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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
By the Associated Press.

- VIC nScSSaAtc0 . VS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23. - Billy
Jones, 81, who with the late Ernie
Hare pioneered on the radio as "The
Happiness Boys" collapsed and died
on Broadway tonight as he strolled
along the street he loved so well.
Jones, who collapsed about 7 pm.
in the heart of the theater district.
was carried into q restaurant, but
was dead on the arrival of q ply
stefan.
In his pocket he carried a radio
script which indicated he and James
Brennan were to have participated
in broadcast tomorrow afternoon.
The famous Jones-Hare radio
partnership broke up on March 8,
1899, when Hare died just q week
before his Seth birthday.
Sadly, at that time, Billy recalled
that he and Ernie had made 1000
photograph records together
Gosh, suppose at least that
before they entered the radio field
1t was on October II, 1921, that
rotund and jovial Billy and bald,
sepulchral-voiced Ernie vert on the
air from a Studio" at Newark, N. j.
"a studio that was nothing more
than tapaulin.
There wasn't q station in New
York City then, and our first COM
mercial program was sent from the
second floor of a factory" Billy
reminisced on his partners death.
But that was the day the Hap
piness Boys-sponsored by a candy
flrm-began one of the oldest and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24

A Police Court Judge will have to
decide Tuesday whether football
fan was intoxicated when he en-
gagged in a controversy with police
man on streetcar.
1t all began few seconds before
the Georgetown George Washington
game ended in Griffith Stadium
yesterday. E. c. James, As, OF 1886
Concord avenue NV. said he left
the game before the final gun to
capture a seat on the streetcar.
The crowd beat Mr.. James to it,
according to his story, and he was
forced to stand up. Pushed back
and forth in the car, he noticed at
his elbow a seated policeman in
uniform.
Mr.. James said he remembered
having read that Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police,
had asked policemen to give up their
seats on crowded streetcars, so he
said he bent over and asked the
policeman if he had paid fare.
The policeman said he had not
paid a fare. Mr.. James then said
he suggested that the policeman give
his seat to one of the women stand
ing up.
According to Mr.. james, the officer
then took him off the streetcar,
summoned a patrol wagon and re-
moved him to the tenth precinct,
where he was booked on a charge of
being drunk. Two hours later. Mr.,
James was released on bail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Billy Jones, 81, Radio Pioneer,
Maker Of 4 900 Records, Dies

closest partnerships in radio; their
names were synonymous with the
sort Of entertainment SO popular in
those days.
How dye do. everybody, howdy
do, how dye do, everybody, how
are your" they would begin. q. .
Billy Jones and Ernie Hare wish
to say to you out there, how dye do,
de doodle doodle doodle do"
Then Billy's squeaky tenor voice
would soar above Ernie's lusty BARI
tone in "Parley Woo" and The Lit
tie Red Schoolhouse" and Rose of
No Mans Land"
Interspersing their songs with
what was called "snappy patter' "a
those days, Billy would ask Ernie
Who was that lady saw you
out with last night?"
To which Ernie would reply:
That wasn't no lady-that was
my wife"
And they'd both howl with glee-
and so would the radio audience.
They continued this successful
form of entertainment through an
other and later stage, when they
were known as "the interviewer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Silver Spring Library
To Show Gift Books

Mrs. Marian King Of Washington
an author Of children's books, will
be the guest speaker at a tea and
an exhibit Of children's book suit
able for Christmas gifts at the Silver
Spring CMd) Public Library, Satur1
day, from 8 to 5 pm.
Approximately $50 books, the COM
plete list recommended by the
American Library Association, will
be on display.
Mrs. Louise c. Ferguson, librarian,
Is assisted in arrangements by Mrs,
Howard D. Dozier of the Woman's
Club of Woodside, Mrs. Charles
Prettyman of the Current Comment
Club and Mrs. A. v. Amman of
the Silver Spring ,Woman's Club.
The tea and exhibit Is open "a
the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Strike
Continued From First Page

ton and has written for the League
for American Writer'S"
In addition to these two state
ments, there we're these other de-
velopments here bearing on the
Vultee strike which is holding up
Government orders of warplanes:
The Labor Department said that
John r. Steelman, chief of its Con-
Citation Service, would fly to Cali
fornia to seek settlement of the
dispute, now centered on the ques-
ton of whether there shall be mo
strike" clause in the new contract
between management and workers.
Maj. Simpson Returning.
The War Department disclosed
that Maj. Sidney Simpson, who had
been dispatched to Dcwney, Calf :,
in connection with the strike, was
returning here for consultation with
Robert Patterson, Assistant Secre-
tary of War.
In Downey, Walter Smethurst, a
director of the C. I. o. United Au-
tomobile Workers, had charged that
Maj. Simpson was holding up the
settlement"
Mr.. Jackson said various matters
mentioned in the Dies Committees
white paper" had been under in
vestigation by the Justice Depart
ment.
Referring to Dies Committee
statements that Manfred Zapp and
the Transocean News Service-not
connected with any United States
news service-were among organiza-
lions allegedly active in spreading
Nazi propaganda, Mr.. Jackson said:
These activities had been under
investigation by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, which was trying
to complete legal case with ad-
Missile evidence"
Grand Jury Investigating.
He recalled that the criminal di-
vision Of the Department of Justice
started grand jury investigation of
Zapp, the news service and others
on october % and so announced at
the time.
This secret grand jury investiga-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
20-Ton Beer Vot Bursts,
Killing Chicago Mon
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. ga cotton
wood and iron beer vat burst to-
day at the Peter Fox Brewing Co..
crushing one man to death beneath
the wreckage. No one else was in
jured.
Firemen worked for an hour to
extricate the body of Herman Dub
berke, 26, of Hartford, Mich, head
of the brewery's fermenting depart
ment.
He was supervising the pumping of
beer into the vat when the end
blew out, and the tank fell over
upon him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Wage Issue Settled,
Vu|tee Talks Resume
On 'No-Shike' Clause
Union Votes Refusal
Of Any Agreement Not
To Walk Out Again

~ the Associated Press
DOWNEY, Calf, Nov. 23.-Nego-
tiations we're resumed today between
Vultee Aircraft Co. officials and
Spokesman for the G. I. o. United
Automobile Workers Aircraft Divis-
ion In efforts to end strike which
closed the ,200-employe Vultee plant
November Is.
After some three hours discus
sion, the meeting recessed until
later in the evening.
With disputed wages agreed on, re-
manning issues were mo strike" and
compulsory arbitration clauses in a
two-year contract offered by the
company, which. has $4,000, 900 in
orders and is the exclusive builder
of Army basic training planes.
Just before reopening of the talks,
q union mass meeting voted not to
accept any contract containing such
clauses. Negotiations broke down
last Thursday over these issues.
Further Action Hinted.
eve feel that low-wage levels in
the industry" said International
Representative Wyndham Mortimer
of the union today, prevent any
agreement on our part precluding
further adjustment to push them
up where they belong. We have
compulsory arbitration clauses in
some contracts but only where the
wages are compatible with the
American standard of living"
The union struck for minimum
wage of rs cents an hour instead of
the so which had been paid. 1t
agreed to accept the company's new
offer of IS cents to start and 62l1
cents after three months, for be-
ginners, but baked on the non-strike
and arbitration provisions.
I'VE don't feel" President Richard
W. Millar of Vultee said as the con-
ference was resumed, that we would
be able to discharge our obligations
to the national defense program If
we risk a recurrence of this strike.
Warning of New Demands.
"The union has warned us that
they expect to make further de-
mands after January l. We feel that
1t is essential that both parties be
bound by arbitration. There are
more things than industrial peace
involved in this position"
Mr.. Mortimer said union officers
would aid any investigation of the
strike by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation or the Dies congress
sional committee.
This strike" ne asserted. was
called because of low wages in the
aircraft industry and not by Com
munists or any other lists We well
come any investigation from any
source of any person involved in
the strike. Every worker in Vultee's
factory is an American citizen,
citizen who is put under a micro
scope to prove his status"
Simpson Is Recalled.
Negotiations reopened without at
tendance of Maj. Sidney Simpson,
War Department labor adviser, re-
called to Washington. Another
Federal conciliator is due here by
plane Sunday. He is John r. Steel
man. chief of the Labor Depart
ments Cancellation service.
Also due Sunday night is Presi-
dent r. j. Thomas of the United
Automobile Workers. He is to be
accompanied by Lou H. Kitchener.
West Coast director of the union
and one of the strike leaders, who
flew to the national c. I. o. con-
vention at Atlantic City to present
the strikers case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Nine Boys Face Charges
In Reformutory Breuk
Ry a STAFF CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Nd, Nov.
discharges of assault and attempt
ing to break away from a reforma-
tory have been placed against nine
inmates of the Cheltenham School
for Boys who barricaded themselves
in cottage and defled school au-
thorities with pitchforks, clubs and
baseball bats yesterday.
The youths, all colored, and be-
tween Is and 10 years old, will be
given hearings here Monday before
Judge Walter Green of the Police
Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24

pair" sponsored by mems hosiery
firm, and delighted both radio and
stage audiences until Hare's death
ended their association. FEK
Jones was native of New YORK;
born of Welsh parents on March Isl
1889, and attended this city's public
schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Pogrodetz Reported
Abandoned by Italians

LONDON, Nov. % R).-An Ex-
change Telegraph, British news
agency, dispatch tonight from
Athens said the italians had aban-
doned Pogradetz, Albanian town
40 miles north of Greek-captured
Koritza.
The italian withdrawal was said
TO have been made in an effort to
assemble new defense lines on the
Shkumbi River. about 10 miles to
the west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Duck-Boiting Pilots Warned

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. % [P.-
The Narragansett Bay ducks won't
have to duck any more Willard M.
Fletcher, State administrator of
aeronautics, cautioned aviators that
any of them detected diving their
plane at ducks feeding along the
bay shore would be prosecuted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
British Aid
Continued From First Page.)

leaving Congress with control over
policy that it might lose with repeal
of the act itself
The other consideration is that
retention of the johnson Act would
mean continued ban on indis-
criminate private financing opera
tons of the type against which the
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,
reported to have altered its tactical
plan to place more dependence on
foot infantry rather than on mech
anized forces.
Apparently the Italians found the
mountainous terrain and muddy.
road poor ground for motorized
warfare.
Foreign military observers said
the Italians undoubtedly were rush.
Ing troop reinforcements to their
new positions by every means, in
Guiding airplanes, since Gen. Ubaldo
Soddu was reported averse to letting
operations lag.
British Bomb Bari Port.
Dispatches from the front today
said the Greek air force had lost
many planes shot down in combat
by Italian flyers. A Rome commune
que said italian bombers had at
tackled numerous detectives, espe-
cially in the Koritza sector, hitting
highway functions and troop con-
centrations.
The high command also acknowl-
edged that British aircraft again
had bombed the Italian adriatic port
Of Bari. killing one civilian, wound
ing five, and causing damage to
dwellings.
In East Africa, italian flyers were
said to have bombed Rosieres air.
port, and British positions near
Gallabat and Port Sudan, starting
fires and damaging planes on the
ground. Two British fighter planes
were shot down, the communicate
stated, while all italian planes re-
turned safely.
Field Hospital Fired.
British planes were reported to
have attacked Bomba and Derna In
Libya, and to have fired a field
hospital at Kassala in the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan.
On the diplomatic front, italy
welcomed Rumania into the axis
military alliance. Virginia Gayda,
In II Giornale dItalia, commented:
1.-THE axis is extending its politics
and the three-power pact in Asia
as far as the shores of the Black
Sea and is adding new efficient
forces to its power"
In preparation for move to
isolate Turkey, as well as Greece.
informed sources said German AM
bassador Franz Won Papen will start
next week to apply diplomatic pres
sure on Turkey to bring that coun-
try into line for new European
order"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Canadian Ministers WEDDING
To Secretary Is Surprise

cial secretary of the Canadian and
the Netherlands Legations and the
Brazilian and Belgian Embassies.
Mr.. Christie is expected to be back
at his official duties by the first of
December
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
Greek

