Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1945 — Page 9

| Open and Shut

"WASHINGTON, July 2.—Congress has changed . 0 y he Ameri ps its mind again and as a result 200 newly opened U.S, i employment service field offices will have to be closed a up to 150 4 the main 3 at once, ¢ S : d t All these offices, opened in the last two months, n and will h were designed primarily to’ help til Japan N find jobs for veterans. cal even to The situation has employment a3 duns ! service officials muttering things i k surrounded about” congress making ‘up’ its

mind. In April congress authorized the employment service to open 600 -additional offices in’ county seat towns, etc, and appropriated $2,300,000 for this purpose. The agency had approximately 200 of these offices’ opened throughout the congress decided last week, in making an appropriation for the coming fiscal year, that. the additional ——offices—were--not necessary; —— —

| a letter mmunition -

pers served Her love i enforced - i : ON JLLEGE

Ey coming year—barely enotigh, says the agency, to keep i © o sinetion of ts present 1500 offices and their staffs going. senipls 13 More Than 600 Employed are p pans : trapper. USES WANTED $65,000,000 altogether, saying this T. Gaston amount was needed to operate the 600 additional field 1as - caught offices and to expand the staffs of the older offices -acre Tech - : to provide personnel to aid veterans.

gest in the

Of the $54,000,000 congress approved, more than $7,000,000 was earmarked Sspecifically. for veterans placement. But USES says this amount will be needed to pay the one or two veterans placement

officers who are now on the staffs of each of ‘the 1500 older offices. ; Willlam J. Rogers, assistant executive director: of the war manpower commission, parent ageney of

(Inside Indianapolis will appear in this space tomorrow). i 7

Occupation Problems

SALZBURG, Austria.—Mayor Willlam Harvey of Oberndorf, has been Kicked out of office and is now

"USES thought that the veterans administration was

country when.

200 New Offices Rented

hibit USES from closing an office in one place and So 4 provided USES only $54.000,000 “for the ng Pp

By Earl “Richert

USES, sald today that telegrams had been sent to regional .offices telling them to prepare to close the “new ‘offices. More than 600 persons are employed in the 200 offices to be closed. 2 Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.), who' helped re--duce the USES appropriation, said he felt it was “ri-| iculous” to have the agency opening offices in towns 400 or 500 people. You don’t have unemployment in the little places,” he sdid, “And it is silly to have a $4600 oF $3200-a-year employment service official in a town o that size. “One story we “heard,” he continued, “was that the

going to open offices in those smaller towns and they wanted to beat the veterans administration to it. Well, the veterans administration isnot going. to open offices in those small towns either.” >

HE POINTED out that there was nothing to pro-

opening a new one in another if it felt the new office would give more service, Another congressman said he believed the members who had. approved the $2,300,000 deficiency ap-| propriation in April had not had sufficient time to study the need for. it. Po. An official of USES said that most of the new offices had been located in county:seat towns of 4000 or 5000 population.” Smaller towns-chosen as office sites, he said, were centers of-large rural areas. He also sald that many’ of the 200 new offices had been rented under ‘a year’s lease and that in several places the owners had made extensive alterations. As for the USES’ responsibility in the veterans job-placement problem, Manpower Director McNutt pointed out in appropriations committee hearings that the G. I bill of rights specifically orders the agency to provide adequate service for veterans.

By Jack Bell

tion work, and are virtually. forgotten. ; A few names from your correspondent’s pote-

ie ; To

SECOND SECTION

MONDAY, JULY 2, 1945

COUNT CIANO'S DIARY—THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AXIS—No. |

The Dagger Falls, Duce s Happy

May 10—June 10, 1940 HE hand that held the “ dagger ‘struck a blow in the back of France on June 11, 1940, but planned it, originally for June 5 and changed it to meet a wish of Hitler's that the fuehrer-himself later withdrew, it is revealed in

the diary of Count Ciano, Italian foreign minister and |

son-in-law "of “Mussolini, Almost from the first moment of

the Nazi attack on France and the Low Countries, Italian intervention was assured, Ciano’s account makes plain.

He and II Duce were concerted

more with reducing to writing the Nazis“*promises of Italy's post-war booty.

Three appeals from President

Roosevelt were brushed aside, and a proposal from French Foreign Minister Daladietr was temptuously.

ignored con-

Ciano wrote: a n ” ” MAY 10—“This is for history:

I had a bad meal at the German embassy yesterday. left

«+ +» ‘When we at -12:25 Von Mackensen (Nazi ambassador) said -he might

May 31, 1940 . . , French Foreign Minister Eduard Daladier delivers a note to the Italian ambassador in Paris. “It states clearly that every attempt will

May 12 .

