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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—I found a Yugoslav today to tell me what's going.-on in the European backwoods, where the boys had as soon take potshots at our airplanes as at each other, : The situation is what you might call complex; Slivovits isn’t helping any, and now I am as confused about Yugoslavia as the 20th Century-Fox film corporation, s 0 The Yugoslavian Serbs, Croats, Muslims, Slovenes, Magyars, Turks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Germans, Hungarians and: gypsies have been shooting at each other since the invention of gunpowder. Other people have been shooting at them too. And they have drowned their sorrows traditionally in slivovitz. This is a distillation of fermented plum juice. There are ‘50,000,000 plum trees in Yugoslavia. In a good year they produce 750,000 tons of plums, Nobody ever has measured the resultant slivovitz in gallons, My man says it is warlike stuff and inclined to make you see double. 3

Most Yugoslavs Are Farmers

MOST WUGOSLAVS are farmers, except when they are playing politics, which they do with guns. This is no wisecrack; it is a matter of record. A Yugoslav congressman got so exasperated in 1928 at the way the debate was going that he pulled out his shooting-iron and began firing at random. He happened to plug three members of the opposition, That almost started a revolution and King Alexander clamped on a dictatorship. The king was murdered later. And so on. The Yugoslavs grow grain, pigs, sheep, and pyrethrum plants, the flowers of which they grind into

insect powder. They distill alcohol from wood, weave carpets by hand and, near Stip, grow opium poppies. They also cultivate silk worms. Many Yugoslavs grew so tired of being targets that they left for more peaceful climes. . The first ones fled the Turks in 1540 and sailed for America. Only a few were believed to have arrived. More came later. And we now have in the United States nearly 1,000,000 people of Yugoslavian descent. They have made excellent peace-loving. citizens,

A Jolt to 20th Century-Fox

AMONG THEM are Frank J. Lausche, governor of Ohio, and Louis Adamic, the author, Nikola Tesla, who invented the induction motor, was a Yugoslav. Had it not been for him, we'd still be riding in horse cars, 4 ; Germany invaded Yugoslavia during the war and that's when Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch set up his Chetnik armies to harass the Nazis. The 20th Cen-tury-Fox Co. was so impressed it produced a movie, “Chetniks,” glorifying the general. About the time this picture was to be released, one Josip Broz became known as Marshal Tito and organized the partisans to fight the Nazis and the Chetniks. He said Gen. Mikhailovitch was a bum. The allies seemed to agree. This was a jolt to 20th Century-Fox, which quickly withdrew its movie. So Mikhailovitch said Tito was a Communist. Tito's government executed Mikhailovitch. Then his army started shooting at our airplanes and that brings us up to date. My Yugoslav friend never goes to wild western movies. Too much shooting.

(Donna Mikels is on vacation. Inside Indianapolis will be resumed on her réturn.)

Gold Bricks

DENVER, Aug. 22.—There is now $6 billion worth of gold bricks stored in the five-story vault of the U. 8. Mint here—yes, that's correct, five BILLION. Supt. Moses E. Smith arranged for us to see a large part of it and to see the mint in operation, - He turned us over to a genial looking guard named Charles Morris, \ “Mr. Morris is an expert pistol shot,” Mr. Smith said, “He trains all of our guards.” First we visited the deposit weigh room. That's where people with gold and silver to sell take or send it. The mint will buy from anybody in any quantity from an ounce on up. The charge is $1 for melting, and one-fourth of one per cent for handling. You could sell your gold teeth there. On small hand trucks back of the counter were gold and silver bricks sent in by mines. One of the employees said seven of those small bricks—they were about seven inches long,’ four wide, and two thick—were worth $131,000. He let us lift one—35 pounds! Another larger gold brick weighed 65 pounds. It was worth about $30.000. While we were there, a big can came in by express. It contained the floor sweepings from a jewelry manufacturing shop. The dust was full of gold and ° silver specks—filings and such. Plenty of pay dirt in that can. : :

Making Only Cents

NEXT WE went to the room where copper ingots and alloys are received, and on to the furnace room where we saw the ingots melted at 2200 degrees and molded into small bars 16 inches long, The bars go through a series of rollers till they become straps of copper 12 feet long with the thickness of a cent. Then they are ready for the punching machines. The mint is making only cents—they don’t call them pennies—and nickels right now. That's because they have large stocks of other coins. The big vault is five stories—three underground,

