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_ SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1945

Hoosier Vagabond

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed) —Over here the marines have an expression all their own, for the -Japs. ‘They call them. “Japes,” whichis a coma “bination of “Jap” and “ape.” = Now the fliers are taking it up, and there are vari ous versions of it. "I notice a lot of people ‘unconsciously pronounc: ing Japan as ‘‘Jay-pan,” just as in Africa we always used to ‘say “A-rab” instead of “Errab,” as we were taught in school. Further they - carry into multi-syllables, such as saying “We're going to. Jap-pan-man-land tomorrow.” Another slang word over here is “gear,” which apparently means a big shot. For example: Every afternoon a soldier brings about 50 létters written by enlisted men, into our hut for the officers to censor, ‘The officers in this ‘hut have a rule of doing the letters right now, and getling "it over with. They take about six apiece, and they're all through in a few minutes. The boy who brings the letters around is a SpanPfc. Gustavo Gonzalez of Galveston, Tex, He talks with an accent and is quite a character, The fliers enjoy kidding back and forth with him:

Some Veterans of European Combat

WHEN GONZALEZ came back for the letters, they were all finished. Apparently the other huts don't do go. well by him, and he has to wait, for as he. left he turned at the door and said to the officers: “You guys are all right. If I was a gear I'd promote you all.” One day while I was with the B-29 crews gunner 8gl. Fauad Smith pulled out a pack of cigarets and said, “How does that look?” He was pointing to the tax stamp on the package. It was the familiar orange-colored .stamp of New. Mexico. “The folks keep insisting on sending me cigarets,” he said, “I write and write and tell them we can

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

DR. J. ROBERT SHREVE, the optometrist, thinks

it's in the cards for Brcad Ripple high school to win

Just a ‘week ago, bloomed a crocus in his yard. It was orange with 4 black stripe. Orange and black happen to be Broad Ripples colors. -And . Broad Ripple won the regional. Yesterday, another crocus bloomed. It, too, was orange and black. And all this happened right out in Broad Ripple. Looks like a clear cut sign of victory. The Indiana Society for Crippled Children, which is conducting its annual funds drive, has sent 573,000 Easter seals out over the state. Among the recipients was one man in Brazil, Ind, who wrote back giving the society the dickens for wasting paper on the stamps. He used two sheets of paper protesting the waste of paper. . ._. Several agents have reported getting cigarets wrapped in tinfoil. It's been a couple of years or so since the use of tinfoil on cigarets was stopped. All of which indicates these must have been in storage for a long time. They seemed fresh enough, though. . . . A story in The Times several days dgo- describing the. honorable discharge button af the army and navy brought several letters asking where such buttons can be obtained. They are obtainable at most of the army and navy goods stores. But- it's necessary to show an honorable discharge before buying the button.

~ Not Up to Date

EVEN THE EXPERTS have their bad days. Take, for example; H. R. Knickerbocker, the famous. commentator and war gnalyst; who:sjioke yesterday nodn on the Town Hall program. Mr. Knickerbocker had a hectic train trip from Miami, and didn’t arrive here until an hour after he was scheduled to speak. The last hop, from Louisville here, was made aboard a CAP plane. In order to fill in the time while waiting for the speaker's arrival, Walter Leckrone, editor of The Indianapolis Times, gave the audience the latest news from the United Press wires. He

again today.

World of Science

GERMANY'S CHIEF bottleneck in critical war . materials today is copper. Other shortages in the order of their severit# are nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium and manganese, These are the conclusions reached by the experts of the Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, O., who have been making a study of captured enemy materiel for the army, navy and office of scientific research and development. The deterioration of the quality of these captured items with the progress of the war tells the story of what has been happening to German resources. The German copper situation is evidenced by progressive decreases in the amount of this metal used in cartridge cases, the Battelle report states. This report is the work of J. R. Cady, H. W, Gillett and L. H. Grenell. 2 In 1944 the Germans began substituting deepdrawn steel for brass in the larger cartridge cases of fixed ammunition, subsequently disclosing by their procedures that they did not even have enough copper for adequate protective coatings for these cases.

