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MANILA ~ (By Wireless) — I had returned to

Manila about noon after two weeks at sea, ready for @ little rest. Uh huh. By nightfall I was jeeping ‘through rain to the 43d division which was fighting Japs only an hour's ride from Manila. Lieut. Bill Robinson talked me into it against my better judgment. Some miles from our destination we had to switch -off the Jeep's lights and drive blind, lest Jap artillery observers on high ground get curious, From time to time we would use a dim flashlight to - feel for the roadside.

When we reached camp it was’

50 dark the driver could barely find our tent by following white lines stretched out along - the ground. Some 155 mm. guns were _AW4Y nearby, and continued intermittently all night. In the morning it developed there wouldn't be a whole Jot to see.after.all this day. But Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing, of Rutland, Vt., briefed us on his maps, there under the coffee and mango trees, and we decided the best bet was to look in on his 103d regiment, - The regimental commanding officer turned out to be Col. Joseph P. Cleland, of Omaha, who looks like a West Pointer and is one—class of '25. Col. Cleland has white hair and mustache and I was surprised to learn he was only my age—43. “I'm an old-looking young man,’

' he said. The

~colonel-looks not-unlike a younger Eritz Kreisler.

Path Was Just a Trace

WELL, HE took me and Russ Brines in his jeep, and we drove along a newly made road as far as the road went. Then we walked. It was hellishly hot, and our path was just a trace flattened in 10-foot high “grass” by infantrymen who had moved up during the night to take another hill on the way to Ipo Dam, which the Japs still held. Filipino laborers, hired to.carry water cans forward, were squatting by the dozens along the trail. The colonel would call out 0 them as we. passed,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum *:

IF YOU'VE NEVER seen a tulip tree—our state tree-—~now's your chance. There's one over on the statehouse lawn - that's blooming profusely, It's at the extreme south edge -of the lawn, just opposite ‘Em-Roe's. You have to take a second look betore ; yeu notice the flowers. They're a pale -green, decorated with a . pale orange, and they blend in _ with the green of the leaves. I'd never seen one before when it was in bloom, and when Sam Walker of Block's told me this one was in bloom, Itook a walk qver, One of the flowers happened to be on the ground under the tree and I got a good look -at the flowers, which are quite attractive and much like the ordinary tulip flowers. . . . Add signs of summer: The basin of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument fountain is getting a freshening coat of greenish paint. ,,. And the. revolving door and storm doors onthe front of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce have been removed. , . . Business note: In the making are plans for a South American “good will” aerial tour by 18 or 20. Indianapolis business men. The group, headed by Elmer Krueger of the

E Paper Art -Co.;--expects- to—charter -a- big transport

plane and fly south along the east coast, across the Andes and back down the west coast, stopping at

all the principal cities to contact South American

business people.. The.idea was originated when Mr. Krueger and Ed Dowling made a business trip by air to Venezuela last January,

A Mean Woodpecker

IF THINGS KEEP on, The Times is going to have to establish a mean animal department. Tuesit was. a raccoon. Yesterday it was squirrels. Today it's a woodpecker. Richard Irmiter of RCA writes me as follows: “O Thou Wise One—Tell me, what does one do- about woodpeckers? We have one at our house. He comes every morning at 6 o'clock and makes the goshawfulest noise on the roof and the rain gutters. You never heard anything like it. He flies away promptly at 6:15 (by which time we usually have poked our.heads out the window to

“AIR POWER statistics are beginning to fall inte

| a mosaic which may be the pattern for victory. and the end of the war.”

This is the conclusion drawn from army and navy

alr developments especially during 1944-45 and outlined in the Aircraft Book of the Year in its 27th annual edition. “Japan will be defeated as speedily and decisively as Germany when the full weight of American ‘air: power is transferred from Europe to the Far Kast,” Editor Howard Mingos predicts.” For the first time, a complete record of our air combat operations in all theaters from 1941 to the present date is presented in the annual along with a maze of official statistics, flying facts and figures. More than 1,130,000 tons of bombs were hurled upon axis enemies during 1944. This .was more than five times the bomb tonnage dropped during the preceding two years.

25,600 Planes Destroyed ARMY AND NAVY airmen destroyed 25,600 enemy planes in aerial combat and on the ground during. 1944, as against 15600 during the first two years. They lost approximately 6400 planes as against 4000 during the first two years combined. A tgtal of about 1417000 combat sorties were made by army and navy against (iermany and Japan in 1944, ‘(A sortie is one flight by one plane.) They made 407,972 against the Japs alone. Army air forces made 1,008,697 sorties against the Germans alone, -. ™.

My Day

HYDE PARK, "Wednesday.— Yesterday was set aside to commemorate the part played by the merchant marine in the air, I am glad to know that an orgamzation called “The Merchant Marine Veterans’ Foundation” has been formed for the purpose of aid-

ing permanently injured .and retire¢ veterans of -the American merchant maxine. The maritime unions on the Hast. and West coasts, to which men in the merchant marine belo:ig, have often been considered our most radical unions. This arises out of the fact that in the ® Old days working on.our mer- - chant ships was probably the hardest job of any that a man could hold. Conditions over the A years- have greatly improved, but you still have tobe hardy. and adventurous to go to sea in the merchant marine, There have been rather fantastic stories of pay and bonuses on dangerous trips during the ‘war, but people forget that a man receives no pay when ashore. He is not included under the regular social security prograni, nor does he receive many of the benefits for himself or hls Tamily which men in the navy ‘toceive. Aaemuer ol the merchant marine as a Toit of passed by piiblic health

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“Let's. keep going with that ‘water, thirsty up there.” Some of the carriers got to their “feet all right, but others just stared. Here and thefe we passed groups of soldiers resting briefly, some of them intently reading mail that had just been brought up. The colopg]l paused from time to time to ask a question or-to issue ah order. Finally we reached the brow of a hill from which

he wanted to look at his forward positions on a ridge!

beyond, occupied during the night with little resistance. I sat down and panted.

Artillery Was Moving U pe

WE RETRACED our steps through the towering grass. The colonel stopped to talk business with Capt. Dow Lichteig, of Wesley, Iowa, executive officer of Cleland’s second battalion and according to the colonel, a first-rate soldier. We got back to nur jeep, and by now a bulldozer | had extended the road a little further through the | virgin grass, but we headed back. “Get that road scraper up here,” the colonel told! a soldier. “Tell him one good. pass at this road will | save it if it rains again.” ° | We passed an MP, and the colonel told him to] move on up to the_end of the road and let the ra- | fic move as far as it could go. He flagged a bulldozer | and told: the driver to doze a turnaround along the | roadside to facilitate traffic, Artillery ‘was moving up now. There were other hills to be taken and nobody was sure where the Japs might. take a. stand. | We stopped to look at a water point being instated beside ~&- shallow ~stream. Water would-be pumped from the stream into a canvas tank and chlorinated. We passed a fleld kitchen. Soon men in the forward lines, now eating cold C rations, would get hot fcod again, { Firally we got back to the regimental command post and had lunch and the colonel told.about stumbling onto a Jap recently and killing him with a pistol. And presently we drove back to Manila, Well, .it wasn't much of-a war that day, but 1 find you don’t have to be under fire to get worn out from noonday climbing in the Philippine sun. | When we got home I found a double handful of mail though, and my fatigue vanished,

curse him), and merrily tells us off from the safety] of a tall tree.about 20 yards from the house. doesn’t“ even take Sundays off. It really oid be so bad, except that our normal waking up time is 6:30. ‘That means we lose a half hour every morn- | ing. It is ‘beginning to tell on us, and we (my wife, | Ina and I) are beginning to snap at each other as a| result of loss of sleep. Isn't there anything that can | be done? Please don’t tell us to go to bed earlier, | because we are way behind in our correspondence now. | Maybe one of your readers has a solution. We would |

appreciate any offerings.” Okay, experts; what's the | solution?

Theatrical History A NOTE in this column the other day said “the

. old Bijou theater” was located where the Indiana |

Fur Co. now holds forth—on Washington, just east | of Pennsylvania.” Well, sir, that just goes to show | how you can put your foot into your mouth by getting too specific. If I just had said “the Bijou theater” instead of “the old Bijou theater,” I'd have been half right. But I got too specific. And a flood of protest hit me. First to correct me was Howard M.! Rudeaux, who writes for the theatrical publications. Mr. Rudeaux says the OLD Bijou was located just east of the alley east of Vonnegut Hardware Co., near the courthouse. Some years ago, it was decided to put up a new building (the Meyer-Kiser building)" on the site and the Bijou then moved over to where the. Indiana Fur now is located. But then it was the. “new” Bijou—not the old one. Incidentally,.the Bijou showed the first Charley Chaplin picture. The Alhambra, located on the site of the present Stewart Book store, was the first 10-cent movie house, and] it was really “high class,” says Mr. Rudeaux. Roy | Perry, 1833 E. Minnesota, confirms Mr. Rudeaux. He! says the. OLD Bijou was opened during the winter of 1905-6 where the Meyer-Kiser building now stands. | And Ed Bayless, 4928 Guilford, was reminded by the| item of some of the other old-time theaters around | town. “I wonder,” he says, “if your readers might re- | member the Colonial, the Palace, the Terminal, the Band Box, the Lincoln Square? Or, digging away | down into the theater memory bag, how about the Manhattan, Alhambra, Broadway, Capitol, | Isis or the Empire? All these were right in downtown Indianapolis.” :

By Max B. Cook

Something of what is happening against the Japs is told .by the Aircraft Yearbook in discussing the navv-marine developments. “The navy received 30,000 planes in 1944, and at the beginning of 1945 its plane strength was 37,000, while 29,000 planes were scheduled for delivery during the next 12 months,” it points out. “A total of 105 navy carriers had already been identified as having been in” ac¢tion,” it adds.

144,800 Combat Sorties “OUR NAVY and marine corps airmen made ahout 144 800 combat sorties against the Yeps in 1944. They | dropped about 50,000 tons of bombs, as compared | to 12,000 tons in 1943. They shot from the air or! destroyed- on the ground a total of 6473 Jap planes in 1944, while losing 1147 of their own, a ratio of 5.7 to 1 in the navy’s favor, “During our three years of war our navy and marine corps airmen shot down or destroyed on the ground a total of 9819 Jap planes ‘against our losses ' of 1882—a ratio of 52 to 1 in our favor. “Meanwhile, naval aviation increased its effec- | tiveness month by month, sinking countless Jap ships, knocking out vital installations, pounding Nipponese | all. the way across the Pacific to the Asiatic main- | land. It softened, them for our landing operations.” What the giant B-29 Superfortresses, the B-24 Liberators, the. P-51 Mustangs, Curtiss P-40's, P-61 Black [ ~—r--Widows and others of our army air force planes have also done is covered in the annual. But the big point is that, with the navy and! marine supremacy of more than' 5 to 1 in aerial | combat, plus the overwhelming numbers of addi- | tional fighting planes, light, medium and heavy | bombers now headed: Japan-way, these statistics form | a victory pattern that bodes no good to the Nips. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

service hospitals if he is injured. The men give high praise ‘to these marine hospitals, which are located | in most of the larger ports and several of the interior cities. There are, however, certain limitations to' this service” If a man is discharged from the hospital and .does not return for treatment within a period of two months. he no longer has any right to this care, for after two months without treatment he is presumed to be cured of any injury connected with the war Many a merchant marine crew has been torpedoed more than once in the course of the war. They have | gone on trips to every part of the world. The navy crews who operate the guns on merchant ships and | the protection given convoys by our naval ships and| planes have been greatly appreciated, but they have not been able to prevent enemy atacks and heavy losses at times. > There - has often been a sense among the salle ors ‘who operated the guns that their lives were harder than those of the merchant seamen. But T think in the long run the average navy man has as much’ for his family and himself in the course of a year as the merchant seamen. can make and provide for his family. “Without our merchant marine this war could. not

