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OKINAWA (By Navy radio).~The L.C.V.P. in which I rode shoreward on Love day morning at Okinawa was so crowded the men just stood against each other: I knéw most of them for they were all from the ship that brought us up. They had been riding for an hour before they picked us up off the control boat
" from the spray. The morning was warm and sunshiny, yet they had all gotten very cold' just from being wet. Some of them got the cold shakes and couldn't stop. They joked with each other about quaking with fear, instead of cold, We all smiled sort, of sickly like. We talked most of the way, but I can’t remember much of said. We were all sort of tensed up inside.
what we These Pacific islands haye one bad feature that we never had to contend with in any of the European
invasions, And that is a reef that lies just under water, three or four hundred yards out. - Hence a boat of any size can't run up to the beach, for it can't get over the reef. Consequently, we had to transfer again about a half mile from shore. ‘We ran up along a fleet of amphtracks—amphibious tractors—which were waiting there for us,
Small Fires Burning On Island THESE ARE like big trucks, only they're bu fractors. When in the water ‘the tractor treads, built cup-like; propel the thing along. . The moment it touches bottom it crawls along like a tractor. They can go miles to sea or miles inland; either one, Our. packs were so heavy it was hard to get from one boat to the other. It took our load about 10 And then we started the last lap, the one that really counted. The terrific bombardment had completely stopped about a minute before H-hour. By now almost an hour had passed, and the ships were again firing, spasmodically. Small fires were burning inland and a great ‘cloud of black smoke rose from the airport, up on. high, ground. But the pall of smoke and dust which had ocavered the beach had blown away, and we could
and they were soaked to the skin
clearly see the men on shore and the wave ahead of us landing. We had all expected to go onte- the beach in a hailstotm of tracer “bullets,” mortar "shells throwing sand, and artillery shells whistling into the water ahead of us. And yet we couldn't see a bit of firing ahead. We hoped it was true. We- hoped. While .we were hoping, somebody took out his canteen and had’a drink. People get awfully thirsty as they approach a beachhead. The canteen went around. When it came to me I took a big gulp, and almost choked. For it wasn't water at all, but straight brandy! During the bombardment and all during the Jandings a lone four-engined Liberator bomber flew slowly back and forth over the beach, We marveled at his audaeity for he seemed an easy target for ack-ack. Yet he didn't seem to get shot at.
Weather Couldn't Have Been Better
LIBERATORS ARE too big for carriers to handle so it would have had to come all the way from the Philippines or Iwo Jima or Saipan. We presumed it carried photographers It seemed incongruous, lumbering around up there alone so nonchalantly. We were musing on the Liberator when suddenly the amphtrack hit bottom, tilted way over on one side as though it was going to upset, then tilted back with a big thump that almost threw us off our feet. We were crossing the coral reef. It was a good crossing at that. - The water was smooth and there were no rollers on the reef. The gods were good to us on that invasion day.
The weather was warm and spring-like, The. sun
shone brightly. There was no wind. It couldnt have |
been better.
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By 8. BURTON HEATH and DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Writers
WASHINGTON, April 7. — The average adult has a wardrobe to last
for about 18 menths.
If evety nianufacturer were to close down and every retail shop were to withdraw its stock from the market, tHe citizens would be fully
clothed, the office of civillan requirements says. Children are excluded from this statement because they .outgrow their clothing, so that it cannot be judged on ‘the wearability basis.
But there isn't going to be any
such shutdown,
y #8 8 : WHILE there won't be as much
clothing made as we would like to buy — and much of it won't be first-choice as to color, style or finish — we could go on for a long time maintaining wardrobes almost as complete as they are now, Hitler has. held on long enough now so that-men’s fall and winter suits are going to be ‘scarce next | season. Cutting should start by rnid-May, tailors doubt that they
The big
From the reef on in, the amphtrack joggled and could hope — even if V-day were
titled as it rode the rough coral bottom. Then at last it climbed out of the water and onto the sand. We ran up about 20 feet from: the water's edge. The driver let down the ramp that forms the rear end of the amphtrack and we stepped out. We. were on Okinawa an hour and a half after H-hour without getting ‘shot “at and we hadn't even got our feet wet. i The first words I heard on Japanese soil were from an incredulous marine who said,
| tomorrow—to 3 hough material,
A RECENT A dinies that {various major producers expect to | turn out from 25 to 50 per cent as {many fall and winter suits as. last | year. There won't he any significant quantity of hard-finished worsteds. But the OCR believes one should
“Hell, this is just like one of MacArthur's|have no difficulty finding pretty landings.” satisfactory. tweeds and softfinished worsted suitings. = ~ Ld AS. FOR this summer, tropical|
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
A “SIGN OF THE TIMES" was reported seen fn the window of the Taystee Bar B-Q, 225 N. Pennsylvania: “No ribs, no chicken, no Bar B-Q, no business, going fishin’, see’ you next season Look
for our new location, etc.” . ... And Grandmother's Kitchen, in the Lorraine : hotel has started closing Saturdays “because of the meat shortage.” : . Luther Tex, city street department superintendent, says not to forget the tin can collection next week. Same 'schedule— north of 16th st. Monday and Tuesday, south of 16th, Wednesday and Thursday. Also, this is clean-up week. So get busy. . . If you live out in the vicinity of Michigan and Tibbs and have a pet dog, take good care of it. It's reported there's a dog poisoner at work out there. Arthur Robert Berg, 412 N. Tibbs, reports that his little black and tan dog was poisoned—strychnine—Wednesday afternoon. And Mr. Berg has heard
of eight other dogs poisoned recently in the same.
vicinity, ... . H. H. (Dutch) Behrent offers free of charge a tip on how to protect blossoms and plants from frost, If it frosts and your plants aren't covered, says Dutch, get out bright and early, before the sun hits the plants, and sprinkle them with the
- garden hose.- That, he says, will remove the ice and
frost without ‘damage. . Lots “of people covered shrubs and even 2 Smal fruit trees with sheets, quilts, d. find Thutsddy night to sive ‘them from ‘tHe ik ‘But Bud Haak, Who lives in the $100 block, 'E. St. Clair, wént them one better. He covered a 30-foot peach tree with a parachute: “It was a defective #rmy chute which he Bbtained abot: a year ago. Made a nice cover, .
Lt. Brosnan in Town
OLD INSIDE is all puffed ‘up over getting mentioned in Private Detective magazine. And in the
| . leading story, at that—‘“Death’s Dark Garden.” On “He irowned, panied vad, dw
read in that newspaper column, Ihside Indianapolis,that Mrs. Mallot had removed the weight.” . . . To what do I attribute my Success in getting men-
IF OUR PURPOSE.in the Pacific is complete destruction of the keart of the Japanése war machine and surrender of the lords of Japan proper, then we face a comparatively short war, economical above all else in manpower losses. . If, on the other hand, our strategy involves the Invasion of the Asiatic continent and the destruction of the four to six million Jap soldiers there, we face a long, bloody war. This decision, one ‘of the most momentous in American military history, is in the making or perhaps already made. I believe we must assume that our war aim against Japan is the elimination of that nation as a potential aggressor in the im-
, mediate future—and as far ahead as we can. plan.
Second; if this-isour-aim; then continuing the naval air drive against Japan, aided by long-range bombing operations of the army, is a most logical development of our strategy.
Took the Short Cut
IN OTHER WORDS, instead of starting at the southernmost extension of the newly-won Japanese empire and working our way laboriously northward to attack Japan proper, our naval air-sea forces took the short cut and scissored the Jap lines of communication in the middle. As a result, no sea-borne Jap munitions can supply garrisons to the southward. The major percentage of Jap aircraft, engine, and munitions factories are in Japan. Demolish those
My Day :
NEW YORK, Friday.—All day yesterday I seemed to be moving from one individual's interest to another. In the course of the day I saw a young man whose greatest-interest is the development of-educa-tion in Africa among the Negro people. *' Then I touched tpon Australia and Italy, and it seemed almost strange when I found myself talking with someone whose chief interest is right here at home in our own country. A little after 6, Miss Helen Hall of the Henry Street settlement called for Miss Thompson and me, and it seemed very familiar get- . ting out and going into the house that will always bring Miss Lillian Wald's presents vividly before me. Mite Wald is ong of the People Whose spilt Tus lived on. It lives in that busy house used by so many" people, and yet at the core of all the activities there
ot ps ry
1 think, from people all of Vhom are going a they care abdut it. ~
had an informal supper at Iie tables, and ted
‘to me incredibly courageous to bé doing it again.
- Street settlement cotild be carried on in every. com-
“tives at the San Francisco conference and afferward. 0 i prayer for the cessation of hostilities
Ltigned in a national magazine? Well, mostly to being well acquainted with the author of the story—G. T. Fleming-Roberts,” who lives on N. Meridian st., here in Indianapolis. Nice guy, that Tommy Roberts. . . . Lt. Francis D. Brosnan, U. 8, N”’ R., former manager of the Indianapolis Life Insurance Co. downtown office, is in town for a day or two. He's en route from Camp Farragut, Ida. where he's been stationed since 1942, to Washington, for reassignment, . . Tony Hinkle's pretty certain to be back coaching at Butle® after he finishes his tour of duty with the navy. It's well known he's had other offers, but he's written friends here recently that he definitely expects to come back here. . . . On the same subject, it will be decided within a few days, ’'tis reported, whether Harry Good will return from I. U. to resume his old job as Indiana Central basketball coach. , . Also, they're talking about some new bulidings at Indiana Central. So the old grads might as well start digging down in the old sock.
A Museum Incident MRS. GRACE GOLDEN, director of the Children’s Museum, relates the following incident in her March |
worsteds, which are what most of | us would like, will be pretty scarce. There won't be more than a fifth as many even as last year. But other summer suitings, notably cotton rayon, will be in better supply. Over-all,
thére should be more
Ara WASHINGTON _ ON HOME FRONT
NEN
ng Tor All at Lower Prices Is Aim
lieves that the shirt supply can - brought up to 80 per cent of demand. | which would give every man all the | shirts he really ‘needs. To get around the tendency of | manufacturers, when textiles are| limited, to use them up. in the more! expensive garments and run short] on low-priced items, the WPB has] issued a series of ‘“M-388'% orders, backed by. OPA price regulations, | that have provoked a storm in the garment industry but appear prom- | "ising to aymes,
» 5 | FOUR-FIFTHS of -all woolen and | cotton fabrics available for civilian use, and three-fourths of all rayon| and other synthetic fabrics, are set!
aside for use in low and medium-! priced garments and for children. | For men, this means that any manufacturer whose suits wholesale for $32.25 or less can get priorities on enough wool to make up to 50 per cent of the suits he made in the corresponding quarter last year,
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More arid more, as clothing stocks shrink, housewives have resorted
to makeover and make-do in me
than half as. many summer suits in
the stores as.last year. But many of them will be delivered late. You won't find them all on the racks at the beginning of the season, as you used to do. ” » »
MEN'S SHIRTS are tight.. Pro-
| duction last year was about 70 per cent of normal, and with the diffi-|
cult cotton textile situation it is
going to be hard to improve this. upset the apple cart, the OCR be- |"
eting family apparel requirements.
For women,
ple, that manufacturers will get |
it means, for exam-
priority assistance on slips retailing |
up to, $5.75—and the lower the retail price, the more priority help the manufacturer can obtain.
For |
girls, dresses wholesaling at $3.75 or |
less will be encouraged. n = » THERE will be left over, for benefit of new firms and for the making of higher-priced garments, one-fifth
» of the cotton and wool and a quar-|
ter of the rayon. «This experiment obviously is not | designed to increase the number of | garments available,
The OCR made a year-end sam- |help’ the family budget by enforc-
pling that showed the supply from ing new emphasis upon the price
30 to 50 per cent under- demand. The labor department's
shows the supply from 80 to 90 per | some an exaggerated impression of cloth-|
icent behind demand, with
| classes the family -of . ordinary insurvey | come can afford.
It also should help to eliminate
{panic buying, causing artificially ex- ing shortages ‘that comes when a
aggerated shortages. Both can't be right. 2 » » IF MEN will take it easy,
[buyer who is accustomed to $32.50
|
but rather to
|
suits, and now thinks he might pay !
‘there isn'lL a suit in the stores.”
advised caution today in adoption of
“A high level of employment By industry is not going to be ob-
guaranteed annual wages or similar
plans for “regularizing” post-war employment. The N. A. M.'s position was outlined before the American Legion’s| national employment conference by Walter D. Fuller, president of the the wartime weekly take-home pay wage rates will accompany the ex-
Curtis Publishing Co., and past president of the association. to be attempted in the face of pected sharp drop in employment |
“SO FAR as I know,” he said, “no | 'be that we will discover ‘we are |
TOMORROW'S JOBS: POST-WAR SECURITY DISCUSSED
Caution Urged in Annual Wage Plan
By NED BROOKS, Scripps- -Howard Staff Writer
{$50, can find nothing under $70 or| and not|$80 and walks out to report. that
i Industry, he added, cannot absorb maximum purchasing power and |
“qt any echems of maintaining | that *
WASHINGTON, April 7.—The National Association of Manufacturers higher per-heur wages and shorter full employment. work days without raising prices of | |sioner of labor statistics, ‘predicted ‘strong pressure” on unskilled |
A. F. Hinrichs, acting commis- |
[reduced hours of work, it may well after the war ends.
This, he said, will be followed by
report to the directors: “Upon my return (from New tained by demanding that Eo [blanket guarantees without excep- | | pricing ourselves right out of a a rapid recovery *perhaps moving
York) the local papers carried in the social column |
business or government should
tions and special provisions have
a sentence announcing that while in New York I had | make impossible: or unreasonable lever been found to be workable.”
acquired four pieces of Roman glass dating from the!
1st century B. C. The next day, three shabby and
dirty boys came to the door. One of them said: ‘My mother read in the paper that you had.some glass |
[requirements for Mr. Fuller said. .-
| “THE IDEA
unearned pay,’
” » of the guaranteed |
Government - guaranteed wages, he predicted, would lead to {whole network of controls that] {would soon enmesh the American |
older that Christ. We ain't never seen anything that | annual wage and similar proposi-| | worker. »
old: Can we logk at it?’ If still was-in the state of |
‘being. ‘accesgioried; Apis we YDOK - them. inte tae. ose ls.
ard let them investigate” . . . The" Pt. H#Prisoe ‘auxiliary to the Indianapolis Red Cross chapter is making quite a name for itself. During March, the chapter set the second best record in 4he entire country for hours spent in making surgical dressings. And that’s going some. The dressings are used right here at Billings hospital. The auxiliary, headed by Mrs. Rufus L. Holt, is composed of the wives of army officers. . . . Waited G, Dithmer clipped a headline from Tuesday's “Times, tfi“a story abdut the proFesedreasridsssemilyy - Seek * Extra Votes.” Mr, Dithmer comments: “Surely: your headline writer made a pistake! Or has the Great. White Father decided to quit being “drafted?”
