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IN THE WESTERN “PACIFIC “THE secont gay 1 was ahoard our carrier, the chief steward came up to my cabin. and happily announced that he had a cake for me, but it was so big he didn’t know. how . to handle it. For a while I couldn't get what he was driving at, but finally he: made it clear. : It seemed the night bakers had baked a huge cake for me, and it was to be served at dinner that evening. The steward was worried because the cake was so. big théy didn’t have a board big enough to put it on, and there- _ fore couldn put: it on the table where everybody could see it.

But that evening when we went .

down to-dinner, here was the cake fn front of my chair, right in the middle of the table, almost filling it up. They had solved the problem by getting the carpenters to make a board. Written in pink icing on top of the white cake weré* the words, “Welcome Aboard, Mr. Pyle” and as somebody suggested, I was so taken aback at being called “Mr. Pyle” that I didn't recognize it at first.

My First Official Cake

I WAS very pleased and embarrassed by this first official cake of my lifetime, and of course, 1 had to take a lot of ribbing from my friends. They said they'd been slaving on that’ damn ‘ship for a year and nobody had ever baked a special cake for them. Then one of the ship's photographers came and took pictures of me ostensibly cutting the cake when I wasn't cutting it at all. And then we ate it. After supper { groped my way through the labyrinth of passages below, and finally tracked down the thoughtful person who had baked the cake. He was Ray Conner, baker second class from Legrande, Ore. Legrande is in eastern Oregon not far from Pendelton, and Ray was moaning that he hadn't seen the famous Pendelton roundup now for three years. I asked him h he rappened to bake a cake for me, and he said ‘well he had got through his reg ular baking a little early the night before, and hadn't anything else to do, and just thought it was a good idea.

wr Ray'ss father {8-&-school. teacher, and Ray was studying to be one, but now after &-this-pusiness, he kind of doubts he'll want to teach school. If I had to be in the navy, I think I'd about as soon be a’ baker as anything else. . Thesbakeshop is always clean as a whistle, and it always smells good.” And you are almost your own boss. Ray is quite satisfled with his lot in the navy, mainly because a bakery is so wonderfully clean. “I can't stand to work in flith,” he said. 1 was feeling pretty. stuck-up about my cake, and| then next. evening when we went down to supper, here was a big cake on the adjoining table. Did I see red! I made a few discreet inquiries to see who had the gall to have a cake in front of him so soon after my triumph. And I learned it was for the pilot who, the day before, had mage the 8000th landing on our| carrier. It seems that's a tradition, for every thousandth landing. ;

Jealous Over His Cake SO AFTER THE meal 1 went around and introduced myself to this cad. He was Lt, Edward Vanvranken of Stockton, Cal. . I said “I'm plenty sore. I thought Y was the only one around here who rated a cake.” And he said, “Well, I'm jealous. You had photographers taking pictures of your cake. But could I get a photographer? No.” So I said,, “Well, that's better. So you made the| 8000th landing? Was it a good one?” And he grinned and said, “Well, I got aboard.” And then’ he said, “As a matter of fact, it was al pretty good landing. And if you're ever in California | after the war, come to Stockton and we'll have something better than cake.” Lt. Vanvranken is no neophyte at landing on| carriers, He was flying from one when we invaded Morocco in 1942, and he was there. He had made around 120 carrier landings before | he came on this ship, and now his total is up around | 200. A guy who makes that many landings on a carrier and is still making them, didn't learn it in correspondence school. Eight thousand landings is small stuff for the big carriers. For some of them are lots older and, too, have three times as many planes to land every day. 1 think the record in our oldest carriers is some-| thing up around 80,000. But we like 8000 on our ship. |

And anyhow we haven't got enough flour for 80 cakes. >

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

MOST PEOPLE look on the number 13 as unfucky, but not Patrolman Charley Ford. Charley was in the police press room the other day and laid down

his patrol box key. , It was No. 13. When Heze Clark - gemarked about the “unlucky” number, Charley said: “That's nothing; I ride squad car 13. And when you add the numerals on ‘my badge—652—you get 13. Yes, sir; 13 always was my lucky number.” . .-. There's a first time for everything. And for the first time in eight years, the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra has found a patron who doesn’t want a seat on the aisle. In fact, the patron, John H. Maclean, a returned veteran of world war II, just won't have an aisle seat. He explained he doesn’t want to have to get up and let people in, and then let them out at intermission, for a smoke, and then get up and let them in again. There's a lot of merit in what he says. . . . Nancy Louise Bush, a senior at Tech, has been reading about the various signs of spring. And she thinks she has one. She saw a mosquito hanging around’ the back door at home. “And,” she says, “I have the mosquito bite to prove it, just-in case you _ don’t belteve it.” .-. . A young lady called The Times yesterday to report a “sign of the times.” She said she and five other. girls had been eating fairly regularly at an Ohio st. restaurant. Yesterday, when they were pay Sie Str ERiaraked them: to

hunt another place to eat. “When we-asked im why |

she said, “he told us the waitress doesn’t like to serve ‘us because we don’t tip enough.” She said the six girls ‘always tried to leave a 10 or 15 cents tip—between them. I called the proprietor and got his side of the story. “Well,” he saidy * ‘what are you going to do. It's hard to get waitresses. And besides, the girls come in and take up the table an hour or longer at the busiest time. They don’t order much, and while —-they're sitting there smoking, lots of businessmen customers have to be turned away.” Now, readers, you have both sides of it.

World of Science

STEEL 18 THE metallic backbone of the war effort but copper supplies its nervous system. Electrical

machinery of all sorts, whether in power plants, mills

and factories, or far out at sea on battleships; calls for copper. Signal corps companies string miles of ) copper wire to keep open communications once an area is invaded. There are other uses for copper as well, chief among them the production of bronzes and brasses needed for many items of the utmost © importance, particularly shell ~ cases. Germany, for example, is now. known to be badly handicapped by the lack of sufficient brass for shell cases. The American metal industry, which pushed steel production from 66,000,000 tons per year in 1940 to the present rate of 96,000,000 tons, has done an equally good job in meeting the demands for copper and other nonferrous metals. Fortunately, dwindling supplies of copper ores in the United States could be supplemented by importations from Canada, South America and Africa.

The imports from South America and Africa moved along sea lanes that were well protected by the U. S. navy.

Canada Is Important :

WRITING IN Mining and Metallurgy, official journal of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Kim Beattie points out that Canada is the third largest world producer of copper, lead and zinc. The importation of copper from Canada is now

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday —Staying with Mrs. ~ Julus Cone in Brdenshoro, N. C, was esnainly a this kind. At least when one was gh on public parade, peace and comfort surrounded one. Her house is charming, with space ard comfort, and good taste on every hand, Books are everywhere, and that to me always makes a home. After breakfasting in our rooms at 8:30 yesterday, we were ready “to leave at 9:30 when Col. Younts, commanding officer of the replacement camp, came for us to spend an hour in his area. First ‘we went to a big tent’ where dances are held .and entertainments given. The. very excellent orchestra, combined with ;men's voices and a_ very good announcer, gave a stirring and moving demonstration, or roll call of the united nations, After a short talk to 2500 assembled personnel, we followed some of the men who were being processed. From the place where they received medical “shots” to ‘the final spot where their equipment was: checked over for the last time, everything was methodically _ done. They even have a chance to write their last "letter home and mail it before leaving the building.

