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* Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Far Pacific. This is an article written on his way.

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ready to become a famous lawyer when the war came along*and he enlisted. : . ; He spent a year as a private and’ then got a commission ahd now he’s a first lieutenant and flew over with the B-29s from the U. 8. last October. - « When I telephoned Jack and said I'd be out in about, an hour to stay a few days, said he would put up an extra|cowsin his hut for me \ When I got there the cot was up, with blankets and mattress covers laid out on it. Jack had told the other boys he was having a visitor. Jack had six eager volunteers helping him put up thé cot. When I showed up, skinny and bald, it was an awful letdown, but they've all heen decent about it. Jack lives in a steel quonset hut with 10 “other fliers. Most of them are pilots, out Jack is a radio man. He and another fellow have charge of all his squadron's radics. He doesn’t have to go on missions except now and then to check up.

Slowed Up by Commander

BUT UPON arriving I learned, both to be astonishment and pride, that he had been on more missions than anybody in his quadron, In fact, he's been on so many that his squadron commander has forbidden him to go for. a -while, He doesn’t 'go on so many because he enjoys it. Nobody but a freak likes to go on combat missions. He goes because he has things to learn, and because he can contribute things by going.

~ Another mission or two and he will have had his quota authorizing him to go back to rest camp for 8 while. But he seems to show no strain from the ordeal. He's pretty phlegmatic, and he says that siv-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ED STEIN, secretary of the Standard Life Insurance Co. of Indiana, calls our attention to the inscription on the south side of the Soldiers & Sailors’ monument, listing statistics of the war with Spain.

Mr. Stein, who can read the inscription from his office on the eighth floor of the Guaranty building, reports it says: “Lost in Service, 74.” That was the loss of life for all of Indiana in the Spanish war. Mr. Stein has asked various people to guess how many Hoosler lives were lost in that war and the answers range from 700 to 25,000. The inscription is a reminder of how war has grown in frightfulness, present war, many times that number of lives has been lost. Fifty-nine from Indiana were listed in a recent issue of The Times. And as far back as last Memorial day, more than. 350 brave Marion county lads had died for their country in this war, , . . Frankie Parrish the WIRE vocalist, has had all sorts of reactions to his singing, Sometimes, he's told his voice “puts baby to sleep.” His friends occasionally say his singing does the same thing for them. Some kidders say it “makes Fido howl” But Gaylord Rust, who sings, himself, gave Frank a different “testimonial.” Gaylord says his family bought an expensive canary that was supposed to be a fine singer, It quit singing a long time ago, and nothing could induce the bird to start warbling again. “You can imagine how annoyed we were,” Gaylord told Frank. “But then, just the other day, Mrs. Rust turned on the radio to get your program. And, believe it or not, as soon as that bird heard your voice, it began singing again.”

Not Responsible

A LARGE SIGN on the wall of the Indiana parking garage, we hear, reads: “Not responsible for .cigarets left in cars.” . .. One of our agents reports seeing a pigeon come swooping down and land on the hat of a woman walking at Pennsylvania and Washington Thursday.- The startled woman ‘struck st the pigeon, and it took off to look for further sport. 8+ + Mrs, Lyman Ruster was driving north on Illinois

‘America Flies

U, 8. CARRIER FLIERS in the Pacific have a flew name for the famed two-motored Martin PBM Mariner, Now it’s “Morale” and, during the past year at

feast, the powerful PBM's probably have done more to ) ald the morale of fighter and bomber’ pilots on lengthy sea hops than any one other element, This is because the sea rescue work of the PBM’s has been developed to a point where—time after time—pilots and crews shotdown or compelled to make forced landings in enemy territory at sea have looked up shortly to see a ; friendly PBM alighting near them, In the early days of sea fighting, forced-down crews faced days } and sometimes weeks on a bobbing saft In blistering sun and chilly, damp nights,

‘Can Count on PBM’

AS ONE carrier pilot recently put it, “Now we take fo the air with the knowledge that if anything happens We can almost certainly count on being rescued quickly by a PBM.” It is not “chance” rescue work either, for navy plans it, giving fighting fliers the best protection possible, It takes their minds off themselves and directs all energies to the battle ahead. But that is only a small part of the PBM story. It will be recalled that it was a dozen PBM's that alded greatly in making possible the great American naval victory over the Jap fleet at Saipan,

My Day

"WASHINGTON, Sunday.—1 took two friends on Friday evening to see Frank Fay in “Harvey,” and I enjoyed seeing it a second time just as much as I did the first. It is an evening of delightful escape from the problems of the moment. Without Mr. Fay

and Miss Hull it would probably not. be as delightful, but with them the play is a joy.for which I think we can all be grateful. I had a number of guests-for tea Friday afternoon. Yesterday morning I went to the Leadership school which the Maritime union has started, and then to the National Democratic club for their forum luncheon and broadcast. Very late in the afternoon we took the train back to Washington, »

' There is a little book caljed “Your Key to Yout Problems,” by Harold M. erman, which I As many people will find valuable reading. It is full of _cothmon sense, and if we stopped to think, we would realize much that he tells us for ‘ourselves,

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By Ernie Pyle

+ ting around camp gets so monotonous he sort of welcomes ‘a ‘mission just for ‘a change. L During flight Jack sits in a little compartment in the rear of the plane, and can't see out. In all his missions” over Japan he's seen only one Jap fighter. Not that they didn’t have pfenty around, but “he's so busy. he seldom gets to a window for a peek.’ The one time he did, a Jap came slamming ggpder the

SAWDUST TRAIL—

plane so close it almost took the skin off.’ Like all combat crewmen, Jack spends all night and at least half of each day lying on his cot. He holds the recayd in his hut for “sack time,” which means iust lying on your cot doing nothing. He has his work

® so organized that it doesn't take much of his time | D Tt between missions, and since there's nothing else to do, | FT — n. I sas or

you just lie around. «. a + Jack says he has got so lazy he won't be able_ to face a job after the war, so: thinks he'll work into

civilian life gradually by going back to school again.

Sleeping Is Wonderful

THE B-28' fliers sleep on folding canvas cots, with rough white sheets. Sleeping is wonderful here, and ‘along toward morning you usually pull a blanket over you. Each flier has a dresser of wooden shelves he's made for himself, and several] homemade’ tables scattered around. The walls are plastered with maps, snapshots and pin-up girls—but I noticed that real pin-up girls (wives and mothers) dominated over the movie béauties. In fact eight of the 10 men in the hutrare married. : ; Although the food is good here, most of the boys get packages from home. One kid“wrote and told his folks to slow up a little, that he was snowed under with packages. Jack has had two jars of Indiana fried chicken from my Aunt Mary, She cans it and seals it, and it's wonderful. She sent nie some in France, but I'd left before «it got there, Jack took some of his fried chicken in his lunch over Tokyo one day. We Hoosiers sure do get around. Even the chickens.

recently and was about to pass a streetcar when ft stopped suddenly, right in the middle of the block— out near 21st st. When the car just sat there, with no passengers getting off, Mrs, Hunter pulled around it, carefully. As she did so, the front door of: the streetcar was opened, and the woman operator began tidying up the front platform, beside her seat, with a broom. Next thing you know, they'll be having potted plants on streetcars, Just like home. . , . We've heard lots of complaints from adults about trolleys and busses being crowded by school students. Here's the other side of the picture: A Tech student complains to us about too many non-students riding the E. 10th and Arlington trolleys about the time students are gelting out of school. “About four schools are represented on the trolley,” writes our student, “and some unkind passengers seem: to resent having to ride with us. Most of these passengers -are people who could ride Brookside trolleys. Sometimes we students have to wait an hour in the cold for a trolley, three or four Arlingtons passing us up because they're overloaded. And then along come the Brookside trolleys, with empty seats.”

Loses Even If He Wins

A FARMER wrote the OPA state headquarters here posing a problem that’s a bit difficult to answer. He said a man came from another county and offered him $30 a ton for hay in the mow. The farmer sold it, the buyer baling and carrying it" away. Some time later. the buyer sent a check paying for the hay| at only $22 a ton, When the farmer protested, the| buyer explained that $22 was the OPA ceiling, “What | can I do?” asked the farmer. That's an embarrassing question for the OPA. The only answer is “You can sue him—but you'd better not. Because if you win, we'll have to sue you for violating ceiling prices.” Looks like the farmer is stuck. . . . Will wonders never cease? When we put a note in the column Friday mentioning that the boys aboard a recently launched LST: would like an electric mangle, we doubted very much that one would be offered. But we were wrong. R. A, Gallagher, president of the Public Service Co. of Indiana read the item and| recalled that the company had one mangle left in a! warehouse. And he up-and agreed to give it to the sailors on the ship. It will save them a lot"6f weary hours wielding a hand iron.

By Max B. Cook

The PBM’s, flying in advance®of our fleet, located the enemy warships and notified our ships which gave chase, Other PBM's were in the thick of the fight during navy's conquest of the Marshalls, There they attacked surface vessels and enemy submarines, Merchant shipping and small craft, demonstrating effective firepower,

‘Very Impressive Job’

ONE OF their most important jobs with the, Pacific fleet is that of patrol bombers. In discussing them recently, Assistant Secretary of Navy Artemus Gates gave them unstifited praise. “I think we have overlooked (in our discussion of the great job. done ~by the carrier planes) a very impressive job that the navy patrol planes are doing—both land based and sea planes, particularly—in connectisn with the Southwest Pacific areas and also Central Pacific area,” he said. “The seaplanes we found were practically moving up with the landing operations. At Moratorai they arrived a day or so after the first forces went ashore, and operated from there as seAplanes. They moved up into Leyte, shortly after landing operations there, and operated from. protective bases there. The same thing applied To Mindoro and, I believe, g “PBM pilots are carrying on searches every hour of day and night over areas from points in the Philippines. I would say they are more in contact with the enemy than any other type of naval fliers— and doing it single handed.” Equipped with JATO (jet assisted take off) PBM’s now are enabled to land in high seas even in sevenfoot waves, rescue airmen, and take off successfully, Several such rescues already have been reported.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

often do, we might find the reasons for our difficulties very often in ourselves. , It is always easier fo straighten yourself out than to straighten anyone else out, . I want to mention here two fine women who have died and whose passing is going to leave sorrow in the hearts of many, coupled with a determination to continue the work which they began. On Priday the papers carried the news that Dr. Josephine Baker had gone, and I remembered at once what her life had meant to the children of New York City. I remember the first-time I saw her in 4 clinic—how interested and gentle she was, The

work which she started -has gone ahead at surprising! |

speed. It must be an encouragement to any young woman to look at the record of these women who accom= plished so much by simply giving themselves whole-

heartedly to the phase of work which they felt quali-| We, in New York City, can be grateful]

fied to do. for the life of Dr. Josephine Baker. i The other woman, Miss Henrietta Szold, was the founder and honorary président of Hadassah. 'She died in Palestine Feb, 13. Many people in this coun~

try loved and admired her, and through her leader-| w. ship in these last few years 12,000 Jéwish children| J have been rescued in Europe and given an asylum in

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By KARL A. BICKEL Soripps-Howard Staft Writer : ARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 26.—Five of thé gix executives of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Baile ey's circus, sentenced last Wednesday at Hartford, Conn, to long prison terms on charges of involuntary manslaughter, returned here todays They slipped back to town,.the home of the Ringling-Barnum and Bailey shows, unannounced, in order to avoid the welcoming reception being arranged for them, hey arrived tight lipped ‘and unsmiling, their lined- worry= worn faces reflecting the strain, they had keen through during the past 10 days. » ” s JAMES (SLIM) HALEY, president and director of the circus, whose sentence runs from one to five years and George Smith, general manager, whose sentence, along with that of Leonard Aylesworth, chiéf tent ‘man, runs from two to seven years, had little to say. They. refused to’ comment on editorials in a number; of Florida newspapers which were harshly critical of the sentences, asserting that the Connecticut cup of justice had been liberally spiked with vengeance. n n ” ‘WE ARE not talking about the court or the judge,” said Mr. Haley. «“We had our day in court. . We are back in Sarasota now to do a job. “We've got but six weeks to get the circus in shape to go out for the Madison Square opening, to pull the organization together, to crank up its morale, to make this season's show, whether we ever see it or not, the show that tops all previous shows. u » o “WE ARE going to make the millions of dollars required to relieve as fast as we can the hurts and injuries the Hartford disaster caused. That's our obligation to the people of Hartford. “We've stripped the big show of its cash reserves. We've

