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IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS— (Delayed) —In my long career with the United States army, I've made a hobby of cultivating the very best people in it. And for some strange reason the very best

people usually turn out to work in the kitchen. Isn't that ‘odd? = My latest acquisitions are a Mutt & Jeff team known as Mickey and Bill. . They serve the food in our mess hall. They have to work like dogs and they dash around in such intense has'e that ’ you think they are mad at everybody all the time. But they aren't. That's just a look of concentration on their faces. Whenever we give them time to relax, they're the bestnatured pair you ever saw. These two boys are Sgt. Thomas Bill of St. Louis and Cpl. Mickey Rovinsky of Edwardsville, Pa. They're as different as day and night, but they work together like cogs in a gearwheel. Sgt. Bill is tall and thin and ‘white-skinned and has curly black hair and a sensitive face, a he doesn’t say much Mickey is so short he could stand under Bill's arm, and his skin is dark. His eyes are almost shut and he talks all the time—and such talk:

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He fusses back at the officers who ask for extra service, ‘but they know Mickey and don't get sore about it. He's a sassy, wise-cracking little heart-of-gold fellow. He never laughs, but he's pretty happy. He wears his cap turned up in ‘front, which gives him a cocky air, The bovs’ special favorite among all the fliers is my friend Capt. Bill Gifford. He's always giving them things, and sits up and talks with them in the mess hall after supper. As a result they'd stay up all night for him if he merely suggested it. By good fortune, 1 fell in with this trio. and everv night Giff and I would stay away from supper until

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JACK ATHERTON, state senator and Butler

~finaneial secretary, leaves Saturday for Florida to rest.

He's been ill;*and was forced to miss the last 10 days or so of the legislative session. In Florida he'll join his father-in-law, Hilton U. Brown , There's a rumor making the rounds to the effect that the street railway has received some of those 25 new busses they ordered, but that “they can’t use them _because someone forgot to order fare registers for them." Well, it's merely a rumor—not a fact. “We wish it were true,” says Evan Walker. “If we had the new busses, we could take registers off some of the old junker busses and use them.” . , . Margaret Reid, daughter of Harry Reid, street railway is in Methodist hospital for further treatIt's a

president; ment for a rare disease—lupus erythenosis. disease which affects the blood, causing violent skin

rash and other painful symptoms. The doctors, apparently, know little about it. ‘She's had it ever since “the last Speedway race, in 1941. At that time she was badly sunburned, and this presumably caused the ~trouble. Now she has to avoid sunlight like the plague. It produces violent symptoms. If she leaves the" family apartment, it has to be ‘at night. Although confined to bed much of the time, she remains cheerful, and is confident the Soelts SHOR wy 1 find a’ cure for her trquble. ;

One to a Customer!

ADD SIGNS of the wees: A classified ad in The Times today for Ford Woods & Co. offers for sale “five 4-bedroom houses, 1300 north. “Take your pick, one to a customer,” the ad concludes. . . ..Add “horrors of war”: It's reported there's a definite shortage of kites. , .. And who. ever would have dreamed that

“the time would come when folks would go around

~ from store to store whispering out of the corners of

their mouths: “Ps-s-s-t! Got any- whité shirts towegtay 2” . Well, the crocus situation is taken care of. C. A. Stillwell, 1635 Gerard -st., phoned yesterday that

he has three crocuses in bloom. They're all yellow.

World of Science

NAZI CERMANY is suffering definitely from a lack of many critical materials necessary for the production of top-grade weapons and war equipment. The Japs are suffering from no such shortage, These are the tonclusions drawn from a study of captured enemy materiel by metallurgists of the Battelle institute, Columbus, O. The studies were made for the army, navy and office. of scientific research and development, the agency. charged with producing new weapons and devices for our own’ armed forces. As a result of the shortages in Germany, the Nazi designers have bene forced to show considerable ingenuity’ in fashioning many “items. ~The Japs, on ‘the other hand, have been able to lag in design and accept inferior standards of workmanship. The investigation shows that the Japs have been prodigal in their uses of, alloying metals, indicating that they must have considerable stockpiles of these critical “éelements~still on hand. A report of the complete investigation, prepared by J. R. Cady, H. W. Gillett and L. H. Grenell, all of the Battelle institute, appears in the current issue of Metal Progress.