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A PRESSING problem confronted the war price and rationing board the other day, reports Bob Fleischer. A man, of foreign birth and with two sons in the army, visited the board with an. application to increase his prices above his ceiling. He sells sandwiches and other food in various South side plants. His prices? Well, he has been selling steak sandwiches and pork tenderloin sandwiches for a dime; ham, cheese and salami sandwiches for a nickel. Boiled eggs were a nickel apiece, even when they cost him more than that. He told the board (which didn't need to be told) that he wasn’t making any money at those prices, and would like to up them a little. Of course, if it couldn't be done legally, he apologized, he'd go ahead at the same old prices. “You can’t lie down on the job in wartime,” he added. Needless to say, the board is frying to get approval for new prices. . . . Helen LaMar of the gas company noticed a service flag with one star on it in a window at the county jail and wonders if it might be for a prisoner gone A. W. O. L. . . . Mrs. Ernest Ramsey, 3420 E. 25th, received word from her brother-in-law that he has been transferred from the 9th air force in France to the First Provisional air force. Never having heard of this air force, she asked for information about it. I don’t know. Maybe some of you can help her. -

Watch Those Fires WATCH THOSE cigafets and matches, warns Outdoor Indiana, the state conservation department's publication. Now that spring | is here, smokers should renew their caution, Careless smokers and debris burners, reports the magazine, account for nearly 85 per cent of Indiana's yearly total of* outdoor fires. Last’ year state forestry crews controlled 452 fires that burned over 27,600 acres and destroyed crops, buildings, fences, timber and game. Of these fires, 166 were caused by careless smokers, 165 by burning weeds, grass, leaves, brush, rubbish and other debris. Every one of Indiana's travelers who smoked was a potential source of- these fires, says the magazine. __Most people light up without thinking about it, and discard the burning match or finished smoke -in-the--same manner. Let's watch it!

By David Dietz

at the rate of 10,000 tons a month, according to Mr. Beattie. He adds that Capfda expects to sell two-| thirds of her 1945 production of copper to the United | States. Perhaps the most phenomenal increase in production in the United States was that achieved in the case of magnesium. Prior to 140, American production, was 3000 tons a year. It is now 300,000 tons, according to Dr. Clyde Williams, director of the Battelle Memorial institute of Columbus, O.

Two Major Uses @

THIS INCREASE has been due to the extension of mining of magnesium ores, expansion of plants for recovering magnesium from brine wells, and the development of methods for extracting magnesium {rom the waters of the ocean. Magnesium finds two major uses in the war effort, Magnesium alloys go into airplane engine’ parts and magnesium itself goes into incendiary bombs. Aluminum production, Dr. Williams points out, was increased sevenfold during the war and has made possible our supremacy in the air. One of the important achievements of the Amerjcan metal industry, according to Dr. Williams, has been .its success in{dealing with the tin sitiation. Importations of tin-were cut off by the enemy in’the Far East and not too much was hoped for from the Texas smelter being built to produce tin from the low-grade Bolivian ore, A vast saving in tin was achieved by reducing the content of tin in cans through use of electroplating of tin instead of hot dipping. The utmost possible reductions in tin content were made in bronzes, and every effort was made to conserve scrap. As a result, Dr, Williams says, the tin situation has not slowed up the war effort, ,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

At 11 o'clock we went over to the women's college of the state university, and I had a press conference school press, as well as the regular press, were represented. At 12 noon I spoke to their assembly, and at 1 o'clock a small group of us lunched with Dean and Mrs. Jackson. At 2:30, we went to Greensboro college, which is a Methodist college. Here they have some 400.girls, in contrast to the 2250 who make up the woman's college. In both colleges, the young women were an interested and vital group who gave you the feeling that they had great responsibilities for achieverhent in the future. This world of young people, ‘especially of voung women, is a very exciting world, for in their hands lies so much of the promise of this nation as well as of the possibility of progress for the wotld as a whole, . A . The campus of the woman's college is a charming campus. Two of the ‘buildings I saw were built by the works progress administration. They: are a credit to that period during which we did so much of |

people regard it as having been.a period when we Jost some of our individual independence. ! From 4 to 5 there was a tea at the woman's college in on of their main halls, attended by faculty and students. That ended my official obligations, but Mrs. Cone very kindly invited some friends to a seception 1h the Sveiing at ler Noms alist & sill

