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Virginia Slinker . .

Red Cross Seeking Farlaleh For Soldier to Attend Rites

lhome, saw smoke pouring out of « the window. Rubber Co., was heartsick. Trouble pe heard a scream from the alalways has pursued the family. ley, It came Bo: m Richa. ¥ho had jumpe rom ne urning The rst HlaWIeaine Oct. 10s 1541. 4 hou is a shot out of the winWhen Dessie, his wife, was killed dows and the doors and Mr. Good‘at Oriental st. and (Southeastern win phoned in the alarm ave, by a Pennsylvania railroad | The fire started somewhere near train while ‘pushing Leona out of | a davenport in a Tone bal oe Ye | first floor. ‘Tt raced upstairs i Hie tuiny path. : timber’ fire, cutting off escape from Then,bad Devs kep! coming back all the occupants of the house. from their fighting son. : | The bodies of Leona and Barbara He hadn’t been home on furlough | Ann lay near the window. The since he was shipped overseas three 405 of the other girls lay near the years ago. He fought in the North hq piremen said Virginia and NOW prances probably had died while he’s fighting someplace in Italy. He trying to rescue the small er girls. captured by the Germans, but . oy He ar was badly burned | Survivor in Hospital in a tank explosion, sent-to a hos-. Hysterical, Richard was taken to ‘pital, then went back to the front city hospital. He is burned and lines. this leff arm is broken. gk The tragedy also will be felt on Dog Barks Warning {another fighting front: In GerMr. Slinker reluctantly went to many, Sgt. Charles J. Gieber, Inwork on the night shift Saturday |gianapolis, had been dreaming of | night because he worried about the tye end of the war and marriage children. The housekeeper had left with Virginia. for the week-end, but Virginia 1aid| = The misfortunes .of the Slinkfrs'

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off from work to take care—of-her fag pone—even—into-other-branches.

sisters, of the family. Ann Marie, 5, There also was Richard, 18, a& daughter of Harry Slinker, Smith guard on the Technical high school Grove, Ky., brother of Leonard, was: basketball team. {recently burned to death in a The four girls slept in a front ponfire. | room at their home at 242 N. Ori-| The Slifikers came here from| ental st. Richard slept alone in Smith Grove five years ago. another room. { Services will be held at 2 p. m.| At 6:27 o'clock, “Spike,” a dog tomorrow at the Beanblossom mor- | belonging to next door neighbor tuary, Burial will be at Smith | George Goodwin, retired city fire- Grove later in the week ‘and by man, barked furiously.” Mr. Guod- that time it is hoped that Leslie win looked over to the’ Slinkers'may have arrived. ; |

Compulsory Draft of Labor Is, Facing Hard Sledding

By CHARLES T. LUCEY : Scripps-Howard Staff Writer “WASHINGTON Feb. 12~ Weeks of ‘strange - bedfellows” opposition to a labor draft bill | seemed to be making headway to- | day as senators sought a solu- | It would give the W. M. C. greater tion of manpower problems with | authofity in law to back up setout resort to “big stick” compul- ting of employment ceilings.

| from local cg-operation by labor, ! management and the war man-pewer--commission. ; « The N. A. M. progrant calls for. more effective use of existing W. M. C. machinery and regulations.

sion. The fight on the Bailey-May brought | Lewis G. Hines, A. FP. of L. | legislative representative, goes to Murray of the C. I. O, William bat on the same theme—that un-. Green of the A. F. of IL, John L. | der W. M. C. controls lotgl short« Lewis of the United Mine Work- | ages In essential industrfés can ers and Ira Mosher, president of | be filled by the transfer of workthe National Association of Man- | ers from one plant to another. ufacturers. To Philip- Murray the BaileyThat probably hasn't happened | May bill is “thoroughly unworkin years on a measure concern~ | able and would not produce the ing labor, and it's one of the result that we all desire.” factors impressing senators who The C. I 0. has urged a deare ready to strengthen the war termination of plants and areas manpower commission’s legal au- where production is short and a thority to get results, but who | Study to find better ways of utilizoppose ‘turning the ‘job over to | 18 facilities, ° manpower and the selective service system. The | Management in these areas. It Bailey-May bill, approved by the has proposed ending production of house, would give the draft boards | Luxuries, and a determinatisn of the big assignment, | “whether poor production is due to C r milarlv v Against Mass Draft low wages, particularly ih found.

ries and in the textile industries. Senator O’'Mahaney (D., Wyo) 3 . . 2 oo gu, Ne Hits . ‘Coercion’ said . today the Bailey-May bill ion doesn’t have much chance with John. Lewis’ U.-M. W. Journal | the senate military affairs com- | contends the admini frat ion has'|