Aviation

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—With few exceptions, airports throughout the country are poorly equipped with efficient fire rescue apparatus and trained manpower, Inability of airlines, airports and cities to get together on the problem is holding up action, A survey by this writer of 17 airports scattered across the country revealed the lack of standardized equipment and trained manpower. these reports and agreed something should be done without delay. - On some airports, where only 25 per cent of the traffic is on air lines, airline officials have not felt like taking 100 per cent of the responsibility. City officials, on the ‘other hand, feel it is a job for the airlines and not a burden local taxpayers should have to bear. Some city fire departments are opposed to having specially trained men and equipment assigned to the airport, and have so expressed themselves. 2 A civil aeronautics board spokesman pointed out today that civil air regulations govern only safety in the air. It is the responsibility of the airport after a plane touches its wheels 3-the runway or ground. CAB has just completed proposed regulations to insure the greatest possible safety in the air through mechanical perfections and fire warning devices on engines and other parts of commercial aircraft. It is powerless to force. either airlines or cities to provide adequate fire rescue apparatus as an added precaution on the ground.

Rescue Methods Developed

DURING THE WAR, both army and navy developed efficient equipment and established rescue procedures, Many large airports were protected by the armed services, inasmuch as air transports command and naval air transport service planes used them continually. “They have been gradually withdrawn until some airports with many airline schedules have little or no means of rescuing passengers in the event of a

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday—As YT traveled up to Boston by train yesterday, the sun shone on a green and lush landscape. On the whole, we have had so much rain in this part of the country that our landscape is especially luxuriant. Goldenrod and purple loose strife, or fire weed as some people call it, blended together in field after field. I have been enjoying my purple weed, which I wait for every year at Hyde Park and which never disappoints me. It grows in the swamp and all around the far bank of the brook, so that I can look out my window and see a sea of purple stirring in the gentle breeze. Until yesterday, however, I did not realize how much this weed has spread all through the New England countryside. The world looked like a beautiful world and I felt that my heart should respond with joy, but my thoughts were sad over the death ‘of my nephew, However, what nature could not do for me, two gallent human beings accomplished, for I found my sister-in-law and her daughter putting into attion magnificently what many of us say we should do but rarely can, We know that life must go on and that, while those who leave us live on in our hearts, still the business of living must be cheerfully accomplished. Henry Roosevelt's mother and sister loved him dearly, but they greeted us with smiles and made us glad that we could be together and talk of Henry.

Sharing Cuts Suffering

MANY PEOPLE all over the world, in the last few years, have had to bear the loss of loved ones still in their early youth. All these people, feel the same regret that there could not be fulfillment of the. hopes and aspirations of these young men and women whose lives were cut short by the war. Perhaps ih the mere knowledge that grief is shared by so many people, one has the feeling that there must

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two above—and none of its walls touch outside walls. It rests on its own concrete and steel piers. Guards on a catwalk watch the vault constantly, and, by a system of mirrors and lights, they can see all the way under the vault, When it came time for us to have a look at some of the treasure inside, two men came down from the cashier's office. It takes two men to open one of the big doors, one man to each of two combinations. A good many operations in the mint must be performed by two persons. . The inside of the vault looks like a jail—one steel cell after another, They were filled with gold bricks, which we could see through the barred, locked doors.

Small Change Section

“REMEMBER when all the gold coins were called in?” an attendant asked. “Well, here's what became of them.” He motioned toward several brick-filled vaults. On the door of each cell is a card giving the value of the gold stored in it. And they have it figured down to the cent. I looked at one card—$181,318,625.54. Next we went into the small-change section of the vault, and saw more cells stacked high with sacks of coins—$1,167,000 in dimes, $484,000 in 1948 nickels, $828,000 in 1946 quarters, $647,000 in 1945 halves, and $22,000,000 in silver dollars minted in 1921-22, and still waiting to be placed in circulation. They haven't made a silver dollar here since 1934. ' In one cell were sacks of Philippine coins. During the war the Denver mint made coins for the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and Australia. One day a man asked Guard Morris if he had ever seen any Australian money. “My son sent me some,” he said, And he pulled out one of the coins. “See if that doesn’t have a ‘D’ on it,” Mr. Morris said, It did. “That is our mint mark,” Mr. Morris said. “The coins your son sent you were made right here in

: , : | crash,” sald Jerome Lederer, chief engineer of the Aero Insurance Underwriters, last April, : A warning was sounded at that time by Mr.

Lederer before the Society of Automotive Engineers’! national aeronautical meeting.

Problem Gets Little Attention “ABOUT 25 PER CENT of all domestic airline accidents from 1938 to 1944 required rescue operations and four out of every five occurred on or within a five-mile radius of an airport,” he said.

“Buf the problem of rescuing personnel and passengers at airports has received relatively little action by the air transport industry. “The problem becomes much more serious with the larger aircraft coming into use. If a 50 or 100passenger airplane should crash on an airport with today’s haphazard rescue operations at most fields, the industry would suffer a tremendous setback.” One of the navy's top carrier damage control officers today outlined the airports’ needs as follows: “The nation’s airports in general should develop promptly an efficient crash-fire system and a standard system of training. It should comprise modern crash trucks, fully equipped with water streams for heat absorption, .carbon dioxide for a quick.knockdown of the fire and foam for a blanket to smother the fire quickly. “Scientific study and investigation should be instituted immediately to incorporate the best features of the three extinguishing media into a standard airport fire truck.” Analysis of the individual airport lists of available crash-fire equipment by the expert quoted ahove showed three ports with fairly good equipment and a sufficient supply of foam, water, carbon dioxide, trucks, nozzles and trained manpower, Others were far below par and two reported candidly they “just had no protection to amount to anything” and that protection was “terrible.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

be some purpose in all this suffering. This helps those who are left here to carry on their daily lives— and to do it gallantly, as I saw it done yesterday. On the trip back in tHe train, I read the account of a meeting held last May by the citizens committee on the children of New York city. It seemed to me rather a unique kind of meeting, since it was staged almost after the manner of a hearing in court, with the children of New York city as the petitioners against the people of the city. The conditions that exist for children here were covered by those who appeared in their behalf, Accounts of the day nurseries, the schools, the playgrounds, the courts all formed a part of the testimony—and the people of New York have not done well by their children.

Correct Basic Faults

AS I READ, I kept thinking that all these agencies must, of course, be co-ordinated, that the recomihen~ dations of experts must be followed out, but back of it all something bothers me. There is something wrong with our civilization, there is something wrong with our whole economic set-up, Much more time and thought should be put, not only on co-ordination for helping children who Have suffered because of wrong conditions, but on ‘correcting the basic faults which bring such situations about. . We once had a national resources planning board, which was set up to help us think through some of our economic problems.. It was abolished by congress because they preferred our usual haphazard methods of no planning. I believe in meeting things as you come | to them ‘and in flexibility in all plans. But I believe also in trying to find out what are the problems before a nation and making someé plans to deal with those

By Frederick C. Othman,

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By HENRY BUTLER NOT MANY artists gre also mechanics. And W. H. Ober, 2227 Central ave., finds his vocation, which is adjusting and repairing time-recording devices, and his avocation, which is painting pictures, an odd combination. . “I'm supposed to be a mechanical genius,” he says with a grin, “but I really hate machines.”

- » no ¢ MR. OBER; who has won all the first prizes for painting at Muncie fair for the past three years, has been working at his hobby since 1920, Completely self-taught, he has a houseful of oils and watercolors, including such interesting canvases as his prize - winning Brown county winter landscape done with a palette-knife, He has painted scenes pretty much all over the country, from the

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Florida keys, where he had to wipe thick layers of mosquitoes off his! windshield, to the upper peninsula! of Michigan. With his son, George M. Ober, In- | dianapolis attorney,. he recently | made a painting and fishing trip | to upper Michigan and the Goulais | river section of Canada. This time, | he says, he did more fishing than] painting, but he has some pleasing watercolors to show for the vacation,

» » MM “PAINTING 18 A lot of fun, but by itself, it's got so much paint on

it.” Now that he's had to give up his

home. Among the canvases in the Ober

living room are two prize-winning :

LANDSCAPE PAINTING PROVES COLORFUL HOBBY—

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Indianapolis Da Vinel , , . W. H. Ober, time-clock expert and landscape painter, looks at his prize winning Brown county winter landscape. In his right hand, Mr. Ober holds the stiletto-like palette knife with which he laid the colors on—“the way a plasterer uses a trowel.”

it sure is messy,” he says. “I've got studio, on account of the housing miniature landscapes. “I tried to|Ober has lived in Indianapolis more a smock that'll stand in a corner |shortage, he does his painting at|get all of Brown county into four-|than 50 years, He is an associate

by-five-inch pictures,” he says, with characteristic dry humor, Born in Richmond in 1889, Mr,

of the Brown county art gallery and a member of the Arts club in Florida.

