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THE RIVIERA elub pool: was packed July 4th, and so were the dressing rooms. But everything went along smoothly—smoothly, that is, until about mid afternoon. Then the 100 or. more partially dressed and boys in the men's dressing room were startled half out of their wits by an ear-piercing. female shriek, Looking up, they saw a woman, clad in a bathing suit, frantically trying to- fight her way through the turnstile by which she just had entered. It's a one-way turn-. - stile, designed to permit swimmers to return from the pool. To enter the pool they have to leave the dressing room.through the showers at another door. The poor woman got nowhere with the turnstile, ! and so she clapped her hands over her eyes and just shiieked. The room ajtendant ran

| over and also,tried to release the turnstile—vainly.

Finally, he placed the hysterical ‘woman behind a screen while*he worked on ‘the turnstile. In 15 or 20 minutes he got it open and she beat a hasty retreat.

Never a dull moment!

“Embarrassing Moment

SPEAKING OF embarrassing moments, there's the’ case of a certain North side matron, mother-in-law of a real estate man. This matron, who lives out about 4000 N Illinois, received a phone call the other

| day from the ‘son of an old friend living in Utica,

N Y. The son, just out of the army, said his mother had told him to look up her long-time friend while in town. “Come right on out,” welcomed the matron.

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had a pretty good idea of what he'd look like. Pretty soon & car drove into the driveway and she hurried down to the door. Up walked a young man. With him was a young woman. Bursting out the door, the matron threw her arms around him and gave him a couple of big smackeroos. - Flushing, the young man said, “I don’t think you know who I am.” “Oh, yes 1 do,” beamed the matron, giving him another big kiss. Just then her son-in-law, the real estate man, came around the house and said: “Oh, mother, these people want to sée the pictures of that cottage up at the lake. They may buy it.” The matron nearly fainted. “Someone give me a gun,” she moaned. .

| Vienna Stripped

LINZ, Austria—“There are bad children in every army,” blandly retorted a top Russian militarist when a committee of local leaders protested shortly after Vienna was taken against Bolshevist plunder, rape and general hell-raising. “Most of your manufacture was for war, transferred here by the Nazis when allied bombers were over western factories,” was the Russian reply to .the wail: “You are stripping us of machinery. We will’ starve without. industry to exchange for food: Vienna is a city of 2,000,000 in a nation of 7,000,000.” “Russia needs food. We have starved long. Now you starve a while,” was the curt reply to the Austrian who cried, “You are robbing us of our cattle, sheep, pigs: and chickens what shall we do for food?” j

Factories Stripped That in brief describes the Russian occupation ot Vienna and part of Austria. That the factories were stripped throughout Russian-held zones is undoubted. I drove through it and saw Red soldiers rounding up thousands of cattle and sheep every mile of the way. I heard many stories from farmers who had tried to hide their stock in ravines and forests, only to be found by the Russians. One wealthy landowner told me that he had walked 150 miles after the Russians had taken 1000 cows, pigs and chickens, leaving him not one meal. ‘Wherever the Russians have gone the story is the same. Poland is wasteland, every animal having been slaughtered, according to freed American army officers who saw the winter rush west from Warsaw, Everywhere the Reds have lived largely on the land, as armies have lived through the centuries.

Sky 1s Limit

In action the Russian soldier is under severe discipline. There are no stragglers when a big drive 1s on. Officers are tough and won't hesitate to beat the ears off a soldier who gums a detail. But when the Reds take a city, the sky is the limit, for a while at least. “There are bad children.” We may recall our own remarks. “Let the Rus-

Science

THE MAGNIFICENT research laboratory just completed ' by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. fn*Akron, is not only an important addition to the nation’s scientific resources, but a symbol of the faith that John W. Thomas, irman of the Firestone board and directing head of its world-wide operations, has in the future of America and scientific achievement. Back in 1908, Mr, Thomas, then the first chemist to be employed by Firestone, established the company's first chemical laboratory in a corner of the noisy tire plant. Tt cost $400. y The new laboratory, designed and constructed under Mr, Thomas’ personal supervision, . represents an investment of $2,000,000. Ever since 1908, Mr. Thomas has been building up thé company’s research facilities, Recently he was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of Chemists in recognition of his leadership in rubber research. And shortly thereafter, the University of Akron conferred the degree of doctor of science upon him, 2 i

