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‘Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie. psi fIn addition to the story which appears here today, “The Times will print several others which "have

Just been received: We helieve he would have wanted us to. As a great reporter, a great’ newspaper-. man and a great person, ‘he would have wanted his stories to go through, despite his tragic death.)

OKINAWA (By Navy Radio).~That was one of This unfortunate-soul ‘was Cpl. Leland Taylor -of the most miserable damn nights out of the hundreds ‘Jackson, Mich: * His. nickname is Pop, since he is 33 | of miserable nights I have spent in this war. years old. x Bird Dog and Gross and I turned into our sacks ~~ Pop is a “character.” He has a black: beard and | dust after dark. So did everybody else” who wasn't even in the front lines he wears a khaki overseas dress

. on guard. It was early to go *

tog, g0 cap. which makes him stand out. to sleep, so we just lay there in After Pop went back to bed everything becam the dark and talked. You could

; quiet for several hours, but hardly, anybody was hear Voices faintly all over the ,g.0, The next morning the boys on guard said hillside. - that Pop must have smoked three packs of cigarets ‘We didn't take off our clothes, ypa¢ night Tt was the same way with Bird Dog, of course; nobody does in the

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SECOND SECTION ~~ THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945 WORLD ORDER OR WORLD WAR I? . . . By William Philip Simms

~ Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta Conference

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Small. Business- : an a |" Wallace War | | Surplus Task |

(The San Francisco conference starts April 25. Here is another in a series of articles highlighting

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ™1 the background.) ;

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Gross and me, , field. I did take off my boots but Bird Dog and Gross left theirs on for they had to stand watch on the field telephones from 1 till 2 a. m. The three of us lay jammed up against each other, with Bird Dog We smoked one cigaret after another. under the blanket for ition where a cigaret

in the middle. We didn't have to hide them we were in a protected pos couldn't be seen-very far: Right after dark the mosquitoes started =beving around our heads. These Okinawa mosquitoes soun like a flame thrower. They*can't be driven off or brushed. away ; 1 got a little bottles.of mosquito lotion out of my pocket and doused my face and neck, though I knew

it would do no good. The other boys didn’t even

other. ) » After a while the hillside grew silent. The hours

went past, by an occasional slap at the mosquitoes each of us knew the others weren't asleep.

Even the Grass Has Fleas

Crucified by Mosquitoes ONE OF THE boys on guard came to wake my bedmates at a quarter till one, but they weren't asleep. I thought maybe I could get- to sleep wh'le they were away. But I didn’t. The mosquitoes were really crucifying me. p The boys came back about 2 o'clock and took off their shoes and lay down. With my blanket over the three of us we were as warm as toast. At least we had that advantage. - All night without even raising our heads we could see flashes of the big guns of our fleet across the island. They were shelling the southern part and also shooting flares to light up the frent lines in the south. There were times when we could actually see redhot shells, traveling horizontally the whole length of their flight, 10 miles away from .us, and then see them explode. » Every now and then throughbut the nightg our own company's mortars were called upon to gShoot

a flare over the beach behind us, just to make sure

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. —It was at Yalta that the Big Three issued their surprise announcement that they had decided “a. conference of the united nations = should be called to meei at San Francisco on April 25.” .

It came with that easy grace

which has characterized most of the Big Two and Big Three announcements. Golden Gate congress is going to unroll as smoothly as

sbhrase sounds, let him disabuse his mind. It isn’t.

But if anyone thinks the

the Yalta

Both the late President- Roosevelt,

Internafional Court of Justice

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

‘MILITARY STAFF | COMMITTEE

Economic Commission

Social Commission

Commissions

Other

International Labor Organization

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

SECRETARIAT Secretary General

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United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 19.—President Truman .Is setting Secrgtary of Commerce Henry A. Wal lace up in the surplus property business. It looks like a break for’ small business. Wallace, who was criticized by senate opponents for his alleged lack of business experience, will handle millions of dollars worth of government property no longer needed for war purposes and designed for sale to the general public. Wallace critics in congress, who succeeded in stripping the comnierce department of “its loan functions, also tried, but failed to pass a law preventing the President from transferring other functions to the department, n o 2

nothing was coming in. before congress, and Prime Minister Once there was a distinct rustling of the bushes Churchill, before the house of comin front of us. Of course the first thing I thought of | mons, conveyed the impression that was a Jap. {the Crimean agreement was abe But then I figured a Jap wouldn't make that solute. Yet today in the light of much noise and finally I decided it was one of the events since then, we know that horses the mortar boys had commandeered, crashing | Washington, London and Moscow through the bushes. And that's what it turned out may interpret parts of the agreeto be. ment differently and in ways that Pop Taylor also hdd the Jap idea, at first. The May be vital. : next morning “Brady” Bradshaw, who was sleeping with Pop, said Pop shook him violently during the night to wake him up and borrow a 45, just in case. Brady laughed and laughed about it, for. lying on the ground between them all the time was an arsenal of two carbines, two shotguns and Pop’s own 45. Along about 4:39 I guess we did sleep a little from sheer exhaustion. That gave the mosquitoes a clear field, When we woke up at dawn and crawled stiffly out into the daylight my right eye was swollen shut, as usual. hi All of which isn't a very war-like night to de- | scribe, but I tell it just so you'll know there are lots of things besides bullets that make war hell.

National Contingents of Armed Forces

Air @ Land

Some of the things Wallace will sell for the government in his‘new capacity are automobiles, clothing, hardware, agricultural implements and medical equipment.

SUDDENLY BIRD DOG sat up and pulled down his socks and started scratching. Fleas were after him. Even the grass has fleas in it over here! For some strange reason I-am immune to fleas. * Baif the boys are red welted with hundreds of itchy little flea bites, but I have never ‘had one. But I'm the world’s choicest morsel for mosquitoes, And Mosquito bites poison me. Every morning I wake up with at least one eye swollen shut. That was the way it was all night, with all of us —me with a double dose of mosquitoes, all. the rest with a mixture of mosquitoes and fleas. You could hear marines hushfully cussing all night long around the hillside. Suddenly there was a terrible outburst just down-hill from us and a marine came jumping out into the moonlight, cussing and. jerking at his elothes, L “1 can’t stand these goddam things any longer, be cried. “I've got to take my clothes oft.” We all laughed under our ponchos while he stood there in the moonlight and stripped off every stitch, even though it was very chilly. He shook and brushed his clothes, doused them with insect powder and then put them back -on.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Oher Social and Humanitarian Agencies ~ Such as Educational. Health, Cultural

- Sen

International Monetary Fund

Direct relationship as defined in the Proposals wswmisermmm a an

| ANNOUNCEMENT of Wallace's | extra job was made last night ty

International Bank gs Relationship to be determined by special agreements for Reconstruction

and Development

Other Economic Agencies War Mobilizer Pred M. Vinson. Vinson said choice of the commerce department to handle surplus consumer goods had been made by the surplus property board, created by congress to oversee surplus disposal and headed by former Senator Guy M. Gil- " letle of Iowa. Disposal of this type of surplus has been under the treasury department up to now. Vinson said the transfer, recommended

pd or arrangements mmm "= ——"—" " -o--

AT YALTA, the Big Three were supposed to have reached an accord concerning Poland, Romania and ; . . = other difficult European - problems. | THE BIG THREE, said the for-;which Russia wanted. On pro-|big enough, and ruthless enough, The solutions woulds conform to the eign ministers, “recognize the ne-|cedural questions the Big Five | can blatkball a proposed member, or democratic processes. | cessity of establishing at the earliest | would not have veto powers, but {throw a member out. When Foreign Secretary Anthony | practicable date a general interna- | they would whenever force was con-| * Poland is a case in point. Eden returned home, he told com-|tional organization, based on the|templated. |one of the original allies. mons that British policy is opposed |Rrinciple of the sovereign equality | This may be oversimplification. the first to be invaded. She has to the bullying of small powers by | of all peace-loving states, large and |But I shall let it stand because even | never wavered in her loyalty. Her| the big ones. American spokesmen small.” . [now the voting procedure is still soldiers have fought on every allied said the same thing. | The Dumbarton Oaks proposals|unsettied and no one seems to know | front. by Secretary of the Treasury Nevertheless, it is a matter of |adhered almost to the same lan-!for certain what the Yalta agree-!

