Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1945 — Page 9

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EARL LITTLE, the popular W.* 40th st. grocer, and Mrs. Little were driving past the LE Lilly estate near Traders Point the other day and spotted a fox brazenly sitting right out in the rokd. They got within

| feel of it before. it took off. Earl should have called out the Traders Point Hunt

further on, he had to swerve his car to avoid striking two skunks. ‘It Wasn't just tender-heartedness that made him avoid them. . . H. H. Tudor, the lawyer, reports that three women were observed

ing at Delaware and 30th waiting

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ndicate that it nce. e toward Presiis much better in last year’s for next year's n 1942.

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for a bus. Glancing down from her newspaper, one of the women noticed a black cat sneaking along. It was just about ready to cross | the path of the women. With wild screeching and waving of arms, bedlam broke loose and the ominous 4 omen beat a hasty retreat before any damage was { done. After all, what does a black cat know about I Friday, the 13th, and human superstition? It's just # another day to the cat. , ‘The Irvington resident { | who started a dispute last ‘spring over why woodpeccers hammer in eaves troughs now says she "has proof that it's to get insects in vegetation in | the troughs. She had the troughs cleaned out, she i * says, and the woodpecker trapsferred his machine- © gun hammering to another neighborhood. N Technically Correct 3 DR. GAIL ELDRIDGE, deputy coroner, sent a pple of laughter through criminal court during his i testimony this week in the “hot-foot” slaying trial. i Describing the victim's fatal injuries, Dr. Eldridge i told how two bullets plowed into the slain man’s chest, "one penetrating the heart and passing on out of the body. “Now, doctor,” he was asked, “what, in your opinion, was the cause of death?” Very seriously, © the witness replied: “Heart failure.” . In yester- [! day's column, T made a little mistake. 1 said it was * the folks on the “eighth floor” of the Peoples Bank i building who had raised $15 to help start a chicken © farm for the army sergeant who has had amputation f of all four limbs. It was the folks on the seventh Toor. Rut I wasn't wrong long. As soon as they | heard about it, the people on the eighth floor, and all other floors, too, got busy and started contributing. By midafternoon . yesterday, a cashier's check for $100.13 had been mailed to the serfeéant in an army

LONDON, July 14.—A forlorn lieutenant in a let- © ter to the army newspaper Stars and Stripes yesterday complained bitterly that he and other American forL mer prisoners of war, in England awaitihg Tepatriaf tion to the United States, were dirty and stagnating, forgotten and. broke. The U. 8. army authorities in London orally denied his charges and said: “The ‘RAMPS’ — repatriated American. prisoners of war -— are being shipped home as fast as we can possibly send them, or whatever transport we can get.” The United Kingdom base section revealed that of approximately 5000. RAMPS, who reached England in the past several weeks, only 465 are still waiting to go w home. Some confusion seems to ' have arisen in the army, however, over whether I RAMPs, or 85-point servicemen returning home for * discharge, have a higher priority on shipping space.

| deployed to the Pacific. Asks for Attention

IN HIS letter, written from leave camp No. C-18 " at Southampton, Lt. K, C. Reimer said the Stars land Stripes: “Does anyone, who is in a position to | do something about it, know of the apparently for- | gotten POW's, who become ‘stagnant’ personnel down here? : “We have been here mote than three weeks, lis- : | tening to the magic words ‘probably tomorrow.’ The 85-pointers (without a POW record) have come and gone. “This camp has practically nc recreation facilities— t only one day room, one theater and occasionally a | movie. There is no athletic program whatever; no

Aviati THERE'S A BRAWL brewing in the transportagion business, and the whole thing may boil over any day. The.fuel is being supplied by our domestic rail, steamship, bus and air, transport interests, The air transport folks are not trying to break into the field of surface transportation. The great surface transportation interests are moving heaven and earth to get into the air transportation business. The steamship interests have created the impression that they are being discriminated against because they are not permitted to start or buy any airline and run it anywhere they please. They go so far as to accuse the civil aeronautics board of construing the civil aeronautics act of 1938 so that steamship eompanies cannot participate in air transportation to the extént they desire. The word *participate,” in this case, means “dominate” or “control.” Some have tried to leave an impression on the public mind that the civil aeronautics board won't let them enter the air business at all.

