Veteran Will Build Monuments
CHICAGO—One of the first among 10,000 veterans of World
War II. who will be given apprentice training under the Veterans Em
ployment program of the Monument Builders of America, George
Ausmus (right), 28-year-old former Army sergeant, is receiving in
struction in lettering a monument. Richard Springman, an experi
enced stonecutter, is showing Ausmus correct technique. Ausmus,
who served two of his four Army years in the Aleutians, said he
selected the monument industry as his career because it offered great
est security. Training under the GI Bill of Rights, he will spend three
yean in classroom and shop and is receiving wages from his employer
as well as from the federal government.
Bringing The Fire
To The Firemen
DENVER— </P) —Firemen could
not reach this fire so they had the
fire brought to them.
A caboose on a 90 car freight
train caught fire as it was leaving
the rail yards.
The fire department telephone
operator realized the firemen
couldn’t reach the freight train
promptly, because of intervening
tracks, so he instructed the train
crew to uncouple the caboose and
shove it four blocks down a siding
to a hydrant.
Within a matter of minutes a
hose truck was at the hydrant,
waiting for the fire to arrive.
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Yugoslav Women Retain
New War-Born Status
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By ADELAIDE KERR
(/P) Newsfeatures Writer
“There are whole valleys in
Yugoslavia, where only women
and children live today,” said
Nada Kraigher, 34, former under
ground worker and lieutenant in
the Yugoslav Partisan Army.
“People wonder what effect liv
ing like that without any man
would have on a woman's emo
I
NADA KRAIGHER . . .
former underground worker
tional life. But they don’t have
any emotional life and they don’t
miss it. They are so overworked
rebuilding those devastated val
leys—sawing wood, gathering mud
to make houses, trying to scrape
together enough food to live—they
don’t have time to think of any
thing else.
“But they will go back to being
women again eventually. We all
did—even after all that time we
fought in war. The young ones
said they never would, but they
did.
“Of course we all though we
would go crazy trying to get used
to a skirt again after living so
long in pants in the woods and
mountains. I was unhappy in that
skirt! It bound me. I couldn’t sit
in a jeep or a chair. I thought ev
eryone was looking at my legs.
Finally I got an American uniform
and after that I could bear it.
"Then my uncle said I must
wear lipstick. But I couldn't bear
all that woman stuff at once. I
just said I wouldn't do it. After a
while, though, we all got lipstick
and coldcream and things again.
"There was one thing we could
not change. Our feet had grown so
big from marching barefoot or in
those army shoes, we could not
wear little shoes again."
Kraigher—smartly coiffed, but!
without a sign of lipstick—glanc
ed at her new number sevens and
sighed. She is making her first trip
to the United States as the only
woman member of the Yugoslav
Red Cross delegation here to study
American Red Cross methods. She
was born in Trieste in 1911 of Slo
venian peasant parents, learned
five languages, married a sculptor
and mothered a son. After her di
vorce and the invasion of Yugo
slavia, she worked in the under
ground for years, then fought in
the Partisan army with men under
her command.
“The war has made a revolu
tionary change in the status of
Yugoslav women,” she said. “Back
in the old days the men of the
country were kings. When a peas
ant went to market, he rode the
donkey and his wife trudged be
hind, carrying the load.
"Bui during iha war woman
playad a vary strong part in iha
1 country's defense and men got
i used to taking orders from them. |
Today Yugoslavian women have
j the vote, equal rights, and equal
pay for equal work. If their abil-j
, ity is superior to a man's they get
the job and men work under their
| direction. '
“Lots of young women have!
married the men they fought with ;
during the war and are going right |
on with their careers. Women are
active in every phase of the coun
try’s economic and political life.
They also have unity and strength
through the Anti Fascist Women’s
Union which was formed several
years ago. They are even playing
with the idea that Yugoslavia will
have to go right from now on, be
cause they have so much power.’’;
Asked for the men’s reaction, i
Kraigher said that young men who {
had fought side by side with wo- \
men took it as a matter of course, I
but the old peasant was a differ
ent story. Not long ago, she said,
she passed a peasant trudging \
down a country road with a pack
on his back and asked where he
was going.
Said the peasant: "I'm leaving
home. I don't like this new gov
ernment. If they are going to make
this kind of mistakes in the begin
ning, I might as well go now. What
mistakes? Giving women the vote.
There was a time when a man had
some rights in his own home. But
now the house is full of women
arguing politics from morning
till night. I'm clearing out."
And Movie Tears J
Put Out The Fire
RICHFIELD, Idaho—(/P)—When
a hotel caught fire, the volunteer
fire department was called. But
there were volunteers ever closer
—25 men who streamed out of a
movie theater next door and
formed a bucket brigade.
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