Study Enemy Guns

T POINT out that the ideal use to make of eapt ° { materiel is to turn it onthe enemy himself, For t. eason, officers and men-are familiarized with the opi ition of enemy guns at the Aberdeerr proving

ground aad then sent to forces in the field, prepared

My Day

~ VWASHINGTON, Wednesday,—It was most interesting at the dinner last night of the Southern Conference for”’Human Welfare to hear Dr. Homer P. Rainey, former president of the University of Texas, speak, .

Various academic organizations have been deeply troubled over the action taken by the trustees of the University of Texas. It is difficult,

to understarid what is the basis of this whole agitation, because it must go beyorid the mere question of acidemic subjects’ and administration. In, any case, having Known Dr, Rainey. ever since he did such a very interesting piece of work in the youth commission—where he was associated’ not only with academic tops but with people in the business world and of many varied interests—I was happy to see him again and to find him unchanged and. still a Sysamie + and interesting person, : 1 havehad one or two letters :from prisoners in Germany ‘and

- cards:

- point—near present Cologne,

~when you hear Dr. Rainey speak,

everybody else had finished and the two boys had their-tables all clganed up and ‘set. for breakfast. Then we'd wander over through the dark and the four of us would have a banquet—such as steak and French fried potatoes. The boys would cook it and | then we'd all sit down and eat, and ‘the talk would start to fly. The first Tokyo mission was a highlight in Mickey's life. The pilots are always tense the night before a mission, and Mickey has his troubles. , “They took off six times for Tokyo,” Mickey says ‘I mean they was scheduled to: go every day for six days, and they'd all be short-tempered and| wanting things just so at night, and then next morning ‘the missicn would be- postponed.

‘He Don't Say Much’ :

“IT WAS their first mission up there and they d | heard 4 rumor there was to be 1300 Jap fighters lined | up across the sky just like a wall, and they was nervous and grumpy. * “Like Capt. Gifford here, I can always tell when he’s going the next day. He don't say much at supper like he usually does. He just wants that] sharp attention and keep your mouth shut and leave him the hell alone. “Well, them pilots was tense and worried and they | didn't drink any beer or anything for five nights and | then finally on the fifth night they was up half the | around, and then next morning they | really did take off Boy they didn't feel good either. | “It's a good thing-they finally went or I was gonna | mutiny. “When Capt. Gifford gets back,” Mickey wenf on, “he’s a changed man, He's still full of nerves but he wants to talk: and he wants ‘me to keep the beer | comin’ out of the icebox.” Sgt. Bill sits and listens and smiles and enjoys it ahd says almost nothing... He and Mickey are hoth

By Ernie Pyle]

SECOND SECTION

PARENTLY Indian-

apolis citizens are more

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| ‘law abiding on foot than

ahoard motor vehicles. In the near future, however, both as pedestrians and motorists, citizens must watch their “traffic” steps. Additional enforcement of motorists and pedestrian laws is being planned by the Indianapolis police department, expanding the safety program ‘begun last year dccording to Thomas W. Schlottman, captain of traffic. . rt Hn uo . REVIEWING the progress of the safety ‘program, started in | co-operation with the Indianapolis chamber of commerce safety council, he declared, “Greatest improvement in safety practices has been on the part of pedestrians. Motorists are not doing so well.” As a result a period of warning and education on the state traffic

, / y’ 1 3 23 re- . mated men, although they're only 24 and 31 code. to lake: effect. soon. will be spectively. : dir 4 ; rnvel the iz . irected mainly toward the latter Bill was a truck driver and Mickey a machinist This will be lotowen OV en. before the war. Sgt Bill has one baby and Mickey {ofcement of the aw oe y J v L . has two. Mickey places the birthaate of his latest child Sr : a by remembering 't was born the Hight the Nips came THE MAIN. provisions. as deand hombed: the B-29 base the first time. fined. in Article -X of the state The day I was to leave they gave me what Mickey | . 4a are:

called my ‘farewell breakfast'—three “fried eggs’ There's nothing in this army like knowing the very best people.

