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"AYRES 8 doing its darndest to keep the city cool ' this week. Earl Hoppes of the property and production ‘department dreamed up some snow machines ~—at a much cheaper price than Hollywood could do. They cost about $50. Movie snow apparatus is worth about $1000. The contraptions are now. at work in seven of Ayres windows, so you'll see snow floating down all week, The setting 1s appropriate for the fur-coated manikins in the background. After 17 hours someone has to go in, shovel up the show and put it back into the machires. Then they are ready to go for another.

17 hours. Where do they get the -

snow? Well, it’s merely cornflakes. The golden brown color has been removed by bleaching... Over at Manual high school they're getting quite a kick “out of writing to Miss Helen Haynes, one of the commercial teachers, Miss Haynes ig; vacationing at Windwhistle, Butternut Point, Pequot Lake, Minnesota. Wish we had an address like that. ... Jack Hatfield left ast week for Montana after a full season of hard work as ©lvic theater director. He usually makes the trip to see relatives there about every five years. .. A couple of Central-Keystone bus passengers have been searching the maps for a quaint little place down in Florida, A man on the bus was talking about a Florida town where the city hall is located three blocks outside the city limits and the country club right in the heart of the city. The mixup was caused, he said, when realtors attempted to replot the city but failed. We've never heard of the place and neither have our listeners. They're still complaining, that the man didn’t talk loud enough for them to catch the name.

3025 Nylon Stockings LT. COL. WALKER W. WINSLOW took quite a ribbing about his own airport Saturday from locas newspapermen and city and military officials. The colonel, who is superintendent of Weir Cook airport, was with the group of Indianapolis men who flew to Dayton, O,, in connection with the air show here

Sunday. They were going to fly back to Indianapolis’ »

China's ‘Gimo’ SIAN, Shefisi Province, China, July 31.—Soldier and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek, 57 years old, was educated in Japan—and hates the Japs. He is commander of United Nations forces in his native land, president of the Republic of China, head of its national military. council, 4% and leader of its national party, le. thé Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek's Central government, as a member of the United Nations, seems certain to continue in control of free China, despite the {act that there are 50odd political groups.

in the giant B-19, one of the main features of the show. The ceiling was too low, and the return trip had to be made in two smaller ships. The planes were warming up, ready to take off, when a radio message from Weir Cook said they'd have to stick around Dayton awhile, Traffic was too heavy for them to land: This delay lasted 45 minutes. Then they took off. When they hit Greenfield, in came another call from Weir Cook. Circle the city, they were told. Traffic once.again was tied up. After 12| or 15 times around Greenfield, the planes headed’ - for Indianapolis. The colonel had to think pretty hard to keep up with the razzing he was getting about not being able tc land at his own airport. But he had a good comeback. His airport was one of the busiest in the country and that showed exactly what kind of a job he was doing. . . . Most ot the male spectators enjoyed watching the Stout field planes pick up gliders at the air show. But there was a sad lot of women onlookers. The public address system kept repeating that 3025 nylon stockings were in one of those tow-ropes on each glider

Hamburger Without Buns EVEN THE soldiers are learning ‘what the meat shortage is like back home. James St. Clair, 4955 Crittenden, tells us that a soldier whose mouth was watering for home-made chili couldn't find hamburger. : A local hamburger dispensary came to the rescue and sold him the meat that would have gone into 20 hamburgers, It was pretty expensive, though About a pound of hamburger cost the G. I. $1. He: didn’t want the buns. ... A restaurant in the 700 block of N. Pepnsylvania st. evidently is having meat trouble, too. It's closed with a sign on the door: “No points, .;No beer. Buy‘'bonds,” . .. No one knows better than ¥ returned serviceman how much letters mean when you're away from home. “Ani go George A. Schumacher, Butler alumni secretary, has resumed writing a mimeographed round robin letter to the 1875 Butler men and women in the armed forces

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By CHARLES T. HALLINAN United Press Staff Correspondent

ONDON —Ernie. Bevin drops his aitches—=particularly when he’s angry. Today the staid, school-tie

eign office were still trying to get used to the idea of Bevin.

esty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs. One thing appeared to be certain, Whether Britain's’ foreign policy undergoes any change there is bound to be a dusting ‘off of

precincts of Whitehall.

Today. at 64, the 200-pound Bevin has come a long way from the little farm at Winsford. That farm is where he went to work as a 10-year-

Mr. Schumacher wrote two such letters before he himself entered the service as an officer. Back on the job now, he’s mailing out the first ot the new series. One of the bits of news in the letter 1s that there are more than 60 discharged veterans who are in Butler to continue their college work.

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By Harry Grayson p | Surrounded by a group of his generals, the gen- | eralisstimo reviewed 3200 cadets, 700 of whom were | completing a three-year course. He wore a khaki uniform with a cloth field cap.

Three decks of ribbons were on his chest and al short dagger swung from his side in a beautifully wrought gold and ivory scabbard, a gift of his people. | On his heels were highly polished brass spurs. |

Up at 5 a.m. Chiang Kai-shek shaves with an American safety razor, does some Chinese gymnastics and keeps going lickity-split until he tucks himself | into a double- bed with an American mattress at |

10:30 p.m. |

old at wages of sixpence (12 cents) a week,

» » » ” NO MEMBER of the new British Labor government is mgre closely identified with British tribes unionism than Bevin.

He was still in his teens when he entered the labor movement in the. port of Bristol. He soon held a minor post in the dockers’ union. He ran for the Bristol city council in 1908 and was roundly beaten.’ The year before he had founded the Bristol unemployed union and became its secretary. He has been secretary of most labor organizations with which he has been connected since then. ” “ 5 SECRETARYSHIP and organization are his strong points. He is known as the best organizer in British trade union history. He is

diplomats of the British for- -

That is, Bevin as His Maj-

cobwebby corners, in the solemn

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945

ERNIE BEVIN (A Shock to Britain's School-Tie Diplomats)

A Labor Organizer in Whitehall

| He is a short, stout man with | a large head—he wears heavy hornrimmed glasses. He looks tpugh and talks tough but his health actually, | 8 rather delicate. | He brought himself to the forefront in the Labor party in 1833 when he exploded at a Labo: party conference against the aging George Lansbury. i . Lansbury was head of the party and an advocate of pacifism. | Bevin was all-out for stopping the! rise of the dictators even if it led] to war. X The battle set the Labor party off on a crusade against Fascism. | : » » » ‘WHEN Winston Churchill suc~ ceeded the late Neville Chamueriaip |

# as prime minister he called Bevin

"of the best in Britain.

Ernest Bevin . . . His Majesty's secretary of state for foreign affairs.

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into the government, l Bevin became minister of labor He was given gredit for thé smooth] application, “of Britain's" limited man and ‘woman power to war pro-| duction. ! While Bevin has never specialized |

in foreign affairs, he is a veteran.

negotiator. He is regarded as one] He is ex-| vected to carry this talent into the international scene. : Some Mbor party members hold reservations against Bevin's assump- | tion of his new post. i They are concerned about his tendency to see problems in concrete rather than abstract terms. Also he has no objection to international ‘cartels.

. ” o THESE groups regard him as a labor poltician who happens to be a technician in handling masses of people. They wonder to what extent Europe's problems can be handled on technical lines without reference to philosophical principles. : It was believed certain that the new. foreign secretary would replace

U.S. Effect of | British Vote Up to Congress

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff wrntes WASHINGTON, culy 31.—How much will Britain's leftward swing toward a Solialist govern: ment affect politics on this side of the Atlantic? An answer to this question may appear in : what congress does with two significant bills. : One is the Murray “full employme n t” bill which would expand government

. planning over

private indus- . with the 3 aim of assuring continuous high work volume. It would allow the government to spend heavily on public projects in slack times. The other bill is the 'Hatch-

, Ball-Burton proposal for a new

federal industrial relations -act, providing a new approach to settlement of. management-labor controversies.

» n » : - SOME OF the leading supporters of each of these bills may be found working for the other also. But in general the forces backing the Murray bill (which is sponsored also by Senators Wagner, Thomas and O'Mahoney) will be found bucking the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill. ‘That is already demonstrated .. among the leaders of American organized labor. . They are for the Murray bill They are against any decided change in law governing labor-management rela- - tions. > a

§everal references to the British

That's a mere 17-hour day, for he takes time out | expected to apply his hand at refor.a.nap from 2 to 2:30.p.m. arin fn He is fond of music and early in the war phono- | creaky machinery of the foreign port and general workers. graph records were played lightly while he was! moe | The job took him four years. But! napping.. He would awaken when the~music ceased.| Bevin's first great Organizing job |

{was in 1918 when he undertook the |

jamalagamation of 45 separate!a union treasury of $4,000,000. And

| ‘a ithe British ambassadors both a {organizing -some-of -the-ancient-and unions-into -a-singie body-of -trans+ he-was its- general secretary:

{Washington-and Moscow: ccufie But there was no suggestion as to who might be sent in the place of {Lord Halifax and Sir Archibald |Clark Kerr: ”

It was the Kuomintang party which overthrew the Manchu dynasty and led the revolution, -and it is Chiang Kai-shek who has performed a miracle by keeping : z his people going through eight long years of war Chiang Is a-Methodist

election were made by backers of the “Murray bill as “prelimitiary ~~ hearings opened before a senate committee. ee

Senator Morse (R. Ore.) said he interpreted the British result

* 2 x | EVER SINCE then Bevin has when he was finished he had cre- been a name that countéd in British ated a body of 850,000 workers with labor.

with Japan,

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The generalissimo—American officers refer to him as the Gimo—is a little man standing no more flan B feet 8! inches, weighs only 150 pounds. He has a

I stringy gray moustache and his sparse hair is cropped close like that of most Chinese.

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But his trimness and complexion—almost ruddy for a Chinese—and piercing black eyes give him an appearance that belies his years. Those eyes warn you he is no man to fool with, that he will harbor no interference. Vinegar Joe Stilwell found that out.

He ' intends to unify the nation, and contends

. democracy is being inculcated while the war is being * waged against the common enemy.

J English Language Problem

|THE GENERALISSIMO has never been to Amer-

F fca, and speaks no English—which plainly embar- ¢ rasses him no little in meeting English-speaking

groups.

He leaned heavily on his talented wife in that de-

{ partment until urticaria, an inflammation of the

skin. forced her to establish residence in New ‘York. Chiang Kai-shek refuses to discuss their personal

THE GENERALISSIMO is an extremely light! eater. Chinese and American food is alternated at breakfast at 7. 3 Frequently it is that grand American institution, ham and eggs (scrambled). . Lunch is at 1, dinner-at 8. Soup and four ‘tiny bowls, two each of vegetables and beef and pork, rarely chicken: . He is a teetotaler, but enjoys seeing others imbibe. When they “gambei” him, which means bottoms up, he simply makes the gesture. * .. Chiang Kai-shek, a stickler for punctuality, couples business with luncheons and dinners by inviting members of his cabinet, higher military and civil officials, industrialists and big-businessmen. He spends the rest of the time attending to affairs of state and meeting important people. " He checks all the far-flung war fronts by telephone following breakfast and dinner. There is a telephone beside his bed. Chiang Kai-shek -has two sons by his first wife, who was killed in 1942 in an air raid in her native | district, Chekow. They were divorced in 1924.

The sons are Maj, Chiang Wei-kuo, 27, who acted |

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LABOR PARTY (A Belief In: Socialism Is The Passport to Membership): -.

Viscounts . .. Barons . . . and Boilermakers

Sir Walter Citrine—Knighted in|"

LONDON, July 31 (U. P.).—The

{passport into ‘the top circles of {the British labor party is a belief

in socialism. A working man’s lunch pail isn't necessary. The party's lists are sprinkled with viscounts, barons and “sirs,” rubbing shoulders with former dock workers and boilermakers. Some former boilermakers are knights in their own right, wearing the title of “sir” as a token of the king’s gracious thanks for distinguished public service. There are two kinds of titled gentry in the labor party—men born to the peerage who hold

| affairs, but Missouri- and Columbia-educated Hol-"“as interpreter during” our chat in Sian, and Chiang {labor party convictions, and labor I lington K. Tong, vice minister of information, and Ching-Kuo, 35, formerly a magistrate at Kiangsi, now party leaders who have beén -ele-

| others close to the boss testify there has been no

| break and that there is a regular exchange of cable-

grams. At’ a review and graduating exercises of the 7th agency of the Central military academy in ancient Bian, capital of Shensi province, I first saw Chiang Kai-shek, the soldier,

Be » S EXPERIENCE at the U, 8. Naval hospital in Philadelphia - has confirmed the fact that other senses become keener when sight has been lost. “There is nothing magical about this,” Lt, Cmdr. A. Duano Beam, head of the hospital's eye service, says. “It is just the natural result of the greater use of these senses upon which the blinded person is forced to dépend. This makes the development of special skills possible.”

As I reported yesterday the Navy and Marine corps has had

associated with the foreign office. Chiang Ching-kuo accompanied Dr. Soong on his | recent trip to Moscow, where he was educated and | married a Russian girl. The generalissimo became a Methodist when he married his present wife, and says that reading the Bible convinced him he should be a Christian.

By David Dietz |

Beam says, however, that the enthusiasm for. these are such that he thinks just as many would go in for it on a voluntary basis. Calisthenics, weights, punching bag, basketball, archery, rope skipping, wrestling, bicycling, ‘horses shoes, golt putting, golf driving, swimming, bowling, rowing and hiking are on the program, On Dec. 1, 1944, a rowing crew from the Philadelphia hospital defeated a crew from the Valley Forge hospital. All the oars in the race were stroked by blind men. Only the coxswains were sighted.

Patients Interested “A VISIT to the ward In the evening may provide |

vated to the peerage or knighthood. Here are a few of the leading

Steele Memorial .

Open in 2 Months

Robert F. Wirsching, director of state parks, announced today that the T. C. Steele memorial will be open to the public within 60 days. Mr. Steele, who was one of Indiana’s foremost artists, died 1926. His wife, Mrs. Selma N. Steele, recently- donated the -estate

in Brown county and paintings “valued at $100,000 to the conserva-

tion department for a memorial. Thé Brown county art colony was begun by Mf. Steele in 1907 when he built the “house of the singing winds.” Approximately 200 Steele canvases will be displayed af the memorial, which is nine miles

less ‘than 100 individuals who evidence of the genuine interest of the patient n|southwest of Nashville.

have been blinded in World War II but that extraordinary arrangements have been made for their rehabilitation at the Philadelphia hospital.

Amaze New Arrivals ; NEWLY ‘afrived blind cases are amazed at the facility with which patients who have been longer at the hospital make their way around, “Say, are you really blind, too?” the newcomer will ask one of the “veterans” after the latter has steered him down the long passageway which leads to the ice cream soda fountain. as Training in the reading of Braille and In typewriting is available for those patients who wish to study them. Howevér, the blind are also encouraged to continue writing in ordinary script with the aid of a specially prepared writing board. Graduated physical training and sports are compulsory for all those who are physically able. Cmdr.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday —George E. Haynes, of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, has just written me. He says that he feels we get a great deal more of the distressing pjcture of the difficulties in racial relations in our sountry shd a - great deal less than we should about the constructive things which are actually being done.

the application of his newly acquired skills,” Cmdr. ! Beam says. “A group of patients In the living room! area of the ward may be engaged in a game of caids or ‘Braille checkers. In a classroom adjacent to the ward, may hear the rhythm of a typewriter.” For patients confined to bed because of recent Surgical treatment, there are “talking books’—books turned into phonograph records by the Library of Twice a week, attractive volunteers come to the hospital to give the men dancing lessons, The average patient is kept at the Philadelphia Naval hospital from four to five months but also spends a period of two weeks at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. Here intelligence and mechanical talefits are appraised for use in vocational guidance. - A large part of the rehabilitation program 1s directed at adjusting these men to the return to civilian life. '

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By ‘Eleanor Roosevelt

leisure time ‘activities, and after that the full discussion—the summing up of all the information gathered. They held a discussion on what should be done, and actually seem to have begun to translate into’ action the results of their group thinking. Youngstown was the 14th city in which similar clinics have been held by the department of race relations of the Federal Council of Churches. Mr.

situation has created. to the difficult situation is a very

Racial tensions and conflicts are looked |

FRANK FISSE NEW SUMUS CLUB HEAD

The Sumus club, an organization of Technical high school students, will install Frank Fisse as president at a meeting next Tuesday. Other new officers to be installed include Dale Jackson, Secretary; Donald Day, treasurer; Jack Bush, sergeant-at-arms, and Riley De DeMasie, corregponding secretary.

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titled laborites and how they got their titles. .

known as Oliver Baldwin, left wing son of former Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. When Stanley Baldwin resigned the premiership, he accepted the title Lord Baldwin of Bewdley. His oldest son automatically became a viscount, and has been elected to commons, Sir Stafford - Gripps—Fourth son of Baron Parmoor. He became a knight bachelor and acquired the title “sir” in 1930 for distinguished ‘public service when he was solicitor general, Lord {Comdr.

Strabolgi—Formerly Joseph Montague

Lt. Ken-

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. “DON'T TAKE it too hard,” should be the slogan of every golfer and tennis player this summer. You are a year older than you were this time last year and you haven't had much time recently to keep in shape, have you? Your heart is probably as flabby as your muscles for the heart is ‘really just another muscle. Muscles can come -back and so

* heart if you work at it gradually. Let's see how this advice into what we know about the heart and circu- . lation. The blood circulates through a closed system of tubing carrying oxygen and food to the tissues, and bringing away carbon dioxide and other waste. » - » THE HEART is the pump which maintain the constant flow. |. Under average conditions it contracts 72 times a minute discharging a certain amount of blood with each contraction. . The period during which the heart is filling is called the rest period. - When you exercise, the rate of the heart is increased and this interferes with the rest periods. THEE N. IF THE muscle is weak, exhaustion may occur, and if the strain \s severe enough, a condition called heart failure is said to exist.

tive life, the heart develops to meet

Studies of athletes show that those sports which make the great-

can a normal

fits

In individuals who lead an acy|| the varying demands made.upon it.

(worthy, assistafit naval chief of staff at Gibraltar.in the last war.

Viscount Corvedale—Used to be Once a liberal, he switched to the tary of the Trades Union Congress

labor party and was a member of parliament from 1919 to 1931. His father, Baron Strabolgi, died in 1934 and the tite passed to the ‘Present * holder. chief Labor whip in the house of lords for eight years.

the Labor party's Daily Herald. Formerly Julius Salter Elias: FH

distinguished national service in the publishing business in 1837. At the time the Daily Herald was supporting the government policy toward Spain.

the body, and in overcoming the effects of disease. . It is said to be able to do more work at any given time than we ask it to do. » » ” WITH advancing years, however, there is a tendency for the heart to lose its elasticity. 3 It changes with all of the other organs of the body, and itis impossible to escape this result through exercise. wip If the heart is given half a chance, it will do a good job, but it must be ‘given, time to develop the necessary strength for extra demands. ” » » IT IS difficult to convince. the average individual that each year of life exacts a definite toll in body efficiency.

He has become

Lord Southwood—Publisher of | driver and dockworker, who be{came know as the taxi man’s M. P.

He | HE became resident minister in|

row is the first Baron Southwood. public service. ‘He was eleviated to the peerage for|

{brother.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: You're a Year Older Than You Were Last Summer

Go Easy. on Golf at the Start

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1936 for his work as general secre-

and president of the International Federation of Trade Unions. His

knighthood caused some disturbance among sections of the trade union movements. Sir Ben Smith—One-time taxi

Washington, and was knighted for

Earl Russell-The writer, Bertrand Russell, has laborite affiljations, but is not active in politics. He became the third Earl Russell in 1831 upon the death of his

The mind has less of a tendency to age than the body, so most of us feel as young as we did years ago. Examination of the body, however, reveals a different. story, as few men and women past early adult life fail to show aging changes.

w » » IF YOU have heart disease, be guided by your physician's advice in the amount of exercise you undertake, as general advice does not apply to you. If you have a good heart which has grown a little flabby from your sedentary habits during the past winter and spring, take it easy in the beginning. It will not be long before you can be as active as you please.

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to show “a determination of the common men and women to obtain economic security.” American democracy, he said, “rests on capitalism, and capitalism rests on democracy—both must work for the system to last.” # s = SENATOR MURRAY told the . committee: “If we fail to work out a policy and a program which will provide continuing production and full employment in this country, we are bound to be confronted with "dangerous reactions. Even before the war, three of the largest nations of the world had abandoned the capital-

cause it had failed to meet these requirements.”

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We, the Women Wife-Seeking Farmer Faces

Competition

By RUTH MILLETT A WISCONSIN farmer has advertised for a wife who is willing to be a mother to his 3-year old son. He can't understand why he hasn't found a satisfac: tory answer to his ad since thert are “2,300,000 women between the ages of 20 and 34 without a Chinaman’s.

chance of mar®”

rying.” Well, maybe

“here's the answer: The Wiscon-

sin farmer? z advertisement would naturally be regarded a: another “help wanted,” item since he stressed the fact that the woman he was looking for woule need to be a successful farm wife would have to understand children, be industrious, etc. s - = ; WOMEN have been besieged by “help wanted” ads since the star} of the war—and they have been promised a lot. Such things, for instance, as a five-day week, time and a half for overtime; a wellcooked lunch at cost, ideal work: ing conditions, chance for ad. vancement, and so on.

The farmer asks that his applicants be under 42 years of agt, of good habits, even temper, inteliigent, with an open mind, an understanding heart, etc.

But he doesn’t promise much except himself. He rates hime self as being healthy, having regular habits and average good looks. .The girls might have been more interested in his offer had he listed some of the advantages they are used to having held out as bait is “help wanted” adver-