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Give Light and the Peaple Wilt Find Ther Own Way

FRANKNESS WOULD HELP

HE President's announcement that negotiations on the Polish dispute are to begin at once,

and that time and

place have been fixed for a Big Three meeting soon, is the best news in weeks.

Neither a new United Nations charter nor any other

paper pact cal working at cross purposes,

) amount to much if the major powers are as they have been since Yalta.

The fact that this truism has been repeated over and over again does not mean it can be taken for granted. For the

official protestations of unity

have been loudest during the

very time of gravest disunity.

That disunity still exists.

The President’s announce-

ment does not mean there has been a reconciliation of con-

flicting policies. have promised to discuss the disputes. assurance that agreement can be achieved or, if reached,

All that -has happened is that the three There is as yet no

that it will be observed any better than the Yalta pledges broken by Russia.

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EVEN S0, however, there is a fair chance now of get- | . ting some degree of essential unity. chance whatever as long as

And there was no Moscow refused to talk about

her continuing violations of past agreements, or even to give a minimum of factual information regarding the liber-

ated areas supposed to be under joint Big Three control. | So let us not underestimate the fresh opportunity afforded |

by the two scheduled conferences.

In justice both to Russia and to the conferences, these

disputes should not be approached with the idea that Moscow is entirely to blame. Certainly she has a heavy responsibility. But the Yalta agreements were deliberately ambiguous at the very points where they should have been most precise, inviting the conflict of interpretations which occurred. ;

That is notoriously true as to the status of Russias "puppet regime in Poland, whether it is to be enlarged or

a new and representative provisional government is to be

formed by the Big Three committee.

The fateful Yalta

ambiguity is carried over into the joint announcement of the new meeting on Poland, which uses the opposite Russian and Anglo-American interpretations in the same sentence.

We believe the hope of Big Three unity depends on

mutual frankness, hitherto lacking.

PEACE, IT'S WONDERFUL

OW it's the American Federation of Labor that threatens to monkey-wrench the machinery for labor-man-

agement peace through voluntary co-operation.

The presidents of the A.-F. of L., the Congress of In-

dustrial Organizations and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce got together long enough to agree, in principle, on a charter which was to be the basis for a permanent post-war organ-

ization.

The National Association of Manufacturers has

stayed out, which we think is most unwise in" the N. A. M, if not necessarily fatal to the effort.

However, A. F. of L. President William Green apparently agreed to the charter with a mental reservation or reckoned without the union barons who own his executive council. Anyway, the council has ruled that the A. F. of L.

will not sit in organization meetings with the C. I. 0. A. F.

of L., it seems, won’t co-operate directly with C. I. O. except on war problems, such as trying to break the Little

Steel wage formula.

both at one time.

This leaves the Chamber of Commerce in the middle. It can meet with A. F. of L., or with C. I. O., but not with Also, we surmise, it leaves the public wondering what's the use of hoping for labor-management | peace, with one of the big management organizations clear out of the picture, and with the bosses of one big labor organization so bitter against the bosses of the other that | they can’t even sit in the same room to talk about co-

operating with employers.

MR. CLARK CONFIRMED

Tom C. CLARK of Texas, President Truman's appointee for attorney general, has been confirmed unanimously | by the senate.

a lawyer in that state.

It was desirable, we think, for Mr. Clark to answer | these questions before he entered the cabinet. him and the President against the possibility of embarrassment through having them raised after Mr. Clark takes |

office. We hope he will be a splendid attorney general.

FOR—NOT AGAINST

M !SUNDERSTANDING a recent press-conference question about pending legislation—the Byrd-Butler bill to bring government corporations under budget control by congress—President Truman said that as a senator he

had opposed it.

