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IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed).—On our airplane carrier, we are all wondering what day Mrs. Bpeidel had her baby. Here is the reason we wonder: Her husband is Lt. John Speidel, who pilots a tor‘pedo bomber from our carrier, He is only 22 and naturally was excited at the prospect of becoming a father: His wife lives in Philadelphia. s Now, Lt. Speidel isn't so young that he believes literally the date of arrival which the doctor: gives several months ahead of time. But at least it's something to shoot at. And $0. it came about that the date and Lt. Speidel’'s assignment on his first mission over Tokyo coincided. He thought what a wonderful double event, But at the last moment the mission was canceled. Our entire task force counted its scores and headed south. The double went aglimmering. Next day we were within flying distance of the Japanese islands to the south. Suddenly we got orders for a special bombing mission on them. Lt, Speidel went. And his plane got shot up, He was lucky to get back at all. He had a holg in his wing, he couldn't get his flaps dewn and his air-speed indicator was shot out. It seemed improbable that he could land at all. He madc¢ two tries at it. Both looked disastrous, and he was waved off. He simply couldn't slow down enough. So they sent him over to one of the big carriers with lots of deck room. He landed all right over there, It" was quite a day.

Mother and Son Doing Fine

NOW: SOME of us older hands realize that a baby may be born the day before the doctor predicts, or the day after. So we wonder if Lt. Speidel just possibly might have had his two big days in one after all? (Editor's Note—Mrs. Speidel reports the baby came He was a week old the.day his father was bombing the Jap islands.. The baby's name is John Jr, and he's doing fine, So is Mrs, Speidel.) The two men who fly with Lt, Speidel are Al

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

CAP EICHELSDOERFER, the mayor's brand new secretary, has been busy getting acquainted with his new fellow workers at the city hall. Tuesday, he dropped in at the board of safety and sat on the sidelines, listening to what went on. When the ses-

sion was nearly over and all the visiting delegations, etc.,, had been heard, Chairman Bill Remy looked over at Cap and asked: “Do you have anything to bring before the board?” Cap looked confused. Board Member Smiley Chambers came to Cap's rescue and explained he was the mayor's secretary. Responded Chairman Remy: “I'm not fortunate enough to have bifocals and I couldn't see him well.” , , . April 1 is more than’ Easter and April Fool's day in the William Bump household. It also happens to be the 31st wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Bump, who live at 3914 W. Washington, and the birthday of

. Mrs. Bump....A reader asks when Easter will fall

again on April 1. The World Almanac, a handy little book, reveals that Easter last fell on April 1 in 1934 and will repéat in 1956. But that's the last time it will happen during this century. . . . Whenever the staid old weather bureau gets enthusiastie- over some of its own weather, well—that's something, Times City Editor Ed Heinke was kidding Mrs, Kathérine Kelley, one of the weather prophets, about spring the other day.« ‘Mrs, Kelley retaliated by sending Ed a little reminder of the ideal weather—a bouquet of spring

= flowers and blossoms. Most any day now you can look

for the weather forecast to read: Fair and warmer— “tra 1a, tra la. " :

- Cigarets for Nothing. um...

MRS.’ JACK CLARKE, 3146 NN. Delaware, was eleafihg the grass between the sidewalk and the

‘America Flies.

Already 75,000 strong, the Civil Air Patrol is aiming

at a 250,000 membership mark in its cadet program,

with boys and girls from 15 to 18 steadily joining

in all 48 states. Commenting on the program, Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces, said: “We are earning our leadership the hard way and we do not intend to relinquish it, That is where our young people— young men and women alike, boys and girls—come in. The Civil Air Patrol is providing American youth, tens of thousands of them, with indispensable training in aviation.” : The senior C. A. P., about 60,000 strong, is behind the cadet progfam which is aimed to teach flying to the youth of the nation, so that either in case of emergency or for commercial careers, they will stand ready to take to the air.

