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ing spring suits All wool shete igan and dress-

ent, Come and

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IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (belayed) —The

funniest aman in ou Gifford of Buford, He's a drawly and witty, He has a

SAYS, he business.’ d

“too. damned. old to be

ir hut.of B-29 pilots is Capt. Bill: 8 C : tatking southerner; leaxxs? a Jong heck and blond i: hair and a wide mouth and he is

-the salt of the earth,

Before 1 arwved Gifford held the record for being the sKinniest man in the B-29 base. The other boys-—eall him “The 97-Pound Wonder.” Sn ! But now they can laugh at me instead of him when we go to take an outdoor shower, Bill Gifford is an old-timer inaviation, much “elder than his fellow pilots here. He is 36, and has been flying about 17 years. . As he in this bombing

He says he gets so scared over Japan he can hardly

think, ‘and I imagine

that's true... But I noticed he

volunteered to go on a certain specially tough mission

when it came up.

Call Us the «(

» IT TURNED o fatual friends in

randhi Twins’ that Giff and I had lots of airmail days, such as

ut the early

1. © Merrill and Gene Brown and Johnny Kytle, so

Bill has: been He flew the early

American in South America. “Canadian air

Atlantic, ferrying

ve become. practically bosom pals. twius, you could call us. around

force,

The Gandhi

in this world of aviation night airmail. He flew for PanHe was in the Royal and made seven trips across the

bombers to England

It's worth a theater ticket to hear Giff tell about

a mission after he his feet and half his vocabulary. It seems that e

Giff is on a mission. ft while I was here.

hut for a few Ti I would have been

Anyway, it was just a

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

LOS ANGELES is another has a. pigeon problem

apolis, working on it for

Brown, id E. 5

Brown nominates foreman, for the

held all records f{ sling shot® on the wing.” sent to

E. Cooper,”

copies of which were mailed me

uses his hands and a great portion of

gets back." He’ the room-and

He gets tickled and then he gets mad

verything always goes wrong when He had ,an experience to prove I'd gone to visit id a neighboring mutes and he .couldn't find me, or with him on fit.

half hour before supper,

city that, like Indianout there they've been A story, in Outdoor Life, by. both prsip S h, and Andy Smith, T™ N. Tremont, tells how they go about vears ago, Amos to go around t pigeons with a .22 rifle. He gets them-on-church towers, on building ledges, utility wires and all the other favorite haunts... In 10 he has shot more than 30.000 birds and apparently hasn't made much of .a dent in the supply. Andy Smith ‘thinks “this would bé a good idea for InSimapolse~ an he adds a post-

10 years

vears,

i take the job.” Mr. Jack ‘Rusie, Ps Times’ pressroom Job. Says Mr. Brown: “When we

were kids in the old east end some 50 vears ago, Jack

or shooting with .the BB rifle and

He always gave them a break-—shot them

. Mrs. Grace Cooper, 1949 College,

ome clippings of stories on Indianapolis’ efforts rid of pigeons to her husband, S. Sgt. in the Philippines.

Howard He wrote back sug-

gesting that when ‘the pigeon problem is solved here,

won't Park Supe

rintendent Paul Brown please go

over there and get rid of the mosquitoes?

Stayz Out A WOMAN

a problem “What” hand.’ Youghtalen have any ‘the caller, worker, a item in yest the

He stays

saig

indign

erday

out all night and gets drunk.” thing to: antly,

SO 18

one mentioning

All Night

phoned the Office of Civilian Defense, .. in the basement of the city for the asKeq trie cre

hall, yesterday and posed secretary, Mrs. H. H. Heughtalen, yond abdut my. huss Mrs, she didn’t think the OCD would say about that. “Why not?" asked “I'm a civilian and a defense he!” Good logic, anyway 's columh got quick that Postmaster

It was Seidensticker

results

America Flies

ANOTHER “F

OOLPROOF” post-war light plane

for private fliers was announced this week and Wright

Field supply

is the: “Chum,” & low-wing persona tobe produced by

President

land minute,

John W at 108 miles per hour at 50 miles per hour and climb 650 feet per

reported beginning of extensive experiments. to “easscohair. comfort” for fighting ‘pilots. Thus both avi:

ition industry and army air are trying to make flying just as easy and safe as is possible. As an afterthought, Wright Field also- informed milady, who is missing her wlon stockings, that they've gone to war in a big way. Maj. Gen, Bennett E. Myers, deputy director of the air technical service command, “there's enough nvlon in a 56-inch homber tire to make 260 pairs of women's

says

hose.” It makes tires stronger and better, The new post-war light plane~

two-place, two-control,” spin-proof, l.airplane with tricycle landing gear, the Aeronca Aircraft Corp. Friedlander says it will cruise fly 480 miles without refueling,

Top Speed of 120 MPH

“LARGE larged 7T0-pound brakes, ball will be standard

AUTO-TYPE doors,

bearing controls,

deluxe interior, en-

baggage compartment, starter and

equipment.

with two in the cabin’s top for better visibility,

A.15 h. p. speed of 120 mil

engine will pogver

es per hour.

