Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1945 — Page 9
, Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaum|
A STRANGER arriving An the .city last Sunday . evening might. have been surprised to notice so many electric clocks in business wintlows. stopped at about
3:30, The answer? That was when the storm interrupted current in several sections. ... State police have added “ghost” drivers to
their list of traffic hazards. A car .
came out of the Capitol ave, exit of the Elm garage, opposite the statehouse, the other day. The car just missed a squad car being driven by Police Lt. Dave Laughlin. William McKinley Bailey state police janitor, and City Patrolman Jesse T. Francis attempted to flag it down. But the car kept on, not stopping until 1t struck the squad car of Police Sgt. Gale Kasson. Then it was discovered the auto, owried by P. A. Boyer, 5811 Xing ave, w.s driverless. A parking attendant had forgotten to set the brakes, ,.., Lloyd Hickerson, state police public relations director, thought maybe telephone calls were being rationed when he. called The Times the other day. While he was conversing with .the city editor, a friendly feminine voice cut in with: “Good morning. This is the OPA.” . Mrs, Frank P. Huse, wife of the Marion county- treasurer, WAS heard on~the Breakfast in Hollywood program over WISH yesterday, She was awarded Tom Ereneman § wishing ring. Mr. Huse was with her ‘but didnt broadcast. She said her wish vas that her son, a B-29 pilot, would not have to go back overseas. . . Do you have a phonograph you aren't using and which you'd like to dénate to a worthy cause? If you have, phone Alex Corbett, WA. 1743. The Marion County Society for Crippled Children needs a phonograph for the amusement of the children at its home, 30th and New Jersy,
Needed—Tree Detective THERE'S AN ODOR out around the 4200 block N. Meridian that’s been the source of curiosity ol neighbors for many years. Apparently it comes from some particular species of tree in the vicinity. The odor is described as being musty yet pleasant. Nancy McCown, 5008 N. Meridian, says she has noticed it
CHIHCHIANG, Southwest Hunan Province, China, July 25.—Chihchiang is one of tne bases from which the U. 8. Fighting 14th air force is playing havoc with the Nips. Yank fliers harass the Japs in the Hengyang-Changsha rail and road corridor as they withdraw along what was their “empire” lifeline—a link between their inland forces and those farther north. 1 saw Maj. Henry W. Lawrence Jr, Capt. Elwood F. Smith and 2d Lt. Chow-wen Pan, a Chinese lad, take off to blast a bridge 225 air miles northeast of Chihchiang. Each carried two 500-pound bombs, Capt. Smith, who hails from a little town in Michigan, was on his 21st mission. Lt. Chow-wen Pan was on his 85th since his arrival from training at Phoenix, Ariz; in December. That's a lot of flying time.in such a brief period, but time means not a thing to an Oriental, especially to the Chinese in his insane desire to kill Japs. The American flier may go home following 100 missions. The Chinese keeps going. It was explained that a couple of. planes and pilots had been lost in attempts to remove this bridge at the foot of the east base of Lake Tungting. Naturally, there are Jap gun emplacements at bridges. Pilots fly as low as 75 feet to skip bomb them. Col.. T. Alan Bennett of Wilmington, Del, commander of the wing, led one mission of fighters and bombers that destroyed 17 locomotives and killed a Japanese lieutenant-general and his entire staff. He participated in 36 combat. missions, wears the DFC and air medal,
No Jap Planes Seen
EARLY IN 1943, hand-picked young Chinese were gent to America for training. Late in July they were in India with American fliers as the first elements of the embryonic Chinese-American composite wing. Chinese ground personnel were graduated from schools in China and Inaia. Chinese officers, some American-trained, came over from the Chinese air force to act as counterparts of American staff officers. - The ratio of nationalities soon became one American to four Chinese. .
Science
BRIGHTEST STAR in the summer skies is Vega, the beautiful white star of the constellation of Lyra. You will’find it very high in the eastern sky. By August it will be almost directly overhead. Once you havé found Vega you arg in a position to find the “summer triangle,” One of the chief beauties of ‘the summer skies. The triangle is formed by three bright stars, all high in the eastern sky this month. They are Vega of the constellation of Lyra, Deneb of Cygnus and Altair in Aquila.
You should have no trouble in |
spotting Vega because of its brightness, but the rest of the constellation of Lyra or the lyre, will serve as an additional check. This consists of four faint stars just east of Vega that form a little parallelogram or: diamond.
Represents Orpheus’ Lyre THIS CONSTELLATION of Lyra is supposed to represent the lyre which Orpheus played when he visited Hades in the hopes of redeeming his beautiful wife, Eurydice. Perhaps you remember the story. Pluto consented to have her return to earth on condition that Orpheus would lead the way but never look back to see if she followed. Just as they reached the outer gates of Hades, he could no longer restrain the impulse to look back. As he did, she faded from view, \ But let us get back to the summer triangle, To the northeast of Lyra vou will find the bright star, Deneb. Again this is easily found since there is no other bright star between Lys and the northeastern horizon,
My Day
HYDE PARK, Tuesday.—Earl Brown's article in the” July Harper's, called “Detroit's Armed Camps,” has furnished me with some rather interesting reading, though it was also disquieting. I hope everyone not oniy reads the article, but. thinks about it as it » applies to his own community. It isn't only Detroit that has’ such conditions as Mr, Brown describes. They exist in many other places, but I am quite sure that _in the final paragraph Mr, Brown puts his finger on the really im- , portant thing which must happen throughout this country. . “Some employers,” he writes, “are convinced that management
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either one is to survive and profit the sooner each side mends its ways the better off everybody will be. For with in-
| ¥_ dustrial relations in their present battered state, and
with racial friction more tense than it has ever been before, an explosion in Detroit might set the whole country on fire.” : The same could ‘be said of any other large indus- ~ trial, center. We need to
% has puzzled him for 30 years. “ticeable in the 4200 block N, Illinois; Frank says, and
* just finished a vacation in which he practiced what
since she was a, child, Frank Wallace, the state
entomologist, knows a lot about: trees, but he's never figured out what tree causes: the odor, although 1t It’s particularly no-
seems to appear during hot, murky weather. He's noticed the same odor while walking through a y'oods, but never has been able to trace it down to a particular tree. If any readers happen to know what it .is, how about dropping me a note? . . ., One of my agents reports that the Barnes restaurant at E. 10th and Jefferson had a sign on the wall reading: “We close at 7:30 p.m, No got—" After the “got” was a red spot supposed to represent a ration point. . + + Pranksters had some fun Saturday night with a sign painted on the window oi a tavern at Holmes and Michigan, The sign. as originally printed read: “BEER to take out.” :By doctoring up the “R" mn “BEER” the pranksters made it read: “BEEF to take out.” If it had been any day but Sunday, they might have had a crowd fhat would have wrecked the place. . +» « One more on the same subject: A grocery and meat market at 10th and Warman, reports one of my agents, had a sketch of a fish drawn free-hand on the win2ow, plus the sign: “I am closed for the summer. 1 am out looking for meat.” ,
Fun in the Backyard
YOU DON'T have to go out of town to have an enjoyable vacation. You can have fun right in your own backyard, if you just look around you. At least, that's the conclusion ot one of my agents who has
he preaches. Squirrels and chipmunks gamboling around the neighborhood helped amuse him. AlSo
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SECOND ‘SECTION
Fantasti
By BURT RiESS
Times Foreign Correspondent
military police are being called into Berlin by the three occipying powers to stamp out black market activities. Many of the military police units now in Berlin are themselves involved in the black market.