Airports Kept Open DUE TO C. A, P's activity all of the 1592 civilian airports available for civilian flying have been kept open. Officials say that more than one-third of them otherwise would have been closed. State quotas for the present cadet membership drive include the following figures for these states: Indiana, 7000; New York, 27,000; Ohio, 13,400; Pennsylvania, 20,000; Alabama, 3900; Colorado, 2400; Kentucky, 5600; New Jersey, 8200: New Mexico, 1100; Tennessee, 5000; California, 14,000 and Texas, 12,000.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —T am sure that many

of you feel as I do-—that you perpetually are waiting ‘for gomething. Every time you open a paper and every time ‘you turn on the radio, you hope to hear that the end of hostilities has come in Europe. . I read in the paper yester-. day morning that a number of German people keep asking why we continue bombing and destroying their. cities and -¢ountryside. — A plea was—made for —more propaganda on our part so that the Germans shéuld understand the war and their part in it. It seems fairly . obvious that they would not insist on continuing their resistance, The awarding of the army-navy hae “E” to the blind workers of the Lighthonse Workshop of the Blind vesterday was one of the most moving ceremonies I have attended. "A blinded marine, the recipient of many mbdals

~ for heroism on Guadalcanal, gave the “E” pin to

some special workers. ’ pia The achievements of the blind, who have been working for some time in their own workshop, must ¢ A encoursgerhent to the men who have

»ested in what happened too. ”

sistant general business manager for Scripps-Howard.

Kerby, radioman. from Woodbury, N. J, and Gunner William Groepper, Avoca, Iowa. They're inter-

* Remember’ the boys we wrote about yesterday— Ensign Robert Buchanan, who was shot down into Tokyo bay, and Lt. John Fecke, who directed the rescue. . Well, it wasn’t the first time those twb had seen eXciting times together. Last fall off Formosa a flight of 70 Jap planes pounced on two of our cruisers that were crippled. Fecke was leading a flight of eight, of which Buchanan was one. Those eight took on the 70 Japs. They shot down 29, lost one plane, broke up the attack and saved the cruisers, Fecke and Buchanan each got five Jap planes in that one foray. And each got the navy cross for the job. So-:this little Tokyo bay incident didn't Tattle them,

‘That Wonder ful Sense of Relief’

WHEN 1 first saw Lt. Fecke I said to myself, “There's a westerner for sure.” He just has that weather-beaten, cowboy look. I liked him’ before I ever really knew him, And then he fooled me by turning out to be a New

Englander, Massachusetts-born, and a New Hamp- |} shire university graduate, in a business course at that, |#.°

He's 26 now.

But he has the westerner’s knack for steadiness. |:

He is very quiet and polite. He knows how to do things, He never gets excited. He has shot down seven planes. The others describe him as the man you'd like to have along if you ever got into trouble. To which Ensign Buchanan would undoubtedly say, “Amen!” The night after ou strike on the southern islands, everybody was relaxed and felt that wonderful sense of relief over a dangerous job being finished. That night’ we showed a movie for the first time in three or four days. It was a western, called “The

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Keeps on

By LEE G. MILLER SH Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

LEYTE, P. I, (By Air Mailx—We tock Scarlet beach, near Jap-held Finschhafen ,on New Guinea, on Sept. 22. Naval guns had knocked out much of the defenses, but sur-

viving pillboxes inflicted® some i damage before X being reduced. Eighteen rugged . days later, word f came that a sea- : borne Jap attack on - Scarlet was expected. By this time the Austral ian- Rats of Tobruk who had landed on this beach had advanced so far that shore personnel of the 2d engineer special brigade had been called upon to provide part of the defense at the beach itself. Sgt. John Fuina of Brooklyn was in_ charge. Sgt. Fuina saw to it that all guns were well placed and supplied with ammunition, and helped extra

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Lights of Old Santa Fe,” with a regulation hero and | villain and runaway horses and shootin’ and every- | thing, { Those fliers received it like modern audiences re- | ceive “The Drunkard.” We almost hissed the villain off the screen. We booed at all underhand business. We cheered all good deeds... We whistled and clapped when the hero took the girl in his arms. I think we enjoyed it more than any movie on the whole trip.

