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ABOARD A CRUISER IN THE. CELEBES SEA (By Wireless) —In three days this water-shy land-" lubber has clambered onto surely a dozen different kinds of boats and ships. > His shins and knees are battered, and his arms are practically numb.from climb~ ing rope ladders. The sedentary life I've lived so many years in Washington seems far, far removed. - ' Let's see: Monday I went from cruiser to whaleboat to destroyer, and tbat night — after dark and in choppy waters — I went back the same way. Except that it was too rough to go direct from whaleboat to. cruiser. So I had to jump onto a PT boat that was alongside the cruiser. I thoughy, I'd never make it, but I did, gauging the rise and fall of the two craft as best I could in the dim light and landing on all fours: Then. getting a handhold and foot Hold on that dangling rope ladder was something, too, and when I tumbled over the rail at the top I swore I'd never leave the cruiser again till we got to home base. . : x But the next day that I was again—cruiser to sniall boat to PT, and PT to small boat to a big command ship, and then to small boat to PT to 1.CI, and LCVP to LCI, and back to PT and whale-

' boat and cruiser, bruise piled on bruise.

What Next? ; THAT WILL be enough of that, said I, as I painfully hoisted myself into an upper bunk. Un huh. Next morning down the cruiser’s ladder again to another PT, and presently I was stepping over a whole raft of PTs to board a tender for lunch. And then off in a PT t0 a pier and from the pier to an 1L.CVP—via an LCM—and onto another pier by rickety steps. And later from the pler to the admiral’s barge to the.command ship and back to a PT. And from PT to the cruiser, And as I write this I'm saying to myself, there'll

“pe no more such nonsense. Now I wonder what

will come up tomorrow. Probably a submarine. These PT crews are nice people. At lunch I met

Inside Indiafiapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JIM SMITH of the Hugh J. Baker Co. owed @ package of cigarets to a fellow employee. Being lucky in: a drugstore lineup, he took a package of Camels to work and gave them to the man he owed. The. recipient owed a package to another worker, and passed it along ‘0 him, This second worker owed Mr. Smith a package, and handed the same package right back to him. How's that for high finance in the cigaret ‘shortage? ..- Seen at Ohio and Meridian the other evening: A policeman directing traffic and using a carton of Camels somewhat as a baton. He was kept busy explaining to passersby that they belonged to someone else. « « . As state mileage administrator, E. R. Jones has the duty of passing on applications for supplemental gasoline for state-owned cars and those of state employees. In the last few months he has received, checked and forwarded something like 5000 applications to the

OPA. Deciding he needed supplemental gasoline him-

self, he prepared an application and sent it to the OPA. . They fired it right back at him as improperly

‘prepared. He had forgotten to sign his name. How

embarrassing! . . . County Agent Horace E. Abbott 4s on the sick list. He started out with a sore throat,

then developed pneumonia. He's at home and able -

to sit up a bit now, but doesn't expect to be back at his office before June. With the weather like it's been, he hasn't been missing much. . .. Also on the sick list is Will H. Adams. He's been ill several weeks, first With a cold and then scarlet fever. He's able to sit up and play pinochle a few hours a day.

Rain Brought Good Luck

Reporter

“By. Lee G. Miller |

fmong others Lt. Cmdr. Francis Tappan of Los An- |’

.geles, commander of a “task unit” of PTs. He was All-American “end at the University of Southern California. . 3 The PT captain who put me ashore on D-day at Tarakan, Lt.- (jg) Ben Stephens, wes a basketball star at the University of Iowa. He used to work for a rubber company in Akron but calls Cambridge, Ill, home, and his wife is now in Cedar Rapids.

From Pulps to PTs TWO PT men went ashore with us that day. One was Seymour Rice, one of the navy's new combat correspondents. He assuaged my fears of drowning somewhat by assuring me he was a good swimmer and would dive for me if I slippéd off .the battered pier into thie water. Rice is from Kansas City and Los Angeles and he used to write murder stories for a living. He said he'd written: 600 or 700 of them for pulp magazines.- 3 The other man ashore was Lt. (j.g) Harold ‘B. Stoughton, of Dumont, N, J., executive officer on another PT. He had a camera and took a picture of me croughing behind ‘an abandones Jap pillbox tor protection from shedfire. He prumised to sena me a copy, but I doubt if the pose. will be flattering. My PT skipper on a D-plus-one was Lt. B. J. O'Neill, of Baltimore. O'Neill's boss had told him to inform the two admirals who were passengers that he didn't want the PT to go up to the Tarakan pler, but that of course it was up to the admirals. It went to the pier all right. The “exec” of this PT was Lt. (jg) Charles Hendrickson. He still wore an ensigns gold bar, and explained his promotion was so recent he hadn't had time to “put the bar on the grindstone.” It seems you can grind off the gold of an ensign’s bar and find lieutenant’s silver underneath. Hendrickson used to have bakeries in Knoxville, Greenville and “Morristown, Tenn. His wife, who lives in Greenville, ran them for a while after he entered the navy but the. burden was so heavy on her he finally sold out. The PT'ers are 4 fine, friendly, good-looking bunch. But some of them think a little: wistfully that the PT has about run its course as a spectacular weapon in this war.

the plant. The reason he was so annoyed was that he had left his car windows open. He hurried out to close them. No sooner had he stepped outside the building than the new wall fell with a resounding crash, If he hadn't gone outside, he would have been crushed by the wall. Several other persons in the building fortunately were far enough away to escape, injury. ... Credit for the capture of the two German prisoners of war who hitchhiked a ride in Frank H. Davis’ car the other. day goes to Charles Harmon, 1319 W. 36th st., an Allison patrolman. On the way home from a grocety, ‘Mr. Harmon noticed the men at 38th and Northwestern. He particularly noticed they were attempting to hi h rides by nodding their heads at motorists instead of the good old American method of thumbing. Having read of the Nazis’ escape, he became suspicious and phoned police, who made the capture.

Sudden Service ‘ A. B. NEWILL, genéral manager of Allison, was downtown the other day and wished to get in touch with Mrs. Newill. She wasn't at home, so he decided to call the plant and see if she had left word where she would be. He dialed BE. 3600. And then, even before the operator could answer after plugging in,

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< By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Special Writer R HINELAND, Germany, "* May 17.—In a Munich beerhall some years .ago, Adolf Hitler told the Germans: , “The national socialist plan promises all Germans strength through joy. We shall banish want. We stall banish fear. There must be a cheap volkswagen (automobile) for workers to ride in, broad roads for the volkswagens. “National socialism is the revolution of the common man. Rooted in a fuller life for every German from childhood to old age, national socialism means a new -day of abundance at’ hove and a better world order abroad.” . But ‘now Hitler has lost his chance to rule the world. And the Germans already are telling us, “Thank God, Hitler is gone.” » » » YET THEY did not say that for 12 years while all but a small minority followed national socialism's promises, first for a boom in better living and then for the needs of death in war. The Nazis wanted to achieve everything Germanic in their own time. But the only basic difference . between the Nazis and the German people as a whole was the question of speed.’ For the Germans have always been clearly in love with the thought of a German-domi-nated world. a : Since the days of Frederick the Great, German expansionism has been a persistent feature in European history. It has received many rebuffs, such as that in world war I; but it has had greed and vitality and it is always at work in all German-speaking communities in Europe. :

feated

» » = CONSERVATIVE Germans were slow in ackpowledgitg the Nazi popularity here and they dreaded the effect of national socialism on them. They disliked the cruelty.in the Nazi treatment of the Jews, but they never differed with the basic attitude of national socialism-—that the Germans know what is best for the ‘world. : ’ Their minds always held basic vonception of Germany as the dominant world power and they had

tion.

he heard a familiar voice. It was Mrs. Newill calling for him, and their lines had become crossed. Quite a coincidence, eh? . . . In writing a column such as this, you ‘Hever know when you're going to get into hot water, or at least in the midst of & controversy, For instance, ‘recently I had a little piece on the plans of the World Calendar associations to “reform” the present Gregorian calendar by making each of the four quarters uniform. Along comes a pamphlet published by the Religious Liberty association denouncing the calendar “reform” plan as “threatening religion.” The association objects that “the historical Sunday would be detached from its fixed place in the week

always the Germanic feeling that {the end justifies the means. That feeling is not based on their |estimate of Germany as a nation, jor even related directly to Hitler. It-has nothing fo do with winning or losing the war. It is rooted in their Germanic blood. They. believe themselves to be inherently superior.to every other race.

we misread it.

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945 HOW POST-WAR OUTLOOK STACKS UP IN LEADING EUROPEAN COUNTRIES—

Germans Already Seek Our Sympathy

THAT EXPLAINS why they did not believe they lost the last .war, and. that. is why their attitude will remain unchanged now in the face heights of Hitler's power in 194L |" wpa is the result of all this? of the fact that they have been de- {Already you hear many of our men| again—unless through a psychological revolution which will permit Germany to be so purged of Pan-Germanism that no German will ever forget what it cost to exercise this greedy ambi-

they pass

This time, for. the first time since Germany has been a nation, a war has been brought into Germany's homeland. There is hope in that, for the great German cities are devastated beyond description, and Germans everywhere have seen war at their doorsteps. The first impact of defeat brought them ga feeling of relief. spearheads moved’ bombings stopped. time in nearly six years the Germans knew they were safe. the reaction to our arrival was relief only, not a welcome, and will pay new penalties in the future if

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BALTES BLATZ, an employee of the American Valve & Enameling Corp., was distinctly annoyed last Monday afternoon when it started raining cats and dogs. When the rain started, Mr, Blatz was standing beside a wall that just had been constructed to replace another wall destroyed in a recent fire at

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‘America Flies

AS A ROOKIE with the New York Giants’ spring training squad in Marlin, Tex, years ago, I asked a native what he thought about tomorrow’s weather. The native cocked his head, streamlined a demolition

load of tobacco juice, and then said, “Tain’t nobody * ‘cept a 'tenderfoot ner a dern fool

ITIES tries to perdict Texas weather.” LIVED Substituting ‘“aviation’s future” for Texas weather, we have a com- ¢ plete answer for those business SHOP executives who continue to demand post-war aviation estimates

and blueprints of the shape of things to come in the flying busi-

and set to wandering through the weekly cycle, its own name removed and another name applied.” In other words, the proposed calendar would designate some other day of the week as Sunday. Gosh, now I'm all confused. ‘Wish I'd never said anything about it in the first place.

spondent Edward W. Beattie Jr.

- By Maj. Al Williams

and 48 batches of state air laws. Much to our surprise, a group of hardy air pioneers, serving as -advisers to their respective state governors and combined in an organization known as the National Association of State Aviation Officials, swept “line abreast” to block state aviation legislation,

‘Do-Gooder’ Offensive THEN THE National Association of State Aviation Officials was immediately faced with another “do-gooder” offensive—this time from Washington. The new move was composed of politicians who thought they heard the white house shovels heaping together another huge pile of WPA dollars, and decided that instead of seeking leaf-raking projects, they would tag the grab with a popular name and call it the “National Aviation Program.” Under this crusade, communities were going to

sirens. We

11 years. ‘Happier Posisition’

Allied Raid

‘Here is the 10th installment of the prisoner-of-war diary of liberated. ‘United Press War Corre

1 By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR.

STRASBOURG, Getmany. — We arrived here at 9 a. m. from Ger-

ardmer and Colmar just as six American fighters appeared over the switchyards, calling forth a burst of ack-ack and a loud wailing of

are now 52 Americans—including 16 officers, seven sikhs and my French Alpinist friend, Every= one _ is “in remarkably high spirits, and it seems to me the average G. I. or officer is perfectly able to take in stride the severe emotional shock of finding himself prisoner in a country whose prisons have been pretty malodorous in the past

During the lapse between this entry and the last, I thought that

of what I thought or what happened and then I would recall the events later in my mind when 1 was in a “happier position.” I will take his advice. On arrival there was no room for us in: the underground works of the old fortifications where the old prisoners of various nationalities shouted greetings and threw cigarets at us through the barbed wire as we marched past.

Near Rhine

We are living in an old military hospital about two miles inland from the western end of the famous Keh! bridge across the Rhine, We are likely to remain here until transport can be scraped together for the big permanent camp at Lim-brug-An-Der-Lenne east of the Rhine near Koblenz. ™ The officers are separated from the men who are living in pretty crowded conditions on straw sacks on the floor. We were deloused here the first day and given a shower while our

. ness. ‘The worst offenders are those who, knowing least about the » flying business, offer their opinions with the greatest assurance. ee ———— Nobody knows what's coming in

aviation, except that it’s here to stay and there's going to be a lot more of it. There is general resentment in the aircraft industry against those issuing command opinions, based on neither experience nor common -sense. These are the fellows who are unwittingly planning great damage to an industry that

get airports whether they wanted them. or needed them or not. The tax money involved ranged between 800 million to a simple billion. Into this breach again stepped the state advisers, shooting questions about how many and why more airports. Under this guidance the council of state governors posed the challenging question: “How do you know h®w many new airports we should build until you know how many

this diary—the longest consecutive chronicle I ever managed to keep-— was going to die in its infancy. The Germans had the book and there Was no guarantee I'd ever get it back. This afternoon a small, mild Eng-lish-speaking Nazi who had agreed to try to censor it gave it back.

cl bills,

clothes were in the process of much needed disinfection. The Germans took all our remaining money, inluding my string of short-snorter

No Receipts Maj. Hansen was relieved of a

is crying for sound policies and for step-by-step shinking.

48 Batches of Air Laws

per. TAKE, FOR INSTANCE, the subsiding mania on yard the part of state politicians to write state legislation for aviation, The damage to future air travel of conflicting state aviation laws is beyond calculation, » a A

i If the state “do-gooders” for aviation had had i their way, we would have been forced to try to operate private planes under federal CAA regulations

My Day

each { a 0 HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—Those of you who like ———— “dogs will be amused at my-discomfiture yesterday. I by ' just had built what I thought was a perfect pen for Fala. Like all Scotties, He is & hunter and he loves to run along the edge of the brook, where he finds i innumerable holes down which to f poke his nose. -° i h So I enclosed a point of land ae near the cottage and thought that now I had a safe place where he — could be left quite happily. No ———— . more would I have to search the

woods for him and undergo that dreadful sinking of the heart * when you call a little dog and get no results whatsoever, 1 put him in the yard and left him. Ten minutes later, I found him walking around the lawn. He out into the brook and walked up

had calmly swam

each on the other side of the fence. His expression was — one of complete triumph. ! ———— Wire fencing is scarce these days even on. our Te . place, where it was saved from Fala’s old pen. My ./ husband used to have it out on the lawn in front - windows at the big house. But I shall

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to the farmers.

we have? And since you admit you don’t know how many war airports built for the army and navy will be given up by the services, you don't actually know how many airports we have.” ?

He said he thought I ought to try to be a little less open in future entries and instead, rely on hints

lovely heavy gold ring set with a big ruby, a family heirloom. When he protested he was told it might be used to bribe his way out of prison.

On the strength of this 'hard-headed challenge, Senator Pat McCarran withdrew from the senate his post-war airport construction bill, Hats off to the association which courageously fought for the long-range dividend and. the future - welfare of commercial aviation, instead of ylelding fi 8 to a short-range grab of public money.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

1 think it is. right for young people, particularly these who have been in the armed services, to meet: together and discuss the problems of the world from their point of view. But I can see great difficulties in getting transportation so soon as this. I have worked so little with youth groups in the past few years, except for my contacts with the United States students’ assembly, that I feel very mach out ‘of touch with both the leaders of youth organizations and their objectives. After the young people left me, the postmaster and the supervisor of the village of Hyde Park came down to see me about memorial services on May 30, and we talked over a number of activities in the village. I hope that now I am back here to live, I may be rhore useful in my own eommunity, : It is getting a little warmer now, and this morning I thought ‘my chorus of birds was. distinctly louder even though the skies were gray. Last night we hid a thunderstorm, dnd it seems as though we could not have more than a few hours of sunshine at a time. Things are growing, however, and just a little sun will mature everything very rapidly. The cold weather has nevertheless done terrible damage to the fruit trees, and I doubt if the fruit crop in the Hudson valley this year will bring any sizable returns

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_ Living ‘more of a country life,'I have come to listen in the morning to the farmer's hour ‘on he 5 while I dress, ending up with the 7 o' “should have thought that a

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Will the submarine menace the United States again in a third world war? Germans always have believed themselves inherently superior to ‘every other race. The German submarine above, the U-858, was the first enemy warship. to surrender to American naval forces since V-E day. The Stars and Stripes fly from the sub’s conning tower. In the right background, marines search some of the Germans aboard—they were left aboard the craft as hostages against scuftling orf sabotage.

I HAVE SEEN Germans in their ups and downs, from the depths of

| the inflation chaos in 1923 to the

| Today these people are temporarily stunned. At the moment the average German is trying to dig himself back into his house or help his

neighbors level a field and fill in the tank traps. Others are trying to travel into the many German areas which were practically untouched by the war, But few are sitting idle. The Germans are an amazingly industrious people: They have resilience. ~This Germanic block of 82,000,000 people has represented the central core of vitality in Europe. And when they want your good will they can be dangerously appealing in their manners and methods. Ask a German villager for directions and he will treat you as though your jeep were a royal chariot. Go into a store and the German customers usually stand aside while the clerk serves you. . . » » ASK TO have your room cleaned and a team of women—smiling and hard-muscled—are there with wash

on Strasbourg Seen By Beattie from Prison

My nail file was taken as a potential escape tool. . When we asked for receipts we were told they were not yet printed but would arrive in due course— which we doubted. No. 1 event since our arrival— a daylight raid on the center of Strasbourg—came on our third day here about midmernirig through a fairly heavy overcast. The bombs were falling ‘before sirens could work up full pitch. I happened to be looking out the window and saw the blotch gray streaks of target indicators and then suddenly the bombs themselves pitch out of the clouds.

Fires Started

We all hit the floor of the barracks as the air was filled with the familiar whoosh of falling bombs. For the next couple of minutes the whole building went through nauseating spasm after spasm. Several windows shattered. When we looked out again there were great fires already starting, some of which lasted through the night, Within an hour huge columns of smoke were pouring across the town. One building near us was hit. Several people, including two Russians, were killed. It wasn't a very big raid as such go nowadays but

are furious. Voice Hatred

sters” and children.” There is a well-fostered legend

“murderers of

which most Germans if they had| any sense would disprove sooner or later with their own eyes, that all Negro crews, This is supposed to stimulate moral indignation in the people who have been steeped over 10

American bombers have

years in Hitler's race theories,

Liere is one big pain in the neck. Shelters Inadequate

times a night.

it seems to have done very great damage, and the German guards

Two of them who knew I speak German parked themselves near me that afternoon and began a long {dialog spiced with phrases like “peasts in human form,” “air ganglittle

What with hunger, air raids and the complete indifference of the Germans toward all prisoners, life

Sirens blare away several times a.day and sometimes two or three

Each time everyone must leave his

cloths, mops and brooms before you know it. Most of the prisoners of | war salute our corporals and ser-

{say, “After all, this is a beautiful {country. It's too bad Hitler spoiled | | " | Or you may hear, “You'll have to hand it to the Germans—they've had a tough time, but they're good fighters.”

» » ” MOST DANGEROUS of all is the! ‘inevitable tendency of our men who | spent tiresome months cramped up in England or in the trek across France to compare our allies with the Germans. You hear such things as: “The Germans are more like Americans than most British.” ““These people are a ‘lot cleaner than the French, and they know how to get things done.” . “After all, when they started they did not mean to fight America.” Behind this emerges the fact that the Germans are already busy trying to win sympathy from us,

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barracks and dive for “safety” into what the Germans call their air raid shelters. For enlisted men these are just a lot of uncovered trenches running around the edges of a big central courtyard. Officers presumably being more valuable beings from a German point of view, were herded into a series of low-arched cellars under a shaky old building where we would inevitably be buried under tons of rubble if anything hit us. Once we saw three target indicators go down beyond a balloon barrage which guards thé Kehl bridge, one of the most vital crossings on the Rhine. The Germans all claimed three planes were shot

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down, and when we laughed they were furious, Air raids, however, are only a pe- | riodic nuisance. Hunger is with us| night and day. : Sour Bread There is no question here of getting meat, cheese, sausage, fruit or other things which fighting soldiers receive, as we are supposed fo under the Geneva convention. Our basic ration consists of a loat of heavy sour bread per man every six days, plus one-fourth -pint ersatz jam, a quarter pound of mar-] garine and a quarter pound of sugar a day for 12 men.

Our best meal each day is about a pint of grayish soup vagueiy flavored with carrots, barley and cabbage or what looks like eel

tain a shred of meat. Everyone's stomach is caving in The constant craving for food is so

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PAGE 15 Labor ———r—

Soviet Attack Draws Return

Fire From AFL

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Stal. Writer WASHINGTON, May 17.~The Soviet embassy here circulated today an attack on the Amerjcan Federation of Labor. William Green, A. PF. of L. president, declared this was evidence of the revival of the Comintern or Communist international propaganda agency; which Russian authorities promised several years ago would be abandoned, . The attack was an article from «War and the Working Class,” | official Soviet publication in Moscow, by K. Omelchenko, editor of the all-union council of Soviet trade unions. . It was reprinted here in the bulletin of the Soviet embassy. \ The Soviet author charged the

.A. P, of L. with lack of democ-

racy, dictatorial control, corruption, “a clearly defined line of adaption to the policy of the ruling class,” and “a constantly growing process of coalescence of the leading upper circle

of ‘the American Federation of

Labor with the employers and the machinery of the state, and widening of the gulf between the labor leaders and the general trade union membership.” - » » » THESE CHARGES, Mr. Green said, “are merely reiterations of attacks by union-haters in this country. : : “The writer of this article admits that Soviet labor organizations are dominated and controlled by his government, as we have repeatedly stated. “We have no fear of harm to the American Federation of Labor through attacks from this source.

“The membership of the American Federation of' Labor will never surrender their economic strength to control by the government. Soviet workers have already done that. If Soviet workers. want organization controlled by state, let them have it. We have no wish to interfere with them. “But on our part we insist on maintaining our own free trade unions, free from interference by the Soviet or any other government.”

- » » GEORGE MEANY, A. F. of L. sec refary-treasurer, said, “Publica-

tion of this attack demonstrates the close hook-up between the socalled labor organization of Russia with their form of dictatorship. It confirms the A. F. of L. position that the Russian organizations are not qualified to co-operate with really democratic trade unions.” : The “War and Working Class” article apparently was the result of the A. F. of L.’s refusal to take part in the recent World Trade Union conference in London, in which American labor was represented by a C. L O. group that included Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C. I. O. Political Action Committee.

We, the Women : Wives May Find Answer To Drudgery

By RUTH MILLETT “BECAUSE HE will not have his wife made “an ‘unpaid domestic drudge’, the Rev. Arthur Snell is moving out of his 20room rectory into a cottage which used to be rented at three shill. ings (67 cents) a week.” So says a recent news item from Chillesford, Suffolk, England. There's the direct approach. While most husbands feel that saying “I hate to see vou work so hard, Honey” eases the houses wife's burden—here is a man who Just up and puts a stop to alot of his wife's -domestic drudgery, r » » IF THEIR husbands insisted or even co-operaled-—-most women who now have to do all of their own work could cut down on it considerably, But, of course, if you are going to cut down on the work around a house you have to cut down on your “style of itv. ing.” You have to simplify it in every detail,

So the majority of women who have been getting along without help in the war years have been pretty much tied to their houses,

They have turned themselves into “unpaid domestic drudges” so that their families could go on living just as always—and so that

end of the social round. » »

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