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By ALLAN L. SWIM Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 23.—Eric

|A. Johnston dislikes two colors—

“red ink on the balance sheet, pink discharge slips in the workers’ envelopes.” That, he says, is why he's for “greater continuity of employment.” Philip Murray isn’t satisfied with jobs, that are good while they last, but that don't last long. He says:

| "Adequate pay rates for short pe-

iriods carm’t support the worker and | his family over slack times!” He | wants “guaranteed annual wages.” Business and Labor Leaders

Mr. Johnston is president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Business leader and labor leader, they agree on this: Jobs that provide good annual incomes and are not interrupted by

Eric Johnston . . : wants a greater continuity of employment,

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FRIDAY, MARCH 22 1945

A GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE? A VITAL ISSUE FOR ALL AMERICANS—

Views Given By Two Leaders ||

| { | ers to study ways of regularizing| employment in their own businesses | and industries. Those firms which | have worked out greater job sta-| bility have found that it is good business.” % | . » » i MR. MURRAY'S VIEWS | “IT TAKES an annual wage to says Mr. Murray. “Insufficient incomes over the course of a year drag down the] living standards of the worker and of his community. | “The guaranteed annual wage is a specific, constructive program in| which industry as well as labor can]

- find the answer to many yexing

Philip Murray . . . favors adoption of guaranteed annual wage plans.

| frequent layoffs should be the goal of both labor and business. The C. I. O. already has opened a campaign for guaranteed annual wages for its members. Chamber of Commerce officials are studying its possibilities, hoping’ it will point to steadier jobs and incomes for workers.

dent, Procler & Gamble Co.

MR. JOHNSTON' S VIEWS

“WHEN A MAN earns a lot one month and a little the next, his ten-

president, Geo. C. Hormel & Co.

'Good Business

“Companies which have spent time, effort and money to plan for: steady jobs for their employees have, in every instance I have known, found it'a sound investment."—Richard R. Deupree, presi-

“The annual wage is not a device for protecting a favored few— such as vice presidents and favorite employees.”—Jay C. Hormel,

“Providing employees with an annual wage isn't altruism— it’s good business.”—H, L. Nunn, president, Nunn-Bush Shee Co.

dency is to spend his money when he gets it and have none when he needs it,” says Mr. Johnston. “That's one reason why the average man wants greater continuity |

work and pay. “The man steady job will”produce more per

as he can. You can’t blame him.

must i We Inst. have a high consumption “A man with continuity of em-

level. To have a high cosumption

income Two Compelling Reasons “There are two compelling rea-

{nave to face his wife's criticism of his unsteady income. He feels safe in buying a home and other things

NEW YORK, March 23 (U. P).—, The British have named it the The new British 2,000 ~ pound | “volcano” bomb, The one used on bombs how being dumped on Ger- | the granite island was the first one many are so devastating that one|ever dropped. of them, dropped experimentally, “The island was blasted out of obliterated a small granite island|eéxistence and the ordnance survey off the British coast, the British|department were informed that they information service revealed today.|could leave it off their maps in the When another was dropped ex-|future,” BIS said. perimentally in southern England,| The live one dropped on English observers standing a mile away saw soil displaced “many thousands of cliunks of earth weighing -10-tonsitaus. of earth, and subterranean each hurled info the air. explosions produsedsby .gas trapped And when, a “dud,” filled witiy{in the earth continued. .long after vallast ‘instead of explosives was |the main explosion,” the announcedropped at a British experimental| ment said. : station, it buried itself so deeply in| The British plan to use the “volthe soil that it took 18 men working |cano” against European targets 12 hours a day, nine days to dig it| heretofore regarded as impregnable. out, BIS said. The gigantic missle also will “al-

3-T0-1 CHANGE: FOR WOUNDED)

Odds on Recovery Rise in This War.

By RONALD CLARK United Press Staff Correspondent 21ST ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, Belgium, March 23.— A wounded soldier's chances of survival on the Western front are now nine to one in his favor -and his chances of recovery from disease are even better. Doctors and surgeons have won such a victory against the injuries

and diseases that took a huge toll in world war I.

Inthe last war a soldier suffering a stomach wound had a three-to-one chance of recovering.

By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent CHIGAGO, March 23.—Willard M. Rutzen reports a growing tendency of beauty queens to keep their clothes on. That's all right with Rutzen, who has judged more than 100 beauty “contests in the last 15 years. He thinks the girls are prettier that way. It may make the ladies of the bathing suit brigade blush right through their sun tan, but this is what Rutzen has to say (and from a judge's viewpoint, too): “You can't be glamorous in a bathing suit. “The girls used to think they had to wear bathing suits for their beauty to be appreciated, but it’s just as easy to judge a girl's’ figure when she is dressed as when she is in a bathing suit.”

lof employment. | bour. The man who feels his job/and

| “To have a high employment evel {1S pinsecure will drag it out as long So the demand for wages ‘by the | employment Industry and labor can|

Today's battlefield surgeons save

Rutzen, a hotel executive, began T0 per cent of such cases. At least

sons for businesses to provide steady that make him a better citizen.

Whether he works throughout the

who feels he has a |year or not, he needs to eat every

|day, -his rent is due every month his other expenses continue.

year is a natural one.

“There is no universal work-

loyment has a better mental at-| |guarantee or annual-wage plan that| vel we must hav |p level We e continuity off {titude toward his work. He doesn't|will fit all businesses. Many plans

are in operation. Many others are} on the way. “I want to encourage all employ-

10 TIMES AS POWERFUL AS GERMAN V-2 ROCKET—

New ‘Volcano’ Bomb Blows Island Off the Map

most certainly find its way into the Pacific and there is no point in telling the Japanese how thick they must build their concrete fortifications, or how deep they must bury their underground factories in order to obtain immunity,” BIS said in explaining why more details of the bomb’s devastating effect were still secret.

It has been announced officially

that the “volcano” bomb was used against the Bielefeld viaduct ing Germany... At least six snans af viaduct crumpled under the impact. Its use is restricted now ‘by the fact that so far as is known only one plane, the British Lancaster, is able to lift it. A special hoisting tackle was

No Glamour in-Bathing Suit, Insists Beauty Queen Judge

his career as beauty judge by selecting the national cherry queen 15 years ago. Since then he ‘has crowned “Miss Smelt,” “Miss Anthracite,” a variety of Miss Peaches and Apples, and a number of corn queens. “The girls haye changed in the 15 years I've watched them parade by the reviewing stand,” he said. “When.I was a novice, the flapper usually walked away with the loving cup. Then came the era of the sophisticated queen. “Now the girls—even the farm girls—are trying to be glamorous.” Rutzen lamented the passing of the blond as a beauty contest winner. Most of the queens used to be blonds — “probably peroxide” — he said. “But now there are only brunets.” He said farm girls are more natural than city girls—“and therefore more beautiful.”

one-fourth are able to return to active duty.

Techniques Are Improved By improved techniques allied army doctors are able to save 90 per cent of the lung, head and brain wound cases and 95 per cent of cases where amputation is necessary. The great majority of soldfers| sutfering flesh wounds now are returned to their units within a month ready for service. A consulting surgeon at this headquarters disclosed that of the first 50,000 wounded men evacufted from the continent after D-day only Try 200 had died. Chil | __Combat. surgical seams, often, op- 3 Con erating’ within three miles of front % : lines, virtually have eliminated the threat of gas gangrene and complications from burns.

Fewer Incurable Cases

The improved life-saving methods have been-effect®d by quick blood transfusions and the extended use of penicillin and other advanced methods. Other medical achievements re-| corded since D-day are: Only 100 cases of various typhoid |. groups reported; two deaths from dysentery; a 6 in 100 prmeumonia death rate as compared to an approximate 20 per 1000 for civilians, and a one in 1000 death rate for diphtheria as against a 4 in 1000 for civilians. 7 Army psychiatrists also have won a major victory in treating the “in-|. curable” cases. More than half the men9whose nerves give out in bat tle are returned to duty now in the

>HANNAH ¢ i Geico WW

Japs Prefer Blond Pinups, Marine Magazine Reveals

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U. P.) —Marine veterans of the Pacific campaign came up with convincing

proof today that Japanese prefer blonds. Leatherneck, official marine mag-

azine, put the evidence together in

the current issue and disclosed that Betty Grable and Mae West must have something the black haired geisha girls of Japan haven't. It's unlikely, Leatherneck said, that more than a handful of Japanese have ever seen.a blond in the flesh, .but many officers left clues in abandoned quarters “indica blond preference. On Peleliu, Betty Grable was the favorite pin-up girl in Japanese barracks. Mae West was top blond among Japanese in Choiseul, Leatherneck reported. A snaky pose of the voluptuous Miss West was signed with this invitation in pidgin English: “Please to come up and see me if

‘you are ever in beautiful Cali-

fornia.”

‘On Guam, marines liertted a Japanese officer's bedroom furn-

lished with heavy curtains and a

Grand Rapids,” Mich., four-poster

‘bed. On a night table, framed in

| Harlow.

fishing zine. “A good majority of| the remainder treated return to

dinner. Then we boarded the “rain and arrived wi this morning.

leather, was a huge picture of Jean It was inscribed “From Miss Harlow, with sincere admiration, to Commander —— (cénsored), Hollywood, February, 11940." Leatherneck commented that it would have been “quite a shock to) the commander if som had told’

him that Miss Harlow died in 1937."

-{but from cave mining shafts, pill-

problems. “Trade uniohists will stand firm! in. their demands for job security | and steady pay. Immediate measures must provide jobs for those laid off through cancellation of war contracts. , Long-range measures must keep our nation healthily pros- | perous in the years to come. The | guaranteed annual wage will form! a foundation.

Wages Support Market “A prosperous industrial worker | can buy the products of factory, farm and shop and provide himselt | and his family with the services of| the professions and the Service trades. He is the basis of our whole) economy. His wages support our|

greatest market—the domestic mar-| ket. | “In the annual wage we .have a|

{specific proposal to aid materially | Hin providing full production and full

{work together in finding solutions {to the problems that must be solved. | “And together we can obtain from | government whatever measures or |guarantees are required.”

| The En End :

manufactured to load the bomb into the Lancaster and even then it took six men half an hour to get! it into position for the Bielefeld raid. “Whether the ‘volcano’ is eventually carried to Japan by Lancasters or by modified B-29's, the news of | its existence must be giving the | Japs much food for thought,” BIS said. (B-29's have been known to carry 20,000 pounds of bombs.) The “volcano,” according to the, ress service, is 10 times as power.

V- 2 rocket, and is “highly accurate,” » which the V-2 is not. It is almost twice as powerful as the 12,000pound “earthquake” bomb which the British used to sink the German battleship Tips,

BERLIN-A CITY. OF DESOLATION

Struggle for Life Goes on|

Underground.

NEW YORK, March 23 (U. P).— The desolation of Berlin, where the struggle for life goes wearily on underground and even the air raid sirens no longer work, was de-. scribed today in excerpts from a

Magazine Digest. The newspaper. Das Reich, said that when allied nlanes approach now the antiaircraft “simply fire a few rounds as warning.” : “Heavy clouds hang over the ruins, and dawn slowly illuminates the wrecked. city blocks,” Das Reich said. “In this early daybreak men and women appear, walking to work in such factories as still operate. Clearance squads emerge to tackle the new wreckage. They come, not from gateways and doors

boxes and subterranean quarters.”

Live ‘Deep in Earth’ With full daylight, the article said, “the surface pedestrians vanish as dive bombers arrive to strafe the supply vehicles” driving down “main thoroughfares which are now supply routes to the embattled front lines.” Meanwhile, the article said, domestic life and the EA services which go with it” remains “buried deep in the earth.” Ration boards work in rock caves and the galleries of shut-down mines. Doctors sit. at tables in rock« hewn holes’

from ‘heart, stomach and nervous complaints, the article said. i ‘Suicide Only Escape’ Another article, reprinted from Das Schwarze Korps, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ paper, gave. a hint of the only escape thus far found—suicide. The article noted that “we are witnessing an epidemic of political suicides . . . in Finland, Bulgaria and Italy.” After reviewing how, in 1918, Germans committed suicide because they “could not survive the Sisgrate” of defeat, the article de-

tered; man has the right to deny his strength to his people as long as he can do damage to the enemy. The present European tragedy is in many respects a repetition of the German tragedy of 1918. One day we shall’ hear of politicians and soldiers who, instead of seeking to forget by committing suicide,

—PaeET

~Labor

New 'Job-Back' Provisions Are

Being Talked

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 23.— Here's a bull for some congressman to take by the horns: ~ The provision of the selective service act which requires reinstatement in his old job of a serviceman if he still is qualified for it, “and if he applies for it within 90 days of his discharge, The selective service act is now up for another year's exténsion from May 15. The house military affairs committee has reported out a bill: for extension without change. Rep. Andrew J. May (D. Ky), committee chairman, said today no change had been proposed, and he looked for none. But “the old job back” section has been the subject of so much criticism,” much of it undercover, that congress could perform a public service* by clarifying it. » » » IT HAS caused so much contro--versy that a committee representing a dozen government departments, and organized under the re-employment and retaining administration headed by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, has been wrestling for six months with suggested changes.

Reports of two schools of thought were submitted yesterday to Gen. Hines, who is to decide whether national headquarters of selective service is right in holding that the “job back” sections means that a returning veteran is entitled to his old employment without regard to union seniority

- and without regard to the job

rights of veterans of world war L Labor unions, and some of their proponents in official quarters, have appeared in the committee discussions, These have been conducted in such secrecy that no clear account of where anybody stood has been given fo the public 2 » = : THE BEST information is that the selective service system and the American Legion have been holding out for the strict letter-of-the-law interpretation of Col Paul H. Griffith, deputy to Gen. Hines. His interpretation was that “the iuraiag veteran is entitled to

Ta unions have. been miter. entially accused of objecting ta this veterans’ preference because of concern for their own memberships. ‘They deny that. Some of them assert the law was drawn too loosely for real protection of veterans. ' . Question have been asked: How

: “about the soldier who had a tems

porary job when. he enlisted or was drafted? How about the millions of young servicemen who never had a job? It the house or senate would debate the whole question it would be in contrast to the hushhush policy under which departmental- discussions have been and still are being conducted.

Berlin newsnaper reprinted in the}

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We, the Women Work Party Is More Fun Than Bridge

‘By RUTH MILLETT

THE WOMEN around the bridge table were comparing notes on what they should have been doing at home, instead of playing cards for a whole afternoon. But they all agreed they still belonged to their bridge club—-—even w h e n they couldn't afford the time — because they simply had to get out and talk once in a while. There are a lot of women in the same They don't like to give’ up the social clubs they used to have time for because they still like to get out and see their friends— and yet they aren't really come fortable spending whole after noons in which they accomplish hen they have so mutch to do at home.

» » n WHY WOULDN'T it be a good idea for women like that to start having some over-all parties, instead of bridge parties? Instead of meeting at Mrs. Jones’ for a fancy luncheon and bridge, why not meet for a pienio meal and planting Mrs, Jones’ garden? > : When it's Mrs, Smith's turn to entertain she may want help with “the family mending, with painting the kitchen, or with refinishing an old Deco of furniture, ”. BUT WHATEVER the Jjob—it

it of