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The map above shows areas in the Pacific war theater where more than 600,000 Jap troops have | been by-passed by island-hopping Americans and left to “wither on the vine.” In some places, the Japs | are well-equipped, in others they are badly off physically and get no supplies. Most of the enemy | forces in the Philippines are in the big southern island of Mindanao. Their leaders concentrated them ||

there to meet an expecied American invasion, but General MacArthur crossed them up by landing on

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worked all winter to get the ‘big top’ and we -have gathered the best circus talent we can find to start making the money for the Hartford payoff.

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an organization. can do with money. no longer up to us. to Judge Shea.” » = o WHEN Judge Shea sentenced the six circus men to prison and jail sentences, this town was sick, for Sarasota is literally the .home of the circus. 1 “If Slim Haley and George Smith are guilty of anything,” said a circus executive, who was in Hartford on the day of the fire, “then I'm guilty. Then 30 other circus executives are also guilty. “The panic, the stampede of pitifully scared and crazed people, fall always within a dozen feet of safety, smashed the whole organization, “It would have smashed any organization, but Haley and Smith gre held guilty apparently because they were there; because in their own panic the police grabbed them like they grabbed Blanchfield, Haley and Versteeg — and would, except for my luck, have grabbed me.” #” ” n THERE are some in the Ringling organization, not directly connected with the management, who are already shaking their heads. Outstanding circus executives are almost as scarce as the dodo bird. Without trained men like Smith, Haley and Aylesworth they feel that it may be impossible to

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Yanks Hitch Hike to Moscow

By LEIGH WHITE Times Foreign Correspondent M 0S CO W.—Wherever “you are captured— whether in Ttaly, Normandy,. or along the Siegfried line—if you were an American officer you passed through Limburg on your way to Oflag-64 at Szubin, Poland. . At Limburg, German intelligence officers put you in solitary confinement at Dietz castle. They kept you there for as long as three weeks—trying to make you reveal the military information they required. * They didn’t beat you. They didn’t tortlre you. But they starved you. ‘Threatened you with punishment. Then promised you special - privileges—in return for military informatien. 8 ” ” ™ THIS SYSTEM was unsuccessful, according to American officers, who recently reached Moscow. The Americans refused to tell the Germans anything. They answered back with threats of their own that German prisoners in the. United States would be given the same treatment. The walls of Dietz castle were decorated avith signs like: “SilPatience. Don't tell the 's anything.” - There were also contemptuous cartoons of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. “ » os ONE BOASTFUL American scrawled out on his cell wall a list of his military exploits and’ decorations.. He emphasized that he had become a battlefield lieutenant because he was just about the greatest hero the world has ever seen, A British officer—who had later been confined in the American's cell, wrote the following commentary underneath: . “Well done, Yank—but well told.”

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SOME American prisoners in Poland escaped from the retreating Germans and joined the Russians at the front. Others were too ill to leave their prison camps. Still others got tired of waiting and hitchhiked to Moscow after doing what they could to aid the Russian wounded. But mostly—like

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tions from the Red army and the U. 8. military mission in Moscow. . yn 8 A BAND of 54 American prisoners—ragged and lousy— who “liberated” themselves from Oflag-64, reached Moscow last week after a series of rollicking adventures. These included being mistaken for Germans on more than one occasion. Three of them grew tired of riding the blinds of a passenger train, near Minsk. Thev managed to enter a sleeping car uninvited. When the conductor saw them she asked them how they-had entered. She was about to have

them removed when one of the

men, ‘2d Lt. Bill B. Everett of Sweetwater, Tex, made the mistake of saying in German, “Ein moment.”

