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WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT BALETE PASS, Luzon (By Wirless) —THE men of ‘this division are piqued because somehow people -seem to regard the campaign’ for Balete Pass as part of parcel of the recent drive for Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. Baguio is only 35 miles away as the crow flies, but tactically speaking it might almost be on anather island. Baguio fell weeks ago. Baleter Pass wasnt pronounced officially secured until the day I arrived here, when a pocket of Japs still commanding highway No. 5 was cleared out, ..I was to learn firsthand later that “sectired” didn't mean exactly what you might suppose. This is mountajin=- fighting,
ridge by ridge, against a Jap who’
{s a master at defensive exploitation of such terrain. The Jap is Col, Hayashi, the same Hayashi who when the 1st cavalry trapped him in Santo Tomas internnient camp at Manila Feb, 3, used American hostages to bargain a safe exit for himself and his men.
Hayashi Escapes Again : AMD NOW he is believed to have flown the coop again, leaving scattered nests ot machineguns and mortars as a suicidal rearguard while he prepared anotlier defense line a few miles north, beyond- the crossroads hamlet of Santa Fe. The 25th division is scornful of Jap strategists, but it does no sneering at the tactical skill of Col. Hayashi. It was a sharp disappointment when it became evident he had escaped to conjure further devilments. The 25th division has been in contact with the
By Lec G. Miller!
enemy 119 days when the fall of Balete Pass was-an-
he. Indianapol is
nounced. y, . It was no hayride Yor the Japs though. The 25th, | which was in Hawail on Pearl Harhor day and learffed Jap fighting on ‘Guadalcanal and New Georgia, gave
“SECOND SECTION -
the defenders of Luzon a preliminary pasting at Bina- AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH EDDA MUSSOLINI
ll Duce’s Daughter ...
lonan and another at San Manuel—names that mean nothing back home but plenty to these veterans.
Balete Pass Was Toughest
LT. COL. JOHN W. FERRIS, of Abingdon, Ill, a West Pointer commanding the. 89th field artillery, recalled that Company E of the 161st regiment had five successive company commanders Killed and a sixth wounded in the four-day San Manuel action. Ferris himself was slightly wounded there—and lost ter md . all his gear at Binalonan when a Jap shell hit a Edda Mussolini, the woman gasoline can on his jeep. who used to be called the Then there were sharp fights at Lapao and Umin- | “femme fatale’ of Europe. gan. But this Balete Pass action in the Caraballo| pe daughter of Mussolini” and mountains, starting more than a month before the| | a re : pass fell, has been the toughest. It has been in and | Widow of the Fascist foreign minisabove the clouds, and recently in rain and mud. ‘The fter—Count Ciano, who was shot as Japs have been dug in on the reverse slopes of every |a traitor by order of his own fath= ridge .and their guns have commanded every ap-|.._in-law after II Duce had been proach. :. . : But since the division moved up from the town kicked out of Ye Raliah Vicktor of ‘San Jose to tackle this formidable task it has{ship—is broken in spirit. countea 7000 Jap dead. It estimates the total Jap uu. a casua/sles in that ume at 20,000. 80, while Hayashi HER ONCE proud carriage seems Well, I ES 1d es 20 forward and see though never peautifal ae aged how it was with the guys who do the dirty work. far beyond its 3 Joa. Je We set out up Highway 5, turned into a side road |®%® Edda Mussolini Ciano is a wrec newly gouged by bulldozers, and dropped in first at|Of Der imposing self. 4 vam the command post of Col. Victor L. Johnson Jr., a commanding officer of the 161st infantry. little Swiss mountain village not far from Lake Geneva. She is under continual care of a
By CURT RIESS Times Foreign Correspondent
PARIS, May 28.—There no
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum =a:
FRANK GAINES, buyer for Ayres’ shoe depart= ment, takes a personal interest in the Chicago White Sox, who recently were in first place. in the American league race, Mr. Gaines, a baseball enthusiast, furnished the shoes for the team, I'm told, and he attributes the team's success to the shoes he sold them. Persons walking past . the candy and tobacco stand on the west side "of the main lobby in thé& statehouse usually are startled to observe a glass case lined with cigaret.packages—all Chesterfields. It's a .big let-down to discover "they're all dummy packages. Says Roy Lanham, the blind proprietor: “I thought I'd put them there s0 people wouldn't forget what they look like.” . . , Ruth Kimmel, Fairland, Ind, R. R. 1, writes in to ask a question on early Indianapolis. She wants to know where 22d and Illinois, back in 1892; would be located row, in view of the subsequent change in the manner
of numbering. I checked the public library reference -
department, and they say that 22d and Illinois in 1892 would have been in the middle of a woods. The city directory: for that date showed Illinois st. extending only to 12th st. That would be pretty
close to the present 22d and Illinois; since 16th now '
is located about where Seventh st. was then. I hope that’s right. Every time 1 get into a historical gubject, someone - trips me up. For instance, I'm told now that I was wrong the other day when I said the old Alhambra fheater was where Stewart's book shop now is located-—that it really was on Washington east of Illinois—about where Thompson's is located.