When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way (slowing down, or stopping if necessary) to a pedestrian when the pedestrian is-in the half of the roadway where the vehicle is traveling, or

{ when the pedestrian is approach-

None of the other colors have blossomed yet. Mr. | Stilwell says the yellow .ones always beat -the other colors. He doesn’t know why. .-... A reader post- | “Adding insult to injury: Railway Express trucks carrying large signs advertising’ Prince Albert tobacco—and not an ounce of it to be had in Indian- | apolis.” . When a big tractor trailer truck broke | down ‘at Illinois and Morris sts. yesterday noon, mem- | bers of the school patrol were equal to the occasion. | Allen Roberts. Albert Passo and Philip Goldsmith took charge of automobile traffic, and kept it moving

through the blocked intersection until they had to go back to school. | Not Bad, Julius | SOME RADIO listeners were annoyed Tuesday | night when Fulton Lewis Jr. toldsonly “half a story”

in his broadcast. He related how Gen. Brehon Som- | ervell asked his engineers how long it would take to build a bridge across the Rhine -and, when they te-| plied, told them it didn’t take Julius Caesar that long to do the job. He didn’t go ahead and explain about | Julius’ exploit. Among those who just had to know how long it took Caesar was Mrs. Easley Blackwood. | She found the answer in Will Durant's “Caesar anc Christ.” In a chapter on Caesar, his troops took after the marauding German tribes] and drove them back to their own side of the Rhine. | ‘Then, in 10 days, his engineers built a bridge over | the great stream which was 1400 feet wide at that Not bad for Caesar's day. Of course, Caesar's bridge didn’t have to support huge tanks, etc. . Stewart Donnelly, the internationally known confidence man—now in retirement— gave members of the Junier C. of C. a talk yesterday on how to go places and “do” people in a big way. | His reminiscing kept his listeners fascinated. . | Most of you know what the Red Cross has done and] is- doing for the servicemen in this war. And no| doubt, many of you wish. there was a way for you to! help. Well, ‘there is.- The Red Cross is inthe midst! of a drive for funds. And they badly reed some addi-| tional solicitors for the downtown district, If you'd] like to help, get in touch with Carl Fortney (HU. 5778), George Smith (TA. 7817), or Blodgett Brennan (RI. 8361). Your help really is needed.

By David Dietz |

to instruct the men in | the operation of captured guns. | However, detailed studies of the materiel are also! needed for two reasons. One is to learn what the | enemy has with a view to planning to meet it. - The other is to deduce the condition of the enemy's re- | sources from what he is putting into his guns and other equipment.

Reveals Enemy Weaknesses

THE FIRST REASON requires experimental determination of how the materiel actually functions— the accuracy of guns, penetration power of projectiles, resistance of armor, speed of tanks, etc. Much of this work is done.at. the Aberdeen proving ground. Special tasks are assigned to the Watertown, Frankford, Pitatinny and Rock Island arsenals. The second type of study frequently reveals enemy weaknesses and are extremely valuable to the army, navy and foreign economic administration. An eriemys shift from orfe raw material to another or from one method of production to another may disclose his shortages in materials or production equipment and thus show up bottlenecks whose |

furthes restriction by military or economic action will |.

hurt him most. Regarding the Nazi situation, the three scientists report that the study shows that, they are deadly, determined foes “who are quite capable of making up with brains and skill what they lack in worldly goods.”

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ing so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger. No pedestrian, however, shall suddenly leave a curb and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield the right of way. The crosswalk is defined as extension curb and property line whether marked or unmarked. ” " WHENEVER. any ‘vehicle is stopped at a marked or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle. : Another - provision says that every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked or unmarked

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945

NEW SAFETY EDUCATION CAMPAIGN PLANNED FOR AUTO DRIVERS—

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crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway. Notwithstanding the foregoing

provisions every driver of a motor vehicle shall exercise -due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian. And motorists shall exer-

THE SERMANS LEARN WHAT U. S. CAN DO—

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LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent’

WASHINGTON, March 8.—The

{ Cologne I visited four years ago

was a fast moving community full of hard working men and women:

They spent their money freely—

and would bet yow’the war would be over hy Christmas. They drank beer in the cheéapest places of amusement, They mixed champagne with a red Bulgarian wine in middle class resorts. That mixture produced a terrific hangover. In the swank night spots— which evaded the 11 p. m. curfew with connivance of the Nazi police—tHley were drinking champagne straight. » n 2

COLOGNE was a -boom town the bank. They bad lot on the surface. were having a big time with their well«playing jobs; their girl friends —and the hope of world domination. Cologners weren't even angry with the British. They were" just annoyed. Dozens of them fold me that the British were silly. The British, they said, had been

weren't such a

stubborn to quit. had a long word for it meaning “war prolongers.” They weren't angry with Americans, either. But there was evi-

with money in-the pocket and in’

