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INDIANAPOLIS HAS lots of good citizens driving taxicabs, And one of them is a youngster named Mose Baker, Mose drives Red Cab 436. Yesterday he was at Union station and picked up a passenger, Mrs. June Brimmer, a Youngstown art teacher. He took her to the ‘home of her. sister, Mrs, Lillian: Copeland, where she ‘paid Him, then got out of the cab. After she got in the house Mrs. Brimmer missed her purse. It contained $5 in money, her round “trip ticket, other papers and some Jewelry. Right away she phoned the taxi company. They didn’t hold out much encouragement. “We aren} worried about one of our drivers keeping it, but we don't know about he passenger who followed you,” they said, But i In a few minutes, a taxi drove up. Mose went to the door and returned the purse, with its contents intact. A passenger had found it on the cab floor.
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a $5 reward. He deserves posies, too—and here they are, ., .{C. Alfred Campbell, vice president of Mars mon-Herrington, has been taking a ribbing from fellow workers over a Ripley item in the Star Wednesday. The item referred to Edward Henry Knight, who was a patent attorney in Bellefontaine, O., as the brainiest man'in the world. Mr, Knight's brain weighed 64 ounces. If just happens that Mr. Knight was Mr.- Campbell's grandfather, and the Campbell heir is named in -his honor—Edward Knight Camp- © bell, And despite Al's protestations that he wears a size 6% hat, there's every indication that he's following in the footsteps of his illustrious ancestor. Because I have confidential information Al really
! wears a size 7's hat, And did, even before this 4 came out, | Sees All, Tells All
. THE EYES of Old Inside's agents are ever upon § you, even when you least: expect it, Take Fred { Thomas, for instance. Mr. Thomas, you know, retired a couple of years ago as executive assistant to the president of Indiana Bell, and now lives in the 1. A. C. 8 Yesterday he walked into the restaurant on the main i floor of the Indianapolis C. of C. building. In his | Big Bite KUNMING, July 20-~The Japs are definitely on the defensive in China. By now it is obvious even to the Japanese high command that the Nips have overextended themselves throughout the Pacific and westward to India, The resurgence of the Chinese army . stresses the foolish planning of the #71 Japanese general staff. American : ‘successes in the Pacific and the increased will of the Chinese to fight ! have convinced Jap warlords it's time to retrench. i Indications now are that the Japs will abandon all south China, | withdrawing to an area north of ! the Yangtze river. The Japs will fight desperately to hold the Tich 1 industrial areas in north China and Manchuria, Shanghai’ must be held for them to survive on the Et continent. With the withdrawal ffm south China and "the evacualion of the secondary seaports of Foochow and Wenchow?the Japanese high command for the k first time i$ using sound military judgment. In no If other area have the Japs evacuated except Under the pressure of allied arms, Unparalleled shipping losse8 made it necessary to pull in sufficient rope to escape a self- inflicted hanging. It goes without saying that Japan is losing a ob of face and many supporters by getting away from its announced basic principle, which was the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. That was its song, bE frase ofits propagate for the Astatics. Natives in lands aver-run by the Jip wile they “were doing as they pleased in 1942 have now lost faith in their conquerors, however, and are looking elsewhere for leadership.
How About Jap Feelings? AND HOW ‘about the feelings of the tremendous Jap forces cut off and left “to go on their own in Burma, Thailand, French-Indo China, the Andaman {slands, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, the Lesser Sundas, Amboina, New Guinea and the Bismarks and Solomons? The Japanese high command doesn’t care about them, They have had no mail for more than a vear, No news, except by radio. . Submarines got some supplies to them, but this source is closed now. American and British intelligence know they are
Scien THAT BRIGHT blue-white starlight object in the western sky -this month, the first sparkling joint ol light to become visible in the gathering twilight, is the planet Jupiter. As you swelter in the July heat it might interest you to know that Jupiter is covered with a layer of ice 13,000 miles thick. But wait a minute—you haven't heard all. The temperature of that ice is in the neighborhood of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. Red-<hot ice 15 just one of the amazing features of Jupiter. An=other is ts atmosphere, which consists largely of ammonia and methane, two unpléasant and very .poisonous gases. The temperature in this atmosphere is several hun-
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
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hand he carried a ‘paper. sack, Stepping to the counter he ordered a bottle of milk. Then he opened his sack and took out ‘a sandwich well filled with ham, and stood there at the counter munching the sandwich and drinking milk, He had some of the other patrons of the place fairly drooling as he tore into that ham sandwich. . . , That grumbling and groaning and wheezing you may have heard over around Delaware and Market the last couple of days came from the Inland building. There was a fire in the elevator shaft Tuesday night and it burned out the motors of both elevators. Neither elevator was running Wednesday and many unkind things were said about elevators in general and these two elevators in particular as tenants of the 13-story building, and their patrons wearily labored up the stairway. One of the elevators was back in limited operation 'yesterday, but was almost slower than walking. ‘A few bossés welcomed the break in service, however. It reduced the number of callers, permitting the help to get lots of work done.
Off to South America
KATHERINE CLEAVER, advertising manager for Continental Optical, was to take off today for a’ flying trip to South America via Pan-American clipper. She planned to stop at both Panama and Bogota. Besides. calling on a few of tQe company’s
her brother-in-law, Lt. Col. Ross Barr. Col. Barr, formerly of Indianapolis, is attached to the U. S. embassy at Bogota. ... Miss Adelaide Gastineau, a city teacher, is working on .a master of arts degree at I. U. this summer. Last Sunday she and some friends drove to Brown County State park. Along one of the trails, she met none other than Herman B Wells, I, U. president. He had his Irish setter with him, She never hag met Mr. Wells, but she introduced herself, and her friends, and explained she was the sister of Dr. Frank Gastineau, whom he knows quite well, They chatted a few minutes about school and dogs, then Miss Gastineau prepared to drive on. She stepped on the starter, but it wouldnt start. Dr. Wells offered advice, but it didn't help. Finally, he pushed the car out into the road, then got his car and gave the girls’ car a push, starting it. Their conclusion: Dr. Wells is NOT a stuffy academic, but a proved “friend in need is a friend indeed.”
By Harry Grayson
homesick ‘and depressed, and that as time goes on morc and more will surrender.
In Kunming, capital of Yunan province ia -the|
undeveloped west, you best grasp the vastness of the war in China and what until more recently was the desperate position of the Chinese. It is as though the United States had lost everything east of the Mississippi and the country had been cut in two, with the principal industrial areas
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SEE te, 1, The sterols tries, including right of translation.) Sept. 26-Nov. 8, 1942 A SLEEPY Ciano heard the first news of allied land ings in North Africa from ; Nazi Foreigi'* Minister Von | Ribbentrop, whose military experts had expected some- | thing quite different when the mighty allied convoy steamed east from Gibraltar, according to the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-
in-law. Disaster followed disaster for the
Nov. 8, Ciano recorded that the Libyan lines of Nazi Field Marshal
British 8th army drive, and a day later that the axis defeat had become. a rout. The allied convoy was spotted Nov. 4 and the Italian general staff guessed its correct destination. - The Germans, Ciano said, expected the . landings immediately behind Rommel’s positions in Tripolitania, or a new effort to relieve the Mediterranean island fortress of
Malta, I] Duce was worried by an amoeba which one of "Italy’s foremost
physicians said ‘he had discovered and by gossip of his affair with Claretta Petacci. He took refuge in renaissance history when he said, everyone had a lover. No.one
lost. In China, all supplies, after being shipped 15,000 miles by water, had to be transported by truck over a narrow, winding, treacherous road or flown over the | Hump, and then trucked on from there over roads) which in the States would not be tolerated. The| wonder is that anything has been accomplished. All incoming supplies are for the armed “forces, and in normal times China had a food problem because of lack of transportation, Kunming, farthest west is the city most effected. Long a hangout for smugglers and a place to which bandits and other bad men were banished, its normal population of 500,000 has been doubled. Cargo planes bringing the goods to China over the Hump of the Himalayas are lined up at various airports day and night. Kunming is the gateway of the Stilwell road. It is the biggest American military center in China and now an important industrial city of Pree China.
Chinese Can Take It
THE CHINA theater is vastly larger than the whole of Europe. And the only thing U. S. forces or anybody eise have had in plenty in China has been distance, Americans at-home de not realize the vast areas, great distances and few facilities for movement of men and supplies. With Free China under virtual blockade for several years, the problem of supply has been a major factor in any military effort. Nothing in the way of a major offensive against the Japs iff’ China can be undertaken until a firstclass port opening the door to satisfactory transportation is established on the China coast. . Koochow and Wenchow won't do and the Japs have Formosa, flanking them. Meanwhile the people of Free China are going along on a hand-to-mouth rice basis and with the seals out of their ragged pants, but with such an infectious smile that you wonder Just what it would take to rub it off,
By David Dietz
The markings, for the most part, are arranged in belts of alternate lighter and darker sh#des, stretching across the planet, parallel to the equator
from redaish-brown to. bluish:gray. They are known as the “tropical belts.” Other belts over. the planet's surface to the north and south. The, belts are not permanent, but vary-n number, color, width and detail from year to year. It early became obvious to astronomers that this was no solid surface. At thé start of the century it was presumed that Jupiter was still in a molten state, and that the markings were molten lava.
Belts of Clouds
TODAY ASTRONOMERS know that what we are looking at are formations of clouds in the atmosphere of Jupiter. The planet is now believed to have a solid core some 36,000 miles in diameter. This in turn is sur-
rounded by the layer of ice 13,000 miles thick. Read-|W
ers may wonder how it could be red hot and still remain ice. The answer is the tremendous pressure generated by a layer of ice that thick. The pressure would enable the ice to stay as ice despite the heat, - The heat is thought to come from the solid core of Jupiter.
We come finally to the atmosphere which is 12,000 As already mentioned, this consists The temperature here is so low that much of the material has frozen and crystalized. “These crystals form the clouds that
miles thick. largely of ammonia and methane.
we see as belts in the telescope.
Astronomers think that the rapid rotation of the causes the clouds to be drawn]
planet on its axis out into belts.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
We want to hold to our free enterprise system
in _this country, but it seems to me that the first
thing to do is to work out some method by which
the government and industry can collaborate in
keeping everyone of these plants running and em-
ploying people. This was why 1 felt
a a little se sad “when 1 read
_about the closing. ceremony at Willow Run. Quite
rightly, both the workers and the management of
the ‘plant were congratulated on what they had achieved which was of value in the war, but there is
an equally important” job to be done in peacetime. During these past months, the Ford research or-
ganization must have been at work on their part in
that, on. this occasion, they could have sald to the
industry’s future development for peace. 1
country as a whole:
“Our work has been. well done, but it is over now. Therefore, we hope .to take =m lead along the path to full peacetime employment. We have worked
out a plan with the government whereby we can
“continue to: use this plant. keep his or operations”
lte-or nothing about busines, but 1 know industry le when they i work.
The equatorial belt is bright, ranging in color| C2VAllero’s embarrassment,
know what can be made in it, and no man or woman who wishes to or her job need be without employment, once we have had time to reconvert for our new
Something of this kind would have given me a |.
had the right to judge him; Mussolini declared. » Ciano wrote: SEPT. 26—°“I receive a letter from Edda which disturbs me a great deal. . “ ‘Dear Galle: -. . . My father is not well—stomach pains, irritability, depressions, etc.—mother paints a’ rather dark picture of it—-in my opinion it’s the old ulcer again... They made X-ray pictures of every kind, all negative, but a doctor was never called. . . . So far the only measures have been tears and curses. .. . “ “Though ity was a beautiful day I had a sense of suffocation and of fear. Maybe because I am tired and feel poisoned. Tonight I haven't slept a wink because, as the song says, ‘all through the night With “caine in hand -T-hunted the horrid, ugly beast in’ vein Haw dreds . of mosquitoes attacked my unprotected bed. That's Capri for you. . .. I embrace you affectionately, Edda.’”
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SEPT. 27—“I1 Duce realizes that military events, particularly the resistance at Stalingrad, have bitten deeply into the morale of the population. , “Dinner for the representatives, of the Tripartite pact, A heavy atmosphere. The only thing of note was the blunder of Cavalero (Italian commander-in-chief). Trying to charm the Japanese ambassador, he gave him news of successes at Stalingrad. Between their English, it came out that. Stalingrad had fallen. The rumor spread through the hall ‘until the Germans, to took measures to deny it. A Japanese| general was congratulating the ‘as. sistant German military attache on the victory. The German, in his harsh Italian, said, ‘Nonsense.’ "” ® » = = OCT. 4 — “Castellani (prominent Italian physician) sends me a diagnostic -report--on-Il-Duce. He has discovered an amoeba. -Personally, I believe he invented it. Although he feels some pain, Mussolini’s appearance is good, and his capacity for work is undiminished.”
Oct. 7 — “Dr. Kesterer, the man H ler calls the magic Buddha, o cures everything by massage, has told me that Himmler and Von Ribbentrop are at daggers-points, but that Himmler is powerful and Ribbentrop will be liquidated because he is ‘insane and ill’ Even Hitler seldom receives him... . .”
Oct. 9 — “A long conference with Gen. Arne, head of the military secret service. . . . All of the information suggests that the AngloSaxons are planning to land in
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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945
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‘Oct. 11—“I receive Himmler at The memory of the’ front is a nightmare, and he does not hide it. . the Himmler who was in despair at Munich in 1938 because an agreement had been reached, and war seemed to be averted. - Now he speaks of the difficulties, of the sacrifices, of what has been done, and ‘most of “&i1 of what’ Yeh aed Chek dove affairs. to be done.”
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OCT. 17—"“The Germans are de(from Greece) which in the space .of a few months will cause the total drachma. Mussolini goes so far as to say: “The only way to explain such a bestial attitude on .the part of the Germans is that the Germans are convinced they are lost and, since they must die, they think of
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Oct. 19—“Mussolini was preparing to go to Palazzo Venezia to receive Goering when Mackensen, (Nazi ambassador) that the reichsmarshal had suffered \an attack -of dysentery so violent that it did not ‘permit him . to leave his throne even for 10 min- . Such an ailment is not becoming to the reichsmarshal’s
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vanity.” »
“In. the afternoon, al to discuss Greece. Greece can no longer give any ‘thing | for the simple reason that it has] we continue on the! present basis, complete bankruptey! will result within two months. middle -class-already is obliged to, offer jewels, its beds, at times even| its daughters, in order to live.. “Mussolini's health remains uh= | mission for the We do mot know why,| .|and nothing is said, but he suffers] severe stomach pains.”
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and logically the first objective. :, .” | Italians are on their last leg, and {that one or two heavy blows would: He learned these
| defeat them. . . | things from the Holy See, where in- , | formation comes by way of the { parish priests.’
{know that ‘Concordat or no Con{cordat, Myron Taylor will be hand- | cuffed if he iries to return to. Italy.” ” " » Oct. 27—“Ley (Nazi labor-from leader) has come here to head the
{ Fascists) . . in appearance and thought. . “Pavolini (minister of popular enlightenment) says Il Duce spoke to him about a report that mens tioned the ‘Petacci affair.’ Mussolini faced the question squarely, and said that no one had the right | to ‘investigate and judge the emo-| tipnal-life of anyone else.’
renaissance to prove that. all men
“He was “very. irritated with the party for what has happéned.” 3 » » » OCT. 28—“The 20th anniversary celebration. . . . Mussolini appeared {in public for the first time since his illness. In the open, in uniform, and surrounded by many people, he seemed thin and more tired than two days ago... . . The organization of the ceremony was far from coming up to par. The fact is that the present secretariat of the party is made up of unknown men to whom we, in turn, ate unknown, . . . The inefficiency
than ever, because it is headed by incapable, discredited and ‘ambiguous men.”
Oct. 29—"“Bismarck ister) has learned from Rintelen (head of the Nazi military mission) that Rommel is optimistic about
Ti is terrified by the supply situation. Not only is fuel lacking but
OCT. 24—"The British have at- lalso munitions and food.”
tacked in Libya.
the over-all Rommel’s place,
again.”
Oct. 25—“Nothing new politically, except a short letter from Alfieri who speaks of ‘the lead weight, and psychological that
physically
(This was the beginning of the 8th army’s victorious march to Tunis.) . . ‘commander is dead. Genoa and Milan are bombed = heavily
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OCT. 26—“I saw Il Duce today for the first time in 15 days. has lost a great deal of weight, but his eyes are clear, and his voice firm,
“Mussolini was irritated with Myron Taylor (President Roosevelt's spetial representative) and the Vatican. He attributes the heavy bombings of Italy’s northern cities to the
force in Africa, from where they in-
reports of the American messenger,
VAST PROGRAM TO AID JEWS PLANNED
NEW YORK, July 20 (U, P),— A vast relief program to aid some 225,000 proverty stricken, semistarved Polish Jews now living in southwest Asiatic Russia has been _ {disclosed by the American Jewish
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20th anniversary of the march on Rome (by the; . Ley is vulgar, both)
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of the party is felt more strongly].
(Nazi min-
(the military possibilities in Libya,
Anglo-Saxon preparations lead one to believe they are planning a powerful blow to strike Italy in the Mediterranean.
Nov. 3—“A new and more violent British attack makes our situation more serious in Libya, where our forces are wearing out, and supplies We seem to be damned to fight wars
NOV. 4—“Rommel wanted to begin his withdrawal two days ago but Hitler nailed him to the spot with an order to show the troops the way to ‘victory or death’ Mussolini did the same for the Italians.
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Nov. 5—“The Libyan front collapses. . . . II Duce is pale. His face is drawn. He is tired. . . .| From some time now a sense of uncontained pessimism has gripped! the Italians.” . n » o NOV. 6—“The Libyan retreat is, assuming the character of a rout. | We know nothing of our.10th army corps, cut off by the British. Even| (the detachments that are with- | ‘drawing are massacred by aerial bombings. “Il Duce thinks Libya may be cap-! tured and adds quickly that ‘from ‘some viewpoints. this would be an| ‘advantage because: already it has leost us our merchant marine and we can concentrate ‘Befter on de{fense of Italy ifself. ... A convoy fof exceptional proportions is ad- | vancing from the west. | “Mussolini has asked if I was | keeping my diary-up to date. I told ‘him yes, and he said it would serve to document how the Germans always acted without our knowledge in the military ‘and political fields.” We of KCL HLL Nov. 7=“What will Rommel do or, better: still, what will the convoys do that have left Gibraltar and are moving east? There are various interpretations: To resupply Malta or to ‘land in Tripelitania in Rommel’s .rear, according to the Germans; to occupy French bases in North Africa, according to our general staff. : “Il Duce shares this opinion and | believes the Americans will meet | almost no resistance from the French. . . . North Africa is ready to hoist the De Gaullist flag. All this is exceptionally serious for us." | ! = » s NOV. 8—"At 5:30 ‘this morning | Von Ribbentrop telephoned to in-| form me of American landings in Algerian and Moroccan ports. He was nervous and wanted to know what we planned to do. I must] confess I was unaware, and too - sleepy to give a very satisfactory | reply. “Il Duce’s reaction is immediate: He speaks of landings in Cofsica and of occupying France. But where are forces to undertake these things! . . . I have learned nothing officially from the Germans. But I'know from Anna Maria Bismarck { (wife of the Nazi minister) that they are terrified at the German| embassy at the heavy and absolute- | ly unexpected | blow,
” “DURING the evening I see Gen. Arne (head of ‘military intelligence). There is still resistance, he says, in the cities, but pressure from the De Gaullists and the Americans soon will overcome it. “Within a. week the allies will hold all the colonies. Within two
Libya. “Italy will become the center -of the allied offensive against the axis.”
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joint distribution committee. Charles Passman, director of the committeé’s middle eastern pro-
years food parcels valued at $5,000,000,000 have been sent the ref-
monthly from the committee's headquarters in Teheran. He described the refugees as the
to their weakened physical condi-
do little more than LIFT STEEL BAN . WASHINGTON, ‘July 20.(U. P.) — The war production ase . board
gram, said that in the past two|
ugees at a rate of 10,000 parcels|-
can | Russia, they had been unable, due| tion and the difficulties of. read-| |
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current quarter.
“when the supply warrants.”
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ON MARKET SOON
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U, P), —A more plentiful supply of leather shoes, and a possible easing of shoe rationing, were in prospect today |.
The war production “board and ] the office of price administration | announced last night that 10,500,000 more pairs of leather shoes would | § be made for civilians in the fourth | quarter of this year than in the:
An OPA official said the civilian shoe situation “looks a lot better” and that rationing would be eased He declined, however, to be more speCc
The next shoe coupon, airplane stamp No. 4, becomes valid Aug. 1. The last validation was made Nov. one stamp. Previously shoe stamps
CLOTHES ALLOWANCE URGED : | WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P).— Discharged servicemen,
Marks 30th Year In Phone Service
JOHN E. BATKIN, 702 Berwick ave. building maintenance mechanic for Indiana Bell Telephone Co. observed = his 30th oh ‘anniversary of service in the
dustry yesterday Beginning his career as a splicer’s helper for the Central Unson Telephone Co., predecessor to the Indiana Bell, Mr. Batkin later
Mr. Batkin became garage mechanic; and in 1938, was appointed to his presens position. “He is a member of the Telephone Pioneers of American and
tomorrow will receive the com-
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WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P)—|
PAGE 11 Labor —— Law Restoring
Veterans' Jobs Brings Clash
By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, July 20.~Tom Clark, the new attorney general, will have to interpret soon what congress meant in Section 8 of the selective service law of 1940, whether that section means that an honorably discharged and otherwise qualified veteran of world war II has an absolute right to the Civilian job he “gave up when he went into the armed forces. . Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, says the law gives the veteran that right. None of the big labor organizations has accepted this opinion as final. Their senjority systems are involved. The controversy has been building up for more than a year. Selective service has stated its attitude, definitely. All other government agencies have refrained from sticking their necks out offi- ; cially. ¥ Millions of men and millions of } jobs will be involved. -There is political dynamite on both sides— an estimated 15,000,000 members of organized labor, an estimated 15000000 men to be returned from the armed forces. #1 n =n - 59 Forest 0. Thomas began working Aug. 14, 1942, as a maintenance man in the plant at Mishawaka, Ind, of the U. 8. Rubber Co., and on the following Dee. 4 he was drafted into the army. He was honorably discharged at the end of 1944, and he went back to the Mishawaka rubber plant to claim’ his old job, under the selective service law. The second shift—4 p. m. to midnight—in which he formerly worked, had been abolished. But he cited the job-back provision, and the company gave him a sim- _ ilar job on the only remaining, or first, shift. To do that. it removed a world war I veteran who had been working for the company 12 years, and had that much union seniority, in comparison to the two years and five months of the new veteran (counting in his two years in uniform).
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riarhor, when “nie were detug "called up for wit tt dkpectod : ta be merely a years‘ military training before their return to civilian life, says nothing about world war 1 veterans. Pearl Harbor changed the whole picture, but Section 8 never has been altered or clarified, nor has it been finally. interpreted. The Thomas case is before the war labor board as a grievance from Local 65 of the C. I. O. United Rubber Workér. The union wants to apply the seniority pro< visions of its contract, under which Mr. Thomas’ seniority would date back only to August, 1942. Thus he could not displace the world war I veteran with 12 years of seniority. The company contends that the question is not subject to arbitration because it is a matter of law, and it quotes an opinion from the Indiana headquarters of Selective Service that its procedure in displacing the world war I soldier with the new veteran was correct under the law. .
We, the Women——-
‘Wife Can Make Any Man Look Like Bargain ~
By RUTH MILLETT
Nobody should be surprised— least of all men—that women have found a legal way to get around shoe rationing. Some of the fair sex have been buying unrationed shoes with plastic or composition soles, and have had them resoled with honest -to-goodness leather. 4 Isn't that the ON same brand of Md y ingenuity wo- \ a men use with ge A a man who 1s’ ry not quite up to 1 their standards 4 of what a husband should pe? By clever management they pass him off to their friends as a grade A husband. George 13 as dull as dishwater, but not after his little woman gets-to-work-on-a-build-up. After | she puts her mind to making him look good the adjectives her friends use to describe him are “steady” and “reliable” and “the quiet, thoughtful type.” - » » . 3 BILL IS just another old man with money when a young woman marries him. But pretty soon he’ “sweet old Bill” and “the salt of the earth” or “that ’ terribly successful Mr. Jones" whose every opinion carries weight, : of a genuine baigain decided to make him Joe might have |