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BERT KINGAN JR. is one of those fellows who'd tather play golf than cut the grass and fix up his: lawn, (Well, who wouldn't?) -In other years, he has hired a lad to take care of the yard.. This year, he

with his golf. Result: .The grass and weeds went to town. Further result: So many passersby thought that because of its condition, the place might be for' rent or sale and hammered on his door “that he nearly. went crazy. . Solution: He sent an-8. O. 8!"to a nursery which sent a crew of four or five men to put the yard .in shape. Now he's doing his best to keep. it that way—golf or no golf. . .' The Indianapolis Symphony or< * chestra’s fame has spread far and wide. Howard Harrington, orchestra manager, received a letter this week from a Royal New Zealand air force pilot asking for notes on programs of the orchestra, and whether its programs are broadcast. His letter had been on the way from New Zealand ever since April 27. . TI dropped into a downtown drug store for a cup of coffee the other day and got it, minus sugar; “Sorry, we just don't have. sugar,” was the explanation. The service in the place was just ordinary. But you couldn't say that , about the entertainment. A couple of the 14 or so young girls behind the counter put on stellar exhibition of plate catching. One girl stood beside a couple of tall stacks of freshly washed plates. The other stood about. 15 feet farther down the counter. The first girl took careful aim and tossed a plate. Feet braced, the other girl caught it, one palm on the back and one on the front of the plate. They kept that up for about 10 minutes until all the plates had been tossed and stacked neatly'farther down the center, Not a one was broken. Proudly, the girl wha had done the. pitching whiked down to where the plates were stacked and put them away. "Allin all, it was a marvelous exhibition, But it didn't take my mind off the sugarless coffee.

Give "Em the Gong AT 6:30 MONDAY evening; a transcribed .commercial on WFBM told how wonderful Gruen watches are, then announced that it was 6 o'clock. They ought to equip themselves with Gruens up at the station. . Bob Danley, over in Urbana, Ill, sends me a clipping of an editorial ‘page quip from the News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. It follows: “The Queen Mary, with: normal space for 2075 passengers, arrived .in New York with 14,000 soldiers, creating the impression that loading may have been

Russ Tidal Wave

LINZ, Austria.—Russia’s army is akin to Topsy—it jes’ growed. Its soldier is a natiorialist, of course, though not a flag-waver. He's the most courageous devil. in the business of war, and he suffers appealing casualties, But he wins! He wins betause he's so numerous that his comrades craw! over dead bodies to throttle the foe, because he's armed with automatic guns and ‘more cannon :than any other nation; because he expects either to reach his objective or die, know-

there, thanks to his death, This war came up fast for Russia. We must remember that its prewar military masterminds had been liquidated. Out of the ranks came new masterminds, not scholarly strategists of the old czars, but leaders who. knew the type of armies coming up—rough tribesmen from countless villages and farflung areas—and planned accordingly to win by brute force. -

Lack Dread of Death

THEY REALIZED that they could not weld brilliant armies together overnight in th& face of German advance, so they planned retreats—deadly (to the Germans): and slow because they taught their men that they must die but that Russia must be saved. German officers, still dazed by Russian immunity

World of Science

DR. GEORGE A. VAN BIESBROECK, who has spent most of his life studying the stars plans to retire and go right on studying the stars. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. Having reached the age of 65, the famous savant will exchange the title of professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago for that of professor emeritus, but he proposes to continué dividing "his time between the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and the McDonald ‘Observatory in Texas just asthe has in the past.

for his extremely accurate measurements of double stars, he is better known to the public as the discoverer. of two comets and the Jaintest known star in the universe. Dr: Van Biesbroeck made his latter discovery only last ‘year while studying stellar photographs which he had nmade with the. big telescope at the McDonald Observatory. This télescope, with a mirror 82 inches in diameter, is exceeded in size only by the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. It was built in Cleveland by the Warner & Swasey Co.

Studies Double Stars

THB APPARENT brightness. of Van Biesbroeck's

- star is 900,000 times fainter than that of the sun.

§inoe comets are named after their discoverers, Dr. Van Bierbroeck has two comets named after him, "Double stars,-to which he has given most of his time, are stars which appear as one to the unaided eye but are disclosed to be two stars by the telescope.

Such pairs of stars are found to be real gravitational

My Day

HYDE PARK, Tuesday—All over the world our men will observe the Fourth of July. Even some of the nationals of foreign countries are going to celebrate this national holiday of the United States of

America. I have a communication from our amol... bassador in Brazil asking if I : “Would accept, through our ambassador, an honor which they wish to extend in memory. of my and on this important day. means that people throughout the world are going to ask what Happened on July 4th which made the American -people choose it as their national holiday. They will be told that on that day a document was written in which a very small group of men set forth their convictions as to what was right or wrong. These men then led

a successful war to uphold these convictions and freed - ° — themselves from a strong power across the sea that, ..at that time, was not concerned with the Jighta of

people far away. : me ‘Then they wrote a, constitution, to avhich they appended. a bill of rights which delegated certain powers

Py 104 their representatives in: government, but retained

vast majority .of fundamental powers . in, the

‘What we remember most on the Fousis of “July most’

“While riding a crowded Central bus recently, says

"beginning of the road that leads to Berchtesgaden

ing that his comrades will get .-.

Best known to his colleagues -

" pegan his career at the Brussels Observatory. He

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum|

done by a Yoriel yniitznapols siroetdar motormay.” The person who wrote that knows what he’s talking about? .. . , Incidentally, one, of my agents aboard|" a northbound Illinois streetcar ‘the other day noticed the operator was singing out the’ names of the streets with unaccustomed zeal. - He didn't uriderstand it until he noticed among that standees on the car none other than Harry Reid, president of Street Railways. Paraphrasing the old saying: When the cat's about, the mice will shout. Excuse, please. George Rite passes along a true Pat and Mike story:

George, Mike Carr of Kingan's was talking to. Pat Carr, a tailor at Wasson’s. . They're not related. Mike was standing, Pat was seated. Suddenly, Pat was startled “to feel cold water dfippifig into his shoe. “Suppressing a yell, he glanced around hastily and discovered the cause: The woman seated next to him was carrying some gold fish in an ice cream bucket which -had started leaking. Extra! Ernest Bewthett, 3365 Barnes ave, wins the ripe tomato honors, at least insofar as this column is concerned. He was the first to report having a red, ripe tomato on his vines. As ‘for green beans I've had those ingmy own garden more than a week.

Hoosiers Get Around HARRIET SCANTLAND, the former editor of the magazine, Public Welfare in Indiana, now is in Paris with thé officé of war information. Harriet sends home the information that while in a dining room, “who should walk in but Sgt. Dick Lewis,” The Times’ Voice in the Balcony, now on the staff of the Stars and Stripes. No- matter where you go, you stumble onto the home folks, . Several hometown servicemen have written home - about having seen the bridge in Germany honoring the memory of Ernie Pyle. Cpl: Clem OC. Skelton, writing to Mrs. P, B. Curry, 26 8. Illinois, describes it as being about two miles from Mannheim, where he was staying. Here's an. excerpt from a letter from Col. Oliver M. Greer to his wife, on the same subject: “Yesterday I took a trip through the most beautiful section of country I have seen in Europe. We followed the Inn river for quite a way, and then turned due east. The valley 1s-green as can be and the vegetation looks beau-. tifuf. We finally turned south and east off the highway and went over a bridge namgd by the engineers “The Ernie Pyle Memorial .Bridge.’ This was the

and you could tell that this road had been given special attention for it was perfectly built with limestone walls along the curves and at advantageous spots little plots equipped with benches and walls were to the side of the road where one could view the’ scenery. The bridge in the old days had been heavily guarded.”

By Jack Bell

to the dread pf death; have told me again and again of the Russian advances and victories over fields of Russian dead. American soldiers and officers brought back graphic stories of the Russian armies on the move. - American officers want to win, losing as few men as possible because they have a warm feeling toward their soldiers. German officers want to win, losing as few as possible because it is good military technic to save experienced men. Russian officers. want to win, period.

Confirmed ‘Goebbels Sores

THEY MASS HUGE armies, expecting to lose most of them. They walk, yelling, into blazing guns. Wave after wave moves forward. Always they shoot and even if haphazard their fire is tremendous hecause most of the men have automatic weapons. Goebbels had spent -years building the Russian up as a savage peasant who will kill or torture with pleasure. Everything that Goebbels had said~about the Russians came true. Bravery turned to terror among the Nazi hordes. “They fought with one thought—to crush the Germans and Berlin,” a senior officer once told me. “I was with them many weeks and did not meet a man who had not lost someone dear into German slavery or by German gunners. “It was not an army as we know it—it was just a vast horde of men, armed and savage, and hating.”

By David Dietz

systems revolving around a common center of gravity. By extremely accurate studies of the orbits of such double stars a great deal can be learned about them that could not be found from the study of a single star. ‘In particular, the masses of double stars can be computed directly from considerations of the orbit. It is not possible to make a direct calculation of the mass of a single star. However, it is no easy task to make an accurate determination of the orbit of a double star. This is due to the fact that the angle which the orbit makes with our line of sight is extremely difficult to determine.

Born in Belgium IN ADDITION to the double stars ‘which can be separated by the telescope, there are some in which the component stars are so close together that the fact that they.are double can be ascertained only by spectroscopic studies, periodic changes in the spectrum lines making it apparent that the star is double and not single. Astronomers have studied and entalogued more than 15,000 double stars and it is believed that about one third of all the stars in the galaxy must be doubles. Dr. Van Biesbroeck was born in Belgium and

accepted ‘an invitation to come to the Yerkes Observatory in 1915 after the Germans had invaded Belgium in world war I. . He became a naturalized citizen and in this war has a son .serving as an ensign in the navy air force in the Pacific and a ‘daughter with the WAC in Italy at the present moment. He has received numerous scientific honors, including the gold medal of the Academy of Sciences of Denmark.

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“SECOND SECTION

July 2—Sept. 27, 1940 ITLER didn’tiinvade Great Britain in 1940 for the simple reason that he couldn’t, and blamed it on bad weather, according to the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law and Italian foreign minister, Repeatedly the Germans reassured the Italians that the attack would

begin, if only the skies over the Eng-

lish channel would clear. But Cla« no’s account pictures Hitler and Ribbentrop both as worried and uneasy. By the end of September, it indicates, the grandiose plan for invasion was scrapped. Italy and Spain each wanted a share in the glory of defeating Great Britain, Hitler turned Fran. co down because it would cost, he said, more than. it was worth to have his aid. The ‘Italians were asked only for aircraft to join in the blitz. ~ n » Ciano wrote:

JULY 2 — “The ambassador (Alfleri, in Berlin) has reported on his conference with Hitler. I am convinced there is something new in the mind of that man, and that no new decisions have been reached. There is no longer the. certainty which was so impressive when Hitler spoke of the break-through of the Maginot Line. : “He does not answer Mussolini's offer to send men and planes participate in an attack on the island (Great Britain), Instead, he offers us aerial assistance to bomb the Suez Canal. Evidently his trust in us is not too great.” [ ”

JULY 3—“I ask Phillips (U. 8. ambassador) the meaning of the Republican candidacy (Wendell Willkie, for President) and if the United States is ready to enter the war. “He replies: ‘In the field of foreign policy, Democrats and Republicans are almost entirely in agreement. At the moment we don’t intend to enter the conflict. “We are arming on a large scale, and are helping the British (in every way. Some new event, such as the bombing of London with heavy casualties among the civilian population, might decide our entry.’ “This is the reason Hitler is careful and thoughtful about launching his final adventure. Even more so, we gather from many quarters, the Russians are approaching a more hostile attitude toward the axis.” » ” ” - JULY 4—“Adm.- Cavagnarl confirms the fact that we have lost 10 submarines. . -. . Ambassador

that .

and throw back an enemy offensive, explained.” July 5—“Il Duce gives me Instructions for my trip to Germany.

booty.

Yugoslavia.” » » »

JULY 7 — “Berlin. Warm reception. Hitler . , . has been very

weigh every word.”

letter to II Duce.

tol appeal will not be rejected.

Bastianini, home from London, says everyone, aristocracy, middle class and common people, is mad, stubborn and proud. Air and anti-aircraft preparations are undertaken on a large scale to check

Thus is Hitler's indecision

He instructs me to tell Hitler that he intends to land on. the Ionian (Greek) islands, and to stress the importance of dealing with

kind, almost too much 80. He is inclined to continue the struggle and to unleash a storm of wrath and stéel on England. But the final decision has not been reached, and for this he is delaying his speech to

July 16—“Hitler has sent a long It speaks of the attack on Great Britain as some-

_ WEDNESDAY, JULY 4; 1945

HITLER BLAMES IT ON THE WEATHER

Wag a

The cliffs of Old England , , , Hitler said he could storm them with a single division.

same definite and courteous fashion, declines our offer to send an Italian expeditionary force. He explains that logistic difficulties would arise in supplying two armies. Goering said , , . that Italian aviation has too important a task in the Mediterranean to scatter its forces. “II Duce is very much annoyed. . . . Even from German sources we receive information that the damage inflicted on the British navy by the Italian navy is nothing, or almost nothing.” » » ~ JULY 19—“1 arrie in Berlin Hitler's speech will be a last appeal to Great Britain. Without their saying so, I understand they (the Germans hope and desire that the Late in the evening, when the first cold British reactions arrive, an illconcealed sense of disappointment spreads among the Germans.”

July 20—“Conference with the

| fuehrer. , . , He would like an un-

derstanding with Great Britain. He knows that war with the British will be difficult and bloody.” Aug. 3—“Gen. Soddu (undersecretary of war) says that Gen. Graziani (commander in North Africa), after emptying Italy to supply Libya, does not feel he is prepared to attack Egypt, especially because of the heat. “Four of our agents from the military intelligence service were surprised tonight in the Yugoslav legation. °~’e must encourage a rumor that they ere only common burglars.” » » - . AUG. 4—“From Berlin, Ambassador Alfieri reports the sudden return of Hitler and the highest Nazi official, suggesting the imminent beginning of operations about which we, as usual, have been told nothing.” Aug. 5—“I1 Duce is dissatisfied because Gen. Graziani . , , doés not want to attack Egypt. , . . Mussolini’s uneasiness will increase if Hitler launches his offensive against the British Isles soon.” Aug. 6—“Alfleri now reports an unexplained pause in German activity, Is there anything to the rumor about a separate . peace through the King of Sweden? . . . Mussolini talks very. much about an attack against Yugoslavia during the second half of September. . . I do not believe that Hitler will permit ‘the status quo in the Balkans to be disturbéd.”

He wants absolutely to participate aa in the attack on Great Britain if it occurs, and he ‘is concerned that

AUG. 8—“Alfieri fensive has been

says the ofdelayed be-

France is trying to slip gradually|cause of bad weather "in the into the anti-British cemp. He|gEnglish Channel. - Gen. Marras fears this may cheat us ‘of our

(military gpttache in Berlin) says the delay is the result of secret conversations now under way.”

Aug. 10—'News of further de-

lay in the offensive comes from Berlin. Will it occur? When? In what form? We know nothing. The Germans keep us in the dark]

neutrals.”

Aug. 11—“The German airforce | has requested that we send planes | to join in action against Great Britain, A month ago, when we,

offered them, they were refused quickly. Why? I am not very favorable.”

(Editor's note: The aerial blitz on Great Britain began about mid-August. and the -all=out assault on London Sept. 6-7. By early October it had failed although London was to suffer heavily in the future.) A #--2 nn AUG. 17—“Alfieri, has. had an interesting conference with Von Ribbentrop. These are the results:

ONE: The German government does not want us to improve our relations with ‘Russia too much.

—TWO: It is necessary to set aside any plan to attack Yugoslavia, THREE: Eventual action against Greece is not at all- welcome in Berlin. “According to Von Ribbentrop we must concentrate every effort against Great Britain, because it, and it alone, is a question of ‘life and death.’ , , , Naturally we accept the Berlin view, “I see Mollier; the press attache of the German embassy, who says something more than the ambassador. He says that the landing is imminent, that thousands of landing craft are ready in the channel ports, that the operation will be bold, difficult and costly, but certain in its results. Mollier speaks of peace by the end of September.” » ” »

AUG. 19—“The order is to march against Egypt as soon as a German patrols lands in England.” Aug. 22—“Mussolini gives me a copy of orders postponing any action against Yugoslavia and Greece tindefinitely, It- appears - that the Germans have renewed their pressure for this. . . . An important speech by. Halifax. The possibility of an understanding is not excluded. Is this the explanation of the delay? AUG. 23—"El Caudillo (Franco) talks about the coming entry of Spain into’the war. He says he has turned already to the: Germans for what he. requires.” ’ ” » lL 4 AUG. 27—"Mussolini. ,-, , Is concerned exclusively with the plan fo attack Egypt. He says that Keitel (chief of the German high command) also believes the capture of Cairo is more important than the taking of London. , , . The attack (on-Egypt) is to take place Sept. 6.

(Count Ciano's Diary—No. 15)

Invasion of England. Just Tall

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just .as they did when we were tack Great Britain on the Weather. {He says he will require at least two

‘prepared and possible.