» ” 5 “YOU COULD just see the sus-

picion light up in her eyes,” said

2d Lt. Alvin G. McCormick, Livonia, N. Y. slyly, inviting us in German to sit down in a vacant compartment. She went to get some reinforcements.” The Americans had a safe conduct replete with rubber stamps given them by a Polish: major. When several tough Russian officers came up they handed them the pass and said, “Americanski! Americanski! Moscow!” It was a long time before they could calm the suspicions of the Russians, however, because nobody could read Polish. When they finally found a man who could, however, everything was fine and the three rode into Moscow in style.

” ” 2 & HOWEVER, before the arrival

of the 54 Americans last week, three other escaped Yank prisoners showed up here. Three pale and very thin young men, they were the first of our prisoners liberated in Poland to be seen in Moscow. A column of weary Americans being evacuated on foot from Stalag-64, to safer quarters inside Germany were permitted by their German guards to pass the night in a stable near ®he village of Echzin (Exin), near the German frontier. The next morning, at dawn, they were marched off again in the direction of Germany, but in the confusion about 20 of them were “lost.” This happened on the morning

| diers—they assembled at concen of Jan.—22

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THEY remained hidden throughout the day—Jan. 22—and only came out when advance units of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's armor passed through the village late that night. : - Then they joined Polish farmers, who went out to cheer the Russians as they passed. “It looked like. the American army,” said Lt. Colley. “There were as many Shermans as there were Stalins, and all the trucks we saw were Studebakers, Dodges and Chevrolets.” The Poles in Echzin went mad with joy on the arrival of the Russians. But the Russians were so busy chasing the Germans out of Poland that they didn’t stop to be cheered. 8 Ed ” SO THE POLES had to express their gratitude to the Americans instead. Tossing them in the air according to the Polish peasant custom. Afterward they gave them a banquet with what remained of Baron von Rosen's ersatz larder. The Americans remained in Echzin several days, and Capt. Gruenberg and two other doctors —a Capt. Van Gorder and a Capt. Radda—set up a hospital for Russian wounded. They hung up the Red Cross flag, and the Russians began bringing in the wounded. Ultimately, when a Russian medical unit jved, an officer told them that ®nce the army had no instructions for handling escaped prisoners they would have to go to Moscow. os 8 »

THE THREE wasted a week trying to get to Warsaw by rail. Then a Russian general put them in a Red army Studebaker that took them as far as Warsaw In Praga the Polish army pvt them up in a recreation center, The three decided that they would do better on their own. A Polish girl provided them with “three loaves of bread and six feet of sausage,” and they started off, again by truck. At Brest-Litovsk, on the PolishSoviet frontier, they were held up for a night by Russian border guards—who were. a little doubtful about their lack of papers. They rode from Gomel to Moscow, by train—in a Red army officers' triple-decker sleeper. >» 8 2

AMERICAN prisoners of war in Poland were treated better than the prisoners of any other nationality, according to these three officers. But they were treated

. ” » » ON, Feb." 17, the three pale young men turned up at the U.S. military mission here. They were: Capt. Ernest M. Gruenberg, New York City, of the medical corps. He was captured last summer, after he. had parachuted 23 miles outside 'a town in the “drop zone,” during the invasion of Normandy. Second Lt. John M. Demling Jr., Winston-Salem, N, C. He was captured a year ago this month on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. Second Lt. Frank Washington, Ga., of the 17th fleld artillery, He was captured two years ago this month at Faix Pass in Tunisia, . ~ Demling is 30; his two companfons 29,

» 8 ” _ /ALL THREE became close friends in Szubin. They agreed to stick together, : They must have made a oretty good combination; too. Because without any money and without any valid documents, they managed to hitchhike more than 100 miles In the midst of war in exactly two weeks’ time. | Capt. Gruenberg story: J Instead of assembling with. the 1000-0odd American officers whom the Germans were evacuating on