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he won. And It is greatly to our interest to make thed -permanent mature, iife of our merchant seamen a worthwhile existence like the officers of the Soa, i Slers we to n for

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SECOND SECTION =

By CURT RIESS

Times Foreign Correspondent : BERCHTESGADEN, May 24.—From the very start, this correspondent was in on the -entire hunt for the fabulous .art treasures hidden away by Hermann Goering. ‘The collection, valued conserva tively at more than $200,000,000, is now on display in a requisitioned hotel here, for the benefit of American soldiers. Maj. Hugh A, McGettigan, of, Newton, Mass., discovered Goering's hiding place, more than 50 feet underground, after several days of tracking down numerous leads. I can say that my, knowledge of the German. 1anguage as well as of the

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psychology of the. population helped

to bring about the sensational find. ” » » MAJ. McGETTIGAN and FT ine vestigated a number of “suspicious” houses .and questioned inhabitants, One house which particularly interested us was a bungalow on the estate reserved for the staff of Goei ring. ¥ This house had an extremely large and deép air raid shelter. Investigation showed that the shelter had been started about two years ago, about 30 feet below the sur-

Last fall Goering ordered that a | deeper shelter, about 60 feet deep, should be started. ” » » TODAY, it is a maze of subter- | ranean corridors and caves cut out of the rock. You can wander ‘there for half arf hour, though the ceilings are low and you have to stoop. The whole system, which was | never finished, is dampened by water dripping from the walls, Altogether this subterranean ar-| | rangement is something you read | about in mystery novels, but don’t

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2 n-n McGETTIGAN, upon first in-| specting this air raid shelter, exclaimed: “I'll bet this hasn't been built just for air raids.” | While following up this hunch, I talked to quite a few people in| {the neighborhood about that par- | i ticular house and the role the air raid shelter might have played. While most neighbors professed to know nothing, I finally encountered one old woman, who acted) Very nervous after I mentioned the

SHE FINALLY confided: “Two days before the Americans came there was something done about this shelter. “In the middle of the night a

ed a lot of chests and brought (them into the shelter. “I don't know what they did, but they worked there all night, emerging the next noon.” The woman was terribly worried, lest I repeat this and she might be killed by the werewolf .or some

Among treasures retrievéd by Yanks are valuables like these trays of antique jewelry, gold and silver snuff boxes, and ornamental caskets.

Soldiers guarding the treasures

New York, and Sgt. Antonio Valin, Salida, Cal.

THE NEXT step was a new in-

decided that it might take weeks, it’ not months, to find anything | which might

there behind ne® ‘walls.

Therefore, another approach was

decided upon, The man who had built the hel} ter, an architect, was sought.

When found, he .was asked to

produce the- plans of the air raid shelter. He declared that he did]

not have them any more. i .

» n I THEN proceeded to ask the architect if he could .inspect the air raid shelter with us and let us|

know whether or not anything i

{been changed, and to tel«us if new {walls had been built. The man seemed uncertain that| he could do this.

| While muttering something to | of the air ministry, to hide most |

that effect, he became more and more nervous. --McGettigan-at-once realized, and. 1. had the same feeling, that the man knew more than he wanted to say. ‘Therefore, McGettigan didn't pursue the matter, but seemingly without interest, turned away. ” » » T LATER that evening I paid a second visit to the architect. I told him that we had proof that he had come back to the air raid shelter only days before our entry into Berchtesgaden. What had he heen doing? The man said he couldn't say. He was ordered to keep silent. McGettigan, who joined us, told me to tell the man Wns) he would

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 24.—How the office of war information is ex-

them especially at the Japs and Germans) was explained today by Dr.

Roy Harris, chief of the OWI music

section,

In a letter to newspaper editors, Dr. Harris explained that this is | the first release on the OWI music strategy, but from now on he expects

|to release such communiques each | month. fui OWI Director Elmer Davis has| |asked congress for $42,000,000 to |stay in business another year. This {has been reduced by the house appropriations subcommittee and may | be abolished when the bill reaches {the house floor. Both Democrats and Republicans are condemning |OWI as a “boondoogle” in their [cloak-room conversations.

Through Two Channels

{day and affords complete European coverage. “TWO: The sending of records and music and live performances to 62 outposts located in London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Luxembourg, Algiers, Cairo, Casablanca, China, South Africa, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, New Delhi and elsewhere. “The equipment of the OWI music section for this dissemination of our music to European nations is vast and extremely efficient. “All broadcasts to Europe originate in New York City and go over the large shortwave system known as ‘Voice of America.’ All of these broadcasts are sent from records. “All broadcasts to the Pacific {area originate in San Francisco! over the large shortwave system | known as ‘Voice of America.’

Polish Women Happy Working

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent TEHERAN, Iran, May 24.—“The happiest Poles -in the world,” is how one observer describes the several score Polish women who dre attached as cooks, waitresses-and other domestics to ‘the various camps of the Per- | sian gulf command. In Iran's sandy desert these re(ugees, winding a _ tortuous way

ern Poland through Russia, ‘Siberia and Tur kestan, hoped nothing more than to save their Mr. Weller tives. But thie creation of the Per« sian gulf command, to uphold Russia with lend-lease and to safeguard America's interests in- the Persian gulf, was their blessing. It gave them. what they wanted more than anything’ else: Work.

‘They are of all ages and shapes, Square-buili and elderly, young and buxom. - Few of them can speak English. They live in brick barracks of semi-

rate.

zines, they have become Americanized in dress, They receive, besides their lodging and some clothing, from $30 to $50 monthly, which they usually spend on more pretty clothes, “In Europe,” said one, forgetting that | she ‘was not in Asia, “you learn to live from day to day.” - The Polish girls go to dances with both American officers and men, but marriages are curiously few in number, the proportion being much smaller than Egypt's relatively high

Blame It on Heat

It is the language obstacle that Is held accountable for this. A A!

G.I. finds the 170-degree sun tem- | to listen to the ‘Voice of America’

peratures of the gulf not: condugiye to learning Slavic grammar, and the Polish girls do not’show much intergst in learning English. > \en the Persian gulf command finally is dissolved, the Polish women will become refugees once more. Then they will probably enter the British-supervised, U, N. R. R: A.supported camps scattered Iran, They dread the bitter alternative of choosing between the Lublin and London governments. In being temporary Americans they

have been hidden.

proceed to blow up the whole un-

{out what was being judden, » - » NOW the man broke down. | “Please don’t blow it up,” he | | begged. “You'll - destroy priceless] art treasurers.” # Then he told us the whole SloFy. {

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| { DAYS before Hermann Goering | | was arrested by the S. S. and taken | |away from Berchtesgaden, his) | friends and employees in Berchtes- | {gaden remembered that a train of | nine freight cars loaded with be-| longings of Goering, among them | stolen art treasures, was “standing {on a side track near Koenigssee. | They decided, under the leader|ship of Undersecretary Goernnert

ot the precious masterpieces. { They brought them. into the alr | raid shelter and put them into a room blown into the rocks. . = = » AFTER having deposited the treasures there, they had the architect design a new wall, hiding the entire room. Since all the surrounding walls were dripping wet anyhow, and some of the walls were covered with timbers, this newly finished wall wouldn't have been especially visible Then the ‘architect showed us (the exact location of the wall and {our soldiers at once began to dig. This went on most of the night, with torches keeping the subter-

ranean tunnels light.

