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(In addition to the story which appears here today, we will print one more by the late Ernie Pyle.)

OKINAWA (By Navy Radio).~There is one very "small marine’ who -is as nice as he. can be, always “smiling. and making some crack. But the boys say that in battle he doesn't give a ddmn for anything. The first afternoon I joined his company he didn’t know who I was and as we passed, he said very respectfully, “good evening, Colonel,” I had to chuckle to myself, Later he mentioned it and we laughed about it and then he started calling me Ernie. He was Cpl. Charles Bradshaw of 526 S. Holmes ave.” Indianapolis, He is only 19, but on his third campaign in the Pacific. He's had three pieces of shrapnel in him at various times and months later they would work out through his skin. Another one is just about to come out his finger now, In the marines Cpl. Bradshaw is called “Brady” for short, Before joining the marines he worked on a section gang for the Pennsylvania railroad. He usually wears one of those wide-brimmed green cloth hats instead of the regulation marine cap. He always. carries a 45 and it has a slightly curved 25 cent piece imbedded in the handle. As he says, “To make it worth something.”

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BRADY FOUND two huge photograph albums in @& cave. The albums are full of snapshots of Japanese girls and Chinese girls and young Japs in uniform and of family poses. He treasured it as though it were full of people he knew. He studied it for hours and hopes to take it home with him. “Anything for

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a souvenir,” could be the motto of the marines. Another Indianapolis marine I met on Okinawa “ was Pfc. Dallas Rhude of 1437 E. Raymond st.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IF YOU KNOW a Continental Optical Co. em-

" ployee, you'd better dodge him next week unless you

want to be dragged by the heels into the company’s

employment office. Needing male help badly, the company is opening a big. “Man Hunt” Monday. The “hunt” will be conducted in a vegular circus atmosphere, with gaudy banners and loudspeakers. Every employee who brings -in a new employee—he must stay 60 days—is to receive a $25 war bond. Several plants have adopted the war bond bonus plan of getting employees. One of these is Allison. There they've been paying $5 to employees just for dragging prospects into the employment of - fice for interviewing. .. . A reader who noted the recent reference In this column to the frequency with which raincoats get mixed, writes in to suggest that owners of raincoats have name tapes sewn in them,. like the children do. Just to show how effective the name tapes are, the reader cites the case of Elise Ayres, 8-year-old daughter of the Lyman Ayres. blue hat on her way home from Tudor hall. Two days later, a clerk at L. S. Ayres called and said she had found the child's hat with the name on it. . . Ralph A. Thompson reports that while he was listening to an electrical transcription being broadcast over WFBM about 7 a. m. Wednesday, the record hit a scratched spot. Six or eight times, he says, it repeated: “When you close the door behind you... .. When you close the door behind you. . . .” Reminded him of the old “Broken Record” song.

New Busses Okay THOSE: NEW busses are .all right. I rode on one of them night before last, and can recommend them highly, They're éven comfortable for standees—at ‘least, more comfortable than the old ones. And they

. seem to be fumeless. . . . Fendrick’s opened a, new

ei dar af Union, station iar. ‘Located. on tha. west side of the main lobby, . gokes, various “ades,”

etc, and ought to-prove popu-

World of Science

' THE MIGHTY) power of the United States as the Parsenal of democracy” in world war II has been based in the last analysis upon the nation’s natural

Jesources. This is no reflection upon the country’s industries or its armed forces. But the fact of the matter is that industry could not have built the weapons nor the army and navy put them to use unless we had possessed the raw materials from which to build them. The reader does not have to be reminded of the heroic efforts that have been employed to overcome such shortages as existed, notably in the case of rubber. The industrial and military might of the United States grew on of the fact that when it entered this war, it led the world in the production of coal, oil, natural gas, iron, copper, zinc, lead, aluminum, phosphates, gypsum, sulphur, arsenic, borax, cadmium, molybdenum and tale,

Terrific Inroads On Reserves THE WAR, however, has caused the United States to step up its produetion of every available fuel, metal and chemical with the result that we have been making terrific inroads upon our reserves. A vital question, therefore, arises as to our postwar position with regard to many of these critical

materials,

This has led the U. 8. geological sur 'vey and the { U. 8. bureau of mines to undertake a study of our mineral resources.

