Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1945 — Page 7

€ATURDAY, JUNE 2 2, 1945

Hoosier Reporter

WITH THE 25TH DIVISION AT BALETE PASS, Luzon (BY Wireless) —Several of us decided to drive to the crest of Balete pass, which the division had “secured” two days earlier, Uh huh, We jeeped along highivay 5, high above the little Digdig river. Clouds obscured the mountain crests and veils of mist cling to the gulleys.. There was considerable traffic, and the roadsides were clottéd here and there with groups of soldiers or Filipino guerrillas and laborers. “Command posts and other bivouacs dotted the slopes and ridges, a surprising lot of them. At. times we would drive perhaps a hundred yards without seeing anybody, and rd find myself watching for snipers, but ground the ‘next turn there would be a platoon of infantry or hall a ‘hundred Filipino carriers or a bulldozer. We paused at a roadside aid station of the. first battalion, 35th regiment, and passed the time of dav with Capt. Demetrius Traggis of New London, Conn., in charge of the station, and Capt. Wallace Stark of Oklahoma City, a chaplain who must have “ mislaig" his razor. Further on the mud got Jeep so we left the jeep and walked.

Rudely Interrupted JIM HUTCHESON of the A. P. went ahead while T stopped to talk with a bunch of soldiers squatting at the foot of a steep hill, awaiting an order to move forward. A brigadier general came down the road and the soldiers were curious about him so I' accosted him and. he turned out to hé Gen. James F. Collins of the 1st corps-artillery. 1 rejoined the squatting: soldiers, and was putting down some of their names-~T Sgt. Joseph Elmo, New Haven, Conn, and Cpl. Harold Exbert of Chetek,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PETE RUDEN and H. Burch Nunley of the OPA price division were driving home from a meeting in Anderson Thuysday evening, the night of the Ft. Harrison prison break, when they saw a red glow in the sky ahead of them. “Fire somewhere,” opined Pete. “Yes, replied Burch, “must be Sunhyside sapatorium. Step on the gas. They'll be needing help.” Pretty soon they drew near the sanatorium and saw the fire wasn't there. Just then they ‘heard the rattle of machine gun fire and saw tracer brllets lighting a path. “Unh, unh,” .ejaculated Burch, “that's not the sanatorium, and wherever it is, they dont need us Let's get along home.” And they did. . . . Speaking of OPA, Mrs, z Jim Strickland, wife of the OPA slategdirector, had an embarrassing experience the other day. Like most wives, she doesn't attempt to keep up with all the details of her husband's business affairs. A week ago she wanted some chickens for a luncheon of the school 80 P.-T. A. of which she is president. So she phoned a well-known North Side poultry market and ordered the chickens. The proprietor said he couldn't handle the order, adding: “Sorry, but well be closed. You see, we have to appear before the OPA for a hearing on charges against us.” Just one more OPA storv: The OPA workers at Syrac! ise, Ind, have been having fun over a letter. sent to an applicant for additional gasoline for his car. The letter, signed by Board Member Edwin P. McCarty, said: “In accordance with Rule Such and Such, I confirm the action of the board in issuing to the applicant a supplemental mileage ration of 1000 miles an hour for necessary driving.” Whoa, there: what's the hurry? Or maybe Mr. Carty meant 1000 gallons a month. Speaking of Wills FRANK L. BINFORD of the D-A Lubricant Co read z recent itern in this column about a humorous will and was reminded of another will, written by a New Englander. (One of your ancestors, Frank?)

America Flies

HOW A SINGLE airplane, flying between Florida and Cuba, solved the nation's critical war nickel ghortage problem and directly enabled construction of a $33,500,000 industrial project, became known todav. It also was revealed that the plant=built on inaccessiple = Bird's Tongue ninsula, 500 miles from Havana— developed an output equivalent to 10 per cent of ‘the allies’ entire production of nickel. How important this “impossible” development proved to be can pe understood through the fact that nickel—mixed with” steel and other metals to toughen and harden them—was the second item placed under priority control after the war emergency arose. All nickel in the national stockpile: was earmarked for hardening armor® plate for ships, tanks apd plages. Also it provided nickel alloy steel for airplane, truck and bulldozer engines, locomotive equipment, railway lines. gun forgings, recoil springs, bullet jackets and innumerable other war metal products,