And they .

licked in 1940 and were just toQ. The Germans

~~ Cologne—From: Boom Town fo. Chaos. |

This message from a front line United Press reporter.in Cologne- was received in the Washington United Press bureau today. “Chris Cunningham .to Lyle Wilson: you hac ex-Cologne. How it not beaten up Stop Suggest possibly worth piece compare .it now Stop Cologne worse than anything on Russian front Stop Only thing upstanding in tact is cathedral and remainder city simply four walls. reaching skyward Stop Bluegray drizzly ‘weather unhelps erihance picture stop.” Okay, Chris, here's the piece con

I remember 1941 story

dent the first faint -suspicion and, maybe, fear. Our first lend-lease bill was well -on its way in ‘congress when I was there.

stirring of

” ” ” IF HERR DIREKTOR Kleon of Cologne's Humboldt-Deutz -motor works is still alive, I'd like to resume with him today our conversation of just four years ago. This took place in his wellfurnished plant office. I wouldn't want to resume in Klein's office, though. I see by the papers that Klein's office and plant are missing. One of the things Klein told me—and which I verified by personal, inspection of the “city and its industrial suburbs—was that British bombers ‘had not hurt Cologne. .¥ went all over town and couldn't find any bomb scars Maybe a patched roof here and there. But ‘that was more attribwtable fo falling flak fragments than to British bombs.

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THE ROYAL air: force then was pitifully weak as a striking force. Klein's ‘plant was a goode exanmiple. On” the city outskirts it

was making 5000 big and litfle

Diesel motors every month. Klein said there had not been an hour's

‘Interruption of work since the

Up Front With Mauldin

They had that while the Japs have shown them- | selves to be ‘“copycats” and often to be satisfied with! wasteful methods or inferior products, these inferiori-| ties are such as are tolerable within their strategy. For these reasons, they warn against a feeling of | over-optimism peing drawn from the studies.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

been confused by having what seemed to them contradictory directions for communication with our prisoners. Having now obtained the proper directions, I am going to give them here in the hope that they will be of assistance to others who are anxious to reach, their men who are prisoners of war as quickly as possible, <« When the regular blanks are used, the postoffice will take -the letter without stamps. When the regular blanks are not used, the writer must, send the letter to Washington to be mailed, as SO many people. were using stationery that had advertising and propagairda on it—such as “buy war bonds,” etc.—which the German government would not accept. ‘A label from the provost-marshal’s office is issued to the next of kin. Instructions are given on this as

to how, to mail and address the package, and it allows.

one 11-pound package to be mailed “every ‘60 days. Sometimes labels come directly from the prisoner; he might "get some French ptrisoner-of war labels and send them, thinking they could be used. So be sure your labels are those by the United States.

‘When a person has been notified that a man 'is &| prisoner of Sar,’ but there is still no address as to|

mail must be sent to

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war began. I am sure he told the truth. He showed me pridefully around, reporting that he was adJusting his production methods as rapidly as he could to those of a Chevrolet plant he once had visited near Detroit. In his easy colloquial English, Klein said “that Chevvie plant was a production man’s dream come true, but with angels.” ” » " WHERE I'd like to resume our conversation was at the point just before I said goodby. We had been discussing the lend-lease act. Klein and other Germans ‘were asking “What will the United States do?” I told them I didn’t know “Never mind,” Klein said to “It makes no difference. Because your intervention would not be the deciding factor this time. You know, Wilson; old fellow,

| this is not 1918.”

a v ” n n THAT'S where I'd like to pick up our conversation. I would with Klein that this 1s NOT 19818. . The Cologne of 1918 was unScratched just as I found it in

the latter days of February and | | the early days of March in 1041.

Four years ago Cologne was as lively and weather-tight-a coms munity as there was on earth. In Cologne 1 stopped in the Dom hotel on the square which surrounds the magnificent Co~ logne cathedral. The Dom hotel is missing, too—now. » ” ” . HANGING out my top floor window one night I heard and saw what passed for a fairly severe air raid in 1941. The British were overhead all right. But compared with the pasting Cologne has taken in the past few weeks it was strictly a party call. The R. A. FP. left ‘cards, Here are my notes: : “Flugge alarm at 9: 20 p. m., and a real one. Restaurant proprietor begged guests to go to cellar ‘two floors - below street. Benches; small electric stove. Cellar dry but chilly: Women had blankets. “We stayed 10 minutes and re-

turned to restaurant for coffee 5

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cise proper ‘precaution upon ob- | serving any child, confused, or in- | capacitated person on the road- |

way. |

long after midnight more planes passed time over city.

as one or time after |

= 5 { “BRITISH dropped three flares which looked like might come in | my window. .Each flare about 10 minutes : “One plane evidently very Tow

Because riearby battery opened up

with small calibre tracer No planes caught in heard no Bombs hit. bursts in air and cathedral beautifully silhouetted by. flares.” If thate raid damaged ‘Cologne I was unable to detect. it. British communique next day said 103 fires had been set in ‘the city. That was nonsense. The hotel proprietor dismissed the whole incident this way: “Just fireworks — like Fourth of July.”

bullets.

your ” » » COLOGNERS were so little impressed by British raids of . that period that they made up-a little song about “their frequent and futile visitations. It was like this:

“Bread without butter, “To bed without supper. “Get the bed warm; “Flugge alarm.” » n AND NOW Cologne is dead, except for! the great cathedral. Its walls have been chipped a bit but the famous 15th century stained glass windows must be safe. The Germans were removing them four years ago when I was there. ° When Klein said this was not 1918, he was a better prophet than he knew,

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~ Labor Wage Controls To Stay Under

. . Davis Regime By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, March 8.—Mr,

Ropsevelt's promotion of William H. Davis from. chairmanship of

the war labor board to the job of director, for

economic stabilization means a presidential okay what has been going on in wartime wage freezing. It means also that ‘these wage - control policies, which have ‘been unier continuous and sometimes bitter attack from ‘dll large 2 branches. of organized labor will be maintained, at least until there

is a decided break im the war situation, such as an end to the fighting in Europe In this respect the Dawis appointment could be viewed as a tuirndown for the C. 1. O. and other labor forces that helped reelect Mr. Roosevelt last November. ” on 2 BOTH THE C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. have fréqueni]y as-

serted that the WLB public members were out of step with wage needs of workingmen. Some of their formal language made crisp reading. and, some of the private comments by labor leaders ‘would have blistered any record.

These criticisms were directed against the public members of WLB, but they really-were pronged for Mr. Davis. For this New York patent lawyer with a flair for. labor relations. has run this board since he helped to create it 10 days after Pearl Harbor.

Now he moves up to where he can apply his ideas to prices as well as wages—as he phrases it: “An over-all job of co-ordinating the national economy.”

HE SUCCEEDS Judge Fred M. Vinson chosen by the President to fill Jesse Jones' shoes as federal loan administrator Despite a few “fringe” disagreements, Mr. Davis is just as adamant as Judge Vinson was against any break in the dam against inflation. They think alike according to the recs, ord Both support Chester Bowles of OPA. And both are faithful followers of the Roosevelt. economic ideas.

In the war labor board Mr. Davis will be succeeded as chair. man by“ Dr. George W. Taylor, il the University of Penngylvitifa, who follows the same fipe: of economic thought.

There will be close sympathy between Messrs. Davis and Taylor in their new positions—and no comfort at all for the labor leaders who say the time has come to relax the brake on wages.

rn 2 = THE- GENERAL. idea. Is .contained. in the follow

from a statement by Messrs Davis and Taylor and other public WLE members:

“The time has not yet come in our judgment, when general

wage increases can be freely re- ,

sumed without danger of an. inflation which would be disastrous to the war effort and to. the economic security of all segments of our population.”

Meaning: No open the Little Steel probably - increasing the “fringe” labor leaders hive carried some thing back to their constituents.

break formula; attention

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We, the Women One Way fo. Meet Dearth Of Escorts

By RUTH MILLETT |

RECENTLY the society column of a New York newspaper men=tioned the close friendship between the present wife and the ex-wife of the same man. Said the writer: :

“Only the prospects of facing the stares of the curious keep the two women from share ing a box at the opera and attending the theater as a threesome with their respective, past and present husband.” Why don’t

they face down

those stares and start a new, wartime vogue? . ” ” »

SUITABLE escorts are so few and.far between these days—and divorces are so frequent that society’s manpower shortage would be considerably relieved if a man took his ex-wife or wives along with his present ohe when going to parties or seeing the town.

Think Row many girls Tommy Manville could keep from sitting

home alone, if he rang up all hig

wives every time he decided” to go out for an evening. ea

It should be stimulating experience for the wives, with the

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