Sees Wear-Ever Ties. MR. THOMAS envisions unlimited possibilities for development in the new laboratory. Eventually he expects to see an auto tire that will wear as’long as the

__ automobile on which it is used, that won't puncture,

blow out of skid on wet and icy pavements.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday—In today’s column, I want to write about the joys of leisure. Leisure; of course, does not mean that one has nothing to do! It means, rather, that one's occupations are changed. For two days this week, mine changed quite completely. I did nothing but play, ‘sharing. my pleasure with friends who were able to spend a little time with me. : One friend of mine I marvel at whenever we meet. ‘She must be nearly my age, and yet she manages to do all of her owp housework; in a big, old-fashioned house. ‘She keeps a tremendous garden going, because it is wartime and we must grow food. Sometimes she has one rather elderly man to help her, but much of the Hi the Ib’ oh Soh She has picked quarts of strawberries and taken them to the could preserve them for winter use. She

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conviaations over the police radio loudspeaker at headquarters. For instance, heard Monday night: “What's squad 10's location?" | “Dispatcher to ‘Squad 10—what's your location?” | “Squad 10 to dispatcher—Right across fe street from ! Car 42." Gertrude Johnson, a stenographer: in the * FBI offices; stepped out the door of tHe office and found some identification cards and other papers of the sort usually carried in a billfold She picked them up and glanced: at the name on them. She recognized the owner of the cards, Miss Patricia Forster of the |

"OPA offices, as a member of her Sunday school class.

Phoning the OPA headquarters, she - asked Miss | Forster if she had lost ‘anything out .of her bifold. “Why, no,” Miss Forster said, “it's right *here on my | desk. Wait a minute—it's gone!” . And so it was, in- | cluding the $40 it had contained. A .thief had stolen | the billfold—right under Miss Forster's nose—and discarded the contents—except money—right under the very noses of the FBI. Some crust.

Pay in Reverse

OTHA DUERSON 21563 Boulevard pl, got into] trouble playing Good Samaritan Wednesday. He! was sitting in his car on Jackson st.,, near Union Station, waiting on a passenger, when he saw a soldier having trouble changing a tire on a car. That's Otha's business—he’s a service man for General Tire —and so he parked his car in a yellow zone and went over and helped the soldier. He wouldn't accept any pay for his help. Then he discovered that while doing his good deed his car had picked up a $2 traffic ticket for improper parking. The Indiana state guard is looking for horn tooters. It's been decided to have a guard band and they need | 28 bandsmen and one leader. The latter will have the rank of lieutenant. It's a pretty good deal for 17-year-old high school bandsmen who'd like a little military experience. They will receive uniforms, not to. mention regulation drill pay, and they'll have

an opportunity to go to.Camp Atterbury July 22. To | apply, see Capt. Angleton at the Armory, 711 N. Penn- | slyvania, at 7:30 any Monday or Wednesday night. |

The age limits are 17-45.

By Jack Bell

sians take Berlin; they'll give those Germans what they deserve.” They did just that, A Russian officer in Vienna summed it up: “When the Nazis ran over Russia—Swissshhh! When the Russians run over Germany—Swissshh!” an eye for an eye.

Not ‘Liberated’

One could feel sorry for the Viennese, who had the idea they had been liberated, not conquered. When it was announced at Moscow that the Austrians would be given a chance to form a free nation, they whooped for joy: “Isn't this dandy.” But now they find Russians are as bad as the Nazis, and “ask “When are you Americans coming?" Why should Austrians expect the Russians to shower them with kindness, observers ask, when they | did nothing to help but much to hinder the allies? Russian actions in Vienna and other conquered | places may be understood, but not condoned. Russia's was a wild, illiterate army on the march and hard to handle. It had to have incentive, and got! it—wine, women and loot, Perhaps 100 Viennese, describing Russian brutalities for three or four days after the capture of Vienna said, “And you know there were 60,000 women raped.”

Mingled With Troops

Probably an exaggeration, but that there were some no one doubts, maybe more than the American |

or British army would chalk up. But the Viennese told how, when the Russian troops march in, girls ran out by the hundreds and mingled with them. Admittedly, the most ruthless Russian action was the taking of all the cattle, sheep, hogs and barnyard fowl. Confiscation of machinery may be condoned becase much of it was Nazi-owned and operated for war, while the Nazis had ruined every Russian factory they reached.