Developed New Method WHEN HITLER grabbed Poland, the Freeport Sulphur Co. had developed a concentration method of obtaining nickel from deposits. of low-grade ore in Cuba. It had found that nickel deposits in Cuba's Oriente province ran to about 1's per cent. By early 1042, they had developed a nickel recovery process, details of which are still a secret. Mining men regard it as one of the great metallurgical advances of the war. : They sold the war production board on the fact that 32,000,000 pounds of nickel could be yielded annually from Cuban deposits. The Defense Plant Corporation, Metals dReserve Company and Freeport Sulphur Company signed contracts under which Freeport's subsidiary, Nicaro Nickel Company, undertook

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday—Last Tuesday evening Postmaster General Frank Walker, who had consented to speak at the first Memorial day services at my hysband’s gravé, held under the auspices of the Franklih D. Roosevelt Home club, came to Hyde Park with Mrs. Walker* to spend the night with me. Maj. Henry 8S. Hooker also che up for the night, and on Wednes! dgy morning we all went over to the garden where a little less than a month and a half ago we had together attérided my hus“band’s ' funeral. The people, were gathered all arotd the simare grass plot, and several very. beautiful wreaths had ‘been sent. The grave itself was covered with our own flowers from the . pace. as my husband would have wished. The ceremonies were broadcast, and therefore many of you know that it was a sunny, beautiful day and that . the service ‘was simple and in’ keeping with what my Husband Hked on Memorial day, The postmaster ‘general made a most Moving “speech, a speech which came from his heart. I Am sure that he wondered Selorehand whe |

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: By Lee G Miller POLITICS MAY

above ‘us, and Miller hit the dirt. I finished scrawling |. Chetek while flat on my belly among assorted soldiers and Igorot laborers, huddling elose to a cliff. Nobody gol hush, although several more shells printers used to enjoy handing a- greenhorn a slug | : Tito's Army, fresh from a linotype and laugh when he would drop the hot metal. Maybe that's what this soldier had | By JAMES ROPER in mind with nis fragment, for it was still hot. But 1! United Press Staff Correspondent | the fragment had originally hit me instead of the! fed political differences as well as) hithway. | hungry stomachs. { The commanding officer of the 35th regiment came | The archbishop of Tireste, An- | along during the shelling. He was Col. Stanley ‘R. | tonto Santin, asked Catholic.church |

Wis. Well, anyway, it looks like Chetek in my notes. (Editor's note—that's.the correct name, Miller.) ‘The : trouble is,»when 1 was halfway. through writing the 1 name of the town, a Jap shell landed on the hill | | TR ¢ came Over, Spoiled His r "un : Yugostavs Feel Shipments A SOLDIER handed me a shell fragment he had By British Reflect on picked up a few feet. away. I rémember how the | : spoiled his fun by fingering it the way a printer does! TRIESTE, June 2-—Butter sold} hot type and it's no trouble if you keep moving for $75 a pound here today, but an your fingers fast. | appeal was made to stop food shipOf course it might have been_ hard to handle if ments from Milan because they] (Swede) Larsen, 29, whose wife lives in Talladega, officials in Milan not to send any! Ala. Sony more food to this city, where long A soldier moved back a lines stretch in front of every | from the brass,” he sald with a bearded grin butcher and grocery store. i

little. “Let me get away |

The colonel laughed and said the Japs did't usu-! He said the Yugoslavs felt the] ally fire when he was ground, food shipments were being used as | I can't say the same for myself, although the day an Anglo-American weapon to show before the Japs did wait until after I'd lett the third that Marshal. Tito’s army could not battalion command post of the 161st régiment be- feed the city properly. The Yugofore throwing in artillery that wounded one man. slavs were said to be offended parS. sgt. Ernest Petteway of Kinston, N. C,, came ticularly by the way the B. B. C along, and Cpl. Nestor Paquette of Dracut, Mass had reported the food shipments. And we had a lot of talk about the new point sy stem | Rations Missing for getting oul of uniform. Iv was said that 240 tons of milk, | Some of these boys sounded skeptical about poms. flour, rice and lats already Some hadn't even agded up they Score Thevd arrived from Milan and another 600 rathéf go home ‘on “temporary duty" and fret tons were on the way. about pointe later, | The archbishop and the Yugo- | <lavs had an argument about how! this food was to be distributed. However, it will go on sale today in 400 shops at the same price it cost in Milan. The lines in front of food stores here have .been increasing. The markets have lettuce, chertjes, onions and turnips in the mornings, but usually they are sold out| by ‘noon. Individual Italian- citizens elaim they are not getting the official bread ration of. 150 grams a day. -