By Maj. Al Williams
factories by intensive Bombing, and the Jap war machine must fold. modern warfare means production and transportation,
Eliminate Jap Fighters THE DAY must inevitably come when the last
Jap fighter plane factory in Japan .will be destroyed. |
From then on the only defense against our bombing operations will. be anti-aircraft fire. The Germans couldn't stand up under the constant _day and night bombardment, even though they still possessed some fighter forces. But the first completé vacancy in Japanese defense against our continued bombing of the homeland will be the elimination of Jap fighters. With that accomplished, what is there to prevent us from ringing Japan proper with our carriers and bombing its facilities and its population to submission? Japan is a concentrated target. There isn't enough room in Japan to hide munition producing facilities. That narrow little island is teeming with people who must be fed. And to feed them food must be grown (fishing will be “out” with our complete control of the seas adjacent to Japan). Food must be transported, and that's where our bombing of Japan’s railroads and highways will sever another artery of its national life. Japan is an insular power that has lost control of the sea and of the air. Militarily isolated she has nothing ahead of her except piecemeal destruction and ultimate surrender. The Japanese people without food and without the means of life may surrender. We already know from our swelling manpower losses that the Jap armed forces will never surrender Wa must be killed. Japan is indeed an airpower target.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
in France of late. Eye-witnesses can always make you see a country, particularly where you have known it in the past. . . It was encouraging to hear him say that, inspite of the destruction, the people set right to it, the minute ihe country was fn their hands again, to rebuild and salvage all they could from the ruins, 1 saw them doing this once before, and it seems
1 was thrilled by the way in which the people living on the Lower East Side of New York City are studying the international. situation. - Mrs, Esther Taber Fox, who is conductirig forums which are very well attended, has filled her room with the most interesting maps where you can actually see what is happening all over the world, and where explanations for the Bretton Woods agreements and Dumbarton Oaks proposals are set out before you. I wish this program inaugurated af the Henry
munity, rural and urban, throughout the nation. We would have individual citizens then carrying their full share of responsibility for their representaA few days ago there came to me’ an appeal for
and peace in beer issued
‘world. I think a plea has already| the Sunday before the San Fran-
|tard the formatien of new busi-|™
| tions may serve to make business-
oe Seren 120 IEE ess mitments. It could prevent or er
| nesses. Surely we should move with caution and common sense in dealing with such schemes. “I think that all agree there is merit in many of these plans but they must be developed gradually.
lon Bf MEANWHILE, the’ representatives of business, labor, farm: ore ganizations and servicemen’s groups were told by Veterans, Administrator Frank T. Hines ‘that private |
employers must, be prepared .to ab- | sorb 1,325,000 veterans in new em-| ployment during the first year|
returning servicemen to their old | jobs. . { Gen. Hines estimated that during the first year 110,000 veterans will enter rehabilitation training or re{sume their education, 54,000 will enter business, 24,000 will buy. farms and 80,000 will buy homes. The estimates were based on continuation of the war in the Pacific after the German collapse. n ” ” THE LEGION, which has fixed its goal at 55,000,000 post-war job | opportunities, assembled leaders” of government agencies and private organizations to consider problems of taxes, distribution, wage-hour standards, guaranteed wages, senjority practices and servicemen’s preferences as those subjects relate to employment. The N. A. M.'s statement on employment guarantees followed President Roosevelt's recent action in creating a special committee to examine the proposal. Mr. Fuller said the limited adoption of guarantee plans “suggests that such schemes may not. be genuinely attractive to the rank and file of industrial workers.”
pra
ljob,” he said.
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By ROGER W. STUART, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 7.—~A warning that overlapping taxation by|program.
federal and state governments must be stopped if an equitable post-war tax program is to be worked out was given at the American Legion's national] employment conference here.
We need aevohigion, not revolution” AR aaa the chiel point of agreement amang § pokestiien for busi- dent Lovee = YOR Decides Not to1-
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{conditions GEORGE BUCKLEY, represent- result of production cost revisions. » “aling the United Automobile Work- | {The present 40-cent wage mini-| told the conference mum, he added, is no longer ° that high wages are necessary in| {effective measure of labor. floors all sections of the country to insure |since most pay is above that level.”
to boom proportions” in which wage | “will be disturbed as a|
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OvériaBping Taxation: Seen as. Handicap
item for item, the Legion's 0 own
The points were: 1. The budget should be balanced and a suitable provision
{ made for PEyment: of the public -
‘fies organizations, veterans groups; iabor- wha “etic WISOCiEtOnS Pei #2-The present, tax. sen. must
pating- ina session ‘devoted to the!
question: “What changes in "tax policy -will contribute to the development and maintenance of a high level of employment?” Of some significance was the fact that government representatives remained silent throughout this dis-
Nothing can save it" because after V-E day and to restore 880,000 cy¢sion.