Perpetual Concussion
MRS. MARY B. M'NUTT read about the woodnecker that's been making life miserable for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Irmiter, awakening them daily at 8 a. m, and she can sympathize with them, She had the same trouble last year, only the pesky birds started in at daylight. Nothing she could do discouraged them. She says she learned they were flickers—a large species of woodpecker—and that they were after debris in the roof gutter. She has kept the guttering clean this year, and hasn't been bothered by the birds. . . . Frank Wallace, the state entomologist, has a different idea. Frank has made a study of woodpeckers for years. His theory—and he says he can prove it—is that the woodpecker
World of Science
TO THE M-50, the American magnesium bomb patterned after those first used by the British amd Nazi air forces, the chemical warfare service has added three other incendiaries developed country since Pearl Harbor. These, along with the
M-50, are now turning Japanese industries into seas of flame. First of the three is the M-69, six-pound jellied gasoline bomb which, in the words of Maj, Gen, William N. Porter, chief of the chemical warfare service, works like a miniature flame thrower; The bomb, 19 inches in length, resembles a piece of hexagonal steel pipe. The incendiary charge is jellied gasoline, about three pounds of which are contained in a cheesecloth sock in the center of the steel casing. Folded into a depression in the tail of the casing are four lengths of green, mildewproof cotton gauze, 40 inches long and three inches wide. As the bomb falls toward the target, these streamers break free and act as a drag to slow down the fall of the bomb.
The idea is to have the bomb fall with sufficient speed to crash through an ordinary roof but not with enough force to bury itself or smash its mechanism.
Delmyed Action Fuse
AFTER THE BOMB lands, a delayed action fuse starts a mechanism which sets off a charge of hlack powder, causing the jelled gasoline to be expelled as & sheet of flame for a distance of 25 yards. The casing of the M-69, which was developed by Scientists of the Standard Oil Development Co. of
My D HYDE PARK, Sunday.—I have a letter from a friend which says: “I am seriously disturbed by the
rising tide of criticism about our two chief allies in the war, Rugsia and Great Britain.”
This Jetser points up something which a number of people seem to feel, for I have read editorials on the subject of the amount of common gossip which one can hear in almost any gathering ‘of people today. Frequently it is said that this type: of gossip is started deliberately as enemy propaganda, and anyone who is familiar with “Tokyo Rose” in the Pacific knows that many rumors stat {rom her broadcasts, I suppose there are people in ‘this country still working for Nazi and Pasclst interests deliberately. In addition, however, there are; #4 great many people who, without
in this
. knowing it, are working against the future peace of
the world. These are the people ‘who are motivated arily by fear. ; They are afraid that their statesmen are not going to be equal to dealing with the statesmen of foreign nations on an equal basis, ; are
that
She is pledged to the. Swiss gov=
| ernment not to give interviews or hammers away just to hear his head roar, or at least | receive publicity. because he likes the noise. That's why he so often "on picks tin roots md iin for his internal ham- HER CHILDREN are living with mering. The birds work up a ‘regular route, and . ; Ni move along it at the same time each day. Frank friends and now Speak Pie S¥iss cites the case of a telephone company which com- | German. . plained that woodpeckers were “ruining” a 15-mile| They visit her occasionally. stretch of poles. “Tighten the poles so they don't| I was -present on one such ocvibrate,” advised Frank, “and see what happens.” | casion. : The company tightened guy wires and cross arms, | -Ii--was obvious that she misses and the disappointed birds quit bothering the poles. | them greatly, but recognizes the inFrank says that if you'll watch a woodpecker, you'll |advisability of having them stay at see him hammer a while, then cock his head and |the sanatorium. listen to the vibrations, then hammer and listen 3.8 4 some more. When you get right down to it, you can’t IN A series of informal talks over expect a woodpecker to show much sense. How |geveral days I found Edda torn becould it, when it's always giving itself concussion rain? of the brain; she apparently worshipped unreaThey're Back Again soningly, and love for her late husA NEW CHAIN letter has made its appeararce in town. It looks like those things just never will die out. This one, which professes to have made the rounds in Hollywood, is a little different from [knowledge that Ciano had many most. ‘Along with the letter you receive a 25-cent|mistresses. He lived with one of war stamp. The letter directs you to send.similar|them as late as the spring of 1943] letters and war stamps to each of 10 friends, ask-|in a specially built apartment at| ing each of them todo the same thing. You take|the Porta San Sebastiano corner | an immediate loss of $2.25. You're also &asked to|of the Via Appia. send two _25-cent war stamps to the person whose name is at the head of the list of five on the letter. In-the one referred to, Harpo Marx heads the list. yi - If everything worked out. fine and no "one broke the to have had several lovers, includ : i ot ing the son of Hihgarian Regent| chain, it would be possible for you to get back Horthy and one of Goering's ad- | $55,550. ‘But the odds are that all you'll get will jutants be the original 25-cent stamp. Like all such letters, Now, 1 however, she appears to this one pretends to have governmental approval. That's not true. Anything of .this nature is a viola- have 3 COnSUIINE poste! rmoriem love tion of postal regulations—regardless how many war 4 8» stamps it sells. ... The Ravenswood Clatter, pub- . ; ; lished weekly by the community's Boys’ club, is the SHE READS every newspaper “Inside Indianapolis of Ravenswood.” Here's ashe can Iay her hands on, sd has sample:” “Our up and coming (volunteer) fire de- Frequent fits Jof separ Se 8 partment has gained quite a reputation. Last Friday finds. herself “unjustly Jeriyicize ) the shrill shriek of the fire whistle brought the 3 3s her firm contention Viet she curious populace out of their houses #hd anxiously never had knowledge. of or interest down the street to the box at Pop's garage. Everyone "i siTslts of siete, and thai her was breathless as the Teceiver was lifted off the | US and, even a3 foreign minis oh hook. (The telephone is connected to the siren and Was 8 .puppei who had to do What when someone phones the fire department number, he was. told. the siren automatically starts ringing to call the firemen.) At the other end, a voice drawled out, ‘This is long distance from Gaw-gia’' (Georgia) The fire truck didn't go.”
geance. Before the Fascist debacle, over a | | period of years, it was common |
» ” 2 EDDA, for her Jpart, was known |
n » n WHEN Edda entered Switzerland in company of Marchese Pucci, a "| friend of Ciano’'s from Florence,
seemed unusually fat. From this they concluded, and published, that she was bearing a | child of Pucci’s. The truth, as she told it to me
By David Dietz
Bayway, N. J., is'a complex affair made of steel, brass, | aluminum, copper, cloth and plastic materials, | person a series of diaries Kept by Black powder is used in the fuse of the bombs as| Count Ciano since 1939, which her well as in the detonating charge, which expells the husband had sent to her by Pucci burning jellied gasoline, Gen. Porter states that more than 100 commercial firms have been turning out these casings during the last two years. Among the plants which converted to this job were former manufacturers of cook stoves, silyerware, farming tools, beds, tin cans, die castings, . By JOAN YOUNGER automobile parts, refrigerators, luggage, bicycles,| « United Press Staff Correspondent bandages and tea packages. NEW YORK, May 28—The post-
y | war model will be the Reason for Shortages Se 15 the
. pre-war model, but take it from IN "THAT list you find an explanation of civilian | t ‘the pl d shortages as well as the proof that American industry | ** exper e planned production could convert to total warfare in a way that the in babies is terrific. totalitarian braggards never expected when they pro-| “The 25 per cent slump in United Yoked wis SOUR to war. 5 | States birth rate due to men overK e magnesium bombs, the M-69's are! seas has not come off—and it’s not
now packed in aimable clusters, Each 500-pound unit contains 38 of the M-69's. going to now,” Irene Parrott, editor
It is now disclosed that one of the first uses of the of Baby Talk magazine, said today M-69 was.in February, 1944, when the army air forces| ast years destroyed the Japanese supply base at Ponape in the | babies surprised most calculators— Caroline islands west of Truk. | but every sign points to this year's After repeated raids with high explosives, the at- |PeINg as good, if not better.” tack with fire was begun on Feb. 19 with the roping | Miss Parrott said many of this!
