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WHEN MRS. EFFIE CARTER, 807 E. 14th st., said she brought up her children on the paste table, she wasn't kidding, For she, her two sons and her daughfers-in-law make up a regular paperhanging family, Mrs: Carter, now in her 60's, has been hanging paper for the last 20 years. She knows her business, too, and can do just as good a job as any man, Her son and daughter-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Siddell, 1222 Sterling, are at the job every day. Mrs. Siddall does the pasting and Mr. Siddall does the paperhanging. They work for Forrest Grant, local contractor. , . . Until about tliree years ago Pfc. William A. Siddall, 1205 Sterling, also was in the same trade. But the army interfered. He and his

- mother teamed up on their jobs and his wife, Viola, often helped with the pasting. Pfc, Siddell may be

back in the business soon, however. He is to dock in New York this week and is ready to be discharged. . ++ And there’s still another member of the Siddell family who's a paperhanger. He is Albert Siddall, father of the two Siddall brothers.

“on his various jobs.

Dodges Housing Shortage AT LEAST one person has found a way to get around the housing shortage. He is Ray deVaney, assistant sales manager and housing co-ordinator for Stewart-Warner Corp. Mr. deVaney found homes for about 60 families from Aug. 16 to Sept. 15 of this year. The homes were for new Stewart-Warner employees. . . . L. A. Rodert, scientist for the StewartWarner plant, has his own unique way of traveling. He, his wife and three children came to Indianapolis from California recently. They knew a hotel room would be about as hard to get as a box of soap Shits 80 they brought along their own sleeping facilities. The “moving hotel” was a trailer which opened up like a tent. At night four beds were made up and the entire family slept comfortably, ., . Mrs. Letha Pavey came to work at the U. 8: Tire & Rubber Co, the other day wearing one brown and one black shoe. Bhe has been so excited about her husband coming home from overseas that she hasn't had time to think much about her wardrobe. . . , When the navy sent some of its WAVES td the Hawaiian islands recently, Lt, (j.g) Bert Swope got a chance to talk over school days with Dorothy King. The two attended Butler university together. Bart now is in’ Tokyo Bay but

hopes to be home and a civilian by February,

Ex-Sailors Enlisting Again HARDLY a day goes by now at the navy recruiting office in the federal building without several sailors

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or ex-sailors coming in to re-enlist in the navy. The boys vary in age. Some of them already have been honorably discharged and some are eligible for discharge. Several of the men were home on leave and headed for a separation center when they requested to stav with the fleet. Some are re-enlisting because they're “fed up with civilian life.” Others have had difficulty in getting the kind of job they want. ... Paul J. Stevens of La Porte dropped in the recruiting office the other day. He has been in about all the European battles and has ribbons and decorations galore. But after four years, seven months and 11 days in the army, he came back to enlist in the navy. When the group left for basic training, he said, “Well, boys, here I go again.” , , , East Eng dairies switched over to the “square squat” milk bottle Tuesday. They've made a change in their coffee cream bottles, too. The half-pint containers now have a slimmer neck so that the same size milk bottle caps can be used on any size bottles.

Fantastic Village By Sidney B. Whipple

(First of a Series) KARUIZAWA, Japan, Oct. 18.—This is the most fantastice village in Japan. It used to be a summer retreat for the elite of the diplomatic corps. Today it serves as a hideout

. for the international riff-raff swept out of Tokyo by

the approach of our occupation forces. It is also a refuge for hundreds women and children who for three years lived a nightmare of terrorism and torture at the hands of the German Gestapo and the Japanese gendarmerie. Karuizawa is as full of intrigue as the Balkans and boasts as many spies as Casablanca. It

live bountifully on stores captured from an Australian ship and now cached in the basement of the Mampei hotel. ht It has a colony of anti-Nazis and German Jews who eke out an existence on a pound of bread a day plus small purchases on the Japanese black market. There are arrogant Germans here such as Herr Franz Josef Spahn, who came to Japan by submarine in 1943 as gauleiter for the Far East and who still loudly proclaims his loyalty to “mein fuehrer.”

