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and announced he was throwing

.~ tive southern wing of the Demo-

- Wallace-Hillman side.

. mantle of Wendell Willkie, is also

" dent.

" absent. *

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

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Under this hammering they believe the Japs will crack to | save - themselves and their in< | dustries from destruction. But | they believe it will take the bigger, more frequent raids, to get unconditional surrender.

” ¥ o + SAN FRANCISCO STORY: Well-heeled Senator Capehart (R. Ind) arrived uninvited at the conference in a navy plane

a big cocktail party, inviting all the top-rankers including Molotov. It was during the official period of mourning for President Roosevelt and protocol on this— and other points—was being strictly observed. ‘No top-rank-ers showed up, and Capehart | sizzled, = . He's gone to Europe now. - "

a 2 ! PROGRESS REPORT on. ! Jimmy Byrnes: Congressional | sources say that when the former senator-supreme court - justice- |

‘war mobilizer’ left here last week |-

he looked happier Shan he had | for a'long time. Smart. money is still on Byrnes | as next secretary of state. =» = » ; Top Republican leaders con- | oede Truman has moved far out in front politically in his first six weeks as President, has made no important mistakes. But they say it’s still a long way to 48. . Appointment of three westerners to the cabinet this week, plus Truman's-projected visit into. the northwest, convinces them he is | moving already to build fences for the Best, presidential race,

HEREIN LIE TOP Republican | hopes: Eventually Truman must decide to go with the conserva-

cratic party or the Henry Wal-. lace-Sidney Hillman wing. They hope he'll not be able to hold the two together as Roosevelt did. Many think he'll swing to the It's numerically stronger. Note: Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, who has taken up the one-world

inheriting the political hatred many house and senate Republicans felt for Willkie. This group acknowledges his “political acumen—but will try to keep him from being nominated for Presi-

Congress Calendar WEARY CONGRESSMEN hope for a recess by July 15, but it will take a lot of doing to get ap‘propriation bills, Bretton Woods, reciprocal trade, OPA extension, out of the way by that time. Going home. to their districts is anything buf a vacation, congressmen say, but they feel they've got to mend fences, and many plan junkets,

Already absenteeism — wi { Bi

many members in Europe—is one | of Democrats’ biggest problems. It has worried house leaders particularly because. of the close fight on the reciprocal trade program, coming to a head in the house today. It's mostly - a straight party fight—and more Democrats are

= = ” DIFFERENCES BETWEEN army and war mobilization office are delaying submission of 1946 war department budget to cone gress. Mobilization Director Vine son has challenged some of the estimates of Gen. Somervell, army supply. chief, contending that more cutbacks are warranted for war against single enemy. With little more than .a month Temain-

CHILD IS GATICAL

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their car sideswiped a ‘gasoline truck at 56th st. .and. Allisonville rd. The injured were Delbert Petro, 27, of 2711 Shelby st. and his two sisters, Grace Frazee, 17. and Clara Frazee, 16, both of Noblesville. Petro was arrested and charged with reckless driving and operating a car while under the! influence of liquor. After striking the

gas truck, | Petros car smashed

into a carl

‘driven by a soldier, James Mayer

Jr, who was reported uninjured A policeman, Sgt. John Jones, 87, was injured when his squad car struck a gasoline truck while he and his partner, Patrolman Ed Clark were chasing a speeder at Boutheastern and Villa aves. Clark was reported unhurt,

46 WILL RECEIVE . NURSING DIPLOMAS

Commencement exercises for the graduating class of the City pital School of Nursing will he held at 4 p. m. tomorrow in the War Memorial auditorium. R. Worth | Bhumaker, acting director of the American Legion's Americanism department, will be the speaker. Indianapolis graduates in the! class of 46 include Anna B. Colline, | Elnora Gromer, Mildred L.-Hamil-| ton, Dorothy M. Jones, Iola R. Lam- | kin, Rosemary Lay and Virginia W, Miller, Others are Patricia 1. Pickard, Ruth .v. Pope, Betty J. Shirley, Janet. R. Simerly, Virginia Van-

Meter and Eunice'J. Wood.

A Junior -seriior dance will be held

at the Columbia club tonight.

| going in house ways and means

| cause of added burdens put on | them

| to surrender points for purchases | out of the country. | “take”

| Joseph D. . Keenan, deputy | charge of manpower OR our con-

| his labor advisers from the A. F. | off L, Charge is made here that

| national labor organization outlined at the London World Trade |ever, safe and the d&nnouncement! even more than the present staff Union Congress. A. F. of L. won't of this fact to the nation has given| of 14,000 employees may be abrupt- | C-45, C-46 and C-47. | join, bitterly opposes this organ-

| new secretary of labor Judge Lewis”

Hos- |

MOST OF TOKYO. IS DESTROYED -

Jap Premier Says Whole City. ‘Must Be Rebuilt.

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ing before new fiscal year begins, | It alse conceded “considerable damhouse appropriations committee | age” elsewhere in the city. is stalled. | A Japanese Domei dispatch said Committee plans closer scrutiny | Sukuk told the cabinet that after of supply estimates than Hereto- |seeing the imperial palace catch fore, believing any justifiable cuts | fire, he had approached Hirohito will - speed” reconversion, reduce | “humble in my trepidation as a employment problems later. humble servant of his imperial X 8.8 8 | majesty.”

Social Security “To Defend His Majesty”

REVAMPED WAGNER - MUR-RAY-DINGELL bill widening so=clal security ‘program contemplates government absorption of $6,500,000,000 credits built up for state-operated unemployment in- | surance, thereby opening the way for bitter battle in congress. Rep. tow, ) Dingell (D. Mich.) concedes pro- [ican nation,” he said. posed federalization of insurance |- The. enemy account said system is"most controversial item |fires turned vast industrial,

of bill (state’s rights issue, equal= | ization of benefits in high and [Tokyo into ‘blazing infernos” and | destroyed numerous landmarks, Civilians, old and young alike, |

could not help but renew his determination to “smash this enemy of | humanity and to . . . defend his | majesty to the last.” “I firmly believe that the people of this nation equally share my

huge | i

low wage areas). |

nator” been expec alongside the B-29, apparently is destined to fade entirely out of the picture. Its production will be cut back sharply and ended at the end |. of the year.

bomber, the “Dominator” has never been reported in action.

At the same time, Suzuki said, he|indicate that after some degree of production proved unfit or uneconomical for use in the Japanese war,

] {ger superbombers reported in varifeelings toward the entire Amer- | ous stages of development. To date, | however, there has been no official

busi- | far enough along to be used in this: {ness and residential sections of wap,

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Japan to Feel Bomb Mig ht Despite U. S. Plarie Cutback

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even eliminated, production of B-20’'s would increase for several months. After that production will be held at a sustained high rate. The still shadowy B-32 “Domisuperbomber, which had to take its place

lates from production planned for the next 18 months. By weight, there will be a 30 per cent cut in the last half of this vear from production in the first half, : Another 10 per cent wil be lopped off during the first half of 1946 and an additional. five per cent during the remaining portion of next year. This 45 per.cent total reduction, which will affect ‘three fighter planes, three bombers and three cargo planes, will touch virtually every city in the nation manufacturing planes. The army gave no indication of how many employees: would be thrown out of work by the cutback. But It was certain to cause grave concern to President: R- J. Thomas of the United Auto Workers (C I. 0.) who left here last night for the West coast.

Big sister of the B-24 Liberator

Its sudden curtailment seemed to

ft- had unexpectedly

Cutback of 17,000 There have been .other, even big-

RESTORE MGEE TO ACTIV DUTY

Nazi-Striking Term.

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found that while none of the pris- |:

oners was injured, McGee had violated the section of the Geneva convention pact on. treatment of war prisoners in. not protecting them against insults, _ Disclosure yesterday’ of the court martial sentence aroused a flood of protests all over the nation. A Hoosler Post 624, V. F. W,, of Indianapolis, started the ball rolling for a’ congressional investigation with a unanimous protest which they sent to Senators Willis and Capehart and Rep. Ludlow. 3

Officers at the disciplinary barracks at Ft. Harrison, where Pvt.

Thomas’ - union, the nation's) largest - with over: 1,000,000 members, has one-third to one-half of | its ‘membership working in aircraft} plants. Thomas—here during the past] two days for talks with govern-

ndication that any of them were

The army's announced cutback eliminate a total of 17,000

Insurance provision faces rough : turned out to help fight the fires,|

| which apparently still were raging | { more than 18 hours after’ the start | lof the raid. Customs officials -at Canadian | Transportation facilities border cities ‘are grumbling be- [teapot interrupted,” | said, of cellecting red ration points from U. 8, citizens stream- | ing over the line to buy unra- | participating in the raid said nine! tioned Canadian meat, Buyers are | Square miles of central Tokyo| complaining, too, at being forced |agound the imperial .palace were 7 | dames when they turned homeward.

committee, where Republicans, conservative Democrats’ oppose it. 2 2 2 were Tokyo

9 Square Miles Burning

Crews who manned the 500 B- 20s |

One day’s | They ‘in -Detroit: 100,000 red |

Points, {some damage.

u | But first confirmation that the |is almost solely engaged in making | Kaiser would be’ able to jump into STORM BREWS over our labor [palace had been all but destroyed! | propellers for big bombers.

for occupied = Germany.

policy came in a news commentary over|

trol commission staff, has picked |

the focal point of the Japanese

for the most part early this mornIng by a concerted incendiary attack,” the commentator said. Relief to People “Their imperial majesties, {emperor and the empress, are, how- |

labor unions along A. F. of L. lines while workers in the rest of Europe—including parts of Germany under control of other _allies—will be in the new inter-

{indescribable relief to the people. | “So, too, was the announcement

ization. the |

» | that the imperial sanctuary, {symbol of the nation’s sacred

2 2 Labor Picture |spiritual - traditions, has escape C. I O. HAS. OTHER troubles. |goctruction. |

It's had nothing to say about the | “The physical aspects of the imperial ahode have been destroyed, B. Schwellenbach, whose selection yt its moral and spiritual aspects | has been warmly praised by A. F. are permanent and indestructi-| of L. officials. C. I O. apparently | pe» fears Schwellenbach is too close to | The commentator said the inhabiDave Beck, Pacific - northwest {tants of Tokyo were thronging toteamsters’ czar. ward the Nujabushi entrance to the C. I O. was to have had an as- palace in a continuous stream to sistant secretary of labor on the |“.xpress through silent prayer their| Staff of Miss Perkins. Papers*for | enet and loyalty and devotion to] appointment of John W. Gibson, ithe throne and to pledge their de-| president of the Michigan C.1.O. |termination not to rest their arms Couneil,-were made-out, ready for \yntil , . . victory.”

Snatete, when Mr. Roosevelt | Burned to Ground

A later broadcast said the “greater part of metropolitan Tokyo was laid waste.” Practically all of the business center; untouched in the| 23 previous American raids, was| burned to the ground it said. Among the buildings “reduced to ashes,” Tokyo said, were the Atago shrine, the Ikawa shrine, the Zojgo! temple, Keiya university, Bunyuka | university, six middle and seven ele- | mentary schools, several large hos- | resolution for independent house |Pitals, the Soviet embassy, the Swed- | investigation of veterans admin- |ish legation and the Finnish lega-| istration. Movement reflects dis- | tion. satisfaction among some con- U. 8S. Embassy Hit gressmen over methods of | "A portion of the former United | Rankin’s veterans committee. In | States embassy also was destroyed, two weeks of hearings, Rankin |the enemy account said.’ has done little except investigate | Tokyo called the attack the worst critics of veterans administration, since Superfortresses opened their not VA itself. Talk is of re- assault on the capital six months viving Philbin measure by com- | ago. mittee discharge procedure, re- | Thirty-six square miles—one-sixth quiring 218 petitioners. :

" J ” INDICATIONS ARE Wickard will be confirmed as REA administrator without too much trouble. Top Democrats will support him. House will try to put REA under | the RFC (where its funds come | from) instead of approving the senate ‘bill making it a separate agency. Rep. Philbin (D. Mass.) is being urged by colleagues to revive

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raids, the latest only | Thursday, and Japanese broadcasts

omatoes lindicated today’s was the coup de

Salted Too Soon “m

The B-29s chose for today’s tarSOMEBODY salted George Tur- | 2 the central government, business ner's tomatoes before thoy got and industrial area of Tokyo, inabove ground. As a result they cluding Te Ginza, Japan's broadway, never will grow. :

and Marunouchi, her Fifth ave. Mr. Turner, whose victory gar- |

'n addition to den lies behind his filling station

ministries, high priority targets in the area included the Shinegawa at 4107 Madison ave, complained “ to police today that his tomato

| previous

raflway

CUTBACK EFFECTS

| time. ago. | cutback, our situation here will be| affected.”

said they didn't see how Officials sald that the cutback would war plants throughout the nation the palace could escape at least have. little effect on production as soon as they are sold as surplus. schedules there because the plant| Thomas

|the Tokyo radio following the reg- studied newspaper reports because to ‘provide jobs for some of the ular Saturday afternoon - newscast. government notification still “The Japanese imperial palace,| not been received.

people's foremost devoted attention siderable cutback in production of | program. | their idea is to organize German and undying loyalty, was destroyed engines for the P-38. :

{ production of engines fgr the P-63, {another plane affected in the or(der, and had some plans for pro-| the | quction of the P-80 for 1946.

| hundreds of smaller plants, wish) 4 | make small airplane parts in a

| plants, will be vitally affected.

| —of Tokyo had been burned out in,

the government

ment officials on plans for Keeping employment at high levels during cutbacks—told reporters he had heard nothing to change his | opinion that there is inadequate preparation to prevent mass unemployment. Plans to See Kaiser He said he planned to confer next week ‘in Oakland, Cal. ‘with the West coast industrialist, Henry {J. Kaiser. Thomas believes Kaiser Curtiss-Wright propeller divisionr| plans to acquire many government

HERE ARE STUDIED

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iderable cutback in motors someIf there is an additional |

indicated he hoped jhe breach caused by war .conAllison division officials closely! tract cancellations quickly enough

had | U. A. W.s many members who will Ibe thrown out of jobs by cutbacks Allison already has had a con- | lsuch as the army plane .reduction

The army said lower requirements for a one-front war and lend-lease curtailments made its plane slash | possible. The cutback affected three fighter {planes, the P-38, P-63 and P-80; employ | three bombers, the B-32, B-17 and | A- -26, and. three cargo planes, the

Allison had expected to continue]

The company's plan to

ly changed, officials said.

Joseph McGee has been held since | May 12, said the news of the restoration to duty was ‘news” to them. Until the’ order comes through | official army channels he will remain in custody at the barracks.

NAVY WIFE FACES

The case of a 19-year-old wife who, allegedly gave birth to three illegitimate children while her sailor husband served overseas was set for June 12 in Municipal court 3 at her arraignment this morning. Also scheduled to face charges June 12 was a 31-year-old man with whom police charged she was living. Both were slated on statutory charges. The couple, - Mrs. Eunice Elizabeth Wilson and Wallace Cameron,

home, 1101 Central ave, by police

they left a 4-months-old- baby unattended in the home Thursday night.

she had given birth to two other children, both of whom died shortly. after birth. She was quoted by police as saying she married Leroy

and that she lived with him only a few days.

In addition to the big war Piste]

KELLY'S DAUGHTER ON WITNESS STAN

Fifteen-year-old Joan Kelly was a state's witness today in th first | degree murder trial of her father, | Charles E. Kelly, suspended city! fireman.

tion to subcontracting for the aries

the Kayaba engineering works, the | Tkegai machine foundry and motor plant, two Nippon electric company plants and two Oki electric company plants. A bright moon lighted blacked- number of arguments her mother, out Tokyo as the bombers went| in for the attack shortly after midnight. For the next hour or more, the parade of destruction | continued. : Four thousand tons of a new and heavier type of fire bomb |1943, frequently over Kelly's drinkbeing used for the first time were | ing habits. cascaded on the enemy Packed with jellied gasoline, they |

fatally shot last September. In an unwavering Kelly -told the jury ‘her father and

spat.

with Cameron and has been receiv{ing her $50 aliotment from Wilson.

| The 4-month-old baby was taken | {to the Marion County Children's |

| Guardians’ home, pending the trial.

USO BAND IN WRECK

OF BUS HERE; 1 HURT

{when their trailer-bus

pital.

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| for swerving off the road.

were designed to penetrate deeply | before exploding and spreading | | flames over a wide radius. Claim 47 Planes Downed Heavy anti-aircraft fire’ and a! number of night fighters were encouritered, but the aerial battleships methodically completed their! mission of destruction. Lt. Duane Morrison, 20-year-old bombardier from Kemmerer, Wyo., |said--he saw fires all around the | imperial palace. “I'll bet 100-to-1 that Hirohito's | home ain't there today.” added| Lt. Robert Combs, 22, of Mile City,| Mont. |

USE BAKA BOMBS AGAINST SUPERFORTS

GUAM, May 26 (U. P). — The Japanese hurled their new Bakal bombs—rockets with suicide pilots— against the Superfortress fleet which set Tokyo aflame early today, returning crew members reported. The Superfortress crews claimed at least three of the Baka bombs | were shot down in one of the fiercest air battles yet fought over the Japanse capital. It was the first confirmation of the use of the new suicide weapon |against the Superforts.

vards along the waterfront, plants had shriveled up ————

The officers investigated closely | and learned that an abundance | of salt had been sprinkled over the plot. They said matoes

that ruined the to-

COUNTY IS PLANNING UNDERGROUND VAULT

County commissioriers today were [Co over the idea of building a | $40,000 underground storage vault, | where county records would be cached. : They were considering $40,000 bond issue ofthe county council, with whom they had just | signed a political peace treaty yesterday after warring for two years A pile of records now straining the fourth floor of the courthouse was termed a safety hazard. Com- | missioners said they propose to - . construct a fireproof ‘cavern, con- - : | | nected with a basement room of the Call at Main Office " Any | courthouse by a tunnel. Te »

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who were investigating reports that

Wilson “to spite my mother-in-law”

Police also said that during the last two years she has been living

___ SATURDAY, MAY 2%, 1948

g— Ra “ BRALY : MEMORIALSERVICES ARE SET “Memorial services.for Mrs. Addie | Braly, late sovereign of the. Ramona Grove of the Supreme Forest Wood men circle will be held at 2 p.m {tomorrow at Crown Hill. , Organizations © which will pay tribute to their former leader will

Braly guard drill team and the Beta Tota and Theta Rho chapters of Tau Phi Lambda sorority, Guests at the services will be Mrs. Braly's daughters, Mrs. May Beaver, Maroit hotel and Mrs. Ruby/, Latham, Oklahoma City, Okla.; her sony Frank, Oklahoma City; her | granddaughter, Mrs. Ruby Gene Zilliken, and her great-granddaugh-

(ter, Miss Janet May Zilliken, both

of Flint, Mich. : Circle members who will take part n the service are Mrs. Olive King, guardian; Mrs, Rose Green, Mrs. Mayme Eichel, Mrs. Oma Love ys Nina Hudson, Mrs. Alvina Baker,

Mys. Myrtle Turpin, Miss Marie Mills, Mrs, Pat Lahrman, Mrs.

Mrs. Minnie Silvey, Mrs. Matlock, Mrs, Louie H. mils, Mrs. Dorothy Crone. . Memembers from circles Frankfort, Anderson, Lafayette, El-

the service.

CITY WILL COLLECT

language classics for bombed,

relief.

stores, book stores, hospitals

books cannot be shipped.

Members of

Governor Gates.

| They will file a detailed report of their findings with the next sessiom| This is to in-| clude recommendations as to the | advisable size of the proposed strucOn a U. S. O. tour, 17 members of | ture, potential sites and estimated died in Methodist hospital {Louis Russell's band were shaken | costs. The girl graphically described a up and one musician was injured |

of the legislature.

