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By JOHN B. McDERMOTT

United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, March 3.—Flushed and tongue-tied with embarrassment, . Frau Becker stammeréd a confession that her family had not hg baths since last summer. Too cold. Frau Becker lives with her husband, Josef, and their daughter. A Evelyn, 8, in a bomb-damaged three-ropm apartment- =workshop at 35! Kurfuerstendamm, the pre-war “Fifth avenue” ‘of Berlin, The Beckers are average Ger‘mans—average in that they shiver and bread. Two meals each 10 days in the cold, seldom have enough t0/they have meat. That's all their eat, are generally unhappy, and Can ration cards permit them. look only with dublous hopes to & Mr. Becker sits most of the day better life. - sewing at his work bench. Frau > Earns $35 = Month Becker does the household chores

Herr Becker is a chunky, long- and shopping. She spends much of |’

. He earns about 350 her day standing in line. She joins haired tailor. month. That's a nor- her husband at the work bench mal wage for a German working When she finishes. man, although at the military ex-| “I am ToEier than many people,” change rate it's only $35. |Mr. Becker’ said. They live hand to mouth. “All| day and don't wear out my shoes.” Josef earns must be spent on the Frau Becker's shoes were in bad hare necessities, They have no sav- shape. She said they were her last ings. What few things they had P&ir. Her dresses were in better were lost when their home was de- Shape, but she didn’t remember stroyed Feb. 15, 1944, in a U, 8S. {when she had a new one—five, six

air raid. years. Of their. three rooms only one | The Beckers have running water It serves as in the bathroom. In the kitchen Herr Becker's workshop and office, the pipes are frozen. They locked the family sitting reom, kitchen ¢lean, despite that painful admisand bedroom. The Beckers sleep !sion by Frau Becker that there had on the floor, on mattresses placed been on ‘baths since summer. close to-the small rusty stove which | TON a barely takes the .frigidity off the| 15-Cent Haircut room. Buy on Black Market 'Not Completely Gone My feet became numb" with cold| LOWELL, O., March 3 (U.'P.)— 1 while I sat by the fire talking with [iia Ray. 55 WED 1 heed in he ‘Herr Becker. But to the Beckers |) charges 25 cents for a shave the stove means the difference be- {and a haircut. tween life and death, Without it| The haircut is 15 cents and the | they would freeze. ;shave 10, despite advanced living | Mr. Becker pays 150 reichsmarks | costs. a month rent. Like all Berliners,! Mr. Ray, the Beckers must do some of their dent; says he has been buying on the black market. It's the only place they can get coal qr coal dust for their stove and

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Lowell's wealthiest resi- | “too busy” | He and a helper are on the job | from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily except

enough -food to keep body and soul Sunday. together: 3 ee eee. | The Beckers get up about 7:30 PAYS OVERDUE BILL a.m. Breakfast consists of ersatz! NEW LEXINGTON. O. (U Pj —| coffee and two or three slices of A New Lexington storekeeper re- |

black bread. For lunch they have carrots mixed with potatoes. The evening meal usually is soup

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Times “Serial—

Love Has Two Faces

By Irene Lonnen Ernhart

: | CHAPTER 27 {think it over and make the—the| “I HEARD you play that first 8rfangements® a

day,” Cassie told Parker. “And it “Might as well get it over wit TE Parker muttered, turning away ad sounded awfully nice.” her. .

If only he wouldn't look at her ® 4» | in that infuriatingly calm way. | MAMA came shuffling in. Leni’s voice, speaking to Mike, “You ready to eat now, Parker?! rose in the quiet. “Oh then you will On—I thought you~ were upstairs stay for the week-end! We're go- changing . your - clothes, Cassie ing to have a party tomight—here. We'te BU% 1p gel supper over withi Parker and I planned it last week. 0's Leni can have the Kitchen.| Lots of radio and show people. She wants to fix cocktails “We'll have loads of fun, and “She tell yoy she's havin’ a party then tomorrow morning well go for Parker, with a lot of them show riding. Parker and I used to rent people and radio folks comin’ down, horses over at the stables nearby. from Indianapolis?” ! How about it, Parker, do you want Cassie ‘nodded. “I'm not hungry. to ride along the river tomorrow?” Don’t bother to fix anything ior]

Parker nodded. “Be fine,” he me. 4 said. She rushed out, and went. up-|

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ride too?” Mike “said, laughing a “€Di shared. little. Sitting down in front of the] “Pll have things to do” Cassie OresSINg table she stared: at her-| said hastily. “Especially it we're self. Her brown eyes beneath the having a party tonight.” thick bang looked large, ant there . a a were dark circles benéath / them SHE felt left out completely. She feit 2 i i Parker had never wanted a party. “HAVE you seen a lawyer yet?

She'd suggested a house-warming Parker's words rang celdly over and when they'd first gotten the farm- OVer-again insher ears. “Why not? : y 2 ry » 0 house modernized, but he hadn't Why hot? Why not? i . She went to the bathroom and wanted! it, iby turned on the hot water and began! “And now—if want “lo see to take off her clothes. She got! papa we'll have to go out to his into the steaming tub and began workshop above the garage. That's scrubbing herself.

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arm, handle my affairs, and so long as Leni -and Mike, their voices trail- you're self-sufficient by nature, you Ing away -as they went toward the can take care of yours!” bag o the house. Buf’ she wasn't-self-sufficient, Just arker struck a few “more re- confused and frightened. o sounding chords on the plato, and iia mie / Cassie went and stood by the fire-' THE PARTY was quite a. success, ! place, right from the start. Maybe beBo ‘that's—your Mike,” he said cause Leni was such a wonder at slowly and without expression. imixing cocktails. | There was a long silence. Cassie was introduced to a lot}

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PLENTY OF SERVICE-—Cpl. Leon Nansel Burbank, Cal. (left], and T-5 Jack Oppenheim, Indianapolis, relax ‘in their room .at the Atami rest hotel overlooking Saganti bay in the resort district of Japan as Japanese servants tidy the room, The hotel has hot baths, an outdoor pool, golf-and other recreation for U.S. forces.

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Alumni of Sigma Chi and: members of the fraternity’'s six state

chapters will attend the 65th annual banquet and dance Saturday evening in the Indianapolis Athletic club. Banquet“ speaker will be Bishop Titus = Lowe, president of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist church, Honor guest will be Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, former U.S. Ambassador to China, national president of the fraternity. Virgil Martin will serve as toast-

master, . James FE. Bettis, local alumni chapter president, » will preside. R. F. Mead is _general

chairman for the events; H. L. Ross is banquet chairman; Robert Mueller is dance chairman and other members on the committee assisting with arrangements are

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'Fossilized Laws'—Some |Make Sense, Others Funny

By Science Service ] CHICAGO, March 3.—Mayhe the G, O. P. elephant, symbol of the Republican party, is to blame for one: of the laws in ‘Democratic North Carolina. The law forbids

bites you, while feeding razor blades to hogs violates a law of Illinois. Ohio law prohibit¥ riding a jackass more than 10 miles, and if your

against the law to set fire to him. [ Great Danes, polite dogs “and jother large breeds are forbidden in the city of Boston: The law says Bostonians cannot’ own dogs more than 10 inches high. * Oklahoma fishermen, beware! I$ is against the law to catch a whale in inland waters’ in Oklahoma. California law, on the other (hand, makes it"illegal to shoot any kind of game except whales from a moving autorhobile or airplane.

In Minnesota, for example; it is| VAN SICKLE “TO TALK HERE against the law to tease or tor-| Dr. John-V. Van Sickle, chaire ment’ a skunk. This may look funny {man “of ‘the department of ecos in a law book, but it is pretty good | nomics of Wabash college, will speak advice, {on “Trade Unions in a. Free Soe It is against the law to kill a clety" at 12:15 p..m, tomorrow ad

in the Tarheel state, y This is what R. Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln park 200 here, calls a “fossilized” law, repealed and still force. Mr, Perkins has made a collection of some of these laws, and while some of them are absurd, others make good sense,

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