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- IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC— (Delayed). —Ths pilot on our carrier who shot down the first Jap plane of our trip was Ensign Frank Troup, Decatur, Ala. It was a reconnaissance plane, and he got it the day before we got’ to Tokyo waters.
It was his fifth, and made him an ace. Troup said the only reason he got it was that he happened to be closer than his wingmates when they spotted it. The boys-who fly the patrols say that when they spot a single Jap plane, everyhody in the patrol opens wide open. It's just like a horse race to see who gets within shooting distance first. This time it was Troup. Next in line to Troup was Ensign Bob Hickle, Long Beach, Cal.
That was the third time they'd been together when
Troup got a plane.
It had almost got to be a joke.
Hickle had gradually worked into the same category as “always a bridesmaig, but never a bride.”
Hickle joked: “
Now that Troup has got five, he'll
bave to start helping me get some.”
And the very
next morning Hickle came back
Blowing. He had got his first plane. Yes, Troup was with him, but Hickle got it all by himself.
I asked Hickle so anxious to get pieces when the exploded.
how it feit. He said that he was him that he almost ran into the Jap turned over in the air and
Pleas Greenlee’s Son On Carrier SOME OTHER of my friends among the pilots—
Lt. Pleas Greenlee, Shelbyville, Ind.
He’s the
executive officer of the fighter squadron. He's rather short, pleasant-faced, sucks at a pipe and always wears house slippers around- the ship. He has one Jap plane to his éredit. . Before I knew his first name or where he was from, I asked him if he was any relation to Pleas Greenlee, ’a prominent Hoosier whom I'd mét several
times in Indiana.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
ATTENTION, Martinsville readers!
If you know
8 young sailor named James Farrand Jr., who lives
hear Martinsville, given a lift in an
get in touch with him. He was Indianapolis couple's car on Bluff
oad Monday evening and left his traveling bag in
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the car. He mentioned that he lived “seven miles from Martinsville” and that his leave expires this coming week-end. If you can get word to him, tell him to phone Mrs. Ethel Burke, here. Her phone: WA. 8665. . . . Note to W. I. of Lebanon: There is no law compelling a civilian to salute the flag during the opening or closing of a meeting. However, he should do so, out of reverence for the flag—and the country for which it stands. Civilians
salute the flag by standing at rigid attention, or with the right hand over the heart. Anyone in official
uniform-—-military, « « «» And, note to “factory official”: The rumor
lute.
police, etc.—uses the military sa-
that flags may be left up, all night “during wartime” is not correct. The law, passed by congress in 1942, specifically sets out only three spots where the flag
may fly at night: President is there;
(1) The White House, when the (2) over congress, and (3) the
Francis Scott Key memorial. The law also provides that the “flag may be displayed at night upon special occasions when it is desired to produce a patriotic effect.” That means such special occasions as parades. Another often violated provision of the flag law says: “The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement.”
Just in Case—
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a
salesman Tor WEBI FeRsa to
work yesterday after a couple weeks’ visit at 8t. Vincent’s hospital. While there, he received : cheering cards, and even flowers, from some of the advertising accounts he handles. One of the floral gifts, a most magnificent basket of posies, arrived about the third day after Al's operation. The nurse removed the card and found the flowers were from the Washington Park Cemetery association—one of his accounts. Al
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‘World of Science .-
IT ALWAYS COMES as a shock to most people to realize that one of the mdst common types of plastic is made by uniting phenol, better known to the layman as carbolie acid, with formaldehyde. Until the advent of such plastics, formaldehyde
was regarded only as a powerful disinfectant with an irritating odor. But even though. the layman may now be familiar with phenol-formaldehyde plastics, itis doubtful if he realizes the wide usefulness of formaldehyde in the realm of chemistry. To the chemist, formaldehyde is “an ambidextrous coupler,” a sort of magic button or zipper capable of fastening a great va-. riety of molecules to each other to form new and important products.
What the chemist can do with the stuff is set forth in the first monograph on formaldehyde to be
published in the English language.
The book is the
work of Dr. J. Frederic Walker of E. I. du Pont de
Nemours & Co. Publishing Corp., Chemical society's
It is published by the Reinhold and is No, 98 in the American monograph series,
Key Chemical THE COUPLING ability of formaldehyde makes ft a key chemical in the synthetic resin industry because of its ability to link the molécules of simple
chemical products
in the manufacture of complex
synthetic resins vital to wartime as well as peace-
time industries.