~~of 840 M-69's along with 570 general purpose bombs. | Year's babies would be “returnee”
Three days later, the Japanese warehouses were showered with 5264 of the M-69's and went up in a sea of flames that covered the entire southern water front of Ponape. Three hundred buildings were de-!
longer is any glamour about:
band, victim of her father's ven- | | for treason.
newspapermen noticed that she]
crop of 3,000,000 |
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MONDAY, MAY 28, 1945
. By Curt Riess.
Xk Shiivalsn Wreck
Before Benito. Mussolini, fleeing award Switzerland, was killed by Italian partisans, Curt Riess, Times foreigh correspondent, had a series of conversations with his daughter, Edda Ciano, in her unpublicized retreat in a little Swiss town. They talked about Mussolini, about her late husband—executed by order of her father— and about their parts in world war Il. This and a second story now are released from restrictions imposed at that time by Countess Ciano,
“,..1 found Edda (center) torn between love of her late father (right) whom she apparently worshipped unreasoningly, and love for her late husband (left) victim of her father’s vengeance.”
| THE children were sent on-ghead, on December 12, 1943. She declined to leave Italy because she hoped to help Ciano in connection with his summary trial |
tween love of her late father, whom |
When the hearings began she was living in an undisclosed village
| near the Swiss border. i:
| A few hours later Pucci arrived | with the diaries and a message! from Ciano. “I wish that you immediately go to Switzerland. I know I am lost | and you can’t help me. My last { wish is that you publish these di- | aries. They will tell the world | about the entire guilt of the Nazis {and of many of our Fascists, and | that they must be blamed for bringing about the war against which 1 struggled in vain.” » 8 ”
same evening. After glancing through the diaries and determining their con-
I| tent, the countess sen¥ Pucel Back
to Italy with instructions to tell the Fascists, and perhaps her father and Nazi higher-ups, that she would ‘return the diaries if Ciano were permitted to go to Switzerland. Otherwise, she warned, she would publish the compromising documents. " ” ” WHEN Pucci passed on her message, he was seized by the gestapo, {and she was informed that he would be killed unless she turned over the diaries. This failed to move her.
.| . Pucci was tortured “horribly,” but is that she had concealed on her|
| eventually he escaped and returned | to Switzerland, a broken man.
EDDA and Pucci entered Switz-| are living in luxury: erland without much difficulty that! former Fascist ambassador to Ber-
WHETHER wilfully or otherwise,| physician told me.
Edda refuses to recognize openly that it was her father who delib-
erately . doomed her husband. She blames Marshal Badoglio and the | kin g. “They all betrayed him (Ciano). ‘After the fall of my father,” she ys, “my husband demanded from Badoglio passports for himself and his family. Badoglio declared that the king didn’t wish our departure. “Ciano consented to stay because the king assured’ him through Badoglio of ‘royal protection. Of course, all of them lied. “I believe” y that Badoglio and the fing: were conspiring with
the fascist people in an undercover way to get rid of my hus-| band.” » " . refugees in Switzerland |
Dino Allieri,
MANY
lin and one-time minister of pros paganda; Count Volpi, former minister of finance; Badoglio’s daugh-ter-in-law. These and others like them live in the most elegant hotels in Switz erland and scandalize the natives with their profligate spending and champagne drinking. This has embarrassed the government which admitted them on condition that they must behave with dignity.
BUT Eada, once so gay, appears in public. She sits in her sanitorium and worries about how to be loyal at the same time to her two loves: her late husband and the now dead
never
father who ordered her husband's death. i
i By that time Ciano already was] .| dead.
children.
|growing pains of their ‘last leave’ babies. They're in a hurry to have a second child. They think having babies is a snap when all they | | see is the finished product,” she said. ’ She added that judging from the |
than willing — that the trend is against “the only child family.” Other reasons for the nation’s high birthrate, Miss Parrott said, were such things as the Bove | ment, allotment—approximately $ {a month extra for each child, a lvate and public hospitalization
Up Front With Mauldin
stroyed in that one day. Superfortresses stepped up the use of M-69's:in February, 1945, dropping 364 tons of them on Kobe, | along with a new fragmentation bombs. On Feb. 25 | Tokyo got a preliminary dose of these bombs.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
{ | | “They are afraid of Russia, and therefore:feel that |
Germany must not be too weak; or they are afraid | of Great Britain and believe that we must curtail her prosperity in any way possible, Fear is the chief word in their vocabulary.