Holland—saying

« . Telegrams sent by Pope Pius XII to three invaded sfates—Belgium, Luxembourg and

he was praying for their victory,

; Zz We, the Wome

Are We Glad "The Yanks Are Coming Home?

By RUTH MILLETT WELCOME HOME, soldiers. Boy, but it's ‘wonderful to have you back. And it looks as though you are bringing chivalry back with you, . A WAC on a tug yells to a transport crowded, with "ug soldiers re- § turning to Boston {rom Europe: “Come on over; eome and get it—a kiss.” And a

ly climbs down the transport hawser hand over hand; fights the tide—and collects his ss | That's the spirit we iver seen since you've been gone. Men haven't been fighting for kisses in your absence. They haven't had to. The girls have been fighting over the men, At parties where men are scarce, it’ hasn't jbeen a bit une usual to see a bored-looking mide

iv ci prompt=

_. dle-aged Lothario surrounded by

pretty girls. And they all try-to

- outcharm one another to capture.

his attention. The girls have been doing the

telephoning, arranging the parties, leading the chase. And the men

bé made to avoid war, but Mussolini . , . decides he will not even answer it.”

“have disturbed Mussolini who would like to curb the Vatican.”

have to disturb me during the night and took my private tele--phone number. “At 4 a. m. he called to say that within three quarters of an hour he would see me and together we would go to Il Duce as he had ‘orders to

plain Lt. William Harvey, 20th armored division. But during his short tenure in office .Lt. Harvey, who hails from Watertown, Mass., learned much about human nature— Austrian vintage. He became mayor when the 20th division captured the town and

book: Pvt. Martin Gasper, of the 65th division, for five years a bartender at the Astor hotel in New York. He drew a similar job in Linz. Lt. Col. Newell, Washington, D, C., inherited the Hungarian navy on the Danube, after which the crews, which worked for ‘free as prisoners of war,

selini,. who..would like to curb the Vatican. , , . He said;. ‘The Pope should not think that he can seek an alliance with the'monarchy, be-

about the date of our intervention, | JUNE 4-“A council of minisand suggested we attack when the | ters. ‘All are expecting political Germans can throw the whole | | sensations, but I1 Duce capriciousweight of their power -upon Paris|ly gives today’s meeting a strictly

set up a military government. And varied indeed were the problems he faced. 1 saw some samples one day when I dropped into the mayor's office. A woman wanted an errant suitor thrown into jail; an old. man insisted- on telling his experiences in the Dachau con«centration camp; . a. housewife wanted a couple of liberated Poles shot because they had stolen her pig; an engineer reported the repair. of another section of the water system; a vegetable vendor wanted a jeep driver ‘to

drew army discharges and he had to hire them back

cause I'am ready to explode both of

after liquidating the Anglo-Frénch- |

on salary.

Pvt. Jimmy McLean, a formér police reporter on the Miami News, is in the public relations branch of

the 15th army corps. Mountain Peak Post

GERMAN GIRLS in Bad Gastein were entertained

regally by the Japanese embassy cr

American army arrived, after which they begged thé doughboys to let them visit their former pals.

doughs said: club.”

“No.” The result :

A “lonely "heart's

confer with him exactly at 5 a. m. He would ‘say nothing about the reasons. , . (Editor's. note: Without warning, Germany invaded Belgium, The -Netherlands and Luxembourg at 5:30 a. m. on May 10, ©1940: - :

wait

: 2 Now : “WE FOUND 11 Duce calm and smiling. He read Hitler's nofe listing the reasons for the action, and concluded with an invitation! to Mussolini to make the decisions;

owd until the

The

them at the same time. . .. (Editor's note: The Pope sent messages. to Belgium, the Duchy of Luxembourg and Holland, saying he was praying for their FS

Belgian stronghold (Dunkirk). II Duce agrees in principle.”

2 2 8 MAY 27—“Phillips was the bearer of a message from Roosevelt for Il victory)~.. - Duce, but was not received and “The king sends word that he Spoke with me. - will give the Collar of the Annun- | “Roosevelt offers to mediate beziafa (Italy's highest decoration) tween us and the Allies, assuming to’ Goering, but wants to avoid personal responsibility for the! sending a ‘telegram of congratula- execution of any agreements. tions. . . . His Majesty desires that| «I tell Phillips ‘that Roosevelt is { his Wish be kept secret from Musso- off the road. It takes more than

pay for smashing the wheel of his wagon and strewing lettuce and carrots all over the town.

Tank Destroyer Gets Around

I DON'T SUPPOSE they will ever get credit, but the 601st tank destroyer battalion probably has been 8 in more days of action than any outfit you can name. l You see,.a T. D. outfit usually works with a divi- + slon. When a campaign ends, some other division | goes Into action—and needs more T. D. support. The 601st landed in Africa in October, 1942. It saw desperate action in Tunisia while it was with the

9th division as the trapped German army fought to break through. It then switched to the 36th division atSalerno-and when that outfit drew baék, the T. D.'s -y-~Were tossed to the 3d. They stayed with the°3d clear into Berchtesgaden, except for a period during the winter when they supported the 103d. Now, they are resting except for army of occupa-

World of Science

Germany had large .units of Lithuanians plus some-Estonians and Latvians in the lines against the Russians on the eastern front last winter. - Capt. Henry Howland and Warrant Officer Roger Hobala, Chicago, are with the 15th infantry command post, on a mountain peak in a 12th century castle, which is reached by climbing almost straight up. I was stuck’ at an ordnance garage, getting my Fiat generator percolating. So I walked into the company mess asking for food. z “Why, sure, Jack,” replied Put. Richard Stringfellow of Miami. “It's a small world.” I walked into the office of a displaced persons camp and waited. “Do you speak English?” asked Lt. Omar Whitesell, Salem, N. J. “I'm just fair at it,” I replied. “Oh, hell, I thought you were one of those Poles,” he said.’

By David Dietz

he must now consideg. necessary for the future of his country. .. . “After almost two hours II Duce told Mackensen he was convinced that France and Great Britain were preparing to attack Ger-| many through Belgium and Hol-| land. He approved wholehearted- | ly of Hitler's action. ., , EJ n s “DURING the morning I saw him (I1 Duce) many times, and, alas, found the idea of intervention growing stronger and stronger, “Edda, too (Ciano’s wife and Mussolini's daughter), has been at Palazzo Venezia and told - her father- that the country wants war and that continued neutrality would be dishonor, » ” with Poncet French), Loraine (British) - and Phillips (U. 8.). They want news on. the Italian attitude. , . . From ntercepted : telephone conversa-,

” “I - CONFER

tions, it appears they expect our little effect on Mussolini, particu- today about our entrance into the, from Hitler to II Duce:

answer momen*arily,

that to dissuade Mussolini. He does:

# » ” MAY 13—“Mussolini begins to speak as follows: . .. ‘Within a| | month 1 shall declare war. I shall gjaims by peaceful means, he would {attack France and Great Britain refuse.” by sea and air. I no longer think 0

{of action against Yugoslavia be- * MAY a 11 today in Palazzo cause it would be a humiliating Venezia the Supreme Command had sideline.’ its birth. “The Pope has said he is ready| “Rarely have I seen Mussolini 50 even to be deported to a concen-|napny ‘He has realized his dream tration camp, but to do nothings pecome the military chieftain of against his conscience.” his country at war. ., . The decision

May 14 — “Letter from Hitler is about to be made. .Any day may to I1 Duce. , . . It is a cocksure|pe chosen after June 5... .

note, victories on land and, above| wrhe war must be brief. Not more all, in the air.” than two or three months, according

8 2 MAY ‘15-“Roosevelt sends alt? Favagrossa. (under-secretary of

message to Il Duce, The tone is i 2 t is no longer. covertly | metals. On the eve 6f war we have , wr “It is rather a discouraged and only 100 fons ot el ! conciliatory message. i | “He speaks of the gospel of Christ, MAY 30— The die is cast. Musbut these are arguments that have S0linl gave me his letter to Hitler |

‘not want to obtain this or hath He wants war. “If he could obtain double his

literally are unsupplied with -some

larly now when he feels victory War.

{state for war production). . , . Wel

administrative character, . . . Only at the first; he said, ‘This is the last council meeting in peace.’ .’, . I assumed command of a squadron of bombers at Pisa.”

June 5—¢I1 Duce, planned previously an air attack on France, has decided now to bomb British ports in the Mediterranean’ and- to’ remain passive - (toward France) ..’. ‘unless our action would finish the job.”