DETROIT, Aug. 22.—Some keen much of the blame for recurring

are the same ones who slugged it nearly a decade ago. Some of those old wounds have never healed. They mean bitter

| Scores of strikes in the big auto

plants and in suppliers’ plants have

bogged down the whole industry his recent move to get an overall

and damaged American economic progress—yet already there are rumblings of more trouble ahead. Living costs are mounting. The

ginning to talk more money.

= ” ” IN THIS first year after V-J day, two out of every three cars and trucks planned never came off the production lines. Production of a couple million vehicles has been lost, and that means a couple billion sales dollars lost or delayed. Big bosses and big stockholders aren't the only ones hurt. Strikes and critical material shortages have shriveled workers’

(Third of series)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

observers of the Detroit scene lay labor-management strife here on

personalities. They say if there could be a new lineup of faces, on both sides, a decline in industrial warfare might result, Many of the men sitting across the table from one another now

out in the bloody sit-down strikes

has been about 30 hours. And while

stant, harassing battle against ris-

[ter Reuther, U. A. W. president, in| But the union argues that these

conference of management union leaders to seek a way out of faltering production. But nothing much came of it, Management told off Walter and he told off management. It's an old and worn story to Detroit. On its side, the U. A. W. doesn't

output. But it insists current suppliers’ strikes could not account for today’s production lag. And it says maybe the big com-

to get bigger profits the tax laws would allow next year. ” ” .

paychecks.

Detroit pays fair wages, trying to provide for a family becomes a con-!

and!

NEW FACES MAY BE DETROIT'S NEED—

Personalities’ Cut Auto Output

balk at paying the 18'% cents per! hour wage increase granted gener-| ally throughout the industry? It costs as much for a parts plant worker to maintain a family as a worker in the big auto plants, they say. Management fears U. A. W. attempts to put across the idea of industry-wide collective bargaining. But the U. A. W. asks if it is morally right to pay a man. working on a certain machine in one shop $1.50 an hour and on the iden{tical machine in another shop $1.35 an hour, .

. ” = TO CLAIMS of some gompanies,

- |ling and name-calling on. both bark when Shes zie small. tions that mean little but which are Z - | Plan® workers—an at means ; rowd pleasers. By the time the aides, ave, visoleign and QIStYUSE lone | ser ow oad vais gs KE Chrysler, that strikes have been |CTOWC please , ] TO iacty apa TIN: Détrolt grove otal i) dren L. arn (irautHar lens 4 Ma NAL AL {auto hak or % Amn RR . : ; ro , he the impressiof df a town walking : *. nF tried to keep the men on the Jo PARC kia on eggs. THIS could have influenced Wal-|but they refused. eT

At {Chrysler, it is asserted, men walked jout because they were asked to work in hot, badly ventilated depart-

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|strikes were not capricious.

the same as they've been for years— land that, in any case, there is a {contract bargaining process to settle {such issues,

{lieve there is still a good deal of {the old “smash the unions” thinking in Detroit, Some foremen still try to brush ioff workers’ grievances, they say—

{rest and stoppages. " = rr NOW, as to management: A good

; WHY AREN'T the strikes justi-|part of it has intense dislike for| age The average work week recently fied, asks the union, if the suppliers! Walter Reuther, It regards him as| workers draw jobless pay.

{to a “fancy Dan” of the boxing ring

Chrysler says the departments are)

clever and articulate but distrusts him, It got-along better with older-type union leaders who always were after money for the workers, true, but who weren't trying to impose “socialistic” notions, as they see it, on the industry. ; Some management people say Mr, Reuther’s tack is to foster always a “hate management” feeling among workers—that he believes he cannot afford to let auto plants people ever be satisfied with the companies. You hear Mr. Reuther compared

here—a fellow making a lot of mo-

» » » UNION politics is put down as ithe cause of some of Mr. Reuther’s

Solomon Needed For Maritime

Union Dilemma

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard St«ff Writer ’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 22-~The national wage stabilization board is caught “between the devil and the deep blue sea” in a controversy ine volving men who work on the latter, The board has the duty of passing on labor contracts recently signed with maritime employers by two A F. of L. unions, the Seafarers ine ternational union and the Sailors’ union of the Pacific. These agree~ ments were reached through a bargaining in which the government took no active party, although the war shipping administration has urged their approval.

» ~ » THE HITCH comes because the National Maritime union and other C I. O. maritime organizations won a contract in June, about a month before the A. F'. of L. contracts were signed, containing wage terms less favorable to thousands of men than those in the A. PF. of L. agreements. The C. I. O. contracts grew out of strike threats and negotiations that practically were taken over by the government. Terms to be taken over by private ships operators .were written by government conciliators, Meanwhile, the A. F, of L. une fons were bargaining in the custos mary way and reached an accord without a strike or much of a threat of one. In many cases, A, F, of L. members will be paid $8 to $10 more a month than C, I O, members doing similar work, The board's dilemma is that it must approve the A. F, of L. cone tracts and thus lay the foundation for’ more C. I. O. demands or it must reject the A. F. of L. agree~ ments and risk a widespread marie time strike. Offense to the whole A. 'F, of L. is involved, as well as

{the probability ‘that the A. F. of L,

will withdraw its representation on the board. This would endanger the board's effectiveness under its present plan of organization, with membership representing governe ment, management and labor, " = “ THE BOARD has heard much evidence, but Chairman W. Wile lard Wirtz said today no vote “as yet been taken. One is scheduled

a decision unfavorable to of L. and threats are being of what the federation is likely to do. Strength of C. I. O. and A. FP. of L. maritime unions is said to be approximately equal. Either group could tie up a major portion of American foreign shipping. This would be added to the slowly spreading strike of CI, O. unions on the Great Lakes, ; : athe» dad 2 ay , : x Fak: THE DREP-SEA % ot “of tHe C. I. O, unions with the shipping companies is not yet fully settled. The agreement which- averted the

maneuvers—the U, A. W. has been badly split for years at the top levels. And management fears Mr, Reu'ther’s incursions into what it sees las strictly management functions. How it will all come out, nobody can say. Industry heads believe they can pour out 5,000,000 cars and

deny strikes have cut heavily into| The U. A. W. leaders seem to be- 1,000,000 trucks next year if they

lean get the steel and if their plants {aren't -cloSed by strikes this winter. Production has climbed steadily {in recent weeks, Maybe things will get better, not

panies are holding back purposely and that's the stuff that breeds un-|worse.

That's Detroit's hopes.

TOMORROW—How labor shortretards production while

By FRANK ANGELO Times Special Writer - CHURCHILL, Manitoba, Canada, Aug. 22.—There’'s a boom building up in the rocky, barren corner of Hudson Bay that may be felt in the United States. It has w do with shipping—and a shiny, white wheat elevator that sits at the edge of the bay, only 2936 nautical miles from Liverpool, England. (Nautical distance, New York to Liverpool, 3036 miles.)

The boom post-war wind. The elevator and 510 miles of railroad connecting it with the outside world were built and are run by the Canadian government. The railroad got here in 1929, The 2,500,000-bushel elevator, the most modern in western Canada, went up in 1931. In nine years, a little over 20 million bushels of grain spilled out of its 28 chutes into the holds of ships. The war virtually halted shipments in 1089.

is just getting its

Now, there is talk of making this at least a 25-million-bushel-a-year port. There is talk of major import and export activities in lumber, livestock, dairy products and so forth, Western Canadian enthusiasts even talk of funneling products of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts of Wyoming,” Nebraska ahd Iowa through this short route to Europe (Butte, Mont., is 150 miles closer to Churchill than it is to Chicago).

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D,

INFANTILE paralysis is a disease of “fears.” Parents fear it more than they do any other disease of childhood, and the ‘average adult is deeply concerned , about his own protection from it. It is small consolation to those who have 'been crippled by infantile paralysis or to those from whom it has taken a loved one to know that it is generally a mild infection. But the general public must understand this fact if mass hysteria is to be avoided.

» J » IT IS NOW possible for every person suffering from infantile

paralysis to receive care, thanks .to the generous national support of the program established by, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, te This organization, in addision to spending large sums of money for research and for the training of hysicians, nurses and technicians n the diagnosis and treatment of infantile paralysis, stands ready to provide any funds which are necessary for patient care and for control of the disease,

be so harmful to our whole civilization, and will hurt particularly the weak and blameless who can do nothing to remedy the situation themselves.

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” " ” THE FIRST few days of infantile paralysis are the most critical, and

they are kept in isolation.

the majority: of the fatalities occur during this period. The critical period is over more quickly than it is in any other disease. « Fatalities usually result from infection of the upper portion of the spinal cord and the lower portion of the brain, Infantile-paralysis patients tell us that it is a terrifying sensation to discover that one cannot move an arm or a leg or to experience dificulty<in breathing. " ~ ” ; THIS IS particularly true since the average patient was perfectly well just a few days before. Little children are frightened when they develop infantile paralysis, especially so since most of them have to be taken to hospitals, where

The sudden separation from their parents terrifies them, and nurses in charge of infantile-paralysis wards need plenty of help in comforting their little charges.

