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A G. 1. FROM Erie, Pa., was among the most enthusiastic rooters for the Indianapolis Indians in. a recent game with the Louisville Colonels, It was the game the Indians won 14-1, and the G. I. was pretty ““geornful of the Colonels’ efforts. Finally, in the eighth rr Ah inning, reports Joe Fritsch, .the . G. 1 yelled out; “Those Colonels play just like a bunch of privates.” ..+.A sign on a restaurant on W. Michigan st., amuses passersby.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum|

.* very little thought to their problems. v

It names. the restaurant as the “Garden of Eatin'”. ... A youngster employed on one of the ride devices at Riverside amuseinent park was late getting to work the other evening. When he did show up, Mrs. John Coleman, wife of the manager, asked him why he was so late, He replied with a perfect alibi: “Supper was late and I couldn't miss it because Mom had steak.” “Good enough,” said Mrs. Coleman, enviously. . . . Joseph Mescall, 1523 Marlowe, read a recent-reference here to the Casino theater. He writes in to recall that the Casino was situated on the south side of Washington between East and New Jersey sts. He adds: “It was right on the corner of the alley and the last time I looked a butcher shop occupied the site. I know because when I was a little boy I. used to go there to see Elmo Lincoln play in ‘Tarzan of the Apes.’ At that time, the admission price was 7 cents, What a price and what a man Elmo.” I hope Mr. Mescall’s right about the location. I'd hate to get in a mixup over it like I did aver the old Alhambra,

Nothing But the Truth

IF POLITICAL candidates had to undergo what candidates for Junior C. of C. offices sweated tMrough yesterday, there'd be fewer candidates, and those who did run would-be more careful of their promises. . The Jaycees are having an election June 15. Noble Biddinger and Cliff 'Campbéll are candidates for president and Kirk Yockey and Charley Ayres, for vice president, At yesterday's luncheon these four candidates were forced to submit to lie-detector tests. The lie detector, similar to that used by police, was oper-

Ghosts Come Home By Nat Barrow

THE HAGUE, June 7.—The ghosts are coming home to their polderlands and tulip fields. In a trance of dazed wonderment they stumble along like tattered ragamuffins, unkempt and weary from the nightmares behind them. Some are too weak to carry the pathetic bun-dles-they salvaged from Germany. . The bands play Holland's national anthem and the crowds cheer as lhese ghosts have not iteard Dulchmen cheer for five years. - They know they are home now, safe from Nazi beatings and torture, but still thew cannot comprehend it fully. Their minds have been dulled into apathy by ‘long, slow starvation, For these are the Dutchmen : and Dufchwomen, who defied the German occupiers of Holland; who disappeared into the Nazi lorture camps. Some were underground resistance members; some were skilled workers, kidnaped to feed the Nazis’ manpower demands.

Only a Few Are Jews

A FEW of these zombies, returning almost incredulously are Jews. But only a few. No one will know exactly how many Dutch citizens perished in Nazi crematoriums and gas chambers, merely because they happened to be Jews, for weeks yet. But the figure certainly will be appalling to judge from the handful I have just seen unloaded here. Dutch officials and the few Jewish survivors-fear that only a tiny percentage will ever return of the 105,085 Dutch Jews known by name to have been shipped from the Westbrook camp in Holland inte Germany and Poland. All these ghostly repatriates remain almost mute. They line up in silence or muffled conversation outside the train, one of the fisst to be operated in Holland for many months, and in silence they con-

A ica Fli IN LINE with recent news releases from Washington, I said Senator McCarran had withdrawn his hational airport plan. Apparently that was wrong, because Senator McCarran hasn't withdrawn his bill. He just got up and explained it one day and : didn’t press for action, and it's going to pop up again. Meanwhile, - hearings on another airport building program are being held- in the House of Representatives, Here is a condensation of some of the testimony:

Congressman Bulwinkle: “What size towns do you visualize as needing airports?” Charles Donaldson (director of airports, civil aeronautics administration): “We visualize all towns of 1000 population and over as needing airports and one airport for each 30,000 population of the suetrcpolitan areas.”

Bulwinkle: “Do you think that a town of 1000 population could raise the funds necessary to sponsor the construction of an airport?” Donaldson: “Oh, no. We feel that the state will have to furnish the sponsoring funds. The state can levy the taxes.”

How Many Airplanes?

BULWINKLE: “Now take this town of 1000 population that is too poor to raise any sponsor fund. How many airplanes do you visualize as being owned by its citizens?” Donaldson: “Our studies indicate that a town of that size would have two or three airplanes.”

Bulwinkle: “Well, how much would you spend on

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday —For a long time 1 have been concerned about cour migratory farm work21s, who move from place to place following the crops wherever there is need for their labor, I read in the paper the other day a report on conditions in some of the camps for these workers in New York state, and I must say, when I have seen some of the places in which families are expected to live, or even just the barracks where we expect the workers themselves to be housed, I am filled with shame. Now and then you see something really good, and then you find ‘contented workérs, Their .’ conyments- are appreciative, but at the same fime show surprise at : the good conditions. These workers are essential, Without them our big growers of vegetables and small fruits and other seasonal crops could not possibly operate, and yet we have given

If these workers Have children, how do these children get an education? It would really make sense if schools were organized to move with them, As it i§ now, many of these children, if they go to school at all, go sporadically for a few months here -and a and there is no continuity in what they

- didn’t. Then the barber got out his razor and began |

er had finished with the razor.

ated by Russ Chatham, former police lie detector ex-

~The

pert. The results were a bit embarrassing for the candidates. . . . Back 6n May 30, I waxed indignant in the column about an insurance salesman who scanned the newspaper casualty list, then phoned the mother of a missing airman. He suggested to her that she invest her “government insurance” in an annuity policy. The bereaved mother was outraged at the call. The item stirred interest of other insurance men, and they investigated. Yesterday, one of them brought the salesman and his boss up to this office to explain

things. The call I complained about was an isolated | VER-65 workers must retire before they can begin to draw old-age 4 But they can “freeze” their benefit rates as soon .as, plained he had’ decided to see whether families of | oo «fully insured,” they have reached 65. In order to be fully inwar dead might not appreciate information on the eq you must have earned at least $50, taxed for old-age insurance, in His salesman picked up the .... ,f-a¢ Jeast half of the calendar | from Jan. 1, 1937, to the! TWO: Divide this sum by

instance, they said, not a practice. The btss ex-|

subject of annuities. paper, looked at the casualty list, and made a call. | By accident, he chose the mother of the riissing airman instead of relatives of a soldier killed in action. He said he was so distressed over the error that he abandoned -the idea. I'm glad to hear it.

SECOND SECTION

Indianapolis Times

. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1945

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY RIGHTS . . . (Second of a Series of Articles by S. Burton Heath)

How to Draw Your Old-Age Insurance

{quarters [quarter in which your 65th birth- [number. of calendar months from

insurance.

day falls. The maximum that you:.can draw|quarter in which you are filing your fee any circumstances, kenefit application,

| monthly ; ; q 3 the size of your family, Don’t Sass the Barber joes] dress tines ;

' LYMAN HUNTER of WISH dropped in a down-|

asked if Lyman wanted his hair washed. Lyman

trimming Lyman’s sideburns. The razor was pretty:

| Few men over 65 with wives over town barbershop Tuesday to get a haircut. When he g5 have dependent unmarried chilwas almost through with the haircut, the barber | qren under 18.

o o SO THE most

dull and pulled. Wincing, Lyman asked the barber: | would be $65.40 a month,

“Don’t you ever sharpen your razor?” The barber, an-

This would be for a man who,

uo that the typical beneficiary yet can expect to draw

noyed, retorted: “Yes I shaved a man about five min-igince Jan. 1, 1937, had been em-

utes before you came in, His beard was tougher than ployed continuously in covered jobs|

yours and he didn't complain. And besides, he spent|at not less than $250 a month:

a lot of money and wasn't too stingy to have his hair |

Nobody could afford deliberately

washed.” Lyman kept his mouth shut until the bar-|to retire on $65.40 a month.

And he got out ot

But if one had small savings, or there as fast as he could. ... Speaking before the some other source of partial supKiwanis club, J. R. Townsend, president of Junior | port, a monthly check for $20, $30 or

Baseball, said he had received many ‘phone calls from $65.40 would pe a verye welcome ad-|ters, in this case through March 31, benefit now becomes HD.

people interested in the Junior Baseball movement for | ditfon-to family income.

boys, but none as hard to answer as one he received *

recently. “What I want to know.” a woman caller |

asked, “is what are you doing for girls

” o 2 AND fortunately, retire " Mr. Town- not mean quite the same in socia

send said he had to think fast. Finally, he came up, security as elsewhere.

with: “Well, nothing directly; better husbands for them.”

but we're” preparing

|-earn [not covered by social security, or in your own business, and still get the S monthly old-age insurance benefits.

flag.