Some Outstanding Men Absent THERE ARE also mild-mannered little men like the two music professors, Klaus Pringsheim and Joseph Rosenstock, who were thrown into a Japanese prison and nearly starved to death because J. A. Meisinger, known as the Butcher of Warsaw and in recent years head of the Gestapo in Japan, turned thém over to the Japanese gendarmerie. But some of those who were oufstanding figures in Karuizawa before the war are no longer here. Julius Engel is one. Engel was too outspoken in his hatred of Naziism, so he went to jail and came out

Aviati NEW YORK, Oct. 18. — The same type planes which carried Rodsevelt, Churchill, Stalin and MacArthur on hazardous overseas trips, soon will be carrying Joe Doaks, his wife and children—and probably at a three-cents-per-mile rate. Fifty of the wartime Douglas C-54's (peacetime DC-4's)—with Toon for 66 persons on domestic flights and 44 on overseas trips—are to be added to the present American Airlines fleet. It will be

equivalent to adding 402 of the present standard DC-3 airliners. Several now are being reconverted

to peacetime use at the Republic plant at Farmingdale, L. I. With four engines pulling its 30-ton weight easily through all kinds of weather, the C-54 was thorough-

Sketch shows comparison of present-day DC-3 airliner and the DC-4 (wartime C-54) which Amerfcan Airlines is to use on domestic and overseas routes. Below is a comparison between the prewar Pullman chair car and a DC-4.

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday —Today the carrier Enterprise came into New York harbor, Some of her planes soared overhead as she led the other ships which are to anchor in the harbor for the celebration of Navy day-on the 27th, Six times the Japa-

totally deranged. Despite the efforts of his friends to watch him, he succeeded in hanging himself. Meisinger is not here, of course, because we have him in presumably safe custody. Nor is Karl Kinderman, who admits that he once spied against Russia, and who for three years, it is alleged, has with cheerful impartiality served :the Japanese police, the Gestapo and, upon occasion even the Jews Kinderman is in Tokyo trying to get a job with the kind Americans. : Karuizawa is still a good hideaway for those characters because it is somewhat difficult of access and only one small finger of the American army has reached here—a photographic unit engaged in making documentary film. °

Travel Troubles There, Too

I HAD left Tokyo on the Karuizawa express which, despite its name, stops at every station along the route. Because the seats and aisles were full of people I rode on the vestibule platform with 14 other travelers and their luggage plus three crying babies. When I reached Karuizawa an overkind young man in tennis shorts, sport shirt and Tyrolean stockings offered, in Teutonic accents, to show me the way to the hotel. He was even kind enough to offer to carry my

heavy bag of rations, and all the way to the Mam- |*

pei he plied me with questions. The only information he offered about himself was that he had been a book salesman for many years in Japan and that he had long felt a yearning to go to America. A piano, slightly out of tune, was being played in the empty dining room off the Mampei lobby. The music was the “St. Louis Blues,” a vigorous conception with boogie-woogie treatment. I walked in and there was Sgt. Peter Protopappas of Brooklyn, N. Y, sound technician for the photographic unit which now constitutes the only army occupational force in Karuizawa. ;

Next: How the Signal Corps questions Nazis.

By Max B. Cook

ly tested during the war years and some of the same pilots will fly the American Airlines routes: have flown over 60 round trips across the North and South Atlantic, 70 trips over the Hump of the Himalayas, and through every conceivable weather condition from 70 degrees below zero around Greenland’s ice cap to 115 degrees F. over desert and jungle. They know their flying and their ship.

“Bugs Ironed Out”

ARMY AIR Transport Command has been flying 1000 of the big planes and American Airlines officials today pointed out that “we have chosen this type of airplane rather than adopt a newer or more radical type requiring months of flying before the ‘bugs’ could be ironed out.” The large planes will be used both on the domes tic and American Overseas Airlines routes. They are scheduled to fly from New York to Washington, Knoxville, Memphis, Ft. Worth, El Paso and the Coast ‘and also will probably cover the American Airlines routes to Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, among other cities. American has been using a 28-seat DC-3 on the Boston run for the past three weeks, causing many inquiries from passengers as to whether “this is one of the four-engined airplanes you are going to fly across the ocean.”