day, according to detailed plans no 7 being worked out by experts. It may revive the cleanup this week by American forces in che American occupation zone in Ger many. This was the greatest mass
the antics bf a very feisty little dog next door. . The dog, like many of the species, is all bluff, and loves |
to chase anything moving, being careful not to catch! This little bluff took after a squirrel and, yap- Ket activities—near the Reichstag. The squirrel ran| the
it. ping ferociously, raced it to a tree. about half way up the trunk, then turned around and looked down impudently at the pooch. The dog kept leaping at the tree, growling ferocious threats. Suddenly the squirrel started jabbering and then .down the tree it came, belligerently. The dog, remembering a bone he had left somewhere else, turned and trotted | away with all the dignity he could muster. are just like a lot of humans,
By Harry Grayson
The “composite” in the wing's designation means that ii consists of bombers and figaters. It's strictly | a bombing and strafing job now, ior there have been | no Jap planes in this part of China for nine months. Almost immediately upon the arrival of the first squadrons in China they went on combat missions. And {it wasn't long before “Gambay,” .the monicker adopted by a 8-25 Mitchell bomber group, meant not only bottoms up in a toast] but also bottom’s up to enemy shipping and whatnot. Col. A. L. Bennett is the American wing com- | mander. Al first American officers watched over their Chi- | riese charges like hens over their broods." Simple |
little code words enanled these men who did not
speak the same language to keep track of one another by radio. “Ding how,” for example, meant: Japs were on the right, ‘boo how” on the left.
Chinese Boys Ave Leaders
ON A TYPICAL mission now, eight ships are manned by Chinese and two by Americans. Because of their familiarity with the country, a Chinese boy frequently is the leader. The principal missions of | the wing have been to co-ordinate with Chinese ground troops, to deny the enemy the use of his | airfields by ploughing thems with -bombs, depriving | him of the use of his supplies and equipment by burning it and disrupting his supply and communication lines. Keeping this colorful wing «in operation at thé
end of the longest military supply route in history |
has been a tribute to the logistic efficiency of the personnel. Thousands of drums of gasoline and similar quantities of bombs and other ammunition have been hauled over almost insurmountable obstacles. Thou-
sands of coolies helped. Operating with a minimum
of equipment and supplies—for almost three’ years it all had to be flown from India over the treacherous Hump of the Himalayas—the Chinese-American wing kept pounding the enemy, frequently flying in the worst weather imaginable. Col. Bennett's Chinese counterpart is Lt. Col Hsu Huan-sheng, a trim officer who has been flying
since 1927. He has the distinction of having led the] first air raid over Japan in 1933. Lieut.-Col. Hsu and |
his men dropped only leaflets. By now the Japs realize that this was only a gentle reminder of what was to come.
By David Dietz
Deneb is the bright star in the constellation of | Cygnus, the swan, known also as the Northern Cross because the stars of this constellation form a cross. 1t is not difficult to trace out the five stars that make | this cross.
According to mythology, Cygnus is the swan into
which Jupiter transformed himself when he went calling on Lida, wife of the king of Sparta. Juno| was not unnaturally jealous of this business and so| Jupiter felt the need of a disguise. 3 '
The Summer Triangle. . "IF THE NIGHT is moonless so that the Milky Way is visible, you will note that Cygnus lies on the Milky Way. This, incidentally, is an additional guide in finding thé constellation. Due east of Lyra and southeast of Cygnus, you will find the constellation of Aquila, the eagle. Its bright star is Altair, again easily identified because there are no other very bright stars near it. Altair is flanked by a fairly bright star on eith# side, the three making a straight line. Now you have the summer triangle, Vega, Deneb and Altair. - If you watch the triangle through the month you will note that it is climbing the eastern sky until in August, Vega will be almost directly overhead. Aquila is supposed to represent the eagle, which was the symbol of Jupiter in ancient mythology ana which stood beside his throne on Mt. Olympus. It's was this eagle which Jupiter sent to earth to carry off the beautiful shepherd boy of Phrygia, Gannymedes, in order that he might become the cup-bearer of the gods. Gannymedes, according to legend, was the son of Tros, who became the builder of Troy, the city famed in Homer's Illiad as the seene of the Trojan War,
. By Eleanor Roosevelt |
about the faults of management as well as of saber, That 1s as it should be, for while many of us see faults on either one side or the other, it is really important that we see the faults on both sides. Eh, I read a long letter in one of the papers the other day by Russell V. Leffingwell, which was on the whole very wise and fair. But the last paragraph left you with the thought that labor, alone, needed reform.’ I find this thought frequently repeated in things which I read, and yet the reforms must come on both sides One thing we must always remember: There is seldom any great difficulty in getting management's side of any story printed, but when it comes to getting labor's side into print, that is a very different question. I could almost tell you beforehand the very
, few papers which will usually print both sides, must co-operate with labor a
Za kc just finished Dan Wickenden's' “The Wayone of the few novels I have read recently, It Fe alt WHT, the characters are well drawn and the story is real and vivid. But I could not help feeling, perhaps because I get so much of the reality of life flung at me in the mail day after day, that I did not care to spend quite so much time reading about
people's failures. So féew of these people come out
triumphant.