+ feet, and gross weight 1300 pounds.

ATSC's experimental apparatus to improve pilots’ of a visual trainer to create the illusion

seals consists

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—It seems unbelievable that tne Canadian and American armies have row joined

forces and that our troops are now on the Rhine.

The day of d

experiences.

1 hope, howeyr,. that most families are i

odm 18 drawing closer,

man people will accept the

fear!

. : sit Ee

forces

hydraulic generator Windows will be large

the plane at a top Wing span will be 29

and one cannot help wishing that the German army and the Gerin- = _evitable and save both their own young. people«and others from the bloodshed of battle, not to speak of the sufferings of civilian popuJation which are being subjected

to heavier and heavier - daily few years, bombings. How trivial ,our daily round

seems and yet our ordinary lives must go on, in spite of- anxiety or

Monday evening we went to see “Snafu,” and we certainly enjoyed Ronald Stevens as acted by Billy Redfield. He 1 seemed completely natural, and as lines of boys and girls in army and navy uniforms came down to get their, programs signed between acts, I looked at the boys from overseas and thought that quite a few of them might have gone through some. io Ronald's

when Giff got an emergency order to beat it to the airstrip right quick and take & ship up on a “half? 1 hour! s. test hop.

By Ernie Pyle|

* Ay

e Indianapolis

He. made the flight all right, hut.’ when he ‘got

ready to land the wheels wauldn't come down. That's,

verv annoying, you know: Well, Giff radioed the field, and then began work-

ing on those wheels.

or course these big B-29's|

are so complicatedly automatic that you do everything | by little electrical switches ahd levers, and not oo

hand.

“Some guy must have spent all day crossing up|

wires on that airplane” Giff said exaggeration when he got back.

‘Bomb Bay Doors Shut

“INSTEAD OF the wheels- coming down, the bay doors opened. When I tried to shut them, the upper turret gun started shooting. switch by mistake and the tail Just for the hell of it I tried to lowerthe flaps, and Ipgtead the bomb bay doors went shut. “By that time I'd turned it over to, the co- -pilot and was back in the bomb bay trying to make some sense out of the switchbox and get things working - again. “But I wouldn't make head nor tail out of it. 1 worked on the damn ‘thing for half an hour and was gettin’ - madder every minute.

in his comical 9 mb

I hit the light skid came down.|.

“Finally I just got. so disgusted I hauled off and gave the goddam switchbox a good smack with the

screw-driver, and started to walk out.

And just like

that the wheels came down and everything was all|

right.” Gif homber “pilot.

‘He's

forms of exercise.

half the day,

| | |

looks :more like a Texas cowboy than a

a conscientious objector to all

All the pilots sleep all night: and but Giff sleeps more than any of them. |

He is probably the most’ unmilitary man in the |

outfit.

erous as can. be.

He's just an old-shoe Southerner, and gen-| On his wall are a map of the] Pacific and a picture of his wife

He goes around |

most of the time in nothing but white under-drawers. The first two fingers of Giff's right hand are off, clear up to the hand. No, he didn’t lose them from flak or Jap fighters.

when he “was hunting quail ‘mahy

He shot them off with a shotgun years ago.

was attempting to locate relatives of an Indianapolis soldier, Kenneth Wolsiffer. The soldier was mentioned

in a German short wave broadcast as being a pris-| The ink was scarcely dry on the first few papers off the press befofe the first call. was rethe postoffice. had called to identify the soldier, - One of the callers Joseph Wolsiffer, was the family’s first news of Kenneth since he was officially reported missing Dec. 23. airborne troops,

oner of war.

ceived at

was .a_brother,

side Bakery. Mrs.