He has now written a letter setting the record straight. He thought, at the press conference, he 'was being asked about an entirely different bill, which he did and does | oppose, But Mr. Truman is “heartily” for the Byrd-Butler

$5 a year; all other states, |,

It protects

‘Up Front’

By Victor Free

BILL MAULDIN'S “Up Front," off ‘the press in time to celebrate Infantry <Day today, would be profitable reading for psychiatrists, 4. the war department—and all worrywarts who fear that home-coming soldiers will create some sort of major social problem: : Maybe they will. Bill doesn’t -think so. He concedes there may be temporary difficulties because combat men are ordinary citizens—some good and |’ some bad. But he believes they are so sick and tired of a “stinking war” that their only ambition will be to forget it. Here is Bill's diagnosis: “The dogfaces don’t need pity, because you don't pity brave-men—men who are brave because they fight while they are scared to death. They simply need bosses who will give them a little time to adjust their minds and their hands, and women who are faithful to'them, and friends and families who stay by them until they are the same guys who left years ago.

'Only Their People Can Do It' | “NO SET of laws or Bill of Rights for returning veterans of combat can do that job. Only their own people can do it.” vt . Mauldin, now only 23, (he looks younger) has become famous during th war for ‘his Pulitzer prizewinnihg cartoons. Ernie Pyle helped tocus world attention on his work—not because .the cartoons’ are funny. Ernie said, “but because they are also terribly grim and real.’ = Many civilians—and editors—have had a hard time understanding a lot of them. "Mauldin is surprised—and pleased—that they understand any of them. “If it means,” ‘he writes, “that people at home are beginning to understand these strange, mud-caked creatures who fight the war , . . their minds and their own type of humor, that's even more swell, because it means that the dogfaces themselves are beginning to | be appreciated a little by their countrymen. ~ “They need people telling about them so that they | will be taken back into their civilian lives and given | a chance to be themselves again.” Perhaps - the biggest surprise is Bill Mauldin's | prose. Many artists can’t write. And vice versa. Yet if this is the last book for Bill, he can rest. on his hard-won laurels, ,

"Written From the Heart' YOU CAN be certain that the book has been

[POLITICAL SCENE—

| of ‘both houses are absent with or without leave. O the day somebody threw a Iuncheon for the nev

Letdown By Peter Edson’

WASHINGTON, June 15.—Poor old congress has combat fatigue. The Battle of Washington is just too much ‘when taken in unrelieved tours- of duty and th& C-men are

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beginning to show it. Over a fourth of the ‘members

secretary of the senate, Leslie L., Biffle, Senator George was the only Democrat present on’ his side of the aisle, while five lonely Republicans listened to Senator Harold make a heavy speech on the Big Five veto. Total attendance, seven, Over in the house the record was better with 300 out of the 400 on hand to pass repeal of the poll tax. But that was so hot for some of the southerners they wished they were home and it was a futile gesture besides, because the

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written from the heart, with the inescapable power of human truth—by a man who knows the misery and death that is war. Heré are some Mauldinisms: “No normal man who has smelled and associated with death ever wants to see any more of it . , . the surest way to become a pacifist is to join the inantry.” “A dogface gets just as tired advancing as he does retreating ‘and he gets shot at both ways.” “Italy reminds a guy of a dog hit by an automobile because it ran out and tried to bite the tires. You can't just leave the critter die, but you remember that you wouldn't have run over it if it had stayed on the sidewalk.” “While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and victory garden a dogface somewhere is getting . great joy out of wriggling his finger ... to prove to himself that he is still alive.” When Ernie Pyle was killed America lost a magnificent writer and a lovable friend. But the tragedy was greater, the loss keener, because the voice of the little guy who understood both G. I's and civilians was stilled forever. Here was the man who could tell the story of the fighting Yank so the folks at home could at least get the feel of a foxhole. Here was a powerful postwar force that could soothe rising tempers or ruffled feelings.

‘Mauldin Can Keep on Now' . » PERHAPS BILL MAULDIN can do the same sort of a job. In his book he says he hopes to bring Joe and Willie back home with him. .-y “While their buddies are readjusting themselves and trying to learn to be civilians again, -Joe and Willie are going to do the same. If they run into difficulties in the new, strange life of a free citizen, then Joe and Willie are going to do the same. They might even shave and become respectable.” You may have noticed that Joe and Willie did shave this week—and Mauldin has started a new cartoon series—‘“Sweatin' It Out.” The sketches will concentraté on the troops in Europe, waiting to go home or to thé Pacific. So Mauldin can keep on now, telling the adventure of Joe and Willie and their thousands of buddies who yearn, as Bill puts it, to drop slowly into the happy obscurity of a humdrum job and a little wife and a houseful of kids. (UP FRONT: Henry Holt & Co., New York 10, $3.00)

4 WORLD AFFAIRS—

Next Steps

4 By Wm. Philip Simms

SAN FRANCISCO, -June 15.— Delegates are busy winding up af- | fairs- in San Francisco, but their | eves are. on Moscow, London and | Washington. which began on April 25 with the |

The 100 days opening session of the United Nations here, may £0 | down in history as the most decisive of the past cen-

tury, The first 60 will produce a charter designed to. save world peace. whether or not that charter will work. Much, perhaps everything, depends on the next three steps: ; First, the meeting which started today in Moscow,

{ of the commission created for the purpose by the | Big Three at Yalta. Their purpose is to set up a new Moscow regime to be called ‘the Polish provisional government of national unity. Second, the release in accordance with democratic principles of the Polish political prisoners—the underground leaders arrested by the Russians on March 28 and since held incommunicado. Third, the meeting of the new Big Three—President Truman, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill—sometime between now and July 17.

‘Agreement Will Not Be Easy'

THESE STEPS, if successful, will clinch the peace-

Cordell Hull in October, 1943, and rounded up in

charter form here at San Francisco, If they fail, prospects for future full co-operation between the great powers will, to say the least, be anything but bright . Agreement at Moscow will not be easy, There has been miuch talk about Soviet “concessions” ‘here. But these have amounted to little more than Russia's

final acceptange of points which others believed had been settled long ago. The Moscow meetings will call for something more, Russia insists’ on a “friendly”. Poland. that she has almost universal support. She can not afford to have a hostile neighbor in such a key pojson. Up to now, however, she seems to hold that

bill. We are glad to know that, because we are for it, tooThnly 2 Gommunist-led government can be friendly

—with the single reservation that it should not make TVA's | power business dependent on appropriations by congress.

PEANUT CYCLE

the hull to the topof a

"WE'VE always contended. that a peanut, if given its 4 head, would find its way to better things. This is ‘supported by a report of Peoria, Ill, chemists that ground"up peanut hulls can form a basis for crown cap liners for’ bottles. There you have it—shell the peanut and apply cold botle;.eat the kernel and that | y, off the bottle and have | ther nut wonderful | |

y 4 4 pt. Another nut

and with that interpretation both Washington and London are in complete disagreement.

Agreed to at Yalta

ment” would be set up in Warsaw which would include Democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles - abroad. Then would be held “free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot.”

And that is what the United States and Great Britain want the Soviet union to permit now. If she does, it will be the biggest “concession” she has yet made a Three unity. ah Th “Free ‘apd unfet ele fs e,” would

“GIVE AMERICAN BUSINESS A CHANCE” By W. C. Reese, Shelbyville

on the radio of the OPA. Senator Taft took a part and Leon Hender-

son defended his pet child, but the strange part of the program was the public was not permitted to edge -in-the least bit. True there| |was a show of hands, but there |were few persons allowed to ask | questions and they were selected by the chairman. People want to listen to public discussions,

the reason that the public was not

bad odor with the country. raise to the manufacturer and ‘the canned. goods stacked in th

ground was inflation. It was all a|jere and with the

The next 40 should decide [meat to a few,

Ey There, three groups of Poles—f{rom Warsaw, London | All members of the senate judiciary com- | and Poland—will come together under the auspices

mittee, which approved the nomination unanimously were satisfied with his answers to questions that had been raised in his case, including questions about a Texas state senate committee's investigation, eight years ago, of his income as

making efforts begun at Moscow by Secretary of State |

And on |

AT YALTA it was agreed that a “new govern-

All this Marshal Stalin agreed to do at Yalta.

death

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The: Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

Hoosier Forum

Recently there was a discussion

but they want fair play. I believe that

permitted to ask questions was that! w it has commenced the same it would show that the OPA is in| procedure with canning sugar. The European war having ceased,

Senator Taft wanted a 10 per cent |there is on hand a large amount of packer. Henderson objected and the poses: these must find a market

play around’words. Now the best|inare will be a surplus of canned remedy would be to abolish the OPA | 55645, The OPA does not want the

|and give American business a chance |, .sewite to can the same amount

to make a living. There never was .¢ fryjt and canned goods that she a more unconstitutional piece of s legislation proposed. Take the mat-| ter of liberty that was disregarded | altogether. It was found that under the supervision of little business that the|, .c. cucar it would encourage the returned soldier found that at every |, .q ction of beet sugar, of which turn he was confronted with OPA| "1. 00 supply can be made in a regulations and an exception had to| In fact if the

night a scarcity of sugar arose and when the warehouses are bursting with sugar. “

very cheap manner.

be made for the man who hdd gone| np, 1154 not, bungled the sugar situ- |

forth fighting for liberty, only to!g,. : come home to find that on account ation everybody could Have had of regimentation here he could not engage in a business to make a living. A few days ago I heard businessmen inquire where they could get material to work with to make a living. They were confiried to a quota and material was being parceled out in small lots, while big

business had all it needed. These : . men will have to go out of business wite will do without under OPA.

if these regulations are continued.| The OPA upped the red points on

Take the meat situation. There Shortening. is now niore cattle on foot than any time in history, and we have rationing under the OPA... But what do we find? The merchant has superposed a system where he rations meat to a few favored customers by a side door contrivance whereby he dispenses thus the general | hand with the OPA.

ar, Take the liquor manufacturers. {Millions of pounds of sugar have {gone into the production of liquor, while the housewife is now asked to do without sugar or on a very limited amount. Which is best, to

liquor? The liquor interest will continue to get sugar and the house-

bake cakes and pies. termined that the chain stores have representatives on the OPA.

public does not have the oppor-|

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the *

{ IS MOST UNFAIR"

| which I think is the most unfair

Ware {I know my case and also, know there 4 lare many whose case is far worse

new pack coming |

did last year and therefore over |

1f the OPA wanted the people to]

They will tell you that they are making a fine profit, because they set the] prices and the chains work hand in

Take the small packer who furtunity to buy meat. A short time | nished meat to the home customers. ficing, others none. If that is the

your right to say it.” “POINT SYSTEM

By 8. Sgt. Charles E. Hayes, Somewhere in the Philippines

Since the European war is over, the big questions among men of my outfit concern just how we will be

treated as to demobilization. Well, last evening we found out.

We were enlightened on this subject by a film called “Two Down, One To Go,” described in full by some of our very distinguished generals. (Two lines deleted by army censor.) .The point system is used,

thing ever dreamed of in some

cases. Take my case for example, because

[than mine. I have been married six {years and I sure wasn't married {to dodge the draft because it was {unheard of then.- My wife and I | were making plans, saving money— what we. could—so we could have {some children and have a home and {all the things that go with it, so las to make our children happy. At

| recently in the house idea, of increasing congresse}

| by some $736,000,000 a year.

senate will probably kill it.

Adjournment of congress in July is likely, how=

ever, and it's about’ time, because the distinguished members are all stir-crazy and they need to go home

for a check-up and to be checked up on. a The battle neuroses show on the congressmen in | the things they do. The house is always unpredictae ble, but when the senate goes haywire as it did in passing the price control amendment which would

egliarantee a profit on all produce, then you’ know it's !

time for a change. :

Administration Wins and Loses

THE LOWER HOUSE was clear off form and doubly surprised. everyone by (A), passing the Brete ton Woods agreement and (B), taking a terrible hack | at the President's powers to cut tariffs under the | reciprocal trade agreements program. The first was |} considered as good as the latter was disappointing to |i the administration. : : What seems to have happened to both the. .recipro« | cal trade renewal in the house as well as to the OPA | renewal in the senate is that the solori§ were unable} to look past their own noses, : J Everybody wants price control, everybody wants tariffs reduced-—except on those particular commod= ities in which he deals, And when congressmen} listen and react to such®pressure, the only thing that} will do them much good is a good long rest amid quiet surroundings. : i Inflationary fevers and chills are still epidemic all} over Washington. In congress they have showed up}

men's expense allowance $2500 a year, and in the} senate proposal to double congressional salaries from $10,000 to $20,000, a year. Not to be overlooked, either} is the bill to increase the pay of government workersy Any way you size this! up, congress seems agreeable to the idea that governs} ment is going to cost more, and the few economies effected by' knocking a paltry $17,000,000 off the office of war information appropriation are going to be more than made up for if the congressmen stay in Wash ington much longer. }

Post-War Government High-Priced THE GREAT SAVING, of course, can come in post-war’s reduced appropriations, but even so the Brookings institution is‘out with a report that gove ernment after the war will cost two-and-a-half times as much as-in 1940. The two things which President Truman has spe=-} cifically asked of congress—unlimited power to ree organize the government and increased social security payments—will probably have to ride over until congress reconvenes in the fall. The President needs both these authorizations to deal with immediate problems. ' Even with congress out of town for the summer, things aren't going to be dull. Senator Robert F, Wagner's banking and currency committee is fixing to hold elaborate hearings on Senator James E. Mure} ray's controversial full employment bill, and there} will be the United Nations charter, written at Sanj Francisco, to argue about. That, too, will probably} have to wait until fall before the senate will feel like} considering it for ratification.

IN WASHING TON—

that time we were interrupted in ail of our plans, Also at that time I was 29 years old, now am 32 and getting older every day. Tell me why

. a man who is married, the same

age as I, has two children and has | himself established, should be let out while I and others like myself, equal in every respect as to our | combat time and all, don't have a chance to get out. If they get out land we stay in, I'm afraid we | haven't much of a chance. Just to show you what we in this { outfit have done since coming over-

have sugar for food or sugar for| eas we have been overseas 23|

| months, in. forward areas 17 | months, have been in 3 major cam- | paigns and also have one other campaign to our credit, we were the

The housewife cannot first troops to come back on Philip- | at | bake as much as she did, but the | sine soil. came -in D-day, and-1

but less meat Sreat baking trust will Sonos 0 mean lived under and in some con- , was de-

| ditions you couldn't believe unless | yu experienced them. My question is, why everyone in the armed forces, physically fit, get a chance to fight for his country, loved ones and all? I think I am entitled to know why | some of us have to do all the sacri-

|ago cigarets were and are scarce, | Today he is being hounded to death American way of doing anything, I but I am told that the back rooms|to drive him out of business so that| certainly very displeased and

| these favorites with the public. of the great packers.

of the merchants held boxes of cattle will be driven into the hands | 0 ved Let's demand | :

The OPA has bungled the meat|that congress clean house in the |, .c URELY TIN

red points with the deliberate in- price control by tent to deprive them of meat and duction and fair competition.

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

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situation. It took from the people| OPA and set up a means of fair| increased pro-

MUST BE NEEDED”

the car on my way home from work

bicycles, These boys were fine boys

fice for their country.

in the trash piles, these tin cans had been processed

tih can in the trash pile.

DAILY THOUGHT

gregation, that are gathered to gether against me: in this wilder~ ness they shall be consumed, and hers they shall die ~Numbers 14:38, i at

shouldn't |

By Mrs. John Paul’ Ragsdale, Indianapolis The other night as I walked from

and saw the children playing in the yards, I thought of the days when our back yard was full of boys and

'| center.” planning as boys do for the future

years. Then came the war and of the number who came to our house, nine boys, including our own two sons, have made the supreme sacri-

As 1 walked, thinking of what the war has done to 80 many, my memsories were changed to indignation

Not a one of

Surely tin must be needed or the barrels would not have heen placed on the streets, I felt fike taking my service flag down from my window and making a house to house canvass, asking why time could not be spared to process a can. It is such a little thing to do and it costs absolutely nothing. So let's all think before we throw another

I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil cons

High Court

'By Ned Brooks

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will leave fi the colonel an,army ho Cap The local medicine in entered the was, capture Bataan fell been in the vember, 194 The emer for Americs surrender w and the gai into surgical There were and the 50 worked day > Jap Col. Duck maintaif’ hi 1642, under He attribut fact that wl was treating From the Camp O'Do: save the sic prisoner fro June, 1944, not permitte there. As senior mand at ( American p guards left worth was left in the « by the rang prisoners ha Jap | Mrs. Duc} pines in M army wives lived In Sa husband's ri

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B NEW YOI birthday of stop tooth c¢ cities was c given by the Clinical Ore Dentists t cess of the which will n nine years, water broug Newburgh, year ago, Ne supply has ¥ ed to it in t lieved effec decay. . Kingston, proximately tinue to ha of fluorine s trol for the : All five | in the sche having thei

| old on Oct. 11, about the time the court will recon Maj. Jacl vene for its fall session. and Mrs. } | The chief justice reached the statutory retirement Is the new | age of 70 in 1942 but has chosen to continue on tha the 800th | bench. His close friends believe his health will be base unit at the determining factor in his retirement or continued field, hea service. His health has been only fair for the last tefs of the few years. troop carrie:

Should Mr. Stone retire this year, Mr. Truman’ most likely choice as his successor is believed to b Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson, This belief we strengthened by the President's selection of Mr. Jack son as the chief of counsel for the United States the prosecution of axis war criminals, an important and difficult assignment. | Mr. Jackson is scheduled to complete the machin ery for conducting the trials in time to return to court duties in October.

Black Is Choice of Liberals

A POSSIBLE competitor for the chief justiceship would be Justice Hugo L. Black, recognized as th leader of the court's more liberal wing. Strong pres sure for the Alabaman's elevation, it is certain, would be exerted by administration liberals. Mr. Black, appointed in 1937, ranks first in seniorit among the court's seven Democrats, while Mr. Jack son, named in 1941, ranks sixth, In the cleavage which has marked many of th court's decisions in the past two years, Mr, Jackson frequently has occupied the “swing” position, some times siding with the Black-Murphy-Douglas combi nation and sometimes allying himself with the more conservative Stone-Roberts-Frankfurter wing. Court] observers usually described him as “a little right o

Aside from Mr. Stone, the only member of the court whose retirement is even a possibility in the ear! future is Justice Owen J. Roberts, who reached the age of 70 on May 2. (Justice Roberts’ age has nofi appeared in his Congressional Directory biograph since 1941.) -

Mr. Roberts’ intentions are not known but he {

mand, Maj. Lin spent 31 n in overseas ice. He was European, A and Middle ern .theate operatio months, an time in t area. .Duri served as a The pilot gerian, Tu Foggia, Rc France an paigns. He tinguished medal with for a total His outfi tinguished Maj. Lin Davis high ing the arn October 31, in, the Jes Pennsylvan! his wings the followir

GOV. G/ ON FIF

said to have told close friends last year that he had Governor no expectation of permitting ‘President Roosevelt to annual lur when I saw tin can after tin can AY! fis place. He stfoys goed health * Indiana St Leading Dissenter of Current Term Soojation a ‘ AN APPOINTEE of President Hoover, Mr. Robe son, insure has been the leading dissenter of the current te preside. registering 48 disagreements in 143 cases as against Oth 27 by Mr. Black, his closest competitor. ~ ter ar sp Chief Justice Stone completed his 20th year om cl ise: the court in February. He was appointed by Presi afenice A dent Coolidge in 1925 and President Roosevelt ele Jrusident. © vated him to the top post in 1941. Unumeree: Mr, Stone's recent visit to the White House re io vived feports that he might be preparing to retire Sepairtment although some rumors were that he called to offer uTeau, protest against the drafting of Mr, Jackson's servic i for the war crimes assignment. : - po; i 2. "All of the seven remaining justices are well unde CA} retirement age and, barring unforeseen events, th Tevingion “Roosevelt court” will hold for some years to will have come. The “baby” member is William O, m un Douglas, who is 46, and the ages of tHe others are en Wiley Rutledge 50, Jackson 53, Frank Murphy 55 obligation Black 50, Stanley F. Reed 60 and Felix Frank: | Ella 1