1 think it is the people who come out triumphant 7,
Dogs
the Japs learned that,
raid in history. Eighty thousand Germans were arrested. The four centers of black mar-
Imperial Castle, Alexanderplatz and Kurfuerstandamm-—will soon be wiped out. But authorities fear the black market won't disappear, but will sinuply go underground. It may {continue thus for many years. ” . RUSSIAN, American and British troops form only the surface of the black market, but aren't an {integral part. | The ‘black market exists and has {existed for the last five years in Berlin, because some people have enormous amounts of money and are ‘unable to spend it legally. Others would starve if they couldn't buy illegally. Still others | would perish if they could not make money oh the black market. 8 ~ BERLIN offers an ideal back- | ground for black market activities. It has been and still is a city where | “anything goes.” Just now Berlin is going through a period comparable to the inflation |of the early '20s. { As then, large gangs trading in everything have formed. An entire Berlin underworld—about whichthe outer world knows almost nothing—sells anything from a pound of butter to an ounce of morphine. ic » = THE black market took on ter- | rific dimensions after 1941. In the spring of 1944 butter cost 200 marks, coffee 1000 marks, tea 1200- marks, on the black market in the western part of Berlin. Downtown prices were 30 per cent lower. Slioes cost 300 to 800 marks, material for a suit 1000 to 2000 marks. Until the end of the war prices were constantly soaring. Black market dealings were concluded in cafes and restaurants.
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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN { United Press Staff Correspondent
we've got the mysterious case of
|how many pints in a gallon of
oysters. Eight? Don’t go betting money on it. | That’s wher? the war” labor board ! made its mistake, | ‘It ruled (and later rued the day) | that an oyster shucker should get | {60 cents for shucking a ‘gallon of | oysters, “What's a gallon?” demanded the | Seaton Workers’ Union, Local 453, affiliated with the Amalgamated {Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of North America. “Eight pints,” snapped the WNLB. " » » » “EXCEPT in the free state of Maryland,” replied the Amalgamated oyster shuckers, numbering 367, including 202 lady shuckers. “A gallon of oysters in Maryland has nine pints and we want justice.” So help us, the oyster shuckers had the law on their side. The problem of what to pay an oyster shucker for shucking a gallon ceased being open-and-shut. In 1898 (and I know what I'm talking about because I phoned the state commissioner of Tidewater "Fisheries at Annapolis) the Maryland general assembly adopted a law defining a gallon of oysters as nine pints, » ” » THIS WAS because the ga nineties oyster dealers, except for
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A large scale purge will start any
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT (A Chocolate Bar Is Worth Its Weight in Gold) |
.. Berlin Black Market
Four hours before delivery wagon bearing food for hungry Berliners is due to arrive, housewives line
up at the grocery store. such luxuries as butter, sugar, tea
in this business. Many persons {lived illegally, and needed black market food for which they could have “paid only if they made enormous amounts on the black inarket. The police and even the. Gestapo allowed its members and stool pigeons to make additional money if “their superiors were cut in. This situation was fantastic, since average monthly salaries for stenographers were 200 marks, accountans 350 marks, © and untrained
workers 240 .marks before deduction of taxes.