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HYDE PARK. Thursday—TFheé" veterans’ admin. {stration has existed ever since the last war. It has been upheld by the veterans’ orgapizations and, without question, Gen. Hines has done’ a remarkably good ministrative job with conditions-as they were up to this war. Now, however, conditions have changed. : Instead of ‘a comparatively few men being in veterans’ hospitals, the number will be steadily increasing, Instead of the type of case which came to the hospitals - previous to 1941, when custodial . cate. was, on the whole, fairly satisfactory, there is now a stream «of youngsters who must get the ~~ best possible medical care in. order ‘to give us back vigorous 8 ord active in the

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pool that fills up the gaps made by casualties. But since there have been very few casualties he hasn't replaced anybody yet. Dallas spent 22 monithsin Panama, was home for a little while and now has been over here for four months. He says this Okinawa climate sure beats Panama.

Marines Are Sentimental

MARINES MAY be killers, but they're also just as sentimental as anybody else, There is one pleasant boy in our company that I had talked with but didn’t have any little incident to write about him, so didn’t put his name down. The morning I left the company and was saying goodby all around, I could sense that he wanted to tell me something, so I hung around until he came out. It was about his (daughter, This marine was Cpl. Robert Kingan of Cuyahoga Falls, O. He has been a marine for 13 months and over here 11 months. His daughter was born about six weeks ago. Naturally he has never seen her, but he’s had a letter from her! It was a V letter written in a childish scrawl and said: “Hello daddy, I am Karen Louise. I was born Feb. 25 at four minutes after nine. I weigh five pounds and eighl ounces. Your daughter, Karen.” And then there was a P. S. on the bottom which said: “Postmaster—please rush. My daddy doesn’t know I am here.” Bob didn't know whether it was actually his wife or his mother-in-law who wrote the letter. He thinks maybe it was his mother-in-law—Mrs. A. H. Morgan —since it had her return address on it. So I put that down and then asked Bob what his mother-in-law’s first name whs. He looked off into space for a moment, and then started laughing. “I don’t know what her-first hame is,” he said, always just called her Mrs. Morgan!”

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lar with servicemen and others waiting for trains. . « » There'll be music—and musicians—galore out at the Tech auditorium Sunday afternoon, May 6. Seven high school orchestras will appear in an orchestra festival. Each will play individually, and then they'll all join in one big roof-lifting number. . . . Some of the photo finishing plants here—and elsewhere—are indignant over the sale of past expiration date government fim to organizations which have been repackaging the film and selling it to the public. Herb Elliott, manager of Lieber’s photo finishing plant, says, “almost none of this film produces decent pictures,” and “the people blame us; think we ruined it.” Most of the film, he said, is out-of-date aerial film, which the job lot purchasers have cut up into roll film size, wrapped, given a new “false expiration date, and then foisted off onto the public.” Mr. Elliott said the film is dispensed under little known names,

She Wanted a Cop : MRS. MARIE BROWN, a telephone operator at police headquarters, answered a call yesterday afternoon and heard a wee, childish voice saying: “I want a: policeman.” “You want a policeman—what's the matter?” asked Mrs. Brown. The child, about 5, repeated the request. “Call your mother.” “Mother can’t talk on tHe phone,” lisped the youngster. “Well tell me why you want a policeman,” persisted Mrs. Brown. “I want some chewing gum,” came the reply. “Policemen don’t have chewing gum.” “Mama says they do. When I asked her for some gum, ‘she said nobody but a policeman can get it. So, I want a policeman.” Mrs. Brown assured the little girl police~ men don’t have gum and told her not to be tying up the phone; or Santa might not like it next Christmas. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Buchanan, 2437 Stuart st., who received ‘a dramatic farewell letter from their son, Vernon, following his death Jan. 9 in the Pacific, have given permission for the letter toebe read at the San Francisco conference. The request for, permission to use it was made by Steve Early, the White House secretary, - Mr, Early invited “the Buchanans| Ley she. conference, with Asin Hava id, but they had to turn down the offer because’ they couldn't leave their family that long. :

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By David Dietz

A preview of the report is given by Elmer W. Pehrson, chief of the economics and statistics branch of the bureau of mines, in the current issue of Mining and Metallurgy, official journal of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.