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very badly by any standards that our men had previously known, All three agree that the Germans made no effort to live up to either the letter or the spirit of the Geneva convention—to which we in the United States so painstakingly adhere. The food the Germans gave our men was so inadequate that each lost from 20 to 50 pounds. The three officers have each gained from 10 to 15 pounds since their escape a month ago—which ‘says a good deal for the Poles and Russians who shared with them their front-line rations. » ” ” THE CAMP at Szubin was a former Polish reformatory Lt. Cooley, the veteran of the group, who had been there since the day it opened on July 6, 1943 told us-that 1500 men had bee packed in from 10 to 40 in a room. Their rations toward the end, he said, were reduced to half a pound of bread, an ounce and a half of meat, and thrée potatoes a day. “If it had not been for our Red Cross packages,” 'he said, “we would certainly have starved.” * ' Dr. . Gruenberg “said that the American doftors among ' the groups had estimated that their Sutions averaged 1300 calories a Y. :

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referring those thrown out of work to the fabric plants only, The union members view the procedure as an‘illegal method of carrying out a labor draft. So they've refused ,to take jobs in the tire cord plants. They've ignored orders to be.interviewed by representatives of the U., 8, employment service. ® They've said they will not worl in the fabric plants, even if it means they must stay out of work entirely. That's one side of the local picture. Meanwhile, drop into the office of Paul N. Devine, manpower commission director here, and you'll get the impression that the government also can be stubborn. You learn that, having decided to go ahead with its program of trying to supply the fabric plants with workers forced out of the fine goods plants by the employ~ ment ceilings, the manpower commission (backed by the army and the war production board) intends, as Mr. Devine says, to “stick it out to the end.” = = n

“VOLUNTARY Methods — And

+ we've tried all kinds for months—

haven't succeeded in staffing these two vital plants with enough skilled workers,” Mr. Devine says. (They need an additional 215). “So, as a last resort, we've had to order employment ceiling cut in other mills and directed the excess of workers to the essential factories. The plan, he concedes, hasn't as yet succeeded any better than the voluntary methods. Still, he says, it hasn't “completely” failed. Further ceiling cuts will be made, he declares, and it is plain that he hopes public opinion will swing to the side of the government, forcing the textile workers to change their minds. n ” n

public opinion — locally, that is—is on the side of the unionists. This reporter has talked with many representative New Bedfordites — civil leaders, businessmen and mill workers. For the most part, they're be-

hind the union in its opposition to

BUT

Said one community leader: “The war manpower commission has tried to conduct a guinea pig operation here. It has acted as though there was a work-or-fight law already on the books. It has pointed a gun at these workers of ours, and the gun wasn't loaded.” ae PRACTICALLY everybody insists the city is as patriotic as any other. Any of them will tell you: “Of course we want our soldiers to have the tires they need. We know that means a lot of tire fabric has to be produced, and the Fisk and Firestone plants here have got to produce a large share of it—maybe 20 per cent of the ‘total for the country.”

Talk with Antonio England, local representative of the Textile Workers Union (C. I. 0.; or with Fred W. Steele, secretary of the New Bedford Cotton Migs. Assn.; or with Mayor Harriman. They'll all agree that something must be done to get that fabrie made. But of the plans suggested— one calls for a bonus to be paidvolunteers who will go on the night shift at the fabric plants; ahother for a “loan™ of workers from the fine goods mills to the more" essential plants; still ane other for other mills here to undertake production of some of the tire fabric—none so far has been adopted. PE GOVERNMENT representatives say the latter suggestion is being considered. But in any case, the present plan will be continued.’ Meanwhile, businessmen and workers alike boast of how the fabric plant employees “gladly went on a seven-day week when the call went out.” This alone, they claim, increased production

“15 per cent, and a war depart-

ment this. Moreover, the fine goods mills also are in the war effort, they poi out. Up to 50 per cent of the production of the 10 fine goods mills, they assert, 1s for war—such things as parachute material and uniform cloth. (They don't dwell on the handkerchiefs, shirts, . similar civilian are made here.) ss ® =»

THEN, to point up the labor shortage here, they stress the fac that there are additional wa plants in town—factories maki vital radio equipment, elect; goods and the like. i What the outcome of the ent difficulty will be, is

representative confirmed

and , which also