MANY FOREIGN workers were]
and coffee.
thus the: public was forced to go on the black market more than before. Since they had almost no money
frozen and money having been developed.
Then came the British and Ameri- |
found out that such goods commanded terrific prices.
250 marks. Coffee, whose price was lowered in the hope that Americans would import large quantities, cost
One underground organization
for food and furnished rooms.
¥ > = »
THE situation changed somewhat when the Russians invaded Berlin, because they took away and partly burned a large amount of German money.
They also requisitioned {stocks - of food and individually looted watches and jewelry. This, together with the large amounts of money they had because they hadn't spent® their year’s pay, made them buyers on the black market as well as sellers. - As sellers they had as rivals those Germans who, taking adyantage of the disorders of the last days before the fall of Berlin, had robbed
that Kept alive 10 illegal operators | had to spend 10,000 marks weekly |
large |
500 marks. »
SOON the Germans themselves
were unable to compete, contenting
themselves to trade and make slight profits, while the Russians and Americans were Teal partners in the black market, Prices now are quoted only in dol|lars. One dollar equals 10 occupa{tional marks, which is the only trading money available, Cigarets soared to $1 to $2 apiece. . Watches which cost $3 in the U.S. brought $300, since the Russians are insatiable in their demand for timepieces, naively preferring cheap but fancy ones, such as Mickey Mouse watches. . = » ” IN THE meantime, to heighten the confusion, genuine dollars are traded at 300 marks, the pound sterling accordingly.
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF WLB AND THE SEAFOOD SHUCKERS—
How Many Pints in a Gallon of Overs)
Orsinger said that as soon as Percival with Othman.
in public.
Othman Sea Monster Hunt
‘WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P.).—The Othman-Orsinger sea monster expedition marked time today, while Fred G. Orsinger, director of the federal aquarium, sorted his mail concerning Percival, the melancholy monster of the Potomac.
As of now Orsinger’s impeccable sea monster has mud in his whiskers from heavy rains and refuses to appear
the river cleared up he would visit
,& few, flinty-hearted characters, threw in an extra pint with every eight-pint gallon of oysters. It was the custom and when an oyster lover got a gallon with only eight pints in it, he usually threw it in the oyster dealer's face. This made a mess. ; The assembly wearied of these slithery shenanigans and that's why it ruled that there were nine pints of oysters in every Maryland gallon. The commissioner pointed out that this applied only to oysters;
URING extremely hot weather, heat strokes are more common. This disturbance also known as sun stroke is the direct result of overheating rof the body, and is more
humidity is high, | Although most - | first-aid books tell [you to make a distinction be-
| {tween heat stroke ‘iand heat éxhaus-
tion, it may be dificult in practice. Heat stroke is a disturbance in which the heat regulating mech- 1 anism of the body is overcome by Jving to get rid of excessive body
pon patients become unconscious ; once and death occurs. are found on the street or of work, unconscious,
heavily. | and pupils dilated. Temperamay rise to 107 to 109 degrees. PE AT ONE hospital during a heat wave a few years ago, the treatment | which proved best was to cover the body with a'sheet, soaked in alcohol, and then an electric fan was allowed to play over the surface. ~The cooling evaporation of alcohol | brought the temperature down, ‘Patients 1 %
Te Twelve fish
with a hot dry skin, flushed face,| Pulse is
there are eight pints ina gallon of Maryland ‘ice cream, house paint, and sweet pickles. » » » THE Maryland oyster shuckers | said they'd be doggoned if they'd shuck nine pints of oysters Zor 60 cents, when the Virginia oyster shuckers got the same money at Chincoteague across- the bay for shucking eight pints. The Marylanders talked about a strike. One dozen firms including the Choptank Oyster Co. said they'd like to oblige, but whatever they
THE DOCTOR SAYS: Stay Home If You Don't Feel Well In Hot Weather—
Too Much Heat—and Humidity
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, | Later they volunteered that they of not having felt well for Ty
had headache, dizziness, and had {been nauseated before they lost consciousness. . THOSE who do not respond immediately ‘are more seriously af-]
apt to develop on days in which the fected, so that survival to the sec-|mal or below.
ond day is considered a favorable
* sign.