Decreasing Self-Sufficiency WHILE MR. PEHRSON does not go along with those who think that the United States is approaching .the status of a “have-not” nation, he points out that we must be prepared to face a decreasing selfsufficiency in the post-war years. + His position is a middle of ‘the road one. For he also discounts those optimists who think that it requires only a flareup of prospecting to open vast stores of hitherto unknown mineral deposits.

He points out that although we are far from short of those minerals basic to- our industrial economy, we are well on the way to exhaustion of a number of subsidiary but important minerals. “The time has come,” he says, “when we must recognize the true situation and do something about it.” Statistics show how rapidly we are exhausting our mineral supplies today. Mr. Pehrson points out that in 1880 our total mineral production was worth

By Ernie Pyle,

| been dstroyed either by the Ger*Imans or by allied bombs.

SECOND SECTION

PUSH THROUGH VERONA, GATE

Adige River Despite Blown Bridges.

By JAMES E. ROPER "United Press Staff Correspondent VERONA, Italy, April 26- (De-

this city—where Romeo and Juliet

loved — when American infantry fought through its ruined streets today. Much of the city’ had been smashed by American air raids. There were few people in the streets to welcome Verona's liberators. The “vivas” were weak. The Germans apparently had intended to make: this the inland anchor of their last major defense line in Italy, a line along the Adige river from here to the Adriatic. They had built many road blocks and tank traps.. There were gun emplacements in the ancient walls.

the city on tank destroyers sur-

tions at the first intersection. One Shot Sufficient

Sgt. Frank Cravetts, Archibald, Pa., Cpl. Elias Schofield, Cohoes, N. Y., and Pfc. William Neece, Fayetteville, Tenn. , “We parked at an intersection soldiers sitting on top of the drums came lumbering up,” Schofield said. “One shot from our .75 and it exploded. “Then a couple of jeep-like vehicles came along, and another shot smashed them. Then came another car and they tried to fight it out. “Our machine gun got them. That dead jerry over there on, the stretcher jumped out of the car with his machine-pistol going.” I counted 18 German bodies at that intersection. Some were stretched out bloody and white in a big shell crater while German prisoners sat in the same crater eating lunch.

Buildings in Ruins All bridges over the Adige had

But the Americans crossed without opposition except from snipers. Hardly a building here seemed unscratched. The century-old town hall was gutted by fire after one bombing. The railroad station, which helps feed the Brenner pass line, was a shambles. The streets were sprinkled with bricks and broken glass,

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BISHOP TITUS LOWE of the Indianapolis area yesterday was elected vice president of the Executive Council of Methodist . bishops in a ¢ meeting in Chicago. Bishop Charles C.- Selecman of Dallas, Tex. former president of Southern Methodist uni‘versity, was named president and BishBishop Lowe op G. Bromley Oxnam, one-time president of DePauw, secretary. Also elected to the executive committee were Bishops James H. Straughn, Pittsburgh, and Wilbur E. Hammaker, Denver, Bishop Selecman, who was presiding bishop over Oklahoma and Arkansas from 1938 to 1944, succeeded Bishop H. Lester Smith, Columbus, O., retired. The fourday conference was attended by approximately 35 effective and retired bishops. Bishop Oxnam was absent from the session to attend the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London as a representative of the Federal Council of Churches of which he is president.

about $500,000,000. Our mineral production in 1944 was $8,500,000,000 or 17 times as high. This figure included about $5,~ 250,000,000 worth of mineral fuels, $2,350,000,000 of metals and about $900,000,000 of non-metals. In many instances, this rate of production cannot be maintained and it is important for the nation to

