Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1945 — Page 17

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| WTH FIGHTER GROUP, Luzon, P. ‘1.rilis crack’ and veteran P-38 outfit knows how to make the best of a bad war. Especially when it has: the luck to be | stationed along an ocean beach. There is plenty of hard work to be done—bombing in sgpport of troops in the mountains nearby, long missions to the China coast and elsewhere, tedious hours of servicing the planes. But off duty the ‘pilots and their ground crews know how to relax. ‘Last night I was a guest of some of the enlisted men of the 9th squadron—the formidable team that Maj. Richard I. Bong and many other aces sprang from—at - their clubhouse in a former school building. x ’ , It was a party night. A good } Filipino orchestra played, Filipino girls, carefully watched over by chaperones, were on hand. Drinks were available before. and ‘after the dancing at a © semicircular bamboo counter under a sign: “At this . bar stand the best damn men in the world.”

Speaking of Nicknames oe EVERYTHING WAS conducted with decorum. T. t. Raymond “Squeak” Mills, Portland, Ore., 4 proJler. specialist, said that on the rare occasions when

a soldier gets disorderly he is promptly taken to his © tent—and he may be barred from the club. No of-

. ficer supervision is necessary. A few: officers ‘were - ! there last “night, but as honorary members of the’

club. After the girls were ¢ shepherded home, late-stayers . among the noncoms gave their voices a workout, with . “Home on the Range” and “Stardust” and a lot of other favorites. : I. asked “ “Squeak” Mills how he got the nickname. © He said a big fellow named Ed Kerr, a staff sergeant | Sifice gone home on rotation, nicknamed halt t outfit.

“I guess I was about the oldest man in the

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OLD INSIDE'S information service got quite a workout over a question asked by a- reader the other . flay. The question was: “How much in pennies do you have to accept in payment of a debt?” After-try-

ing several places, I called Ray Horton, Secret Serv-

ice agent in charge. Ray didn't

know, but he called a banker who *

called his lawyer who finally. dug up the dope. He found it in the -U. 8. Code, Title 31, Sect. 459 and 460. .The code provides that the maximum an individual is re~ quired to accept in small silver coins (dimes, quarters and halves) is $10. The maximum you must accept in “minor coins”—pennies and nickeis—is 25-cents. Of course, there's no law saying you can't accept all th& coins you can get— . Broad Ripples attendance record is the best of any of the seven public

high schools, the records compiled by the schools’ at- . tendance department reveal. . boys have a better attendance record than the Ripple | girls, reports Vice Principal Ed Stahl;

And the Broad Ripple

Probably be- . cause the boys didn't want to miss basketball pracLt. Walter Gorham, Shortridge 39, writes home that he and four other Hoosier fighter pilots with the 8th air force, carried orange and black streamers with them as they formed an air umbrella over the Rhine a couple months ago. They had just received the semi-final basketball tourney scores, and ' were pulling for Ripple. “Blood is thicker than water,” wrote Lt. Gorham, explaining why a Shortridger carried Ripple colors, “and we Hoosiers are a close family. Miles of land and water can’t dampen our enthusiastic spirits.”

Maybe He Can Help

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF the surrender of Ger- ~ man troops in Italy Wednesday hadn't stopped echoing before the phone rang at the selective service induction center at the motor armory. Sgt. Joel Williams answered. “My boy's over in Italy,” said the mother on the other end of the line. “How soon will he be home?” “What do you. mean?” asked the ser-

PETROLEUM AND natural gas are the great * question marks in the attempt (to estimate the postwar mineral reserves of the United States. “ At pre-war rates of consumption, as Elmer W. Pehrson, chief of the economics and statistics branch of the U. 8. bureau of mines,

points out, our petroleum reserves -

are good for 18 years and our natural gas reserves for 48 years, "But many experts in the petroleum field are unwilling to accept these known reserves as final. They point to the findings of new types of fields such as the Kast

Texas and West Edmond (Okla-*

homa) pools. These pools, known. technically as stratigraphic traps, differ from the previously known geological | formations which Have yielded oil. At the present moment new methods of prospecting must be de-

L.__yeloped for finding them,

The two pools mentioned were both found by *wildcatting”; that is, by sinking wells in the hopes they might strike oil.

Summary of Reserves

THE EVENTUAL STATUS of the nation’s oil reserves will have a tremendous bearing not only on aviation-and the automotive industry but upon the ghemical industry. In this war, petroleum is proving * & source of many chemical “intermediates” from which synthetic rubber, explosives, ete, are manufactured.

, i Perhaps this would be a good time to sum up Mr,

.«Pehrson’s list of the reserves of the 33 minerals of

3 oriance to the future of the nation, Here it is;

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday. —Until T actually see a photograph of Hitler dead, I shall feel rather skeptieal. The horror of Mussolini's death would, I think; make any of the German officials do everything possible t6 escape a like fate.

‘It has often Yeu said that Hitler had a double. Unless one redlly saw his body, and it was identified by people who knew him but were not his close associates, I think one would be justified in wondering if he had not Killed his substitute and tried, himself, . to escape. , It may be that escape is impossible, but one cannot help feeling that these men made their plans long in advance. That they will make every effort to escape

| | Seems a foregone conclusion.

To many of us who have watched the develop~ ment of TVA and know what it has meant to human

| beings, as well as to river and land development,

the regppointment by President Truman of David

j E. Lilienthal is a source of great satisfaction.

Recognition of a good job done anywhere en- | Sausages people to do good jobs everywhere else, and 1 want to congratulate Mr. Lilienthal, I

oho t to congratulate the Presidest on encour1 aging such oh good public service.

The best plans in the world have to be carried ei mat Deingeand humas beings always do

disso, Ukiah,. Cal,

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,hight and, my caller says, Gen. Patton got by far

: should have a committee made up of its leaders in

' community at the present moment. But the Bo Yu

Ry Squeak said. (He's 30.

“Kerr said I was so old T squeaked when I walked.” :

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He introduced me to T. Sgt. Albert “High Altitude” ‘

Monte, "Albuquerque, N. M. “That's because Monte floats arownd in a world of his own,” S8queak explained. Then there was T. Sgt. Elroy Trembly, a Minnesatan, called “Nose” because of the prominence of that reature. And 8S. Sgt. Reber “Bones” Coburn, of Illinois, who likes ‘crapshooting. Also Sgt. Pete Bur< dubbed “Bananaman” by Kerr. °

Hoosier Weds Australian

‘MASTER SGT, “ZEKE” BYRNES of Jacksonville, Fla. line chief of the squadron, brought his own nickname overseas with him. But Kerr created “Spotlight” for &. Sgt. Elliot Brusseau, Manchester, N. H— who has a silver star for ‘a rescue from A crashed plane. And “Cabbage” for Corp. Lester Jones of Cin~ cinnati, - And “One Wing” for 8. Sgt. Lloyd C. Chesney, Paris, Tex., who had an arm in a sling at the time of the naming. i Also “Greek” for a powerful man of Greek-Russian descent who has a bonecrusher handshake. And “Digger” for T. Sgt. John L. Ramsay, Indianapolis, an engineering clerk, who married an Australian girl two years ago. They have a daughter, and Digger hopes his wife and baby will be able to go from Australia to the States soon when he goes home on rotation. He is" the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Ramsay, Sheridan, Ind, and he used to be a carrier for the Indianapolis Times, Zeke Byines told a couple of stories abi the great ace Bong, Once, in the rugged early days on Leyte, Bong was preparing to take off when Zeke’s sensitive ear detected something wrong with the way the engines sounded. He drove his jeep into the path ot the plane just in time, and tdlked the major out of going up. - Major Bong must think a good deal of Zeke, When he went back to the States he called on Zeke's wife at San Bernardino, Cal. “I don't know how he found Zeke said. “I know I didn't give’ him her address.” JF

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geant, “Well, the war's over; it looks like he could come home,” thE" mother persisted. Sgt. Williams admitted the situation was out of his hands. The mother said Congressman Louis Ludlow lives not so far from her home, when he's in Indianapolis. Lt. Williams agreed with her that the best thing to do would be to write the congressman. .. . 67th st., put a sackful of unstamped Christmas greeting cards in the glove compartment of’ her mother’s car-last December. When she returned to the car, she found a-thief had stolen the sack of cards and also several packages of Kleenex. There may or may. not be honor among thieves. But this one thief, at least, was a sucker for the old Yule spirit. Because Miss Stout has found that all the Christmas cards reached the addressees. The thief had stamped them. He took] a loss on that business deal.

Bonds vs. Cigarets CHARLEY HOOVER, the state war, bond press agent, saw a cartoon on ‘The Times’ editorial page last Saturday that caused him to do some figuring. The cartoon {illustrated the statement: “It would make some sense if the birds who stand in this line (cigarets) were just as anxious fo form here (war bonds).” After some research, Charley sat down to writé the cartoonist to this effect: They may not form in line as often as for cigarets, but more people buy. war bonds than-buy cigarets, -At the library, records of a Fortune survey show that 60 million people smoke. Government records-show that 85 million people own war bonds, including about 10! millions in the armed forces. ,.. A reader calls in to comment that of all our generals, Gen. Patton seems to” be the most admired by the public. Our various generals were being shown in a newsreel the other

the biggest round of applause. .. . Stewart Donnelly, the internationally known former confidence man, used to ply the luxury liners. Now he's hitting the luncheon ‘circuit, and doing right well at it. Only, instead of helping to “share the wealth,” as in days gone by, he’s “telling all.” His talks on-his experiences usually prove a big hit. If he keeps on being in demand for talks, he may be able to prove graphically that “crime doesn’t pay”—at least not as well as the public speaking business.

By David Dietz

Nine minerals are good for more than a century. They are: Nitrogen (from the air), indefinite; magnesium (from the ocean); indefinite: bituminous--coal and lignite, 4300 years; phosphate rock, 805 years: molybdenum, 422 years; anthracite, 195; potash, 117, and iron ore, 111. Another four fall within the 25-to-a-100-year bracket. These are sulphur, 55 years; natural gas, 48; fluorspar, 40, and copper, 34.

Sobering Thought

It is a rather sobering thought that our-reserves of the other minerals, all of them essential to industry in varying degrees, will not hold out for another quarter of a century at the pre-war rate of consumption. Eight of them are in the 5-to-25-year group. These are: Zinc, 19 years; petroleum, 18; cadmium, 16; gold, 14; lead, 12, and silver, 11. Eleven minerals” are in the 1-to-10 year group. They are: Bauxite, nine years; vanadium, seven; antimony, four; tungsten, four; platinum, four; mercury, three; asbestos, three; manganese, two; chromite, one; nickel, one, and tin, one. We have no reserves whatsoever of the last three minerals, namely, industrial diamonds, quartz crystals and flake graphite. Mr. Pehrson ‘points out that the situation is particularly critical if there should be another world war in the next 20 to 25 years. All of us hope that there will not. Be, but to see how serious the situation would be, it is only necessary to note those minerals whose reserves will be completely exhausted before 25 years have elapsed. These facts must be given careful théught in shaping the future policies-of the United States.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I want to add a little to what I jaid yesterday about implementing legislation passed for the benefit

of our servicemen. I believe that every community

education, agriculture, business and the professions: that these men and women should be ready to give

counsel to’ returning servicemen, and to continue

toing it as long as it is needed. . Take education as an example, I am already getting letters from boys who were drafted before they completed high school, If they are fortunate enough to come home, they will undoubtedly need not only to complete their high school course, but possibly to go on to further training and education. It is. obvious, however, that after service in the armed forces it will be quite impossible for them to. return to.the regular classes. They will have matured; the work they have done in service will have given them certain things they did not have when they went away. ~ ; Special courses should be available to meet their needs, and they should be allowed to move forward faster than the youngsters whose schooling has been uninterrupted.

In numerous communities throughout our nation, |.

training for many occupations is not available, Yet no. community should be without the information as to how that training may be obtained for any of their boys who need it. i There may not be many boys returning to your

tion for, their return should be going on daily, because, you will find there is miich you have to learn before you are prepared to meet

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5 By TOM WOLF NEA Staff Writer WwW THE 9TH ARMY, Germany, May 4.—From a purely military poift of view the most

Germany is the non-fraternization policy. The/longer ‘we stay in Germany, the more difficult it's going to. become. Strictly speaking, the non-fra-ternization rule prohibits any and all dealings with civilians—from

or a “Gutten morgen” to the local burgomeister. . » » » TO MAKE sure that every soldier knows about this rule and has no opportunity to forget it, the army has put on its most elaborite educational campdign of the war to date. Dozens of times daily the armed forces network sandwiches a couple

programs: “Jerry's home folks— his father, mother, sister and cute baby brothers—are just as German as he. Don’t be a sucker, Don't fraternize.” o o o HOURLY time signals are decorated with such reminders as “The time is noon.. Time to remember that Germans think kindness to an enemy is weakness... Dn

{not let them think we are weak.

Don’t fraternize.” The Gls are ‘read lectures on keeping away from Germans almost as often as they're read the articles of war—which is very often. One division has vied with the ‘next to’ think upstriking trick ways of reminding men not to slip. The 84th division,. for example, begins and ends all official notices: “Be wise—don't fraternize.”

By WALKER STONE Scripps-Howard Staft Writer PARIS, May 4.—The supreme allied command has made available to group of visiting editors 13 documentary volumes containing gory - proof of Nazi atrocities in France. They contained photographs of mutilated bodies E and descriptions of tortures -unt published in a _ family newspaper. More important, t they contained signed statements of eyewitnesses and others who ? could give direct Mr. Stone testimony of the tortures, the mass reprisals, the shootings, gassings, burnings and pillaging by German troops and the Gestapo during the four years’ occupation of France. Hearsay evidence wis excluded from these 13 volumes which were compiled by French and American army officers who reported only on incidents that could be fully authenticated. During the occupation, authorities estimate the Nazis executed 150,000 French civilians,

Not Just Propaganda

The evidence - released today is part of the new S. H. E. A. F. policy to convince the peoples of the allied countries that the atrocity stories of this war, unlike those of the last war, are not "just a lot of propaganda,” and to establish world

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difficult aspect of the occupation of

smiling at youngsters on the street

of plugs in between regular radio

The sirictly-husiness attitude directions in a battle-wrecked dealings with enemy civilians.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1945

FRIENDLY DOUGHBOYS' GET FREQUENT LESSONS ON ROLE OF CONQUERORS—

"Be Wise; Don’t Fraternize’ —G.1. Slogan

guilty he was out of combat for some ‘time—just as much a casualty as if he had been machiné gunned. At first, too, there was some con-| fusion as to. whether the German who fraternizes is guilty of breaking a rule and therefore table to punishment. ! SHAEF recently cleared up this| question by pointing out that the whole.idea of, the non-fraternization

we scorn them and have no desire, to associate with them. 2 Md ” " THEREFORE, the rule has nothing to do with the Germans and

. they cannot be punished for their | . natural desire to associate with us|

of this American sergeant giving

erman city is typical of our army's Friendlier association brings penalties

ranging from fines to discharge and prison.

SINCE enforcement of the non-

fraternization rule is a command, responsibility - and penalties for infringements vary widely between | the divisions. Some soldiers have been fined as little as $65. Some, of a different division, who ‘were found guilty of | the same violation have been sen-|* tenced to dishonorable Sisctiaige and two years at hard labor.. One of the difficulties in enioros]

+ ing the rule at first was the belief |

that many German girls were pur-

{haps seritenced to death. Even if the rape charge was dis-|

proved the soldier was heavily pen-| | alized for violating the non-fra-|

ternization rule. = #” =

CASES: took the time of investi- |

gators in the court- martial soldiers involyed. ? And if the soldier was found |

German Atrocities in France Are Documented for the Press

sentiment for stern control of the!1944, a German military train en

conquered Germans. These new disclosures synchronized with revelations of the political = prisoner and slave -labor camps at Buchenwald, Belsen and Dachau where ‘American congressmen and editors were invited to view cordwood ricks of emaciated corpses and the even more moving spectacle of the vacant-eyed living dead. The. apparent. purpose was to demonstrate to disbelievers and the humanitarian «inclined that the Germans cannot be trusted in the near future to follow civilzed rules.

Few Stories Published The 13 volumes tell of Nazis angered at small resistance incidents

and murdering whole populations of French villages; they tell ‘of indescribable tortures used to wring confessions from individuals suspected of resistance; they tell of innocent hostages summarily executed. Some of the incidents documented have been reported previously in the press, but ‘because they are so numerous many have never been publicized. Through page after page of testimony and photograph after photograph, there is a startling uniformity of the methods used by various S. S. units in the torture of individuals, the mass reprisals on communities, and.the terror demonstrations to impress. the French people of the horrible consequences of opposing the Nazis. For instance, the village of Ascq: In the late evening of April 2,

cars. No German casualties; shots fired by civilians.

chot all of them alongside the railroad track. There were a few sur-

grounds. A total of 86 were killed in the village.

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Kill Whole Village And at Ouradour Sur Glane: No motive has been established

and fury. over act was done by any Ouradour inhabitants. Yet the Nazi troops rolled into the town, herded all the women and children into a church and separated the men into four groups of 45 each in four separate buildings. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, as if by a prearranged signal, the guards at the

machine guns and mowed down the captured civilians. Then they piled hay and wood over the bodies and set fire to them. At the church, the German seldiers carried in a large box and deposited it in ‘the center of the floor. A few minutes

later the box exploded, filling the

By JOAN YOUNGER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 4—Greta Garbo has told friends she will appear in no more motion picttures and has purchased a run-down rooming housé .in which, after its remodeling, she plans” to settle down. and “joost loaf.” The eccentric, erstwhile queen of the screen refused a recent offer from a Swedish film company with the statement she would rather “lie quiet.” “I. t'ank- I will joost loaf,” she said. She bought a four-story, dingy brownstone house in the east forties under the name of “Frey Brown, Hollywood.” Through her attorney, she is dickering with construction firms on remodeling. > Although reputedly a millionaire,

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she paid only $13,000 for the house, and immediately - began getting a return on her money in rent. The roomers 3s yet have no knowledge of their new landlady and have been given no notice to leave. Previously, she visited several other properties. Once she collected a group of young autographhunters whom she hurried away from. The leader, a young girl, yelled: “We only asked you to be nice to you.” Her last picture was “The Two Faced, Woman,” made over two years ago. Soon afterward her contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lapsed. It has not been renewed.

Remains Shy She arrived in New York more than a year ago, and under the name of “Harriet Brown,” she moved into a penthouse suite in a New York hotel. When she leaves

the hotel, she uses a side exit, and

crouches into her eoat collar to

Garbo Says Goodbye fo Films, to 'Joost Loaf’

conceal her identity. Miss Garbo's New York friends had hopes at first of breaking down her shyness, but when she persistently sat in corners saying nothing at their parties, they ceased to invite her, She occasionally visits night clubs —particularly the quiet, expensive “21” club—with George Schlee, husband of the dress designer Valentina who makes her clothes, -or Gaylord Hauser, dietitian, who has frequently been reported married to her.

She also haunts auction galleries, where she buys bric-a-brac and jewelry. Her largest purchase was aL oversize Louis’ XIV bed with gilt cupids adorning the headboard. The only time she showed any

she visited a showing of “Camille,” one of her greatest successes. During the: Plewire, ushers sajd she

wept,

YOUR G.1. RIGHTS . . . By Douglas Larsen

U. S. Offers Apprenticeship

Training

WASHINGTON, May 4. — Here

| are some Questions on the appren-

tice training program for veterans:

Q. I had Just gotten out of high school before I was -inducted into the navy and never had a job. They tell me that tool and die makers get good salaries and the work sort of appeals to me. How would you suggest that I get into Uus trade?

A. Go to the nearest office of

| selentifio

in Most Trades

trical trades requjre up to five years apprenticeship.

Q. I am interested in learning a trade but I also would like to take advantage of the education benefits of the G. L bill of rights, on a part-time basis, of course. Will it be possible to be an apprentice and go to school besides?

A. Yes. Practically all the gove

ernment’s apprentice pupa clude additional class room instructions. The curriculum usually includes mathematics, draftsmanship, blue print reading, physics and othér sciences which relate to the work in the trade. In addition to those courses you will be permitied English, history, and other nonqoutses, hE ‘Q. 1 wis an apprentice befqre I went into the army. Can I goback where I left off and still get monthly payments from Ye governdensy

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2 Troops will, however, ‘be given |

route from Barseux to Lille, passed through Ascq. A minute later an explosion on the track derailed three no S. S. troops piled off the train, clubbedekhe station master, killed priest Labbe Gilleron in the presbytery, ‘killed the parish curate close by his home, rounded civilians off the streets, routed others out of their homes— many were asleep at the time—and

vivors. The next morning 77 bodies were found on the execution

except loot and perhaps to impress

the countryside with the Nazi might It was asserted that no

doorways opened. fire with their

iriteYest "inc her career was when

—their conquerors. i

+The Germans, used to the Nazi practice of forcing prostitution ori women of occupied countries, as| vet. don’t get the idea of non- fra. | ternization at -all. It’s not uncommon for mothers tol attempt to hide their daughters the belief that otherwise the girls| would be taken for army brothels— | of which the American army has) nene., ! ~ » ” | DURING periods—of fighting the problem of fraternization does not “arise.

The trouble begins with inactive

It will grow far more acute when) {the fighting is finished and the | {army in Germany is purely an occu- | pation force. | According to present plans, the | army has no intention of ‘modi-| {fying or abolishing the rule with the cessation of hostilities.

{frequent leaves back in allied countries.

church—with suffocating ‘gas. The women and children were machine gunned as they ran outdoors. Then the Germans burned the church, looted and set fire to the remaining homes and buildings in the village. Dead and missing—695.

Tortures Detailed

And there is such testimony as this from Mme, Henriette Cabot, |

of St. Quentin prison, used for political . prisoners: | “Eiectric current was passed | through the eyes and blows were struck cn the temples with little rods, like rulers. ~The former torture affected the eyes for weeks or even months; the second catised intense pain and brain “trouble which made them irresponsible for sometime, “Another practice was to truss the victim with his arms tied to-, gether over his knees and then to beat Him all over while twisting him around and around.” These

are some of the milder forms of punishment.

Guards Used Clubs And in the torture chamber of Feldgendarmerie of Plouret: { “The next victim came down with his right eye hanging from its socket and his left eye completely closed. His teeth: were broken, his! nose flattened. “The next had been severely | beaten, but his face was unmarked. ! Seeing this, Sgt. Albert forced him | by kicks in the ankles to take off | his sabots . (wooden shoes). He |. then crushed his toes by stamping | on them with ironshod boots, ham- | mered his face into a pulp with, his | fists, took him by the hair and! smashed his nose and teeth against | the wall. | * “The Germans used clubs or rawhide whips for beatings. In the torture chamber there is a butcher’ 8) hook hanging from a beam from! which victims were hung for beating, sometimes from the lower jaw. One boy of 17 was so severely thrashed that he said he had confessed tb things he had never done.”

INDIANA LUTHERANS CONVENE MONDAY

Dr. H. E. Turney of Indianapolis will give the sermon at the communion service opening the 98th annual convention of the Indiana United Lutheran synod Monday at Auburn. Dr, Turney is president of synod. . At the convention, announcement will be made of the complete liquidation of the debt on Mulberry Lutheran Home for the aged and the $10,000,000 United Lutheran War fund. Indiana has raised her fund quota. Outstanding among speakers of national importance will be Chaplain R. A. Boettger who has been granted a furlough from overseas service to address the convention. Chaplain Boettger will describe the work of the chaplains. Ministers of the denomination in Indianapolis and the county ‘are expected to attend. The Rev. Allen K Trout, host minister, is the former pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran church here.

URGES FIRST DRAFT LEAD DISCHARGES

WASHINGTON, May 4 (U, P.).— Senator Edwin ©. Johnson (D. Colo.) introduced a “first in—first out” resolution yesterday to declare it to be ‘the policy of congress that the first men to be drafted would be the first to be d Johnson said his resolution, it enacted, would be binding on the war department,

ee ———— PARTY SCHEDULED The annual “Mother and Daugh+ ter” party will be held at 8 p. m.

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Labor Peace

Pact Decision Is Due Today

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 4.—The_ post-war peace pact between employers and unions, which three leaders announced here March 28, is up for ratification today by governing boards of two. organi- : zations con ~- cerned, the U. 8. Chamber o f Commerce and the Amer‘ican Federation of Labor. The C. LO. has already . given its approval. : Probable imminent. end of the war with Germany gives more importance “to “Whether the industrial peace pact will he accepted and carried through by all important segments of management and labor: With plain signs that war pro-duction-is due for-a sharp eut as soon ‘as the European hostilities close, some authorities believe that the ‘end .of the Japanese phase will not be awaited before a showdown is attempted between some elements of management and labor. : 8.8 8 THE , NO-STRIKE pledges of the C. 1.0. and A. F. of L., given soon after Pearl -Harbor in cone nection with creation of the national “war labor board, are assumed to extend thtough the Japanese war.” Whether the German collapse will cause ployers and some unions to renew assertions of their rights remains to be seen,

The C. I O. executive board was the first to approve the agreement to which its president,

_Philip Murray, had subscribed.

Chamber of Commerce directors discussed the subject yesterday but delayed ratification until today. Approval was forecast, inasmuch as the Chamber's president, Eric A. Johnston, initiated the agreement, first of its kind, with labor leaders. n ” 2 The A. F. of L. executive council is expected to back up its president, William Green. J = ® If the Chamber of Commerce and A. F. of L. back the proposal without reservation, there will be more hope of getting participation from the National Association of Manufacturers. It has'said the terms should be more specific. Another powerful group of employers, the automobile manufacturers, has shown more -hostility. In this industry industrial relations have been disturbed throughout the war period, and trouble has been forecast in the post-war era. Matching the division of management over _joining in this proclamation of peace and good will, some non-affiliated unions

“havé condemned the agreement

as “company unionism.” John L. Lewis hasn't spoken, but his United Mine Workers have continued striking at the usual intervals.

May 12 at Pike township gym- = “World Friendship” Smtr ol

——We, the Women ———

Our Clothes Don't Worry

Servicemen

By RUTH MILLETT THE HOLLYWOOD designer, Irene, who can dream up suits and dresses for stars that make women in movie audiences high with envy has dreamed up a new post-war problem for women. She says, “We must be careful not to shock the boys coming back with garish clothes.” Before thd girls start throwing away their outlandish hats and violent ensems bles they had better remember that the mel will probably come back ready t4 accept any kind of clothes, ° ” ” » SOME of them are used to Paris 1ashions—which are pretty daring themselves. Some are used to the native tostumes of the Pacific. Some are used to the get-ups of the Indian women, ete. . . After seeing’ and accepting all of these foreign fashions—and many mere-cit isn't likely the men are going to be upset by even a shocking pink suit worn with a purplé topper. 8 vw ; IN FACT American women are probably going to look so good to most of the returning men that they won't quibble over whether or not an evening dress is too extreme, or a hat causes others to turn around and stare. "If the girls just keep their figures the pin-up conscious service men aren't likely to care what

‘kind of clothés they go in for,

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