Needed Meat, Took It Go

But killing an industry that produces milk, cheese, butter, eggs and meat, the very foundation of human health, is punitive to the extreme. Years are necessary to breed enough livestock and fowl to feed these despoiled nations.

By David Dietz

“A tire that would run 3500 miles was the goal of the rubber industry several decades ago,” Mr. Thomas says. “Now its not unusual for passenger - car tires to run 10 times that far and it is no trade secret that we ultimately expect to produce a tire that will run 100,000 miles.” The new laboratory is devoted not only to research on natural and synthetic rubber but also to studies of plastics, adhesives, metals, and related subjects. A three- -story buff brick structure of ultramodern lines, it stands on a high hill overlooking the milelong stretch of buildings that comprise. the Firestone plant in Akron.

Beautiful and Convenient

GLASS DOORS lead into the lobby of the laboratory which contains a huge terrarium of tropical plants. ‘The streamlined, functional design of the lobby has been carried out throughout the entire laboratory, making it as beautiful to the eye as it is functional and convenient for the chemists and physicists who will work in it. Prefabricated inner walls and partitions that can be. easily moved, make it possible to arrange the rooms of the laboratory to suit any research program. Workrooms for one, two, four or six sciéntists are quickly set up. - Each room is equipped with an array of spigots, valves and outlets furnishing hot or cold water, distilled water, steam, gas; compressed air and a vacuum line, Alternating or-direct current of any. desired voltage are likewise available at each table.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

that they are a joy ad not a burden. When she spends a -day with me, she swims and talks and seems completely able to enjoy her leisure. That is the mark of a really well-controlled person. Many people becorne obsessed with the things they must do. When an opportunity comes for leisure they cannot enjoy it, for they cannot free their minds from the thought of their many obligations. One of our two leisure evenings here at the cottage was spent in listening to some beautiful new’ recordings of Earl Robinson's “Lonesome Train.” Although he himself had played it for me on the piano, 1 had never heard it as a complete record. I missed his personality, but it is a marvelous recording and I shall enjoy having it whenever I have—other leisure

‘moments. Other recordings which we enjoyéd were

Burl Ives’ folk songs, which always ‘give me special pleasure, Last evening we took to reading poetry aloud. Some poems I think are particularly good to read in this way, because they are more enjoyable when you near: the rhythm of the lines. Alfred Noyes’ “Barrel Organ,” as well as his “Highwayman” and other

‘shorter poems brought us finally to Countée Cullen's

“The + Black Christ.” Of course, there are people to whom poetry means | little more than prose: But to those who care for sound and thought combined,. § .think poetry read

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“(No 17 of Count Ciano's Diary) -

Hitler Rescues Duce From Disaster

Nov. 1, 1940—Jan. 1, 1941 IN the closing days of 1940 Il Duce, who had dreamed 86 grandly of empire, was re= duced to an abject appeal to the Germans to bail him out of Albania and Egypt where his vaunted divisions had been torn: to shreds, according to the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, Within eight days of the attack on the Greeks, Clano admitted sadly that the initiative had passed to the hands of the sturdy Macedonian fighters. Within five weeks Mussolini ‘was reconciled to asking for

‘an armistice, and was persuaded against it only at the last moment.

The British blow fell in Egypt Dec.

{9, and the last straw came when Il

‘| Duce discovered his commander in | Albania, Gen. Soddu, spent his eveInings composing music for motion | pictures. » ” ” Ciano wrote: | NOV, 1—"The sun finally has] {come out. I take advantage of it to carry out an excellent bombardment of Salonika (Greek port. on the | Aegean Sea). On my return I was | attacked by Greek Planes. All went well, but I must confess . . . it is an ugly sensation.” Nov. 6—“Mussolini is not happy | about the way -things are going In | Greece. The ‘attack on Corizza did occur, the enemy has made some progress, and it is a fact that on the eighth day of operations the initiative is in their ‘hands. don’t think we actually are beaten, but many begin to feel 50.’ » ” » NOV. 7—“On the Corizza sector {our collapse began when a battalion {of Albanians ran from fear. There {was no betrayal. .. . Soddu (Italian [commander in Albania) says that {the arrival of a few regiments of | Alpine troops will eliminate all |dapgers.” Nov, 8—"Grazzi (Italian minister) has returned from Athens and says the country’s internal conditions {are very bad, and that the resistance is a grass fire. According to him, Metaxas (Greek premier) was {handed our ultimatum in his dressling gown, and was ready to yield.

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He stiffened only after talking with |

the King and with the British minister.”

Dee. 15, 1940 . . . “Il Duce is indignant toward Marshal Rudolfo Graziano (above) because , . . he

scolds H Duce for permitting himself to be betrayed by Roman military advisors.”

Nov. 13—“I1 Duce beginning | to lose faith in Badoglio (ehief of the general staff)” Nov. 15—“The Greeks, it seems, have resumed their attack all along the front. ,.. We lack cannon, while the Greek artillery is modern

and well handled.” | 2 3

NOV. 18—“A rather puzzling Rib- | bentrop meets me in Sdlzburg....| The Germans see gloom ahead. , . . I had lunch with Serrano ‘(Suner, Spanish foreign minister) and Rib-| bentrop. Serrano is outspoken. He | chats with a freedom the Germans | don't like, criticizing especially the | German effort to get together with | the French, | “In the afternoon I saw Hitler at] the Berghof. The atmosphere | was heavy. Hitler is pessimistic | and believes the situation much! aggravated by what has occurred in the Balkans. His criticism is definite and final. I try to speak, but he does not permit me to proceed. “Only in the second part of | the conversation, after Hitler has given his consent to our negotiations with Yugoslavia, does he become warm and cordial. The idea of an alliance with Yugoslavia ex- | cites him. “Alternate defeats and victories on the Albanian front. I fear we shall have to withdraw to a previously established line.” ¥

= =» NOV. 20—“Another conference

{lost its impetus. Unfortunately, we, | too, do not have strength to resume our advance. . . . Hitler has made a speech. , , . Too many personal arguments to be convincing. It was intended to lift the morale of the German people, who are disappointed at the results of the American election (Roosevelt's re-elec-tion as President.)” Nov. 10—“Neville Chamberlain is dead. Mussolini attributes no importance to the event, and says: “This time he- definitely missed the bus.” He was so pleased with his remark that he asked me to include

it in my diary.” 2 = =» NOV. 12—“A black day. The

British have attacked the Italian fleet without warning at Taranto (naval base in southern Italy), land heve sunk. the dreadnaught Cavour and damaged heavily the battleships Littorio and Duilio.... Il Duce took the blow quite well and does not seem to have realized its seriousness.’

» NOV. 9—“The Greek attack has!

with Hitler. He speaks exclusively of Yugoslavia. . . . He plans to call Regent Paul (of Yugoslavia) to Berlin, and make the blow known to him. (Editor's note: The Yugoslav government of Premier Svetkovich signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact in Vienna March 25, "1941, Two days later it was overthrown by a revolt led by Gen. Simovich. The young King Peter II ascended the throne in place of Prince Regent Paul. The Germans - . attacked Yugoslavia and Greece April 6.) “Finally Hitler has one of his fits of emotion. ‘From this city of Vi enna I sent Mussolini a telegram to assure him I would never forget his aid on the day of the -Anschluss (union between Germany and Austria). I confirm it today. I am on his side with all my strength.’ He had two big tears in his eyes. What a strange man!” » » - NOV. 21 — “Hitler's letter to Il Duce is ih the tenor of the first part of the conference, critical and

3 _ . “Jealousies between

Dec. 20. . generals are worse than those be-

tween women. One - should hear Gen. Ulbaldo Soddu’s (above) telephone calls to Sorice.”

» Nov. 26—“Badoglio has submitted] his ietter of resignation after a long conference with II Duce, The ushers at the, doors of- Palazzo Venezia were given -mstructipns to show the visiting poppies (Fascist | leaders) to different rooms, to prevent a general scuffle.” "Nov. 28—"“Bad news from Albania. Greek pressure continues, but above | fall our resistance is weakening. If| the Greeks have strength enough | we might yet have a great déal of trouble.” Nov. 29—“Starace - (chief ' of the | Pascist militia) has just come from Albania. Our soldiers have fought

but little, and poorly.” | Ir |

NOV. 30—“Meeting of the Council of Ministers. + JETDuce’s) thesis is this: Badoglio not only lagreed. (to the attack on Greece), but was enthusiastic. The political side was carried out perfectly. Mili= tary action was entirely lacking.” Dec. 4—“Gen. Sorice (undersecretary for war) telephones early to say that we have lest Pogradec and that the Greeks have broken. through our lines. He says Soddu (commander in Albania) now thinks. that military action is

| impossible and that the situation

may be resolved only through political intervention. “Mussolini calls me, at Palazzo Venezia. I find, him very discouraged. He says: ‘There is nothing else to do. This is grotesque and absurd. We should ask for a cessation of hostilities! Impossible. The Greeks will ask as an initial condition the Fuehrer’s personal guarantee that nothing ever will be done against them again. I would rather kill myself than. telephone Ribbentrop.’ “What counts now is to resist, and to stay in Albania. Mussolini listens to me and decides to make a fresh attempt.”

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DEC. 5—“The Germans have given us 50 transport planes.” Dec. 6—“Conference with Marshal Milch (Nazi air marshal), who has come to Rome to settle the question of Stukas in the Mediterranean. . . . Hitler's letter, which he brought, also differs substantially from the one sent from Vienna. The Albanian affair is minimized, certain of solution, a peripheral episode. . .-. Cavallero has been named (chief of the general staff).” Dec. 10—“News of the attack (by the British 8th army) on Sidi

full of concern. ”

Barrani (in Egypt) bursts like a

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fash qf lightning. At first the! thing - doesn’t seem serious, but | subsequent’ telegrams from Graziani .eonfirmed that, we have re~2ived a great: blow.” u n 2 11—“Foflir divisions can be

DEC.

. ‘considered destroyed (in Libla) and |

Graziani. says nothing about what | he can do to parry the blow.!| Mussolini becomes more and more | calm. . . . During the evening word arrives that the Catanzaro division has been torn to pieces. What on earth, can't happen in our army if| five divisions can be pulverized in| two days?’ Dec. 12—“A catastrophic tele- | gram has arrived from Graziani, rhetoric | and concern. He is thinking of) withdrawing to Tripoli to ‘keep the! flag flying on that fortress at least.” Immediately, he is con-| cerned with accusing the commander, that is Mussolini, for compelling him to wage the war of a! ‘flea against an elephant’.” n » » | Pec. 16—“A meeting with 1 nant toward Graziani . . . because of a long recriminating telegram, in which he speaks ‘man to man,’ and scolds II Duce for permitting himself to be betrayed by his R&man militaty advisers, “I receive Marchesa (the marshal’s. wife).

Graziani She is beShe has received a letter from her husband containing] his will, and saying ‘one cannot! smash steel armor with . finger-! nails” He asks mass support of German aviation.” i Dec. 16—“A meeting with 1} Duce to request raw materials from Germany. ~ The sad story begins.” | Dec. 17—"Rumors of a erent) victory have spread through the city. There js no truth in it. | It is a trick to break down our| morale.” DEC. 19—“The Siena division,! which was operating along the coast | (in. Albania), has broken to pieces! as a result of a Greek attack. . Mussolini is irritated and worried.” Dee. 20—"Jealousies between generals are worse than those between women. One should hear Soddu's telephone calls to Sorice! “Il Duce has prepared a message to Hitler. He presents things as they are and asks for German intervention in Thrace (eastern Greece), through Bulgaria. I don't think Hitler can do this before March (actually it was April ). ..’ Churchill , . . has said cruel things about the worth of our forces in Libya.” The following day he agreed to a German offer to send two armored divisions to Africa. 2 » s |

DEC. 23—“Il Duce no longer believes what Cavallero says. ‘With these generals,’ declares Mussolini, ‘one must be like country innkeepers who paint roosters on the walls and offer credit when they start to crow. I must admit that the Italians of 1914 were better. It is! not a good sign for the (Fascist) regime’ i Dec. 25—“Christmas. II Duce is somber, and speaks with concern about Albania. He’ appears more tired than usual. This saddens me. His energy at this time .is our greatest resource.”

