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    ? 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-
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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
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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,
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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
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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."
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See Phil Durnom
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1336 J
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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! But
If yoi really want to c vn
our home, consult me
now. Personal attention.
Economical terms.
RALPH L RUSSELL
Loan and Insurance
Loan Represenative
Equitable Savings &
Loan Assn.
111 W. Cass
Phone 913
HOME TOWN NEWS
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SALE ENDS SATURDAY
19
95
Innerspring
Mattress
19
95
These are 180 coil famous make mattresses. Regularly 24.50 each, with
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bedding
mattresses,
buys.
here's
29
50
INNERSPRING MATTRESS
29
50
Regularly 39.50
tress at top
mottresses
thi:
s a top arade
savings. These are 220
and each hat the inner
edge, ventilators and handles for
in turning. A few matched sets.
$10 by buying this week.
mot
coil roll
ease
Save
Next
Monday they go back to 39.50.
Remember we deliver free and
you can buy on terms.
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'furniture
321
St.
N. Jackson
Phone 26
Fine Furniture
ft More Than 25 Years