Favors Transfers

“work-or-€lse” "bill has under the same banner Philip

mittee, of which he 4s a mem- | “failed to produce evidence to ber. He called for a solution on |. disprove that free labor and yoluna “qualitative” rather than a | tary co-operation between labor “quantititive” hasig. | and management is not more Senator O'Mahoney opposed the | Productive - than coerced, con{dea of a mass draft of labor, | Scripted manpower.” and said. he believed a solution | The Journal also supports. the lay in giving -the war manpower | contention of others that" refusal commission authority to study | of the war labor board to permit labor ‘utilization in all plants to | Wa8e increases in the foundries | show where it is efficiently used | 18 the basis of mfich of the labor and where-it is not, and power to | Shortage in such work. Many survey both essential and non- | sources have reported the dif- | essential industries to get workers | Culty of getting ‘men to work at | into war jobs. | comparatively low rates in dirty, | The senator said members’ of | unpleasant foundry work when | 8 senate war contracts subcom- !| higher-pay jobs are available in | mittes which he Heads’ had in- | clean, new war plants, | vestigited labor utilization in one | ~The war and navy departments | shipyard and that -following the | have been urging ‘the compulsory | ' Investigation the number of work- | labor draft, but organized support ers per ship was reduced from | from outside the government has $200 to 4700. This kind of gain been scarce. Communists are

could be made, he predicted, by thorough manpower studies.

Skills Needed

Manufacturers agree, he sald, that the need is not for a4 mass supply of mep but for selecting those with special skills, and he believes that surveys’ {fi non-es-sential Industries could supply. men needed in war industries, N. A. M. President Mosher. argues that the problem is not one for a “dragnet solution” — that about 150,000 men are needed in [ment gfven five inmates who were fd war plants and localities tolacea in solitary confinement after et law isn't the |they Mad escaped from the institu. A © [tion Baturday. The demonstrators had picked the locks on - y rooms. and de-

among those who have been for the proposal.

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GIRLS’ SCHOOL - ROW QUIETED BY POLICE

Police and deputy sherifl’s weit: called to the Indiana girls’ school at

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(reported that 25 girls were staging | a demonstration against disciplinary lorders,

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quarters, Order was restored a few minutes squads. arrived,

| Clermont, *yesterday when matrons|

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Barbara Ann

LODGE MEETING CALL ED

Germania lodgé No. F., will meet at 8 p. m.. tomorrow at

Germania hall,

437 Prospect st.

120, 1. O. O}

Leslie Slinker. . . . The Red"Cross will try to notify” him, '

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oi Four Sisters oF Veteran Perish as Fire Destroys Hows Here; Brother Escapes. With Burns’

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French Farm Girl Loses Her Poultry

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. Feb. 12 (U.P). —If you've heard this | one about the farmer's daughter, stop us...

Raime Munguerza of Corpus | Christi wrote his family the tale of six missing hens and the stormy indignation of a French | farmer's daughter who demanded

the hungry Yanks “feturn Ker poultry. Here's the report of one of Munguerza's ‘comrades, as requested by the company commander: . Two (hens) killed, two missing

"in action, and two last seen being

coaxed down the road at the point of a bayonet as prisoners of war,

60, 000 Tons Fall On Berlin i in Wa ar

LONDON, Feb, Berlin has been hit with approxie mately 60,000 tons of bombs

$12,000,000 CHECK SIGNED BY MILLIS

As his first. official act, State Treasurer - Frafik T. Millis today had signed over $12,000,000 to Indiana school teachers. about one ton for every 70 pers “Mr. Mills initial voucher was the | spns—during the war, the air : ministry announced last night. About 15,000 tons of the bombs were dropped by the U. 8, 8th u { Air force and the gest by R. A rR : Saturday. . = bombers. : A Campbellsburg The ministry said lion Millis succeeded Jam . Givens, naissance showed Magdeburg, ine

. Leona, a victim. also of the G. O. P. In ng -his| dustrial city and receptiun cen= successor 8 congratulatory send-off,| ter for. refugees 75 miles west of

BONG, AND HIS BRIDE Mr. Given said: “Frank, I don't|

Berlin, had be EN ROUTE TO COAST want to discourage you, but my ex- by recent ye a0 destroyed MINNEAPOLIS, Feb, 12. (U, p.). Perience during four years in office

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No. 1 ace, and his bride, the forI mer Marjorie Vattendahl, Superior, | Wiss today were en route by air ; lto the West coast where they. will BRIGGS WORKERS RETURN Three river projects for Indiana spend their honeymoon. . DETROIT, Feb. 12 (U. P.)— are proposed under approprigtions | They arrived here from Superior Production was resumed at six [to be expended by the atmy ene late Saturday night shortly after | Briggs Manufacturing: Cor: plants betw their wedding, accompanied by the today as 5800 Mack avenue unit ween July 1, 1045, a ‘bride's brother, T, Sgt. Lowell Vat- | workers returned after a four-day June 30, 1946. tendahl, who was returning to his| strike. base at Liberal, Kan. after serving | at the Dodge main plant's aviation Pe spent are Indiana Harbor, $120,« as an usher at the single- ring cere- department and at the Square- 1000; Brevort levee, $300,000, and | mony, "| mlectrical Co. | Levee unit No. 8, $230,000.

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