Dec. 30—"“One day all is rosy, and

came when II Duce learned that Soddu, even in: Albania, spent his evenings -composing music for the movies.”

. (Monday: The Hess nt)

By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, July 6.—With- the active encouragement of the Soviet high command, Germans in Berlin ‘have plunged into political activity and have reactivated the German trade unions, it developed today. ¥ Americans and British have banned political activity in German regions under their control and have gone very. slow with trade unions, Whether politics and unions will be banned in Berlin greas under British and American control and encouraged in the Soviet section of the capital remains to be seen. The strongest political group in Berlin appears to be the Communist party but the Social Democrais |are almost equally active.

Must Advocate ‘Democracy’

And Russians established two conditions which all political groups must meet before they are allowed to organize. One is that they cannot |undertake any action or have anyithing in their program which is | directed against or which might damage any of the four allies occupying. Berlin, The second is that all parties must be anti-Fascist and agivocats “democracy.” The first two parties to organi were the German (Communists and the Social Democrats. More recently the Christian Democrats and the Union of ‘Peasants and Democrats have gotten going. The organization of political parties was authorized in the second order issued by Marshall Georgi Zhukov.

The Communists got off to a head start, organizing about a ‘week bec fore the Social Democrats. They were the first to publish their own paper. Their political opponents claim the Russians indirectly favored the Communists by letting them have automobiles: “so .they could circulate in the. city while ‘the other party ‘organizers had no means of transport. or The Communists: give the out- - ward appearance of being.

Social Democrats are

formative stage ‘in which it 1s

Berliners Launch Political Whirl With Russ Approval

the Russians, the Communists and|doubtful if the leaders themselves strongest.| know what their actual strength However, all the parties are in a|is.

The Russians said that no elec

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (U. P.). —The strange case of Mah Jung Don, 25, a bus boy who thought he was Chinese but discovered he was a white American, may be settled Monday in-the court of Superior Judge Edward Murhpy. The apparently involuntary masquerade was revealed when the man known®4to San Francisco's Chinatown as Johnny Jung was arraigned | yesterday on charges ‘of stealing gold coins and - watches. A routine check of Jung’s immigration record unearthed his birth certifieate, .It showed that he was born in Sacramento, Cal.; that his fathers'-* name was Leroy Forest Allison and his mother’s Lulu Dougherty. When he was a year old Jung

taken to Hongkong and reared as |

‘China Boy' Goes to Court, Finds He's Really American

an Oriental. still live there. Johnny Jung's English is meager, but he managed to explain that, “I catch wife China-side before come United States.” His wife is Wong Gon Jung and ‘she also lives “in Hong Kong. They have no children. Judge Murphy asked June if he wanted fo be an American and Jung | answered: “Yes, American.” “You rather be China Judge Murphy queried. ? “Yes, China boy,” Jung replied. The judge postponed the hearing until Monday, when an interpreter could be in court. - Jung's features are not Oriental. But his skin is somewhat dark, |

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was adopted by a Chinese couple, | helping to perpetuate the illusion munists started off with much sup-

of his supposed Chinese birth.

‘WASHINGTON, July. 6 (U, P). Kl Malaria, the dread disease that strikes 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 Americans every year, eventually may be stamped out by the new wonder insecticide DDT, government entomologists said today. Experiments conducted in laboratories, . swamps and private homes prove the drug almost 100 per cent deadly against both adult mosquitoes and the infant wrigglers. No other insecticide has this double-barreled quality. Nope has

ed so effec‘the tive against t the fu -grown insect | ‘and, ‘according. Ww Apnsuliuredepiruent entomoly-

Powerful Insecticide, DDT, Effective Against Malaria

gists pointed out that while DDT holds great possibilities for mass con-

peri agents. For malaria control, DDT is mou

{effective when dissolved in kerosepe

and sprayed on walls and ceilings of homes, they reported. Once on thé walls, DDT crystals remain deadly from two to six months. ‘The spray is ‘not harmful to ‘humans but will kill flies, cockroaches and other pss as well as mosquitoes. . Low cost is expected to put DDI n reach of low-income families.

trol of disease, none is now avail-| able except for: the military and ex-|

tions were presently contemplated but that- the parties were to enable the Germans to form political groups, formulate programs and put the programs before the public. The parties are represented in the German administration’ for Berlin but on what basis it was impossible to determine exaetly: There are a good many Communist posters and slogans on the Berlin’ walls as well as printed announcements of rallies. All the slogans -are built around the Slogan that. “anti-Fascists should unite to build a free, democratic Germany” and eradicate naziism, fascism and militarism. ; Center and Right Wing The Communists ‘and Social Democrats appear to be” loosely {Joined in an “anti-Fascist” bloc. The [Christian Democrats and the Peas‘ants’ Union constitiite a “center and | right wing” group.

+ = Some Germans believe that if a

{free election were held the centet | and right wing elements would win today but there is no way of check{ing their statement. | These Germans who are oppo- | nents of Marxism claim the Come

|port but have lost .it because “of {the unfavorable -impression the {Russians have made in Berlin.”

| ——— —. p———— a FAYETTE COUNTY CIRCUIT JUDGE DIES CONNERSVILLE; July 6 (U. P.). —Fayette Circuit Judge -G. Andrew Golden, former Fayette county attorney, died in his home yesterday of a neart ailment.’ .A Republican, his term in office {would have run until Jan. 1, 1947,

Judge Golden was a world war I veteran.

——————————————————————— INDICTED 5 SLAYER NOBLESVILLE, July 6 (U. P).=—

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“PAGE no We, the Women ——— Women Want Truth About = |- Food Shortage

By RUTH MILLEPT

“PEACHES ARE being fed to hogs' because there isn't enough sugar for canning,” an OPA employee told women of one Southern city in an effort to persuade those who had received théir canTow ning certificates ‘early to return all certificates over 10 pouads per person, the. prevailing rate, ’ That ment enough to make consc ientious women who had been issued 15 or 20 pounds per person rush down and turn in the difference between what they had been. given and the 10 pounds per person to which the canning sugar ration had been cut.

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AND THEN the OPA district director flatly denied the story. Said ‘he: “There is enough homecanning sugar in the county to can all available fruits and vegetables. : “There is no record or evidence of _a single complaint and I seriously doubt that anyone in the county has fed one peach to hogs. It is extremely difficult in this organization’ to prevent irresponsible employees from making irresponsible statements — as was made about the peaches being fed to hogs.” The official who had the courage to deny a story that was working on women's consciences because he felt it wasn’t true ~ought te be a hero to American women. - ” ” FOR WOMEN have had to put up with all kinds of ihconveniences in wartime, and they have - been prétty good sports about it. Cheerfully, they have stood in line to by food. They have made the best of shortages that have worked real hardships on their families, like the current meat shortage. They have taken on new homemaker jobs like gardening, canning, etc. But just because they have been good sports,’ they shouldn't be imposed upon—as they often are. And certainly their sympathies shouldn’t be played on by the use of untrue stories—just to whip them into line.

They ‘have a right to know’ whether there is any real need for their sacrifices. And it is time they quit being docile and looked into every demand that they sacrifice and do without to see if there is any real reason for it.

LAGUARDIA'S TRIP ‘10 EUROPE 0. KD

NEW YORK, July 6 (U. P).— Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had presidential approval today for his long-predicted trip to Europe. It was possible that he might be reunited with his sister, who was rescued from a German concentration camp. > LaGuardia heard from his sister, Mrs. Emma LaGuardia Gluck; yesterday. In a radio message relayed by Mutual Correspondent Qatharine Cravens, Mrs. Gluck asked LaGuardia to help find her husband and then “get us out to America.” Mrs. Gluck was found living with a Berlin family. Her daughter, Yo» landa Danish, and her grandson, Richard Danish, were with her. She greeted Miss Cravens with repeated exclamations of “Thank God you are American.” Mrs. Gluck described how once the Nazis at Ravensbrueck concen-

were bringing her brother to Germany “and will hang him right before your eyes.” Approval for a European trip by LaGuardia was made yesterday by President Truman, who said the mayor of New York had been invited to Frange for Bastille day, July 14. The French had also extended invitations to the mayors of Moscow and London.

sHANNAH<

Frank Baskerville, Noblesville, faced

today in connection with the shooting of Walter A. Guth during a fight in a tavern June. 25. 3 The

turned the true bill yesterday.

a first degree murder indictment

Hamilton county grand jury re-.