Her government-in-exile, at Lon- Henry Mdrgenthau and concurred {record that the rights of the weak guage? “The. organization . (to be ment really meant, | don, is recognized by every onewef, in by himself and Wallace, was are still being trampled on, rough- formed by the united nations),” it| "8-8 | the united nations, save Russia. Yet being made by President Trushod. And this alone is enough to|says, “is ‘based on the sovereign! LONG AFTER the meeting 1t| Russia, in effect, has expelled her, man in an executive order. shake the coming conference to its) equality of all peace-loving states.”

leaked out that the Big Three had | from the organization. : gon 4 foundations. {And that. principle certainly is the made a secret deal whereby the! The little nations don’t relish that

Soviet Union would demand three Kind of treatment. It comes under

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This is the international organization to preserve world peace as proposed at Dumbarton Oaks—the blueprint from which united nations conferees are to build a finished product.

She is She was

Vinson's announcement said the

foundation of the Inter-American transfer puts the sale of consum-

IT'S TOUGH writing a column today —tougher than it's ever been before. It was tough when we Jost one of my “neighbors” on this page—Ray Clapper

He talked to them mueh more freely that he did to most others. ; Probably his most prized possession when he came | home from the Western front last September was

Not only are the 40 little nations

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almost certain to stand up and fight organization for the defense of the for their rights, but some of the Westery Hemisphere.

Differences are also to be ex-

{votes in the assembly instead of one, 1 land that, in return, the United called the pullying of the weak by States might have three and the the strong.

the heading which Anthony Eden

If that is to be ex-

er surpluses “with a parent agency whose basic functions are closely associated with the com-

Big Five will line up with them. 5 8 u

VOTING PRIVILEGES will be) given a thorough examination. Al-|

i ; .. | four principle organs: (1) a generai most everybody admits that the Bi - Five will idly bear the brunt of | assembly, (2) a security council, (3)

actual lan international court of justice

peace enforcement. Ac-| cordingly, it is widely agreed that and (4) a secretariat, or administrative section. ’

they are entitled to say whether ”

they will call out their armies to enforce peace. They will have cer-| ALREADY TROUBLE has detain veto rights. veloped over the first two. It began But when it comes to procedural at the Dumbarton Oaks conferquestions—such as the admission or ence. The British, and Americans expulsion of members and other held that if one of the Big Five

issues Which are political or moral, |

~in an airplane crash some months ago on a Paeific island. - And now, Ernie Pyle! It just. deesn't seem possible that Ernie's gone. 1 wasn't one of Ernie's intimate friends—just an acquaintance, one ! of the thotsands he had all over the world, I had met him perhaps half a dozen times, and interviewed him twice. That's all But he'd been my “upstairs neighbor” for something like four years, and he seemed just like one of the family. Besides, you didn't have to meet Ernie twice to feel like old friends. He used to drop in the - office here every time “he came to town.

| pected of the organization to be set {up at San Francisco, many of the | small nations would rather stay oul. | 8 #8 { RECENTLY THE American re-

pected over other points. The united nations: “organization,” the Oaks formula declares, is to have

mercial and industrial life of the nation.” i # s J THE TREASURY was criticized by a congressional subcommittee for its disposal methods which the subcommittee said were making it difficult for smal] business to buy surplus goods. : Wallace, an outspoken champion of small business, undoubt- - edly will do everything in his power to see that the little man has as much a chance as the big fellow to buy government

British Empire six. . This was officially admitted at Washington .but, 48 hours afterwards, the late President Roosevelt change ain. " . Sed again.and sald the United publics met at Mexico City. There]

State : 2s would ask for only One| they signed a hemisphere solidarity | though he was still for the USSR! a having three if she wanted them [pact called the act of apeliepec. As against this, Section C, of the That pact is something of a model ’ ’ of international democracy.€ .

member of the organization. shoud, 11, it ny Salvador is on precisely the same footing as the United

have only one vote in the general : assembly.” Russia asked for the-two SI nae ie sgeression| extras ostensibly for White Russia voting strength, and no more velo] and the Ukraine, But they are no power, than Panama, or Haiti or

the little foxhole shovel that had stood him in good stead so many times. He had developed a downright affection for that shovel. He carried it all the way back across the Atlantic by air, then on to Indianapolis. When he got here, he decided it looked a little silly to be carrying a shovel around the country, so he asked us here at The ‘Times to keep it for him. ¥ 0 It was placed in the safe, probably the only shovel in the world ever given such coddling. The only time it was out of the safe for several months was when Block's borrowed it for their window display advertising -Ernie’s book. Several weeks ago, the little shovel was sent to his office in Washington.

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He didn't go gallivanting through the plant, pugpping hands right and left. Not Ernie. He was much too shy for that. Ie limelight for him. He just came in, with a meek air, to say hello and chat a while with those he knew best. His visits here never were heralded in advance, in deference to his desire to remain in the background. . But sometimes word would leak out. And” then, dozens of admirers would beg to be tipped off when he arrived so they could see him. They'd promise to do anything—stay across the street and not say a word to him-*if. they just could see him. - »

He. Loved that Shovel THE LAST TIME Ke visited The Times, one of the officials wanted to take him through the business office to let the folks around there see and greet him. “Hell, no,” protested Ernie, shrinking from the idea. “But look, Ernie,” he was told; “we've got a lot of ' girls working here whose husbands are overseas fighting for their country. Those girls would give any- . thing to see you. Maybe you've even seen their husbands” “That's different. Let's go,” said Ernie. That was. typical. He always had a soft spot in his heart for the wives and families of servicemen.

America Fli TRY SPLITTING a normal ~uman hair into 80 equal parts. Even the Bendix engineers who, finally succeeded in doing a Job that difficult would not have attempted it under most circumstances. "But the lives of hundreds of trans-cceanic ferry pilots and thousands of passengers were at stake, beginning with the first trickle of American bombers over . the North Atlantic. Success solved an almost insurmountable problem and, strange as it may seem, there'll be a valuable lesson in it for the post-war motorist, During the first trans-Atlantic wartime flights, many planes had : to turn back because of rapidly diminishing fuel. Some went down, Pilots depended upon judging the amount of remaining gas through intricate apparatus which analyzed exhaust gases to determine whether enginés were operating sufficiently economically to reach England. ;

Size of Oldtime Watch

BENDIX ENGINEERS developed a flowmeter about the size of your grandfather's oldtime watch and placed one on each engine. It measures flow

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. Bomeiimes they are just hased on what somebody “Jid to somebody else! Si : Yesterday I was interested to hear a number of ng such rumors. First, that I wanted

to be a special delegate to the

San. Francisco conference, I had to tell Congresswoman Norton that 1 could not possibly go, and beg her not to make a speech about it. Then, I heard a rumor that I was going to run -for a federal - elective position and, fi , that I was a candidate for s labor! I-had to tell several peo-" ple quite forcibly that nothing would induce me to ru office or to accept an dppointment f the present time. I have two jobs sider myself obligated to do and that

~My daily column I ‘have always “looked upon. as. - : 1 I wanted to have considered on its

1440 Straight Surfaces

‘much power in a pound.

for public -- I

much I admired this frail and modest endure ‘hardships because

He Traveled by Air ERNIE ALWAYS traveled by air, when he could. And he rode on an “orchid”—a White House priority. That's the highest there is. It was his custom to catch the plane to Indianapolis from the East. Then, | he'd be brought down to The Times where there usually was a car available for him to drive over to Dana. He could have had a hundred cars to make the trip—just for the asking. People liked to de things for him. For instance, there was the time he stopped at a cigar counter in a local hotel and asked for a package of cigarets, “Sorry; we're out,” said the girl. Then she took another look. Recognizing him, she ducked under the counter, fumbled around, and came out with a couple of packs. Once, on a visit here, he went with a dozen or so of us to the Lincoln for lunch. Smith Erwin, the. head waiter, who remembered Ernie from previous visits, dropped by to see that everything was going well. And when Smith recalled that Ernie liked an occasional Manhattan, Ernie was humbly grateful at being thus remembered. That's the way he was. It's taken a lot of words to say all this, The proprietor of ‘a restaurant where I ate last evening said it, better in fewer words: “We've all lost a good friend, haven't we?"

By Max B. Cook

of gas by weight instead of volume. Gasoline expands and contracts in hot and cold weather and contains only so much power per pound according to its octane rating. The flowmeter keeps the crew advised at all times of the amount of gas used and how many pounds remain. There is no guesswork. The big problem was to construct a cam to be used on a precision lathe to turn the inside diameter of the chamber through which fuel passes to be measured.

