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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, Editorial . . . . Bat be saveth the poor from their mouth, and from the hand Job 5:15. Not he that has little, but he more, is poor. Seneca. The Indispensable Mr, By subtle remarks dropped John L. Lewis has indicated scant enthusiasm for President Roosevelt's re-election. He has even hinted guardedly that he considers the present tion s attitude toward the Workers downright unfriendly. But Mr. Lewis hasn't attacked Mr. Roose velt from the "indispensable No sir, not he. Mr. Lewis have created the indispensable man in his own image. He has been indispensable to the UMW for 24 years, man and boy. And during that time he has developed a magnificent magnif-icent technique for slapping down anyone who suggests that he isn't. "One Ray Edmundson," as Mr. Lewis called him. was so bold as to challenge this indispensability at the UMW's biennial convention con-vention in Cincinnati. In face, he was doubly audacious. Not only did he want to run for Mr. Lewis' office, but he also favored some heretical idea called autonomy. This would allow members in 21 of the union's 31 districts dis-tricts to choose their own officers, a privilege privi-lege which Mr. Lewis in his wisdom has long denied them. Mr. Edmundson called a caucus of his followers early in the convention. Mr. Lewis Lew-is sent around some of his strong-knuckled boys to break it up. They did. This apparently appar-ently was just to remind the Edmundson boys that it was they who were expendable and Mr. Lewis who was still indispensable. Later, in a more orthodox session, Mr. Lewis made a speech. He came right out and told the delegates that Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Browder had "hired a man to come down here and dethrone the old man." King John doesn't dethrone asy. Soon afterward the convention, in the person of Mr. Lewis, ruled that "said Edmundson" Ed-mundson" was not a member in good standing, stand-ing, could not be seated as a delegate, and thus of course could not possibly run for president. The convention, in the person ef Mr. Lewis, Lew-is, also saw to it that his term of office and that of other international officers was changed from two yeares to four. Also there was a little matter of holding conventions, every four years now instead of two. This will help keep the boys from getting any restless idea of changing horses every 20 or 30years. And so it went. Resolutions and business droned along, usually without discussion. One delegate complained that he and his fellows couldn't follow the committee reports re-ports because they were read by number, and suggested some other procedure. That was impossible, Mr. Lewis told him, because "those aren't the rules of the convention." No question about it, democracy in action is a wonderful and inspiring thing. And we'll bet some of the boys in the UMW miss it. Not Quite Cricket Probably it's all right for the official Soviet magazine War and the Working Class to call the Republican Party "a oitadel of isolationism" iso-lationism" and the sounding board of "extreme "ex-treme reactionaries, Fascist elements, American Amer-ican defeatists and appeasers, even Hitlerite agents." Members of the Republican Party have said as bitter things about the Soviet government. But it seems to us not quite cricket for the magazine article to take such a stiff poke as it did at some of this country's biggest war industries, implying that they are not only reactionary and isolationist, but pro-German pro-German ar.d pro-Japanese. After all .Russia might well be in a sorry way without the guns, ammunition, planes, armored vehicles and trucks which she has received and doubtless will continue to receive re-ceive from these same industries. Biting .uch a sizeable chunk out of feeds her can scarcely be excused as a tri-umphy tri-umphy of idealogical zeal over common grat itude. Reception Committee Impulsive Adolf! He couldn't Allies to call on him at Berchtesgaden. He had to take command of his armies and rush forth to meet them. Certainly both Dewey and Roosevelt will do their level best if called upon to serve. The first question to declare is one of equipment equip-ment and experience. Who can' better provide pro-vide for permanent peace and full employment. employ-ment. Dewey or Roosevelt? Vice President Henry A. Wallace. We would never need to train 1.200,000 youths who become 18 every year. The cost would be prohibitive. If one-sixth of that number would volunteer to take military training for two consecutive summers while they are in college, we would have plenty of trained men. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R) of Ohio. By this time the pretty girls on the beaches beach-es should be tired of being taught to swim. Na7is moved from Russia now face the Yanks. From the frying pan lire. Rationing of coffee and tea ended. And they 11 have something really worthwhile to drink to before very long. The Washington Mer ry the iword, from of the mighty. that wishes for A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Dulles' pre-war to clients' investments; spent years trying to salvage American losses in foreign bonds ; hence held view that Reich should be help L. ed back to prosperity; meanwhile, one client here and there, of his firm had that he feels series of articles by Drew Pearson giving a searching analysis of the man to whom our future foreign affairs may be entrusted John Foster Dulles). WASHINGTON If you probe carefuulv Into the administra United Mine man" angle life of the man may be said to to comer witn secretary Hull on world peace machinery', you begin to see why John Foster Dulles, in the spring of 1W9. was still defending the dictator nations. It was a very human mistake. Almost anyone else in his shoes and there were others would hive made it. For more than ten years. Dulles and his law firm. Sullivan and Cromwell, had been trying to salvage some of the cash which American investors, big and little, had poured like a golden harvest into Germany. In fact, Dulles at various times was on both ends of the European bonds fiasco the promotion end and the salvaging end. Like other big Wall streeters, he was better at promotion than at salvaging. All through the years following the last war. Dulles was one of the lawyers who devoutly defended de-fended the Idea that American money should flow into Europe. "Jt is of tremendous Importance," he told the Foreign Policy Association In April, 196. "that nothing should occur to bring about any long continued con-tinued cessation in American lending to foreigners . . . There is no reason whv we.for many years to come, should not build up ' our investment abroad." DEFENSE OF FOREIGN LOANS Later in the same year. Dulles even wrote an article in the magazine Foreign Affairs emphatically emphatic-ally disapproving of the state department's policy of forbidding loans to pay for armaments for foreign countries. He advocated "unrestricted trade in arms and military supplies," and the right of American bankers to make loans for military purposes. pur-poses. Again, In 1928, he told the Foreign Policy Asocl-ation: Asocl-ation: "There is no basis for the popular belief that loans to foreign countries, totalling $11,000,000 since the war, have taken that much money out of the United States ... In financing and moving these surplus goods, our bankers have performed a great service, both to this country and to the world." Even up until 1930, Dulles continued optimistic about American investments In Germany. "Germany has made great progress under the Dawes Plan." he said on Oct. 21, 1930. "Her national income and Government income have grown to a point where the reparations charge constitutes a readily bearable percentage." By this time, of course, reparations had been drastically scaled under the Dawes Plan, so that the loans which American bankers had poured into Germany, actually to pay those reparations, would not be in default. The real collapse of Wall street's house of cards in Europe came a little later. Jo head it off. Herbert Her-bert Hoover arranged a moratorium on German payments in 1931. but by 1933. Dulles was retained by Brown Bros.-Harriman to go to Berlin and try to salvaee something out of the chaotic wreckage. BOND-HOLDERS LOSE He sailed for Europe on the same shjo with Albert Wlggin of the Chase National Bank. Wlggin represented the short-term creditors the banks that had made call loans of their own money to Germany. Dulles represented the long-term creditors, cred-itors, the bond-holders, who had purchased German bonds in good faith from the banks. The banks had no stake in the long-term bonds, but they had a tremendous stake !n the short-term credits. In the end. the banks collected their short-term short-term notes, but the bonds which they had passed on the public went into default. American holders of those bonds lost a cool $1,200,000,000. John Dulles, who had made many speeches advocating advo-cating the soundness of German bonds, was not able to collect the money. His friend Wiggin of the Chase bank did collect. That perhaps explains whv Dulles made the statement in March. 1939. that "these dynamic peoples (Germans. Italians and Japanese) determined deter-mined to mould their states Into a form which would permit them own hands and to attain that enlarged status which, under a liberal and peaceful form of govern-men. govern-men. had been denied them." Dulles went on to explain and condone the effort of the dictator nations to "enlarpe their status." adding that "only hysteria entertains the Idea that Germany, Italy or Japan contemplates war upon us." This, no doubt, was the Dulles speaking who instinctively adopted the banker, attitude of the Chamberlains and the Clivedon Set that some way must be found to safeguard investments In Ger- jmany. the hand that Undoubtedly this also was the attitude of one important client of Dulles' law firm, the J. Henry Schroder Banking1 Corp. Dulles brother and law partner. Allen Dulles, is a director of both J. Henry Schroder and the Schroder Trust Company, ""nd the affairs of this intern atlonr.l banUIrny house rrc in-timatelv in-timatelv tied lin with the Dnlle law firm. BANKERS WHO FINANCED HITLER Whether the Dulles brothers knew It or not. It wait for the was a member of Scnroder. wno financed Miuer. That was on January 4, 1933, when Hitler had made desperate efforts to pet Into power but had not succeeded. It looked as If he might not jr'creed at all. Then, suddenly, through Fran von Paoen. now retired as Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, Hitler met banker Baron von Schroder. Almost everv recent historian agrees on this incident. As told by Rudolf Olden in "Hitler": "There was no improvement in the financial situ ation of the partv. plying and party his diary speaks shin . . . Once suicide stage. ed. It was von again. met at Cologne at a banker who en toyed the confidence of the r.teel and coal magnates. Goebbels diary records tri umphantly. If this coup succeeds, then power is not so very remote.' " During the hectic months of 1933. Dulles was shuttling back and forth between New York and Berlin, trying to save something; out of the financial wreck of Germany. He mav have known nothing about the activities of his banker client. Or If he Ldld. he may not But certainly, during the succeeding years and right up until the outbreak of the war In 1939. John Dulles took the attitude that Germany was a misunderstood nation which had shown great investment promise and now should be treated with sympathy and understanding until she got back on her feet. ( Another column on the man discussed as the next Secretary of State will foUow soon.) into the line of in Canada has SEPTEMBER 28, 1944 - Go - Rou nd Br Draw Peawaoa (Col. Kobrri t. Alia 1 1 a aty defense of Germany laid financed Hitler in 1933. (Editor's Note This is the second in a whom Governor' Dewey delegated to take their destiny into their this banking house, Baron vonj Symptoms of decline were multi ties were loosening, (roebbels m of rats abandoning: the sinking again he (Hitler) had got to the J Then came salvation: Money suddenly reappear Fapen who opened It to Hitler with the greatest secTecy. Htucr and fapen the house of Herr von Schroder. have realized their significance. Right in the Thick of It xn CEEING that Walt's spirit of ad-venture ad-venture had died a-borning, Mrs. Dmmmond lost interest in him. She had none to lose in his wife. As soon as she could break free, she set outfor the pool. Walt hung back, waiting for Margaret's abuse. Instead, she stared at him as if she were aghast with fear. "Go on," she muttered. "Go on, take your swim." "I'd rather be with you, honey. IH get back into my other clothes. You wait for me." "Go on and have your swim, I tell you!" She seemed to scream it in a whisper. But he insisted: "Wait fr me." He hurried .back to the locker room, undressed, and redressed as fast as he could. When he returned he could not find her anywhere. He saw Mrs. Drummond climb out of the pool and stand, on the ledge. In her glistening wet bathing suit she looked from a distance to be a masterpiece of naked sculpture. Jennifer came to him running and more than ever like the Margaret Mar-garet he had known in the days when they had gone swimming together. Jennifer was panting with terror: "What's happened to mother?" "I can't find her." "I saw you with her and Mrs. Drummond on the steps. Then you left her and she stood there till a taxicab brought somebody to the club. Then she got in it and it drove away. She acted as if she were trying to keep from from crying." "Where could she have gone. In God's name!" "Home, of course. Where else?" He hurried to his car and drove as fast as he dared. When he reached the house he braced himself him-self for the blare of the radio. The place was silent as a tomb. Margaret Mar-garet was not to be seen. He ran upstairs, his heart bursting with the dread that she had done something some-thing desperate, Minutia By Ruth Louise Partridge Want to know how the adult population Is stacking up in the eyes of our children? Here's a glimpse or two. Scene 1 a gro eery store, a moppet who must be all of two years old, hair done up in pin curls for some reason. and mama, who beams proudly at baby when she says, "I don't have to mind my mama, because I'm cute:" Scene 2 School room. Young child to teacher. "I started at a different school, but we moved at night so we wouldn't have to pay our rent!" Scene 3 also a school. "Teacher, I can get you all the apples you want. Last night daddy and I went down there and when the man with a gun went away, we went in and filled all our sacks and all our baskets with apples. Just to show him!" Well, there you have it. Why do people worry about delinquent children?- I'il tell you, because thev are the parents of tomorrow, and what chance have we when such Flack-twisted reasoning- goes into the minds of our children? Mind you. this isn't in demoralized Italy, it isn't starving Europe, in fact there's no reason for it. no excuse. Time was when beating the landlord out cf his rent was something accomplished In secret and humiliation, but now the children of those parents boast about it and what fine thing to steal apples with papa! Much more fun to do It with papa. Some day too, the children who don't have to mind anything won't be so darned cute. Let's have another peak If you can stand it. and Scene 4 Is a military hospital In Rome, and the writer of the letter is wounded but still not accounted account-ed capable of voting because he hasn't reached the right age. You can give your life and your blood and your youth and your hopes. but you haven't sense enough to vote yet. Now I quote: "I haveJ read a rev,'' timk magazines . . . It described the Philadelphia motormen's strike Cover hiring colored men) and of all the assm-ine assm-ine deals I've ever seen that beats it. I wonder what tne negro rei- lows fighting over here are going ' - 4 Copyright. 14. NEA Service, Inc. ITTE found her in her room, In . 4 m I 4 1 1 r f.i i'um oi nci iun uuiiur: one was striking attitudes, and comparing com-paring herself with what was apparently ap-parently a photograph in her hand! He was about to turn away in disgust with himself and her when she caught sight of him in the looking glass. She whirled, called his name in a strange voice out of the old time. "Walter! Walter!" Her eyes were pools of tears. She flung her arms about him as if she were drowning, and hid her face from him by holding him close as close as she could nowadays. nowa-days. And she poured out her heart in a panic of fear that made her young again as only fear can. "This afternoon when I was standing there on one side of you, and that woman that beautiful Mrs. Drummond was on the other side of you, it was like I'd been struck by lightning. She's had three children and she looks like she might be one of mine. She was so trim and smart and carried herself so well and knew what to say and oh, I understand why she's taken you away from me." She smothered his answer with her fat arm about his neck and across his mouth. "I'm not blaming you. I wonder won-der you've stood me as long as you have. I haven't been the wife I promised to be. It's too late to get back; but I'm going to try to get back to myself. It will take a long time; but I'm going to starve my body and feed my mind. You take your 'Mrs. Drummond and forget me. I'll go away somewhere where I won't be a dead weight on you. "That Mrs. Drummond gave me such a scare I came home to see just what I really looked like. In the mirror I saw myself just now as what I am. "I remembered that photograph you've always kept and what I wrote on it, To My Beloved, from his faithful wife.' But I haven't Max Berg Returns From Chicago Max Berg of the Berg mortuary has returned from Chicago. 111., where he attended the 27th annual meet of the National Selected Morticians, held at the Edgewater beach hotel from September 18 to 20. The indestructable plastic casket, cas-ket, developed after much research to meet the demands necessitated through the war, was introduced to the morticians. Also. Col. R. P. Harbold, member of the division of army quartermasters corps. Washington. D. C, talked on the new national cemetery program, which will include a national cemetery available to everyone within a radius of 300 miles. The initial expenditure by the government govern-ment will be $200,000,000. The cemeteries are to be for all war veterans. The local mortician visited outstanding out-standing casket manufacturers and mortuaries in Chicago, St. Louis and Denver. FILM STARS SPLIT HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 28 (CLE) Blonde actress Constance Bennett today said her fourth husband. Mexican actor Gilbert Roland, had set up living quarters elsewhere because their marriage interfered with their friendship. Blame it on our temperamen tal differences," said the veteran film star. "We both regret to admit ad-mit it. but they're irreconcilable. We are forced to this conclusion after several unsuccessful attempts at-tempts to achieve compatibility." to think of that Negro and white are over here fighting for the same things and then a bunch of G-d- fools work themselves Into a dither over the color of a few drivers.. I wish a few of the instigators insti-gators of that little circus were over here. I'd much rather kill a few of them than an equal number num-ber of Jerrys. When the negroes fighting here get home and some few men start something Uke that there's going to be bad trouble and I don't blame them a damned bit." Unquote. Well, there's our future, folks. been faithful. What happened to what I was, Walt? Where did I go? I feel as if I had been asleep for years, and just woke up. Nc wonder you stopped loving me. Poor Walter! Poor me!" TTNBELIEVING, he held hei away, so that he could look into her eyes. She was so ashamed of . her face, all blubbered and briny, that she tried to hide it again. But he found in her terror and her helplessness something Uiat he had looked for long in vain. In his heart the old love welled up again. He was pleading with her now: "I haven't stopped loving you, honey. Mrs. Drummond's pretty; she's smart. What of it? So are millions of others. But you're mine, and I'm yours, and we're ours, now and forever, one and inseparable." in-separable." She laughed hysterically. "That last was by Noah Webster, wasn't it? Or was it in the Constitution? Oh, dear, I used to read and study and talk to you. Do you suppose Oh, Walter, Walter, he'lp me! Wait for me. Find me some primers prim-ers about What Every Old Wife Ought to Know. Do yott suppose I could some day go round the links again with you? And and oh, my beloved!" Suddenly the whole world was a new place. His bride was struggling strug-gling to throw off the spell the old witch of time had cast upon her. She was already returning to him to redeem her life and his own. Promises that are broken may be redeemed, and hearts that are broken can grow together again. Margaret had thought she was scared to death. But she had been scared back to life. Before long she was smiling again and that was better than laughing. A little later she was saying: "We owe the Beckleys a dinner. I'm afraid they got the impression that we didn't love each other. I'd like to have them over some nighl soon and show them that they don't know what marriage reall; means." THE END Q'S and A'S Q What is the Chinese "Double Ten?" A The 10th day of the 10th month, China's independence day. On Oct. 10, 1911, occurred the Chinese revolution which overthrew over-threw the Manchu dynasty and established a republic. Q What was one of the first uses of petroleum? A As a cure for rheumatism. Q Are all war prisoners required re-quired to work? A Under Geneva Convention war prisoners with the exception of officers must perform wort not directly connected with military operations. Officers may work if they so choose. Q What is our monthly lend-lease lend-lease expenditure? A About $1,000,000,000. Q What do two long, two short locomotive whistle signals mean? A Grade crossing warning. Q In woodworking, what is a scarfed Joint? A A Joint which has been glued over a long beveled surface. Q Is alcoholism more prevalent among men than among women? A Seven times more prevalent says Dr. Abraham Myerson of Harvard Medical School Q Where was the first producing produc-ing oil well drilled in the United States?. A At Titusville, Pa., to 1859. Q How many automobiles are registered in the United States-A States-A 24,500,000. Q Have many refugees found haven in Sweden ? A There were about 50.000 there as of last June; 5000 were Germans, Austrian a, and Czechs, the rest Norwegians and Danes. Q How long ago was the Miocene Age? A Seven to 10 million years. Iclces Blasts At Dewey, Lewis By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent The Hon. Harold L. Ickes is never in better form than when he's out after somebody, and at this particular moment he has a couple of pet punching bags on whom to exercise his spleen Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and John L. Lewis. The Dewey campaign is highly satisfacory, Secretary Ickes admitted ad-mitted to his last press conference. confer-ence. Highly satisfactory. "This year we have Alf Landon running with a mustache. And how he loves the laboring man." Had the secretary noticed that Dewey was going to appoint a new cabinet ? Oh yea Ickes was taking care of that in his speech at Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, and he had it all fixed up. Who would be the new secretary of the interior? "Well, that would be a hard Job to fill." What did the secretary think about Dewey's power program for the northwest? "I didn't know he had one. He didn't visit any of the dams, did he ? He couldn't have visited any of the dams and then made the statement that this administration hadn't done anything for the west. Dewey was just debating with himself whether to sell public power pow-er to private companies at the bus bar, permitting them to resell at a profit, and he couldn't make up his mind." Ickes is a Foil for John L. Lewis It is a foil for John L. Lewis that Ickes may have his greatest role in the campaign, though people peo-ple who have pet hates against both these men may have a hard time giving their prejudices proper pro-per priorities. When a reporter reminded the secretary that six months ago, when Ickes was negotiating a new contract with the mine workers, Lewis was his great and good friend, Ickes cracked back with, "Dewey should take note of that." Ickes was then asked who owed whom a telegram in the latest exchange ex-change with Lewis, and the secretary secre-tary acknowledged that, "I owe him more than one." Mention was made of tRe Lewis request that the administration "lay off the miners until after election." "We have to have coal," Ickes shot back. "We can't wait till after election to get coal. If we ask the weather man to lay off, maybe we can lay off." Previously, Ickes had commented that "not even John Lewis could keep himself warm1 next winter with his own vituperation." He's Got Miners' Chief Over A Barrel The fact is that Ickes now has Lewis over a barrel in calling attention at-tention to the 1300 strikes in the coal fields, affecting over 30,000 men and costing over six millions tons of coal production since No vember, 1943. "I have communicated with Lewis on a number of occasions," says Ickes, "asking him to get the mines running again. He has replied courteously and he and his retinue have made an effort to get the miners back. "This last time, I sent him one of these telegrams, calling attention at-tention to the critical situation. I didn't mark it personal, but I didn't give it out. He did, and he issued one of his characteristic blasts and I answered that. Then he came back with another blast. I don't intend to answer that. "Lewis signed a contract there would be no strikes, and no amount of vituperation will cover it up." What did the Secretary think about Lewis' intention to ask for a wage increase for his miners? An assistant furnished the secretary sec-retary with the information that the bituminous contract expired March 31, the anthracite April 30. "I'm not worrying," said the secretary, "about anything that happens after March 30. 1945.' You can read into that any political po-litical significance you care to. Ration Calendar BEEFSTEAKS AND ROASTS, FATS, OILS, BUTTER AND CHEESE Red stamp A8 through G5, ration book 4, valid Indefinitely. PROCESSED FOODS Blue stamp A8 through L5. ration book 4, valid indefinitely. GASOLINE Six A-13 gasoline gaso-line stamps, good for four rat- Ions each, valid Sept. 22 through uec. 21. LIQUOR No. 3 for one-fifth or one pint if fifth not available: No. C, two fifths or one half gallon gal-lon wine; expires Sept 30. No. 17 good for bonus of one fifth. Certain Cer-tain types wine, and all rum, brandies bran-dies and gins unrationed. SUGAR Stamps Nos. 30. 31 and 32 ration book 4. each valid Indefinitely. Stamp No 40 .ration book 4, for canning sugar, valid indefinitely. Spare stamp No, 37. book No. 4, good for 20 lbs. canning can-ning sugar. See your local rationing ration-ing board. SHOES Airplane stamps 1 and 2, book 3, good Indefinitely. UTAH IMPORTS 2155 CARS OF PRODUCE SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 28 0.R Carload imports of fruits and vegetables into Utah between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1 totaled 2155, the state agricultural commission reported today. This compared with 2085 carloads imported during dur-ing the same period last year and 1677 during the first part of 1942. w1M(w,3)il!w() if U Correspondent Jottings On Pacific Front By FRANCIS MCCARTHY United Press War Correspondent ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, New Guinea, (OB Here and there in the Southwest Pacififc area in the course of a six-week six-week tour of the world's second largest island (if Australia is considered con-sidered to be a continent): First U. S. Army nurses have arrived ar-rived in distant Hollandia for duty. We ran across a group of them the other day at the 43rd Field Hospital, Hospi-tal, of which the commanding officer of-ficer is Maj. John Guerin of Chicago, Chi-cago, 111 Maj. Guerin, overseas for the past 30 months, had his internship in-ternship at St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago. Seventeen nurses are un der his jurisdiction, most of them 9 from isconsin and Michigan. Thirty-one other nurses have, however, been assigned to him for duty, while another 31 nurses are quartered in the same general area. Adjutant to the major is 2nd Lt. A. H. Olsen, also of Chicago, who 4 serves as special service officer. Lt. Olsen, a lawyer in civilian life, has been in the service for 88 months, the last six of which have been spent overseas. Chief of Surgery at the 4Srd Field, situated, by the way. on tSe f side of a hill, is Maj. John W. Ash-worth Ash-worth of Coeburn. Va., who interned in-terned in Baltimore, Md. We found Maj. Ashworth and his assistant, Capt. Clarence T. Kristiansen of Chicago, operating on a Japanese '-dispatch rider, captured in the general vicinity of Manokwart , when one of our PT's sank the barge in which he was a passenger. Walking up the hill to get a look at the Nurses' Quarters .enclosed by barbed wire and guarded by husky MP's we ran into Capt. Norma M. Miller of Onekama, Mich., who is chief nurse at the 43rd, and some of her girls, including in-cluding Georgia M. Ivanoff of Chi- l cago, Elaine N. Ntceros of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Helen a Chrzan of Milwaukee, Wis. Under the careful supervision of Lt. Olsen we continued our inspec- (i tion of the nurses' "bivouac area," encountering, in a tin-roofed "rec hall," a second group of "eyefuls," including Viola L. Jones of Belleville, Belle-ville, Kan.; Georgia L. Walker of Barberton, JO.; and Margaret Matvy of Portage, Pa., which is near Johnstown. Margaret, prior , J to coming overseas, lived for four years with relatives in St. Louis, Mo. All of the aforegoing had been overseas approximately 15 months. But the girls who were really "sweating out rotation" turned out to be veterans of 30 months of ' foreign duty all of them attached to the 12th Station Hospital commanded com-manded by Maj. J. P. Grler of Evanston, 111. namely, Mary A. Bartletta of Boston, Mass., th only New Englander in the group; Mary C. Kin of Forest, O., who trained, in. Toledo and at Detroit, Mich., and F. Elizabeth Jay of Danville, 111. The girls were talking talk-ing to one of the "juniors" of the group, Gladys M. Hovland of Ta- coma, Wash., who turned out to be a close friend of an in-law of ours. The girls "rec hall," tin-roofed, as we said before, had a cement floor, walls of burlap and a few stray scatter rugs and battered "lounge" chairs. A tiny "bar" at the end of the hall, however, furnished fur-nished the required "States-side' touch; at least to a certain extent. i Some of the "figures of yesterday" yester-day" we ran into on the Wewak-Altape Wewak-Altape front included Lt. Col. "Monk" Myers, of West Point and All-American football fame; G rover ro-ver Whalen, Jr., of the New Yolk World's air Whalens. a private in , the Air Corps, and PT-man "Mike'' Moran, the Third, New York tug-boaters tug-boaters by that name. Also very much In evidence along the Aitape-Wewak front were a couple of RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) Beaufort i bomber squadrons, engaged in the fascinating pastime of determining determin-ing which could drop the greatest number of bombs on enemy per sonnel areas In the shortest possible possi-ble length of time . The winning squadron dumped approximately 128,500 pounds of bombs in 69 sorties, each of 30-minutes 30-minutes duration, within 24 hours. Previous record by a squadron had been 100,000 pounds of bombs in 51 sorties within 24 hours. We liked the fine spirit of these "Aussie" fliers; 30 of them on their day off took a "busman's holiday" holi-day" going up to the front lines to observe the effects of their own bombing. An American aerial observer, ob-server, after the record strike, said that he had never seen 'so many "bomb-happy" Japanese wandering about in a daze In the . open. Artillery, directed by L-5 ' observation planes, completed the job. The Desk Chat column win be discontinued for a few days. The feature will be resumed re-sumed about Oct. 5. THREATEN YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH Doot let tout child raffer m siacW : itm minute of bmtt with Pte-Wa Tbca Mta ra mora tbaa iort a i FeimtiAc facta new ahew that cmhtc Pin-Worm. Kvtac an4 nuahu taaaaa) your child' body, caa caaaa rami djatraaa. 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