Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1946 — Page 13

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A DOTING PAPA we know complains about hav:

ing to shell out two-bits for a simple little toy bal-’

loon for his young daughter. The father, who recalls balloons ef old as selling for a nickel, purchased the toy from a peddler at Fall Creek blvd. and Delaware st. Sunday. It's.a bit high, .we admit, but inflation is nothing new in the balloon industry. .., We wonder if the Bankers Trust Co. 138-40 N,

Pennsylvania, has ‘been mustered out of service. ‘The

eagle painted on the front of the building is-a dead ringer for the “homing pigeons” on the discharge buttons issued to G. Is on their way out... . Yesterday was a field day for sidewalk superintendents in downtown Indianapolis. A lot of people were lining the sidewalk on Illinois st. across from Block's, watching new awnings being put up. And pedestrians walking by Hertz Drive-Ur-Self garage, 39 Kentucky ave, were courting dislocated necks by watching men working on a sign, high above the streets.

Mrs. Minnie Pippin. . .. She has the celebrities put it down in writing.

Jungle Search

ATKINSON FIELD, British Guiana, April 9.—The United States army may have to send small search parties fighting through some of the worst jungles in the Western hemisphere in a hunt for severalscore missing comrades. The missing ones were aboard military transports and bombers, forced down while flying over the wild “back country” of the Guianas and northern Brazil during the war. Officers estimate that there are up to 15 planes down in the bush, whose wreckage never has been located. Most of them had from half-a-dozen to 35 persons aboard when they crashed. The passengers have long since been posted as “missing, and presumed dead.” But the army high command may decide that definite proof of their death should.be established. | There is a million-to-one chance that some of the men might have survived their crash and fallen into the hands of friendly natives. They could be living in the brush, unable to make their way back alone to civilization, and unable to persuade the natives to take them. “Actually there is no reason to have the slightest hope that any of the men are still alive,” an air forces officer explained. “The kin of each man has been told of the circumstances of his disappearance, and they are morally certain that he is dead.

Miserable Uncertainty

“BUT AS LONG as there has been no positive identification of his body, there is always going to be that tiny, gnawing ray of hope in his family's heart that he may still be alive—somehow, somewhere. Just a tiny grain of miserable uncertainty.” Mysterious disappearances apparently always leave that uncertainty.” Over the past decade there have been a dozen “flashes” about Amelia Earheart, aviatrix who dis-

appeared while making a flight across the Pacific,

Recently speculation flared afresh when a snapshot of the famed woman flier reportedly was found among the effects of a dead jap on a Pacific island battlefield.

Half-a-dozen expeditions have been organized

Science

THE WAY now is clear to a solution of the atomic energy problem on both a national and an international level. Two events of the last few days make this possible. The first was the withdrawal of the orjginal Vandenberg amendment. in the McMahon bill for thé control of atomic energy and the substitution of a new amendment which is acceptable to all factions. The new amendment provides for “a military liaison committee” appointed by the secretaries of war and navy to consult with the five-man all-civilian atomic committee. This committee, in the event that it disagrees with the commission, is instructed to carry its complaints back to the two secretaries who, if they see fit, can then take the problem to the President. The second imporant event was the approval by the senate foreign relations committee of the nomination of Bernard M. Baruch as United States member of the United Nations atomic energy commission.

Baruch Concurs in Amendment THERE NEVER was any question about the popularity of Mr, Baruch with the senate and when President Truman announced his appointment, there were favorable comments on all sides, However, senate action had been delayed at Mr. Baruch’s own request because he did not wish the appointment until he knew what the policy of the state department was going to be. The fact that Mr. Baruch has given the senate the go-ahead signal is proof that he approves of the state department's “report on the international control of atomic energy. This report in, itself represented a remarkable agreement upon the part of many individuals of

My Day

HYDE PARK (Monday) —Saturday noon, T took a plane to Buffalo to attend the dinner given that evening for Senator James M. Mead. At the dinner, he was announced as our next Democratic candidate for

governor, but he himself was entirely non-committal! I have always thought that, in many ways, being governor of New York state would be more interesting than being in the United States senate, but where one has had long experience in the senate, it may be that the change to administrative work might not be so attractive. ‘i Dealing with the state Jegisiaipre would, of course, be fairly simple in comparison w ling with the other members of the United States senate, but it is a big decision to make and one that I can well imagine would require a great deal of consideration.

Dinner for Cleveland

’ THE DINNER was the annual one given in tribute to Grover Cleveland, who started his political career in Buffalo. It is well for all of us, I think, to reca" these men of other days who labored in the public

service and contributed tothe - building .of our: re-.

public. ‘Grover Cleveland was a man of outstanding

“honesty. He trusted and believed in the people,

But even In his day, the burden o6f the must have been very great. My husb,

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“WON'T you put that down in writing ...” might be the theme song of Mrs. Minnie Pippin, 240 E. 9th st, Apt. 26, who's completed two complete “autograph quilts” and is working on her third. Mrs, Pippin writes to celebrities and asks them to sign théir names on a square of material which she incloses. Then she. embroiders the names on the squares and works them into a quilt. She has such notables as the late Ernie Pyle, Eleanor Roosevelt, an Indian rajah and almost alk of the movie stars. Two people whom she tried to get but who sent courteous refusals were the late President Roosevelt and the Duchess of Windsor. Mrs. Pippin’s quilts have won a couple of prizes in hobby shows. ... A prankster sketched a rather shapely young woman on the window blind out at Garfield Park community house. It wasn't discovered by those inside for some time. Now it has been removed and the artist {8 being sought.

What a Cute Little ‘Puppy’

DICK MILLER, manager of the Coliseum, had a special guest at the last hockey game of the season. The guest, a four-month-old cub lion from TerrellJacob circus headquarters at Peru, took up residence right beside the official box. Mr. Miller says a couple of people who stopped to pet what they thought to be a puppy had a change of countenance when the cub opened its mouth and gave with that Leo the Lion yawn—in miniature. . .. Rogers Jewelry store, 5 N. Illinois st., which has the chiming clock, gets credit that rightly belongs to radio station WIRE. Mrs, Helen Hitchcock of the jewelry store, says they get a number of inquiries about the tunes played on the chimes each noon, Rogers’ isn’t responsible for the tunes, since its clock plays chime tones only. The tunes issue from WIRE, in the Claypool hotel. We heard the chimes playing “Home Sweet Home” the other noon but it certainly didn't seem to be having much effect, judging from the crowd swarming around the intersection of Illinois and Washington sts. ... There's a sign on E. Market st. that grammar teachers would deplore. It urges that everyone use more ain't. We wish we could let it go at that but in all honesty we'll have to explain that it's worded “Use Moore Aint” and it's on the window of the Indiana Wall Paper & Paint Co., 28 E. Market st. We strongly suspect that there's a letter “P” missing.

By John A. Thale

to try to find Paul Redfearn, noted aviator who disappeared while on a flight over this area a number of years ago. Periodically travelers return from the interior to tell of hearing tales of a white man living with an Indian tribe deep in the bush. Immediately, the name “Redfearn” pops up again. Army officers say they know the general locations where each of the currently missing planes went down. But getting to them is going to be a terrific undertaking for search teams, braving tangled jungles, animals, malaria, heat and other dangers.

Experts Skeptical : ONE TRANSPORT went down with 35 men aboard. It took a party 47 days to hack its way through the jungle to the wreckage, after it had been located from the air. The searchers reported they had found 35 bodies, and buried them in a common grave. However, under the proposed positive identification program, an expedition may have to go back and get “dog tags” and other means of identification to cover all those listed as being aboard. Jungle experts in this country are extremely skeptical of the chances any downed flier would have of surviving by himself in the bush, especially if he was injured in any way in the crash landing. In addition to the terrors of the jungle itself, he would face the perils of animals such as jaguars, alligators, boa constrictors and other snakes.

The bush is among the thickest in the world. A

hundred yards from the barbed wire boundaries of army airfields carved out in British, Dutch and French Guiana is wild country. In the still of the night the men inside can listen to the weird, highpitched crying of the red babboons on all sides. Military planes flying over jungles are equipped with survival kits and handbooks telling how to live off the jungle. One point fails to satisfy a young officer who has been heading a weather observation group in the interior of French Guiana. “The army book tells me not to get worried or upset about- starving,” he commented bitterly. “It says just to go ahead and eat anything the monkeys eat. How in hell do I know what a monk is eating?”

By David Dietz

diverse backgrounds and interests. The board of consultants which drew up the report and the state department committee, which approved it included Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific genius vi ly Los Alamos laboratory; Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Gr chief of the Manhattan district and the army head of the atomic bomb project; top executives of the office of scientific research and development and representatives of leading industries.

Top Members in Agreement

THE FACT that Maj. Gen. Groves and Dr. Oppenheimer were both represented in these groups was reason to believe that this report would end the battle that has been going on between the scientists and the army. The situation has now been further clarified by a statement from Secretary of War Patterson and Gen: Groves declaring that the McMahon bill with the new Vandenberg amendment is acceptable to the war department. The navy had previously gone on record as favoring complete civilian control of atomic energy with the navy assigned to develop such aspects of the situation as applied to the navy. It would appear, therefore, that the stage is being rapidly set for Mr. Baruch to begin negotiations of an international level. I think that we may

conclude that in Mr, Baruch’'s hands the matter is in

safe and capable hands What happens from this point on depends upon | the willingness of all nations to join in sensible action, | There can be no unilateral action on the part of the United States. The matter must proceed step by step under international agreement.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

knew President Cleveland and took my husband as a

little boy to call upon him. All his life, my husband!

told us the story of the deep impression it made upon him when President Cleveland, in saying goodby,

.patted him on the head and wished for him that he

might “never be President of the United States.”

Difficult Woman's Problem 3

I TOOK the ‘night train from Buffalo and, in the morning, went into the club car to get a cup. of folfee before we reached New York. A kindly-looking rentleman asked if he colild sit down and talk with me for a few minutes. He told me that many of the business and financial men he’knew were very anxious to have all controls removed to spur production. They said that then there would be a short inflation, but that Mrs. America would never pay excessive prices for long and would shortly refuse to buy. This would bring a sharp deflation but of short duration, and we would soon be back to normal. Our whole upset economy would settle down and the freeenterprise system would be saved. This plan might

last long! How simple it sounds, but it isn't as simple as that! It may flatter Mrs. Americ) but she had beider

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SECOND SECTION

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1946

By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor

fashioned and far too slow in the

will be a war of radar, rockets and bombs. means of pushbuttons, automatic

flight to their destinations.

(1) Planes and ships will become old-

button” war of the future. The pushbutton war will require seconds and minutes to conclude it, instead of hours and days. It

It will be started and stopped by

of rockets, and automatic control of their While cities and whole nations will be.destroyed in a

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matter of minutes by atomic bomb-laden rockets covering such spans as the Atlantic ocean in less than 15 minutes. (2) Fighting men in the pushbuton war of the future will be chiefly select groups of

“pushhighly trained and highly

atomic down into -the earth to release bombs.

We, the Women A Subsidy for Wedding Just

Invites Grief

By RUTH MILLETT IN A RECENT speech at Washington, D. C., a college professor from Pennsylvania advocated government subsidies for marriages of young couples. His argument was that marital happiness is most likely if a man marries between the ages of 20 and 22, but that the average male doesn't stroll down the aisle until he is 25!2, for the simple reason that he is unable to support a family before that. Okay, let's suppose Uncle Sam

should go in for subsidizing mar-

riages so that Bill and Gert could marry when spring prompted, instead of waiting until they could by their own efforts support a union. 5 o n WITH MARRIAGE made so simple for the Bills and Gerts, might not a lot of young couples marry hastily and unwisely? Human nature being what it is, wouldn't a subsidized marriage seem as easy and painless to young Americans as does buying on the

technicians and engineers, They will be stationed far underground. will be hewn out of the rocks, far enough

mendous vibrations of blasts from atomic

(3) The fighting forces will be alerted at all times for instant defense or attack, as

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long as any danger of warfare exists on the earth. Closely connected with the quarters of the fighting forces will be the rocket emplacements, They will be in strong

sufficient ir numbers, so that if one is destroyed thos2 remaining can be equally effective. They will house rockets for defense and atomic bomb rockets for attack, ready to travel at any instant. Nerve centers of the fighting forces will

The quarters of each commandant will be

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commun ments. ve ground. They will be charts, ments.

f the commandants, strathroughout the nation.

region.

radar oscilloscope, hundreds of miles across and many miles - high. It will have markings on it to show the exact location of any point in the

ADVENTURES IN SPACE: The Story of Radar . . . No. 8: "Push Button" Warfare

communication with all the quar

ters of the other commandants, and in close

ication with the rocket emplace= The commandant will have elabe

orate equipment at his disposal, maps,

telephonic and electronic instru= In front of him will be a huge It will scan an area

Tomorrow—A Duel of Rockets.

STRIKES HERE LIST ONLY 750

Peak of 20,000 Is Sharply Cut in Few Months.

Return of 150 workers to their jobs at the Thomas & Skinner Metal Products Co. today reduced the number on strike here to around 750 as compared with the peak of around 20,000 early this year. In the state - picture, too, the strike situation had eased down to around 15,000 still on strike, including 7500 soft coal miners. State Labor Commissioner Charles Kern listed only eight strikes in additien to the coal strike on his department's docket, scarcely a “ripple” compared with the 150,000 Hoosiers involved in strikes a few weeks ago. The strike at Thomas & Skinner ended with an agreement by company and steel workers’ representatives to submit to a National Labor Relations Board bargaining election set for April 16. Approximately 150 had been idled by the walkout last week.

Dares President To ‘Ringer Match

HOLLYWOOD, April 9 (U. P.. —Comedian Joe E. Brown, former champion horseshoe pitcher, waited today for an answer from President Truman on his challenge to a match, Brown, who said he once held the horseshoe title of Holgate, O,, wired Mr. Truman: “As one who. has always mourned the passing ‘of that great American sport, horseshoe pitching, I heartily congratulate you in bringing this art back to popularity, and respectfully challenge you to a match to be arranged at your pleasure, as a native-born Ohioan against Missouri’s leading citizen. “May the best state win.”

POLICE PROBE $4500 THEFT

BROADER SOCIAL SECURITY URGED

Schwellepbach Asks Farm-

ers, Helpers Included.

WASHINGTON, April 9 (U, P.). —S8ecretary of Labor Lewis B, Schwellenbach today urged congress to broaden the social security

protected persons and provide sharp increase in old age insurance benefits. Schwellenbach also urged payments to disabled workers under the social security system and reduction of the age for a wife's benefit from 65 years to 60. He said the time has arrived to extend ‘social secirity coverage to domestic servants, agricultural workers, the self-employed, and employes. of educational, charitable and other non-profit organizations. Experience of the past decade has shown, Schwellenbach said, that administrative difficulties of

Varied Crime List Includes Slugging of Girl, 11.

Only One New Strike The only new strike to develop

installment plan? The day of reckoning always comes for the “l12-easy-payments’ buyer—and it would dawn, too, for the subsidized bride and groom. The government's generosity ' couldn't last forever.

he hard on & few people but the hardship wouldn't||

When at last the time arrived)

when the piper—and the bills—had |

to be paid, many a man and woman might think the cost of marital] responsibility too high for the] blessings involved. u ” » IN THE same speech in which he| advocated governmental subsidies] of young marriages, the professor predicted that 70 per cent of wartime marriages would fail. Now these were subsidized marriages. Because Uncle Sam had a ready-made job for the man and an automatic allotment for his wife, thousands and thousands of boys| just out of the schoolroom, many of | them still without diplomas, acquired brides. If 70 per cent of those marriages are going to fail, the pro-

open to grave question. It was simple enough to wed in wartime, with the government aiding in the support of wives and children, and even footing the doctor's bills for the new babies of the lowest-paid enlisted men. Too Simiple, Dy perhaps.

'SPECIALISTS TO TALK |

TO JORDAN GROUPS

Mrs. Herbert Witherspoon of the | Metropolitan Opera guild will ad-| dress a student convocation at Jordan conservatory at 10:45 tomorrow in Student hall. Dr. H. Augustine Smith of Boston, an authority on church music, will address students and faculty members at the hall at 9:50 a.m. Thursday.

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| this week or next.

was at the Enochs Manufacturing, Yon where an estimated 50 em-

ployees walked out yesterday in a | bargaining dispute involving the United Furniture Workers (C. It 0.). About 700 workers still were

out in the steel strike at the J. D.

Adams Co. plant here. |

According to Mr. Kern, the labor] | department's eight-man . concilia- | tion staff, almost hopelessly en-

| gulfed by walkouts six weeks ago,

| has reversed its field so that it now moves into potential trouble spots before a strike actually starts. Mr, Kern said this type of conciliation frequently forestalls the] threatened work stoppage.

Conciliation Seen

Of the eight plant strikes still in progress, only three—the AllisChalmers at La Porte, the Phelps-

Dodge at Ft. Wayne and the Rex Manufacturing Co. at Connersville —involve more than 700 employes. Mr. Kern believes that his conciliators are on the point of settling the Connersville strike, He said he anticipates a settlement “any day.” The state's most prolonged strike at this time is the Hicks Body walkout at Lebanon. It began last November, Minor violence flared several times when non-union members tried to crash picket-lines of | the A. F. of L. federal union. Currently, the union has withdrawn its pickets, the company has eter not to attempt to operate e plant until the strike is-settled Be Mr. Kern anticipates an “early ending” of the dispute. All this doesn't mean that the state's labor picture is absolutely “rosy,” of course, although dozens of Indiana strikes have been settled since the first of the year. Mr. Kern said he anticipates a few additional walkouts, in the rubber and refrigeration industries, Most of them will be minor from the point of

| statewide production stoppage.

“Things are reasonably calm,” he added, “and I believe they'll stay that way for some time--I hope.”

| City hospital.

A conglomeration of miscellaneous crimes, ranging from a $4500 theft to the slugging of an 11-year-old | girl were being investigated by po- | lice today. | Fred McGloom, 58, operator of a

|including these groups in social security “can now be overcome.” Mr. Schwellenbach said the average retired worker with one dependent now receives $38 monthly under the social security program. He pointed out, however, that “conservative estimates” show that liv-

law to include some 20,000,000 un- on

Labor

Expect U. S. To Act Soon In Coal Strike

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, April 9—Gove

legislative, draws nearer each day that the week-old coal strike goes

The executive action, expected if no probability of early settlement appears before the end of the week, will be pressure from the White House on John L. Lewis and the bituminous coal operators to end eir futile sparring before a coal ortage seriously threatens -recone version production. John R. Steelman, special assiste ant to President Truman, will be in on the proceedings, according to both operator and miner spokes men who expect him to guide the administration efforts if not to take part in them as a mediator. Mr, Steelman, as former director of the U. 8. conciliation service, had a hand in settling several obstinate controversies between the same par= ties. » » ¥

WITH Secretary Schwellenbach, Mr. Steelman conducted the final

ing costs have increased 33 per cent since 1941.

market at 316 W. Washington st. reported the theft of $1500, some checks, and a diamond valued at| $3000 sometime Sunday. Investigators were baffled by an |attack on the 11-year-old girl as she played on the banks of Fall creek yesterday. The girl was found in, a hysterical condition, with a large |bump on the back of her head. She told police she saw a man { approaching her just before she was hit on the head. The blow, however, was struck from the back. The girl was released after treatment at

Herman Wild, operator of a jewelry store in the State Life building, reported the theft of a whitegold diamond ring valued at $560 from his store yesterday. He said he missed the ring after displaying a tray of rings to a man who came in the store yesterday afternoon. Lowell Beers, Resada, Cal, guest at a downtown hotel, report-| ed the theft of a wallet containing $350 from his room yesterday. L. C. Davis, 25, of Camp Atterbury, told police he missed $15 after he got out of a taxi yesterday. There were other passengers in the cab, he told police. A purse snatcher grabbed a purse from Clara Wolf, 108 E. 13th st. Apt. 504, as she walked in the 900 block on N. Meridian yesterday. The purse was valued at $10 but contained no money, she told police.

"HARRY D. HATFIELD FILES FOR JUDGESHIP Harry D. Hatfleld, attorney here 21 years, has filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination for judge of superior court 5. He is a graduate of Indiana university law school and has lived in Indianapolis since 1912 He is a member of the Masonic lodge, Sa-

hara Grotto, the Christian church, Sigma Delta Kappa legal fraternity

He suggested that benefits be based on 40 per cent of the first $75 {of the worker's average monthly | Fae plus 10 per cent of that part of the average wage which exceeds $75 up to $300. He urged that minimum benefits be raised from $10 to $20 and the (maximum from $85 to $120. Testifies Before Committee Mr. Schwellenbach testified before the house ways and means committee which is considering social security legislation. “Many retired workers have few, if any sources of income beyond their benefits,” he said. “It needs no persuasion to demonstrate how pitifully inadequate is $38 a month for a retired man and his wife. Insurance benefits must bear some relationship to needs. . . .” Mr. Schwellenbach said ‘the 50cial security program also should provide disability benefits for workers who are injured and forced to retire before they are 65. Under the present law, they must wait until they are 65 to begin drawing benefits. “No sound program can afford te overlook the consequences of disability upon the welfare of the average American family,” he said. “On an average day of the year about 3,500,000 persons are suffering from disabilities which already have lasted six months or more.” Wants Farmers Included The labor secretary said the social security program should be extended to all employed persons—including some 8,000,000 farmers and farm laborers, 4,500,000 self-em-ployed, 2,500,000 domestic workers and 5,000,000 employees of government and non-profit groups. If congress cannot extend protection to all farm workers now, he sald, it at least should include persons who process farm products and were labelled as “farm laborers” when the social security law was amended in 1939. There

and the Red Men lodge

are nearly 700,000 of these, he said.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. INGROWN toenails result from

* | wearing shoes and stockings which

are too tight or from improper trimming of the “toenails, The outer 'side of the large toenail

J ; usually is affected. 3

~The average patient tries home

treatment or patent medicines first, and then consults the physician because he develops a réd, swollen toe, which exudes pus from under the nail. Proper treatment of ingrown toenails involves only a short period of disability and produces a permanent cure, if certain precautions are practiced. i Infection around the toenail (paronychia) may develop without any nail disturbance. This condftion, which is easy to recognize on the finger, may 80 unobserved on the foot. For an infegted toe in which the

nail is not involved, a clean dress-

ing should be worn. If stockings and shoes do not exert pressure on the toe, the condition will quickly disappear. » ” ” AS DEFORMED nails tend to become infected, they should be packed, between the nail and the soft tissue, with. a small roll of absorbent cotton. If stockings and shoe - pressure are avoided, the natural growth of the nail will correct the abnormal shape. In trimming the toenails, cut them straight across. Cutting the nails too close or trimming the corners may lead to infection.. Chronic recurrent infections of the toe resulting from a deformed nail necessitate a surgical operation. Only one large toe is treated at a time. The operation. involves removal of the outer third of the nail, with the adjacent infected tissue. This is made painless by the injection of an anesthetic solution and by

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Foot Infection May Go Unobserved

"Ingrown Toenail Can Be Cured

base of the toe. All the pieces of imbedded nail are removed, as this permits the remaining nail to close up the gap. ” " » A SPECIAL splint is worn after the operation, to protect the toe from further injury. Healing follows in about two weeks, except in] cases of severe infection. A shoe from which the side has been removed should be worn during this period, and the stocking should be long’ enough that it exerts no pressure on the toe. To avoid ingrown toenails, wear shoes which are long and broad enough to be fully comfortable. Stockings should permit easy toe movement. Nails which show a tendency to turn in at the corner should be allowed to grow out, even if in so doing they bend over the end of -the toe : At the first sign of reinfection, protect the endangered toe with a

the use of a tourniquet around the’ y ] .

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drive that produced the recent agreement between the OC. 1. O, United Steel Workers and the U, 8. Steel Corp—a pilot pact for the rest of the industry. Mr. Schwellenbach already has appeared briefly to express the administration’s interest in the coal negotiations. His department is being represented by Paul W. Fuller, conciliator whose efforts have been confined to gathering information on the issues. This task has been made more difficult because Mr. Lewis so far has followed his new and puzzling strategy of not informing the operators “what he will settle for.” He has presented the union de mands in general terms only. Operators anticipate that when he thinks the time is ripe he will drop some other issues and concenirate on a demand for pay raises. » = . THE LEGISLATIVE move that becomes more imminent is the senate's action on the unionsrestrictive Case bill, which the house adopted by a heavy majority on Feb. 7. The version approved by the senate labor committee has faint kinship to the bill passed by the house, but once it is called up in the senate efforts Are sure to restore some of the house features that have been violently opposed by all organized labor. Senator Murray (D. Mont.) come mittee chairman, said today he did not regard the labor bill as an emergency measure and would not attempt to get it on the floor until the senate has disposed of other more pressing matters, including extension of OPA and the proposed loan to Great Britain. If congress takes an Easter recess about April 18, he said, thére would be not much chance of gets ting to the labor subjec. before then. ” » ” “HOWEVER,” he said, “if a majority of the committee wants this bill considered without delay, I'll be glad to follow their wishes.”

Such committee action would be more probable if the coal strike continues long enough to cause or seriously threaten widespread ins dustrial stoppages. Even the original version of the Case bill would not of itself stop a coal strike already started, but it would tend to remove one of the issues in controversy—unionization of foremen and other supervisory employees—and it would be expects ed to have a psychological Topers cussion,

GOVERNOR To SPEAK

The Decatur Lions club will be host to a three-club zone meeting at the Decatur high school tomorrow night with Governor Ralph principal

_ Participating . with the ecatur club in the event Wil be the Spesdway, and ' the Indianapolis Lions

ernment action, executive as well as

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