The following day, Ciano went to

Aug. 28 — “Hitler puts the re{sponsibility for the failtre to at-

weeks of clear weather to neutralize British naval superiority, but from all that was said, it seems td me likely that there is a definite post ponement of the action. Nevertheless, Hitler says . . . he rejected an attempt by the King of Sweden to mediate.” » n ” SEPT. 4—"Fifty American destroyers are loaned to Great Britain. Great excitement and indignation in Berlin, II Duce says he «is indifferent.” Y, | Sept. 5—“Hitler has uttered harsh threats . against England, but he makes no allusion to blitzkrieg.” Sept. 11 —“German .air action against: London continues. We do not know the exact results. It seems incredible, but we haven't a single informer in Great Britain On the other hand the. Germans

is a German agent who sent 29 radio messages in a single day.” A week later Ribbentrop arrived with the text of the Tripartite pact between Berlin, Rome and Tokyo, Ciano continues.

~ ” s < SEPT. 19—"As for England, Von Ribbentrop says that weather more than the R. A. F. has prevented final success, but this will come with the first few good days. The landing is British territorial defense is nothing, A single German division will smash it.”

Sept. 20—"A second conversation with Ribbentrop. It has to do chiefly with Spanish intervention, which now seems assured.”

Sept. 22—“Von Ribbentrop alJudes to the possibility that the axis might take the initiative in breaking diplomatic relations with the United States. Mussolini agrees.” ss 8 » , SEPT. 27—Ciano was in Berlin to sigh the Tripartite pact and found the Germans disturbed and fearful of the winter, lacking food and suffering mental agonies under British air raids. More important, he discovered that the German air blitz had failed. -

Sept. 27—"Two conversations with, Hitler. He did not speak of the current situation. He spoke instead of Spanish intervention, to which he is opposed, because it would cost more than it is worth. , , , No more invasion of England, ., . . No more quick destruction. From Hitler's speech it appears he is worried about a long war.”

NEXT-—The attack on Greece.)

RUSSELL GOODMAN AT CAROLINA CAMP

Pvt. Russell L. Goodman, husband of Mrs. Mary M. Goodman, 1441 N. New Jersey st., 1s now stationed at the. redistribution station af Camp Butner, N. C. He has recently returned from 22 months in the European theater where he was a front line gunner. Pvt. Goodman wears the E, T. O.

thing already decided, and, in the

ribbon with two battle stars.

SWEATIN' IT OUT—By Mauldin

By Eleanor Roosevelt)

peoples of other nations as they read our Declaration

of Independence, is that our concern was with human |

rights. In the last few years all over the world this question of human rights has’ been increasingly of importance to the people. I think when the history of-this past 12 years is written, we will find a very great development 5 in the awareness of the people that their-government belongs to them and is designed to furnish them with “life, liberty and the pursuit. of happiness.” We have had periods here when property rights transcended "human rights. But use’; our con-

tinent was such a vast one to develop, there was room for the development of property and its protection

and we ‘did not greatly “harm the rights of human beings. We have reached a point today, however—olsvi=

ously we have been working toward it steadily during | #§

the last 12 years—when all questions will be consid-

ered first from the standpoint-of human rights. That :

is going to hold good, I believe, throughout the "world,

more this national holiday of ‘ours should become

known and respected by the peoples of the world. For{

the truths set down in the -Declaration of Inde-_pendence-are the fundamentals of a lasting peace. If we are to move forward under the new charter toward a peaceful world, we must accept in all the United Nations these “truths and’ it is. well that “we should remind Suteeives ‘individually in the U. 8. A:

Perhaps, therefore, it is fitting that. more and

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WASHINGTON, July 4 (U.P), -Daniel W, Tracy, assistant

nounced a plan for settlement of jurisdictional disputes bétween the Building Trades department (A. P. of 1.) pe v and the United Automobile

0). The plan, } first applied in | Detroit, could be used on a national scale. Tracy, who is serving temporarily as the “tmpartial seventh member of a national come mittee to séttle the issue, said the agreement between the rival unions “was the first time in history that the A. F, of L. and C. I. O. ever got together for peaceful settlement of a jurisdice tional dispute.” . » y

HE SAID all of the A. F. of L. workers who had quit work. ia Detroit because of a - jurisdice tional dispute in the automobile industry were back on the job. He said they returned under a stipulation’ reached at a meeting’ here last week and that a national committee was working out terms for full settlement of the dispute within 30 days ace cording to the principles adopted here. Tracy asserted the same prine ciples could be followed in other cities where disputes might arise. He said the terms would have te be worked out by local committees, however, and they quite