A TOTAL of 1440 straight surfaces in a widening spiral had to be ground.” The cuts had to”be accurate .in relation to the center of the metal cam and to-each other, to one ten-thousandth of an inch. It was equivalent to splitting a normal human hair into 30 equal parts. It’ was accomplished but a $28,000 “jig borer’ was ruined in completing the job. Production began and the small flowmeters poured from the “line.” In post-war days the flowmeters will aid greatly

in safe long-distance flying. Motorists, through re-j membering to buy their gas in early morning or ‘cool :

of evening, will save much mileage. One commercial airline saved $12,000 in one year by having its gasoline delivered at 5 a. m. daily, when the sun was low. Motorists have only to remember that gas contracts when it is cool; that there is only so

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Now I am on my own, and I hope to write as a newspaper woman. I certainly should have background to bring to the job, and if I have not developed powers of observation and correct reporting in the past years, that will soon be discovered. My magazine page is also a contract that I wish to fulfill as well as I possibly can. Outside of these two occupations, I hope I shall bé able to do an occasional article on subjects which are of interest to me and to others. : ’ 5 ~The sad news has just come to us that Ernie Pyle has been killed at the front with our boys on Okimawa. To thousands and thousands of people all

of the human side of our fighting men. = « 3 Mr. Pyle wanted above everything else to see them and to’ be with.them in the Pacific. I am glad he had the opportunity ‘but, like many others. I sha miss his column, with its graciotis understanding o human: beings. : *

1 shall never forget how much I enjoyed meeting’

him here in the White House year and how

his job ang our

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fer the| of world, his-column hag brought the best understanding

man who could, F

rather than material—the small nations feel they are entitled to vote along with the great. | In fact, until recently they have been under the impression that this] privilege was undisputed. The Dum- |

barton Oaks formula as originally

sketched at the Hull-Eden-Molotov conference at Moscow, seemed to make. this plain,

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent. . BERN, April 19.—The last vestige of civilian life is breaking up in greater Germany as Nazi diehards retire into armed camps in the north and south. The Hitler fanatics are taking with them in- ,......... dispensable 8 fighters, work- ; ers and stores. § They are leay- § ing the great mass of citizenry to fend for itself. Busy with the ignoble task of saving theéir own skins, the * 5 party leaders Mr. Ghali have dropped all responsibility for vast areas of the Reich which still are unoccupied but which. will not be incorporated .into either—-the northern or southern redoubt. If the breakdown in civilian administration were not enough, hundreds of thousands of slaves, set loose by the closing down of the factories where they worked,

. Bormann,

| vere charged with aggression, it

should abstain from voting in the security council. > The Russians objected. They demanded veto powers. The impasse which resulted had to be left for the Big Three to settle at Yalta. There, the late President Roosevelt offered his compromise which Stalin and Churchill accepted since it did not .interfere with the veto

* Nazis, Leaving Germany-to

are roaming and pillaging the countryside. The organization of the Germans’ ultimate "stand Jin. the two natural fortresses is passing more and more under the control of the home front dictator, Heinrich Himmler, according to reports reaching here. Even the oidest and most fanatic party bigwigs, like Martin deputy Nazi leader, have to yield to the SS chief's tough sonality. The administration of both redoubts, hitherto entrusted to Bormann, now is practically in Himmler's hands. Sunday night, the German radio anneunced the appointment of Helmuth Friedrich Himmler's assistant, as Supreme chief -of the northern redoubt with Flensburg in Schlesweg as his headquarters. Simultaneously, it was revealed teat two SS chiefs, named Volger and Von Eberstein,” had been named successors to Gauleiter Gesiler and Town Mayor Fiehler in Munich. Both of ‘the latter officers had been deemed too lukewarm. : Only the region of Berchtes-

Up Front With Mauldin

more sovereign than any one of the | 48 states of the union. v

5 un 8 THEN THERE is the question of membership. The Dumbarton Oaks plan says: “Membership of the organization should be open to all peace-loving states.” . Those 12 words comprise Chapter III, on membership. Yet experience

shows that a single nation, if it is

Chaos, Swarm gaden and central Bavaria. are

now described as “theoretically” under Bormann's control. Al-

though" all the important Nazi | bosses are fleeing to the Bavarian |

Alps, the Nazis seem to be devoting as much attention to the ‘northern redoubt as the southern one.

Himmler personally directed the erecting of two defense lines in the north—the first along the Kiel canal and the second on a line running from Schlesweg on the east, to Rusum on the west side of the Jutland peninsula— which he hopes will hold as long as the defenses in Bavaria. To divide the risks, Himmler hed dispatched half the party archives to the north and half to the south. Yet, when the time comes to choose, it is believed that Himmler himself will take his chances in the southern redoubt, abandoning the northern defense to Friedrich.

in southern Germany outside the |

redoubt boundary have been closed. Those workers regarded as indispensable have been sent with a haversack and woolen

Costa Rica. Why not, somebody is almost certain to inquire at San Francisco, pattern the proposed world organization charter after the act of Chapultepec? And some of the] delegations present will not find| the answer easy.

TOMORROW: A Man With a Bomb. >

to’ Hideout ro’ Mideouts should they dishonor Germany” by flying the white flag. Volkssturmers who presumably are ‘net good enough fighters to be withdrawn into the redoubts have been ordered to shoot on sight any males carrying or harboring the flag of capitulation. Ukrainians, French, Dutch, Belgians and Yugoslavs flock the roads from Wurttemburg in. the direction of Switzerland and camp like swarms of gypsies in the fields, with the German civilian police not daring to molest them. They are starving and will steal anything they can lay hands on. In the general pandemonium, many Germans are reported committing suicide either because they fear falling into allied hands or because they have not been invited to join the elite group inside the redoubts, A Swiss paper announces the | death in Stuttgart of Frau Gertrude Scholtz-Klinck, “fuehrerin of German women,” reported ‘to

| be such a casualty. Almost overnight, all factories |

The only woman reported on the allied list of war criminals, | Himmler was said to have charged | her with the task of organizing | women “werewolves” for guerrilla resistance and she would thus not |

blanket on their way back to fight | be taken into the redoubt.

and toil on in the Bavarian region. . The party no longer regards the welfare of women and children, the aged and sick. They were

advised to evacuate their areas, |

but where can they go?

The peasants’ cattle has been commandeered. be. transferred or burned. Food has been sold without ration tickets in Wurttemburg, as weil as wine in the Neckar region, which has been -hoarded for years. » Raw materials are being removed from factories to the redoubt as rapidly as possible, although locomotive engineers Ter fuse to operafe their trains betweet: the dark hours of 6 p. m. and 8 a. m, when allied planes cannot strafe them, Bakers have been ordered to

- destroy their ‘ovens. Civilians

must burn or hide beyond chance

of discovery. . all compromising

documents and photographs: of -

army or party uniforms. ‘ In this wholesale abandonment of the people who have followed

"him blindly for 12 years, Adolf Hitler has the effrontery to order |

“his troops to stand to the death

in the east in the defense of their |

women, girls and children. Even as the armed element

mountain fastnesses, members of

All fodder must

of | Germany ° withdraws into the

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surplus. Meanwhile, the RFC, which also handles a phase of .the surplus property disposal program, revealed that it sold 566 out of 3000 surplus training planes in the first nine days they were on sale.

We, the Women his ‘Trial . Separation”

Seems Odd

By RUTH MILLETT A HOLLYWOOD couple, married 14 years, and suddenly aware of “differences in temperament” have decided on a trial separation--rather than a divorce. There's’ one group of married couples in the United States who will never . have to arbitrarily decide on a trial sep- v aration tofind | out how they like living X alone and what 3 advantages — if any—and what disadvantages it has compared with marriage. . a8 1 THEY ARE, of course, the couples that the war has caused to have enforced separations. They are learning—most of them early in their married lives —just how living alone compares with living with a husband or wife. And for most of them the enforced trial separation has lasted so long that they aren't likely to forget it as long as they live, 5 ” n THEY AREN'T likely ever again to think in the middle of a quarrel or during a period when a magriage is full of problems, “If I just had my freedom.” They've had their freedom, and most of them have discovered how empty. it is. The “trial separation” the war has forced on them couldn't end soon enough. They know as much about living alone right now as they ever want. to know.

So it must seem incongruous to

have: decided on their own to go in for a trial separation. ¢

“TRAFFIC CLUB TO

HOLD DINNER DANCE

The Ifidianapolis Traffic club will

have -its annual ‘spring dinner dance Saturday night lumbia club." = "

C. E. Monroe is chairman,’ He

will be assisted by Willlam N Campbell, C. W. Lantz, J. BE. MecColloch and L. C. Pfeffer. LS

Membership 6f the club include

shipping end traffic managers. nd

in the Co =