Members are: Mark Honeywell, realto

engineer of

Indianapolis; |

The commission wil organize June 1.

for

be the Ramona Grove, the Addle|

Evelyn Joyce, Miss Mary Miller, Bessie

wood, Milwaukee, Wis, and Washington, D. C. are expected to attend

BOOKS FOR RUSSIANS

A campaign to collect English-

burned and looted -libraries in the Soviet Union, will begin here Monday as part of the nation-wide drive to collect 1,000,000 volumes under the auspices of Russian war

Meredith Nicholson, Hoosier author, is honorary chairman of the Indianapolis drive, and Dr. James H. Peeling, Butler university sociology professor, is general chairman. Books may be left at all city libraries, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. branches, and a number of drug and churches. Not acceptable are “whodunits,” cheap novels, juvenile and

Police said Mrs. Wilson ‘admitted | Xt books, dictionaries, encycloipedias or translations. Paper bound

NEW STATE BUILDING COMMISSION NAMED

a legislative commission appointed to study the pro- { posed construction of a new state {office building were named today by

industrialist of | crashed | Wabash; George A. Kuhn, Mrs. Ruth Kelly, had engaged in head-on into a tree this morning in| and building manager of Indian- there. with the defendant before she was the 6600 block of W. Washington st.| apolis; i The injured man, Milton Bugg of sional voice Miss Cleveland, was taken to City hos-| State Senator Roy Conrad of Mon- | brother, James Coffman of Mt. Ver The band, which plays out ticello; State Senator Von A. Eich- | non, mother had: been. quarreling since!of New York, was on its way from|/horn of Uniondale; State Rep. Al- ‘Wayne of Indianapolis. The driver, bert B. Thompson of North Vernon | Kelly is charged with Eugene Johnson of St. Louis, could! land State Rep. Nelle B. Downey of | day at Flanner & Buchanan mortu capital. | having slain his wife following a! give deputy sheriffs no explanation! Indianapolis.

Harry O. Garman, profes- Mary G. Coffman;

CHURCHILL SAYS BIG 3 TO MEE}

British “Election Will No

Delay Parley.

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his constituency on the northeast ern residential outskirts of Londo

He was ‘scheduled to confer wit Joseph E. Davies—Mr. Truman special envoy—at the prime mi ister’s country estate, Dhequers, ove the week-end.” _ It was believed they will discu: plans for the Big.Three meeting an questions connected with the allie control commission for Germany. Churchill described President Tr man as “the successor to Mr. Roose velt with whom I have constant an cordial relations.” oo Only last night, Churchill ar nounced “a caretaker” cabinet ths will govern Britain with him pen ing the general election, Despite- the .“caretaker” tag, ob servers felt most of the appoin ments would stick if Churchill woi his fight for re-election. Sit In Opposition The new ministers will receiv their seals of office on Monday fro King George VI. They will n take oaths, but the traditional rit of kissing the king's hand will -b observed. When commons meets on Tues day, the resigned liberals of th cabinet—such political stalwarts a former Deputy Prime Ministe Clement Attlee, ex-Labor Ministe Ernest Bevin, and others—will tak their benches across the hall a opposition to the government. Bevin's place in the new cabine was taken by serene, detached Richard A. Butler—a marked con trast to the sometimes turbulen Bevin who liked rough and tumbl debate. © Butler was’ minister o education, and as such rode th famous Education Act throug parliament. Eden Remains Attlee's deputy prime minister’ job was abolished in the nev cabinet, as were the wartime min istries of security and economi warfare. president of the Attlee’s other post. Anthony Eden, as- expected, re mained as foreign minister, suring a continuance of the so of foreign policy he has fostere d since 1940, :

ELA COFFMAN DIES ‘AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Ela Coffman of 1632 N. Illinois sti toda { after a long illness. He was 47. A native of Greencastle, he be r longed to the Methodist churc Survivors are his wife, Mrs! a sister, Mrs | Grace Gideon of Indianapolis;

council, fill

and a Services will be at 2 p. m. Mon

l ary. Burial will follow in. Wash ington park.

42 The winning of the war in Europe does not

mean that the end of our shortages of telephones

and telephone equipment is in sight. The Army

and the Navy still need. great quantities of come=

munications equipment—the big war in Asia is

still to be won.

Until the manufacturers of telephone equip=~

ment can obtain materials and manpower for

civilian production; until a vast amount of tele=

phone equipment can be built and installed, there

will be waiting lists for home telephone porvive)

There’s no quick and easy way to overcome this

shortage. The telephone itself is but a small part

of what is needed to furnish service. Three out of

four applications on our waiting lists are affected

by the lack of enough wire and cable lines and

central office equipment. These facilities will ‘take

time to manufacture—still more time to install,

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