Continued From First Page)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30

Speeches made in wartime by
the statesmen of nations at death
grips are not always distinguished
by temperate and balanced reason
ing. They run to bluster and bluff,
to intimidation and deception and
the phony phrase. You have to
weigh bushel of counterfeit coin
to find one that rings true.
But when a sentence or phrase
really rings true, it stands out of
the mass of phrases like a rocket
fired upward into the dark of the
night.
Such phrase was uttered by
Winston Churchill in his broad
cast to the people of France. 'Vive
la France" he cried Long live
France, and long live also the for
ward march of the common peo-
pie"
The forward march of the COM
mon people!
in our common activities banded
together as society, as government?
Churchill is speaking American
language here, language that might
have come from Tom Paine, or
Andy Jackson, or Abe Lincoln.
1t calls up the long pageant of
history-the common people as
slaves building the pyramids of
Egypt: the common people as serfs
working hopelessly for feudal mas
ters; the common people rising to
claim their manhood in the French
Revolution; the common people
flinging vast new civilization
across the American continent; the
common people slowly and pain
fully raising their status in the
world of work, the world of cul-
ture, the world of the spirit.
There have been many questions
about the British war aims. British
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30
by Willis Thornton
Forward March Of the Common People

leaders have been remarkably ret
icent about just what they are
fighting for. What about the class
bound society of England, people
ask; what about free India? Brit
ish craftsmanship answers not, in
tent only on the battle.
Thus it is like ray of the rising
sun to hear Churchill thunder a
pledge to the forward march of
the common people.
That is what the world fears
might be halted by new philoso-
phies which stripped the common
people of their manhood and left
them mere senseless cogs in a
state machine rolling relentlessly
onward to national glory and the
aggrandizement of an elite few
daring to call themselves alone fit
to rule. The world fears that this
long forward march might be null
flied and halted after all the bloody
centuries.
Every country is democratic while
engaged in an overwhelming mill
tary effort. England is democratic
today.
Will Churchill dare to allow re-
sumption, after the war; of the
onward march of the common peo-
pie? Will he dare NOT to allow
it2
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30
by Paul Harrison :.
HoNywoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

it's singing Everybody in our fa-
mily could do that.
yeah, l wrote some songs. Oh,
about a thousand, 1 guess; but only
three were worth publishing.
I'D like to do something in pic
lures, but I don't know enough
about acting even to be worried
about it. l see good actors wor-
rying, but l just barge along, fig
uring it's all velvet anyway, and
that I can always make a living
with band. 1t doesn't seem that
I could have any future in movies.
because 1 look too much like Pi-
nocchio.
when Fox wanted to test me, l
said / was too heavy and I'd take
off some weight if they'd give me
little time. But they went ahead
and the verdict on the test was
Too heavy They signed me ara
way, and then sent me to Catalina
to get in shape. I'd lost about 20
pounds when this RKO deal came
up"
BEACH SCENE
IN A SANDBOx
In profile, Bing Crosby's architec-
ture isn't exectly Barrymorish,
yet there's no doubt he's at least
as handsome as Brother Bling
especially the way they're photo
graphing him. He has tremendous
respect for movie technicians, and
while walking across the lot he
pointed out wooden frame about
the sibe of "a kids sand box on
which he had played beach
scene the day before. when they
can do things like that, maybe
anything's possible" he admitted.
His speaking voice has the husky
quality Characteristic of all the male
Crosbys. Bob says there's nothing
to the legend that Bing has a
clumsy throat operation to credit
for his unusual vocal timber The
youngest brother was going to COL
lege in Spokane when he got an
offer from Arson Weeks TO warble
and play the drums in his band.
His formal education ended right
then. with the purchases of a
tuxedo fof fii ana railroad ticket
south.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30.-Through
no fault of Brother 8ing. nor of
Brothers Larry or Everett, young
Mr.. Crosby is working in the movies
now. And liking it.
He has contract with 20th-FOx
has been borrowed by RKO, and is
leading his band, singing songs and
making love to Jean Rogers in a
picture called Lets Make Music.
His work seems quite effortless; he
almost never blows up in his lines;
the daily rushes look fine; and
there are many around the studio
who wonder how the flickers so
long overlooked this tall, dark and
reasonably handsome member OF
the Crosby family.
The truth is ne has had Holly
wood offers before, but he really
would have been overlooked if he
had accepted any of them. Six
years ago, when Bob was only 81
and when 31-year-old Bing (or
Harry Lillis) had just made the
first Big Broadcast" the young
est Crosby was tempted with a
contract by Paramount.
1t was discovered though that
the studio had no flattering plans
for Bob; it merely wanted to take
him out of circulation so no rival
company could share in the zoom-
ing popularity of the Crosby name.
b. CROSBY"
B. CROSBY
Along about the same time, a
couple of independent companies
began bidding for him. These out
fits wanted to hurl him into q few
ouickies which could be billed with
"B. Crosby" in big type. He packed
up his pride and his drumsticks
and went east, where he forgot all
about movies until talent represen-
tatives recently began to indicate
they'd hire him even if his name
were Joe Doakes. BY this time,
Crosby had his own band. with
more engagements than he could
fill, a big radio program, and few
million records whirling on the
monographs of the nation.
Like Bing. he has an engaging
modesty "fm not much oi mu-
sician, II I'm good for anything,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30
by Bruce Cation ..
The Inside Track in Washington