{ If you have ever been overcome |by the heat, you must be careful to avoid” becoming overheated again. | There is a tendency for the condi tion to recur more easily the second | time.
severe Blacks. " IN HEAT es bawntiog the regulating mechanism is disturbed but not | overcome. y Patients brought to the hospitals suffering with heat exhaustion tell
ON THE other hand. regular food | | stores didn’t get any more food and
left—bank accounts having been. | stolen—a large-scale barter system |
can troops, who possessed watches, ! coffee and food rations and soon |
About a week ago butter sold for | 1000 marks, sugar 200 marks, meat |
Loss of memory sometimes follows
- Black market thrives in face of shortages. Only the very wealthy can afford |
The black market has become so fantastic it is almost unreal. i One soldier sold his cheap watch, | telling me "I'll buy a car for it back in the United States.” Nobody wants German marks any | longer except the Russians and | Americans who can exchange them | {into -rubles and dollars. Germans] only barter. Physicians; barbers and businessmen want goods. You can get your teeth fixed for one pack of Chester- | fields. i Prostitution is on the barter sys- | tem, too. One chocolate bar gets | you snydsing. " #® TRAFFIC = dope is terrific, dope | having been stolen from German | army hospitals and exchanged for| ! jewelry or fat, which is Particularly | scarce. No night passes without several gambling clubs being discovered by | the military police. ~ } They are filled with respectable’ German businessmen, ene of whom | told me. “This is the end of the world. Why not have fun?” i = » » | THIS IS Berlin today. And it won't change before some order is brought into this unbelievable confusion, And before the Germans begin to feel that they have some kind of solid ground under their feet, no matter how low their living standard. In short, the black market isn't a surface abcess, which can be burned out, but an expression of the complete despair, confusion and cynicism now reigning in Berlin.
did they'd be wrong. Some of ‘em tried to salve the shuckers by having 'em shuck eight pints. The state of Maryland hauled ‘em to court and charged ‘em with being criminals for breaking the nine-pint law. These cases still are pending. ~
THE WLB wondered whether the! Maryland attorney general couldn't rule on how many pints in a gallon. He turned the problem over to {the last session of the assembly, | which said: What was good enough {for grandfather is good enough for us. That left the federal labor board | experts on a spot. . But they even- |
tually issued an amended edict. | |
They said shuckers should get 60 cents per gallon, except in those
states where the gallon contains |:
nine pints. Then they get 67% cents, Solomon couldn't have done better.
days. Headache, nausea; and muscular | | weakness are the usual complaints {before exhaustion occurs. In heat | exhaustion the skin is said to be cool and moist, and temperature is norConsciousness is usually not los, » ANY KIND of heat distlirbace should be treated by moving the {person to a cool place, letting him | rest and giving him salt and water. { Fruit juices are also advised. { A physician should be called. It the skin'is hot, remove the clothing, ! | sprinkle with water; fanning the alr | at the same time to cause evapo- | ration. | Heat disturbances can be pre-| vented by exercising care Rturing hot | weather, and staying home when | you do not feel well. :
CAMP PENDLETON, Cai, July 25 (U. P.).—Buddies of Marine Pvt. Earl R. Wolfe, 18, Ellittsville, Ind.. wha shelled out $28.45 in ‘a rash attempt to see how much Wolfe could eat, today claimed for him the title of armed forces’ chow champion,
tor of ‘Southbridge, Mass. who | army doctors described as an exhibitionist’ when he downed an inordinate amount of food, is just a piker, the matines said. ‘Wolfe, “really hungry.” de-.
