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Evening star., 1941-08-13
Draft Extension Bill
Bars Army Back Pay
By the Associated press

BY the Associated Press
Any hopes entertained by Army
oldtimers that they would receive
big chunk of back pay under the
draft extension bill were dashed
last night.
AS the Senate passed the measure
last Thursday. it provided that
selectees, guardsmen, reservists and
regulars should receive a raise of
$40 month after being in service
year.
The language of the Senate meas
ure led some lawyers to conclude
that a regular who had been in the
Army for 20 years would receive $40
a month back pay for a period of
10 years
However, it was believed that that
was not the intent of the Senate
provision and the House changed
the language so that the pay shall
not be retroactive.
A regular who has been in service
for year or more at the time the
measure becomes effective will get
his raise from then on, but it will
not apply to the past.
Regulars who have not been In
service a year on the effective date
will get the raise as soon as they
complete their IL months. So also
will the selectees. guardsmen and
reServiStg p0pe nf whom hor vat
completed a years service.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Draft
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United States soon would 60 to
war.
He said he had heard of con-
versation between two Republicans
which went like this:
What do you think of Roose-
velt?'"
why, he's doublecrossed us by
keeping us out of war"
Mr.. Rayburn and Mr.. Mccormack
began the day apprehensive that the
controversial bill might be defeated.
They took heart when the first
Republican amendment was defeat
ed, and considered the final victory
theirs when no record vote was re-
quired on approval of the 18-month
extension as substitute for the in
definite continuation provided for
in the original bill
Opposition Solidly G. O. p.
But the progress of the final roll
call vote sent scurrying to the tally
clerks desk. The final result veri-
fed their predictions that If they
did not receive more than a score OF
Republican votes, they might be in
trouble
A breakdown showed that 81 Re-
publicans joined 1872 Democrats in
approving the legislation while 65
Democrats, 1873 Republicans and
four minor party members op-
posed it.
The opposition-almost solidly Re-
publican on every vote-began its
barrage with an amendment by
Representative Short. Republican,
of Montana to strike out the declar-
alton that the national interest is
imperiled, and to add a provision
permitting selectees to volunteer for
a second year of service
The sharp division of the members
was disclosed officially when that
proposal was rejected by 1876 to
146 teller vote.
A second Republican effort also
was defeated, by 176 to 1T teller
vote. That amendment would have
authorized 12-month extension
of service for National Guardsmen
and Reserve components but would
have retained the present year limit
on the training of selectees.
May Oppose Bonus.
After those votes. the way was
paved for adoption of the 18-month
extension, proposed by Chairman
May of the House Military Affairs
l.
Members Enthusiastically rejected an
attempt by Representative Hinshaw,
Republican, of California to write
in a six-month limitation.
Administration leaders anxiously
sought support for an amendment
by Representative Eliot, Democrat,
of Massachusetts, to require the
discharge of $4,000 selectees monthly
in 1942, because it was backed by
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Roosevelt
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cover the President, and seldom out
Of almost immediate contact with
him, the mystery of his absence is
no blessing.
If Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Roose-
welt have met it is one of the years
biggest and most dramatic stories.
If Mr.. Hopkins was flown back
across the Atlantic to be picked up
by "the Chief" it is likewise a big
story. The continued non-appear-
ance of Messrs. Churchill and Hop
kins in England has lent strength
to both these possibilities.
If the President has been or is
now In Greenland or In Newfound-
land. or, most of all, in Iceland.
where American forces now stand
guard over Northern approaches to
this hemisphere it is big story.
Today's best guesses, and they
are no more than that. are that
Mr.. Roosevelt will be brought ashore
on Friday, with return to WASH
ington Saturday morning.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Mrs. |. N. PIumer, sc,
Dies al Mount Rainier

Mrs L. M Plumer. SO. mother Of
Police Chief Eugene Plumer OF
Mount Rainier. Md, died at her
home. 1884 Thirty fourth street,
Mount Rainier. last night.
A resident of Mount Rainier for
80 years, she and her late husband
were agents for The Star for IS
years. Mrs. Plumer maintained the
agency when her husband died, but
gave it up several years ago.
She was a member of St James
Church, the Mothers Club and the
Women's Auxiliary of the American
Legion.
Beside Mr.. Plumer, she leaves six
children, Mrs Margaret Young. Of
Hyattsville, and Mrs. Julia White,
Mrs. Frances Mutchler and Mrs.
Elizabeth Hooe. of Mouns Rainier:
Edward T. Plumer. lieutenant in
the Mount Rainier Fire Department,
and Joseph A. Plumer. in addition
TO l9 grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Funeral Rites Today
For Mrs. Jennie GAYLORD

Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie
Baker Gaylord, ST. chiropractor, who
died Monday at her home, sos
Seward square Sc, we're to be held
at 2 pm today at the Lee funeral
home, Fourth street and Massachu-
sets avenue NE She was to be
buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Gaylord. a native of Indiana,
Pa, came to this city when child
She was a graduate of the Wash
ington School of Chiropractic and
engaged in practice with her hus-
band, Fred w. Gaylord, who sur
wives.
She was a woman FD in the
Navy during the World War and
was member of the u. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post of the American Legion.
which held services for her last
night.
Mrs. Gaylord is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Thomas B. Turley and
Mrs. