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ye LONDON. June 25.—The British royal navy now /has about 200 warships and 100,000 men in the Pacific, More of its modern fighting ships will go to the Far East as quickly ‘as they can be refitted to operate in those waters.- British naval construction is at a peak unexceeded at any time since the war -began in Europe. g Rigid admiralty security. policies, however, preclude the release of statistical data showing the extent to which Britain has kept its promise to add the full weight of its sea power to that of the United States in the Pacific. * Only four modern battleships— one of them the French Richelieu —ever have been publicly identified as operating in the Far Eastern theater. A like number of fleet carriers has been revealed in- service there. The admiralty has nothing to say about other capital ships known recently to have undergone tropicalization and refitting, Earlier this month there were hints that Prime i Minister Churchill might make a public statement ] on the magnitude of Britain's share in the Far East war i ‘But it appears now that ‘any such detailed pro|B nouncement as President Truman recently made on i Anecrica’s Pacific plans will await the outcome of the British elections.

Prepared for Sacrifices DESPITE BRITAIN'S clamlike policies on: this score, there are evidences that it is bending every ort to make maximum contribution in the Jap ® at considerable further sacrifices by its impoverished, war-jaded home population: Britajn got Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser's Pacific fleet into Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ Pacific area months in advance of V-E day. In order to do this and give the southeast Asia commander, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the naval forces required to support the Burmese campaign, the royal

Britain i in J ap ‘War ByB.J McQuaid

navy stripped its Atlantic strength io a point which ‘many naval experts regarded as’ shockingly dangeroua. The number of ships - withdrawn from Atlantic duty to go to the Pacific or into dockyards for refit left a gap of severil months when it would have been possible for remnants of the German fleet to have made disastrous raids on vital convoys. Because supply and maintenance of Britain's Far Eastern naval fortes is mainly dependent on United

Kingdom ports and shipyards, a high percentage of | the royal navy’s personnel in the Pacific is ship-based !

in contrast to the U, 8. navy which has. many installations ashore dt Pacific bases,

Few Naval Roicses

THE FIGURE of 100,000 men does not include per-| sonnel of the merchant navy which is heavily com-| mitted to the fleet trains by which the British supply A!

their Far Eastern ‘fleets. The fleet train system amounts to a conveyor belt of shipping to deliver the

“products of the United Kingdom war industries di-

rectly to the warships themselves. Further evidence of Britain's determination to ful-| fill its naval commitments in the Far East is the| severity of its demobilization program for the navy.

Army demobilization has so far been skimpy, But

navy releases may ‘be described as negligible. Not | even the over-50 grandfathers are being let out. Hope | 1s not entertained in any responsible quarter that the!

present policies can be relaxed before the end of the

Jap war.

This has caused hardship and bitterness in many

individual cases but has not impaired the morale of the fleet, afcording to admiralty sources; Crews or-| dered to the east are going with their “tails up” fully aware of the need for further individual sacrifices. British ports and harbors which one year ago teemed with cargo ships and landing craft destined for Normandy are today utterly denuded. This shipping must be assumed to have departed for the East | but security policies forbid any estimate of numbers! and tonnage involved,

Inside Indianapolis will appear in. this space tomorrow.

Nazis Favored? ! SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expedition-

llogic, our military governments in Germany are making anti-Nazis wonder whether they made a mistake and got onto the wrong side of the ideological fence The “practicality” consists in : retaining active Nazis in key govi ernmental and industrial posts bei cause, as a result of experience they knew how to get administrative results. The illogic appears in many guises. The net result is that those who were active Nazis before the surrender now occupy distinctly preferred positions under our occupation rule. In “Landkries Rosenheim”—that area in Southern Bavaria extending frome Munich to Chiemsee, there are about 50 towns. Only 11 new anti-Nazi mayors have been installed, while about 40.Nazis continue to function. Not because we haven't got around to tossing them out. We did remove many of them— then reinstalled them. "In Bad- Rastenberg and Blankenhain towns, not far from Weimar, the well known Socialist anti-Nazi governing president of Thuringia, Dr. Herrman Louis Brill, ‘installed new anti-Nazi mayors. Our military government promptly threw out Brill’'s men and reinstalled the old Nazi incumbents, according to Dr. Brill,

Dozens of Glaring Examples IN LAUCHA, Brill wanted to eliminate a particularly vicious Nazi mayor and install a well-known anti-Nazi who had the support of the entire anti-Nazi population. But Brill's candidate had been a political prisoner for years. Our local officers declined to confirm him on the ground that “we don't want a jailbird for mayor.” Dozens of similar examples could be given in. this fleld. For example: One military government outfit in central Ger-

RAT CONTROL must be placed close to the top fn the list in any post-war planning in the field ot public health. In fact, there is no good reason why it should not receive more attention right now. By

conserving both the nation’s health and the nation's food supply, it will contribute to the winning of the war against Japan. There are more than 20 diseases carried by rats to which human beings are susceptible. These include bubonic plague or the Black Death, concerning which I wrote in detail yesterday. It is doubtful if many people realize that there are probably as many rats as human beings in the United States, about 120,000,000 of them. It is estimated that each one does about $2 worth of damage a year to property and foodstuffs, a national loss of $260,000,000. Among the diseases spread by rats are ratbite fever, amebic dysentery, Chagas disease, tapeworn,

Haverhill fever, relapsing fever, ringworm, food poisoning, - spotted fever, trichinosis and Weil's :

disease.

Brown, Black and Gray RATS IN the United States for the most part, are of three species, the brown rat, the black rat and the

gray rat. The brpwn rat, known also as the sewer rat or the Norwegian rat, made its appearance in Europe in the 18th century, probably! from Asia and was introduced into the United States about 1776. The black rat, known as.the ship rat, has been known to Europe since the 12th century. It spread

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.-—I have just received from the state of Georgia a copy of a petition which some citizens of that state have sent to the members of the congress of the United States, urging the enactment of the fair employment practice commission bill. “Establishment of a permanent fair employment practice commis sion is supported by some 60-odd national organizations,” the pe- - tition states “Both the Republican party and the Democratic party are committed to such legislation by their party platfogns, as well as by the fact that the presidential nominees of" both partirs: promised support to this legislation in the last national campaign. “We are approaching the end of our military war. Events are moving swiftly, We cannot afford to permit our actions to lag behind the tempo of irresistible forces.” The petition is signed by many of the finest and most progressive white citizens of Georgia, as well as by many highly respected colored citizens, Mass meetings have been held ifj favor of the enactment of this legislation An both Washington and New York, ond. 1 imagine, in. other places. From our domestic point of. view, I think it 1s great importance to us that we

ary Forces. ~By a weird mixture of “practicality” and"

World of Science

By Curt Riess

many told me that it had found three Nazis planted| as receptionists and interpreters. They were retained | until convicting proof against them had been acciimulated, along with valuable information about those behind them.

There have been-many cases in which second- |

grade Nazis’ have been employed as interpreters by our miltary governments. This is far from encouraging to anti-Nazis who, coming to give us information, find that it must reach us through the mouths of known Nazis. ®

Make Trolleys Run on Time ; THERE ARE three principal reasons why we are

maintaining Nazis in authority and using them in confidential relationships.

One is, to paraphrase-closely the praise that once went to Benito Mussolini: They make the trolleys | run on time.

We are anxious to get utilities functioning in Ger-| many. We have adopted a point system for judging

German ddministrators. for making the street cars run on time, so many for re-establishing a public utility. The more quickly the Job is done, the more points are given. toward promotion. It is the military government's idea that the old| Nazi mayors can and will contribute more to quick | rehabilitation.

There are so many points|

Points count |

A second reason is that 13 years of deadly perse- | cution have made anti-Nazi Germans nervous and

excitable; they are likely to be poorly clothed and less presentable. . They aren’t so smooth, so pleasing, so agreeable to be around as the Nazis who, through that period, were sitting on top of the world acquiring “front.” The third principal reason is the continual shifting of military governments, particularly in the smaller towns, as armies move about. As important a city as Weimar has had five. By the time officers begin to get acquainted with a city or town, they move on and strangers begin all over again. Underground propaganda is using this situation to

‘spread hints that it isn’t wise to be too strongly anti-

Nazi.

By David Dietz

the Flack Death in the Middle Ages, causing 42,000 R00 deaths, The gray or roof rat, which sometimes builds its] nests in trees, is believed to have originated in Egypt. | While bubonic plague is potentially the greatest | menace posed by the rats of the nation, the fact of | the matter is that at the moment more damage is| done by other diseases which they spread. Ratbite fever gets its name from the fact that it is transmitted by tHe.bite of rats. The organism causIng it is a spirochete which occurs in the saliva of infected rats. Rats transmit the disease by biting each other and to humans.

Tapeworm in South

RATS, LIKE human beings, are susceptible to amebiasis or amebic dysentery but probably play only a minor role in spreading the disease. Chagas’ disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is widespread in Central and South America and is carried by an insect found on rats. The insect is a blood-sucking bug, related to the bedbug and known as the “assassin bug” or “kissing bug.” While no cases of Chagas disease have been recorded in this country, rats have recently been found in the southwest which were infected with the bugs. The most comn®h tapeworm in the southern part of the United States is the rat tapeworm. Human infection usually follows the use of flour or cereal products which have been contaminated by rats. Haverhill fever, so named after an extensive out-

eating of food contaminated with the germs of the

disease by rats. The Haverhill outbreak was traced to infected milk

Rats spread & number of fungus diseases including’

certain types of ringworm. They pass these infections on to cats, dogs and humans,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We have many other minority groups who have telt the pressure of discrimination when it came to the! question of employment. We have fought a war to establish the dignity of the individual—his freedom and bis equal rights | as & human being. We cannot very well permit at, home conditions which would curtail, or make more difficult, that freedom from want which is one of the basic freedoms that must exist side by side with political and religious freedom. Most of us believe it essential that we accept as a responsibility of government, in conjunction with industry and agriculture, the obligation to provide full employment, We know that only with full employment can everybody have a job. But if jobs are cus tailed, we must prevent the bitterness that would come if the curtailment occurrad largely among minority groups. - This is important not only as a domestic issue, but as an international issue. The peoples of the world whq are looking at the United States are sizing up our attitude ‘toward them in relatién to our at-

titude toward the citizens belonging to minority groups

in our own country.

These people of foreign nations will lack con- .

fidence in their equality of opportunity, where .we are

Soncerned, Af they see ug deny that equality to mi-

Ly groups at home:

The Indianapolis

SECOND SECTION

MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1945

COUNT CIANO'S DIARY—INSIDE STORY OF THE AXIS—NO. 7.

This. is the seventh article

drawn from the diary of Count

Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. The axis, minus Italy, goes to war.

hts reserved for all countries, including right of translation.

Aug. 19—Sept. 3, 1939 USSOLINI made a last effort to blackmail the Germans for 17,000,000 tons of military supplies as the price for entering a war he knew he couldn't fight, it is disclosed. in the diary of Count Ciano, his son-in-law, for the closing days of

August, 1939. For a time II Duce aspired to the mantle of peacemaker, but he wore it poorly and cynically. As hostilities approached, he began to hope the war would he "“long, hard and bloody” for everybody but the Italians. Ciano ran up bankrupt Italy's telephone bill with frantic longdistance calls. 3 s 2 ” IL DUCE alternately was lion and lamb. His advisers were di‘vided. _ One even suggestéd war would be popular with the Italian women because they would be rid of their husbands and draw six lira a day in additiom. Ciano went to Tirana, Albania, Aug. 19 and then to Valona, but an urgent telegram summoned him back to Rome Aug. 20. Ciano wrote: : a = AUG. 20—“In my absence Il

Duce has done an about-face, He *

wants to support Germany in the conflict, which is now close at hand. . Conference between Mussolini, Attolico (ambassador to Berlin), and myself. | “This is the substance: It is too late already to go back on the Germans. The press of the whole world would say that Italy is cowardly, that it is not prepared, and that it had withdrawn in the face of the threat of war.” ” 2 5 AUG. 21—“Today I've spoken clearly. ‘Duce, you must not do it. . . . At Salzburg I found myself face to face with an ultimatim. Not we, but the Germans have betrayed the alliance. . . . Tear up the pact. Throw it in Hitler's face and Europe will recognize in you the natural leader of the anti-German crusade. “ ‘Do you want me to go to Salzburg? Very well. I shall go and shall speak to the Germans as they should be spoken to. “ ‘Hitler will not make me put

aside my cigaret as he ~~ did Schuschnigg (former Austrian premier.)’ 2 ” #"

“HE WAS very much impressed and ‘approved . my suggestion to ask Von Ribbentrop to come to the Brenner Pass. . ., . We telephoned Von Ribbentrop, who was unavailable, Finally, at 5:30 p. m., I speak to him. He says that he cannot give me an answer because ‘he is waiting for an important message from Moscow and will telephone me during the evening.’”

Aug. 22—“At 10:30 last night a scene occurred. Von Ribbentrop phoned that he would rather see me at Innsbruck than at the frontier because he was to leave for Moscow, to sign a political agreement, , . . Russian non-aggression pact.) s s = “THE GERMANS have struck a master blow. All Europe is upset. . .. We must wait and be ready ourselves to gain something in Croatia and Dalmatia. , . . The representatives of the democratic countries are. inclined to underrate the incident.” Aug. 23—“The day is charged and threatening. . .. France and England let it be known they will intervene. . . . II Duce authorized me to present to Percy Loraine (British ambassador) a solution based on the preliminary return of Danzig to the Reich, after

which there would be negotiations .

and a general peace conference.

(The German-

William Phillips, left, and Anthony Drexel Biddle, U. sadors to Italy and Poland during the crisis preceding the war. delivered the late President Roosevelt's appeal to the Italians to try to stop the Europeafeconflict.

. « » Percy Loraine fainted, or almost, fainted in my arms He retired to the toilet.

” n s “FRANCOIS-PONCET (French ambassador), discouraged and

pessimistic, repeats that France will fight . . . Weizsaecker (Nazi secretary of state for foreign affairs) telephones from the Berghof to relay Hitler's harsh reply to the British ambassador. Another hope is gone. ... “Il Duce is warlike tonight. ... He has received Pariani (Italian chief of staff) who gave him good= news of the army's condition. Pariani is a traitor and a liar.” 8 n a2 “PHILLIPS (U. S. ambassador) brings a long message from Roosevelt for the king. It doesn't seem to make much sense.” (Editor's note: This refers to a message from the late President Roosevelt appealing to the Italfans tory to stop war in Europe. “The unheard voices of countless millions of human beings ask that they shall not be vainly sacrificed again,” Mr. Roosevelt said.) = 2 »

AUG. 24—“1 went to Sant’

Anna di Valdieri to confer with .

the king. . . . In his judgment we are absolutely in no condition to wage war. The army is in a “pitiful’ state. . . . Even the defense of our frontier is insufficient. . . .- He is convinced the French can pierce it with ease. “The officers of the Italian army are of poor quality and our equipment is old and obsolete. . Six months of neutrality will give us greater strength. “In the event of conflict, he hopes that I1 Duce will give the Prince of Piedmont (King Viector’s son, Prince Humbert) a command. “Those two imbeciles from Bergamo and from Pistoria (the King's nephews) have one; my son can have one, too.” = » n

AUG. 25—“During the night I had a telephone conversation with Von Ribbentrop who saysithe situation is becoming ‘critical’ because of the usual ‘Polish provocation". + . . I succeed in having Il Duce approve a‘ communication to Hitler announcing our nonintervention for the time being. . +1 was very happy over this result but II Duce recalls me to Palazzo Venezia. “He has changed his mind. He fears the Germans and wants to.

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intervene at once. It is useless to struggle. . “2, p. m. I hear of a message It is .couched in abstract language but gives one to understand that the action will begin shortly. It asks for. ‘Italian understanding.’

“I USE this phrase to persuade Il Duce to write to Hitler that we are ‘unprepared for war, and that we shall go into it only if he will furnish us all the equipment and raw materials we require. “German reaction is cool. Von Mackensen (German ambassador) brings a brief note at 9:30 p.m. in which we are requested to make a complete list of what we need. ... He hopes this will put the brakes on his government. , . .” 8 » =

Aug. 26—"Berlin is showering us with request? for the list... . We go over it. It's enough to kill a bull, if a bull could read. Alone with Il Duce, we prepare a message to Hitler, We explain why Italy absolutely cannot begin war without such provisions. ” ® #” “TRANSMITTING our requests, Attolico gets into difficulty, He asks for immediate delivery, an impossibility, since it involves 17,000,000 tons which would require too many cars for its transport. “Hitler's reply .. arrives. He can give us only irdn, coal, lum= ber, only a few anti-aircraft bate

teries. He says he understands our difficulties, and asks our friendship.

on 2 =n : “HE PROPOSES to annihilate Poland, Poland alone, and to de-

feat France and England. ... 11 Duce expresses his regret for being unable to intervene. “He is really confused. His

military instincts and his sense of honor were leading him to war. Now reason has halted him. . .. For Il Duce this is a great blow.” Aug, 27—“Halifax (British foreign minister) has informed us courteously that measures taken in the Mediterranean must not be interpreted as preliminary to hostility against ‘us. . . . = td s “HITLER still is determined to go to war, and makes three requests: 2 ” 2 “1. That we not make known our decision for neutrality until it is absolutely necessary;

“2. That we continue our milipreparations to check the

“3. That we send agricultural and industrial workers to Germany. “Il Duce concurs in all this, and promises to revise our. position after the initial phase of tHe conflict. s - . “MEANWHILE a singular incident occurs. They (the British) communicate to us the text of German proposals for an alliance, or what seems equivalent to ft. This was made naturally ‘without our knowledge. . . .We decide to make direct contact with Halifax. “In this move I have been abandoned completely by the large group who are concerned with telling Il Duce only those things that will please him, “Starace (Fascist party -secretary tells Mussolini that the Italian women are happy about the war because they will receive six lira a day and will not be encumbered by. their husbands. How Snmetul! , » - “RIBBENTRO P . answered that there is little chance for’ peace and that Henderson (British ambassador in Berlin) has gone to London to express his views only. Could there ever be a bigger scoundrel than Von Ribbentrop? . . . Hitler has spoken in strong language to the deputies of the Reich in secret meeting.” ° , ie ” ~ .

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Western front. serene. He does not want to say the word ‘neutrality’ but he has entered this frame of mind. “He even begins to hope that

the strugdle®will be long, hard and |

‘bloody for others. In this he sees great advantages for us.” Aug. Certain articles sity for -Italian neutrality have had a bad effect on him. , . . Halifax telephones that the Fuehrer has not rejected the British proposals. , . . Attolico who has conferred ‘with Ribbentrop says more or less the same. .. , I persuade 11 Duce to send a telegram to Hitler to advise him to follow the path of negotiation.” Aug. 30—"The situation is embittered again. The British answer does not close the door, but it does not, nor could it, give the Germans all they ask. , . . News reaches us of general mobilization in Warsaw, and it is not the kind of news to quiet the nerves. . . . Il Duce is convinced “that the invasion will occur tomorrow.” 2 5 o “THE IDEA of forced neutrality weighs more and more upon him. Being unable to wage war, he makes all the necessary preparations so that

he might have waged it. Calisto

arms, blackouts, requisitions, clos ?

ing of cafes and Places of amusement. “I urged Bocchini Italian police) to send the true reports to our chief. He is very pessimistic. In thg event of -uprisings, the carabinieri“#d policemen - would join the people.”

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he brings a fat offering, Danzig.

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proposal about Danzig is impossible. “As a last resort I see Il Duce again to propose a conference to France and Great Sept. 5 to review the clauses of the Versailles’ treaty, which disturb the Italians. Halifax welcomes it. reserving the right to submit it to Chamberlain, . At 8:20 p. m. the telephone office informs us that London has cut its communications with Italy.

» = # “I INFORM Il Duce. ‘This is war,’ he. says, ‘but tomorrow we

shall declare in the grand council that we will not march.’ Tomorrow will be too late. . . . “A German. communication arrives from Berlin, listing all that has happened in the last few days. ©. , , But discussion is superfluous. Hitler's program) announced to me at the Berghof, is being executed precisely, point by point. . The attack begins at 5:25 a. m.” J ” ” » SEPT. 1—“Il Duce is calm. . . He telephones personally to Attolico to send a telegram-to Hitler breaking the alliance terms

ters meets. The agenda for none intervention, drawn up by Il Duce

himself, is approved. . . . The Poles are withdrawing everywhere.”

Sept. 2—"Under pressure from the French, we mention to Berlin the possibility of a conference. . . Hitler does not reject the proposal entirely, “I call the ambassadors of France and England. I telephone Halifax and Bonnet (French foreign minister). , . . One condition is advanced evacuation of Polish territories occupied by the Germans, 3 o

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Hitler advice that he would reject, perhaps contemptuously. I tell this to Halifax, to the two ambassadors, to I1 Duce. Finally, I telephone Berlin that unless the Germans notify us to the contrary we will let the conversations lapse. The last note of hope has died. “Il Duce is convinced of the necessity of neutrality, but he fis

not at all happy. . .. The Italian people, however, are entirely happy.”

Sept. 3—“Bonnet has asked if we would obtain at least symbolical withdrawal of German forces from Poland. . .. I throw the pro-

posal in the wastebasket. . . . / At’

11 o'clock .news arrives that Great Britain has declared war. France does the same at 5. ~ s ” “I DON'T know how the war will unfold, but it will be long, uncertain and relentless, , . . Of his way to the front, Hitler calls Attolico to the chancellory. . . He thinks he will have Poland in four weeks, and in another four will be able to concentrate his forces on the Western front « “II Duce, ‘who still prizes German friendship, was glad to hear of Hitler's gesture.”

TOMORROW: Russ Intervention in Poland Shocks Italy.)

I call Halifax by | phone to tell him that II Duce | can intervene with Hitler only if |

Britain for |

CANTEEN TO HOLD

DANCE AT RIVERSIDE

Carnegie Hall,

July 3 at Riverside park.

a homeless teen | (canteen, will hold its first dance Barton |

Rogers and his 11-piece orchestra)

will play.

Rosemary Skrowenek is chairman of the committee and Donald Thiele

is assisting

0. E. §. INITIATION SERVICE Cumberland chapter 515, O. E. 8,

at 8p. m.

Threaten Probe Of Union in Food Marts

By ROBERT TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 25.—The threat of congressional action ‘hangs over the A. F. of L. team-~ sters’ union because of the ac~

tivities of . the union's eastern seaboard food conference, formed by produce drivers’ ‘locals to force organization of farm- to -market food channels; Farm organizatio n §, viewing the campaign as an enterihg wedge of unionism and as an obstacle to the free marketing of their products, have organized to fight the campaign. They also have protested to congress and federal officials, demanding investigation and action. As a result, the house agricul ture committee is expected within a few weeks to start hearings on the complaints of farmers and revive the “hot cargo” investigation of 1942 which exposed union

practices in the food industry.

88 2 2 : MUCH OF THE testimony be-

. fore the committee will deal with

labor practices of produce drivers locals in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York, where farm-to-truckers have been required to pay union fees as high as $56 to unload perishable cargoes. The committee already has been over some of the ground. A group of its members, headed by Rep. John W. Flannagan Jr. (D. Va.), visited the Philadelphia market to inquire into trade obstructions and distribution costs. Committee. investigators now are touring major eastern markets. Rep. Flannagan indicated hearings will be scheduled after the preliminary investigation, Farm groups and growers’ representatives have gathered material and will be ready to testify. In addition, the department of justice has investigated some markets. Whereas the agriculture committee is interested in the union campaign as a factor in costs of getting farm produce to market, the justice department is interested in collusive agreements to obstruct, trade. = = 2 — THE INVESTIGATIONS cover not only organization of farm truckers but also the imposition of the five-day week in the huge New York market, and those in Newark and Philadelphia.

Growers and some distributors contend jt will be ruinous to crops and trade and will diminish supplies to consumers in a period in which fresh food supplies are critically needed. The possibility of congressional action has been hanging over the Teamsters union ever since the supreme court decision of 1942 dealing with the practice of New York local 807 in requiring out-of-state trucks to hire a union member as “guest” driver at $9.42 or $8.41 per truck, deepnding ofr its size.

—We, the Women Man Shortage Stirs Huntress In Some Girls

By RUTH MILLETT

WELL, IT LOOKS as though men ‘are at last admitting they are afraid of women. Florida has just pdssed a bill outlawing suits for alienation of breach “of contract to marry, and seduction. At the tim the bill was introduced there was some talk about the pathetic plight of old men sitting in the sun and being neatly hoooked by women not reluctant to have their broken hearts mended with handsome cash settlements. With the shortage of men in the marrying market it was inevitable that the men would get scared and start to run. For men, women would have by-passed, are now being fought for.

affections,

And while an old man in prewar times might have been able to sit comfortably in the sun Without running into any more trouble than sunburn, today he has to be wary of the husband hunters. » ~ n THERE WAS only one thing wrong with that popular song “They're either too young or too old” as far as women are concerned, And that-—judging from the statistics on girls marrying ney younger than themselves and the common sight of the old boys being surrounded by beautiful babes at parties—is that the song should have been neither too young or too old” And ‘especially not too old. - For the young men usually don't have any money. But the old men hi made theirs, and " tar as are concerned a ti coynt makes a man