Blame British Yugoslav sources blame that on the British. * They claim that the! grain for Triéste’s bread always was milled at British- coritrolled mills west of the Isonzo river. Now, the Yugoslavs assert, the British won't! let the mills handle any of the grain on the grounds they are busy taking! care of needs of civilians in the} | British occupied territory west ot {the Isonzo, Allied soldiers walking: on the | streets in Trieste are almost sure to | be. stopped by well-dressed Italian | citizens willing to pay black market | prices for food. There is a tremeéndous demand for sugar, canned meat, and fats, If the stacks of lire offered by the! would-be buyers fail, then they usually try the tack that they have a cousin in Chicago or a nephew in| New York, hoping to win sympathy that way.

This will is dated July 13, 1687, and Frank has it. It follows: “1 give and bequeath unto mv wife Rebecca, one feather béd, one cow and the great chest that she calls hers, and all her wearing clothes, both linen and woolen, besides the ‘bed and bedding she brought with her.’ The Union Title News recalls that in a remonstrance to the opening of Meridian st, from 21st st. to Fall Creek, filed in 1873 by the heirs of an carly citizen, it was stared that the. new road would serve land “not suitable for residence purposes and | liable to overflow, and only suitable for farming pur- | poses.” Also the remonstrance declared, there was “not a single house along said proposed highway and Sthat it would be-of no:-more public use and. benefit than—a fifth wheel to the city road roller.” . Note to the park department, ‘or ‘maybe-to the street department: One-of my agents reports that there's an ne overed manhole In Brookside park It's eight et deep and a hazard to the life and limb of both fe fidren and adults i agent_said the lid was missing last Sunday and still. missing Memorial day. He | described it as-being pe the rear of the tennis courts, nedr -a bridge.

J.B. Wants His Shoes TALK ABOUT FATE! Mrs. J. B. Lanagan phoned her husband (he other day and sadly informed him she had lost the family ration books. Ten minutes later Avres' phoned and informed Mr. Lanagan the shoes he had ordered—and had beenr waiting for so lon:ig--finallv had arrived. He's waiting now for OPA to issue new books so he can ‘pick up his shoes. . . Outdoor. Indiana, the state conservation department publication, suggests that every lover of the great outdoors help the fish and game program by buying a hunting and fishing license “whether you use it or They call it a “conservation” license. Receipts from the sale of such licenses declined one-third dur- | ing the first three months this year. . This decline is alarming in view of the fact .the fish and game | program, including propagation and control, is pri-| marily dependent upon revenue from license sales When you think of it as a conservation license, ft doesn't seem out of place to buy a licénse even when vou're not going to use it, It's just a $1.50 contributien to the conservation program.

MAJ. PUTNAM TO WED MICHIGAN CITY GIAL

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June 2|

nam, former Earhart, famous woman flier miss- | ing on a Pacific flight since 1937, | will marry Margaret Haviland | {June 10. . Maj. Putman, who participated | in the first B-29 raids against the | Japanese from Chinese bases, Tecently returned to the U, 8S. The wedding will take place | San Marino, Cal, where

By Max B. Cook

to design, build and operate a Cuban plant capable | of treating 3600 tons of ore a day. But 500 miles of submarine-infested water lay be- Haviland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | tween -jungle-bound Nicaro and Florida. Shipments Ww, ©. Haviland of Michigan City, had to wait for convoys sometimes as long as three is serving with the mobile service weeks the USO.

FIFTH VESPER SERVICE TO BE HELD AT HOWE

The Rev. Edward C. McCance,| assistant pastor of the Irvington! { Preshyterian church, will speak on| “The Two Alternatives of Life" | lat the fifth. annual vesper service of Howe’ high school at 3:30 p. m.

division of Seven Trips a Week THEN IT was that the airplahe—a Martin PBM-3 was offered by navy. It cut the trip to the plant site to three weeks. Three days a week the gull- | winged PBM-3 landed .with a load of metal rushed by air. It flew in blueprints. It carried high priority | technicians curled up on crates of tools. It brought in laboratory equipment, even kegs ef mails. A con-| struction crew that topped 8000 went to work. When the first rainy season approached, the heat | was turned on to finish the 10-mile-long mine-to-plant railroad. The plane made seven round trips a week. One flight brought in emergency-supply railroad spikes that Kept the crews working when will be made by the Rev. Leo o.| water-borne consignments failed t6 arrive. Ten Taylor, ef the United Christian | thousand pounds of tires were flown In for trucks Missionary Society. Frank wat- | and bulldozers. kins: will direct the choir. ° Return trips carried homeward-bound technical : exports. In‘all, the plane flew 260 round trips between its first flight in September, 1942, and January, 1945. It carried 3,700,000 pounds of material and hundreds of passengers. Company officials say | day on the docks of thé Huber & use of the plane enabled them to get the plant with | Huber Motor Express Co. 721 E, 1800 employees into production at least three months | 11th st., where he worked as night | earlier than would have beén possible without alr | watchman. His body was taken to | borne- handling of important materials and men. In the Usher 1 mortuary, production value this three months was equivalent Reimann title to millions of pounds of nickel. Military secrecy prevents publication of the real vital part nickel has been playing in aiding America | to attain air supremacy. When that story is told, the fremendous job done by this single airplane will prove to be one of the high points of accomplish« ment of the “impossible” in the war.

{Howe will read the scripture. | The band will be directed: by Robert H. Burford and the invocation |

WATCHMAN FOUND DEAD

George Cashman, 70, of 536 N. | Gray st, was found dead early to-!

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY { Times Staff Writer

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Pyle Fund Honors That Girl

Miss | announced that he invitations to Mrs. of Albuquerque,

| Washington st. about 1 a. m.

1 557,000 domestic

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UAW Drives

REPORT OF RED | Fo Fcc ime

§ former Nazis for every

The late Ernie Pyle and “That Girl”

MRS. ERNIE PYLE, wife of the late war correspondent, cepted the honorary chairmanship of the Ernie Pvle Memorial Fund at Indiana university. Mrs. Pyle. whom Ernie referred to in his columns as “that girl” wired President Hermaa B Wells at I. U. that she considered it a great honor to be associated with a memorial fund which will be used to train journalism students. James S. Adams of New York City is national chairman of the fund which will be administered »

has ac-

Governor Gates Sets July 6

by the Indiana University. Foundation: Others who have accepted posts for the memorial are George J.

the war activities committee of the motion picture industry, and Vietor-L. Mays, New York, clasgmate of Ernie Pyle. When the memorial fund complete, veterans 0f this war will be added to the committee. For several vears the scholarships in journalism which will be offered will be awarded to veterans.

Apart As Ernie Pyle Day

July 6 will be RBrnie Pyle day in

Indiana.

In an official proclamation, Govjornor Gates today called on Hoo-|

ernor John J. Mexico to attend the premiere. In his proclamation, Governor

Gates said:

“The state of Indiana and par-

DEATH EDICTS

Grew “Says * Analysis Can’ t

—The “Joseph United States could not quate Russian Germans in Berlin resentatives Soviet-occupied German

an Brewstetr sians are

Be Made Until Americans Go to Berlin.

June ‘2 (U, P).| of State today the “adereports of | the! rep- | are admitted the | capital { to confirm ‘or deny Senator Owen that the Rustop German

WASHINGTON, acting Secretary C. Grew, said give consideration” to : against U. 8 to

vengeance

until

He declined assertion ny (R: Me) “liounidating”

professional men fn an attempt 10

is |

communize

f cil | satisfactory.”