It goes also into the synthesis of
drugs, dyes, textile modifiers, tanning agents, detergents and other products,
My Day
WASHINGTON,
Thursday —Last night's dinner
proved to be a real victory dinner for Aubrey Williams. Instead of just meeting with the National Farmers’ Union workers, state presidents and staff, it was quite & distinguished roster of cabinet members, senators
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for education so that we abide by genuine majority
rule, Because that is real rule by the people.
is always attained thinking citizens,
Aubrey Williams himself does
and representatives from both parties which James Patton called upon to rise, : I think perhaps it was more than a victory dinner for an individual. Every. occurence which touches the life of the people and makes them really look into some particular thing that has happened in government must eventually bring greater education to
. them.
I am one of those who willingly live in a democracy where we wait
Victory when more people become really
not need praise from
any one of us. He lives up to his convictions, and that knowledge within one’s own soul is better than
‘any outside praise.
The National Society for Crippled Children and
Adults of Elyria, O.
people as possible
, has asked me to remind as many
that when they buy Easter seals
they are contributing to the care of crippled children.
“Yes,” sald the fighter pilot, “he's my. §o¥ossi® Young Greenlee is an Annapolis graduate. His
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wife and baby girl are in Shelbyville. He has color photos of them all over his cabin. He is spending his spare time right now making a “pig-bank” out of a coconut for his little daughter. Ensign Herbert Gidney Jr., Pittsburgh, is a tor-pedo-bomber pilot who was making his ‘first combat strike when he flew “over Tokyo. He said he was so engrossed with doing everything just right that he wasn't scared at all. Gidney is a big fellow. He went to Lehigh university, and you'd swear he'd have to. be a football player. But no, his great love was skiing. He used to take trips way up into New England just to ski. He even walks as though he were on skis!
From a Good Hometown GIDNEY HAS a system of letter-writing I've never
~ SECOND SECTION
By LEE G. MILLER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
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neer special brigade, Capt.
seen before. He figures the only way to get letters| the brigade, but now on other duty, is to write letters. So he writes 16 letters a week. rl hone Ine’ abot i Exactly 16. apt.
He has a list of 16 people, made out on a big sheet |£ of paper like a scoreboard, and checks each one off as he finishes the letter. ] Lt, Howard Skidmore, another torpedo bomber pilot, is from. Villa Grove, Ill. When he told me that I said, “Why, that's where | my mother was born.” And then I got to thinking no, she was born at Carmargo, a few miles south, And now I'm not sure. ¥ At any rate Lt. Skidmore has lots of relatives around my hometown of Dana, Ind, and has heen over there lots of times to see them, : Lt. Skidmore had a unique experience on this ship. Last fall he was sitting in his plane with the | Satelberg ridge in New Guinea engine running, just ready to start his takeoff. Capt. Beck had six men with him. At that moment a Jap bomb hit the deck, less | either he nor they had seen acthan a dozen feet in front of Skidmore's plane. Ite Before: They “brought killed several men and tore a big hole in the deck. rocket. projector to try it .out on Yet Skidmore wasn't scratched. The close €X-|9400 Feature #ind Cocoanut ridge. plosion didn’t. even deafen him or give him a head- |though segments of the Satelberg ache. Maybe that's the result of coming from |defended by Jap 77-mm. mountain good hometown. | guns. :
Curious Aussies asked: “What is it, a washing machine or a hread mixer?" Capt. Beck recalls that 50" or 60 natives were calmly weaving palm {leaves into sacsac ayirine for wasn't sure just how they meant it. ; . . Members their huts—a few hun red vards of the executive committee of the Council of Social [pack of the position he picked for Agencies found themselves in quite a predicament | the rocket projector. during their meeting Tuesday night in the Y. M. C. A.| When the first Tocket Was loosed. Lincoln room. Along about time to break up, the the fearsome noise sent them skecommittee, found itself securely locked in the room. | daddling. It. didn’t give the Japs any It took about 15 minutes of yelling and hammering | joy either. on walls to arouse the attention of someone in the | 2.8 8 lobby. A janitor liberated them. “Lincoln freed the] THEY COULDN'T figure out what slaves,” quipped Virgil Sheppard, a member of the|or where the new weapon was, and committee, “but the Lincoln room made prisoners of their mountain guns began firing us.” . .’. The Red Cross is making an urgent plea for | wildly—which disclosed their posivolunteers with home economics training to serve as | tions and made them duck soup for dietitian aids at Riley, Coleman and Long hospitals. | the Aussies’ 25-pounders. There's a drastic shortage of help. The aids will work| After Satelberg, interest in rockin the hospital kitchens helping arrange diets and |ets accelerated. ‘planning menus. It's strictly volunteer service such as| On Dec. 15 Capt. Beck's support has been provided at the U. S. Veterans’ hospital the battery used rockets for the first last year or so. Two training classes. have been |time in a combat landing, at Arawe, started, but it's not too late to join them. One meets New Britain, at 10 a. m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the| After the navy’s attack force had gas company, the other at 7 p. m. the same days, at lifted its. bombardment to permit the Red Cross chapter house. “|landing craft to beach, two rocket- ’ . equipped ducks—amphibious trucks A Magnificent Display —opened fire and kept the beach THE ANNUAL pear blossom display out around [covered with explosions until our Berkeley rd. and Illinois st., is getting under way and (boats were only 150 yards from should be in-its full glory by Easter Sunday. There shore. Result: Three Jap 75s on are more than 100 big Kiefer pear trees in the vicin- | the shore never went into action. ity, and it's a beautiful sight when they're blossomed | Later the ducks, rushed several out. Looks like the trees were covered with wet, Miles from the beachhead to intersticky snow. Luther Brooks, of Ayres’, who lives in|Cept a swarm of Jap barges, sank the vicinity, says the display is every bit as magnifi- | eight of them. cent as that provided by the famous Japanese cherry trees in Washington. The trees are the remains of a fine orchard on the old Blue farm which was owned by Prosecutor Shefwood Blue's father, Berkeley rd., in case you don't know, is between 43d and 44th sts. Crisps “Attucks high school has re-entered the Times Foreign Correspondent ’ school newspaper field following .an absence from | COLOGNE, . March 30—Conthe journalistic scene for some months and has|quered Cologne provides the allies changed the name from the Attucks Crier to Attucks | with a slight foretaste of what BerNews. The publication explains: “We have been the [1in will be like, both in physical Attucks Crier and have cried long enough. Now We |1ayout and as an area to be govhave washed our face and dried our tears, and: We | erned , offer ‘you a smile. The Attucks News.” . . . The Manual Booster observed its 33d anniversary March 19, |
agent from Nephi Utah. Maj. Elmer P
the rocket,
Mr. Miller
(the detail that first used it in action in support of the Australians
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK
‘Cologne was finished, as a city, | by the big allied air raids of March a mi 42.3 and 4, When _- 5 .
: 2 : we entered if, on By David Dietz
iMarch 5, we {found the former 4 Rhenish capital : : lof 750,000 populaA report -of the war production board indicates tion a gigantic that the United States produces about 500,000,000 wasteland. pounds of formaldehyde a year. Because it goés into | the phenolic resins required for the manufacture of/ One hundred
airplanes, tanks, warships, radars and other radio thousand persons equipment, and because it goes also into high ex-| huddled in cellars plosives, - the distribution of formaldehyde is under and in concrete strict government allocation today. : bunkers which:
ie 7s 7 ole? the Nazis hag Miss Kirkpatrick ‘hat Is Formaldehyde!
erected for the homeless. There was no electricity, no water. There AT THIS POINT, some layman might rise to ask, is still none today. Some districts “But just what is formaldehyde?” |of the city have had no water since Well, it is a colorless gas made from the reaction |September. of methyl alcohol and oxygen in the presence of a| Foreign workers, shoved across the catalyst. Its molecule contains one atom of carbon,|Rhine by the retreating German two-of -hydrogen-and -one-of ‘oxygen and-is written Army, brought in typhus. Unburied “HCHO.” [dead lay among ruins and in bomb Among the newer uses of formaldehyde are craters. The entire city government methods for rendering rayon fabrics crush-proof and and all public utility officials and a number of other fabrics crease-proof. \bankers had fled. Pointing out the role of formaldehyde in daily|
Vermell A. Beck, once of
former petroleum
Volgenau of the brigade, from Buffalo, N. Y,, had been instrumental in developing mounts for Capt. Beck was with
» Redlands, Cal, suggested a thought which many of
life, Dr, Walker says, “We are born in hospitals where it is employed as a disinfectant. A little later we| play with rattles or teething rings made of formalde-
- hyde resins and wear clothes colored with dyes in
the manufacture of which formaldehyde may have been employed. “Even our food is indirectly affected since many | seeds and soils are treated with formaldehyde to! guard against fungi which reduce the yield. “Many of our radio cabinets and accessories are! made from formaldehyde resins. These resins are present at every turn, in the telephone, electric light push-buttons, knobs, ash trays, clock cases and the silent gears of our automobiles.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
They tell me, for instance, that the Cerebral Palsy clinic conducted by the District of Columbia Society for Crippled Children is financed from the sale of Easter_seals. Like the tuberculosis seals which all of us have bought around Christmas time for many years past, this sale is becoming a fixture in our minds. I am quite sure that everyone gladly contributes his small mite which swells into such a great benefaction. The United National Clothing collection is calling everybody’s attention to the fact that April 8 to 14 will be the period during which their workers will
come to every doer asking if you .are observing]:
“Clean Out Your Clothes Closet” week, Even if you are not visited by one of their workers, you will Be told over the radio where you can send your contribution to this gigantic effort. In a letter to Henry J. Kaiser, Mrs. H. Cleo Burris, |
us may well remember: “Am I wearing it now? If nbt, out it goes.” That is a good slogan, but don’t confine your closet cleaning to clothes alone. ‘ Remember that.all over, the world there’ are people whose household goods have been completely destroyed. Among the few things we will be able to send them in the next few months are materials which can be packed with other .necessary things that have to be shipped for the war, ’ These materials can be poked into corners, or in between packing cases, and they will mean a great
| Enter With Troops
This was the situation found by Lt. Col. John K. Patterson and his 41 military government officers when they entered with the forward troops. Patterson had been able to observe the workings of the military government in Aachen while waiting to come into Cologne. He has profited by that experience and is determined not to make the same mistakes that were made in Aachen.
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1945
THE STORY OF THE U. S. ARMY ENGINEERS . . . (Fourth of a Series)
Brigade First to Use Rockets in Pacific
TC ———————
LEYTE, P. 1.— The deadly 4!;inch rocket was first used in the Southwest Pacific by the 2d engi-
American troops disembarking from
| TWELVE DAYS later Capt. Beck and the two rocket ducks went in| on the tCape Gloucester landing | fwith the 1st marine division, firing! bot Prom sea as tiié landing crail: approached “the “¥hore, and" Yionm land later on in support of the marines’ alr-
advance on a Jap airdrome. : Once, advised by a lookout on top of a ridge that several hundred of the enemy were moving along a ravine beyond the ridge to reach some of their field pieces, the ducks! sfired some 200 rounds in three min-| {utes and ‘wiped out almost the entire unit. These ducks, with rocket crews of | five men each, mounted 120 rocket! |tubes apiece—each tube capable of! [delivering an explosive charge com- | | parable to that of a 105-mm. shell. | v Beck's two little amphibious war-| ships stayed on in support of the marines for six weeks, at Hell's point and Borgen bay and Natamo point and Twin Rivers, and then was withdrawn for use with the 1st cavalry in the assailt on Los Negros in the Admiralties. » » " SO MUCH for the early days of the rocket. The Arawe action also saw the first real combat use by] lour engineer brigade of the sea-
{going tanks of LVTs, called alliga-
}
tors and (an. im “Yéd model) Buffaloes. These pru.ed especially useful ‘in negotiating reefs and
making an initial landing while engineer scouts were searching out safe passages for landing boats. Meanwhile, also, in self-defense against - murderous Jap strafing, the brigade's support battery had! |developed the flak’ LCM—a little!
U.S. Government Set Up in Ruins of Wrecked Cologne
Under the supervision of six medical officers, German civilians were. organized to dispose of the .deadThe entire population was “dusted” to prevent the spread of typhus. The city’s food "stocks, which were considerable, were seized and rationed out. The Nazi system and ration cards were used, but this time Jews were issued cards and food. * i ! —"Jewish Police Chief - About 300 civilians -were pressed into service ‘as. temporary policemen, under a Jewish former police chief who had been dismissed by the Nazis in- 1933: -A census of the population was begun on March 20. The military government in Cologne is tough, uncompromising and efficient. No member of the Nazi party or person with Nazi affiliations has held office. This is where Cologne differs from Aachen. Willi Suth, a member of the Central’ party and an official of the city government in 1928, was the first man to be appointed burgomeister.
By GEORGE WELLER
Times Foreign Service
JERUSALEM, March 30. — The coming San Francisco international security conference makes the second major test of the 20th century for United States foreign policy in the Middle East and the Balkans. Each test has followed a long and costly war. Each test has been approxifnately the same: Can the U. 8. government, with= out actually retaining a large number of troops on territory in which it is Interested, nevertheless exert influence on that territory's political disposition proportionate to that of its allies? For the United States the importance of the Middle East and the
| [Balkans has jumped enormously
since the last war, American interest in ‘such matters as how the forfeited territories of the Italian empire are going to be distributed is no less than that of any other power. Eyes on Arabia
The disposition of Italian Libya, Eritrea and Somaliland is a question tied closely with Arabia's strategic position. : There is: almost no country in the Arab constellation which does not affect importantly the airpower nexus where three continents meet in the Middle East. Similarly, the Balkans as a testing ‘laboratory for wars, cannot fail to interest the nation to which has fallen a greater economic. burden than on Britain and Russia combined. United States foreign policy in the eastern Meriterranean and the Middle East is unique in placing its entire reliance for allied col laboration in conferences alone. , This method was not notably successful after the last war. Wilson's Ideas regarding the disposition of the Ottoman empire's subject peo-
| plés received scanty consideration |.
from the British and French, who
‘before-
fused Nazis=but we didn’t fight our | Thor Nazis. !
U. S. Facing 2d Test in Balkans, Middle East
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| | | an amphibious LCM in the Pacific ate shown in this official photograph. 50-footer carrying as much fire- experience of Sgt. Robert F. Winpower as a B-24 bomber ter, of Union, Ore. ; The first one .of these was com-| Sgt. Winter was gunner on one
pleted in time for the Admiralties|of two scout boats of our brigade! campaign, where it was effective which was surprised by 10 or 15
both IP sweeping the beach and ir Jap bargs and -ailer—a Sharp eX=i= ~+change--of--fire-had. to..beach..on..al.
fending off -Jap-aireraftr mem >. Another = innovation, introduced Swamp mangrove shore, where the by the navy-about-this— time; was crews struck--out-overland . through the LSD—landing ship, dock. This unfavorable terrain, with: water vessel, first usea=at-Arawe, is de- sometimes up to their armpits. scribed by Capt. Barron- Collier of Sgt. Winter had been wounded in the engineers—who was there—as both legs, but had managed to keep “the aircraft carrier of the am- {on firing and thus help stand off the|
| phibious game It also has cer-|superiof Jap force during the ! tain aspects of the submarine. | beaching. As our crews togk to the | ¥ 8 =n {swamp, they’ carried him in a
stretcher, but it was slow going. Fin- | ally, as a later citation recounted: n
HERE 18 how the LSD works: ! Ballast tanks are flooded until the dock-ship is so low in the water that little LCMs can chug aboard under their own power in water-filled dock space. Then the water is pumped out
” n “WITH A QUICK realization of {the importance of the information| her bout enemy dispositions which the | quick return of the patrol would
make available to our forces, Sgt. and the LSD proceeds with eur In-| winter insisted that the patrol
vasion force to the shore, where the | leave him behind for rescue later.|
LCMs are disgorged and go about | “With a limited quantity of wa-|
oir Rite : | Ski business of Janding and SUP~ | or? rations—and medical supplies, | plying assault troops. )
‘he w rove from | Av Arswe tral Gist 1SD. de [0 Ves covcamlei m 3 8 |
livered her pickaback flotilla of | Which he was not rescued until 13
2d E. S. B. boats and got away | days had passed.” iis long before dawn and the inevi-| The rest of the party, under Lt table Jap air attack. | Dave Williams of Detroit (now aide] The 2d E. S. B. thus was now not | t0 Brig. Gen. William F. Heavey | only seasoned in conventional am-|Jr. commanding general of the phibious tactics but was pioneer- | Prigade) had reached Arawe with | ing profitably with various weap- | the help of a native guide after ons and craft, piling up experience flve rough days. They dispatched that would be increasingly useful another native by canoe to rescue as we moved forward toward Tokyo. | Sgt. Winters, who recovered from ® 8 =» his wounds. That scrt of incident, multiplied THAT ARAWE deal, incidentally, | .\10c51y, may explain why the| had many incidents of heroism, second E. S. B. thinks pretty well]
but probably none to surpass the of itself. !