curb the other day when a youth on a bicycle rode up and said: “Here, lady; would you like these?” He was holding out a package of cigarets. Mis. Clarke offered to pay him, but he wouldn't accept any money, just rode away on his bicycle. She doesn't smoke, but she gave them to a neighbor who does. . . . Speaking of cigarets, Mrs. Paul B. Pritchard, 1920 W, 58th, says she’s found that about the only way to employ a housemaid these days is to promise to keep them in cigarets, “Since neither my husband nor I smoke, we don’t know ‘Joe.’ So you can imagine the fun we've had trying to get cigarets for the maid,” she reports. . . . Bill Evans, publicity man for the school board, was accosted by a friend as he left the school offices, a bit stooped with the weight of a half dozen packages. “Hi, Bill, you look 4-F tonight,” said the friend. Replied Bill: “4-F nothing. I'm 4-P! That means paint, pickles, pumpernickel and pineapple.”

Ring Around the Rosy THIS RENTAL situation being what it is, getting an apartment involves quite a ring-around-the-rosy. Take the case of M. J. Callahan of International Harvester. The Callahans had a one-bedroom apartment in Marcy village, but needed an extra bedroom because thejr daughter was coming home from Chicago. Mrs. Jean Peterson, personnel manager of the Lincoln, had a two-bedroom apartment in Marcy village but wished an efficiency apartment nearer town. Roger Budrow, The Times’ business ‘editor, had an efficiency apartment at 3140 N. Meridian, but wished a one-bedroom apartment. They all got together through the mirmistrations of J. Allen Dawson of the Woodsmall agency. The moving schedule has been timed to a nicety, with the movers all loading at the same-time Friday. It wouldn't do-fer the Budrows’ piano and the Callahans’ piano to meet on the stairway. . . . Mark Ferree, business manager of The Prk ceatr A -~ whnapmtnIuginh roary eptrained for New York yesterday to assume his new duties Monday as as-

* By Max B. Cook Col. Earle IL. Johnson, national C. A. P. commander, who instituted the Cadet program, prophesies

that the quota will be met and that “aviation in the future will become extremely healthy as a result.”

Past Is No Criterion:

PRE-WAR AIR and steamship traffic volume is no criterion of future air commerce, “and it is no more apt to: compare pre-war travel and transport with post-war traffic than it is torcompare steamship volume with that of sailing ship days,” says Glenn L. Martin, president of the Glenn L. Martin Co. “History has shown that with each advance in transportation, new markets and new attractions increase national and international commerce,” he adds. “Failure to recognize this fact may retard commercial air development, given such an impetus by research and development during the war.” . » » : THE ARMY has ordered another 1000 “Northrop control” devices for artificial arms. The “control” is the first step by Northrop Aircraft, builders of the famed Black Widow night fighter, te improve existing mechanical limbs for amputee veterans in this war. It actuates the mechanical hand of an amputee, increasing greatly the various usages of the hand. Northrop also reports other improvements underway, including new wrist joints permitting rotary control; plastic sockets to substitute for heavy ones, and an

improved elbow joint. »

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO IN AVIATION: Airmail was carried on first continental flight, Central Park, L. I, to San Francisco, in two Larsen monoplanes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Since the government has been able to get such good work from the blind men and women for the war, effort, one cannot help hoping that employers will take note of what can bg: done with training in spite of their handicap. > Blind people should have the opportunity and satisfaction of earning their livelihood in the future on an equal basis with other workers. 1 spent two hours at Walter Reed hospital this morning, first taking part in one of their regular forum series, and then answering questions for anAmong the questions was one from a man who said that in the past he found a physical handicap caused an employer to be unwilling to employ ‘a man for fear of accident, or because he doubted his ability to di the job as well as a man with no physical handicap. ; ; One only can hope that it will be possible to prove to employers that, with training, a physically handicapped person can do’the job to which he is adjusted and for which he is trained as well as any other worker. And prove that he can do it with a

minimum of risk because he is. trained to take the|

necessary" precautions, :

‘Tonight I go to a dinner

given by the Farmers’ ;

members of the Aussie gun crews get ‘into suitable positions. Altogether the defenses of a 100yard strip of beach consisted of one company of Aussie infantry, one platoon of our engineers, one Australian Vickers machinegun pla-| The Japs may have heard that] crews and two 50-caliber machine- [changing chests they got him with! gun crews from the 2d E. S. B. la grenade that took his leg off.| 8 a =n | But he got the gun reloaded and! IT WAS 4:30 next morning when |kept on firing.

Koch spotted three Jap barges com- [other gunners had disposed of the ing in quietly, their motors out.|last Jap, they found Junior Van

one of the 37-mm. guns himself. By the time the other gunners were ready he had sunk one of the barges. The survivors jumped to . ” the two others, which kept on com-| THEY GAVE ing. |a Congressional Medal of Honor— One of our 50-caliber machine-gun the first one awarded a soldier in positions was manned by a 19-year-|the army service forces, of which old youth, who looked even younger |the engineers are a part. Last sum—a boy named Junior N. Van Noy,|mer a seagoing repair ship was from Preston, Idaho. Junior, or|christened the Junior Van Hoy. ‘Whitey as he was called by his com-| Finschhafen was duly taken, and rades in the headquarters company months of plodding westward folof the 532d engineers’ shore battal-| lowed. First Lt. John H. Kavanagh ion, was only five- yards from the of the 2d E. S. B. wrote a report beach. {summing up this period during The two remaining Jap barges which the amphib engineers supgrounded just 10 yards from his | plied the Aussie Rats of Tobruk emplacement. Junior held his: fire|in their hard fight for Satelberg until he was sure the Japs had|ridge and their slow progress along their ramps down, and then he | the Guinea coast to Sio. He put opened up. : | his heart in it. no» | “The boat crews had learned THE JAPS responded with ma- much,” he wrote. They had been chine-gun fire and grenades. . Jun- | tutored by the seasoned Australian jor’s loader was wounded, and with- | troops and by raw nature in the drew. Junior kept on- shooting,! aspects of warfare which are not alone; until his 250-round chest of [taught in training camps. cartridges was exhausted. . “They had learned how to master The Aussie gunners, further in-|fear of the enemy, if not how to shore. heard the click that meant|eliminate it. They had learned to he had to reload, and they shouted | subsist on hard rations—beans,

who reached the shore. » » | him, posthumously, |

to him to run for cover. | bully beef and biscuits.

PITTSBURGH, March 29 (U, P.).

—The Mellon Institute of Infus- 5 = report said. ; : : tripl Research, a» non-profi organ-| “Lp... eynerience has led to the ization, reported today that its lab- departmental - search for modified oratories have tackled the job of de- | compounds which will retain high,

veloping a scientific haymaker | 8nti-malarial activity but will be

| much less toxic to the hosf,” the against malaria. rN | institute said.

The 32d annualireport by Dr. E} “wpe pocsinility of obtaining a

R. Weidlein, director, to the insti- \ ' 4 ’ 2 much less toxic drug of this type is tute's trustees told of this and|., ".q4itiona)l attraction in that

other work, much of it in the in- . ’ = pamaquine has been found to have terest of the war effort and neces- true prophylactic action at the

sarily Satrel; during the fiscal year, oi. dose level.” en . 28. : Several compounds have = been : Total Sapendiigens — the yh | made, and one substance has shown oF ure Bu ot ne TeSearch | «considerable” promise, the report

. said. Modified Drug Found

The institute's summary of its Using the same synthetic meth- third year of war research also inods that led to the discovery of an anti-pneumonia compound several years ago, the institute's department of research in pure chemistry is working to increase the margin of safety of an anti-malarial drug that is effective, yet poisonous unless nicely administered. In fact, the differencé between therapeutic and toxic doses of the drug, pamaquine, is so small that the U. S. army last year advised against its routine use, thus pre-

Up Front With Mauldin |

By GERALD R. THORP Times Foreign Correspondent MANILA, March 29.—The story of 40 Yanks, who operated an aircraft warning station on Mindanao for five months before the island was invaded, was told today by the

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An amphibian dozer building a small sand jetty for a crane to use in unloading small landing craft on a Pacific island.

HOW TO work for 48 hours with-) crews moved along, leapfrogging by

and be ordered out on another mis-

“They had learned to grab little]

ing captured Jap gasoline. |

Sgt. Fuina sent Cpl. Koch to wake Noy dead at his gun, the last round| : all hands and meantime manned fired, and dead Japs strewn over| Winks of sleep while their boats|the 532d regiment—helped see to it the beach in front of him. He had | were loading on the beaches, on a that time was denied the Nips. killed more than half of the 39 Japs pile of wet life jackets or on the

| decks of their boats.

“They had learned how to feel

toon, and two 37-mm. anti-tank] click, too, for while Junior was | out, sleep, to.come back: to camp | Sea with the Aussie: artillery so as ( [to keep the retreating enemy always

: : : {within range of the Tobruk Rats’ gion with time only for refueling | 95.

fand a cup of lukewarm black coffee, Sgt. Fuina and Cpl. Raymond J.| When daylight came, and the heated on a homemade stove burn-|to dig in properly they could have makle our progress slow and expen{siwe. The boatmen of the 2d E.S.B. —in particular the boat battalion of

pounders. If 'the Japs had been allowed time

» » » TO DO IT they had to ply heavy

seas that sometimes caused the

|their way through total darkness, "8VY's PT boats to turn back. They

blinding rain squalls and heavy seas| could “hold a boat on a beach {hat to find blacked out beaches, to iden- would toss it around like a match tify points and sandbars and reefs in q waterfall,” said Lt. Ken Kirkby such little things as the shape of the top of a tree silhouetted b against the flash of artillery, 'the|Pl00ody Yanks kept on deepening. peculiar smell of the river water . as it spills out into the sea op the that were the total then available

sound of the waves lapping on

or coral »

rocks

“THEY HAD learned to shut off thelr Hotors and thereby eliminate

the telltale phosphorescent wake

when attacked by enemy planes on moonless nights and to hug the black shadows of the shore on moon-

light nights.

“They had’ learned how to land and retract from virtaally every type of beach with overloaded boats, high seas and the egotional stresses produceg by the imminence of en-

emy action.”

As the Australians pushed the!

Japs west along the coast the boat

; .) cluding its employment- to any ex- cluded these scientific accomplishray SAS RRR [Tem Aha don ande :

Development of a dry air-set morthr with. keeping qualities, approximately four times as long ‘as the present-day material; advances in the field of mettallurgical tech-

nology;

progress in creative coal

chemistry; development of a new type still-for the’ fractional distillation of petroleum and the evolution of new and improved instru-

ment lubricants

in co-operation

with the navy’s bureau of aero-

nautics.

“Processes have been devised and demonstrated for making one of these novel lubricants on a manufactufing scale,” the report said. The institute also: Promised that an economic indus-

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trols were

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said Pompea.

platoon’s leader, Pompea of New London, Conn. Pompea and his 13th A. A. F. radio technicians were taken submarine to Mindanao in September, weeks before the Leyte land-

Yank Platoon on Mindanao - Five Months Before Invasion

Lt. Edward T.

“We were to establish a radio network that would warn American bases to the south of Jap aircraft movements,” Pompea- explained. Soon after the radio equipment was put into operation enemy paobserved by Filipino guerrillas, headed for the outposts set up by the radio technicians. - “We dismantled our outposts and established them at new sites,” recalled Pompea. “But the Japs kept following and we had to keep mov-

A few weeks after the radio service pegan operating there came the crackling wireless that American authorities had established ceiling prices in Leyte. “That was the first we knew that the Philippines had been invaded,” “So, naturally, called for celebration. The Filipino guerrillas helped us” The. hazardous mission came to an end this month when American forces landed at Zamboanga and over-ran large areas of Mindanao. “| The platoon did not suffer = single casualty, although several of |, the men were hospitalized for malaria and jungle illnesses.

Co Hignt, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times . and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. -~

announcement

The regular meeting of the Indi- | ana’ Astronomical society will be

postponed until April 8. |

The meeting will be held at 2:15 . m. in the school of music buildWs, with Walt Wilkins to speak on

“The Solar System.” ’

bride.

The Aussies’ respect for the

The 100-odd LCVPs and 20 LCMs

{were worn ragged in keeping the | Aussie division supplied and its ar[tillery moved from point to point ‘by sea.

Hulls and motors were battered

and worn. The men’s hours of work grew longer and longer. They would become so exhausted that, asleep, they could not be roused for hours.

once

The campaign for Sio ended in

January, 1944, but the 532d's boatmen were Kept on at their seemingly endless task until March. In the meantinsy oiher elements) of 2d E.S.B. were landing American troops on New Britain and in the Admiralties, and iftroducing some new tricks, including rockets, to the Southwest Pacific.

Institute Works to Develop a Haymaker Against Malaria

trial n; that a new

Revealed that good results have

been attained in increasing permanently the strength of thread by plastics, ness, and in making molded spools.

without imparting stiff-

Announced development of a pré-

formed plastic evolved in a five-year joint program at the Westinghouse research laboratories and the institute. It is produced from a mixture of 99 per cent water and one per cent wood fibers and a phenolic resin.

Resin Solution

Reported the development of pro-|-tective resin solution coatings, already widely used by the armed

forces, to line concrete aviation

gasoline storage tanks and airplane wing tanks, steel shell castings, gun barrels, airplane propellers, bomb shackles, food containers and other war materials.

Revealed solution of the prob-

lem of coating glass blocks with a

cement-adherent material in co-

operation ‘with the MacBeth-Evans Glass Co., and the Corning Glass The patented process is now in industrial use.

Works.

Announced that a new insecticide which is 90 per cent effective

against flies is in small-scale prq-|

duction.

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_proceds for drying yeast will| dried cereal for infant feeding .is in the productional stage and that a novel pre-cooked baby cereal has been found satisfactory.

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PAGE 15 Labor Cool-Off Plan Is Reversed With Miners

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer UNIONTOWN, Pa, March 20.= The strike vote procedure under the 8Smith-Conally war labor board ‘disputes act was intended to provide a 30-day cool-off period for men who might hastily and hot - headedly ‘stop production in time of war, In that respect the cooloff plan is successful in reverse, according to ‘what this observer saw in several dozen polling places in this district that rolled up a commanding “yes” vote on the tricky question put by the ” government to the rank-and-file of the United Mine Warkers. The question was: “Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute?” The “men were cooled off, all | right. They were about as cool, calm and collected as any group could be.

» = » be THEY disappeared behind the voting booth curtains and came out a few seconds later with a folded ballot on which the answer in the great majority of cases was “yes.” ~ One place where this happened was the recreation hall of the big Isabella mine of the Weirton Coal Co., which sends all its production to the Weirton Steel Co. plant at Weirton, W. Va. The day before I saw many of the same men in another kind of line —a line buying war bonds.

Paul Sheahan, chief~ clerk of that operation, told me every one of the Weirton company’s 850 miners is a war bond buyer. n = ” RIDE through any of the coal towns in this area and you will see many service flags in windows, indicating sons or brothers from’ that miner household in the armed forces. So the big “yes” vote on the government question can't be easily charged to lack of patriotism among the miners.

"George Gernot, a union watcher at the Palmer mine of the H. C. Frick Coke Co. gave this explanation of the miners’ attitude: “We would lose our union if we lost our contract with the coal operators.” Apparently this philosophy has been drilled into the minds of the miners for several weeks through personal contacts and meetings of locals. » » » THERE is no argument, as the results show, on the desire of the miners to back up their leader in this strictly union affair. In the coal fields of Fayette and ‘Greene counties, which comprise the area under the Uniontown election headquarters, concern for the union runs deep. The miners feel they were oppressed in nonunion days, and they don’t want to go back to that era. : Results of the polling in all the coal fields do not mean any-im-mediate strike. All the miners I talked to don’t want a, strike. But the results do mean that the 400,000 bituminous miners are bac up their leader.

—We, the Wome Pin-Ups Pose Problem for - Sun Bathers

By RUTH MILLETT THE TOWNSPEOPLE of Kennebunkport, Me. are riled up over the mural in their local postoffice, done at a time when WPA artists were busy on such projects, and are trying to get rid of it. The mural shows a group of bulgy bathers “cavorting on a beach” The townspeople evidently don't like to look at fat women in brief bathing suits every time they

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a mural several years old? r

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