These are the people who pass on any disparaging things they may hear about other .peoples or other governments before they really investigate to find out whether these things are true; and, if so, whether there Is a reason why they are true. I remember the indignation with which someone wrote to me that on D-day our ships, operating against the Nazis in France, were charged for docking facilities in a British port. On investigation I found that our ships were paying, just as every other ship paid, a small sum of money for docking privileges, and these funds were used to keep the port going. Had we not paid, we would not have been doing our share. This is common practice throughout thé world, and we expect others to do the same, 1 think the only assurance we have that in the future we can hope for a chance to build peace les in our own sense, of confidence in ourselves, We may differ with our allies. We have in the If we live up to our word once given, however. ‘will leadsothers to trust in our Sirength; dcausé by men of ond ‘will, with
love In
“If there ever was an Oedipus| complex, Edda Ciano has it,” her |
Stork Expected to Stay On War Production Basis
and “30-day furlough” babies, with | plans, and better maternity care some centers, Miss Parrott believes a high proportion of them second |
all round.
“Then there's the strange fact | cerned, break-ups in war marriages
“A lot of men missed out on the | that having babies is fashionable | will be offset by “the hungry girls,
inow,” Miss Parrott said. “Movie stars are having them. Glamor girls | are having them. “Stores are designing fancy ex- | pectant clothes. And so the atti-| | tude changes—and it's considered | [fun to have babies. You could al- |
{ As for the divorce rate, now| | higher than the marriage rate in
{ing on. But the Nazis forced him
“Never was a daughter more in love with her father than she was with him. ” » 2 “AND THIS is at the base of all her nervousness, unhappiness, hysterics and collapses. She is torn] between father and husband. “Being loyal to one means being disloyal to thé other. And in spite of the record which speaks so clearly against Mussolini, Edda cannot give up her father.” In fact, only a few days before I| talked with Edda she had declined to answer her father's message begging her pardon. for not having saved her husband. :
q..2 8 MUSSOLINI had ignored Edda’s| plea for Ciano’s life. Then, too late, he sent a monk. with a letter that Edda refused to open. When II Duce sent the monk back again, Edda read the note but made no reply. Mussolini's third attempt was just before my visit and -it, too,| Edda ignored.
But she had a nervous breakdown
in April, 1945, shortly before her father’s violent death. # = » WHEN 1 inquired Whether Mussolini had asked her to intervene for his admission into Switzerland she shook her head and began to cry. It is my feeling that she was not so much saying “No” as declining to discuss the matter at all. “My father was very tired,” she volunteered, “and knew that the axis had lost. Only a few weeks after my husband's death he himself wanted to retire. He told the Nazis that there was no use go-
to continue.”
NEXT: Ciano's Diaries: L
that as far as baby-having is con-
the aging girls—and the returnees
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Labor Dubinsky Sees No Unity in Labor Soon
By ‘FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staft Writer
NEW YORK, May 28.—David Dubinsky, the dynamic leader of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, ‘say the main obstacle to an early organic utiity between the A.'F, of L. and the C.'1. O. 1s bureacracy. Mr. Dubinsky, bouncing around from excess energy, says the chances of organic labor unity are “very slim” right now, and “probably for a long time to come.” He ought to know. He helped John L. Lewis found the C. 1. O., and then retired from that “organizati®¥ Now. he is back in the A. F. of L., after a period of non-affiliation. . In the late '30’s when the C. I O. was still young, he thought there was a good chance to reunite the two big segments of American labor,.and he worked toward that end-but he thinks efforts now are pretty useless, » n » > 2 : “IT IS no longer a question of differences as to industrial trade unionism versus craft unionism,” he said. “Many unions within the A. F. of L. are industrial unions while the C. I. O. contains several important craft unions. “As it has grown older, the C. I. O. has developed what may be called an organizational status quo and its officers have developed .a vested interest in the posts they hold. “A merger would serve greatly: to disturb this vested interest if not to dislodge it, and this would primarily affect, in my judgment, the Communist-controlled unions in the C. 1. 0.” Mr. Dubinsky disagrees on the Communist-collaboration question with the head of the.other big union “in the ‘needle trades"”— Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
- and chairman of the C1. O. Po-
litical Action Committee, But Mr. Dubinsky believes in political action by labor unions within the framework of. the American system. He is a leader in the liberal party of New York state, while Mr. Hillman is state chairman of the American Labor Party, which its foes label as
completely Communist-dominated.