It took two weeks to find him.|the Germans up to the moment 1f itv takes «six months to find a our tanks burst mte town. non-Nazi for an official job, it will{ -In Cologne, as in other captured take six months, according to Col |[Geiman: towns, the civilians are Patterson. |obsequious, disciplined and anxious wr to please the Americans. And, Get Bid of Nazi {strangely enough, in a city which “We aren't in ‘any hurry,” he gave Adolf Hitler oné of his most said. - “The Cologne city govern-|enthusiastic receptions when he ment may not be as efficient im-| Vas first there in 1933—and on his
_|mediately * as it would be if we | 18st. visit in 1944—there are no ad- |
way into Geremany to give it effi-|. There have never heen any Nazis cierit administration. We came nfl eran x ae v: he he ing. to get rid of the Nazis.” a Dns Who Spor Military government .laws are |SPOCK€d and incredulous the y placarded on the tottering walls 20 mention of the behavior of Gerof the city. They are to be obeyed, | Tans In the rest of Europe. % or punishment will be swift ahd) Isn't this destruction sad? one severe {of these now pro-Americans asked Industry may be revived, but YOUr correspondent. “It's particuonly that part that is useful for ‘ATW vil he 0, Vecause We) allied ‘military purposes. Work igre the whole business. : probably will be confined to the| There we agreed, but we have only two undamaged factories the | found little evidence that the bulk Ford works and the Courtauld tex- | 9! the German people are likely to tile mills on the outskirts of the| i the same cause-and-effect city, The Ford assembly line wag |COTCIUSIONS. : ; ; ’ Copyright, 1945, by Th anapolis 1 turning out military transport for|CoPyIighL, 1948 by The Indianapolis Tunes
their arguments with forces on the|ists in Greece, keeping control folground. - [lowing the civil war and with a Thus, is was that American com- small fraction statically containing missions like the King-Crane inves- the Germans in western Crete. , tigators, who in 1919 reported, after calling a nation-wide national as- _ France Keeping Tab sembly in Damascus, that the Syr-| Moving eastward the survey obians wanted independence, or an Serves another British command, American or British mandate, in| fhe 9th army under Lt. Gen. George that order of preference, and re-|Holmes, in the Levant, that of the jected a French mandate, were sim- | iWin gepublics of Lebanon and Syr-| ply ignored at the peace conference. |ia. In the Levant also is the French | America’s isolationism began in|army, partly composed of Syrian political defeat in localized areas|levies, which approaches the Brit-| where its allies possessed standing|ish in dimensions, armies but the United States itself| Finally, there is the British Pal-| had only standing ideas. |estine command, which provides a! Five Armies in Area backlog of security to the Pales- . As {tine-armed constabulary. To the ideas which existed in| Ay one time Palestine stood high 1919, the United States now has|i, american air strategy in the added important interests. But a aiddle East. Heavy bombers were
“show of the flag” is still non- pased here for attacks against the| existent. In this respect the Amer- | go ikans. The principal French air! ican position is sharply different poco in Syria, Rayak, was completed | from hat of ity allies. {and outfitted as an American serv-|
A survey of the arc of Middle .o pace All these installations have East power, which runs from Buda- | pean withdrawn. |
pest to Aden and from Tripoli to] the Persian gulf, reveals that five Yanks Fold Tents armies under separate commands| Aside from scattered parties of are afoot in countries where German |G. Ls, visiting the Cedars of Lebforces are vestigial, have departed, anon, the sepulchres of Jerusalem, or never arrived. and the one diminishing rest cenRussian command exists in Bul-|ter at Tele-Twinsky near Tel-Aviv, garia and Romania, partly occupied|the Americans, unlike the Arabs, with securing the flank of the Hun- have simply. folded their tents ang garian front. British command ex-|gone, ns E —————- ———— But" questiofis that go with victory remain, . Once“ more, as in Wilson's day,
HONOR : SCHOOL 25 | FOR BOND PURCHASES ‘ne Und Sis s pacing i
School 25 at 322 E. Merrill st. | By its foreign policy of withhas won the, schools-at-war "flag drawal from Tripoli to the Persian for 90 per cent participation in war|gy)f, it has placed itself in the hands stamp purchases. {of its allies. The leverage that goes With the addition of school 19 with possessing men on the spot. as.
at 1624 Quill st., which won the 188 | defenders of interests has been vol-| in January, the new total of schools | Teno
| untarily renounced. now flying the flag is 70. Mrs! wpnather. this method works better
Leone Hall is principal of school ‘with the United States committed’ 25 and Miss Emma M. Allison prin- word political co-operation than | Spal of school 19. |it did when committai was withheld, Middle East ‘LODGE MEETING SET is an issue that all Silver Star will | Powers are watching today.
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PAGE Tomorrow's Jo Reconversion Talk Revived; Byrnes Is Key
By ROGER W. STUARY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 30.—Old Man Reconversion, battered and confused, may soon get-a shot in
the arm Government plans for reconversion of industry in the period between V-E-day and the defeat of Japan, observers believe, will be outlined in the second quarterly report of the office of war mobilization and reconversion. Director Byrnes is to send that report to congress next week. Meanwhile, from industrialists and congressmen have come ex-
_ pressions of alarm at the govern-
ment’s failure to announce a definite program to start when war plants stop making munitions. = » k 8 MR. BYRNES is bldémed for putting a stop to reconversion talk in official vircies, but -enarman .
Krug-of-the-war-productHon boas dy
for one, recently denied reports
that the -WPB has made no -plans
for reconversion. The Byrnes no-reconversion-talk policy is believed in some quarters to have been adopted at the insistance of Maj. Gen. Lucius Clay, his deputy director.
The latter, a disciple of the win-the-war-first school of thought, was appointed yesterday to the post of deputy to Gen. Eisenhower in charge of civil affairs in Germany when that country is occupied. n ” s ~~ GEN. CLAY'S transfer from ‘the war mobilization office, some observers said today, came shortly after an appeal to Mr. Byrnes by his advisory board to “get rid of Clay.” The ensuing action was taken as a sign that Mr. Byrnes finally has adopted the point of view that- reconversion . planning is proper and, in fact, overdue. Among critics of government delay in preparing for peacetime production is Ira Mosher, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. ‘To say,” he insists, “that we may not think or talk of reconversion now is to sentence us to post-war default in our responsibilities which might put the whole peacetime economic system in the hands of the government.” Adding to .the present confusion, no one, not even the war production board, appears to have any idea how many weapons, or
- what kinds, the armed forces will
require after victory in Europe.
ya . » . : REP. BUELL SNYDER (D. Pa), chairman” of the house military appropriations subcommittee; said he believed the fall of Germany would bring a one-third cut in the army's production requirements. The manufacturers association, in ité March 17 issue of the N. A. M. news, declared: .~ T=
“There appgeer ie. Yhalinasd.
“at the present time of any ma-
terial cutback in’ the war “Pybs duction program after the collapse of Germany” “*¥ Less than a year ago, WPB as well as army and navy spokesmen counted on cutbacks up to 45 per cent after V-E-day, As
time went on this estimate was
pared down and is now, almost at the vanishing point.
We, the Women Chorus Girls Are Sadly Out of Step
By RUTH MILLETT
A GROUP of New York chorus girls, out of a job because their night club has become a restaurant answered, “Don’t be silly” to the query if they would go into war work or other essential jobs. They have much more important plans for themselves than that, They are going to try for Hollywood ; Ra 4 careers, take ilk dramatic les- iS sons, go into 3 modelling. One summed up their attitude with “Us choru girls are unsuited for war work. It looks as though their-experi-ence in a chorus line would ba fairly good training for work €® an assembly line, . 8 THEY have to stand on their feet in a chorus—and they would have to stand on their feet in a war plant. Their chorus girl hours should have prepared them for working nights and sleeping days —as the girl do on the swing shift. The keen competition they have known among themselves could be put to use in outshining othér workers at turning our war. material, And as for handling the wolves around & war plant, it ought to be: easy to put a.fresh foi in his place, when a girl has had to know how to outwit society's play boys. hi 3 ; gi BESIDES, very few girls now working in war plants Were “suited for that kind of work.”