerson of the movies. Because they had only “C” priorities, three servicemen had to get off the plane, while Blaze stayed aboard, when other “A” priority cargo was puton at Memphis, Tenn. Senator Tom Stewart (D. Tenn.) was made chairman of the subcommittee whose other members will be Bridges and Senator Burnet R. Maybank (D. 8. C.). : Stewart sald it would be a “com-

all angles of the priorities system, covering “both dogs and men” Bridges said the inquiry also would go into air cargo. Things to find out include: ONE: Who grants- priorities and who was responsible in the case of Blaze? TWO: What principles do they follow in determining what cargo or passengers should have, “A” priorities. - (Army regulations say “A”

vital cargo, delay in the handling of which would seriously affect the war effort)

FATAL BLAZE PROBED

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 24 (U. corbner today investigated a resi-

_Marshall, army chief of staff, and

I knew most of what was pre-

. things I learned.”

vated by the “A” priority trans-|

priority should be given only tol’

dence fire which claimed the life| | “| of Sheldon Moseby, 3, J

Work Draft Need Sold"

To Congress

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U, P). The nation’s war leaders today gave its lawmakers a progress report on the war which administration . spokesmen said greatly enhanced the prospects for passing legislation to force deferred draft registrants to take or Jeep war jobs. The report was given at a closed meeting, to which all members of congress were invited, by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of Navy James Forrestal .Gen, George C.

Adm. Ernest J. King, commander= in-chief of the U. 8S. fleet. h Speaker Sam Rayburn told reporters afterward that if he had not already been in favor of pending “work«er-else” legislation, the military leaders’ report “would have impressed me very much” with the need for it. = » . HE SAID the conference was “important’ from-vevery point of view.” Rayburn added that the disclosures made to the congressmen were “tremendously helpful” and that “the psychological effect was very good.” Some congressmen though the conference had helped the chances of the May bill fo force deferred men 18 to 45 into essential industry. They said the speakers pointed out that the manpower situation is still very serious. House Democratic Whip Robert Ramspeck (D, Ga.) said, “I still think the conference will certainly < help the chances for passing work or fight legislation,” He called the conference a’ “very dramatic and graphic presentation of the terrific problems we face.” ssn SENATOR TOM CONNALLY (D. Tex.) said the meeting convinced him “that we haven't won the war by a long sight.” Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) said he did not believe the meet ing was called to convince congress of the necessity for any kind of universal service legislation, “It was only a meeting to inform congress,” he said. “While

sented, there were a number of

EJ » » wi WHILE the congressmen weére pledged to secrecy as to details, it was learned that the speakers stressed the need for continued unity and effort to bring the war to a speedy and successful conclusion. The meeting lasted three hours. Chairman Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah) of the senate military affairs committee said the military leaders’ “fine speeches” oontributed much to congress’ understanding of the problems of the war. Vice President Henry 8. Truman said “it was a very fine and encouraging presentation.”

We, The Wome Wives Hold Record for

Multiple Jobs

* By RUTH MILLETT y A MISSOURI school superine “* tendent is holding down so many 3 jobs~they were listed in the following "news story recently used all over the country: “Officially E. B. Lott is super intendent of Rushville, Mo,, schools, but... ‘During a ‘teacher's ill. ness he had to double in the classroom. . . « 2 = =» “LAST week the schools janitor « bus driver quit and he had to take over, going to work at 4 a. m. “After school he’s coach of the basketball feam, and after Friday night's game he had to stay and sweep-the gym. “Saturdays? oe. butcher in a Joseph meat market.” » ” s WITHOUT discrediting Super= intendent, Bus Driver, Janitor, Coach, Butcher Lott, let's have a look at the schedule that, with a = few variations, is the daily life of thousands of war wives: Officially, Mrs, War Wife is a housewife, but... During her husband's absence she is doubling as father and "niothey to her kids... Le 8.8 8 SHE HAS taken on all her hus band’s responsibilities around the house, and all the family biisiness transactions he once handled. of the laundréss who used ‘to come on Mondays, She is pinchhitting for the cleaning woman who used to come on Friday, "She is “delivery man” for the butcher, the grocer, the Sears ment store, She has the job of canning. . = ” . . HER DAY starts at 6 o'clock in when

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