Cheaper Rates in Sight “THEY LOOK at the interior and forget to count the engines,” remarked a pilot. A few months and a new era of fast, safe, comfortable flying at cheaper rates will definitely be here. TWA is putting in its huge fast, four-engined Lockheed Constellations and Eastern is adding some of the huge, fast 0-46 Skymasters which gained 80 much fame flying the Hump. Boeing's huge Model 377, the peacetime C-97 Army transport developed from the B-29 Superfortress, is going to be heard from before long. New equipment is being

planned by all lines and the race is on. . By Eleanor Roosevelt 4 Great Britain in the earliest

days of the war. te Most of the men who have seen three or four years of service have known. not only ice-clad ships, but decks with burning sun and nights when the air was. still heavy, even at sea, with the day's heat. They have won supremacy over two great fleets. Their air forces have performed incredible feats of valor and skill. They've prepared landings and given protection to the boys in the little boats, and sailors alike

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believable story of two middleaged American construction workers. * They lived like Robinson Crusoes on tiny Wake island for 77 days, during most of which it was crowded with Japs. The two are Logan Kay, 55, of Clearlake Park, Calif, and Fred J. Stevens, 49, of Sioux City, Ia., who were working on the airport the Japs completed. Kay kept a careful diary from Dec. 8, 1041, when Wake first was attacked, until March 10, 1942, when the two were captured. Both now are en route home. s » » IT IS A story of hope, faith and bitter disappointment as the two men dodged and hid and hunted for food among the 3000 Japs. Wake island is only four miles long and less than a third of a mile across. It is so flat that seas sometimes wash over it.

groves, and less than 100 acres in all of brush. ” » » THIS STORY of grim adventure, one of the most remarkable to emerge from the war, was obtained for The Times by its correspondent, George Weller, Portions of the diary, as “Wake Island Scotty” Kay wrote it, will be published in two installments. The diary begins:

Dec. 8, 1941—“We were bombed at 11:55 a.m. by 18 planes, ... The Pan Air building on Peale (one of the islands that comprise Wake) was demolished and seven marine planes, “The Clipper left one hour after the bombing with white personnel.” Dec. 9—"Eleven planes bombed the

house . . .” (This was the day Scotty met Stevens, who was ill of stomach poisoning, and hid him in a sewer pipe.) Dec. 11—-"“Were shelled from the ocean by destroyers.” Dec. 13—"Buried 53 of our boys today.” Dec. 20—“Rain all day. ...A PBY (navy patrol plane) came in with a brass hat aboard. Looks like we may get some help.” ” » ” DEC, 21—"“The PBY left just bee fore the raid and took our commanding officer to Honolulu, . , , Our first sergeant (Scotty was helping fo serve an anti-aircraft battery on Peale) was killed.” ~ Dee. 22—-"Got our last little planes, + « All they have to do now is to land and to take over whatever they want, . , . Got one small piece of shrapnel in the back of my right shoulder. . . . Doesn't hurt more than a sliver.” Dec. 23—"Jap fleet moved in. . .. Fred and I found a hole and crawled in. “At 11:30 a.m. I looked out carefully and will never forget the sight. About 500 of our men were being herded past, stripped to nothing but shorts, and headed toward Peale. “It looked like a brick wall for them.” ‘ . » ” CHRISTMAS EVE—"A Jap sentry almost found us last night. . . . If we can hold two hours more until darkness we will move out of here and hide in the brush, “We will not give up without a fight as we think the other boys were stripped for a firing squad, “Food is scattered all over the island. Water is our problem once out of the woods.” . ” » CHRISTMAS DAY—“We made it on hands and knees, lying in depressions when the clouds went off the moon. “Woke at daybreak and wished Fred a Merry Christmas.” Dee. 26—"Foliage is thick and ground wet and flies about as bad as the Japs. . .. Found water enough last night to last us a month.

place back by then. (Actually it

» » » DEC. 28—"1 carry a hatchet and knife, Fred a hammer and knife, Wish we had revolvers. . . .” Dec, 29—“Thought we heard a siren, but the birds do so much screaming it is uncertain, . .

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1945

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DIARY OF 2 YANK 'CRUSOES' ON WAKE ISLAND—

Ghosts Dodged Japs 77 Days

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Logan “Scotty” Kay (right), of Clear Lake, Cal, is pictured showing to George Weller, Times correspondent, a Wake island helmet with the names of many men who dled there and at prison camps No. 18 at Sasebo and No. 23 in central Kyushu, Japan. The picture was taken as Kay took the train for Naga-

