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Show Foste ParentVTrogram : Europe War :; Orphans BY KAY" SHERWOOD " ' NEA 5lft Correspondent...; 1 NEW AprlL 23 (NEA) ; Pive 'minutes ago, the comfort- ' able dining hall had been a jpeace- fur, quiet, .orderly i room: : Then pandemonium broke loose.- v - With less, warning than a rocket bomb,( :20 small children, all -of , hem. orphans - from areas "shattered", "shat-tered", by war, - began screaming - atnd sobbing hysterically. , - Tables and chairs- overturned. Dishes crashed on the floor. The scene -was Little Bardfield IfsrtU'ivear iBraintree; - Essex, in England, Where the Uncontrol lable outbursts Tiad happened be fore "amf will -happen again--The children -are not incorrigible or delinquents; they were' born -and reared in the terrible thunder and Vcteam of war, and sometimes the impact bf the new quiet that' has come with peace is more than. they can bear. Impossible? NofT at all. : Psy chologists find strange things have happened--to rthe minds of .these children. Such hysteria is. only one of '.the problems the ,, child psychologists and social workers face in: the delicate task , of rebuilding re-building the lives of thousands of 4hese battered . little remnants Of war-torn families. . . Many agencies, American . and European .are contributing to . their relief. But a sympathetic, Yiersonalized approach to ' the problem has been the goal of the American Foster Parent Plan for -Wr- Children in its work to re-bufld re-bufld Europe's homeless children wais taken from concentration camps, found wandering along roads, or sitting bewildered in' a ruined city. 49,000 Sheltered .Started. 10 years ago during the Spanish civil war, the Foster .Parent .Par-ent 'Plan has sheltered more than 40,000 children since then. It is financed by voluntary contributions contribu-tions and maintains 56 "colonies" usually large old homes or chateaux cha-teaux in : England, France, Belgium, Bel-gium, -Holland, Malta and Italy. "Homeless and hungry children, shaken by the war, need -more than food- and clothing,' reasons Mrs. -Edna Blue,executive chairman, chair-man, f They must be taught to be children again. They must be given back the sense of security that comes, with normal home life." Here's how' the plan works: The "foster .parent" .(who may be an individual, a school group or a club) agrees to contribute money, personal Interest and long-distance" affection for at least a year to help. his "ward." There are no legal contract and children can- ' t m mmik mxm Limn irn. ii iium UA7 President Ploying Politics, Declares Thomas i v CHICAGO, April 23 U.R3 IWJ. Thomas, vice president of the CIO United - Automobile workers union, expressed belief today thatj- UAW President waiter Pi JteutM- er la. attempting to "freeze , him out of the union ncr buacL vr political machine for. himself. V "Reuther is more .afraid of my power over the rank and file than With that of any other individual," Thomas said. ' " ,- - vThoimas made;-ithe charge-r-i furtner-.viaence Of .-widening spiu 'itiUn. the .eecutive,. ranks of Be-;jftfohi?-afte(r commenting oiv' chargcsK by." Mrs. , Ejeaor noosevcH ju ncr 'newspaper column col-umn thai the union's policy statement, state-ment, anprpved- last week despite Reutber's Opposition, showed "hu man nature at its worst. Remnants of war-broken families, these faur, Dutch children typify .the conditions of tired and hopeless orphans brought to foster parent colonies .fo rehabilitation. Dispair marks (heir fades, undernourished by a five-year diet of sugar , beets, and tulip bulbs. thousand. not come to America to live with r East, , End, summing, up war experiences ex-periences that included injuries, a wrecked home- and separation separa-tion from family and friends. concluded matter-of-factly that "thanks to the dreadful ' war, though, I now live in a house with a bath." Reports from children too young to write are sent by social workers. Long Waiting List-To List-To give the restless refugees a feeling of family life within the colony,, they are divided into groups ot three or four and a trained ' social worker is their "motheri" The colony personnel is recruited from the social workers, work-ers, teacher, doctors, and nurses of the country. Native languages and customs, as well as practical, training courses, ire taught to prepare the young people to help in the re building of their own countries. What is the future of these youngsters? Some, as concentration concentra-tion camp records are clarified, will be reunited with their rela tives; others will be placed in homes. Many will grow up in the colony. At present there are 2800 children,- ranging in age from a few months to 16 years, in the eolonies. But Mrs.- Blue points out grimly that these are the neediest, needi-est, most desperate cases. There is still a waiting list of several foster families.. If Cbsts $15 a month to "adopt a child. This feeds, clothes, houses and educates him. Renewing, the child's sense of security in the world begins when he is told in detail about his American friend who has chosen him to help. The "foster parent receives the child's picture and history. - Letters " must be exchanged at feast" once a month- through the executive . offices in New York: birthday cards and occasional mall sifts- increase the bond..'b, marked improvement in '.the child s progress is noted when the Jetters start coming and he feels his . "foster parent" really does care. One French orphan adopted .by a Claflronia high school was given lionorary -membership in .classes and school activities, and letters about studies, football games and parties of which he is "spiritually a part fly back and forth across the Atlantic. "The" children's letters, usually iaccoropanied by a . floridly cray ?oned drawing of their colony, are poignant testimony of their' eager-frness eager-frness for friendship. "The .world isjj't such a friendless place any more, - writes a FrencjJ VOFPbari: Bfy sister writes you-and you 5,wrile her. Would it be an right if 'r wrote you, too?" hints an Eng- iiisji orphan. "May I call you Auntie Helen?" is another timid inauiry. , ' . -;. One English boy from London's ...i.iu,f'. i- 1- j r m -jt osr 4 f6' $ry -' Pi ;-l ! . ; "- "fe f - ' "v 4 1 -V ' 1 - r 1 r 5V -J Wheeler to Seek " ? 5th Term Election HELENA, Mont., April 23 (U.R) Opening gun in Sen. B. K. Wheeler's campaign for renoin- lnation on the Democratic - ticket in the. July primaries had beet fired today with the formation of a state-wide wnecier lor sen ator club." Party leaders considered form ation of the club the same as an announcement Wheeler - would seek his fifth term In the U. S. senate. He was first elected in 1922. Stork at Sea 4 1 i L " TJ ,i-T r 1 ' fACif Tetephotk Rose Mary, 10-day-old daughter of Mrs. Clayton eus, Everett,, wath DAILY HERALD W8VO. CTAfe COUNT?. UTAH PACtE TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 146 Shirley TeitipIeJnvite 250 To Her Coming BY PATXICIA CARr z - United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD. Aoril 23 fltPJ ShitfXV Tsmnta - at wviiu o - uiiT najuci siiu mac vturuoiL TavrkViftt Uak am. .-.tisii.-., m T favoVtte-bfiby star.- ceiebYSifes her 18th birthday today with a com- ing-ofrage party for half of Hol- loOd..The menu; Ice" cream andjthem. is shown as. they arrived .in -San Francisco aboard bride-ship Rutland ir 5 Mm Tiv4ijvtit Vnw WKof .f rom New Caledonia, and which was ( overtaken en route by the tOork. not have issued such atatement, 'i .""r. w--.nn : "tl-" J j5 Thoma said. v j nanu wt meet nis onae ana aaugn-itrc iu uc uie eiars ang mreciocs TheSooIicy statement was drawn by Thomas Union Vice President cake;: She invited 250 stars, who sud denly felt a lot older, to celebrate her becoming" a grown-up ' movie star. .. .. i.. . "I'm -my own boss from now, on,' Ishe. said. "Except," nodding to husband John Agar, "for him." Shh-ley.-'-'lier husband "and -her family planned a quiet celebration at -home tonight;' - ' i i-'It'H be a celebration not toi she said, - t . . - But her big party was to be Tate this afternoon at RKO .studios, where -she is working in .-."Hone And. her . special . : guests Richard ,T, Leonard and Secretary Secre-tary -Treasurer Georce -P. -Addes. without consultation with Reuther. Thomas said he and the other two union leaders had attempted to confer with Reuther about the statement of policy but were unsuccessful. un-successful. "I think Reuther is trying to freeze me out completely," Thomas Thom-as said. "I don't think he wants to give me any major assignment (in the union). He's more afraid of my power over the rank and file than. with that of any other individual. . "Reuther Is trying to build up a political machine for himself a dictatorship which I don't think the automobile workers ever will go for if they understand issue." tcr, and will take them to his home in Everett. Plot Seen To Kill n SEOUL, Korea, April 23 (U.R) Seven men have been arrested on charges of plotting to assassinate Dr. Syngman Rhee, chairman of the American-sponsored represented repre-sented democratic council of south Korea, it was disclosed today. Two of the seven have confessed con-fessed implication in the plot, and have' named twd of the purported leaders of the alleged assassina- theltion ring, it was learned. The arrests were made in Tae- who worked, with her way back w.neq. . : They include Actors George Murphy, Jack Oakie, Jirrimy Dunn and Aolphe Menjou and Directors David.'-Butler, Henry Hathaway and Allan Dwan. ' The party wasn't only, for stars, jon. 85 miles south of Seoul. Chung Chang, head of the Nam-do Nam-do provincial police, said the accused ac-cused conspirators were members of a group wihch originally went fo Tae jon to organize a politically-sponsored' Korean army. - The "army" was broken up by authorities, but some of its leaders lead-ers remained -: in Taejon. Rhee has-been on a -leave of absence from' the council during a speaking tour of provinces in the American occupation, zone. twenty-five- of her girl friends front the exclusive Westlake high scnool were,iComlng -too. who wroTe" most of her early songs; ' were going to be tfterer and Shirley Shir-ley promised she'd sing some of After the- arrests, he changed his advance speaking schedule, day present of -alt Tlr even do "one of ' my'"iaby dance routines if I 'can remember remem-ber that far back," she said. v She said there'd be a birthday Icake with .18 candles at the party, ana plenty of ice cream and hot dpgs and hamburgers for every body.-And iiquorfor. nobody, -vi .- We're having soda pepi' Shir ley said firmly. s"I'm still only 18?' not 21." ; . . . ... She's had a hard time proving-even proving-even that -she's J&. .-.'."". "People are always saying I'm, really or 20-or some dumb-thing," dumb-thing," Mrs. Agar", "said. 'Tbejc even whispered it up and dowH the: pews at my wedding: As' If IT wasn't plenty old enough to fait in love." It isn't hard fo understand howj they got mixed. up. . .. ,."' . , "Forthe; first four .or. five; years the-i studio chopped off a year She epjained; "Then when t gof to. be "l2f-stadib age-my mother told me I . was 13, Even I got mixed up." : - . Even after that stories weal around that, she really was a midget,; -with' shaved, head and blonde wig. Then wheh: She -got engaged "she was deluged with' letters demanding to - know hef real age. And when a false rumor1 started about her having a baby f -I hope -.they'll stop after to day," she said, "because I'll have a -diploma from the- board of education edu-cation to prove I'm ' 18 and . don't have-to go to school on the set everyday. :l Fears ol insecurity m longer mark face jf Shnone Thomas, who has been sheltered at a foster colony in France -since May, 1945. Her father was sent to. Germany as a slave; la borer, never returned. Here's one sample of rebuilding. Nine-year-old Ruth, British war orphan, radiates happiness while unpacking gift box with the help of Mrs. Ivy Mason, plan s deputy secretary in England. Your G I Riqhts WASHINGTON, (NEA) Vet erans get preference for civil service jobs with the federal government. gov-ernment. Here are some questions regarding this preference: Q I am eligible for all the GI benefits. But I recently applied for a job with the federal government, govern-ment, and they told me I didn't have veterans' preference. I received re-ceived a blue discharge, but am now appealing it Do I have preference? . A-'-In Order to have preference for federal civil service -jobs you must have an "honorable" discharge. dis-charge. If you are awarded an honorable discharge on your appeal., ap-peal., you will be able to get this . 1 I - . I .1 ' on ine oasis oi naving an oiner than dishonorable" discharge. Q In case I should die. would my .wife have a preference for the job I now hold with the government? gov-ernment? I am a veteran. A As a widow of a veteran, she would get a civil service preference, pref-erence, but it wouldn't be for any specific job. Q Where can I apply for civil service preference for a government govern-ment job which I know is opening open-ing up soon? A Inquire at the post office as to where the nearest U. S. Civil Service Commission office is, and send your application there. (Questions will be answered only In this space not by mail.) wiili J tf( THIS IS PART OF y ahL1 rA "TTTPT? AW TTC DPCT MH"' snlES& Shell X-I06 Motor Oil gives premium-. I Lilt Ej A. 1 1 L O MJEjO 1 ifebfe protection for today's sustained speed jUS? 'fJ drivin? like, ew Shell Premium, ' H stems A vfl )) ftp - jrS: rYv' y - tf llli a remarkable new-te amotive gasplme Life at its best, whiskey at its best ,.so many pleasantways to enjoy them both! For example,- take-Hill r and Hill. 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