” » » “THE FUTURE of our country,
‘as thé world’s leading democra-
cy,” Mr. Dubinsky said, “will depend to a large extent upon the alignment of labor and liberal forces. I believe liberals and progressives will have to acquire a better understanding of labor— and this need for a better understanding goes for labor t,oo. “Whether we desire it or not, a clash between liberal and antiliberal forces in our national and state politics is nearing a showdown. In the Republican party it has already resulted in silencing all truly liberal elements.”
who have been dreaming about a| home for so long they'll settle for the first girl they meet.” “The only slump in the U. S|
birth rate that you can possibly]
enyisage right now is the slump]
letters from mothers, they are more | most call it a fad at the moment. "| that may come if we have a de-
| pression,” she said. “And that | looks like it's a long’ way oft.”
WOUNDED HOME OR | ON DUTY BY JULY 10
LONDON, May 28 (U. P.).—The
| |atmy plans to have the last wound-
|ed American soldier eitheéf home or {back on duty by July 10, Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, chief surgeon for the European theater,
that there were less than’ 100,000] American soldiers left "fri European | hospitals. Hawley said a total of 1,375,000 battle casualties were treated in European theater hospitals. Figures for 375,000 of these showed that 13,000 died and 220,000 were returned to service; The battle casualty death rate in this war so.far was 39 per cent
world war I, he said.
its radio operator can call the nearest ship for rescue.
RELEASED G.I. TO Miss.
Only three of his nine children
| counted. in his 144-point total, but
they were more than S. Sgt. Sam
to leave the army after nine years
of ry e and 52 months overseas.
“The only thing I'll miss in civile|
{ian life is that $346 a month in al{lotments and pay,” Rios said. He
was mustered out of the army yes-
|terday under the point system for
said in a radio speech last night!
compared with the 8 per cent of}
The London Daily - Mail reported | | today that a chain of ships will be| {strung across the Atlantic beneath | ‘planes carrying troops home from Europe. If a plane is forced down, |
FAMILY ALLOTMENT
1.08 ANGELES, May 28 (U. P.).—|
Rios, 41, Fort Worth, Tex, needed |
‘ARMY PROBES ELECTION,
ATLANTA, Ga. May 28 (U. P).
{aT army today conducted an inin connection with a) student body election at Atlanta's |
vestigation
North Fulton high school. The mil- | itary wants to know why a low-fly-ing B-29 “bombed” the school with campaign literature, plugging certain candidates.
* HANNAH §
We, the Women Wives Have Their Own Bill of Rights
By RUTH MILLETT
A GROUP of soldiers in Europe got together and drew up their own G. IL bill of rights—whick they figured would make married life entirely different from the army where “we can't go to tows without a pass, can't refuse to work, can't quit our job, have to stand in line for chow,” ete.
Their bill of rights—printed in “Yank” «= listed such things as “No standing in line. for .anything. To invite the boys over at least once a week, if so desired Nothing to do with the kitchen, To wear the pants in the family.” n » » IF THE war wife made out her own bill of rights, it would probably go something like this: 1. Never to put the car in the garage at night. 2. To have her cigarets lighted for her occasionally. 3. To go out to dinner (where there is dancing) at least onee a week. 4 Never to have anything to do with the car—except 0 drive it. 5. To give her husband full responsibility for keeping the lawn mowed, putting on storm win. dows, dealing with the plumber, electrician, and collector of internal revenue. 6. Never to set a mouse trap. 7. Never to mix drinks for guests. . 8. Neyer to lock up the house at night, or get up when a storm breaks to close windows, 9. Never to make her own train reservations. : ; 110. Never .to shove arouffd-any piece of furniture heavier than i