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VOL. 2J—NO. 109
breckenridge. texas, wednesday. nov. 14, 1945
The
Observer
collins talks
■ en j. dean jr.
modern woman
seen or heard
t'l-T K< T "(i .in audictt,. depends
IJ upon how a s|M-akcr I wits
lus subject l.i Col Spot Collins
has made three public addresses
lien- 'J'he Iirst was before the
Bible Class of his own church
There the cruelty of the Japs
and dire jn-ri! predominated. Col.
Collins telling hoy it brought
him < lose to c nd Yesterday at
111. I; il,ii> Club In- fitted it into
tin war picture to draw a con-
clusion as to treatment of the
.'•i|>s and this morning he had
scnool children laughing over the
Japs 11tvtending to cut his head
off. How lifter the swish of the
sword he thought he saw his head
rolling on the ground.
I.t Col Collins said yesterday
he intends to remain in the wer-
Mii . lie still likes to fly.
flMlMNS a n'-w magazine, which
Jl *> riles about the things it is
named afti r. in the November is-
sue has a slor> about the Wichita
Kails and Southern Railway It is
n it very complimentary to the
roadl>> i| n >r the equipment. hut
it mentions linckenridge and as
M.itnum said to reporters "I do
not i are w hat you say aliout me,
just s0 you *ay something.'' we
sii|i|hisc it still is advertising.
We will tell the publishers of
"Irons' 'hat the Wichita Falls
^ M*.!way may not l>e as long as
* son e of the lug lines, but the
tra.-'rfk .us1 iu«l as wide
I^HESE an- lug days in the
schools Parents night will be
* lonighl at the High School The
East Ward si hiMil tomorrow night
will serve its annual turkey din-
n< r and in football the next games
will l.e Thanksgiving gam# tn
Mineral Wells on the evening of
Novemtier
I'lli ii Cisco here on Novemlier
j".i That will end disirul play,
< 1i.ii.rcs an- the Buekanoos will
thi ii lake on Waco However, we
siioiilu not make the mistake
Biownwnnfl 41'I Mentally, Brown
won-! fan*, which probably caus-
ed tne team members to do like-
wi-i. wire pla>ing Waco lief ore
thi > '>• at Hrei kenndge
Mi: and Mrs Ben J Dean had
ho|H'd that Hen J l)ean Jr .
might I*' home for Thanksgivtng
but l.eiaus,. ol the fitting of glas-
ses he may lie longer in the hos-
pital Ilis address N Ward fiTiA
Oak Knoll Hospital. Oakland
Cilif
l e,in is lieing fitti-d with glasses
worn inside the e>elids, and must
le.irn to wear them Otherwise he
has ..Im>;11 r«« me red He hud the
In i i l« n that mnfi.v prisoners had.
in 'I .ria and Integra and a hit of
(silsv but has come out of It fine.
:t was retried.
Lt. Col. Collins
Says W ar Not
Over Yet
after cruel treatment
savs japs should be
treated as human
The war is not over yet. I.t,
Col Frank l Big S|«>t i Collins
told memlM-rs of the Breckinridge
Rotary Club at their luncheon
Tutttday noon, and added the only
way to change the attitude of the
Japanese is to treat them like
human lieings.
Tins was his conclusion after
tilling of his harrowing experience
as a prisoner of the Japs in the
Jap islands The Japanese are so
ignorant they just do not know
any In'tter, he said The children
and the women are the worst
lie said that he and other pri-
soners at times were threatened
with being killed by boys attempt
iiig lo knife them or lieing hit by
a thrown stone
Col Collins told of his men fly-
ing single engined planes over
large eximnses of water and fly-
ing men to Japan, his squadron
Aithout the loss of man. of their
sinking of heavy tonnage of Jap-
anese shipping before he was shot
dosn, and Incidentally that one
kamikaze raid by the Japs ac-
counted for aliout fifty Allied
ships He said they sank ,300.0011
Ions in two days losing two "boys
a day.'
He rejieated his experiences as
(dated recently l>efore the Dyna-
mo liilij,. Class How he was shot
down, regained coijscIousni*s un-
der fifty feet of water, floated
through sharks (ceding on (he
h -l.es of dead Japs, to be wasned
i p on an island with a broken
leg and his ear drums bursted.
lit his being marched all night
with a rope around his neck, his
bands tn>d behind and lieing tied
up fot eight days In a cave with
no treatment for hi* injuries How
• hey read his court martial sen-
teitce to him and took him out
daily for a while, apparently to lie
ex«-eiited. and other inhumane
treatment* 'They apparently were
attempting to drive me insane,"
he said.