ing. In uniform now are $4,000
men. Nearly 10000 are men VINO
have enlisted since the first OF
this year. No especial drive to get
men is being carried on-they come
without being asked for, $4,000
have applied so far this year.
GREEN QUININE
FOR CHINESE
Among the bizarre problems the
Red Cross handed itself when it
started that first load of medicines
off to China via the Burma road
was the matter of dyeing 4O,OO0,000
quinine tablets green.
Green quinine doesn't taste any
better than the other kind, but
that's how the Chinese prefer it.
Some years ago the Red Cross was
passing out quinine to Chinese
flood sufferers. Chinese druggists
got to collecting them and selling
them, and to check this the Red
Cross man on the spot got some
vegetable ldyes and colored his
tablets green, telling all hands the
green tablets shouldn't be paid for
All OF which made a big hit, and
somehow gave the run-of-mine
Chinese the idea quinine had to
be green to be good.
In that connection: green or not,
those quinine tablets may prove
essential to the proper functioning
of the Burma road supply trains.
The road dips through a valley
that is highly malarial. Medical
men have reported that unless
there's plenty of quinine the truck
ers and repair crews wouldn't be
able to keep going very long.
Medicines now being shipped Cin-
cluding aspirin, sulfanilimide and
other things, besides quinine) have
cost around 100000. Red Cross
plans TO spend plenty more in the
same way, but wants to see first
just how much Japanese interfer-
ence therell be with these ship
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-30
Did You Know?


Some South American snails lay
eggs which are larger than those
laid by robins.
Briar pipes are made from the
roots of the tree-heath.
Easter Island is a tiny, desolatc
bit of land some 1000 miles west
of South America.
Only 100 of the 1000 known kinds
of bacteria and germs are harmful
to mankind; the other 1900 are
necessary to life.
Whales have the largest brains
of all mammals: the largest on
record weighed 1000 grams.
Yellow is the color of mourning
in China, and for that reason no
yellow automobiles are sent there.
In one district of London, coal
is delivered from a white-painted
cart by man in white overalls.
Furriers sometimes have to go
through as many as 800 rabbit furs
to find 80 of similar appearance.
In driving, it is good rule to
use the same gear going down a
steep hill as you do when you
climb it.
SiXty-Seven thousand tons OF
water 60 over Niagara Falls every
minute.
In the Middle Ages, a person
born under the sign of Jupiter, or
"Jove," was supposed to be merry
and gay, hence our word jovial.
A six-inch pine log. cut by Free
man Wilson, of Denver, Colo. con-
tanned two pine cones grown in
the center of the trunk.