? 2 The News-Review, Roicburg, Of Wed., Aug. 24, 1949 House Approval Of Minimum Wage Boost Measure Hollow Triumph By BRUCE BIOSSAT The 75-cents-an-hour minimum wage bill approved by the House ...presents a rather hollow triumph for the administration, lor It would bring mixed blessings to American workers. The measure would raise the i minimum wage for stipulated oe- merce cupations from the present 10 Offhand, one would Imagine cents an hour to 75 cents. It I ,hat in many establishments It would extend this coverage to,ls jte lmK,8sibe l0 determine 155,000 workers not now protect- whQ jg ln(ispensable to produc ed. About 1.300,000 would got j ,jon lnt,.ndt.d ,or oul.of.staie shi,i raises if the proposal became i,nt gmaU Ijrmj par,icula.y 'aw- ' make no such neat divisions of But. on the other hand, It would I labor, exclude 1,160,000 workers who! House Democratic leaders in now come under the act. The net dlcate they are counting on the losr in worker coverage would be I Senate to bring out a bill more 1,005,000. I to the Administration's liking. The Administration bill, which I But. to Judge from committee was sidetracked, would have added 675,000 workers to the el igible list and have made other liberalizing changes. Kurthermore, the measure adopted by the House would greatly complicate the already difficult task of administering the wage standards act. It provides, for example, that wage mini mums in the retai; and service trades should apply only to per sons "indispensible to produc tion of goods for interstate com- SCREENS Screan Doors Boreen Wirt Window Screens PAGE LUMBER & FUEL E. "nrt Ave. S Phone 242 wrangling so far, there can be no assurance the upper cnamoer will produce a measure suitable to President Truman. It would be foolish for a lay man to say what the minimum wage should he or what specific fields of employment should be covered. But if the object of a floor un der wages Is to Introduce a large element of stability Into workers' ives and the general economy, then it would seem sensible to have as broad a coverage as pos sible. And if a boost from 40 to 75 cents can be attained only at sacrifice of coverage for 1,005, 000 workers, It might be better to settle for a smaller advance that could be more widely shar ed. Coming on top of congressional LOOK! We got a mechanic ! Now ... wo novo tho best mochanio In tho county on duty for motor repairs and rebuild ing. He's top in his tradt, you betchal IF HE CAN'T FIX IT, NOBODY CAN ... and guaranteed work guaranteed estimotei. No hidden or "tacked-on" charges. We can do everything from tune-upt to complete auto rebuilding. Now wt'rt equipped to repair your car, truck or tractor from bumper to tail light. Open Sundays! Lloyd's Auto Bod and Fender Shop Open 'til 6 daily Including Saturday and Sunday (closed holidays) S01 Fullerton St Phone 1025 J t-- Lit t- -r fsn Jt THESE ARE PELICANS PLUS Detectives Vcrl Jefleries, left, and Clarence Hasmusstn, of Milwaukee, examine strange vials found in three porcelain pelicans owned by Mrs. Harry Komoll of Milwaukee. The pelicans (enlarged in inset at right) were marked Made in Japan." When Mrs. Komoll's daughter broke one of the birds, a vial containing a reddish liquid was (ound Inside. The other two pelicans were found to contain similar vials. The birds and their contents were sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington on tho theory that they might contain germs sent here by the Japs during tho war to spread disease. defeat for the Administration's Taft-Hartley repealer, House ac tion on minimum wages ought to induce new caution among the prophets. These are the lawmak ers, remember, who were label ed the "Fair Deal Congress" last January and W(e said to be ready and willing to enact Mr. Truman's social welfare program virtually in its entirety. Those glib predictions plainly were far wide of the mark, CHAMBER OF HORRORS MUNICH -I'l-The Bavarian penitentiary of Stadelheim near Munich contains a room which even the guards dread. More than 1.100 persons were behead ed there during Hitler's Nai rule. Now It Is being cleaned and transformed into a motor repair shop. House, Commercial and Industrial Wiring Electrical Trouble Shooting Motor and Appliance Re pair Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service 17 Years Experience ACE ELECTRIC Licensed Electrician 316 E. 2nd Ave. N. Ph. 1095 L PINT ntro-urr urn 7T imperial CReinembeMti mark by j VeiFTH 3'i&0 86 proof. Blended whiskev. 30 straight whiskey. 70 grain neutral spirits. Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Peons, Illinois. Defense Witness For Tokyo Rose Contradicts Self SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23-(.P) Two conflicting versions of why allied prisoners broadcast over wartime radio Tokyo came from a single witness in the Tokyo Rose treason trial. The witness yesterday was Norman Keyes. now a Vanderbilt student who was captured early in the war while serving as a U.S. Army lieutenant In the Phil ippines and worked at radio To kyo. Testifying for the defense of Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino. accus ed of treasonable braodcastin as Tokyo Rose. Reyes said fear and Japanese brutality ruled it radio Tokyo. The prosecution read another version from an FBI renort of its agent's conversations with Keyes. In that, Keyes said he knew of no Japanese threats nor brutality influencing Mrs. D' Aquino or three prisoners of war to broadcast. He admitted some statements he made to the FBI were false, lie also declared some of his words had not been set down ex actly as he spoke them. His true or false cross examination on more FBI reports was to contin ue today. Keyes testified there was a conspiracy among Mrs. D' Aquino, U.S. Major Wallace Ince. Charles Cousens. former Austral ian major, and himself to defeat Japanese propaganda over radio Tokvo. Ince and Cousens. also for mer prisoners of war, had t est i 'Hole Digger Balks At lieu sum a ninsiiai-y e.isiet CANS FOR AMERICANS NEW YORK i.Vl - Americans now open more han 75 million cans a day. says the American Can Co. The estimate is based on government reports which in dicate the equivalent of 2S bil lion standard-size fruit and vege table cans are being made annually. Dead Mule Interment SAVANNA, Okla., Aug. 23-f.f) Frank Putnam figures being on the business of a shovel isn't too bad If - "A car ran over a eat," his wife told him the other night. "Will you get a shovel and bury it?" Putnam did. "There's a dead dog out In the False Idea Of Liquor's Effect ToldToWCTU PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23 (.P) Toe many Americans of school age have a false idea of liquor's effect on the human body, the director of the Pennsylvania school of alcohol studies said to day. Dr. George F. Dunkelberger. forme- dean of Susquehanna uni versity, told a symposium at the annual convention of the Wom en's Christian Temperance uni on, that "it is quite common io believe alcohol is a stimulant, whereas It actually lets you down, pulls you down and keeps you down." Such "erroneous notions." Dr. Dunkelberger said, must be cor rected through education. Too frequently, however, he added, discussion of the liquor problem is avoided in schools because of "the popularity of drinking and the criticisms to which teachers I Novice, Like Deuces, Runs Wild In Trying To Learn To Play Canasta By ED CREAGH NEW YORK, Aug. 23. UPyl was going to tell you today about how to play canasta, a card game that is having a great vogue among canasta players, but something came up and Well, why be coy about It? What came up is that my brand new canasta rule book I price $1) got ripped down the middle, my w ife went to bed with a sick headache, the Larsenj don't love us any more, and I've got to buy a television set. This sorry sequence began at I breakfast last h rtday. My wife looked at me over the top of her newspaper, waited for permission to speak, and inquir ed: "why don't we learn to plav canasta?" "Why should we?" I asked Jo vially. My mouth, however, was filled at the time with yogurt la milk food favored by yogurt eaters) and my wife understood me to say: "why, certainly." So Friday night found me open ing the canasta rule book with all the enthusiasm of a boy eon fronted by "Elementary Algebra" on the first day of school. Five seconds later I clapped the book shut. "We can't do It," I said, grin ning. "Canasta takes two decks and we've only got that old one we keep around in case a gypsy fortune-teller should drop in." My wife took it very well, too "All right." she said. "Cards can wait. We'll drop in on the Larsens instead. Iknow you don't like them but" "I don't dislike them," I ob jected. "It's just that I can't stand them. But they do have a television set. At least I can watch the fights." Head First Into Misery Bill and Edith Lai sen practi cally kissed us. "Jooody," Edith said, "Now we can play that new game every body's talking about canasta." And we did for one solid hour and 42 minutes. That is the others tried to teach me the game while I kept one despairing eye o n the silent and dark TV set. They told me about melding. And abont wild deuces and jokers And about "going out" and "go ing out concealed." It seems there Is a difference. And about black threes, which contain more mysteries than Poe found in the Rue Morgue. "You got the fidgets, pal?" Bill asked finally. "You act even stupider than usual tonight." 1 was about to reply cuttingly when I noticed that my fistful of cards included some match ing kings, queens and nines. "Hey," I said. "I can what-d'-ya call it. I can meld." Edith glared. "It's a rule of this game," she informed me chillingly, "that you say, partner, may I go out?" 1 looked at my wife. I looked at the TV set. Something inside me snapped. "Partner," I said, rising, "may I go out?" And I made the door befcre she could answer. Well, the rule book was torn in half when I got home, rather lale. And the bottle of headache tablets was missing from the medicine chest so I knew my wife was feeling poorly. I didn's dis turb her. I slept on the studio couch. "I was thinking." I said at our needing a televisior. set. 1 could order it through Bill's firm as a sort of peace offering." She smiled and then started to laugh and everything was a 1 1 light. Except that I can't as 1 had planned, tell you today all about how to play canasta. U. S. Worker's Lot Shown Far Better Than Russian's PARIS, Aug. 23- (. The American working man is much better off than his Russian counterpart, accoiding to a neu-1 tral Norwegian survey. The Economic Cooperation ad ministration I.Marshall plan) is sued a booklet giving the remits ol fact finding trips to the U. S. and Kussia by separate delega tion of the Norwegian general federation of trade unions. It ihowed: Ail average American worker earns a loaf of bread with five minute work; it takes a Russian two hour. An American buys a pound of mcaj with half an hour of labor; think they would be subjected." Total abstinence, the educator said, ia he only "safe, sane and sensible program of living for the youth of our nation." "The excessive drinker." he said, "comes from the moder ate drinker. The moderate drink er comes from the occasional or social drinker and the social drinker comes from taking the first drink." A Russian needs a day. An American can buy a wool, en suit after 25 hour of work; A Russian needs two month to earn the requisite rubles. The Norwegians said their visit to the United States gave them "greater confidence in the abil ity of democracy to solve 1 1 1 problems." Do The Job tim YOURSELF TV, NEW P. NTDftl KNDWO For " ops on Drainboards See Phil Durnom Linoleum Laying and Venetian Blinds 920 S. Main 1336 J DISSTON One-Man CHAIN SAW Save your muscles. Head for the woods with this new Disston One Man Chain Saw. Light weight, gas oline-driven power saw. Fells . . Bucks . . . Limbs. Operates at any angle . . . even upside down. CARL J. PEETZ 920 S. Stephen Phone 279 road," the missus said the fol lowing night. "Will you get. . ." Putnam did. But he rebelled when It hap nened the third night. This time, he said, it was a job for the highway department. "I'd be all night." Putnam said, "digging a hole for that mule." Talking About a Home? So many people do noth ing but talk about it! 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