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“We stayed in bed for breakfast this morning. Had papaya (a tropical fruit), then coffee and ham and eggs. The coffee was weak. ... The laundryman hasn't called today!” Dec. 30—“One more day of the year, and soon congress will return from its vacation and do more talking about fighting. What a bunch

we've been paying all these years. ...” Jan. 2, 1942—"Fixed up dry shelter farther from the camp. . , . Will be

found only by accident here, but we now can tell there are probably 3000 Japs on this little island. . .. Jan, 3—"“Ate salad and shrimp with mayonnaise, We've half a gallon of this stuff left. , ..” ¥ » ” JAN. 4—"Do not dare to light fire; maybe later, when it gets stormy. Cloudy tonight, will set paper (tarpaper roofing) to catch rainwater.” Jan. 5—“It is the 14th day since we became fugitives from the mon~ key gang. We slept at the ‘Palace hotel’ (one of the construction camps) last night because of the rain... . “Our navy doesn’t seem to be showing up yet. . . . It seems we were not so ready as Knox (then secretary of the navy) says. ...Jap trucks are very busy strengthening positions, “Pred and I are sitting tight, but

the days are getting awfully long and the flies are very bad. Am better, but not yet well. “Very weak, dizzy. Also very thin. . . . Can’t get over seeing the other boys stripped . . . and wondering if it was the brick wall for them, “Will probably find out some day if not caught. If caught will sure find out.” #" ” » JAN. 6—“Got up early and camou-

flaged camp. Camouflage is our first work at daybreak. . . . “We hope Uncle Sam starts

knocking at the door soon, Our 11inch guns will be music.” Jan, 10—“Mary’s birthday. Happy birthday, sister! ,. “At 11:30 a. m. a Jap knocked on the door. Thought we were caught finally. \ “The Jap looked right at us, and then turned away. Must have had his eyes on something nearer , ,."” Jan, 11--“Thirty-five days since the war started, about 20 since the island was captured. Japs came back and raided us, and took what few trinkets we had gathered ,.."” “We have moved about half a mile southeast along the lagoon . , . There are just too many peoplé on Wake for so small a spot...” Jan, 14—~"“We slept on coral, Wish

how our folks are, and when Uncle is coming for 1s.”

» ” ” JAN. '16—“Almost had callers— missed us by 15 feet. . . . Guess we

will have to put up signs, ‘Private property, keep out"” “ ,. . Were out two hours last night and got a little exercise which we really needed, Been lying down so long we get dizzy when we stand , . .” Jan. 17--"“Son's birthday, 25 years. . + . Nips were busy with big gun all day.” Jan, 18-—“Went out early today and found two by six tongue and groove which I will make into a crossbow. Will hunt some nails for ammunition, (Scotty eventually was able to kill rats at 20 yards.) “Flies are terrible—about 20 on my hands as I write.” ¥ ” . Jan, 19—“Japs are collecting all mattresses , . . Some talk English to each. other. (Scotty learned later these were American prisoners.” Jan, 23—“Bad news: last night the Japs found two-thirds of all our food supply and took it away. ... These Japs are regular bloods hounds.” Jan, 26—“Jap construction dragline moved up to our place this morning, and there's heavy blasting, $0 near small rocks fell around us. “These boys have lots of efficiency and don't seem to mess around. “We would do well to send some of our boys to their school, especially Knox who's telling the world he was ready months ago.” ” ” » JAN, 29--“Spent day in hideout No. 4. No light, no food, no flies, no room, no air, but no Japs. . . “These Japs have done more ac~ tual work on the island in 37 days he United States did in nine

on this island three months ago—my $30 bonus will start Sunday.”

Jan. 31—-"Am burying this book, will start a new one so as not to lose my record if anything slips.”

(The Americans for whom Scotty and Fred had been waiting did come back during the next month, but left again and Scotty and Fred were captured. Kay tells about it in the second portion of his diary, which will be published

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By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. HEARING is the most commonly impaired of all the senses In man.

Partial loss of sight is of greater

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Hearing Loss Is Often Concealed

nould Seek Treatment

concern than partial loss of hear ing, but hearing loss creates more economic waste. The hard of hearing are often retiring persons who try to ¢onceal their handicap. Hearing loss is of two types. In one, there is some interference with the passage of sound from the outside through the ear, to that part of the hear~ ing apparatus Dr which records sound. The other type occurs when there Is loss of perception of what is heard. In conduction deafness, there may be an obstruction to the passage of sound waves through the ear canal. The drum may be thickened, scarred or. retracted. It is surprising how much the drum can be changed without interference with hearing. " » ~ AN important cause of hearing loss is infection of the middle ear with resulting destruction of the tiny bones, They may be bound together by adhesions or the space may be filled with secretions and granulations. Otosclerosis is" an obscure variety of hearing loss, which is believed to result from fixation of one of the little. bones called the stapes, to a little opening in the ear called the-oval-window, ' In perception types of loss, the auditory nerve is often affected. This is the nerve which conveys sound impulses to the brain, where hearing really occurs. In addition to inflammation of the audi-

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type the inner ear is injured by fractures of the base of the skull, or by exposure to gun fire or by other loud noises, In aging individuals there is perception loss for high-pitched tones. In addition, some patients with perception loss do not show a definite cause for the difficulty. ” ” » THAT noise can cause hearing loss has heen known for a long time. The hest example is boilermakers’ deafness. The threshold for painful sound lies between 90 and 185 decibels. (One decibel is the least Intensity of sound at which any given note can be heard.) Riveting hammers and chipping hammers cause between 110 and 135 decibels of sound, thus producing definite ear injury to their operators and to those about them. Injury to the ears in modern warfare is a common experience. Most severe varieties are of the blast noise variety, in which the sound passes through air, or water. In any hearing loss, the patient should admit it, seek competent medical-advice, and follow ft.

FIND MIDGET CAR PARKED ON LAWN

PASADENA, Cal, Oct. 18 (U. P.). ~Police today decided that the old-

PAGE 17 Labor

Wage Increase | Of 23 Per Cent. Is Being Talked

By CHARLES H. HERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The administration appeared today to be working on a wage-price pol fey that would give labor about a 23 per cént increase in basic pay rates. p . On the basis of statements by high = officials, the administration’s aims in developing the wage-price yardstick seemed to be: ONE: Give labor raises in’ basic wages that would compen» sate for part or all of the 28 per cent in ‘take home” pay suf. fered with the loss of wartime overtime. This is reported neces. sary to keep purchasing power where it will stimulate production.

TWO: Permit price inereases for manufacturers who are squeezed between the higher wage rates and rigid price ceilings. absorpti’nn of higher manufac turing costs at the distributor and retail levels,

THREE: However, make certain that there results no broad inflationary rise in the cost of living. - J o 8 THE overall aim, of course, is to give labor and industry definite guideposts for conducting reconversion wage negotiations and thereby minimize production crippling strikes.

Reconversion Director John W. Snyder stressed these points during the past two days in a series of important speeches discussing the administration’s position on wages and prices.

Snyder returned to the White House. today to start a search for the machinery to carry out the program which President Truman hopes will result in full employment for all former war workers and returning veterans, oe 3 THE JOB was urgent because of the showdown approaching next week in the automotive industry. The United Automobile Worker (GC, I. 0.) may decide then to take strike action to obtain a 30 per cent increase in basic wage rates. ,

The C. I O: unions in thé steel, automobile, rubber, oil and elec~ trical manufacturing industries have demanded that wage rales be raised 30 per cent to keep weekly gross earnings at the level paid during the war.

They estimate they lost this amount by the cutback in hours from 48 to 40 per week, by discon~ tinuance of incentive premiums and down-grading. . » » SNYDER took note only of the reduction in the work week, He said this alone had cut take home - pay by 23 per cent,

He did not specifically recommend a 23 per cent boost in basic wage rates, But he pointed out that unless workers are given this raise they will have to reduce their standard of living.

“They will be forced to buy less,” he sald. “That isn’t good for any of us, Our goal for America’s future, that of the business man and of the farmer and all of us, demands a steadily rising standard of living.”

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We, the’ Women— Congress Can Ease Nerves

Of Home Folks

By RUTH MILLETT

“GIVE a congressman a high ball before dinner,a good night's sleep and fewer letters from voters

back home and his blood pressure will drop.” That, says a recent story from Washington, is the prescription of Capt. George W. Calver, Capit ol physician, for a healthier ¢ 0 n gressional term of office. Well, since we've listened to the symptoms of the harried law makers and the treatment prescribed, maybe they'd like to hear we're suffering from high blood pressure, 100. »

r » IF THE congressmen want to cure our ills, here is how they can go about it:

Get our men back from over seas.

Iron out the labor difficulties. Hurry up with that post-war reconversion. Get rid of the so-called luxury taxes on items the “American way of life” has made more like necessities.

Hurry up and end all rationing so ‘we can throw away our worn and fisintegrating books. sen M — BUT—above all—make the peace work and let us hear no more about “the next war”—at least Y not until we get the men home from this one, Nos

Yes, we have high blood sure, too. And with a doctors, because doctors ovel are waiting around month