” n ” PARTICULARLY noticeable was the silence when Arthur Trundell of Cleveland, representing the Association of Consulting and Management Engineers, inquired:
“What is our government's present |
tax policy? Possibly some of the federal men here can tell us.” No one spoke. “That,” said Mr. Trundell, “illustrates what I mean. No one, apparently, is in a position to tell us where we stand. And how can business make decisions with re-|
spect to post-war development un- | road committee for the study of| It matched, almost |
less it can know to some degree
a NE
be?” ww
o s »
lof them. = This company, he said,’
made a profit before tdxes last year of $195,000. were deducted? He
left after taxes Exactly $10,000.”
to small businesses in view of such a situation.
the Association of American Railroads, suggested a nine-point post war fiscal policy. » ” » HIS recommendations, were based on a report of the sub- | committee on taxation of the rail-
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| transportation.
| or abolished.
“But what do you think it had,
asked how venture capital could be attracted
M. R. Fletcher, vice president of |
he said,|
| be revised, because - it. “violates
{ | every pri Te ‘of sound taxawhat its tax outlook is going to]. pi we.
tion.” 3. Normal tax rates on individ-
TO ILLUSTRATE the point, Mr.| UAL incomes should be increased
Trundell, who said he represented 97 concerns, cited the case of one
and personal exemptions lowered (The states should abandon income taxes and the federal government should keep away from a sales tax.) 4. Personal surtaxes should be substantially réduced. : 5. Corporate income should be taxed only once. This should be at .the same rate as the normal tax applicable to individuals. 6. Corporate excess ~ profits taxes and surtaxes should be abolished. 7. Fair and consistent treatment should be accorded capital gains and losses. 8. . The wording of tax laws must be simplified. 9. Overlapping and competing taxation by federal and state governments should be eliminated,
HOME BUILDING IN
3 CITIES IS 0. K.'D,
R. Earl Peters, state director of the federal housing administration, was notified today by the Chicago office of . the national housing agency that authority has been granted for conversion programs in Vincennes, Auburn and Rensselaer. Under this authority persons in those communities may procure priorities for conversion of homes to provide additional living units.
Captures G
By Beripps-Howard Newspapers ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS, TTH ARMY, April 7—~Pvt. Vernon Wikston, like every other soldier here in Germany, ‘is a souvenir hunter at heart, but he hunts on the wrong team. Here's the story as told by Gen. Patch: On a bright spring morning Pvt. Wikston was out for a stroll after finishing his work in Company B of his ordnance battalion. Without his gun and tossing pebbles as he went, Wikston ambled into 4 patch of woods, looking for an abandoned pillbox, known to be the best hunting grounds for souvenirs. He walked around ‘a knoll and there was a pillbox all right, but there was a German standing in the door. Pvt. Wikston knew at a glance that he had a prisoner, for the German, too, whs unarmed. ‘Pvt, Wikston scowled and took charge of things. He had captured
3 Tue Sra, a Talos jenatel 80,
Gen, Faein. 4), commanding
Unarmed American Private
erman General
general of the 7i9th German infantry division, Pvt, Wikston walked back to camp. But his beaming face was met with dark looks and unpleasant words by several soldiers along the way. The soldiers belonged to a division , with which Pvt. Wikston and his armored force have no connection. Some days earlier the doughboys had captured an entire German unit, but. the commanding officer got away. There was a rumor that he was in the neighborhood. The division commander offered 8 reward of 30 days’ leave to anyone in his unit who captured the general. So the division's men had spent their odd moments searching under practically every bush in western Germany. And here 'Pvt. Wikston, out on a stroll, turns up with the man, | Gen. Patch decided to pay the market price for captured major
generals. ir Save Put, Wikston 41
omy -
Returned Marine
“NEUTRALIZING” thousands of Japs stranded on: by-passed Pacific isles, making sure they die
duties of 8. Sgt. Lawrence R. Shaffer of Indianapolis, for the past 15 months. He is now spending a 30-day furlough at home. Son of Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence E. Shaffer, 8. Sgt. Shaffer
ply outfit attached to the 4th marine air wing, operating throughout the’ Marshall and Gilbert islands. He was bombed and shot at on Tarawa, but bullets and shrapnel aren't the only items marines have to contend with in the Pacific, he points out. Loneliness and perpetual routine are also factors. For this reason, he says, “Tokyo Rose,” Jap propagandist, was ‘amusing, if cohfusing. S. . Sgt. Shaffer thought a U. S. vaudeville tour might not be a bad idea for Tokyo Rose after the war. “Her sponsors would make a million,” he laughed. A graduate of Howe high school, 8. Sgt. Shaffer attended the Roscoe Turner flying school before
ns Taiyo
Heard Tokyo Rose
on the vine, has been among the -
§. Sgt. Shaffer was with a sup- -
entering the service in January. | 1043; His father is. a member of.
POLICE SEEK DRIVER,
Police today sought a red, paneltype truck which witnesses sald | struck Mrs. Opal Liggans, 53, of | 1519 E. Washington st. and proceeded without stopping. Hit at Jefferson ave. and Washington st. | late last night, Mrs. Liggans ‘was in| critical condtiion at City hospieal,
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Clash of Vets' Rights, Union | Rules Debated
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 7.-An undercover row between labor unions and selective service headquarters over “super” senfority” for returning war. veterahs in the peacetime job market was forced into the open to-day-—-but with no prospect of an immediate agreement. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Herghey, selective ‘service director, challenged a large group of union spokesmen either to ask congress for a change in the selective service law or to go into the courts on the validity of a ruling that the law's “old jobs back” section means that the returning veterans need not: ‘defer to union seniority rules. At the same time he admitted that the disputed ruling was not mandatory, and was intended only for guidance of local draft boards in assisting veterans to regain their former employment. But he insisted it would have equal standing in any court with contrary opinions. ” » » UNION SPOKESMEN indicated - that the Hershey challenge would not be accepted, because of the possibility of a wrong impression among servicemenn if they either ask congress for a change in the law or seek a court decision. They centered their drive in a demand for a new selective service ruling—which is unlikely, according to Col. Paul H. Griffith, now assistant director of the retraining and re-employment administration, The row got a public airing in a conference called by the national employment committee of the American Legion. Lawrence J. Fenlon, committee chairman, said the conflicting views will serve as the basis for Legion policy to be decided in June. The Legion heretofore has backed Gen. Hershey and Col. Grifith.
tJ = = THE DETERMINED STANLS of selective service officers, plus the pointed questions ‘hurled at them by the union spokesmen, underlined the explosive chgrac~ ter of the disagreement. Among the union spokesmen objecting to the selective service policy were Robert J. Watt, American Federation of Labor, and Clinton 8S. Golden of the C10 Both emphasized recognition of national responsibility to the veterans, pleaded for “full employment” to sssure national as well as individual prosperity, and warned RENAN eg YEE island of security” for one olass of citizens when others ‘might be forced into the unemployed class. « Everybody ggreed. that the answer to the problem is “plenty of jobs.” :
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Daughters of Union Veterans, will hold a covered dish luncheon at noon Monday at Ft. Friendly.
Initiation’ of officers will will follow
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Workers Hid Themselves Into. Failure
By RUTH MILLETT THE MAN who retired after
but failed to get a pension be-
the kind of attitute a lot of people take toward their jobs. Instead of admitting to themselves that they will be working at their same kind of job for years to come-and so had better try to do a job as well as they can, they let the fnonths and the years slip by while they work haphazardly and- think of themselves as merely marking time, “unitil something better comes along.
5 o » IN THIS group are the women who. will probably never marry, vet always think in the back of their minds that their real job will some day be running a home. And so, though they: may have the brains and ability to make a good thing of their ‘jobs er to carve-out a real career for themselves, they never get around te it. They go right on for years working on a temporary basis,
+» There is no percentage in either men or women looking on a jcb as temporary, unless at the same time they are laying plans and working toward the achievement of some. permanent career, - n » IF THEY aren't making plans, they most likely . will become a fixture on the temporary job or Just trade it for another “e-pe-rary” one. “ And they stand to lose more than "the elevator man whe lost his chance at a pension because he was a “temporary” employee for 47 years. They stand to lose their chance at success and the satisfaction of creating a plan for a career and carrying it through to completion.
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