» ” " A CHILD or an adult with any disabling condition tends to develop’ anxieties regarding it, and this is especially true of infantile-paralysis victims, The patient wonders whether or not he is going to recover the use of his muscles and, if so, how long

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Ignorance Causes Terror of Paralysis—

* Polio Called Disease of ‘Fears’

it will take him. He wonders whether or not he will be able to work or play again, and what people will think of him after his recovery. The muscle weakness in infantile paralysis, most pronounced in the beginning, quickly improves for a time.’ After that, however, progress is slow, - 88 8 MUCH of the prospect for sucdepends upon the paient’s willto follow instructions. The end result of paralysis recovery is difficult to predict, as improvement may continue for years. Vocational rehabilitation programs include special training for those who have had infantile paralysis. © Their -interests are consulted, their aptitudes are determined, and financial support for their education ts provided. Everything is being done to allay fears in and of infantile paralysis, but it will take time before this disease and its after-effects are understood by the public. uu ow 4 2 Q—Our baby was born with a sac on his spine. This was removed in an operation, but his legs appear to be weak. Will he ever be able to walk? » : A—If the nerves to his legs are

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Hudson -Bay Port Sees Shipping Boom

Plans are being made. to interest U. 8. political and financial circles in the expansive program. Proponents for .development of this port can produce sheafs of figures showing that it is a faster, cheaper route for exports and ime ports for Canada’s prairies and the north central section of the U, 8. They argue, too, that with busi-ness-like use of navigation aids, ice-breakers, radar and so forth, the port could be utilized from late July to early December, instead of the present ice-free few weeks in August and September, They speak darkly of “the interests” blocking expansion because the route would compete with well-established ones to the south, across the Great Lakes to Montreal. But they emphasize that, actually, I not much has been done, to date, to interest business in this port. Now, they're getting a good head of steam up for that job through the Hudson Bay Route association. Six grain ships are due to tie up at the 1844-foot wharf here this season. They will take away 1,877,000 bushels of wheat that have been stored in the elevator since 1039. Efforts are being made to get more wheat and more ships here, but they are not likely to materialize this year, Frank Ellason, Hudson Bay Route association secretary, displayed carefully controlled optimism over future prospects after studying .the situation here a few days. “This is the ‘Panama’ canal project of the north,’ ” he said. “It's going to take 4 long time and plenty of hard work to develop.”

GREEK GUERRILLAS SLAIN ATHENS, Aug, 22 (U. P)., — A large number of leftist guerrilla fighters have been killed in battles with government troops engaged in a “mopping up” operation in the

threatened strike thet some major issues but left others to arbitration, The A. F. of L. settled these same issues to its satisfaction by collec tive, bargaining. President Joe Curran of the Na« tional Maritime Union is said ale ready to have notified the stabiliza« tion board that i it approves the A. FP. of L. contracts he will look for the same concessions to be given immediately te C. I. O. unions. This would complicate the arbitration proceedings, now about to begin.

We, The Women

Veterans Find Post-War Plans Hard to Redlize

By RUTH MILLETT THE veteran who was going to “start anew” when the war was over is finding it pretty tough going. The business or professional man who was going to move to a differ« ent town—or perhaps even to a different section of the country is faced with the problem of trying to find both office space and living quarters for his family, 4 If he has both in the old home« town, he often decides he had better stay there, even though he swore not to when he was overs seas and the postwar dream-world looked like the perfect chance for making a new start, ” " » THE VETERAN with a family who wants to take advantage of the G. I. bill of rights to further his education is finding he can't make it on the money allowed him by the government, unless he has a nice bank account or relatives who are willing to care for the chile

dren while his wife works. The high cost of living makes the married veteran's $80 a mon look

smaller and smaller, Hence many a G. I. who thought of “after the war” as a brave new world in which he would have his chance is going back to the same old job he had before the war, or is giving up his dream of fitting himself for a new kind of work. » » iL AND IT'S NOT always because he lacks’ the courage to make a change. Usually it is because he is faced by such choices as these: Going alone to a new place to make a start, leaving his family behind—or keeping the family toe gether by staying on in the old hometown. - Living in a trailer with his wife and kids, using up the family’s save ings in order to get an education. or going back to the old job, living comfortably and eat The path that was to aban« doned doesn't look any better than it did when he was overseas. It is just that making a new start is harder to manage than he ever

properly developed, he will be able to walk, | J !

regions of Pindus and Olympus, an official sald oat

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