Germany 16 west-

defeated Grew said the failure of t

ern allies to enter Berlin and " set

Four control machinery likewise prevented any analysis by this government, of reports that Berlin's Russian-appointed German administrators ‘would. execute 50 prov in the city.

up Big

or disorder In Near Future \ Murphy, political adviser Dwizht D. Eisenhower, conferred ‘meantime with President Truman. He said afterward that he hoped the allied control council for Germany could be established “in” the very near future.” Murphy said the for | establishment of the cont rol counwas “extremely favorable and He: said only a-lew, | details remained to be worked out | | with the Soviets. =

of arson

Robert to Gen

outlook

en case |

He said he reviewed some phases

President and intended tp return to Germany tomorrow. Murphy ar- | rived in this country yesterday:

No Agents in Berlin

V i | situation with the] Schaffer, New York, chairman of fof the German

He said’ the purpose .of his trip |

was to present to Mr.

| brief review -of the present situa-

{tion In Germany and to “ascertain.

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{ |

Dempsey of New!

| to

| siers to set aside the day when the | ticularly the city of Imdianapolis |

world premiere of Ernie Pyle’s|

“Story of ¢&. 1. Joe” will be held | {selection of a site for the

have been greatly. honored in the]

world | {Ter

here as a time to “pause to re- | premiere of the motion plcture,|

spect the memory of this well-loved | native son.’ * The governor's proclamation fol- | lowed. announcement yesterday that |

July 6 in Loew's theater here.

Entire proceeds of the event will | as Ernie Pyle day and. .

50 to the Ernie Pyle Memorial Fund | at Indiana university. The fund will provide scholarships for journalism students. Pyle was an alum-

nus of I. U.

At the same time, Governor Gates |

N. M,

late war Soneirondenk: and_ Gov-

CATCH TWO BOYS IN AUTO CHASE!

Two of four teen-aged alleged ve- | hicle thieves were caught by police | {early today after a chase through city streets. One of them, a 16-year-old boy, !

Sunday. Principal C. M. Sharp, of | had escaped from Plainfield boys’ | BA

school seven months ago, and the other, 15, was put on probation by { juvenile court yesterday for vehicle | taking. Louis Gunneman, a merchant po-

( liceman, saw thé four boys in a car { owned by Paul King, 217 E. 21st st,

and stolen from in front of 33 W. He chased the car from Pine and Michigan sts. to 18th st. and Roosevelt ave, | the auto, the boys stopped the car and ran, City police aided in the-search Bye of the boys escaped

and $3,080,676

by Lester Meredith as Ernie Pyle. has extended | premiere here, Geraldine Pyle showing of the wife-of the sponsored hy

After he fired a shot at)

‘Story of G. 1. Joe,” based on the | writings of Ernie Pyle, who went

{forth from his native Indiana and |

Indiana university to become!

(U. P.).—Maj. George Palmer Put-!the world premiere of the Pyle film, America’s B best-loved war correhusband of Amelia pased on the books of the noted spondent. Dana néwspaperman, will be held]

“Therefore, I . |that Jaly 6, 1945,

. hereby proclaim | shall be set aside . ask that

Indiana pause on that day to respect the memory of this well-loved native son.”

“Story of G. 1. Joe,

Cowan, stars

produced Burgess The world the first picture, is the Iria a UnjverClubs of Indi

mn PER CENT OF 7TH LOAN E BONDS SOLD

sity

public | being |

The state of Indiana. closed the |

{month of May with E bond sales | reaching 44 per cent of the Tth{ war loan quota for these securities, Eugene. C. Pulliam, state chairman of the war finance committee, said | | todav. Federal Reserve bank reports of bond through May . 31] showed a cumulative total for the “Mighty Seventh” push of 909,000, compared with a goal $104,000,000 to be met by June deadline for the campaign. individual sales, including E bonds stood at $67,668,000, leaving almost exactly one million to go to reach the quota, Mr. Pulliam stated

sales

HEART ATTACK FATAL Jess Hanlon, 55, of 521 wood st, died of a heart attack at Illinois and Georgia sts. today. His body was sent to the city. morgue.

nastiness Sin ——

Congress Urged to Abolish OWI's Bureau of Graphics After Friction Over Posters’

by Flagg or Disney was listed

curretnt thinking here.” Grew said that the United States | “has no representatives fun tioning in Berlin or other aretas under the control of armies. ... . “Therefora,”” he added, consideration cannot be given

“adequate

Truman a |

the Russian |

to]

~<uch questions as those raised by |

statement.” Grew

Senator Brewster's

At the same time, con-

finned that the United States has | | received a Russian note asking that!

the Big Five take “timely measures” find a solution. to the serious | strife in the Levant states: The Russian note was receivea e before Britain intervened in {the dispute and prompted a temporary halt in the haostilities between French colonial troops and Arabian irregulars.

Warns Berlin of '51-to-1 Reprisals.

. LONDON, June 2 (U. P.).—Berliners were warned today that 51 persons would pay with their lives every time arson or an act of violence against Russian occupation forces-is committed. > Dr. Arthur Werner, new lord mayor of Berlin, revealed in a radio broddcast 'ast night for the first. time that there have been disorders in. the Soviet-occupied Gernfan- capital, apparently the work of Hitler veuth members or the Werewolf underground movement. He warned that members would be seized as hostages and put to death along with the actual offender every time such a crime is committed in the future Werner added that anybody who

| knows of an intended act and does

30.1 Total |

W. Nor!

By Eleanor Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Junie 2.—A protest against congress continuing the

general eRpenges.

JOHN HERRICK, one-time news-

| With the exception of “the famed | cartoonist, Gluyas Williams, others were not widely known out- |

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office of war information bureau of paperman who has been with gOV=-| side. art circles or the advertising | graphics was received from a navy ernment agencies more than a de-| business.

department artist today by

through experiences which have taught them self of the house naval affairs com-|

control Mr. Walker is one of those steady. persons whom |

and also gréat strength.

After some of the people had left, and the first

ceremonies were complefeéd, a group of officers and | house

mittee.

ing minority member

appropriations

Rep. | | cade,

“The bureau

| formerly a, division of the office of | ed with such comments from art It was accompanied by sample | | program co- ~ordination,” people have depended upon “and will depend upon | {orms and OWI rejections, all of | | rick told the committee.

because they have depth of feeling and of sympathy, which Mr. Grant turned over to|sponsibilities expanded, and as part |

Rep, John Taber (R. N. Y.), rank-| of a reorganization through which i have had -considerable experience

the we think 'we improved the organ-| with the graphics division of OWI! committee. | jzatfon efficiency of the®branch, it,

cadets from West Point arrived to hold a simple Mr. Taber favors abolition of OWI was set up as ceremony and lay President Truman's wreath on the and thay receive suport from ‘most bureau,

grave. 80, for the second Dfies the

of his G.O.P. colleagues, except of

simple prayers weré. Rep..Everétt M.Dirksen (R. Ill), sald and taps were sounded in thie quiet garden. who returned from a ‘tour of 21 tributed facilities. »

[ was deeply appreciative of the Presideiit's thought countries and reported OWI was

and of the kindly feeling of so many others which | prompted the sending of ‘the beautiful flowers and

the attendance of so many people 8% this Memorial day service,

days, I know how much it meant in So ice for sofight by OWI. The' committee | Herrick were “The recommended the -$35,000000. ex- Rockwell,

mang of those who came. Maeterlinck,

“swell.”

“The bureau of sraphics glears hundreds of tons

and allodatks a

HE SAID t handle outdoor adceetcar ads, posters and | THE HOUSE appropriations coms the lke afd named a pool of this year than Jagt and are forced:

vertising,

but I think the past few years have put many people | Robert A, Grant (R. Ind.) member | OWI da exeoutive director

of the y 8 8 HERE is what the navy departof graphics was ment artist, whose work was rejectMr. Her-| critics as, “It's a louse,” says

“It's re-| part about the graphics division: “During the last year and a half |

.. théy planned to spread across independent | headlines of new spapers after a year or 80; the fact that they had saved of paper and rumber of con=| thousands of dollars by improving {news and publicity services. Just the opposite has proved true n » ” “WE. HAVE used more

posters |

mittee cut $7,000000 from the re arists who receive $300 each for because of red tape to fill out forms “Realizing the difficulties of transportation these | vised, -budget-approved $42,000,000 pictures. Those named’ by Mr. and requisitions which require the

Bluebird,” reminded us-that the thought . those | pended as follows: ¢

on earth is what wakens the spirit of those who

have gone &n.. Those of us who believe ‘that the domestic operations $1,297,500 and

Overseas operations 831, 135,270,

things my husband stood for must go on are glad general expenses

to feel that his spirit is awakened by the thoughts of such. multitude B people 108 “therefore

his | down his

Janfes | Flagg, Walt Disney and others.” At the request of -Rep. Rislwe (demands, OWI proposed Wigglesworth

“men like Norman | services of aboyt 15 extra people. Montgomery | | ~ “When some government agencies refused to knuckle untem to their

(R. - Mass.) (own men in. charge of lyariops gOV~ |

(list of 55 pictures purdhased wi ernment art departments, in place

Director Eimer Davis had broken inserted in the record of the hear- |of men who had been in gts ks. oot Olly pe “Mine “America's years, with preted

was by Mr

charge for preoingiish, r. Rockwell. None | ments.”

the |

to put their

not report it -to the police also will be executed

s65- PLAN' ENEMY “PLANE

STUDY AT SEYMOUR

SEYMOUR, (U, ditional was

June 2 information

50 Nazi party |

| | | |

P).—Ad-| awaited |

today after the war department an-|

nounced that Freeman army

air

field would be used to assemble cap-!

tured enemy aircraft equipment, The announcement, Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.)

and Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.), said that the base would be replaced. on

an active basis immediately The field will be a base for t!

study of mechanics of German and

Japanese arniies, ‘Stand by”

It has beetn on bas 51S for

> HANNAH <

several weeks

relayed by

_here,

Use of Plant

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Hogard Sta Writer WILLOW RUN, Mich. June 3,

—With sonfe of the grace of the ’ . more than 8000 Liberator bomb=

ers it has delivered to the army

air forces, Willow Run is grinds

“ing to a stop.

The huge bomber plant, which was puilt on a soy= bean ' field to help bring about the Ger= man sutrender and now to bring -capitula=. tion of the Japs, will cease war production at the end of June. All that's going now is the final assembly line and the testing of planes. There's something about the acres of idle work berithes in the plant, which was financed by the Defense Plants Corp. and is operated by the Ford Motor Co: You think of the 42.000 who were employed and wonder what has bes come of. those released or off to bring peronnel 10,000. .

I .

pathetie

below

n n AFTER JUNE onlv 2000 jobs

” . 30 there will -be mainly mainte= nance men, with no production whatever, The Ford Motor Ceo. savs it has no plans for Willow Run. But Henry Ford II stated May 4: “We expect to offer you people of Willow Run _jobszsomeé« where in the Detroit area.” “Leaders of the C. I. 0. United" Automobile Workers, holding a closed-shop contract at Willow Run, have campaigned for peace time use of Willow Run, partly to maintain the strength of their union.

R. J. Thomas, U. A. W. presi dent, has been on the West coast trying to - commit industrialist, Henry J. Kaiser, to. some use of the plant. z rn » =

RANK-AND-FILE workers do

not seem sc much .concerned as

do their union leaders, accorde ing to opinions obtained by this writer. : Maidi Lovely, Mt. Sterling. Ky, said she thought she would go back to teaching school in her native state as soon as Michigan unemployment benefits are exe "hausted. She said she made more than $10 a day at Willow Run, and would have to take $87 a month téaching. She said she thought most Willow Run women workers wers from the south and “most of the Kentucky school . teachers are here.” ’ William said, the army does not need more planes. We're glad the war is about over. That keeps us from being sorry at ‘losing our war jobs.”

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George Donaldson, who lives on =

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By RUTH MILLETT THE GOING from now on .in will be a little lonelier, a little ‘harder for the wife of the nian still fighting the war. * When other husbands were leaving all the time or. expecting to be called up, the war wife had plenty of company. But it ‘is bound to make her lonelier than ever to see other huspands coming home, to see one war wife after another desert the ranks when husband comes back to , And these bovs lies

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Even the start of reconversion, the granting of more gasoline to car owners, etc, will make the war wife feel more set apart. For the less people have to sacrifice the less war-minded they feel. And for every family who gets its last man honfe, the war in. a sense is over. They are free.to start living again, instead of just. planning what they will do “when the’ war Is over.” ” ” vy a" BUT THE wife of the ran still overseas is still living largely on plans, still writing Ve-mails and

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