Mrs. Harry

His Lida Wolsiffer, ; W. Black, 6170 Ralston, was a bit surprised yesterday to answer

and formerly worked at the South-| wife,

And by noon, four persons 1122 Bradbury. It! He's in the glider |

Josephine, and his mother,

live at 1411 E, Southern.

the phone and discover |

she was talking to a perfect stranger, somewhere eet

Seas.

It wasga telephone operator with an accent

that Mrs. Black thought was British. She said it wa.

an overseas call,

asked if this was the Harry Black |

home, and said the call was from a “Spencer Black.” |

Mrs.

There's a Harry G./Black in town—out at the Na- |

tional Cleaners—2149 College—but™Hg didn't know 2 * PHILIPPINES REPORT i

Spencer Black, either:

i Black knows no one by that name and has no| near relatives overseas,

so she didn't take the call.

Maybe the operator meant

call Minneapolis and got Indianapolis by EE It's happened before,

Go Fly a Kite ADD UNUSUAL sights:

Two naval chief Petty]

officers running up and down Pasadena st. in Irving- |

ton,

last Sunday in a futile effort to. fly a kite. kite wound up in a tree. by -the sight was a small boy. chased for him, it. before it was lost in the tree.

The | The only .person not amused | The kite was pur-|

but he hadn't -even gotten to touch

. Mrs, William Bal-

| shess BR 204, called to comment, on the item about |

the car with a 1942 Oregon license ‘plate. she says. Balsley says Oregon still When motorists

fectly legal,

windshield sticker. car when it's sold. Detective Harry Hillman sent me

the same information, |

of actual flight. while graph forms record supporting pressures. rections are based on the findings. on thé equipment, will make photographic records of |

the tests.

Automotive engineers pr eviously

| knife in the f states. “. The system : Yr - works Jike this: By Max B. Cook | "5s om: native: girls,

pay

§s It's per-{

Just back from Oregon, Mrs. | is using its 1942. plates. | their license fee; they get The license plates go with the

Records are kept ot body.sore spots, |

CorCameras, installed |

| had conducted |

similar experiments to determine the most comfortable |

type of seat for a passenger auto

The equipment, for |

{hese tests was designed by two automotive engineers |

at the, University to ATSC as a model for

of Michigan.

Then it -was loaned the aircrafi seat tests.

{

A comfortable pilot is a better pilot, ATSC says, | pecause he is more relaxed, does not tire so quickly and can give all his attention to flying the plane,

ATSC Saves Rubber

ATSC. ALSO announced the launching of a world- |

per cent

It takes a lot of rubber De-icers, fuel cells for gasoline tanks, hose, Your iridebtetiness. A candy bar, life rafts, included AAF commands and air forces throughoyt the home| acceptable. and fighting fronts are co-opetating.

planes. oil lines, items are

wide rubber conservation program to cut consumption | of airplane tires and other rubber parts by at least 25| tiful you've ever seen. Then you

to fly America’s combat | life vests and hundreds of other] in addition to tires and tubes, |

{ pip |

LT. GEN. B. K. YOUNT, commanding general of |

the AAF training command, has officially commended |.

the AAF training command radio school at Sioux |

Falls army air.field, S. D., for years of outstanding work.”

Set up in

July,

“its two and a half}

1942, the Sioux Falls school has,

trained approximately 50 per cent of the ROM-| gunners serving in the European theater of operations. | In each of the 20 different air forces over the globe |

Sioux Falls-graduatés may be found,

today.

it was stated |

By Eleanor Roosevelt!

both in anticipation of their son's return and at the |

- | |

time when he actually.arrives—with a little more calm and. naturalness than was achieved by Mr. and Mrs.

Stevens.

This morning 1 went to Miss Selma Burke's sido

to look at a head she has done of the President, Then a visit to the dentist and a lunch engagement with a

small group of people.

In the afternoon I went to a meeting and tea at

Mrs.

Lash’s house for

the Wiltwyck school. This |

school needs more friends if, in thé course of the next

it 18 going to lay a real pattern for the

treatment of young delinquents. Sirice we are becoming more and mare conscious |

of our: obligation to the young people of our com-| munities, I think if we car prove in one school that |

a child from bad surrouhdings—given the proper care

~may be saved from: real delinquency, we will have

done something of value to the nation as a whole.

in New York country who

Therefore, this school, tarian, has an ‘interest, I think, not only for people

which is entirely non-sec-

but for people in other parts of the interested in saving children from

the » feed of spending years of their lives in reformaand only too often, later, in prisons. ; ones the evening I am attending a dinner and returning to Washington by the midnight train,

3,000,000 United States independence.

—“Thie Syrian republic —with its

than ing republic, Lebanon, the ‘same idea Syria's chief executive stated that

y NEBNESDAY NAY CHA, 1945 -° 3

pT i

Ts Up and Over’ for Marines as lwo Campaign Nears End

Loaded down with equipment, these U, The man on the right, keeps in touch with his command post by walkie-talkie, Casualties were heavy in this campaign—the bloodiest in their history—but the leathernecks ndw are closing in for the “kill.”

on Iwo. ammunition.

‘

as he runs,

Syria Looks to U.

DAMASCUS, March 5 (De layed)

people—looks to the

for support of its

“Syria wants to treat all the

United Nations on an equal foot-

ing without giving France’ any dominant - position,” President. Chourky El Kouatly told me today in an interview. . lasting more than

an hour at Syr_fa’s presidential piace over=looking sun-

mr. splashed Da-

Weller

mascus.

With even greater vehemenece the leader of its neighborexpressed last week,

to me

his

government would

grant France any privilege.

However,

tain

the president

schools, ° institutions

refuse

acknowledged that France has cer-

hospitals which Syria would like

help.

Syria's president -is a tall,

bust, dle fifties.

struggle against

ro-

long-nosed man in his midHe has a generation France and against Turkey behind him, >

He has been .a political refugee. and

Egypt. powers the Levantine republics. Receiving. me

Saudi Arabia, Iraq,

which have

independence of the

in his

The three leading Arab recognized

twin

ornate,

gilded conference room, the president was plainly dressed in a sack

Sul

t with a

pullover

sweater

against the night wind of the desert. His manner was cool, direct and

calm who—though

befitted an decisively

executive deter=

mined to.end France's hegemony

By Gerald Thorp

Social Graces Are Required To Get Laundry Donen Leyte

LEYTE, March 7.—The social Emily Post laundry

graces of an are

needed to get. your done in the Philippines.

Enlisted men and officers alike

have tegttéd that-to blunders pa

the natives’ accepted laundry routine is a worse offense

than eating peas with your’

traveling in groups of from four to 10, visit the camps. If you're lucky, you may spy your own clean ‘clothes atop the head of one of the troupe. Simply to demand -your bundie would’ be ‘a serious breach of etiquette. Instead, you smile and look longingly at the laundry. If the girls smiles back chances are you're on the track—that- laundry probably

Mr. Thorp

the right is

yours, Then, if she offers you a _

flower, you're a cinch to be wearing clean clothes by night. You accept the flower, ‘explaining fhat it is the most beau-

| step quickly into your tent in ‘search of a suitable gift to offset

package of are quite

a cake of cookies—any,

soap, a or all,

The girl grac iously accepts the gift and reluctantly places. her bundle on thef%round. You smile

happily for 30 seconds or so to

show reach “How The girl

your pleasure and for your billfold. much?” -.you say.

then

replies. with. one of

Jer few but always tactful Eng-

lish phrases: Mew suddenly - discover “10 pairs or more of black eyes Are you going {to be a jerk or a Right Joe? : finger a one -peso bill— It's a temptation, but. you're no jerk. So you hu

your way.

You 50 cents.

“Up to you.”

riedly

hand the girl two pesos. It isn't

over vet. The girls study you intently. : Finally, they discuss you-ex-citedly in their’ native tongue.You smile some mniore—ydu blush—but you never go away

until they begin moving toward

the The favorite laundry girl in our camp is Lily—a girl of 14,

‘younger misses.

next tent.

Lily almost

both eyes. Lily has learnéd, too, quick service is something

Yanks desire. When

who is the leader of a group of seven has - | a monopoly here because she has | learned, to wink, generally” with |

that

all she picked

up your bundle she always prom-

1ses.

“Back tomorrow—if no rain.”

But of course it always rains in the Philippines.