Layers Get Thinner STARTING WITH. copper cladding, the Germans shifted next to electroytic copper coating, which puts on a thinner layer of copper. Finally, they have resorted toa mere coating of lacquer, the Battelle metallurgists report. ~The Nazis have similarly shifted in the manufac-

My Day

WASHINGTON, EFEriday.—I have been thinking about the efforts which the state department and so many other groups are making to interest all of our people throughout the country in tHe Dumbarton Oaks proposals. I. hope we are really going to be able to reach a great many people, and that by the time the united nations meet in San Francisco on April 25. there will be very .few people in this country who do not understand the basis for the proposals which will be put before that meeting. I think, however, that we ought to emphasize the fact that these are just proposals; that even here at home there will be objections made to certain details. ls. The conference in San Francisco will have to take these proposals and all the

tungsten,

_. objections—such as France, for instance, will present;

or even some of our own leaders—and after considering and going very fully into all the different points of. view, will have to reach a compromise: * Compromises are never fully satisfying to any one, but whenever you do things where a great many . people are involved you. are bound to | a4vompiish Shem | on a basis of compromise!

believe me.”

yesterday,” he sald.

_ this war,

Bx E rie Pyle|

get more than we want over here, but. they don't

I've been amazed at the Ambir of men flying these Tokyo missions in the B-29's who have already served -one tour of combat duty in the European theater. : Of the 10 men in our hut, two are combat veterans, even though they're very young, ‘Maj. Willlam Clark, of Bayhead, N. J, flew his 50 missions out of Africa in B-17's, and so did Capt. Walter Kelly, of Manayunk, Pa. In fact Capt. Kelly

and I were together at. Biskra airdrome-on the edge|®

of the Sahara desert just two years ago this month.

They are both heady, wise pilots, who have learned the tropical ways of wearing shorts and spending half their time just lying on their cots. And they don't seem to mind at all that theyre starting all over again on this side of the world after having done their share on the other side,

The Boys Want a Change

ONE OF the things most needed {or morale among fliers over here is the setting up of some kind of goal for them. The setting of a definite number of combat missions to be flown, whereupon they would automatically go back to a rest camp, The way it is now, they are just flying in the dark, so to speak. They're just going on and on until fate overtakes them, with nothing else to shoot for,

Of course it's probably too early yet, and the war on both sides of the world too desperate, to set up a final mission total whereupon a B-29 flier goes home for good. They're going to have to go to rest camps and then come back for more missions a couple of times before they finally go home. But no rest-camp goal has yet been set. They say it has to come from Wash- | ington, and Washington is slow about it. It's no good to create a rest camp out here. The] boys would just as soon lie on their own cots as to go toa rest camp out here. What they want is a change, .sombthing far away—lights and girls and conmipanionship and modern things and gaiety. And somebody better hurry!

dwelt at length on the good news that our troops] had crossed the Rhine. At long last, Mr. Knicker~ bocker arrived and took the platform. He started his talk’ hy warning his audience against overoptimism. Don’t think the war's almost over, he cautioned, adding that it might be several months before our troops could effect a crossing of the Rhine. Then he werit on to other stibjects. Immediately after the lecture the group adjourned to the lungheon room, where it's customary for the audience to submit written questions. The {enor of the first 10 or 12 questions was: “How come it's going to take us so lang to-cross -the Rhine, if we're already across it?” - Mr. Knickerbocker looked puzzled, and- asked Mr. Leckrone what they meant. “When did you last see a8 newspaper?” Mr. Leckrone asked. “Why, Mr. Leckrone explained the situation.. “There I am-—caught again,” moaned the famous analyst.

Ready for V-E Day THE FAVORABLE war news has caused some of | our more foresighted citizens to start getting ready | for the good news. A few hours after it was an-| nounced a few of our troops had crossed the Rhine, | Burling Boaz Jr, the sign painter, began receiving| orders for V-E day signs. They'll be kept until the| big day arrives. One sign reads: “Closed today in| in honor of our armed forces in Europe and all| over the world. Open tomorrow.” Incidentally, jsni't | that contrary to the plan to waste no time celebrating | until we've licked all our enemies? . .. Bill Remy, the safety board president, is telling an amusing story | about Police Chief Jesse McMurtry. Shortly after] being named chief, he took over the big Saratoga. Chrysler which up until then had been driven by his| predecessor - in office, Cliff Beeker. The new. chief wasn't fully accustomed to the car when he drove it to church the following Sunday. After church, he got in the car and pushed a button on .the dash—a | button located about where the starter button is on| some cars, ‘Instead of the motor starting, the siren| started shrieking. You can imagine Chief McMur-| try's embarrassment. Right there in front of the] church, too. : :

By David Dietz

ture of the driving bands on projectiles from all copper bands to a copper on soft iron band andy finally from. that to an all iron band made by powder metallurgy. These changes were not easy to make and called for great ingenuity and the fact that the Germans | went to the bother of making them shows how desperate their situation must be.

Copper Content Reduced BEFORE THE WAR the Germans used a type of ‘aluminum alloy known as duralumin which contained a small per cent of copper as an alloying element. Samples of this metal in recent captured materiel show a content of % to 1 per cent of copper, the lowest pdssible amount that can be used: The shortage of nickel shows up .in German projectiles and armor, the Battelle metallurgists report. in Germany prior to 1939 contained 3'2 per cent nickel and smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum. The tendency throughout the war has been to use less and less nickel and to rely on more of the other alloying elements. Aircraft armor of recent German manufacture contains no nickel at all but relies entirely on chromium and molybdenum to impart the desired qualities to the steel. However, there is evidence that Germany does not possess any too much of either chromium or molybdenum and that strong steps are being taken to conserve them also wherever possible. The shortage in tugnsten, while important, not reached the point where there is an insufficient amount for high-speed tool steels. Apparently, the Nazis still have a sufficient supply for this purpose.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Living in the world at all means compromise. If our utlimate objective is the setting up of some machinery where the nations of the world can meet and discuss their problems, and the public opinion of the world can become informed, then we must accept compromise. I notice that many people say that it will be quite all right to compromise on unimportant matters, but that we must never compromise on principles. Sometimes I wonder whether even principles won't’ bear compromise for a great objective, since what appears to you to be a principle may riot appear” in the. same light to somebody else. We are dealing with a great many different peoples when we attempt to set up some machinery for world organization. Perhaps the most important: thing to remember is that many nations are going to change their points of view as the years go on and as fear of aggression and of want is less prevalent. If we think a principle is important, we can work to prove it to them once we have established some ~world organization, and the only thing which ‘we must be sure to have is flexibility in the original plan so that changes may be possible. ‘Yesterday morning I saw a group of géntlemen representing the American Legioh, depdrtment of Ohio. They have some very interesting plans for

- rioting,

WHAT! S WRONG?.

UNRRA Set. To Aid the War Hungry

(Last of a Series)

By CHARLES T, LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 10.— The united nations are face fo face with .a tough decision— what to do about resentment and unrest in liberated areas because of inadequate relief for civilians. Officials say conditions in some of these areas—food shortages, black markets—are potential dangers to friendly inter-

national relations for decades to come. : Everyone concedes the danger

in unrest behind allied military lines. The army has the final word on getting supplies to most of these areas. Moving guns, munitions and supplies to the fighting men has been given preference by allied commanders. Even leaders of some of the hard-put nations have agreed. The military port space and unloading facilities to do the civilian relief job it had hoped to do. . n n o

BUT THERE are signs now that |

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | DANA ‘FARM BOY" IN MARIANAS —

has lack®d ships,

Meet Ernie s Sort of Nephew’

WHEN "ERNIE "PYLE wrote {* that. he had visited one of his “kinfolk,” 1st Lt, Jack Bales—on {& tiny island in’ the Marianas— most of Ernie's readers immediately began wondering what the voung man looked like. Well, here's ‘the answer. This picture is one of several snapped during Ernie's visit. Jack sent them home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bales, of Dana, Ind. Mrs. Bales is the Dana postmistress;

n u n IN introducing Jack to his readers on Feb. 26, Exnie referred to him as “Lt. Jack Bales, another“farm boy road near Dana, Ernie described their kinship as follows: “Jack is a sort of nephew of mine. He isn't exactly a nephew but it's too complicated to explain. I used to hold him on my knee and all that sort of thing, and now he's 26, and starting to get ‘bald like his ‘uncle.’ Jack's folks still live just a mile down the road from our farm.”

Ind.”

n » un WHEN he said Jack was a ‘sort

of a nephew of wine. he was just avoiding description of a complicated relationship. ‘They

from down the

On Saipan: : getting in

aren't blood relations, but Ernie's Aunt Mary is Jack's grandmother.

That would make them second or 14th cousins, or something.