The program was in charge of
R 1 McArron. President Bob Prt-
zer presiding.
James Alexander announced the
club bnrbecue will lie held next
Tuesday evening at the Country
Club, this to take place of the re-
gular Tuesday meeting
Johnny Bates Is
Loses Mo Time
THIRD LABOR GROUP IS SUGGESTED
Sought by Nazis, until t' e war's
end. for fleeing from a labor
lamp in Germany, Oscar O.
Laguo, above, arrived in this
country on Oct. 31 and three
day* later enlisted in the U. S.
Army. He's a rookie at Ft.
Sheridan. 111. Born in Detroit,
he was taken to live with his
family in Belgium at the a^e
of four.
ny
Lone Star Chief
John Bates of Ranger formerly
of Breekenridge. yesterday took
over bis duties as superintendent
for the Lone Star Producing Com-
pany in the Ranger district, re-
placing Chester Roger* who has
been made superintendent of an
east Texas branch of the company
with headquarters in Tyler.
Archie Robinson, recently of
Trinidad and formerly of Ranger
has lieen maile assistant to Bates
and was e\|ieqU,-4 '•* Hfriy it; Ran
k*er villi Ins family Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and their
dmghier. Mona Gail, left Sunday
ft-r ll eir new home in Tyler and
Mr. and Mrs Bates have taken
the superintendents home on Sum-
mi! Avenue.
HKARD a complaint against a
young miss tn Breekenridge
toda.v Have forgotten the exact
Words hut It was that she Was too
sedate dignified and old fashioned
etc
"\Vh> I had to whistle at her
twni' Ihi other day liefore she
turned around," was the conclu-
si\e evidence.
SEEN or Heard: Mr and Mrs
Kelley Farrar to leave tom-
orrow to go to convention at
Chicago Mr and Mrs Harold
Thomas in move Iwick In Brcckcn*
ridge iliout first of the year
Je|| McMnhan looking natural in
civics U'hind counter again
• •tie party going to Brownwood
h ul blow-out that took tire off
run . Father John, who fishes,
says cannot see Well enough to
shoot bill gives others the shells
to kill him ducks now one at a
lime hunter* don't rush .... Ken-
neth We.itherford ap|>arenlly a
conscientious player as well as a
ginm! end .... James Alexander
f saving Rotary barbecue will lie
stag affair .... Loy Me.id In last
touendown play :.t Rrownwood
carried hall six limes for 57 yards
_ .... letter from Frank Bird say-
ing existing great game at Waco
... Mrs. R Post, surgical and
C M Fundcnherg, medical
patients al Westsidc .... and W.
W. Cunningham and D W. Cun-
ningham of Nacona given emer-
gem > i real men) after car accident.
Soft Coal Owners
May Sue Workers
WASHINGTON. Nov I «tJM -
Soft coal producers have lieen ad-
vised by their attorneys thai they
have legal cause to sue the United
mine workers for breach of eon-
tract -is a result of last month's
strike over foremen's bargaining
rights
A producer source said toda>
that attorneys for all the associa-
tions affected by the 'J6-da> walk-
out had agreed that sufficient
grounds exist to bring court action
against the UMW, headi-d by John
L Lewis.
None of the producers has yet
dixided to file suit, however, ac-
tion was postponed yesterday by
the southern coal producers asso-
ciation pendini; decisions by the
Central Pennsylvania and Ohio
Coal Producers Associations.
Coffee Shop Fire
Does Small Damage
Firemen last night answered a
call lo the Miller Hotel Coffee
snop where a blaze tn the kitchen
was extinguished after light loss.
Grease on the stove caught fire
and ignited the wall.
Doctors ()|>|M>se
INew Health Bill
association supports
hill-burton bill
and seeks backing
Th< State Medical Association
of Texas has informed the Texa?
deli gallon in Congress of their
sup|x>rt of the Hill-Burton Bill
anil their unqualified opposition
to the pepper Bill. Both (lending
measures deal with public health
affairs and pliv sk ians are sup-
porting the action of the associa-
tion,
Phe Hill-Burton Hill w as ap-
proved Ix-causc it seeks to provide
hospitals in communities where
tl'ey are badly needed and where
they would be self supporting.