“The record library of the OWI

ing for over three years.

enthusiastic co-operation of the musicians’ union, domestic networks and radio stations—has been assembled from the combined broad-

cial recordings also have been taken

tions throughout the States.” They also make their own re-

cordings, Dr, Harris reported. Major Symphony Works

“We have not only the standard repertory of the European classics

the American works which have | been performed by our major or-| chestras and soloists and many of | our musical schools and school sys- | tems during this period. | “One interesting activity of our) {music section 1s the gathering of {the folk music of many national | oups such as Czechoslovakia, Po- | (ana, the Ukraine, Finland, Ro-| {mania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Holland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Japan, |

|Thailgnd, Russia, Spain, Portugal, |

For Persian Gulf Command

Persia, Arabia, Hungary and others. | Locate the Best Talent

the recordings of this national mu-

wsic, we detail one of our special

|consultants in this field and locate

(the best singers and players of this |

music wherever we can find them in America and make appropriate recordings. “For instance, the best Japanese recordings are coming out of Hollywood at the present time.” [ Only the “finest .equipment and | priority materials” are used in the OWI recordings, Dr. Harris declared. ‘Giving a True Picture’

“Consequently,” he concluded, ‘the’ peoples of Europe have learned |

|as a constant source of the world’s best music, performed by our greatest orchestras, conductors and solo- | ists, and chosen without the Iimiting deletions of national prejudice. “In order to give as true a picture of American musical tastes as possible, we pursue the policy of broadcasting and sending both rec~ ords and material for live performAnces in about. the following proportions: 50 per cent popular (‘hot’ jazz, ‘sweet’ jazz Latin Ameri dance music and popular pve per cent folk music in all manner

dior forms: 25 per cent symphonic! 1

and chamber music as SuTently Sr 5

“When if 1s not possible to pur- | chase through commercial channels

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1945 RIESS HELPS UNEARTH ART TREASURES WORTH $200,000,000—

How Goering's Fabulous Hoard Was Found

are 1st Li. James J. Rorimer, left,

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NEXT moming we began to take | spection-of the shelter. M¢Gettigan | derground structure in order to find | | things out of the cave under spe-

| cial supervision of Maj. Gen. Taylor of the 101st airborne: division, We came in the nick of time. A few days more in the wet cave | would’ have ruined countless paintlings, tapestries, ete: Even now _some have been badly |damaged--partly by water | partly because they were shoved into the room in the greatest haste, and were torn or cut. » » » ¥-SAW paintings by ‘Cranach, | who was one of Goering’s favorite artists. There were” masterpieces by Reubens, Titian, and Brueghel. There were old French tapestries, wooden © madonnas by _Riemenschneider; sculptures of the middle ages, of the south German and Tyrol schools; gold and silver plates, and Persian and Chinese Tugs. »

IN ADDITION, Goering had collected painted church windows, antique arms, Rembrandts, Van Dykes, Bouchers, - Watteaus, Fragonards and Goyas, - These paintings are fabulously valuable. The least valuable item in the art collection was one water color, standing somewhat forlornly:among the great masters. The name of the pictlire is “Haus Mit Weissem Zaun,” (House With White Hedge.) The man who painted it is/Adolf Hitler.

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PAGE 15 Labor —— : Truck Drivers In Chicago End Strike

CHICAGO, May 24 (U. P)— “ Raise-seeking Chicago truck drive

. ers were returning to their ware

vital jobs today to end a paralyzing week-long strike, The walk~ out was called off less than six hours before the government was to have seized Wrocking lines involved. Officials of the ‘Independent Chicago Truck Drivers union ordered the 6500 strikers back te work shortly after President True man authorized the office of defense transportation to take aver as of 12:01 a. m. today. : The President's order came while an estimated 1500 speciallys

detailed tro;

shores of Soom camped. ready 0 seize and operate the 10,000 trucks made idle by the walkout. = = 5 x HARRY L. GORMLEY, regional 3 director of .the, ODT's highway transport division, sald his ors ganization —would proceed Ms carry out the executive order aod. that the truck lines would Fa tinue temporarily under technis cal custody. About 1200 Arma were affected.