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Army Pfc. Cheyter J. Salva-
Hoosier G. |. Bids For Chow Honors |
an ordet of french fries, com- | bination salad ,and jello; four | quarts of milk, six pints of ice cream, three malts. five cherry’ pies, six sandwiches, five tomato | salads and four glasses of orange | i Juice.
BOSTON SPEARER BOOKED NEW CASTLE, July 25 'U. PJ. | A regional planning meeting will! be held here Friday with William | Stanley. Porter. chairman of the | Bowie, Mass. etd planning voard as speaker, meeting 1s one of a series in ing el ng- | pe improvement Dire for Pie and private areas. &
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Labor : Ask Truman to Define 'Fences'
Between Unions.
By FRED 'W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Stat Writer WASHINGTON, July 25.—An “emergency board” under - the railway labor act notified President Truman today that official
fences should be set up between
labor unions, thing in American labor reiations. Untii now, the unions have mapped out their own fields. Some of them overlapped. The overlap ping
This is & new
_ tend®ncy has
become acute in recent months. : The C.1.O. has been raiding the A. F. of L, the A, P. of L. has raided the C. I. O. and the Unied Mine Workers’ District 50 "has been raiding both Such conflicts are called “jurisdictional” Labor unions were supposed to have definite jurisdictions, like law courts, The C. I. O. Auto Workers were supposed to organize only automobile workers, and the teamstears’ unior of the A. PF. of L. was supposed to organize only men who drove horses or trucks. - But the automobile union and the teamsters’ union go" where they see a chance to organize. So do many other unions. . % 8 JURISDICTIONAL disputes have plagued American organized labor since the American Federation of Labor was split in the C. I. O. and later into the United Mine Workers ‘and other non- | affiliated unions. All these fac tions are gunning for one another in the matter of membership. Competition is keen. It has produced strikes judged by the war labor board to be of war importance. The post-war period is expected to produce more “disturbances of this intra-bnion question unless the unions get together, Prevention of such conflicts 13 one of the aims of the Hatch-Balil-Burton bill, now in the senate. The bill proposes a significant rewrite of present federal labor legislation. This would include the National Labor Relations ac’. » » = THE BOARD which reported to President Truman said it hoped, that on his return from Europe Mr. Truman would. consider its recommendation for labor peace. Mr. Truman named the beard ; under the Railway Labor Act. 18 =
ington, and Judge Curtis G. Shake, of Vincennes, Ind. It was named to settle among other matters a strike threat on the Illinois Central system.
We, the Women :
Humble Homes Also Produce
War's Heroes
By. RUTH MILLETT
WHEN a city reporter asked the father of an Arkansas farm boy whose bravery: earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor if the family, with eight children still at home, wanted to tidy up before posing for a newspaper picture he said: “Naw. We're jest what we are and that's all. , Just farm el folks.” & So the famco ily of the hero s stood up to have their pictures taken just as they came from work in their rented farm home ‘and in the fields. How right that father was to decide that he and his wife and kids didn't have to dress up in their Sunday best to impress folks with what kind of people they are. Their soldier son has already proved to the world what Kind of home he comes from, and what kind of folks his parents are. - - » IT WAS not an educated home —for the Medal of Honor winne, himself. has only a fourth-grade education. This was the kind of home that can send a farm boy into battle with great courage. " As the lone survivor of his company, he destroyed two 88 mm, gun positions, took the crews as prisoners, wiped out two German machine-gun nests and carried thre¢ wounded Americans to safety. One’ thing we should have ' learned by now from this waf :s that there is no visible pattern for “a American home.” The heroes of this war have come from all kinds of homes, large, small, crowded city Spariaienis, rented farms. Go» {ily » ” » IN MANY of the homes of heroes there was too little money and too many children for the parents to give them “the chance” we hear so much about—meaning an easy childhood a good educa: tion, a start in life, ; But certainly all these hums from which eur heroes have eame have been homes” a all our heroes have had “a ehh: