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BITING THE HAND that feeds Is considered bad but something considerably worse happened to Mrs, Charlotte Curry, in the credit department of the

Citizens’ Gas & Coke Utility. A pair of squirrels which she’s been feeding tore up her hose as she was walking near her home at 854 N. Gladstone ave. Fortunately they weren't nylons and neither were they her last pair. For a couple of minutes she was almost angry enough to cut off the animals’ food supply, though. .,. Speaking of hose .and food, Mrs. George Hawk, of 2254 Carrollton ave, the woman who hadn't been able to buy any nylons, called to tell us her offer of a pound of butter for a chance to purchase some nylons brought results, She got a pair, even if they were a size larger than she usually wears. After we told about her offer, she got one call offering a pair of 10's and one offering size 9% 80 she took the latter. Some other calls included one from a woman who misunderstood and thought Mrs.

Floyd Blake . .. a corporal wanted to see a lieutenant working.

‘Golf Farmers’

CARMEL, Cal. April 18.—When the world appears to be a mess of bad eggs badly scrambled, there is some comfort in talking to people who have survived it longer than most of us have. When a small boy in Scotland, Alexander Bailey (now 87) was taken to London. There he was shown a document which, his father said, was the greatest ever penned by the hand of man. It was the constitution of the U. 8S. A. Later, the boy memorized this document; and when he came to the United States in 1880, he could

recite it, word for word, With his enthusiasm for the American form of government, Mr. “Bailey brought an enthusiasm for golf; and in 1894 established the first golf course on the Pacific coast. Clubs—hand-made by David Forgan of St. Andrews—were imported from Scotland, coming by sailing ship around Cape Horn. They cost two shillings apiece—about 48 cents. : . There was some difficulty, however, with the customs officers, who were unable to determine the dutiable classification of these strange contraptions. The problem was referred to Washington—which, after fruitless pondering, -tossed it back into the laps from which it had come.

‘Agriculture Implements’ FINALLY the customs officers asked for a demonstration of the Forgan's handiwork; and, after watchIng Mr. Bailey whack his way. around a meadow, decided that his tools came under the head of “agricultural implements.” The duty was 10 per cent. Another complication was provided by the fact that the most suitable terrain for the new-born golf eourse lay near a lunatic asylum (as P. N. hospitals were called in those days) and for a long time it was

2 A # a viation NEW YORK, April 18.—In the April issue of the American magazine, Senator Elbert Thomas (D. Utah), outlines his own indictment of American airpower along with a few ideas as to its ultimate development. Senator Thomas says we won the war sgainst Germany by “muscle and not mind.” And after paying tribute to the valor of the American fighting man, customary for one who wishes to denounce our lack of preparedness or conduct of the

war, he launches into publication of performance figures of German warplanes that are fairly startling. Senator Thomas says that our planes were inferior fn speed, altitude, performance, firepower and armor. The senator takes more than a few hard cracks at Gen. Hap Arnold and tells us that the German Mess-erschmitt-262 (jet fighter) in combat in the summer of 1944 was good for 525 miles per hour—150 miles per hour faster than our Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings. He goes on to say that these planes slashed through our fighter and bomber formations, that allied bombing of Germany cost 40,000 planes and 158,000 airmen, and that Germany's jet bombers were faster than our fighters. He winds up, after a de~ tailed indictment of American airpower as a whole, by saying, “All this, despite the fact that congressional committees were frequently told our war planes . were better than those of other nations.”

Second-Guessing IN BEHALF of future American airpower, we are not going to let the senator get away with this secondguessing business, especially since before we entered the war he was in a position to have helped remedy the deficiencies of which he now complains. On Feb. 7, 1941, I voluntarily testified before the

My Day

NEW YORK (Wednesday).—I wonder if the troubles which are bedeveling the city administration here are not the same type of troubles which everyone is having to meet in every city throughout our nation. I had so many letters condemning the local admin{stration because garbage was not properly collected and the streets were dirty that I wrote to find out what conditions really are. This is what I find: “This has been a very trying winter for the department of sanitation. Their equipment is just about on its last legs. Automotive repairs are becoming more and more difficult as the equipment grows older. We are providing funds for new equipment in the 19461947 budget, and this will relieve the problem to a great extent, “A large part of the refuse from Manhattan is loaded on barges and towed to Staten island, where it is used for filling in a marsh area that will eventually become one of Staten island's largest parks. After the fill is placed, it 4s covered with a two-foot layer of sand and good clean earth, to improve compaction, eliminate any possibility of light material blowing away, stifle odors, ete.

Old Trucks Wearing Out

“IN GOOD-_weather, this rhethod of disposal has been very successful, but unfortunately this winter, between rough water in the lower bay and the harbor strike, operation of the scows was greatly curtailed. “It became necessary for the department of sanitation to haul this refuse in trucks for excessive distances to points in Queens and the Bronx. Good equipment wonld have withstood this excestive wear,

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Hawk had nylons to trade for butter. . .. The basin of the monument has a fresh coat of blue. Probably won't be long before the fountain will be turned on.

He Knew How to Work.

EX-LT.-FLOYD BLAKE, who just got out of the army, -was building a fence at the home of his inlaws, Mr. and Mrs. John Case, 121 ‘8. Hancock st. the other day He was still ‘wearing his uniform until he could find some civvies. As he was sawing a four by four for a fence post he noticed a fellow pull a truck up and park. Then the man got out and stood watching Mr. Blake. Finally'when he saw the exlieutenant give him a puzzled look he said, “I hope you don’t mind my watching. You see, I was a corporal and I always wanted to see.a lleutenant work.” . .. PF. 8. Widner, of the Railway Express agency, started into a downtown hardware store, looked at a sign in the window, then looked again. It said “Observe Good Friday services March 30.” Mr, Widner informed a clerk that the sign was a little bit wrong and the clerk hastily removed the sign... . Wonder how “The Spice Handbook” crept into a list of new books issued in the business branch library this month? Maybe for variety.

Crys for Her Sister MRS. JUDSON L. STARK, wife of the judge, gets serenaded while she washes dishes. Her husband likes to play piano for relaxation so his wife gets him to the piano as she cleans up the dinner dishes. There are two reasons, she says. One is that she likes the music and the other is that it keeps the judge out of the kitchen. ... A downtown depart ment store had a man all dressed up in overalls, a la farmer, hanging tiny delicate perfume bottles in a display window the other day. ... C. Warren McDermegd, 2946 N. Denny st., has an airmail letter from Greece. There were three stamps, two on the front ‘and one on the back, and the prices on all three totaled 12,000,000 drachmas. At a pre-war rate

of two cents per drachma, that would make the cost Fi

of mailing the letter around $240,000... . Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cook, 1144 Lexington ave, hope to contact their 14-year-old daughter, Sophie, who ran away four months ago and who is believed to be in Tennessee. The Cooks want their daughter to come home because her little sister, Flossie Pearl, 7, very ill with a fever and keeps crying: for her sister.

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generally believed that golf players were escaped inmates of the gsylum. Incidentally, the head of a large navy hospital for the mentally ill told me that golf had proved to be an extremely useful curative agent. A round of it was so depressing that minor depressions tended to be forgotten.

Caldwell’s New Book

IN MY notebook is a reminder to say something about a new book by Taylor Caldwell—“This Side of Innocence”—published by Scribner’s at $3. I haven't read this .tale, but I have observed its effect on my wife and daughter. They quarrel over its possession and keep their noses glued to its pages, to the brazen neglect of their household duties. Also I find a note to mention the two girls from Stanford who came down here for a week-end of sunshine and surf. While lolling on the beach they observed that the waves were acting peculiarly and heard rumors of a tidal wave. . . Were they terrified by this possibility? Not at all. One of them ran back to her hotel to fetch a camera. Both were obviously disappointed that the tidal wave had failed to materialize on this side of Monterey bay. This episode caused me to meditate, somewhat ruefully, on the efforts of those harbingers of gloom, the nuclear physicists, to make us realize how near we are to extinction by atcm bombs. We just can’t grasp the idea of extinction. If it were officially announced that at a certain time and place the world would commence to disintegrate, a great crowd would be present, ready to take snapshots of it. - It/would never octur to anybody to wonder what would become of the snapshots. It's too bad; but that's the way people are,

By Maj. Al Williams

senate foreign affairs committee. Among many other statements I 8aid, “In fact, American airpower (as of now) is a myth ... and the neglect to provide that vital arm for our national defense is nothing short of criminal negligence . . . for active combat at this moment (1941) I know of no single American squadron possessed of planes which can match the German ME-109 (fighter) or the British Spitfire.” My comments on the superlative performance of the German ME-109 were authentic because I had flown that ship. I also detailed my complete inspections of British, Germgn and American air forces in the making, the number of personnel involved in German aeronautical research, ‘the comparative strengths of the British and Naz air forces, plus a realistic estimate’ of the Nazi monthly production of war planes.

Air Force Stripped

I REPORTED the stripping of American air forces of war planes shipped abroad. In short, I was unwittingly detailing all the deficiencies which brought us to Pearl Harbor devoid of the weapons, machinery and trained personnel to fight a modern air war. / Senator Thomas was a member of the committee’ before which I offered this testimony. And he was present during my testimony. Inviting the committee members to question me, the chairman turned to Senator Thomas. Despite all I had to say, which flatly contradicted the prevalent {illusion as to Ameri-

can air superiority, Senator Thomas’ response to the |

chairman was “no questions.” The reader can draw his own conclusions as to whether or not Senator Thomas was interested in what an eyewitness of European airpower had to report; and also of the senator's moral right to critical second-guessing at this belated date.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

“The department is now back on schedule and is up to date on Manhattan collections, although it required day and night operation to do this.” In addition, I had almost violent letters because, during the tugboat strike, places of entertainment and buildings where business is carried on were closed for one day—Lincoln’s birthday.

City's Oil Supply Low

I INQUIRED about this also, and here is the an-||a

swer 1 received: “The mayor was forced into the closing of the buildings in the city for a day by ‘a recommendation of the disaster control board, a city agency established to cope with such problems. - “This was based to a great extent on the claims of the health commissioner that such a move was essential in order to protect the health of the community at a time when the oil reserves had reached a point where there was not enough to supply the city for another day.

“Fortunately, with a break in the weather and the|

help of the navy tugs, it was possible to increase the supply of fuel during the day that the city was closed.” These are the answers to local situations, but I cite them here because people are very apt to grow critical and excited when they know very little about a situation. If they understood it better, they would see for themselves that it had to be met in some way and that the authorities met it in the way which seemed best to them. - $ I believe in constructive criticism, but I also believe

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A WOMAN'S PLACE is in the horse and buggy.

The male element at the local

the would-be culinary experts have been “slaving over stoves” and unveiling the latest cookbooks. They will compete in a cooking contest to be sponsored by Delta Delta Delta sorority. The affair is for men only. That's why north side housewives -have been sniffing the air the past two weeks with a note of apprehension. The contestants, it would appear, have been devoting a good part of their spring vacation to the preparation of delicacies. » » s THE MEN get the chance to demonstrate . their kitchen prowess April 23. On that date, student and professor will meet on equal terms for the only time during their college careers. The scene of competition will be the Butler home laboratories—with no cooking techniques barred. According to Miss Mary Grace French, chairman of the Tri Delt

Cooking can be very irksome, Scott Hargis finds out as he prepares for the Delta Delta Delta food contest at Butler university.

By HARVEY HARRIS

home. . . . This generally accepted

fact since the days when mother was a girl may go the way of the

That is if Butler university men have their way.

school has set out to disprove the

theory the distaff side makes the best cooks. So for the past two weeks, s

committee arranging the affair, “This is the college coed's challenge to the modern male's assertion that wifey can't cook like mother did.” - . » » «THE GIRLS maintain that the best way to stop this jibing is to let the fellows see for themselves just what goes into the making of a good meal Contestants are guided by few rules. They can be barred from

of the girls. “

” ” IN ADDITION, the dishes to be

cooked “in any manner.”

BUTLER MEN SCURRY FOR COOKBOOKS, 'SLAVE OVER STOVE'—

Dispute Idea Women Best Cooks

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Ralph Fulk (center) shows William Pittman and Carol Formet the recipe that brought the greatest number of contented sighs when he

was a ship's cook 2-c—corn bread

Pittman gets some unsolicited

(left) and Mary’ Grace French, ve happen to the ingredients.

pared—a main dish, a dessert, or a

competition for sneaking into the |salad. laboratory with an already rolled] Contestants must work separately pie crust under their shirt or a|of course. And all ingredients must handful of diced carrot in their|be furnished by the contestants pocket. Everything must begin and |(and here is where the girls smile, end in the kitchen is the mandate [for a trio of faculty members will

taste-judge the efforts of the men). The male element will have one thing in their favor, the girls assert.

prepared may be cooked or un-|And that is a cookbook. Since home [They One of [conditions are being simulated as [shouldn't have to wash the dirty three classes of foods may be pre- | much as possible, the women felt dishes, at least!

PAGE 1 Labor : — Public Given

Statistics on Coal Shortage

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, April 18.—Government efforts toward settling the coal strike center today on telling the public how bad the coal short~ age will'be if the strike is not settled soon.

J. D. Small, Civilian Production Administrator, was first at bat with a monumental squawk to the effect that a large variety of industrial’ plants will have to curtail or close fairly soon unless their supplies of fuel are resumed. Interior Secretary Krug followed with figures on coal supplies. Both statements add up to what. any layman knows offhand--that so long as coal is being used up in great quantities every day, and production is down to a trickle, stocks steadily will approach the vanishing point, ’ n

” "” THAT APPLIES with most force in industrial plants, which on April 1 at the beginning of the strike had little more’than a month's supply of coal. The railroads are in somewhat better shape. Most public utilities using coal could get along through next month without beginning to feel a serious pinch. Both Messrs. Small and Krug have done their new figuring at the suggestion of Secretary Schwellenbach. The secretary’s idea apparently is that if the public becomes sufficiéntly alarmed it will do something about it. But the public apparently can do nothing except ask why the government doesn't do something. » i" . FOR ALMOST a week the parties in the controversy have not been . |meeting. Government efforts, so far as any evidence shows, have been confined to interrogating the parties on what basis they would be willing to get together again. No official appeal has been issued that they do get together, The tactics of John L. Lewis in trying to wait out the coal operators before discussing any phase of their quarrel are puzzling to people on the sidelines. And also puzzling is the procedure of Secretary Schwellenbach in his delay of forthright moves toward promoting an agreement.

and beans.

help from a pair of Tri-Delts as he stirs up a, little practice batter. The girls, Barbara Montgomery

nture a prediction as to what will 2 0N WHAT THE government could do in addition to its present apparently futile efforts: It could give the public guidance in forming opinions on which party is at fault by stating a finding whether the United Mine Workers or the coal operators are most responsible for blocking resumption of negotiations, The government also could seize the coal mines. That was done repeatedly in wartime, and the authority still exists. Another possibility—the govern-

that a good book of edibles wouldn't lessen the handicap. » " » THEY ALSO have provided bicarbonate of soda for the judges. Winners in each of the three categories will receive a trophy. But there's one thing the fellows are scratching their heads over. can't see why the - girls

Fleet street and, when the wind

was right, as far as Temple Bar. In no other way can slie make an honest man again of Dr. Samuel Johnson. He regularly stuck his head out his door two centuries ago, sniffed the aromas of what the British call a pudding, and hot-footed it to Wine Office Court, where Cheshire Cheese even then was a well es-

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GLANCE AT ‘TEETH TO FIX .HIS FARE

BROWNSVILLE, Tex. (U. P.).— Bus driver James Bullington has a surefire method of telling whether a child is old enough to ride free on his bus.

in trying to find out the reasons, why things are as they are. ‘Blaming people wit an understanding

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shire Cheese, serving me with apologies and Johnson pudding postwar style. The fact that I was sitting in Dr. Johnson's seat (none too comfortable for my chassis) was incidental to Dolly, but important to me. I had hoped that contact with the oaken board where the doctor sat so long ago might have a psychic effect upon me. (Editor: There is no evidence of this yet.) Dr, Johnson wrote that the Che-

Scarcity Mars Special English Dishes

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN, United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 18.—Miss Dolly Pinney, a black-eyed lady with one of history's greatest literary reputations to maintain, daubed a fish with austerity grease today and gave me the lowdown on the boiled lark and roast oyster situation. . It is not good, but Dolly said she hoped Ye Old Cheshire Cheese soon again would waft magnificent odors into every newspaper office on

pound creation which took 16 hours to boil and in so doing produced those smells de luxe, ” . » “ENTOMBED therein,” he added, are beefsteaks, kidneys, oysters, larks, mushrooms and wondrous spices and gravies, the secret of which is known only to the compounder.” I climbed the ancient stairs where timbers charred by German fire bombs still were being repaired, found the proper bench in the tiny black walnut paneled dining room and ordered pudding. It tasted good, but consisted solely of small pieces of beef, black mushrooms, excellent gravy and a chunk of pastry about an inch and a half thick. This dough, I regret to report, was not the light crust

shire Cheese pudding was an 80-

By ANDY ANDERSON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer SUMMERTON, 8. C., April 18.— If you happen to drive up to a gas station where a chubby, pleasant chap, wearing a stiff collar and coat and looking immaculate enough to be a necktie salesman, grabs the hose and starts filling your tank, that chap will be Jeff Davis. Jeff is a one-man, double-barrel, self - starting, automatic - winding chamber of commerce for this town. He was filling my tank when he glanced inside the car and noticed some fishing rods. “Going fishing, Mister?” he asked. I said that, if I saw a place that looked worth while, I might. Jeff let the tank runs over and dropped the nozzle so he could us both hands for gesturing. . “Brother, don't go any further, You just came over a bridge. That bridge is over a lake. And that lake has more bass and perch in it than any other place in the world.”

No Relief at Hand

I looked rather dubious. “Yeah,” he reiterated, “I said in the world, not only in Florida, or Texas, or Louisiana or the United States but any cockeyed place in the universe! you can get all the bets around here on that.” I asked him what was preventing him from proving that. I had my car and the equipment. He ex‘plained that he'd like to. But he had one kid in Chicago in college and the other boy getting out of the navy soon, and until someone got home to relieve him, he would not be able to make it un-

Thursday,

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ment could proceed against one or the other party under the National Labor Relations Act for refusal to bargain collectively. A further possibility—more steam

I WASHED it down with a mug |°0Ud be put into the official con-

of mild-and-bitter, had a dish of |Ciliation efforts. stewed rhubarb for desert, admired 2 the window panes made of bubbly We the Wome

glass from the bottoms of old wine bottles, and eventually found Dolly worrying with the pudding pot. “Larks it needs,” she said,’ wiping her hands, “but a little roasted oysters it needs as much, it does. This is against the law, and I am sorry that you, sir, had to eat crust the like of that.”

It's Okay, Ladies, Now You Are

Free to Travel

By RUTH MILLETT FEEL FREE to come out of the kitchen, Mama~—to pack your traveling bag and take a trip, It's perfectly okay now. If you packed up the kids and endured a hard, dirty trip on a daycoach during the war, people looked at each other and said, “Why don’t women — especially women with children — stay home in these times?” It didn't matter that you might be following your husband to an army camp, or going back to your parents’ home to live for the duration.

w » » THERE isn't enough grease for | good pastry, while the government won't let an Englishman put meat, game and seafood in any one dish. This edict Dolly as a patriotic citizen endures, She doesn’t like it, but can you blame her? How'd you like to make a liar of Samuel Johnson every time you dished up a four-shilling portion of pudding?

I asked why Thursday, and Jeff said that the town closed up on Thursday. I asked what for. “So us businessmen and our help can go fishing. What other reason would there be for closing?” The water he spoke of was the famed Santee reservoir which offers more than 60 miles of clear bass water and some of the best waterfowl shooting in the winter. I'm anxious to visit with Jeff Davis. I want to see if a guy who can service a car dressed up like he is, also goes fishing in that stiff collar and well-pressed suit, Because I believe a getup like that would scare away every fish in the lake.’

CANADA IS HUNTING SUSPECT IN SPY CASE

OTTAWA, April 18 (U, P.).—Sam Carr, national organizer of the. Labor Progressive (Communist) party and one of two men accused of be-

YOU WERE a woman, and there {vere those who felt a woman couldn't possibly have a good enough reason for traveling in wartime. Well, it’s different now. Just how different, you'll realize if you have been reading railroad, bus, hotel, and airlines advertisements, Now everybody wants the little woman to travel—with the possible exception of her loving spouse. She is being promised all kinds of lux~uries, Everything is going to be fixed up for Junior's comfort, too— everything from a special plane to carry mothers and babies across the country, to a new Pullman car designed especially for children, with fenced-in beds they can't roll out of when the train takes a sharp curve.

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| Plaza Lights, Fountain Await Repairs.

Q. Where may one obtain a list of world war I veterans?

A. A list of Indiana veterans of world war I is kept at the World War Memorial.

Q. When is the World War Memorial open? When will the fountains and lights around the obelisk on the War ,Memorial Plaza be turned on again?

A. The memorial is open from 10 a, m. to 5 p. m. every day in the year except New Year's, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The fountains and lights around the obelisk will be turned on as soon as repairs are completed. The repairs, currently held up by material shortages, are expected to be finished this summer,

» ” . HOTELS, INSTEAD of pleading with you to stay home, are now urging your husband to take you along on his business trips. In the traveling world you are Somebody again. Even if you can't take a trip this summer, it ought

ing “recruiting agents” for a Russian spy ring in Canada, was the object of a widespread manhunt by the Royal Canadian mounted police today. Special Crown Prosecutor J. R. Cartright said Carr had been’ subpoened as a witness in the case of Dr. David Shugar, charged with conspiracy in giving official secrets to Soviet agents. Igor Gouzenko, former Russian embassy code clerk and the government’s key witness in the espionage casé, testified Carr and Sam Rose, Communist member of parliament, were the men who recruited the members of the spy ring charged with divulging Can: n military secrets, including inférmation on

"ROCKET IS HALTED

to make you feel good to know you wouldn't have to apologize or rationalize or explain if you did go somewhere. ' Men will never know just how good the new gracious attitude makes women feel. For even during the war nobody looked askance at the male traveler, Even though he wore a civilian suit, it was always assumed that his trip was necessary, Nobody ever said: “Why don't these men stay home?”

PLANTS MAKE SUGAR

WASHINGTON.—Plants, ' primarily those that contain the green

IN ALTITUDE TEST

WHITE SANDS, N. M, April 18 (U, P).—A captured German V-2 rocket, fired skyward by the army Tuesday at White ‘Sands proving grounds, failed to reach the anticipated altitude of 120 miles “because we brought it down,” Lt. Col. Har old Turner said last night. Col. Turner, commanding officer of the proving ground, said certain

developments during the test induced officers to bring the guided missle back to earth before it

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