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'- ae Pm, ad Be a ™ a rates lane ad acl ‘ a wer, Mussolini! © ]! €. Sept. 22, in the presence of President Roosevell, the Henry J. rape | Cnn /Afncanl | yard at Portland, Ore., launched a 10,500-ton freighter fust 10 days a, the keel was laid. - , On Sept, 26, according to offictal digests, the ‘announcer on Mussolini's Radio Rome had this to say: “If among those who are listening to me at this moment there are : any who ' know anything about ship building, I should like to know what they think : of this Mr. Katser, of his boasting bluff. '“ should like to ask a shipbuilder, a navigator, or even @ simple sailor whether such a thing (building a ship in 10 days) ig possible, or whether perhaps Mr. Kaiser's ships are not phantom vessels born not ‘of a cool mind, but of an imagination excited by whisky. .“There iz a limit to everything, No one can bulid « 10,000-ion ship in 10 days. “I should like to say to Mr. Kaiser: ‘You are not to launch ships bejore starting construction of them.’” “i . . : _f } New Pay Compromise? Prediction: In an effort to placate the very vocal 1 postal workers, Senate wre, we Plssetitan etlt hefen and = are: eve, Civil Service Cormimitiee will bring out a compromise Government overtime pay bill. The postal workers want a 10 per cent bonus. So the Benate bill will prant individual postmasters the option of giving employes either # bonus af overtime—whichever seems most advisable... . And another prediction: Postal orkers will reject the compromise. They say it would result in “confusion and Trimination.” ... The Senate Committee met yesterday In the hope of KPporting out the bill But it fatled to get a quorum and postponed action tii alter passage of the tax biii—probabiy another i} days... . And these’s | at quotation from Saroyan that is sprouting as a sign in various Office o: ar ormition offices: “He Knew the Truth, and Was Looking for So i ther.” k ~ w b Fa tle ey ae a i wh anemia ai Se Jaa: