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IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed).—On

"one of these islands the* other day, I finally got

around ‘to getting a month-overdue, haircut, My barber was a soldier, barbering in a tent, and I sat in an old-fashioned black leather Japanese barber .chair he had dug up on the island. a He had been trained in the conversational school of barbering, and as the snipped gray locks. fell about my shoulders, there came " forth from him such a tale of woe and unkind fate as I have never heard in this world. This barber was Pfc. Eades Thomas, from Richmond, Xy., near Lexington, in the horse coun~ try. In fact, Thomas was a horse~ trainer before the war, and was never a barber at all, He just picked that up on the run somewhere, Well, Thomas has been in the Pacific 33 months. It began to Ibok as though he might as well count on settling down for life, so some months ago he married a Scottish girl in Honolulu. Shortly after that he was shipped on out here, and he hasn't seen her since,

A Trip Back . . . Almost

THE MORNING of the day that I sat in Thomas’ ,

barber chair, the army was sénding a few Japanese prisoners back to Hawaii by airplane. They had to have guards for them. 5 : So one of Thomas officers told him he woulde put him down for the trip, and thus he could get a

couple of days in Hawaii to see his wife.

The officer meant to keep his word, but he had a bad memory for names, So when he went to write down Thomas name for the trip, he actually wrote another guy's name, thinking it was Thomas. By the time Thomas found it out, it was too late. “I cauld have cried,” he said. And I could have,

too. 1 felt so terrible about it I couldn't get it off my mind, and was telling it to an officer that evening.

“Oh,” he said. “I happen to know about that. I'll go and’ tell . Thomas right away and he won't feel so bad. We got orders not to send the prisoners after all, so the whole thing was called off. Nobody went.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

DR. JAMES H. PEELING, head of the Butler university sociology department, is getting to be quite a chicken fancier. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that he has a dozen Barred Rock hens that fancy him pretty highly. Right now they're contributing about 10 eggs a day, which is a fancy average for. a dozen chickens. Those darned hens are so fond of Dr. Peeling that they run out to the sidewalk to meet him when he returns home from classes. And if he didn't watch out, they'd follow him ‘to school—just like Mary's lamb. About the only way he can leave home without them following him is for Mrs. Peeling to distract their attention with a few handfuls of grain. It seems they love the grain even more than Dr, Peeling. a WFBM has an afternoon program, known as “Opportunity Time,” on which those who think they're good enough to entertain are given a chance. Friday, Don Menke of the station's staff opened a letter, written by a local youngster, which read: “I have never ever been on the radio. But I would sure like to be. on your Opportunity Hour: -But-I-am afraid I can't because 1 can't do anything. Yours truly.” Don doesn’t know quite how to answer that one. , . . George Auble Jr. 2417 N. Pennsylvania, was walking near 24th and Pennsylvania the other evening when a woman motorist pulled up beside. him and asked if (here was a radio repair shop anywhere in the vicinity, Explaining she was _a stranger in. town, she said she had left her husband at such a shop, and now had no idea where -the shop was located. Mr. Auble helped her out of her predicament .by directing her to a nearby radio shop. :

Ticdasicre or Trash.

SEEN AT Illinois and Georgia sts.: The pushcart operator who walked away from his heavily laden

“America Flies

TWO CURTISS Helldivers make direct bomb hit on target the size of a PT boat while diving at 300 miles per hour—one airline announces 5 per cent fare reductions to holders of credit travel cards—Fairchild’s C-82 Packet, largest two-motored transport plane, now being equipped ‘with Double Wasp military type engines of 2100 horsepower each—new standardized control panel will give American pilots “finger-tip” mastery over armament in all types of pursuit planes—wounded now are being transported inconverted airplane droppable fuel tanks, as litters. a That's the gist of part of to= day's aviation news as the industry, air forces and dirlines continued the campaign to make Amerjcan alrpower “tops.” :

Scored Bullsejjes

DOWN AT Wildwood, N. J., Navy Ensigns Fonville,

target at the naval air training station, in a contest between two Helldiver squadrons. The six pilots from the winning squadron placed their bombs so accurately that all were within 65 feet of the target. The fast Helldivers are being used-omn the Essex-class aircraft carriers in the Pacific. : : Pelta Airlines announced that its 5 per cent discount for passengers holding air travel cards will be-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—On Thursday afternoon Dr. and Mrs. Syngman Rhee of Korea came to see me and brought me two of Dr. Rhee's books, one of them a pamphlet on Korea, I had never met Dr. Rhee before, but a very beautiful- spirit shines in his face, and the patience which one feels’his countrymen must have exercised through the past many years is

expression, = Some day I hope that Korea can live again in peace and security in-a world where such conditions are possible to small nations as well as large ones. oi y Friday morning I had ‘thé pleasure of seeing Miss “Loula i Duhn, commissioner of welfare in Alabama; who. is just leaving to visit Great: Britain as one of the OWI speakers. I think ‘Gre&% Britain

"is making a very great effort to bring about more

knowledge of the United States and our people among

, her éitizens. ; A

1 recently had an opportunity to look over some

of the courses conducted in the different grades in:

various Engl

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_ By Ernie Pyle]. ai i The : In lana

Two Hoosiers From I. U. ~« ON THAT same island I ran orito a couple of old Hoosier boys, whg:had followed my inglorious footsteps at Indiana university. : One was Lt. Ed Rose, who was editor of “The Daily Student” in 1938, just as I was for a while in 1922. Apparently it doesn’t make any difference what year you were editor of “The Student,” you still wind up in the Marianas islands. The other was. Lt. Bill Morris, from Anderson, Ind., who graduated from our illustrious Alma Mater in“ 1942. Both the boys are mail censors-out here. Life is kind enough to them, and they haven't much to kick about. Just asp I was leaving, they came to thrust a package into my bands, and said would“I accept a little gift from the two of them? It was a dark poisonous liquid with which you're probably not familiar, but one which is much sought after out here, A fellow does feel like a heel accepting bountiful gifts from strangers. But I figure I've been a heel for a long time and it's too late to reform now, so I grabbed the gift and fled before they could change their, minds. Thanks again, boys.

Typical of the Seabees

IT'LL BE several weeks before I get around to doing some columns on the fabulous Seabees, but I do keep running into them on my .meanderings about these islands. ds The other day one of them came in to see me. He was obviously in his forties, and very ditfident and shy, and so polite I couldn't get him to sit down. He had on the green work clothes the Seabees wear over here. The reason he came was that he lives in Albuquerque, and just wanted to say hello. His name is John D. Gee. He had been a postal clerk in Albuquerque for 18 years. Over here he is in charge of the postoffice for his battalion. 1 think he must be typical of the craftsmanship and the sincerity of the Seabees. He is 44 years old, and has a wifé and 14-year-old bov back home, and wouldn't have to be in the war at all. But here ie ls. :

cart with full confidence it wouldn't be touched. The reason for the confidence was the faithful white terrier perched protectingly atop the trash, ready toguard. it with his life. It might be trash to the rest of us, but not to his paster— and to him. . . . One of our agents reports that it seemed funny to see at 22d and Meridian a police car, its siren going full blast, and the driver honking the regular auto horn to warn motorists it was about to pass. . . Last week, reports the same agent, a soldier, native of New York City, was intrigued by the sight of Indianapolis’ trackless trolleys. The only other city where he ever .saw any-trackless trolleys, he said, was Algiers Sharp-eyed Larry Rial caught an

amusing typographical error in a recent story in The}

Times on the subject of naming a successor to Jesse Jones as. RFC head. The story said: ‘President Roosevelt, meanwhile, disclosed that Jones would exercise those powers.no longer, even though they have been removed from.the commerce department” The next paragraph continued: “The President added that he planned to name a new low administrator soon.” Mr. Rial asks: “Ig Franklin getting frank?” P. S. The proofreader said that “low” should have read ‘loan.” :

Can You Help? THE SERVICEMEN'S “helping “hand” deépartment has had several requests recently. Miss Blanche Kirch,” 57 LeGrande ave, has a request “from her brother in France for biographies of Elmer Layden, Knute Rockne, Red Grange, Jim Crowley and other football greats. She says she has tried the bookstores without success. She can be reached at GA-3017 after 6 p. m. . H. H. Anderson, Tech principal, has tried unsuccessfully to find' a battery-operated radio weighing under 5 pounds for a lad overseas. They're scarce as hen's teeth, Mr. Anderson. The school number is MA-6331. And Mrs. George C. Gebhardt, 1028 N. Oxford (CH-2960-R) is seeking a Hohnet chromatic harmonica, any key, for her nephew, Pfc. David W. Gebhardt. The one he used to entertain his buddies with was stolen.

By Max B. Cook

~ome effective March 25. All airline discounts were discontinued July 1, 1942. The new Pratt & Whitney single stage, two-speed R2800 engines for the C-82 Packet -allow full power on takeoffs from airports several thousand feet above sea level as compared to the 1000-feet altitude formerly allowed.

Adds to E ficiency

THE NEW armament control standardized control panel for pursuit planes affects machine gun, bomb, gun ‘camera, chemical tank and rocket control switches. It was developed by engineers of the U. 8. Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command and North American Aviation, Inc, of Inglewood, Cal. It Will add greatly to the efficiency of the fighting pilot. The droppable fuel tanks converted as flying litters were developed by the Air Technical Service Command of Wright Field, Dayton, O., co-operation with American Aero Supply Co., Los Angeles. A pilot returning from: a reconnaisance mission now can land, change tanks and take off within min-

utes as an ambulance plane or long-range fighter,|

through use of the droppable tanks. Five men can be carried in one unit. » » = TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO in Aviation—Pilots of the 1st army air-mapping tour of Alaska flew 4345 miles in three months during 1920 Jn an’ army biplane commanded by Capt. St. Clair Street. They started from New York,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We would need to revise some of our textbooks to

do anything similar here, but I think it might be valuable for us to bring our thinking on Great Britain “more up to date. We allow so many of our youngsters

"$0 focus primarily on the Revolutionary period and

the War of 1812. Much. ¢f the suspicion and

up to date.

verse on important matters. ?

I spent Saturday in Philadelphia, léaving Washington by the 7 a. m. train and getting home in time ER 1 reached Philadelphia in time to hear Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas make the opening speech at the conference”held under auspices of the

“for dl

University club of Philadelphia. _

The- over-all subject was “A Program for Women Today.” The morning was takén up’ with a variety * some of .which I attended;“and after speaking ‘at the luncheon I'¢hme back to Washington, This morning I am receiving four Canadian Wrens, : to see the White House, One of | [NS _them lives at Grand Manan island out in the Bay of |

of foru

who are coming

SECOND SECTION,

I . 615 Miles Saniq Fo Phoenix

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945

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Pow

OBJECTIVE: "SANTA FE’

When the western allies and the Red army meet in Berlin, they will have fought their way, respectively, the dis-

tance from San Diego, Cal., to Santa Fe, N. M., and from Jacksonville, Fla., to Santa Fe.

antagonism which | some of our citizens feel toward Great Britain grows out of the fact that we do not bring our teaching

On Friday afternoon the Rt. Hon. W. L. MacKenzie | King, prime minister of Canada, arrived to visit us, We had a very pleasant, quiet dinner, after which the President took the Prime Minister off te con-

TIBERIAS,

March 12.

the Syrian

Mr. Weller

solidating more of a firm hold-on

the restive

Thus,

republic Palestine mandate, But the-po-

Arab forces of Palestine, while Syria's people move impatiently toward

Sea of Galilee,

A narrow, green

notch of hills is all that separates

from the litical gulf between them is wide. Syria is gaged in fling off vestiges France's date. With new additions to the Palestine police force, Britain is engaged in con-

shufthe of man-

and Jewish

3,000,000

en-

new assertions of independence, Palestine has never been farther

from it than at present. » on ” TRAVELING ‘in a jeep through Galilee's green hills, E_ passed

through no less than three separate frontier posts. Near one, the road veers eastward into the hills of Transjordania. On the other side of the smooth, green waters—where Christ once walked — loom the long bluffs of this other mandate left over from Woodrow Wilson's peace of spoils. The militia of the British-com-manded Transjordania frontier force stand here at the gateway to the third ‘mandate, in their tall caps of black wool. ” s s THIS CORNER, three mandates meet,

where the could be

called “Versailles crossing” — or “the testing bPock of the last peace.” All three mandates were des-

tined by the American President for compiete national independence. None has achieved it. The League of Nations, which was designed to insure such independence, is now almost a dead letter. In the:meantime, a new effort in the same direction impends at San Francisco—this time under President Roosevelt's auspices. Only Syria will be directly represented at the meeting. San Prancisco will be the maiden effort in foreign policy for both of ° the newly-freed Levantine républics, Syria and Lebanon. Palestine and Transjordania, being “still mandated, are without foreign policies of their own.

lack of a nail cetera

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a Mr, Morgan

amples which dumbness

anything else: ”

French port.

commandeer barges.

PARIS; March 12.—Remember tHe old gag pointing out that for

a shoe was lost et

The allies are not losing the war, but it still could be won a

. lot faster if people would pay more attention to details. , Shipment of supplies to “the Western front has become such a colossal oper= ation. that “apparently nobody i or ‘no. combination of officials has been able to

prevent some things from spiraling out of control. But some here are some ex-

appear to -be due

more to just plain old-fashioned and inefficiency

than

2 on

A 10,000-TON cargo vessel’ had a dozen tanks left to unload at a

At the rate of the

work going on in the afternoon she would he finished and able to catch the home-bound convoy at dawn the next day: But somebody forgot to order the barge crews to work all night and when they left at midnight there was no officer around to |

other crews or 7

'PLAIN DUMBNESS' . .. By Edward P. Morgan, Times Foreign Correspondent

Examples of War Shipping Inefficiency

freighter missed a convoy, ahd before she can get back.on proper sailing schedule she will have wasted between four to eight days. “Some so-and-so simply dozed off on that job,” the port captain said angrily. Ed # » MULTIPLICATION of such instances wouldn't take long to sup‘ply a large segment of the answer

*. to the Atlantic shipping shortage.

Recently a convoy of LST’s brought a fleet of trucks to France from England to augment the desperately shrunken civilian supply transport system. These trucks were empty. Obviously, this'was the simplest, quickest way to execute the operation of turning over a certain amount of vehicles to the French. But with both military and civiljan officials of various categories, shouting for supplies — it would have seemed to make sense to work out a small plan whereby those trucks would be loaded’ instead of empty when they landed ih France.

THE LST which brought me from England to France carried a cargo of dried “welfare biscuits” —vaguely resembling the hardtack of the first world war. Manufactured -in England, these biscuits wete packed in 15-pound tins. According to dates stenciled on the tins the biscuits should have been- consumed anywhere from two and one-half to three years | ago or the consumer would run the risk of their deterioratifig. . Marked on-one lot was: ‘“Keep= ing period expiring December, 1942.” The others, February, March; April or July, 1943. s x » » - SPOT inspection may have detertermined that this stuff was still fit for human consumption, but, according to an affiy*sotce here, civilians refused to eat similar rations when-the authorities attempted. to distribute them in Belgium in. January. The destination of "this LST shipment has mot as yet been revealed, but it was presumed. that it would be distributed somewhere in France.

Wider Research Program

Aim of

By Svience Service NEW YORK, March 12.—In the

Fundy, beyond the Island of

Where we

Cancer Society

pouring resources through the holes | in the enemy's lines would bring]

aging . director of the American] Cancer Society, declared in a discussion of the society’s new research program, announced here. As examples of the “breaks,” he] referred to the studies of Dr. Charles] Huggins, of the University of Chi-| cago, and to recent studies of other scientists showing a relation between the glands of internal secretion and cancer. : Without stopping cancer research now going ‘on and present support of * it, the society seeks to- expand and integrate its studies. Recommendations for research | projects, according to the newly an-| nounced plans, will be made “by! “conferences” or committees covering special types and sites of cancer as| well ase-special. phases and techniques of cancer research. -After| review and ‘recommendation by some independent national body, the society's own scientific committee. will review and -pass on recommendations for final approval. Guiding principles for the whole research program are. ONE: Broad contact with individual investigators for initial recommendations. TWO: Co-ordination of these recommendations. : . THREE: Criticism and ‘suggestions by an outside, independent nanal“ body.

worthy. projects. FIVE: ‘The ' establishment continuing = economic security for | those individuals supported over a ‘long period of specialized research.

SIX. Recommenbations for fellow-|

‘ships to come from centers of rec-

"| ognized investigation ip cancer re-| |’

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into this winter resort.

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|fight against cancer, there are Now| results fast,” Dr. C. C. Little, man-| “nc, 10 Pass:

Unloading was suspended, .the | enough “breaks through so that

Up Front With Mauldin

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'VERSAILLES CROSSING"... By George Weller, Times Foreign Correspondent

| Galilee... Waiting for a Modern Miracle |

THE CONTRAST between Syria's surge ‘toward independence and Palestine's condition of strife is- especially marked because the | two mandates are juridically identical Both sprang from the secret treaty of spoils concluded by. Sir Mark Sykes and the French Gen. Henri Picot in 1916—dividing the Ottoman empire into zones of British and French influence. Wilsen and the United States generally remained ignorant of the existence of the Sykes-Picot pact until Britain and France revealed their possessory claims at the peace conference in Paris. Caught between these claims and American criticism of them, Wilson caused them to be whittled into “mandates.” Syria and Palestine were specifically destined for early independence. 5 » ” ANYBODY traveling from the Arabian republic of Syria into the Anglo - Arabian - Jewish mandate of Palestine soon perceives that freedom is something money cannot buy. The last Arab villages on the Syrian side, below Mt.

poor and dirty. - Tiberias, howevery-jg Jiké some Adirondack resort. Stacked ‘on piles above Galilee's silken waters, it is one Jewish summer hotel or pension .after another. Millions of dollars (mostly: American) were poured into Jewish coastal cities. Like Haifa and Tel Aviv — and spilled over here

. 8 = » IN THE fervid, humid lands farthér down the Jordan valley lie. some of the Jewish agricul-

tural” communities, where the Zionists expend their labors in: Palestine’s- tough soil, These ‘earnest people are rarely in TiberiaS' comfortable hotels. Not seen there, either, are Palestine’'s Arabs, who outnumber the Jews about two to one. While numerically in the majority, these Arabs are economically in the minority; their overall striking characteristic is poverty. From the road following Galilee’s edge, a traveler from Damascus to Jerusalem can see the place where Christ is believed to have multiplied the loaves and fishes. on ” n PALESTINE, in Christ's time, was a land of miracles. But the miracle of political harmony with independence, which was foreseen there in Wilson's time, simply has not -yet

Galilee’s world is waiting to see whether Roosevelt's secret agreements at Yalta will amend or confirm those Wilson “discovered” at Paris at about the same political stage in the last war.

FHANNAH?

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CIO to Rally Behind FDR's Foreign Stand

By FRED W. PERKINS NEW YORK, March 12.-Just after taking a hearty sock at a Roosevelt domestic policy, the C. I. O. will stage here tonight a great “unity - mass, meeting” in support of the President's international dealings. The attack is the most direct approach yet ‘made by the C. I. O. on the wage sub= ject to the man it claims

to have reelected last November t 0 a fourth term. This aggressive

labor group abandoned its previous tactics of shadow boxing

* with subordinate officials and de-

cided to carry direct to Mr. Roose= velt its plea for easing of wartime wage controls. It finally recognized publicly, as American Federation of - Labor leaders did five months ago, that wage control is a Roosevelt policy and can be relaxed only through orders {from the President. EJ = un SUPPORT for Roosevelt foreign policies will came through a meeting in Madison Square Garden, arranged through left-wing groups of this city. The mechanism will be a report to the nation by the C. L O. delegates to the recent meeting in London of the World Trade Union conference.

Sidney Hillman, R. J. Thomas and’ others will tell about it over microphones C. I. O. president, who did not attend, but who has announced his approval. 2 = = THE A. F. OF L,, still maintain« ing it is the dominant labor ore ganization of -the United States, refused to have any part in the affair, One of its announced reasons was that the Russian labor organizations are merely “company unions” on a big scale—the Soviet government being the employer and the labor grodps “crea« tures of the state.” ; % = » THE LIST of speakers tonight includes Andrei Gromyko, Soviet ambassador to the United States; Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla), ardent New Dealer, and, New York's Mayor La Guardia. This may become the beginning of a new “international,” and if so highly important in social “movements throughout the world. Prom the days of Karl Marx to now many such movements have had their roots in labor meetings. The Soviet government, no mat. ter what Americans may think of its ideology, is ‘éssentially a labor movement. = ® ”

ON THE wage question, after a long meeting yesterday, the C. LO. executive board expressed its “complete dissatisfaction” with: , “The glaring failure to accom=plish effective and just national economic stabilization, the obstinate and shortsighted policies .of the national war labor board, Judge Vinson and Justice Byrnes, and their complete desertion of responsibility to provide appropriate wage policies.” A committee, including Messrs. Murray and Hillman, was named to call on the President and present the C. I. 0. demands. In addition to the wage matter, it is desired that the President give to the war labor board the authority which labor leaders thought it would have when they helped set it up.

We, the Women —— Deductions

After Death Add to Grief

By RUTH MILLETT "PERHAPS you saw the story of a Massachusetts mother who received. her son's final pay check after he -was killed in atcion in the Normandy invasioh—with a $1.58 laundry deduction. She was into declaring that she intended to write a letter to - Presi dent Roosevelt, telling ‘him the story, in the ~hope that no other mother would receive the same kind of letter. The laundry deduction Was purely routine, and, of cowse, no nurt was intended. ” » ” BUT PARENTS of men killed fighting for their country shouldn't be hurt by such callous treatment. : The grief and loss are hard enough for them to bear without having the business transactions made by thé army hint in any way that their son was just another serial number. =.

If there “were ever -a place where it was important for busi ness matters to be handled with gentleness and consideration for human feelings—it 1s-in the cases of routine matters between the

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to Philip . Murray, .