By Eleanor Roosevelt

salaries paid to doctors in the veterans’ administration are not very high. Perhaps the worst situation is in the hospitals for mental care, With our limited number of .psychiatrists, - these particylar hospitals should be near the big medical establishments, Anstead of which they have been placed in isolated parts of the country, A metropolitan newspaper. yesterday carried an editorial on the subject of the G. I bill of rights and the veterans’

committee to do a really unbiased investigation of veterans’ hospitals. I doubt very much whether any group of laymen

really needs to be done, but there are qualified medi3 people who could get the information. and give it

ig o ners of the taxpayer as wll us in the Be of re orgie Lispay gh. us war, Ji tion by qualified

administration. ‘They suggested] | - that possibly it was a trifle difficult for Rep. Rankin’s

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HERE IS where that extra deck -of cards around your house will go if you will but drop it off at the public library near your home. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and The Indianapolis Times card campaign for nearby .hospitalized G. 13° closes tomorrow and the goa} of 5000 decks has not yet

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Get Revenge for..Ruins of Moscow, Stalingrad, Sevastapol.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April 27.—The Russian troops are in Berlin to “answer for Moscow, Stalingrad and Sevastopol.” Pravda said today a Berliner protested against the shelling of his house. The Soviet commander to whom he spoke produced a copy of the magazine, “Die Wehrmacht,” dated Aug. 27, 1941, showing results of the Nazi bombing of MosCOW. Red Star said today that the battle for Berlin “from the first few

IN BACKYARDS

hours assumed a many-floored character.” On Stairs, in Corridors “The conflict is raging not only] in the two layers of land and air.| { They battle high above the ground {in the corridors, staircases and] | balconies of Berlin's big buildings. | “They are spread deep under ground,-in concrete walled shelters, tunnels and the municipal subway.” Soviet newspapers published photographs showing incredible devastation of Berlin's main streets. “Solid, massive buildings have been turned into enormous piles of

been reached. Your deck will help cheer up men like these at Billings general hospital. Shown with Red Cross member Miss Anne Elliott are (left to right) Elroy Heschke, American field service, West Allis, Wis.; Pvt. Samuel Stern, Pittsburgh, and S. Sgt. Runa Hendricks, Peru.

labor standards.

tion of the agreements, with the promise formula devised by the committee for economic development, a business organization. The Congress of Industrial Organizations also has indorsed the agreements. Green said the International Labor organization.should be authorized to protect labor interests in connection with the operations of the monetary stabilization fund and the international bank proposed in the agreements. Welfare Guarantees He suggested that congress provide that U, S. representatives on the two agencies insist that consultation with the I. L. O. be made a basic administrative procedure, He said the A. F. of L. also recommended that U., S. representatives be instructed to demand that the bank, in making reconstruction and development loans, should require - borrowers . to make welfarey

(guarantees “including observance of

|1abor laws and requirements of the fag wages'hiru Ours and to - ’ observe safety and health standards and, in general, the labor standards recommended by the International Labor Organization.”

Jectives of the agreements and said that labor would benefit from stabilization of currencies. He urged that the bank be given authority to make either shortterm or long-term loans to countries needing them for’ general eco-

loans for specific projects. He said

The last letter written by an Indianapolis soldier before he was killed in action in New Guinea furnished the theme for a’play to be presented Sunday during the Catholic hour over NBC. Pvt. Paul Taylor wrote the letter to his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Burt S. Taylor, 45 8. Gladstone ave. It contained statements ' concerning the G. I. attitude toward war and our enemies which deeply impressed the Rev. Fr. Timothy Mulvey, O. M. 1 Accordingly, Father Mulvey: wrote the play, “Letter from Paul,” based on the thoughts in Pvt. Taylor's letter. The play will be given Sunday at'5 p. m. over the Catholic Hour Program at Chicago.

AFL Wants Labor Clause In Bretton Woods Pacts

. WASHINGTON, April 27 (U. P. American Federation of Labor asked congress today to amend the Bretton Woods international monetary

He appeared before the house banking committee to urge ratifica-

with a provision similar to the com-| | proponents

debris by the Anglo-American bombings,” one paper said. In buildings still standing, the defenders receive a Soviet ultimatum. If the reply is not prompt, |the Russians shell it unceremoniously.

).—President William Green of the Shot in Back

V. S. Vishinsky, Pravda’s correspondent at the front, said the battle “has assumed a specific charproposed protection for labof and acter. The Germans are sitting on | balconies, in cellars, and in backagreements | yards letting the assault units pass, {and then shooting into their backs. | “Several German groups steal] through the underground passages | connecting the municipal districts to snipe in the rear. . But the veterans of the street battles of Leningrad, Stalingrad and Poznan swiftly cope with such tactics. “Artillery and tanks fire at the balconies pointblank and enemy

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of the thought such loans were permissible but that the power of the bank should be clarified to make the authority definite.

GERMAN PRISONERS SEND PEACE PLEA

DALLAS, Tex., April 27 (U. P.).—| ri Corman, Dire of ela snipers fall to the street, together ingston, La., called on their coun- | With fragments of tile and con-

trymen today to “discontinue this crete: Ie fight. » | “Grenades and incendiary bottles

The 8th service command an- | dispose of men in the cellars.”

nounced that the appeal was sent |

by the prisoners to the U. S. war | department for possible Palas to Germany. The prisongrs stip! lated, the service command hf that their names should be used if} the appeal was beamed to their

Indiana state police sought an-

homeland, pr They wrote: : | other , Inissing German prisoner of “We, . . after almost two years | war today - after the capture last!

in the United States are conpiagely «night of two _other P. O. Ws wha - that the, A

{The state authorities were look{ing for Franz Wilming, 20, whom

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Green indorsed the general ob-

nomic stabilization in addition to

all nations. We are firmly convinced | that any further hostilities would | only increase the destruction of German lives lives and property.”

DUNCAN RITES SET,

Rites will be held at 10 a. m. tomorrow at Flanner & Buchanan

of Mrs. Way.

Burial will be in Crown Hill.

Radio Play Based on Letter Weritten by Local Soldier

After Paul's death in 1942, Rep. Louis Ludlow read his last letter in the house of representatives and it was inscribed in the Congressional Record. Paul was a voice student at the Jordan Conservatory and a salesman in the Wm, H. Block Co. record department. His flancee, "Miss Miriam Nieman and his friend, Paul Rhees, will .go to Chicago Sunday for the broadcast. In his final letter, Paul urged that we fight our enemies courageously and relentlessly during the war and mete out stern justice to them afterward. But he held no

yief .for hate in our. attitude toward them,

mortuary for Mrs. Nellie O. Dun- | can, who died Tuesday at the home | Nellie Stein, 5631 Broad- |

they said fled from Camp Atterbury, Ind. | Previously, two Germans were fcaught and returned to the Jefferj=nville, Ind.,, quartermaster depot.

| Police said they were Ferdinand _

| Still, 18, and Guenther Haendel, 20. | They were captured in a small boat!" | in the Ohio river near Evans land- | ing by army authorities, Wilming was. described as five feet eight inches tall, weighing 140 | pounds, blonde-haired and blue- | eyed, and wearing a raincoat and! | other clothing bearing the initials P. W. He could not speak English, police said.”

‘SUGGEST SPECIAL | CLASSES FOR VETS

Establisiment of special classes for veterans who have not yet com- | pleted high school has been recommended to the state board of education by Region 3 of the United Auto Workers (C. I. 0). A resolution adopted by the U. A. W. veterans department asserts that many youths left high school to join the armed forces. It further points out that lack of high school credits would prevent many from participating in the G. I. bill of rights educational benefits. The U. A. W, said special classes would be desirable because ex-servicemen will {be “more mature” than the average {high school student,

ing together over a million men along the coast.

and Germany thé Nazis collected every

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defeat began three years ago when at the height of his success he attempted to invade England. “He was so badly beaten that it has been kept ii by the Nazis ever since” Thus writes Pierre Huss, worldfamous war correspondent, in the May issue of True Magazine, Huss, eyewitness to the gigantic effort made by Hitler to conquer England, gives the first full report ever allowed by the allied censors. Before the U. 8. entered: the war, Huss was an American correspondent stationed on the French side of the channel.’ In the summer of 1940 he saw Germany begin huge preparations for the invasion of England, gather

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At the Hook of Holland, Huss saysxthere was a fleet of about 650 varied) types of craft, at Boulogne more than 200, at Dunkerque some 300 and about 800 upriver at Rotterdam,

The shipyards at Hamburg turned out hundreds of self-propelled flatboats and pontoons for transporting

Large transport “vessels. were ore dered to be constantly ready to begin shipping the army -of a million waiting in camouflaged quarters near the ports. The Luftwaffe Fails Paratroopers and glider troops were on the alert. Forced labor had built new highways and more railroads ‘leading to the e&dastline. At Calais and Boulogne big coastal guns had been installed and covered with fake barns or haystacks. According - “to - ‘Hitler's invasion blueprint, the luftwaffe was first-to

England with massive . bombings. On Sept. T these continuous Air at-

keep pilots from knowing the full extent ‘of damage done, they were ordered to return to different fields from which they took off. Daylight activity was confined to high altitude flying and bombings were switched to night, The Invasion Was Tried

Despite heavy losses by the luft-

One dark night a great number of men, tanks and ammunition started across in escorted boats. All others were ready to follow. Just as the German feeler expedition cautiously approached the English shore, British gunfire opened on it, The Germans were blinded by lighted searchlights, planes bombed them from above and speedboats poured oil on the water which was set aflame with incendiaries, of The British had learned of the German move and were ready. It was later claimed the Germans lost about 65,000 men. The German high command ordered

vasion attempt

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Lewis Critics Have Plenty To Talk About

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, * April 27, ~~ Critics bf John L. Lewis* will find plenty to get purple-faced about in an article published today by Collier's magazine under the name of the United Mine Workers’ President. The article is entitled “There Is No Labor Movement” Mr. Lewis denies the existence of such a thing because “there is no unity” and “instead of a single authoritative voice we have a confusion of tongues.” Lewis critics will reeall that it was the miners’ leader who broke from the American Federation of Labor, founded the C. I. ©. and then withdrew from the latter body. They will blame him for creating conditions under which American organized labor is now split into three or more articulate and contending parts. » ” = MR. LEWIS also directs some caustic remarks at labor unions in politics, the C. I. O. Political Ae tion Committee being apparently in his mind. It is no strain on the memories of Lewis foes to cite that Mr. Lewis was actively in politics until he fell out with the Roosevelt administration, and that labor's Non-Partisan League, » - tJ The C. 1. O. has officially indorsed a statement that: “Unfortunately for the people, and more particularly labor, labor’s Non-Partisan League fell -from the start into a grave error. Though it strove to plant its trees throughout the nation, it nevertheless: insisted that the seedlings must all come from the hot-house in Washington—John L. Lewis hot-house. Circumstance and the ego of a single individual caused the stultification of Labor's NonPartisan League.” ” » » ANOTHER part of Mr. Lewis’ magazine piece is directed at the lack of a national labor policy. and at a multiplication of boards and federal agencies, without an over-all head below the President, and frequently competing and conflicting with one another. In this criticism Mr. Lewis agrees with numerous other students of the subject—including the senatorial investigating committee formerly headed by President Truman.

5 # » Witing “the utter lack of a government labor policy that defines the rights, responsibilities and duties of labor and manage ment,” Mr. Lewis inquires, “what ‘wonder that there is turmoil, that - in 1944 some 5000 strikes slowed “down vital war production.” : Pe. 27d a before the. death of President Roosevelt, and it does not mention the late chief executive by name. But the miner chieftain nad plenty to say about the contribution of political “intrigues” to labor disunity.

—— We, the Women——

Home-Coming Is More Vital Than Heroism

By RUTH MILLETT

“THAT'S VERY nice,” the mother of a hero son said when she was’ told her boy had been awarded the congressional medal of honor. “That's nice,” she said "again when she was given an ace count of her son's bravery a nd daring. But when she was told he wis coming home on leave —she really got ! excited. That was big news to her— important news. Her son was coming home for his first leave after two years of fighting. » EJ » “HE'S COMING home,” is always the big news for women who have waited and worried while . their men faced the dangers and hardships of war. Women are interested in the experiences of their men, and are proud if they distinguish themselves by bravery, They think it is fine when they Jrear that their son or husband has been decorated. . But when is he coming home? That is the only really important news for a woman while her son.