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WATERLOO SUNOAT COURIER. WA1LHLOO. IOWA. Wrecked House Was Once His Home PULLMAN PL CROSS COUNTRY spent two years in Frankfurt and struck up an "ether waves" acquaintance with Plummer. He telephoned Miss Randol's sister and brother here, and they came to Plummer's house to converse with "sis" in Europe.

Plummer said American troops in all parts of the world are loaned surplus signal corps sets and they talk relatives and friends at home through the thou TRIP played real goft and loothing like? Through the Rockies, "Springtime in the "The Desert Song" for the desert? And so forth, Haman thinks that such phychol. ogy adds to comfort. The same as it does in' the color combinations he is using in designs for the trains of tomorrow. The right colors in the right cars. Soft colors for places where you rest, and the gaudy colors in the rolling houses of fun, like the club cars.

On the trial run with the wired music (still away in the future) the designer admits he may run into trouble at the end of the line. "I wouldn't be surprised," he said, "to wind up in San Francisco or Los Angeles and see the music czar, Petrillo, standing there with a club in one hand and a restraining order in the other," sands of "ham" operators in this I -32 If fvLJ "JHMn. 'it MULTI-HOBBY ill KEEPS HIS WIFE GUESSING Radio Operator Also Flies, Takes Pictures and Shoots. Baltimore, When Ar-thur Plummer isn't on duty with the Baltimore police accident division, he might be found almost anywhere, such as: 1. Operating his amateur shortwave radio.

2. Competing in a championship pistol match. 3. Piloting an airplane. 4.

Taking and enla-ging pictures. Some people wonder whether he ever eats or sleeps. Even Mrs. Plummer, and Arthur, Jr. a state trooper by the way aren't exactly sure what Pop's going to be trying, next.

He has been flying since 1934, and has held a private pilot's li To remove acid itains from clothing, sprinkle baking soda on each side of, the stain, moisten it with water, and let it stand for several minutes. When the bubbling action stops rlnst the spot thoroughly. Rift in CIO UAW Union Spreads Detroit, Mich. U.W Vice-president R. J.

Thomas of the CIO United Auto Workers union last night branded his chief, Walter P. Reuther, as a man "blinded by factional frenzy and drunk with personal ambition." The fiery president of the UAW. stung into immediate reply, said Thomas "continues to play the role of a vindictive and poor loser." Thomas' charges came after a public statement earlier last week in hich Reuther made his own accusation of factional bickering; within the world's largest union, Reuther declared the squabbling among UAW top officials threatened to destroy the union. He said the showdown would come in the union's November convention at Atlantic City. The conservative Reuther has been opposed within the union by Thomas, whom he ousted as president last year, and Vice President Richard TV Leonard and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes.

In the AUW chief's reply to Thomas" hot charge yesterday, Reuther said the Thomas "tirade does not answer a single Issue raised in my report." Reuther said he hoped that Thomas "will not run away from a full and democratic debate of the issues as he did at the last convention. Thomas declared that he and his "associates have no connection or sympathy with the Communist party or any of its affiliates or its methods." "We are against them," Thomas said. country, 'Phone Hookups. "Many amateur sets in this country have a special 'phone hook-up system. When a GI in some far off spot is contacted, the operator can telephone the soldier's family, switch the set on the telephone anc'.

they're all fixed to tell each other all about it." Plummer's latest activity not exactly a hobby came indirectly through the radio. Just before England got into war in 1939, Plummer talked with a "ham" in St. Margarets-At-Cliffe near Dover. The other day Plummer talked with a Kent amateur, and asked him to trace his 1939 "friend." Plummer has just received a letter from the latter, telling how his home was only 100 yards from the 15-inch British cross-channel guns. More than 500 German shells fell near the man's home.

He told how hard it was to obtain proper food and clothing. So Plummer's latest job is collecting shoes. He's going to send them across to the 1930 "ham" friend he's never seen. Designer Expects to See Pe- trillo Waiting at Station. Chicago (U.fi) Say you are traveling from Chicago to the West Coast, Maybe the long ride always has been a big bore as you checked off the miles, hour by hour.

Welf, the railroads are planning to do something to help pass the time, More precisely, the Pullman company is. By music. Wired music, with tunes to fit the locale through which you travel. Ralph Haman, a Pullman designer who was born in a railroad station, is working on the blueprint right now. For example, Haman is thinking of a symphony arrangement of the "Old Gray Mare" as you roll across the Midwest farm belt.

She the mare may not be what she used to be, but with a bank of bull fiddles, a lot of brass, woodwinds and a harp well, she could come pretty close. Through the cattle country, at the gateway to the West, what's wrong with "Ragtime Cowboy," cense for two years. He has plaques, cups and 57 medals for competition in pistol marksmanship. He's a camera fiend, and does his own developing, printing and enlarging. And he has talked nrtii iiiiiTniwmiiiiiiinfcniwriwitiiriiimi iiiiiiimiiinnwniiiMftfci with 45 countries with his short wave radio.

home after a tornado struck at Apalachicola, Fla. Unidentified man looks at the wreckage of his (AP Wirephoto direct to Courier), "Heck." Plummer drawled. "I'm PHOTOSTAT Don't risk losing Important papers. Let us photortat them for you. Nominal BIRTH CERTIFICATES MARRIAGE LICENSE! DISCHARGE PAPERS always fooling around with something." At that particular moment he was contacting an army major in Germany over his radio so Capt.

Louisa C. Randol of the Wacs just back from Frankfurt could say hello to her friend with the U. S. occupation forces. Miss Randol, also of Baltimore, i tegs I clerk and tool of the Pendergast machine." Truman, he continued, now is outstanding for "sycophancy before his boss," (not Pendergast) but "Boss Wall Street." "Under the Republicans, Wall Street rules America," Gorbatov said.

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Ebenizer MacMurray, 102, one of Iowa's only two Civil war veterans, -will represent the Grand Army by cutting the ribbon opening the highway under its new name. Save Worn Shoes! DIAL 4427 Stimson Puts Wallace on Red Grill We can repair any worn shoes regardless of tion. Dedication of the highway was LARGEST CUT DIAMOND. New York (INS) The No. 1 Cullinan, the biggest cut diamond in the world, is shaped like a peach stone.

This bright jewel is one-and-three-quarter inches across, and weighs over 350 carats, Red Mag in Bitter Attack on Truman Moscow (President Truman was the object yesterday of one of the bitterest attacks ever made in the Soviet press against any United States official when an article in the weekly Literary Gazette accused him of "straining for the laurels of the corporal from Munich." The article covered almost half a page with a detailed examination of the personal characteristics and the position of the president. It was written by Boris Gor-batov. It described Truman as "a person who loves bow ties, who wears his pants shorter by two inches than accepted standards' and who is otherwise unnotable." The president, said Gnrbatov, was "the messenger boy, bank made possible under a bill passed by the 52nd general assembly. HEAVY DUTY JACKET ZIPPERS MITCH'S SHOE REPAIR FDR HIM HER 317 E. 4th St.

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C. OI.R) Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson declared last night that "those whof now choose to travel in company with American Communists are very clearly either knaves or fools." Stimson, who is 80 today, expressed this belief In a birthday message to Americans published in the magazine "Foreign Affairs." He also gave support to the Truman doctrine of stopping Communism by aiding imperiled nations to resist it. 1 Stimson singled out former Vice President Henry Wallace for a gentle chiding. Asserting that it is impossible Auto Strikes Man on Downtown Street Edward J.

Fjelstul, 47, who rooms at 1114 Jefferson street, was struck by a car driven by Richard E. Olson, 20, of 924 West 12th street, Cedar Falls, at the intersection of Park avenue and Sycamore street, about 10:25 p. m. Olson told police he was making a right turn onto Sycamore from Park avenue and that Fjelstul was crossing Sycamore. Olson said he didn't see Fjelstul until he struck him.

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