All this is nonsense. /

Public Interest ‘Catch’

The steamship companies can get into the business of air transport if they qualify: Like any other ‘applicants, they can get in by satisfying the civil feronautics board that granting them an operation certificate is in the “public interest.” That's the “catch.” And protection of the “public interest”

My Day

HYDE PARK, Priday.—One day last week I went down to Orange, New Jersey, to see my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish, who has not been very well. A charming looking woman spoke to me on the tube and, when I got into the train, came and sat beside me. It was a heart-warm-ing experience, because she said “she had long wanted to have an opportunity to talk with me. Once before she had spoken to me in a New York shop, but that was not exactly an opportunity for conversation. She told me how much my husband's ship had meant in the past few years, and we talked of the things that must be done by each one of us as individuals if we hope for peace in the.world of the future. She felt, as I do, that unless we come to look upon our neighbors in this country, of every race and creed, 8s brothers—different from ourselves, to be sure, but fundamentally the same kind of human beings—we "can never hope to live together in the world peaceTully.

A human family, who make up the people of the world fikaien 3 ‘we know. This is perhaps the e. moral’

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to shoo it off the road. A little

early Friday sitting on the rail-.

Forgotten POW’

The highest priority still goes to units being re-.

leader-

J We have to learn that we are brothers of one great .

hospital at Battle Creek, Mich, Fk , Edward Holland, 1618 Milburn st., tore down an old chimney recently and found in the base of it a copy of the old Indianapolis Sun, predecessor of The Times. ‘It was dated Dec. 16, 1895.

Journalistic Enterprise * ‘ " ONE OF THE smallest newspapers hereabouts— smallest in circulation and territory covered-<is published out in the 5700 block N. New Jersey. Named the “Star” (not the Pennsylvania st. Star), it's printed for and by the youngsters living in the block. Editor-in-chief is 15-year-old Keith Murray. His No. 1 helper is his brother, Phillip, 11. While the Murray boys. were on vacation recently, Ann Byrne, 15, and Julia Morrow, 11, took over. You're likely t6 find some unusual items and ads in the paper, such as: “All kids—Please ‘do not congregate on Murray's porch so-much. This is an order.” (Probably an order from the editor's mother.) Another: “Mrs. Crippen offers a 5-cent reward for the return of her green clothes prop. No questions asked.” Or: “Victory garden note: Most gardens in the neighborhood are doing well. However, a hungry bunny ate all Mrs. Opperman's kohlrabi and then had bunnies in| her peony bush.” Some ofthe tems get pretty per- | sonal, such as: “Since J. B. (Julie Byrne) has curly locks (her first permanent) the mirrors have had a real workout.” Mostly, the paper's devoted to the; goings and comings of the people in the block. It's printed once a week with a complicated gelatine] process that ties up about half the neighborhood | deep dishes.

Move On Back, Please

BUS AND streetcar passengers seem to be forget ting their wartime manners. For a time they used to move to the back of the car with little or no urging from the operator. But now the back end of the car is the place to go if you want room. On most every car, some aisle blocker finds a spot where the floor is softer than elsewhere, and there he (or she) stands. Result: Many tired, perspiring folks who want to get home can't get aboard and- have to continue standing there and perspiring. Part of the fault lies with the operators, some of whom seem to have for-| gotten how to holler, “Move back; please.” One young advertising agency salesman who was about to| be left standing stepped back to the side of the bus| the other evening, peered in and saw the cause of | the blockade. ‘‘Hey, you fellow in the gray suit, move | on back there so I can get on,” he shouted. The man in the gray suit just ignored him.

8? By Edw. P. Morgan

baseball ‘diamond; not even one voiley ball court.| After three weeks a fellow gets bored. = “At first it wasn't so ‘bad, but now we have no money—the authorities won’t let us have any more, | though they owe us thousands of dollars. We have no clean clothes, no faith, no hope.”

A staff officer at U.K. base said that there were about 4000 RAMPs in the Southampton leave camp | No. 2, three weeks ago, but that only 337 remain. Of these 152 have orders. to depart before July 16, leaving 185 still to be moved. There are 30 officers and 98 enlisted men in London, who are going home at the rate of about 20 daily. f

Says Facilities inte | THE OFFICER believed that the Southampton recreation facilities were adequate and said that the men had been paid once. “But we can’t’ help it if they spent that money,” he added. He also said that some RAMPs left’ camp on private “leaves” of their | own and returned to find that they had missed their ships. Many RAMPs reached the United Kingdom without authority during .the hectic times around V-E| day, the officer said, and U, K. base had to put no-| tices in the newspapers to round them up and issue them homebound orders. Some, he said, did not want to-go home. And some | appeared with orders for transshipment from England before U. K. base had either the authority or facilities to handle them, which probably delayed repatriation slightly at the start. This was quickly straightened out, however. According to one”army announcefhent,) RAMPs have priority over 85-point men for repatriation, but in practice the story, apparently, is something different, depending on what units can best and most quickly be fitted into shipping space, which suddenly might be available,

By Maj. Al Williams

against individual “interests is exactly why we have government. But it will be a mighty good thing to keep the

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ee erm THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES dl sms hd bi bInside Smale By Lowell Nussbaum [HERMANN GOERING' S JEWELS ( No. 23 of Count Ciano' s Diary) {hd 1 or

Fat Playboy

(Copyright, 1945, by The “tadianagolis

11 rights reserved for all countries, including right of ations

x Jan, 1-Feb. 8, 1942 R EICHSMARSHAL GOERING, now an .allied prisoner, bought his fabulous jewels for next to nothing in

conquered Holland and car-:

ried with him when he traveled a container filled with

diamonds whieh he sorted and

counted and played with when he was depressed, according to the diary of Count Ciano, ‘Mussolini’s son-in-law. Internal affairs and relations with:

{the Germans were almost equally (plaguing to Il Duce as 1942 began,

the account shows. The Pascist {party organization was shot through \with charges of graft. II Duce’s mistress added some new political scalps to her collection. Secret service operators heard one of Nazi Marshal Kesselring's aids describe the Italians as “macaroni” in a tapped telephone conversation with Berlin, to Il Duce's great discomfort, German soldiers invaded Italian | homes as they would those of a conquered country. »

» LJ

Ciano wrote: JAN. 5—“Mussolini speech .

praises (Jan. 3, at Bologna), but | {Desto del Carlino (Bologna daily! newspaper) criticizing my Pascist| [salute which did not follow regu|lations, =JIs, there really nothing better to worry about?

“Vidussoni (Fascist— vice secretary) puts forward some cruel] plans for the Slovenes, He wants

to kill all of them. “I observe that there are a million lor more, ‘That doesn’t matter,’ he {answers firmly. ‘We must imitate 'the Ascari (Italian ‘colonial troops that fought in Ethiopia) and exterminate them. I hope he will [calm down.” » » JAN. 6 Mussolini is indignant with * the Germans because Gen. Schmidt, who was taken prisoner at Bardia (in Libya) said he could not {hold on because he was com|manding Italians, and because the [Germans in Romania have taken oil that was meant for us. “Ravasio (Fascist party vice secretary has the reputation of a Savonarola . . .' who has made thunderous threats about the impure. . , . But who are the impure? :

he could give no more disturbing example than that of a butcher who disinterred and sold an infected {h Jan, 9 Aquazone (minister to the royal household) talks to me about the Duke of Spoleto (named King Aimone of puppet Croatia). He doesn't give a damn about

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.). —A house judiciary subcommittees public hearing on conduct of Judge Albert - Johnson of Pennsylvania ended suddenly today when the 72-year-old jurist declined to resume the stand in his own defense. The sudden conclusion of the public hearings came after attor-

rafls in the railroad business, the busses in the bus budifiess, the steamships in the steamship business— and air transport independent. I challenge anyone to cite one instance where any major interest whose main business is surface transportation has ever handled any air operations wisely or progressively. How can any group operating a steamship line devote more than supervisory attention to those they must hire to run an airline? = Airmen who have tried to run an airline as a subordinate to the steamship business say exactly the same thing as fighting airmen have to say about serving under sea or infantry leaders. For instance, Gen. “Vinegar” Joe Stilwell brawled with Gen. Chennault in China 'as to how Chennault’s meager air forces should be employed. Stilwell knows little about aviation, whereas Chennault is an expert. ’

Investments Cited

When steamship men base their claim to free entry into the airline business:on having invested “some” money in the early air transportation projects, we can reply that that doesn’t constitute a right to invest more and control aviation. Too, the steamship people insist that unless they are permitted to get into the airline business, the merchant marine will suffer. Well, our merchant marine has been suffering, in comparison with foreign merchant marine, for a long time, and I don't see how the suffering will be relieved if the men who couldn’t make a go of it should be saddled with ‘the burden of another and equally specialized method of transportation. Finally, T am “agin” monopoly of any kind.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

people in every group, and that the lessons taught were not the segregation of groups of people, but the segregation of evil, That, it seems to me, is the lesson we had better learn all over again. The fight in the world fis against evil, and not against people because of their difference in race or creed. On my way back I saw a young merchant marine boy, standing on the platform, who looked somewhat familiar, I smiled at him as I always do when I see young men in uniform. He came up to me and said: “You may not remember me, Mrs. Roosevelt: but I last met you eight years ago at the President's birthday ball in Alexandria, Va.” I remembered the night very well, for it was one of the nights when we had bad weather, It. was snowy any fcy, and visiting all the birthday balls in and around the District of Columbia as no easy job. I was not only worried about our getting around, but I wondered what was happening to all of the movie stars who were being taken from place to place. However, apparently the whole evening went off with the usual success which the Washington comimittee has prided itself on every year. From the very many pédple I have met in the course of my life, acquaintances are always turning up, and sometimes my memory serves me .well. I

‘remember in detail just where we met before. Then © again, I have the most horrible moments SRO on abies the Ja, ta Shas i Stren

moments trying to 8 together

| bers’

neys for Judge Johnson met for

{more than an hour in a closed ses{sion with members of the com-

mittee. > £8 8 WHEN the hearing finally was opened to the public, Judge Johnson's attorney told the 'subcommittee that the judge had nothing moge to say. Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.) agreed that if Judge Johnson did not want to testify there- was nothing the subcommittee could do about it.- ° “The judge's appearance on the stand is purely a voluntary matter,” he said. “He was not subpenaed. But, in fairness, we wanted to give him a chance to make a public statement. “If Judge Johnson doesn’t want to do so there is nothing the subcommittee can do about it. This concludes our public hearings.” ” » . THE subcommittee had planned to question Judge Johnson further about where he got $39,000 which uallegedly spent in excess of his income for the last 11 years. His testimony yesterday had not cleared up the matter to committee memsatisfaction. The subcommittee is investigating Judge Johnson and another Pennsylvania federal judge—Justice Albert Watson—to see whether impeachment proceedings should be instituted. The investigation has been going on for the past year but hearings were opgned to the public for the | first i e earlier this week.

LJ » » JOHNSON, tall scholarly-looking father of 11 children resigned last week. Chairman Kefauver neverthe« less continued the investigation. Conviction in impeachment proceedings would prevent ithe jurist from ever holding federal office again and from receiving his $10,000 a year retirement pay. Johnson, testified yesterday that he supplemented his salary by making speeches and by drawing on a “rainy day” fund that he had laid away in a tin box. Committee members had planned to ask him more questions about the sources of this money. rl » . . ne DURING those ‘same years he admitted borrowing money at 6 per cent interest for various, business

he m

{but not as rich as

purposes. The jurist, whose spruce, tan-| Sula appara belied ie edz 1

Hermann Goering and his wife, ing has two loves—beautiful things

Croatia, and wants only money and more money.” » " » JAN. 11—"Germany is . . Allfieri (ambassador in Berlin) says that divisions withdrawn rom |

money, |

| occupied territories and not re-

{will spread propaganda. ; many soldiers have committed | suicide rather than return to the | Russian front.” Jan, 12—“I1 Duce protests the behavior of German: soldiers in Italy, particularly the officers, who are

zone. {shows me a clipping from the|turned to the Reich for fear they | Mussalin,

ith Di

According to Count Ciano, “Goerand war. Both are expensive.”

“Rio de Janeiro: America is in-

and im-

pose on the United States the

my ithe Russian front are stationed in obligation of defense over a vast! ranean).

‘They want a white war,’ savs ‘but they will get a red

In Vienna | {one.’ r |

(Editor's note: 19 of 21 American republics were either at war or | had broken relations with the axis when the Rio de Janeiro conference ended its work Jan. 29, 1942.)

presumptuous, quarrelsome, and| “Libya: The situation is predrunks. [carious.” “Last night in Foggia two of 5 2 9 them forced their way into the| JAN. 22—"Osio, founder of the

home of a man who was about to go to bed, and said: ‘We took France, Belgium Holland and Poland. Tonight we will take your wife.” “To which the ‘man replied: ‘You may take the whole world, but not my wife. I am a bachelor.’ Before they left they broke up all the furniture in their disappointment.” .» » » JAN. 15 (in Budapest)—"“Admiral Horthy (Hungarian regent) said: ‘The Germans are a courageous people,. and I admire them for it, but they also are an unbearable, tactless and villainous people’.” - Jan. 17 — “Hunting with the Mesohegeys. It was a good hunt, one in 1938. Ribbentrop already had killed most of the game.” Jan, 20—"“Mussolini gives me the latest news. “France: The Fuehrer will not| accept Vichy’s terms: for placing!

the Italian military officials had asked). He is right. The terms are oppressive.

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fore high schools, institutional and lodge groups between 1934 and 1945. That, coupled with the roughly $20,000 he had in a locked tin box in a bureau drawer when he went on the bench, explains his salaryexceeding resources, Johnson said. ~ » » REMINDED that the books from which his income tax returns were figured showed only $211 from lectures during the 11-year period, Johnson said:

ing revenue) was more or less pocket money that I could use for books or antiques or anything of the kind.” Although he previously had testifled that his lectures sometimes brought expenses as well as fees, he remarked that speech-making costs, such as car depreciation, offset the gain. : |

Workers’ missed. but it appears he made some com- | ment, and some say that he quar-| | fingers.

former

duty, and a thief; Vidussoni, who is called the per-/a high-grade prostitute wears io fect champion of Fascist youth, de- the opera. If any of us tried somepraved, ignorant, and moronic.” Tunisian ports at our disposal (as|.

“I figured that (the speech-mak- a

Bank, has been dis- . The reason is not clear, |

reled with Petacei's (Mussolini's

mistress)” brother over business affairs.

“Osio “talked a little too freely. |

calling him ‘Lorenzino dei Medic’ been told he plays with his Jewels | like a small boy.

(one of Florence's worst tyrants). “Grandi (minister of justice and ambassador

Jan. 24—“Someone wrote an| anonymous getter in which all the | party secretaries are given titles. |

Turati is called an epileptic and a war’

dope fiend; Farinacci, one who wounds himself to evade military! and so on to

” n » JAN. 25—“Mussolini complains again* about the behavior of the

Germans in Italy. He has before!

JURIST'S "EXTRA CASH' SUBJECT FOR CONGRESSIONAL GRILL—

Ex-Judge Refuses To Testify Any More

HIS LECTURES and the tin box

yielded the means to buy such] items as rare books and * ‘good bargains” in furniture, he testified. Johnson pointed out that he did not indulge himself in costly vacations! although he twice visited world’s fairs in this-country. He said he was a book lover and

'that such volumes as first editions | of “Blackstone's Commentaries’ cost

lot of money, He dipped into the tin box's dwindling supply for such “emergencies” as antique buying. medical expenses and “to get stuff from the store” when he learned late Saturday that his family was having guests for the evening, Johnson said. ” n 1 J

COMMITTEE members; most of

nomic negotiator) to increase the number of workers sent to Ger. many from 200,000 to 325,000.”

ond place, this paunchy individual

to . London) | His helpers brought him a container could - contain himself no longer{filled with diamonds:

today and said: ‘I don’t know how them out on the table. counted

I.was able to disguise myself as a| them, lined them up, mixed them Facist for 20 years’"”

ends

him the transcript of a telephone call by’ one of Kesserling's aids who, speaking with Berlin, calls us

‘macaroni.’ “He reacts strongly against the request of Clodius (Gerfian eco-

Jan. 28-“Goering "has ° arrived | in Rome, but.l have not seen him. |

In the first place, his visit is pri-| marily a military one, In the sec-

has been very haughty to me since the collar (of Annunziata, Italy's highest award) was granted to Von Ribbentrop.” (Earlier entries told how Goering wept tears of frustration: bee ° cause the collar was given to Ribe bentrop. Goering protested that he himselt was. more entitled to it. Subsequently, King Victor also awarded the collar to-Goering.)

Jan. 29—“I1 Duce talked with] Goering for three hours, . . .| Goering is sad about events in

Russia and takes it out on the German generals, who have little or no sympathy for the Nazis, “He believes the difficulties will continue through the winter, but | remains convinced that Russia will | be defeated in 1942 and that Great |

|sisting that the South American|Britain will lay down her arms in! countries break relations with us. | nervous. | {11 this occurs, Il Duce feels we shall | be forced to declare war,

1943. | “Goering has made all prepara-| tions for an attack on Malta (Brit-| ish island fortress in the MediterIntensive" air bombardment will begin in a few days.”

n »

FEB. 2—"Dinner with Goering in the Cavallero (chief of the general staff) home, Following the example of the clown, Cavallero. who would bow to the public toilets

{if this would be useful to him, the |

heads of our military staff act like serfs in the presence of that Ger-

man. And he pontificated blissfully.” Feb. 4 — “Goering leaves Rome.

During’ dinner he talked of little | else but the jewels he owns. He had some beautiful rings on bis|

He explained he had purchased | them for relatively small sums in | Holland after all gems in Germany had been confiscated. 1 have

“During the trip he was nervous He poured | together, and became happy again.

“One of his high officers was saying yesterday of Goering: ‘He

Bill Sets Up = | Rules to Keep | Closed Shop

(Last of six articles analysing the Hatch-Burton-Ball bill for a . new federal industrial relations

act.)

By E. A. EVANS - "THE PROPOSED law would permit union-employer agreements for the closed shop and for

- checkoff of dues, but would re-

quire unions making or maintaining such agreements to meet certain conditions. The unfair labor practices triounal, which the bill would create, = would be authorized to declare a closed-shop agreement unlawful if, havaig ing investigatMr. Evans ed as the result of a. complaint or -its own violation, it found. the union concerned to be violating one ‘or more of the following requirements: 1. That the union must be the freely chosen - representative of, and shal] igclude in its member~ ship, at I@gist 75 per cent of the employees covered by ‘the agreement. " = » 2. THAT the agreement must be ratified by 60 per cent of such employees, voting by secret ballot. 3. That any person employed or seeking employment by the employer concerned shall be admitted to union membership on terms and with advantages substantially equivalent to those enjoyed by at least a majority of the existing membership. 4. That no union member shall be deprived of his membership, thereby losing his job, except on written charges and after a fair hearing. » » » MAINTAINING a closed shop without meeting these requirements would ‘be an unfair labor practice, ‘and the tribunal could award damages to persons who proved they had suffered loss because of it. The tribunal would be directed to investigate and report to congress as to whether further legislation is needed to assume “democratic contro] and operation” of labor and employer organizations engaged in collective bargaining.

has two loves, beautiful things, and Both are expensive. ..""He wore a great sable fur to the station, something between what chauffeurs wore in 1906 and whai

thing like that, he would be stonad in the streets.”

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(Monday: Jap Gains

Nazis.)

Frighten

whom are former prosecuting attorneys, asked him to produce a | showing of where and for how {much he ‘spoke. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D. Pa.), | wanted to know if Johnson was {paid one night when he and the judge spoke on the same program. | When Johnson said “no,” Walter | remarked that he just wondered if! “someone was holding out on me.” Earlier Johnson, who resigned last week citing age as the reason, de-' nied charges that he demanded and accepted “kickbacks” for judicial favors. He said emphatically ‘that hel (never received any money or re-| | ward whatsoever for any judicial | action. The inquiry also includes| the conduct of Federal Judge Al-| { bert Watson, who with Johnson | (comprised the bench in the middie | district of Pennsylvania.

»By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staft SarTeupOnde nt MUNTINGLUPA PRISON, Man-

ila, July 14—Four thousand Formosan war prisoners and internees| in Muntingulpa prison—the largest! in the Philippines—got their first night of peaceful sleep in at least a week after Buddhist priests put the squeeze on some busy ghosts. It seemed that the ghosts were in the habit of dashing about the ump in all sorts o oud gel=ups.

THE SIGHT of a * chaired body running around -a tree, or a limbless man standing on his head, knocked the snores out of most of the baffled Formosans. In fact, they not only got scared’ —they got sore, But, realizing they couldn't hurt | a ghost, they took it -out on their fellows. And in no time at all Formosans were pushing other Formosans all over the place. More than 25 were injured in the ghost "inspired mixups.

- o ABBOT Hsin Yuen (Nature's Wish) of the Chinese Buddhist temple in Manila, five ordained priests and five laymen priests, made the one-hour drive from Manila by truck to hold the ceremonies. They came into battle with the ghosts dressed in the ceremonial

weapons they carried a small drum and a pair of cymbals. The Formosans never doubted who would be the winner. They claim that the ghosts began throwing in the towel on the previous night when" in’ silent prayers they

robes and among their other|"

MANILA PRISON CAMP IS PEACEFUL ONCE MORE—

Buddhist Priests Rout ‘Ghosts’

of “Ta, Pei Tseu” (Great Mercy Scripture). and repeatedly called | upon the sacred name of the god- |

| dess of mercy known as Kannon

in Japan. The Formosans responded to the chants ‘and the abbot then led his priests through the compound chanting and reciting to placate

> HANNAH ¢

the ghosts, who had every right to be pretty nervous Ly then.

THE ABBOT wore a 1tii-stidped hat and red ceremonial robes while the.ordained priests wore red robes. |The abbot left copies of the Budd" hist scripture around, just to warn | the bad spirits that they had bet- | ter stay away, However, the abbot told Amer- | ican- authorities that some of these spirits are pretty unruly people and he might be forced to repeat his performance,

‘. oo» | THE GRATEFUL authorities want the priests to come out every Sunday. { They don't want any more black | and-blue Mondays for the poor |

Formosans, if it can be helped. VEE |

ARMY ENGINEER TO | OPEN OFFICE HERE

+.Robert Walker, veteran army en- | giner, will head a sub-office of ths army corps of engineers to be] opened here soon, the war dopa ment announced today. Mr. Walker will act as Naan

man between the army engineers! and the Indiana flood control and] water resources commission on proj |

“| ects authorized in Indiana. i

Now stationed at Vincennes, he| hid more. than 16 years service with the army engineers at the Louise { ville, Ky.. Huntington, W. Va, New Orleans district offices, The opening: sub-office was the result of appeals by Senator Homer E. Capehart (R. | hid Ind.) to speed maior orks ig streams,

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the Wome Avoid Topics Causing Grief In Letters

By RUTH MILLETT “FROM NOW on I'm illiterate.” said the corporal who came back to this country to remarry his wife after their marriage had broken up due to V-mail arguments. Explained the corporal who has lost faith in the written word: “One word led to another and the first thing we knew we were quarreling by V-mail and the next thing I knew I was. in -the process of becoming a grass widower by consent.” The corporal didn't say what subject led to the quarrels—but it is safe to bet that either he or his wife let one of these forbidden topics sneak into a letter— and then the fireworks: Mention of an attractive member of the opposite sex. An account of the wonderful time one or the other had at a dance.

Md ” » BRINGING UP an old argument or mentioning a subject that has proved dangerous in past. Making a nasty crack about in-laws. Over-doing the cheerful note, without balancing it by an occasional mention of loneliness—so that the partner writing such letters seems to be a little too welladjusted to living alone and appears to be enjoying his freedom. Concern over how the other person -is spending his share of the government's check.

Most of those topics are dangerous ones when -a couple is living together. But for a husband and wife living under the same roof—the quarrels tikety to result from théem can usually be made up, if not always forgotten, - ‘

But for a husband. and wife separated by thousands of miles, they are true dynamite. For while it is easy to quarrel hy V-malil, making up by the same "method is pretty unsatisfactory. The. corporal is being a little drastic in swearing off -writing entirely. But any couple separated by the war and water ought to be as careful of what-they say in a letter as they used to be of what they said to each other before the morning cup of coffee.

"HARDING NAMED N NEW HEAD OF STATE BAR

Chase Harding, Crawfordsville,

of the board of governors held today

Charles A. Lowe, Lawrencabusy,

of an Indianapolis Was named vice - president. The ‘board of

governors meeting was in place of the regular associa1 meeting owing he office of

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