Jack, a radioman, has made numerous bombing: trips over Japan aboard a B-29. r

n EJ u

ERNIE wrote that “like all com=

sack time

bat crewmen, Jack spends

Ernie Pyle visits nephew Jack Bales, in shorts . . . |

all |

night and at least half of each |

day lying on his cot. He holds the record in his hut for ‘sack | time, which means just lying

on your cot doing nothing.”

Jack seems to be keeping in

trim, judging from -the photo He didn't say who his buddies were in the background

the seriousness of- want and hun= |

ger among civilian populations may get~ action, = Allied military headquarters in France has been making a special study of it. A mission sent ta Europe by Presi-

dent Roosevelt has béen giving it

| attention. The very success of Gen. Eisen- |

hower’'s onrushing armies - may have ‘much to do with resolving an increasingly acute problem. The United Nations Relief .and Rehabilitation Administration is just beginning to get ships for relief. Three vessels are promised definitely now for transport of supplies to Italy, four for aid to Poland and Czechoslovakia All of which confronts UNRRA with a major test of moving from the stage of planning-on-paper to field operations on a wide scale. n n » SOME HIGH officials here who have watched UNRRA's operations become mired- on many fronts, often. for reasons beyond have criticized Direc H. Lehman

its control, tor-General Herbert

for not “taking his case to the |

country.” Maybe he will. Recently he has warned that UNRRA isn't a

“super-state” and can't get anywhere without shipping and supplies. UNRRA has plenty of It is ready to go in heavily for repatriation of displaced millions in Europe. having as many as 6000" or 8000 staff people to run the. job. There are huge sections of populations driven from their own to other lands. * UNRRA would run

the assembly centers . through which they'll be routed back home.

UNRRA people are running Middle East and North African

refugee -eamps- containing more:

than 40,900 persons. There are staffs in Greece and Yugoslavia,

and UNRRA talks now of getting

into these areas, in full charge of relief and rehabilitation, by April 1. ” td o BUT A CHIEF need of UNRRA is more imaginative and bolder action. Russia hasn't been easy to deal with on getting relief supplies into Poland and Czechoslovakia. Marshal Tito for a long time stymied relief in Yugoslavia. UNRRA, say those who know it, has been shy on people who might go directly to Stalin and Tito and talk to them on their own level. UNRRA’s big chance is still ahead.

Its officials talk of |

VOLCANO KEEPS FOXHOLES WARM —

lwo Alive With Battle Flames

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN

Times Foreign Correspondent WITH U.S. MARINES ON IWO JIMA, March 9 (Delayed)— |" This bleak, devilish

island was

{ alive with fire today as we toured forward areas of the battleground with Maj. Gen. Graves B. Er-

skine, 48 - yearold commander of the 3d marine division. ‘There was the stinging “fire of the marines as they worked over Japanese strong points | with flame throwers, mor- : tars, CANNON, Mr. McGaffin tanks and automatic arms. There were bombs and tracers, pounding down from navy carrier planes overhead. There were ack-ack bursts in the skies and mortar crashes on the surface as the desperate Japs fought back from their narrow hold on the northern rim of the island,

2» BU T: THE most gruesome fire |

2000 MORE TO AID |

plans. -

RED CROSS DRIVE

Three divisions, with a force of

of all came out of the ground itself —a steaming white vapor from the tortured innards of this volcano which, they assure you, is definitely extinct now. Extinct or not, you get the impression that the ground is about to open before your eyes to permit a grim Mephistopheles to leap out and grab you. A volcanic battlefield, incidentally, has its advantages. The ground is so warm in places that all the marines have to do to heat their rations is bury them about a foot down for an hour or so. Some foxholes retain considerable warmth all night, which is a great boon for troops sleeping on the ground in this cold climate # wn THOUGH our troops naturally are somewhat tired after 19 straight days of battle, morale remains good. Vice Adm. Richard Kelly Turner, commander of the 5th amphibious force, spent most of yesterday inspecting: the island. He said that Jap defences were “tremendously better organized” and more effective than any we have encountered.

See WACs Trin As Technicians |

THE WAC medical technicians

12000 volunteer workers, are set to| being trained at Wakeman gen- | begin a thorough solicitation in be-| eral hospital. are preparing to {half of the Indianapolis Red Ores] help care for .the 1000 wounded

war -fund campaign.

| The drive officially opened March | 1 with all but the residential, down- | town and county divisions opening!

Reports already are| el hospital recruiting program saw

at that time.

{coming in from workers who hav [been jn the fleld and results have

{ encouraged leaders in the drive.

A rally for the entire volunter Jorganizalion of 3000 men and wom- |" len, plus all persons who serve the | year-round for the Indianapolis Red | Cross chapter, will be held at 8:30] | Monday in Cadle tabernacle. or-| will at| “kick | meeting of the three divisions. The coneert {is free an dthere will be no solicita- | tion of collection. Doors will open

p. m. The Indiangvelis Symphony chestra, under Fabien Sevitzky, | present a municipal concert Cadle as the feature of the | off”

| The public is invited.

lat 7:30 p. m.

Goal of the drive which continues

| drought March 28 is $1,145,500.

A steel alloy in common use for both of these]

has |

Ah care of orphans and velsiuss in Wel? apn, afer

5 @

The Wife of the Man Wihodunnit

Mrs. Dolores Burrows, in her Bronx, N. Y., home, gives the V sign for .victory over the portrait of her husband, Lt. Emmet J. |. Burrows, who led his company In the first Yank crossihg of the-Rhine.

| returning to this country every

day. Representatives in charge of the current Women’s. Army Corps

the army's accelerated medical training’ program in ‘action in a tour of the hospital this week. Maj. Gen, James. L. Collins, commanding general of the 5th service ‘command, and Col. 'Haskett L. Conner, commanding officer of Wakeman, played host to Governor Gates’ Lt. Gov. Richard T. James, Brig. | Gen. Elmer Sherwood and state American Legion officials, Cmdr. William Brown, Homer W. MecDaniel and Oscar Brown. The 5th service command, including Indiana, Ohio, West Vir ginia and Kentucky, ranked first during Fehruary for the greatest percentage of WAC enlistments.

FOUR INJURED IN

dents.

was found and Virigini

st.,

st. ave. by police. |

City . hospital.

and Douglas sts., O wood, 17, of 424 W. New York st. received injuries - to his shoulder. st., -was—cut, Robert 620 Blake st., hospital with leg injuries.

DAUGHTERS OF NILE

| TO MEET 8 P. M. TUES.

! hospital for crippled children.

(eral | members are - Mrs,

| Kirk, Mrs, Ira Settles, | Catherine | Bert , Cordle, ‘Mrs. Donovan Turk.

—————————————————— GEN. MUDGE RECOVERING

MANILA, March 10 commander of the first

Feb. 28.

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representatives, |

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

A pedestrian and three motorists [redine district to an Arsenal | today were recovering from injuries] ave, location last night. received last night in traffic acci- | Charged with reckless driving, vagrancy | was a 16-year-old boy and another] 19-year-old passenger police |

Tom Alley, 54, of 839 S. Delaware | conscious at East |

Witnesses said that a hit-run driver had struck him. He was treated at|

Ethan ‘Harrison, 39, of 630 Blake | Cobb, 54, of | was taken to City!

(U. Pl) Army doctors reported today that | Maj. Gen. Verne Donald Mudge, cavalry} division, was “out of danger.” He was wounded by a Japanese grenade

Reviewing the operation since the start, Adm. Turner said, in answer to a question: “Our beachhead was really blasted but K we were never in danger of losing it.” 5 LJ] o

TURNER, the youngest general officer in the marine corps, told us he thought Iwo was tougher than Saipan. We had met last on that island. “Could Iwo have been taken with less casualties?” I asked. “No,” he replied. He explained that in an area only a little over two miles square, 1200 gun emplacements of all types had been found. We. were conversing in one. of the concrete-faced emplacements. As we talked—beside a big dualpurpose Jap 120-mm. gun—shells from our howitzers, which helped silence wicked enemy pieces like this, were whistling overhead in search of new targets. » ” . s NEXT, we got in the general's jeep and drove to the front for a look at. the horrible terrain -of rocky ridges and ravines. It is in~ fested with armed- caves. Much of it is impossible for tanks. Most of it is camouflaged. This ugly land has to be seen to be believed. The 3d division—which is carrying eon our advance in the center—is now approaching caves in the northeast. After a look you wonder that such a place canbe conquered at all. Our victory here is testimony to the remarkable power of our i Pacific fighting machine.

and Inc

MWMANUS BECOMES

The Chicago Daily. News

Pirst Lt.

Billings General hospital, {1st Lt. Francis J. Merkel, several weeks ago for overseas duty. A member of the Jesuit order, Lt.

The war labor board is in one of . “its periodic crises—this one possi«

“held

McManus ‘entered the service July |

14, 1943,

and attended the chap-|

which this board cannot operate.”

~~ BILLINGS CHAPLAIN,

Neil P. McManus is serving as Catholic chaplain at replacing who left

| | | | | }

{lain's school at Harvard university. He served a year at the Walter |

ton, D.C.; at Camp Howze, Tex,

| Reed General hospital at Washing- |

and before coming to Billings was |

at the 5th service command head- |

quarters at Columbus, O.

POLICE WIN CAR RACE

automobile from esis ing an officer and one 17. A

was being held for vagrancy, said,

Carty st.

left |

»HANNAH¢

Riley Kerr, 34, of 1122 W. Mc was robbed of $175 by In a two-car collision at Walnut|two men last night in front of 252 orvifle L. Under-| indiana ave,

WITH THREE BOYS

Police today were holding three seep asd boys after chasing their the |

| |

_ questions-

Gives New Joff, To Labor Board

By FRED W. PERKINS Soripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 10—

bly the most serious. It is hooked up with whether our armies are about to win final victory in Germany. : If crossing of the Rhine means an early collapse.. of Nazi power you can look for an early collapse of the WLB--at least a fomplete reorganization. Only the German war “has this outfit

together

thus far Once the Germans fold up, the labor groups in WLB will either pull out or otherwise act drastically to enforce a return -of free collective bargaining and semoval of government controls over wages. n

# ” TODAY'S BOARD crisis results

from the valedictory order of Judge Fred M. Vinson, just befofe he moved from the job of

economic stabilization director to that of federal loan administrator.

He put out some new restrictions on “fringe” wage increases, outside the Little Steel formula, which mean that from now on the fringe must be cut more closely.

The WLB members continue today a consideration of how much judgment they have left, general opinion being it isn’t very much. This is important to. the 12 public, management and labor members of WLB, for when this agency was set up just before Pearl Harbor it was supposed to be a kind of supreme-court on wartime labor problems.

» » ns BUT AFTER that Mr. Roosevelt, who created this board, came

along with .directors of economic stabilization and of war mobilization, each of whom took a crack at whatever the supposedly independent board proposed in wage adjustments thaf might affect. _brices. The board still sits but it moves threugh a mass of technicalities, plus doubts about what is going to happen to its decisions. Dr. George W. Taylor, new WLB chairman, admitted in a press con«" ference that the Vinson directive. had made the board's work “more difficult.” Van Bittner, C. 1. O. member, wanted to know: “Is America go= ing to take the position that any one man is big enough to write wage scales for the whole United States? Robert Watt, A. F. of L. member, declared:*“No one person can sit in even the rarified atmosphere of Washington and decide these affecting millions -. of wage earners.” Messrs. Watt and Bittner, rep-, resenting the contending rivals of the American labor movement, joined in saying: “This new directive is unworkable, -one under

We, the Women Foreign Wives Join G. I's, So Why Not Ours?

By RUTH MILLETT THE BACHELOR congressman who proposed that the wives of fighting men be sent overseas to be with their husbands everywhere but in combat areas has taken a lot of kidding about his plan.

But plenty of service wives can't find anything funny about his plan, Not when they read in their papers about t he shiploads of Australian wives of service men Who are landing in America, andinbon, they read of all the other foreigm wives of G. 1's who are finding it possible to get to America, If foreign wives can come io America in wartime—what is so silly about suggesting that Amerjcan wives of fighting men be allowed to go to them in the cities and towns of Australia, England, France, and so on? It TOOKS, the way things—stand nbw as though all the odds are against the American wifg or " fiancee.

THE MEN can marry OVerseas and get their wives back to America. But if they are married or engaged to American girls, the men know’ that the women can't . follow them, but must stay put for the duration. And that is beginning to make +American women feel they aren't getting a fair break. , Every time the papers carry a story about how important it is for American girls to wait for their men overseas I get a stack of letters complaining about all the men who are marrying abroad. ti RE a ith AND WHY NOT—when it 1580 much more convenient? G. 1. Jop marries & girl in Australia, lives with her there until he is, sent ‘home and then has her come to America. pl But if he marries an American girl and then gets shipped overséas for two or three years, he has to leave his wife behind. ..

“To women the congressman’s

open] makes so BL