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Union ‘Attorney Raymond r. Hayes said he had been advised by George W. Taylor, chairman, of the national war labor beard, that the WLB would hold an - early“ public hearing to recone sider union demands” for higher wages. :

The WLB last week granted the drivers an increaes of $4.08 for 51 hours; but the men asked a $5 boost for a 48-hour week, They also sought a two-week paid vacation. a fe = THE SEIZURE order was cone sidered broad enough to include operation of trucks whose drivers are members of Local 705, International Brotherhood of Team sters Union (A. F. of L). Although teamsters union offi cials condemned the strike, many of its members stayed away from their jobs in sympathy or in fear of picket viélence,

The I. B. T. teeal was similarly affected by the wage increase, which both unions scorned as “inadequate.”

The strike, Chicago's worst in several years, tied up freight

shipments as far west as Kansas =

City, ODT officials said. Principal loss, however, was to the hundreds of thousands of pounds of perishable food which rotted in warehouses throughout the city,

“In the selection of our programs,

music section has been accumulat-|we are greatly helped and guided

| by the communications which come

preferences of European peoples.

“This great record library—which [from our outposts which indicate could only be accumulated with the | “For. instance, we learn from our

Luxembourg outpost, that the Ger- |

man people simply do not like our ‘hot’ jazz, but are much more par-

casts of all domestic networks. Spe- | tial to our ‘sweet’ jazz. from broadcasts of individual “i United | sweet sonorities of the 19th century romantic German classics, |

“This is very understandable, because our ‘sweet’ jazz is much nearer to the slow rhythms and|

“On the other hand, many of the tribes of the Pacific are more attracted by our ‘hot’ jazz which is

| primarily - based on quick dance [rhythms and emphasizes percussion of the 18th and 19th centuries, but|tone qualities.”

F. D. R. MEMORIAL ~ STAMPS PLANNED

WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. Py, —The late President Roosevelt, the | country’s most famous stamp collector, will be honored by a series of four memorial stamps, Postmas- | ter General Frank C. Walker an- | nounced. The stamps will be in denomina[tions of one, two, thrée and ‘five *cents.

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TEST YOURE: STRENGTH

We, the Women Servicemen Will Find One Old Friend

By RUTH MILLETT THE SERVICEMAN, many months overseas, listed some of

-—the-typically -American—things he

was getting good - and homesick for: The corner drug stbre." Magazine ade vert isements that can be read at a glance, instead of having to be laboriously translated. A nice, thick steak. smothered in onions. Breakfasts of bacon and FRESH - eggs. Thick American » » ” WHY disillusion him by write ing that a lot of those good old American institutions aren’s what they used to be? That the corner drugsstore is now just the place where you can't buy tigarets.

newspapers,

That the magazine advertises ments still look good but the fine print usually says something likes “You'll have to wait until after the war to buy our product.” Or “Don't become discouraged if you can't always find so-and-so on your dealer's shelves.”

As for a nice, thick steak. Well, that is just a pleasant dream of

the past—even in this countty. »

» » HENS are still laying eggs—bus try to get the bacon to go with them, unless you are a ‘personal unlder-the-counter friend of the butcher.

But we still ‘have American newspapers, of pre-war standard, unrationed, not hidden for favore ite customers, even delivered, and with the comie strip charac~ ters getting in and out of as many jams as ever,

That's one “American institu= tion" on his list that the home= sick . serviceman wouldn't find disappointing.

U. B. ‘EVANGELICAL MERGER IS VOTED

WESTERVILLE, O., May 24 (U, P.).—~The conference of the United

/| Brethren church ended yesterday

with a brief business session after approving, 227 to 3, the proposed merger of the U. B. and Evangelical

.| churches,

Union would bring together the 430,000 United Bretliren and 275,000 Evangelical members. The latter churah already lag Voied, fugitie merger. The union vote must be ratified

By the Uiijed Br cupers