Mr. Tracy

those reached in settling the Detroit controversy. o » = a THE NATIONAL .committes agreed -that- join committees of the A. F. of L. and C. 1. O. should be set up in each locality where a jurisdictional dispute arose. The joint committee would attempt to settle the problem but if they disagreed on any ques tions these issues would be ree ferred to the national committee for a final determination, The local and national commit--tees would decide disputes arising over who performs work in new construction, installation of machinery in exclusively new buildings, dismantling, meving and storage of old machinery and installation . of machinery in old plants. Tracy said that the U. A Ww. and the Building Trades department agreed to the plan and that ‘it will be submitted to the A. F. of L. executive council and OC, I. O. executive board for approval of its use on a national scale.

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45TH DIVISION IS RETURNING TO U, S.

PARIS, July 4 (U. P.).—~The 45th “Thunderbird” infantry division was alerted for redeployment yesterday as thé army's assembly area command near Reims entered its second month of operations with 134,000 troops in the processing mill. The 45th, commanded by Maj. Gen, Frederick of San Francisco and Washington, D, C., has four invasions to its credit—sSicily, Calerno, Anzio and southern France. During its 420 combat days -it pushed more than 1000 miles, help-

OF NAVY, IS- CASUALTY

| | P.).—Relatives were informed yesterday of the death of Marine Capt. Robert F. Ruge, assistant coach of the U. 8. navy basketball team from 1937 to 1940.

Japanese at Cofregidor in 1942, lost his life when a Japanese prison ship en route from the Philippines was sunk off the China coast last Oct. 24.

graduated’ from “the academy in 1937.

U. 8S. Naval He was captain

year and

nich, The alerting of the 45th makes

active list for redeployment to the | United States. The 28th division was removed

cations’ zone division announced that its order to.move had been “suspended.” Authorities said they were Unable to explain. The communications zona division said that last week’s announcement that the 10th armored division was arriving at Camp ‘Okla homa for redeployment on July 8 “apparently was in- error.” It said the Reims’ command, which forwarded . the information. had not mentioned the division since S. H.

{OPEN HOUSE PLANNED FOR RETURNED VET

Open house will B@ held for T. gt. James O. Dillon, a veteran of the 8th air force, from 3 to 7 p. m. | Sunday at his home- near Bridgeport.

| Ralph ‘W,_ Dillon; returned home

We “aot wank thi pane — Je J tn 15 amid sees fn soandals.” England, ;

ing capture Rome, leading the Tth | {army actoss the Rhine, and help- | ing capture Nuernberg and Mu- |

a total of 11 divisions now on the |

from the list today. The communi- |

A. E. P. was rechecking on |ts,.

Sgt. Dillon, son of Mr. and Mrs. |

| coach.

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RUGE, EX-CAGE COACH

VALPARAISO, Ind, July 4 (uU.|

Ruge, who was captured by -thel"

A native of Valparaiso, Ruge was| .

of the navy net team in his senior! then became assistant |

—We, the WomenDon't Give Up Men to Aliens, Wives Advised

By RUTH MILLETT A TENNESSEE wife is in a . quandary over what to do about her husband who has asked for a divorce so that he can marry a French girl who is about to bear his child. The husband g claims he still loves his wife and child back home and that he doesn’t love the French girl, but “Her § parents arej strictly reli. gious, and she will be an outcast if the baby -is. born without a father. I feel that the only thing for me to do is for you to divorce me so that I can marry her and give the baby a name.”

® ” ” STUFF AND NONSENSE. The wife's position ought to be clear in a case like that. If she doesn't want her husband back under those conditions, thén she. can give him a divorce. But if she wants him, she and their child have first claim. Por eign women who are having affairs with American men are plaving this “poor little betrayed girl’ rola to the limit. They have a decided advantage in their claims over the wife back home, because they are where the men can see their tears and hear their avowals of undying love. And they have a particularly callous attitude toward the wife ‘who has been waiting the war out. The English mother of the quade ruplets bern to a married Amer ican soldier even had the nerve to speak of her lover's settling “the affair with his wife.” . » . BUT THE wife of a man overs . seas has a right to demand thas he come home to her—before nie lets a foreign mistress talk him into a divorce. And if she never divorces him, that is her right, too. Any foreign girl whe takes om J married American an ‘for the duration ought not to be allowed to shove an Supsiens ‘wife out of her rightful place unless the wife wants to let her husband £0. v4 aly And the wite who meekly a