June 6—“I find I1 Duce angry, « + His majesty has written a letter in which he repeats that he assumes. command, entrusting at the same time to Mussolini the political and military conduct of the war.” = ’ , 8 8 JUNE 8—“New Germafi successes, but one still cannot speak of a breakthrough. , , . Mussolini reads to me the speech he will deliver at 6 p. m. Monday (June 10) when the nation will be called to listen. . .. Il Duce... is happy about French resistance because ‘the Germans at last are being

weakened and will not reach the!

end of the war too fresh and too strong.”

June 9—“I1 Duce was angry this morning at the Germans. From an intercepted telephone call it ‘was learned that Ribbentrop pretended to know the content of Mussolini's speech. “Mackensen brings a message His best

| wishes, . He accepts the offer

who: had}:

WAC Pvt. Mary De Large proves she wasn't kidding when she invited S. Sgt. Tommy Carpenter to come over and get a kiss. Tommy jumped from a

~ troop transport in Boston harbor

and swam to WAC welcoming boat.

who stayed at home have had so much flattering attention they ve -grown bors wis 3 all,

A COUPLE of New ‘York bachelors even .protestéd- in an interview about the way women were making fools of themselves over eligible men, and moaned” about what a terrible time they were having trying to keep out of women's clutches. But you soldiers are coming back. You haven't seen American girls in a long, long time, You think they're wonderful. And

you're used to having to-fight for"

what you want. Used to overs coming all obstacles, -You are in just the right frame of mind to make American women feel once again that they are pretty special; that they are worth fighting for, It's. wonderful to have you back, Now the bored, weary stay at

,. ~ FIRBT STEP in the unified war against cancer, made possible by the $5,000,000 fund being raised by the Ameritan Cance: society, nas been taken, It is the formation of the Committee on Growth of the

wé’ know so little about cancers ‘is that we know sO “Phillips sai: that " what has within his grasp.’ fpr Sole thosen Jue 5, less teow Bersaglert Iepack alin little about normal growth. happened will shake the Ameri-| May 18—“Brussels fallen, An‘. Hitler considers it convenien Be pend Rune mu Wé*know, for example, that the factors of inheri- can continent deeply. | werp demolished, columns of tanks POStPORe it. . .. NE A pine ities exe

homes who have, to fight off the .girls can retire from the field, Men ready to jump into the ocean “Mussolini plans to speak to the change.”

“National Research

council. Under an agreement made by the’ society and the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research .council, this committee becomes the directing agency of the research program through which new knowledge on

the cause and cure of cancer will.

be sought. Fourteen experts, ranging from authorities on plant biology and the mechanisms of heredity to physiologists and surgeons, attended the first meeting of the committee at which general plans for the attack were formulated. : Detalled action will be mapped by an executive committee consisting of Dr. C. P. Rhoads, chairman of Memorial ‘hospital of New York, famous center for the treatment of cancer; Dr. C. C. Little, director of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Me.; Dr. James B. Murphy, cancer expert of the Rockefeller Institute for Meédical Research, and Dr. M. ‘C. Winternitz, distinguished pathologist of the Yale University school of Medicine.

Problem of Growth

tahce @Pe carried in the genes scattered along the chromosomes, the rod-like structure in the nucleus of the living cell. But what are the genes and how do they function? What are the controls, chemical or electrical, that cause the fertilized egg cell to develop and grow in orderly fashion? - Why does the body normally grow | in symmetrical fashion, head and torso and limbs all | developing in normal proportion? If we-knew the answers to these questions we would@know more about what happens when the normal controls of growth fail to operate and the abnor= mal growth Kiiown as a tumor results,

Long- Range Research

ADM. C. 8. STEPHENSON, acting director of the American Cancer society, said today that under ad program set up by the Committee on Growth, the society's activities would “include the following ob“jectives: 1. To support institutions and individuals whose research work is related to finding new methods of treating cancer. 2. To make grants of Stich magnitude that individual research workers will-be able to appoint sub-

quickly (im*¥Yugoslavia),

He made no prophecies, but I would not- be surprised if the:

United States broke relations im- | mediately with Germany as a pre-

lude to intervention. 8-8 ” “EDDA. comes to see me before

[Teaving fot Florence, and talks about immediate intervention, ‘about the necessity to march, about hener-and dishonor.

“I listen with impersonal courtesy

It's a shame that she who is so intelligent also refuses to reason, I tell her it will do her good to go to the Maggio Fiorentino (spring | festival) where she may occupy herself with music to greater advantage. ...

“IL Duce . . , says we must act

He marks

running through France as far as| {Soisson. ,.. . Francois-Poncet| | people on the afternoon of June 4.

“One hour earlier I am to comree h Sha sshucp oh ows the municate to Poncet and Loraine the refuses to ‘believe that Mussolini] €Xistence of a state of war. Il Duce will rob Stalin of the glory of strik-| Wanted to omit ‘this formality.’ I ing a fallen man. . insisted on it to save our faces. “I turn over to Phillips the short, aT a curt answer to Roosevelt's message.! MAY 31—“Another move. hy He receives it without a word.” | Roosevelt,. this time more energetic, 2 8 8 l. . . He says Italy’s- intervention MAY. 20—“Mackensen- mentions! will bring about an increase ‘in the possibility of a reapprochement| armaments in the U. S, and a between us and Russia through the | ‘doubling’ of assistance to the'gllies, mediation of Ribbentrop. I reply| “I reserve my answer until I have that we have no objection, provid-| conferred with Mussolini, but tell

May 21—“I talked with II Duce|new attempt will suffer the same about the importance of defining | fate as his earlier ones, and will not| clearly to the ‘Germans our aspira- | move Il Duce. ,

tions. If we really are to leap | “I submit to 11 Duce the pro-

his calendar about the first of Junethead first into this adventure, we Posed communique announcing the

and decides to call ‘Gambara (commanding Italian forces) back from Spain to’ command the forces that { will attack. .,, The substitution oft

ordinates for long training period: 3

| Churchill for Chamberlain is received with absolute indifference

must make a definite deal. declaration of war. ... “After the first of June I might| “Daladier (French minister of| see Ribbentrop and draw up a report | foreign affairs) delivers a note: to of" what will belong to us at the end | Guariglia, Italian ambassador in of the war.” Paris. . . , It states clearly that every u attempt will be made to avoid war,

ing the Russians take the initiative | Phillips offhand that Roosevelt's 1

THE LAYMAN might wonder why the directing committee of an attack on cancer should call itself the Committee on Growth and why its membership should be so varied. The answer is that scientists regard cancer as part of the general problem of growth. One reason that

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday. —Priday morning: T met with a group of. educators-who are deeply concerned that there should be no discrimination shown to exservicemen -in the matter. of higher education.’ In other words, if any man has served overseas . and risked his life for “you and me, and wants to attend a college or university or a graduate school, his race or religion or place of origin should haye no bearing on his opportunity, Naturally, I think this is so self-evident that it should be hard to find anyone in this country who would stand up and say - that qualified veterans -should not have this equal opportunity.

I. have a letter (in- my mail

‘which I want to quote in part. It comes from:a man in the state of New Jersey. His religion 18 Jewish. On Nov. 7, 1944, his son was killed ‘in action piloting a P-47 over Italy. .. His daughter finished high school this year, and the principal told her father that her scholastic rec-

_was-#0 high he ‘would recommend “her-for-any

ege in the country, Yet she has been refused by bh “three colleges. The.reasons given were, on the face, good excuses, but the high school authorities \ told the parents ‘the. truth. These colleges have | This 1s what the father says, and I wonder if you Joh gay Simewtat the sate thing unter simi-

3. To arrange for the economic long-range security | of researchers interested in the field. 4. To arrange for conferences of competent groups to interchange reports. 5. To make surveys to analyze the problems and progress relating to cancer. | 6. To "initiate and plan both broad and intensive programs of research.

By Eleanor Roosevelt §

z wpraaky, this experience with these colleges has cast a shadow and has embittered us. I know that when my boy left on his last mission, his commanding officer never questioned him as to his religion, or had any doubt in his’ mind that he would not do his utmost in fulfilling his mission due to his religion,” 4 After talking with the educators Friday goroing, and reading this letter, I read in the paper and heard over the radio the recurring comments on the filibuster going. on in congress over. the FEPC bill to insure no discrimination in employment. What is your conception of the procedures % be followed in congress? Mine ig that all men should | “be allowed to state thelr point of view. Yet there is much work of importance to be done for the ‘world, and it seems to me that one of the obligations of our epresentatiyes is fo state their point of view as learly. and as quickly.-as possible, and then allow all the other representatives to stand up and be counted on the question involved. | . The obstructionist. methods of the- filibuster seem to me to make no sense. They destroy democratic jovernment and ‘leave the people in the position | where their representatives waste hours and days of precious time, not gaining any new information, but , imply being ‘worn out. _ Finally, the leaders decide that to get important “business dole they must acquiesce in the views of the filibustéting gentlemen, and. so the people Rover know what is the real opinion of majority. This seems to me & negation of real 3 8 4

and with irony by II Duce.” MAY 26— Hitler nif sent an-

but Mussolini refuses to consider it.

8-8 8- brn MAY 12—“The telegrams sent by the Pope to the rulers of the three

| invaded states have disturbed Mus-

SWEATIN' IT OUT—By II

n "

n } \

EPP LLL a

APY

other letter to II Duce, and a re-| He decides he will not even answer | port to Alfleri (ambassador to Ber-| it.” lin) on his conference with Goering. |: - 8.0 @ . “Goering raised the question! JUNE 1-“T give Il Duce's reply : to - Phillips. Briefly, it is this: Mauldin

America has no more interest in| MMIII

the Mediterranean than Italy has) in the Caribbean. ‘It is beside the| point for "Roosevelt to insist. He should realize his pressure will only stiffer Mussolini's stand. “Mackensen brings Hitler's written reply to Il Duce. . . . He asks "| that the date be changed by a few | days because shortly he proposes a decisive attack against French airfields. : “He fears Italian action might cause a. reshuffling of French air forces, interfering with the German plan of destruction. Il Duce agrees in principle ... he prefers the 11th, ‘a fatal day for me’.”. - Ys wn JUNE 2—-“I1 Duce writes his - |answer _to Hitler, June 11, “During the evening Mackensen asks urgently for a hearing and in Hitler's name--withdraws—the. earlier objections. - It seems now that ‘intervention sooner than the one proposed would be more wel‘come; This is impossible. “We have moved some divisions and a declaration of war before June 11 would catch therh in halfstride, - |

June 3.-“Alfleri’ telegraphs Hit~ ler's approval. . . . Mussolini says’ the king, too, finds the date satis-' factory, perhaps .because of the slight delay, perhaps because of his. {birthday (Nov, 11), and perhaps J bei nie on

« «+» He selects |

» o ” JUNE 10—“Declaration of war. I recelved Poncet first ‘who tried not to betray his emotion. After listening to the declaration, -he replied:

“1'It 1§ a dagger blow struck at a

fallen man.’ « (Editor's note: President Roosevelt, speaking the same day at the University of Virginia, said, “The hand that held the dagger has struck it into te back of its neighbor.”) “‘The Germans are hard masters. “You will become aware of it’ did not answer. This did not seem the time for debate. ‘Don’t

{get “yourself killed,” he concluded.

pointing to my air-force uniform, and he clasped my hand. 5 ” 8 “SIR PERCY LORAINE was more laconic and inscrutable. He received

an eye. . . . “Mussolini speaks. from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia. * “The news of thé war does not { surprise anyone; and does not arouse | very much enthusiasm, “I am sad, very sad, help Italy.”

.-Ma y God

nr aa (NEXT: Mussolini bows to Hitler again.)

* HANNAH ¢ )

for a pretty girl's kiss are arriving, Welcome, Welcome home.

{my communication without batting]

Labor

Labor Chiefs Get Challenge From Richberg

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, July 2.—Donald Richberg, chairman of the citizens®

committee to promote industrial

peace, today challenged the top leaders of organized .labor to pube lic debate on whether labor ag well as public support. is not merited by the Hatch-Burton-Ball bill which proposes a new “federal ine dustrial rela tions act.” Mr. Richberg offered to * post a forfeit of $1000, to go to the American Red Cross, if he does not prove to impartial judges that the statements on’ this legislation so far from labor sources have been “unfair, inaccurate and mislead« ing.” The Richberg challenge was die rected by name to William Green, Philip Murray and John L. Lewis, the presidents, respectively, of the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organiza tiohs, and United Mine Workers,

o a fF MR. RICHBERG also offered to debate with any “repiifiible:lawe yer” nominated by Messrs. Green, Murray or Lewis. This was on the ground that “they might find it embarrassing to attack me and my motives in person” because’ of his past services to them and their union followers. The challenge to Messrs. Green,

Murray and Lewis follows withe

- drawal of R. J.. Thomas, presis dent of the C..I:-O. United _ Automobile Workers, from ascheduled radio discussion on-the - same subject. Mr. Thomas with drew after conferences between “him and other leaders of his big .