They act like robots.” The terrible months and

: You can earn up to $15 a month at is $20 in covered employment.

any

IF YOU want *to ‘Compute your sume the hot food set up in a nearby warehouse, own benefit rights, or to understand improvised into a reception. hall and strung with | the computatidnr. made ‘for you at orange banners and Holland's red, white and blue the social security field office, here lis the formula: ONE: Take the total of taxed years of Nazi regimentation, always in the shadow salary reported to you by the board’s of death, filthy and often hopeless have warped them. Baltimore office in response to your They stare at the crowds milling about and at|injuiry on form OAR-T004. Add to the long board table where sit city officials of it any taxed earnings between the The Hague, armed- underground men, British Red |date shown on that report and the Cross workers and doctors, and their expressions are (beginning of the calendar quarter

Or you can | amount in employment |

those of men and women trying to untangle the in which you: consider retiring.

threads of memory. They ask no questions. They make no demon- | stration. Only automaticaliy do they rise .to the half-forgotien strains of their national song. The Nazi legacy of dulled minds and weakened bodies has reduced their emotions to the basic fun-| damentals.

Fearful of Typhus

THE DUTCH, of course, are screening them carefflilly to prevent Quislings, or post-defeat SS | undergrounders, from worming into the repatriation | camps. All are being carefully examined for epi- | demic diseases, particularly typhus, and all are. being kept under observation for three weeks. i Fearful of typhus, the doctors warn them not! to scratch bodylice bites,’no matter how irritating they may be. ¥ { Re-establishment of these Dutch citizens is not going to be easy. They are desperately: needed | to help get Holland on its feet again, but they have! got- to have their strength built-up. and. their. slave-| camp complexes wiped out. | Even in The Hague, officials do not know certainly how many political. prisoners and slave work- | ers are alive to return home. They think there are half a million, perhaps more. | They dread to think of the final accounting for deported Dutch Jews. x

in the town of 1000 population?” Donaldson: will cost between $60,000 and $70,000.” .Bulwinkle: “And what will be the upkgep of these airports?”

Donaldson: “We figure about $5000 a year.”

Washington-Created -Demand

WELL, THERE'S just about as clean-cut a picture as can be presented of the national airport

ment does! . > igives $153.88 as your average month-

Form OAR-7004 6-40 Frogral

Baltimore, M¥. the

(Jan. 1, 1937, to the beginning of the Insurance Account.

Name

L SECURITY AGENCY Soc1AL SECURITY BOARD, BUREAU OF OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE, DATE OF BIRTH

ACCOUNT NUMBER 546 |o# |é789

Please:send me a statement of the wages recorded in

Jou nw Doe

(Month) (Day) (Year) my Old-Agé and Survivors

| THREE: Divide the total of in-

{sured wages By the number

Print op Street and number [1437 Prospec 7 Ave . i) ot City and State PGRoPok?S, I. F- | sim

months, to ascertain your average monthly wage.

FOUR: For the first $50 of average monthly wage, you get $20 of monthly benefit. For each additional dollar of average monthly

If your name has been changed {; please copy your name below exactly as it appears on. that card.

Signature (Do not print) 7, Soe

that shown on your account number card,

wage you get 10 cents.

188300

Let's illustrate, thus far, before the next step. Suppose the total of covered wages wages (1) is $15,234. You have worked in covered em- ) ployment, continuously from Jan, 1,! Your wife 1937, to May 20, 1945. That is 99 Penefit goes up months (because only the full quar-|

lare counted) 8a

| Dividing $1523¢ by 99 months ly wage. For the first $50 of this, your For the remaining $103.88 your benefit is $10.39 Add-| |ing these gives $30.39. Then there

{is a further step.

FIVE: For each year in which] you earned .as much as $200 in| covered wage, you get additional | benefit.

over-65 wife.

have earned more than $200. Take 9 per cent (1 per cent for|$66.26. each covered year) of $30.39, which 2 = is $2.74, and add it to $30.39. This! makes your primary monthly, $33.13.

” IN YOUR case that $66.26 is the benefit, | limit, The rule is that no bene-

Send this form, obtainable at local social security office, to Baltimore headquarters for statement of wages.

la month. If you are married, when freezing your benefit rate right now, | reaches 65- the family|let’s take the illustration used here 50 per cent—in the|and suppose that you do not freeze illustrative case $16.57—for her. The now, but continue working for five more |

If ito

{income drops to $15 a week, averIF A WIFE of 65 or more has age, allowing for layoffs. earned for herself benefits greater| than she is entitled to: under her | AT THE end of that time your rights as a wife, she would receive/total of insured earnings has risen! | Her own larger benefit rate. If you have a dependent unmarried child. under 18, -he increases|risen the family benefit rate by 50 per monthly {cent of your rate, the same as an|$120.37. .- | This cuts your primary benefit rate} If you have one such child and Ho} 10 over-65 wife. the total is $49.70. In this case that is nine| you have two such children and no years, because already in 1945 you|gver-65 wife, or an over-65 wife and [stays at the $33.13 figure no matter fone such child, the total becomes

But the number

If you “freeze” now, your rate

how little you earn hereafter. But if, on the other hand, you {should get a $3000 job for that next |five years, after freezing, and then retire, you can ask a recomputation

|ficiary, on account of himself, hisiang build up the benefit to $38.78 a This $33.13 you can draw regard- wife and children, can draw more month. 3

less of your family status: provided | than twice his primary monthly rate you- retired from covered employ- or $85 a month, whichever is smaller. |

NEXT: Benefits available to surment paying in excess of $1499 To indicate the importance of'vivors of insured workers.

but

years, your post-war

| = n =

$19,139 of months has 159, and your average wage has dropped to

$30.83 and your family maximum | $61.66 a month.

STATEMENT OF WAGES RECORDED

FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD

IN YOUR OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE ACCOUNT

ITEM A ITEM B © ies ITEM C Total amount of wages Amount of wages recorded in your Amount of wages recorded in your account since recorded in your ac- account for the calendar year the year shown in Item B. Because of the time YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY count since January 1, |“ shown here. required to receive and record reported wages, ACCOUNT NUMBER 1937. This total in- this statement does not include any wages you cludes all wageg may have earned after the month and year shown shown in Items B and here.’ : Cc YY v 86 oly 6789 i 9 TS..] DOLLARS CTS. YEAR, DOLLARS CTS. | MONTH YEAR 2 6-1 188 | T {U5 [ols] 1348 | 17 |serr.| 19k _—

7-43

~ "FORM OAR-7014

"PLEASE READ REVERSE SIDE CAREFULLY

This form records the wages entered in your account, and will be forwarded to you on request.

Giant Plane to

‘By ROBERT N. FARR Science Service Staff Writer

WASHINGTON,

Today,

It is’ a Washington-created and sponsored project. field.

That should be enough to settle its hash. { Backstage, the politicians must have heard the! scrapings of WPA shovels, getting. another huge | batch of nioney together to be given away. The country hasn't asked for this program and does not yet know what it needs. And if the states were given the money tomorrow, know what to do with it. But neither the politicians nor the CAA to make their living in commercial aviation. govern it; they don't work in it. Hence, they're | all set to go ahead and spend every. nickel upon | which they can lay their hands, with no regard for the resuli. You ought to see the stuff that’s! flowing out of that CAA ii Washington, The CAA endorsed the McCarran bill, and it will endorse "any airport building program as long as the program is big enough. In_the hearings on the McCarran bill, the CAA admitfed that it didn’t know what naval, military and mald&es irports were to be turned back to commercial a bn after the war. Not knowing this, it didn’t w how man airports we had. Not. knowing hows many we had, it didn'y kgow how many we had :to “build. : |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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have |

‘that we are not a people who are universally able to read and write, and in a democracy those are two requisites to good citizenship. It is entirely true that | intelligence cannot be judged by whether you are able | to read and write; in many cases, this is only a ques- | tion of whether you have had the apportunity to learn. But in our country, when we find illiterate people, | it 1s an indication that as citizens we have not facea our responsibilities and tackled the difficult problem | of seeing that everyone has an opportunity for an education,

Since the war, in order to get the emergency sea- | -

June

Most Powerful Aircraft

The most powerful aircraft engine ever built is now in use on the {P-80 Shooting Star, | newest jet-propelled plane, reports S| Hall L. Hibbard, vice president and they wouldn't| hier engineer of Lockheed Air- | craft Corp. This General Electric-built engine They | is far superior to those now produced by the British and the plane | could fly rings around any Nazi | jet-propelled aircraft.

the army's

Mr. Hibbard {points out that it has been only | eight. years since the first jet engine was successfully operated by Frank Whittle in England. Many improvements may be expected when it

; . | 7—You By Maj. Al Williams wi be able to fly trom Hollywood {to Chicago in less than three hours {in a giant plane that uses gas turan airport to handle these two and a half airplanes pine engines combined with jet | propulsion. “We estimate that class I airpo¥ts | On longer trips you may fly a part lof the way at heights of 100 miles above the earth in rocket-propelled |airplanes where speed can be in- | creased greatly since air resistance is negligible, the United States leads | the world in jet propulsion, and |aeronautical engineers promise

a : A { many~big surprises when they can program fever that is raging in Washington today. lay aside war work and devote more

The demand for it did not come from the country. | time to research in this fascinating

has had the benefit of as many years of research as the conventional reciprocating engine has received. os Before 1955 all new airplanes, including small private airplanes, will be equipped with gas turbine or jet motors, Mr. Hibbard predicted. When the reciprocating engine becomes obsolete, there will be many changes in plane design. For-high-speed flying it is likely that the wings on these planes will be much thinner than those we now use, with sharp leading edges to overcome air! plained.

Hibbard stated.

resistance at. these

For slightly over 40 years airplanes have been coasting along at subsonic speeds. Now we have the prospect of a gas turbine driving a propeller for “slower” speeds or a gas turbine operating a jet propulsion unit giving the higher speed more economically than with reciprocating ‘engines. That is why you have suddenly begun to hear a lot about sonic and supersonic speeds, Mr, Hibbard ex-

Fly From Coast to Chicago in Three Hours

speeds, Mr.

2 lan. hour, compressibility becomes a! major problem, causing violent vibration and buffeting to every surface of the airplane, Y

PROVINCETOWN, Mass., June 7 (U. P) ~The 65-pound ship's bell |

England's No. 1 marine mystery a rents. step nearer solution. The Portland sank with all 176

to Portland, Me. Salvaging of the sunken which lies under 132 feet of water |

began May 27, Boston harbor his- | have the

closed.

Up Front With Mauldin

{salvaged a cabinet door key, cham|pagne bottles, door knobs, dishes,

Bell of Sunken Ship Is Found; 50-Y ear Mystery Being Solved

Two divers and four tenders will work there every week-end, but opfrom the long-lost steamer Port-|erations have shown that the men land has been recovered, it was dis- |ca1 work underwater only one hour closed yesterday. It brings New | because of treacherous tidal cur-

Scene Photographed After 'pldns to. explore the hull persons aboard in the great blizzard were announced last November on of "98 while en route from Boston |th_ 46th anniversary of the disaster, {Snow made aerial photographs of ship, the area where the Portland sank. The pictures showed three hulls. nine miles northeast of Cape Cod, Since one of the hulls seemed to Portland’s torian, Edward Rowe Snow, dis-|plans for exploration were continued. The salvaging of the 18-inch bell with the word “Portland” on it indicated to Snow that the mystery Iship definitely had been found.

dimensions,

cabin which provides low-altitude atmospheric conditions at high altitudes seems to be the answer.

enough oxygen will be forced into the bloodstream through the lungs at heights from two miles up’ will come from the gas turbines which run the propellers or compressors for jets. Oxygen breathing systems are uncomfortable and no oxygen | stystem is good above 42,000 feet. |

At sonic speeds, around 760 miles

However, Mr. Hibbard and other

aeronautical engineers believe that

an airplane could pass into .he

supersonic speed range, compressi- | bility conditions probably approach normal.

Therefore, theoretically, there is |

no limit to the speeds at which we can fly safely, Mr. Hibbard stated.|

Oxygen Possible The two major problems of very|

high speed flight are high fuel ns sumption, which Mr. Hibbard predicts will soon be solved, and ways

to provide air crews flying at high speeds and at high altitudes with livable cabins in the sky.

Pressurization and the pressurized

Energy to compress the air so that

It is not practical for planes to

fly at high speed close to the] ground because air resistance is| great and too much energy must be put out to overcome it, Mr. Hibbard |

. 4+ commented. So far two professional divers, Al| _

land Bill George of Malden, aave|

>*HANNAH ¢

|plates, silverware and frame -rixtures. Uncut jewels valued at { aR |$18,000, reported to be in the ship's| | b : |safe, and the captain's log have | - } yet to be found. oe 1 : 35 Bodies Recovered . The treasure hunt originated

gers.

{when 68 persons formed the Porte {land association, an’ organization devoted to solving the half<century- \ old mystery for historical reasons and to account for all the passen-

| Wem

Thirty-three bodies were washed up on cape beaches several days after the tragedy, but the rest still

that we recruit a goodly

sonal work done on our farms, we have imported labor | througn arrangements entered into with nearby countries. | T was ashamed to read some of the things which |: Mexico felt it had to write into. our labor contracts In order to protect those of its citizens who came to work on our farms and ranches, But I was.glad, neverthe-

less, that the workers were protected. ; f

The other day I happened to see affidavits signed by workers who had come into Florida from the Ba_hama islands, and the complaints which were made were not simply of poor living conditions, . ? They were of treatment in.which, apparently, the local governmental authorities connived with the employers in flagrant violation of civil’ liberties. Such. pructices as those sworn to in these affidavits) fre of course ahold he 1 oy union Retioll, put 1 also they ~ our govern-

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Snow requested that all living missing passengers communicate with him, care of the 4 United Press at Boston, to help in - : the identification of any remains that might be found. :

a DEATH CONFESSION REPORTED K * DENVER, June 7 (U. P.).—Dap: ' per. Dewey Brooks, 47-year-old exconvict, today was reported to have donfessed the flat-iron slaying of | Mrs. Emily. Clement, Denver candy counter attendant. Detectives said! | &§ Brooks admitted killing the formier

6. Chicago woman when she refused " g j * |to repay money she haq, borrowed “It ses hers, ‘Beware of the dog!) oli Man nly

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PAGE 15 Labor a Detroit Fears

Serious Labor

Disturbances

By FRED W. PERKINS: DETROIT, June 7.—Authorities here are preparing for larger strikes and other industrial disturbances ’ Peace with Germany or even Japan doesnt mean industrial peace in De- .

troit. Reconversion already ’ has brought

new . questions on which management and labor do not

agree. Tensions here involve racial issues,

women workers, returning veterans with job ‘claims and” a working population swollen beyond pre-war days. The dominant union, the C. I. O. United Automobile workers, never got along with management. The unjon itself is rent by internal rows, = » ; » . THE LABOR department’s conciliation service has found the Detroit outlook so bad that a strategy conference will be held here Saturday. E. J. Cunning-

ham, regional director from Cleveland, and John Q. Jen--nings, « Detroit regional super-

visor, will lead discussion. ~ Most serious among immediate questions is a threatened jurisdictional collision between the A. F. of L. building trades and the U. A. W.-C. I. O. maintenance workers, The former insists on “all or nothing” of the work of remoying war production machinery and installation of peacetime equipment. Herbert Rivers, acting head of the A. F. of L. building trades organization in Washingten, said that “two million building tradesmen throughout the country are ready to co-operate.” This foreshadows strikes in other cities.” » = - OTHER PHASES of the Detroit picture: In some plants returning veterans with claims to former jobs exceed total prewar employment. Union leaders fear delay in reconvefgion will produce fights for jobs between veterans and civilians. :

Probability that delay in reconversion will extend beyond the weeks in which Michigan workers are entitled . to unemployment compensation of $20 a week. " » ® CONFUSION in union seniority through wholesale shifting of workers among plants. Warning ‘by unions that some companies may re-employ only the seniority people ‘they want. Certainty of dissatisfaction among women workers and recently arrived Negroes. Both classes have low seniority.

We, the Women ——, Bobby Sox Statue Should Explain Why

By RUTH MILLETT

SENIORS at Oklahoma College for women left enough money in war bonds for a statuette modelled after the bobby sox co-ed of 1945—sloppy Joe sweater, saddle oxfords, and all Just in case future co-eds look askance at _the 1945 campus costume, perhaps there should be an inscription at the base of the statuette explaining the how and why of the get-up. =

SOMETHING along this line, perhaps. “We happened to like saddle oxfords, but that wasn't the only reason for their popularity. They wore well in a day of shoe rationing, and walked well in a time when even jalopies ‘were scarce on college campuses. “The bobby sox looked lots bet ter, helieve it or not. than t droopy rayons older women wore at the time. “The. sweater and skirts were comfortable, inexpensive and not much trouble during a time when fancy clothes cost a lot and the family were all buying war bonds » ” »

“WE LIKED the long glamor bob because we could tdke care of it ourselves and didn't have to spend our time and money in crowded beauty parlors.

“As for our ‘sloppy look’ why not? There weren't many boys to date, few big parties, and the usual Friday night was just going to a movie with the girls and having a coke afterward.” But in a year or two thev may have to add this post script: “P. 6. When the boys came. back we - went out and bought the prettiest dresses we could find, shoes with the highest heels, the sheerest stockings. We're sure co-eds of any generation will understand why the sudden chafige.” TR SOLDIER FACES DEATH SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. June T ~ (U P)~Cpl, Charles Wells of AtGa. today was sentenced to

Arn