'! lie pepper Bill, known as the
Maternal and Child Welfare A< I
ol l'j-I.Y is disapproved bv the doc-
tors bceaific iN 'provisions Would
place largh' pert<*htairc of the
phy.sJ^iahfl AoM'Hracth'ittjj tn the
United States tmdif the'direct ion
of ihe tTilJih^-ns Btireau of the
De|urttWnt of Labor. This, they
declared, would mean the regi-
:■>.'illation of ilixfots- and the des-
iriioiou of the time honored re-
lationship bctwicn patient and
physician.
"The Pepper Bill extends the
en.i rgency niab nwl and infant
care program, through which the
vvim's and children of service men
were afforded free medical care,
to all the mothers and children
in tin United States regardless of
their financial status.' Dr. Taylor
explains "Children are designated
as everyone under 21 years of
age This vvoud mean that about
oiH'-Uiird of the population of
American would l>e entitled lo
free medical care bv Federal dir-
ected and i-onqiensated doctors
lhis i- siK-iah/ed meds ine |in>-
senled in a plausible, sugar coat-
•d loim.
' 1'lie measure, Willi its high tax'
bunieii should I'i' deleated since
we believe that iM'iall/ed tlieili-
cin<. in any fotm, is contrary to
the 1m-s( interests of efficient and
skillful protection of the public
health", it was said
Chicago to Resume
Suhwav Const'uction
CHICAGO U.Pi (Construction of
Chic, go's $57,000,000 subvv.ij sys-
tem, halted by the war in 1912.
will Is- resumed alter the end ol
ibis vear. according to V K Gun-
lock, commissioner or subways
and suiierhiRhwav*.
Approximate^ $47,0<*).t*"0 al-
rt.idy has been sjn-nt
(>ne tulie, I! miles long extend-
ing northward front the business
district, was completed and put
intci operation in 1942. Gunlock
sain that 1ti3,000,000 pnssengei-s
bed used it since that time and
each had saved an average of 12
minutes daily
Approximately .T"> miles of a
vetond line was SO |H<r cent com-
pleted when government building
restrictions halted work in 1912
Its completion, including an exten-
sion of 2.300 feet, Is expected to
take about two years and cost
$10,000,000.
Ar. additional Si'.OOO.OOO will be
iqicnt for new cars and other eq-
uipment.
Knlistnl Men In
Yokosuka Ha\tk
0\er Olfiiers
fanciest recreation
HALl in pacific
in operation
YOKOSUKA Japan i l'1 Kn-
listed men based at the former
Japaiti si> naval base at Yokosuka
and men from the ships an-
chored in Tokyo Bay off the base
are proud of a new acquisition:
the fanciest recreation hall in tin-
Pacific.
Specialist C-3 Robert Pheljis.
former United Press stuff corre-
s|Miiident at Harrishurg, Pa., and
now an enlisted naval correspond-
ent puts it this way:
"Anything would be wonderful.
At Pearl Harbor and at Guam,
then- v> as practically nothing for
the enlisted man. Bui here it's
different. We have the fanciest
building on the base."
The "fanciest building" is a
three-story, steel and concrete
structure thai the Japanese built
as a recreation h ill for their own
men and operated it until June.
Plenty of Beer
When the American Navy took
over Yokosuka, Commodore ti O
Kessing, Greens hurt?. Ind, com-
mander of fleet activities- here,
prom| t'y ordered the hall fixed up
for his own men.
I! Cmdr Howard Hamilton,
Col«,mi.us. (> then staff ; welfare
mil en ntion officer in charge of
the hall, moved right in. Three
oi, "clrigrators were loaded with
I "r The refrigerators were Jap-
anese jobs, but unlike most of tne
eqiiipmi nt .1 this once proud base,
actually worked.
Naval bartenders with .Tapa-
nis,. to do th(, actual de-capping
of the h -r enns are now dispen-
sftr.' 1 r>0O cases of beer a day to
the thirst> sailors, who sprawl on
benches in hug,, halls or in an
open court for a sociable chat on
war-day experience*.
Continuous Show
Between beers, tli,. hoys spend
their leisure lime in a spariou*.
l.ROO-seat theater, offering a con-
tinuous show most of the after-
noon.
More recreational equipment
pool tables, ping-pong sets, bad-
minton and basketball gear is
expee'ed soon to round out the
program.
Officers walking past the en-
listed men's club are admittedly
envious. The officers have taken
over a former Japanese officer's
club, hut their facilities aren't,
nearly as elaliorate as those en-
joy ed by tli? men..
Streamlined Tattoos
Ponular With Tars
SKATTLF, ' l' Take it front a
m;.n «vho knows, tattooing is as
nun h i part of Navy tradition as
ever it's .Mist gone streamlined.
William II Sears, who has U-en
do.ni' epidermic murals on tars
lor : 2 years, figures that even in
lb" fiiesent day. Mieh-s|ieed Navy.
Hit per ccnl of the sailors have at
le, -t one tattoo.
"Sailors today prefer anchors,
names or service records." Sears
said. ' Most popular of all is the
'mother' design bear's and flow-
ers with 'mother' tattooed across
a scroll through the center."
Tin nak.-d mermaid, sinuous
hula dancer and battleship- on the
Chest passed out of the picture
with .square riggers, the needle
aitisf said
Homecoming Banner For 36th Pi vitriol
INF
While member-- ol ih,< :«Hh • Texasi Infantry Divis ion "sweat out" their homecoming in Ceislingen.
German;.. -onu o| th. bo>s designed four banners like this one to decorate transports bringing them
to the si tcs. In aild.ti- n to I iiv tsion insignia, the b annei* liears stars for the major engagements in
winch the Division p.ntic ipated, and s|*'arheads for Us two invasions. Tli' Texans are scheduled to re-
tum home late tins nicnth or earlv I>'cember. tNKA TKLFPIKlToi
Xmas Presents On
Way From Japan
reverse order to send
many souvenir gifts
to america
YOKOHAMA 'Lit? American
Christmas trees come Dec. 25 are
going to U- decorated with a lot
of odd gifts tills year such as
Jap-.nese rifles, swords and bugles
and dainty but fragile Nipponese
toy dolls.
A former Mitsubishi Co ware-
house on the Yokohama water
'ront was until recently, slacked
hign with lond and weird-looking
reels awaiting loading onto
hllips
'I'he boss of the warehouse is an
American Army officer Maj. Rob
e. i L. Govvcr of 11611 Alder Court
S. E i Atlanta. Ga.. commander oi
the veteran "tli base (tost office
that is now operating out of Yoko
hama after working lis way
through all the Southwest. Pacific
campaigns,
This post office handles all in-
coming and outgoing mail for 27
APO'i in Northern Honshu and
Hokkaido. Usually it handles
•round x.otio sacks of parcel-post
matter a week Lettermail. mostly
iiitiiU'il. averages about 3,000
pound* a day. Christmas mail and
packages from home will shoot
these figures up.
"We tried to get all the packages
back lo the States by Nov. 15."
Gower said. "That should give
nlcniy of time for distribution by
C'll-islmas." GIs had a mid-Octo-
ber mailing deadline for Christ-
ina: packages to the States.
Ail mail goes right out weather
pi rmllting and Gower estimates
the average letter gels lo its des-
tination in the Stales in about 10
day.s. A letter from home takes
about the same lime to reach a
w| in Japan.
riu disastrous typhoon that
s! I'uik Okinawa early in Octolier
wrecked postal facilities on that
w.,i-lorn island hut no mall was
lost, although several sacks was
get soaked h> the rail that came
witii the storm.
Kast Ward Turkey
Dinner Tomorrow
The public is invited to the tur-
key dinner and program to no
ofierid Thursday evening at Kast
Warn School. Mrs, Custer Knox,
publicity chairman, said today
s"r\ir.g will start at 5:30 o'clock,
tlv program to start at 8 o'clock.
Tickets will lie 75 cents for
adulis and 25 cents for children.
Former Breck North Carolina
Men Solve Big
Oil Swindle
KI SSIVN HOSTILITY MOUNTS
Inside Detective of November
carries an account of what is
headlined "Smashing the Texas
Oil Swindle,"
lt is an account of the tracking
down of two swindlers of Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis C. Meador of Long
Hcacn. California in which O. H.
Alhe<i C. C. (Cap) Curry, both
fount rly of Breekenridge, played
the leading roles.
Curry left Breekenridge to ac-
cept a position with the Securities
* Exchange Commission. of Fort
Worth and to many here this
siory will more definitely explain
one angle of his work little rea-
lized.
The story says the Meadors'
complaint was referred to the Ft.
Worth Office of SEC and assign-
ed to investigate were the two
mentioned. The Meadors had been
sold a lot of Brewster county land
as being of great oil value.
In part it says Allred and Curry
quit kly realized what had hap-
pened to the Meadors. They were
the victims of an old confidence
game the "reloading" racket.
It told how the two Texans
flew to California and many other
details of their working out how
Ihe swindlers intended to swindle
the aged California, necessary for
conviction.
i'he two names run all through
i lie story in how they worked out
details of the swindlers identified
the men and ends with the fact
they were sentenced to prison.
Honolulu Rioting
Probe Is Opened
HONOLULU, Nov. 14 <l'.Ki —
A two-way investigation was star-
led today into the cause of mass
rioting Monday night between
groups of sailors and Honolulu's
"gmjks" as armed guards patroled
the wrecked Damon tract district.
The navy started its own Inves-
tigation and civilian police went
into the district decking young
hoodlums of all raw* for question
in^.
The Damon tract district, a cen-
ter o," hootleeging, gambling and
juvenile dciiquency. ww unusually
quiet as poller made a house-to-
hoice search for hoodlums in-
volved in the rlel. Police said the
names of several were known and
that "as many as pi^sihle" would
be questioned. But most of them
were in hiding.
Is (ominjr Home
glohv scarred vessel
or fifty battles is
show boat
RAIKIGH. N. C. <UJ The
U.S.S. North Carolina one of Ihe
"fightingest" ships of the Pacific
war - is homeward bound, hul
there's no port in this state capa-
ble of extending her the welcome
she so richly deserves.
This dreadnaught of Ihe seven
was, with a record of almost 50
battles to her credit, draws .'15 ft
of vv.-.ti r. Therefore, she must lie
welcomed at some port outside of
North Carolina
The North Carolina, reported
sunk no less than six times by the
Japanese, is entitled to wear 15
service stars of Ihe Asiatic-Pacific
campaign.
Moreover, she has Ihe record of
bombarding enemy territory nine
times, and during a four-day bom
bardment of Iwo Jima fired a
greater shell tonnage than any
other ship in the engagement.
The "Showboat." as sho is gen-
erally known in the Fleet, was
christened at New York City and
commissioned into th(. service Ap-
ril 9. 1011. at ceremonies attended
by the them Gov. J. Melville
Broughton.
Since that day, her history has
heen one of continuous battles
front Guadalcanal to Tokyo Bay.
She received her baptism of fire
in support of American landings
at Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Her
first real t. of fir,. |«owc-r came
Aug. 24, 1942. in the battle of the
Kastern Solomons
Russian Scientists
Find« Rav Power
MOSCOW. Nov . 14 'U* Soviet
scientists today reported major
Cosmic Ray dh*x>verles which
they said should greatly aid deve-
lopment of atomic power as a re-
sult of greatly expanded experi-
ments undertaken concurrent with
the dropping of the first atom
hotnh on Japan.
The Soviet press re|nirtcd Ihe
new discoveries a? a result of
experiments undertaken by proof.
Peter Kapita/a. one of Ihe world's
leading phvsieists and a long-time
experimenter with atomic prob-
lems.
Kapitia. a native Russian, went
to the Soviet about 10 years ago,
New Labor Union
Would Bar 411
Red Philosophy
MANAGEMENT GROUP*AT
WORK ON STATEMENT
or POSITION
WASHINGTON. Nov. VI -i f. -
An independent union leader pro-
posed at ihe labor-managed con-
ference today lhat unaffiliated
unions form a "third federation of
labor dedicated lo union demo-
cracy and labor-management coop
eration."
Walter W. Cenera/zo, president
of (he Amtrican watch makers
union, voiced his proposal Ix-fore
the public hearings committee
created to receive the views or
organizations not represented al
the conference.
(Vnerazoo's proposed federation
would bar from membership "all
those dedicated to the communist
party's philosophy of overthrow-
ing our form of government."
Meanwhile, leaders of manage-
ment delegates resumed efforts to
draft a statement of industry's po-
sition on CIO president Philip
Murray's wage resolution and on
the variouK issues on Ihe confer-
ence agenda. Hiey worked until
late last night but were unable
to complete the draft, which will
be presented when finished to tin1
conference executive committee.
Arm*- Air Forces
To Discharge Men
WASIINGTION. Nov 14 U ^
The Army air fotves said today
it would discharge about -1.000 en-
listed men with two or more
years of service who had volun-
teered for air crew training.
The army said it was decided
to discharge the men Is-cause it
would be uneconomical to train
them in a new skill when they
would become eligible for dis-
charge in the near future. Some of
the men already had completed
part of their training.
VI W YORK. Nov It Wash-
ington is suddenly becoming con-
cernrd over this country relations
with the Soviet Union, according
to Business Week, which fsiints
ou« ti.at despite Secretary Byr-
nes' u-jMirt of a moral victory over
the Russians al London. Moscow
•h .v.s no tilgns of yielding on a
single ma jor issue in Eastern Eu-
rope.
"Now, ftu-sia's failure to send
a tepiTsentntlve to the Far Eas-
tern Advisory Commission in
Washington is viewed with alarm
• iv ii ili-ts in the State IVpart-
tiRut." the publication states.
' 11 the breach widens on the
W .i Eastern issues, it is Isiund lo
lave serious rc|tcrrussions on
China a preserve which Wash-
ington knows it will he impossible
to .nsuiate from the Soviet Union
"No less serious, however, is
the mounting wave of hostility to-
ward the Soviet Union inside this
country.
"Influential metropolitan news-
p.i|M-rs re carrying an Increasing
number of stories with a decid-
edly anti-Russian tone
"A growing crop is predicting
that, eventually, war with Rtiss*a
i.-' inevitable,
"Washington suddenly is aware
th. t, unless forceful is done Im-
mediately to close this widening
breach in U S Soviet relations,
the world will be irreconcilably
divided into two bli >s lieforc a
United Nations Organization can
cvci. lie cff'.Ttuat.cd,"
Clayton Praises
Steos For Relief
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14
Assistant secretary of state Wil-
liam L. Cls-yton today called the
United Nations relief and rehabi-
litation administration the "first
o|ieiating experiment" in carrying
out the United States policy of
international coojieration.
Any alternative method for giv-
ing relief and rehabilitation aid
to thi- have-not nations would he
"unthinkable and Impractical," he
said.
Clayton'* testimony opened hear-
ing on the hill urged by the ad-
ministration to authorize a sivond
United States grant of $1,350,000,
000 to Unrra,
President Accepts
McCloy Resignation
WASHNIGTON. Nov |1 <1 P>
President Truman today accepted
.he resignation of assistant secre-
t-try of war John, McCloy. effec-
tive Nov. 24,
McCloy and Robert A. I.ovett,
another assistant, submitted their
resignations on Sept. fi when Hen-
ry L. Stimson resigned as Si.-ro-
tary of War, but Mr. Truman
w-otild not accept them.
Atomic Energy
Meet in it near End
WASHINGTON. Nov 14 <U*>
President Trunuht today begins
the concluding phases of his at-
omic energy conferences with
Prime Ministers Attlee of Great
Rritain and Mackenzie King of
Canada. •
The three leaders agreed to
meet again at 1 :,10 p. m. CST for
what may the final diwussion
on how the sivret of the atomic
liomb. now- held only by their gov-
ernments, fan best, he utilized to
promote international trust and
cooperation.
Clothing Prices
Hike Authorized
WASHINGTON. Nov 14 'I I!. -
The Offic,. of Price Admlnlsl ration
announced today that It is auth-
orising ccllfbg price Increases for
certain lower-prices clothing ar-
ticle*.
Chrysler Asks Right
To Fire Strikers
DETROIT, Nov 14 <t ir. The
Chrysler Corporation today de-
manded the right to fire union
members who participated tn un-
authorised strikes in a memoran-
dum submitted to the CIO united
auto workers in negotiations lor
a new- contract.
The union's contract with the
Chrysler corp. expires Nov. :*.«
and the tU'o parties ai'e conduct-
ing negotiations for a renewal.
Predicts Women
Will Fly Planes
FORT WORTH. Tex. "iMf Av i
ation offers as good a future to
women as to men, and women ar-
en't commercial passenger plane
pilotsnow because of "silly pre-
judices."
This is the belief of Lowcl Svven
son. manager of the National
Aeronautic Assn.. w ho recent I v
told members of the Ninety-Nine,
organization of licensed women
fliers, that, "I'd rather buy an ait-
plane from a woman than from a
man any day.'
Women hnve already demon-
strated skill as alrp'ane mechanics,
salesmen and airport managers, as
well as piloting, he said.
And, although the time is far oil
wlien women will Ik- employed as
(tassenger pilots, Swenson believes
that. In the near future, many will
li<< given jobs as cargo plane pilots
OIS FLOCK TO LIBRARY
NEW ORLEANS <U.*v \ newly
dedicated servicemen's library at
the Algiers First Baptist Church
attracts an average of 1,000 mcni-
liers of lite armed forces monthly.
Some come to read, other to play
records on the public address sys-
tem phot..-gruph, and still others
make coffee Or lemonade in tbr
kitchen.
£
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