Unfortunately,

I have not been

the only witness of these interesting. proceedings. I offered Lily my- three: weeks’ accumulation of : day, qffite a sizable bundle to carry on anvone's- head.

dirty

Lily both “Wait for girl with two heads.”

clothes, the other

eyes,

only laughed and win ked

giggled Lily as she walked swiftly

away. Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis”

and The Chicago Daily News

mes

Up Front With Mauldin

JN =~

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Mere! “Al *ii

| LIBERATOR

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S. marines race through heavy enemy fire—beaded for a new position—during the early fighting Others carry signal wire, guns and

is not among the

the present. way,

INTERVIEW IN DAMASCUS ...By George Weller, Times Foreign Correspondent—

for Independence

in the Levants

with its present

more extreme Syrian nationalists. weapons.” Grappling frankly with the em- Regarding the French mandate battled que Vr whether —whose validity, Kouatly, like France or Syria should dispose other Syrian nationalists, never the present armed forces on-the recognized—the, president stated: ground, Kouatly said: “Syria is not asking for inde“Syria wants to take over ‘the pendence now for the first time, army, most of whose officers and. We have been asking #or TF since all of whose privates are Syrians.” \ the end of world war I Syria Ready to. Pav- the Bill’ his been clinging to its national : freedom without official cognizMuch American lend-lease mo- dance of what has been called "bile equipment—still the property ‘mandate’.” the U. 8. Government—is in Pointing out that U. S. interests the army's hands. Kouatly pointed in the Middle East oll strategy out - that. large sums of Syrian are - the ereatjens ot Wiison's money have also been spent on. OE a a ad 1 - v : Rouativ said. that Swit was United States, according to. the ready to pay for its BEM. Atlantic charter . and. impelled “parliament has allotted 15.- by the issues which have sent it 000,000° Syrian pounds (about into the war for humanity and $7,000,000) for the 1945 budget, for freedom—will not stay isoand are ready to allot: more if lated from the small nauons bas necessary,” Te Assorted: i continue giving them support. - Doesn't Want New Army ~ Core elint 19. 57 Thodtianesel ime Asked why, having already The Chicago Dally. News, Inc, voted the funds, the government |

looking* t

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| extent

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did not proceed to rafse its own

army independent of the Frenchcommanded forces, he said: “We do not want to raise a new army while the Tyoupes Speciales are under ‘the ‘French. We. do not want to create a conflict between brothers and cousins in two different armies— uncer different authorities. “Furthermore, we do not want to ask United, Nations for arms for the new army and thus become burdensome: to our allies. We Are sHt{sfed 1t we- take-over: 4

sepia —

th the

return

In Three Years

He's an Old Salt

NEW YORK, March 7 i James Simpson, New York, who time he

went to

| three years ago, | can't wait to get back. Scheduled * reassignment

for transport

(U.

sea for the "first said today

service, he wants

PD.

.next birthday ‘on the high seas.

His 70th,

next birthday

> A»

the army to time to celebrate his

will be his

WITH MITSCHER'S TASK FORCE. .. By Wm. McGaffin

‘Guess We Caught Japs With

-suffered a post-

Their Glasses Off That Time'

WITH VICE ADM, MITSCHER'S FAST CARRIER TASK FORCE, Off Okino Daito, March 2 (Delayed) —This fortified Japlistening 150. miles “had ~

anese post;

southwest of Okinawa

today

midnight shelling of almost an hour by the task. force of this fleet © Okino " Daito, with OKinawa, itself 300 miles off the Japanese mainland, is located in the Ryukyu island

Ae rh 2D

group Mr. MeGatiin The warships ' were=g kuided by moonlight and star shells as they

went in to less than 4000 alls to

fire -the first—broadsides at 0050 (12 55y: A. m. March “2). After that the fires of the barracks and

other squarely-hit Installations illuminated the ‘little island to the that no other lighiting was needed The prise from the

attack that. the thelr illusion that a bombing attack Th¥ugh binoc could see

was such a _surJapanese rushed beds apparently under they were under

ars officers

them directing sporadic

made 8 quick exit «The island is o and is an the strategic Wen't- Bother for Awhile

than a mile wide but it tipoff station to because of its

less import mainland location

int

It is equipped with a powerful

radio ‘station and thought to be one of the key communications ‘posts ¥ . It won't: bother us’ for awhile now s Uncle ‘Sam's blockade - of - the

land of the rising sun has begun ./ to gain momentum. Yesterday was a great day for “Emperor Hirohito's enemies. Some 500,000 disciples “of the son of heaven burrowed into the sacred

ground of the poisonous-snake ' {sland of Ikinawa as the silver

bursts of tracers skyward Commmented.orie old salt: “Guess we caught ‘em with their glasses off that time” Ships, sweeping up and down the west coast in long Indian file. fired everything down to 40mm's. They received no return fire / The only enemy "plane in the - vicinity was one’ wlach: flew over timorously after we had left to survey the damage and then

nly a mile long

wings of hundreds of U.S. car rier planes swept the sky from dawn till dusk, dropping their visiting cards in the form of rockets, machine-gun. bullets and: bombs. We attacked Okinawa’s military

targets a

11 day yesterday.

There,

too, we had no airborne opposi-

tion.

a EE

x Supreme Court Holds Key to ‘Mine Dispute ine Disput {Continued From Page One) portal-tosportal pay. About the same time a group of southern coal operators went into a federal district. court. in Virginia with a. suit against this kind of com pensation. The district judge dee cided .In- favor of the operators, but he was reversed by a: federal . circuit court of sppesls, and now the question ‘is up for final decision. After arguments tomorsrow, the -su- Mr. Perkins preme court conceivably could have its say bee fore March 31. That the date .'When the present mine worker contract’ expires, and when there couid be repeated es and gove ernment seizures of the coal mines, as there was two years ago, = = a EXTENSION of portal-to-portal pay .is prominent among - the 18 demands over which Mr. Dewis and assistants are arguing with spokesmen for the bituminous coal induswy. If the supreme court upholds the portal-té-portal principle the Lewis case will be fortified. It it goes the other way it will add more dynamite 40 an explosive situation. Meanwhile, . the negotiators are going through the preliminaries in the usual manner of at pro= cedures. They ' come every (wo years, may end on schedule but, offentimes don't, and wsual® end in some kind of a victory for Mr, Lewis in behalf of his clients, half -a& million miners. : = n 2 MR. LEWIS, just past his 63th

Our first wave caught the Jap ack-ack batteries so com=4

pletely by surprise that our boys

got ference

Our Planes Had Good Day

The . tot

terday’s mission,

“a free

ride” without

ighest -thing about

inter-

Ves-

according to Ma-

rine Maj. David Andre, of Coral

Gables, Fla, was “keeping out of the way of other American planes.” “I've never seen so many over one target at the same time,” said he,

" Hell-divers and torpedo bombers got in a good day's work on

shipping, shooting Other

tanker and destroyer

ing and

strover tor beach to avoid the same fate

Harbor, Yes, it bomber

while fighters up the island bombers left

forced still another itself in

was a great day for our personnel. 1945, by The Indianapolis Times

e Chicago Dally

News, Inc

were

another escort deNaha

t HANNAH ¢

os organized labor.

birthday, locks as fit as ever for the siege of dickering. His miners refused to follow him in last fall's presidential election, but they ale ways back him in questions of dollars and cents. That's why they pay him 25 grand a.year.

And he has produced so well that the coal operators are pute ting out figures intended to show that coal miners are better paid than any other comparable class of labor.

One new condition this vear is that the union spokesthen are dealing for the first time in one room with the entire soft coal industry.. That is something Mr, Lewis has been aiming at for years. But it became a reality apparently because the .coal operators decided they could do better

<Ahrangh:. a unifed. Laat,

8 a HERETOFORE Mr. Lewis ‘has been able to drive wedges between groups, of operators,

» He would force through a cone tract with one group and then apply competitive pressure te other groups. They would events ually fall in’ ‘line,

LE £ & THIS natignal bargaining set= up important in all fields of’ Philip “ Murray, head of the C..1. O, been trying to get it for his own union, the United Steelwprkers.

is has He would like to fake a nae

tional contract with the entire steel industfy ‘instead of starting

out with U. §. Steel ‘and getting other -steel companies to cone form. gid

We, the Women — Sitloin Used As Bludgeon Stirs Envy

By. RUTH MILLETT

THERE WAS A little story in the papers not long ago about 8 husband who, accor to. hig

wife's complaint, came homs drunk, picked a fight with her, grabbed a five- -poun 1d, 50-point stea k which she had ready to go un-

sirloin

der the :broiler, and threw it at her The story didn't say what questions the magis trate hearing the case asked the wife, But it must have . beenn hard for him to refrain from asking-shese: o n » Soo oULY YOU wv wife how yom =man your ‘satiol 0intg In order to » be able to occa l= Ty buy’ a five-pound sirloin, coste ing 50 red points? Could vou give me the name of the butcher who has nice, juicy sirloins for sale? “Is he a merchant who believes in the “first come, first served” tiieory or doss he ‘hide his sire loins for pet cusjomers, and iY s0,

would you mind giving me a let=

ter of. recommendation to him? a = ®., “WHATEVER became of the sirloin; anyhow? - “Did you~ stop fighting long

enough to retrieve it and put it in the ice box?

“And if you,aren’t going to use:.. . 4

At—would you like to offer fit for . “sale?”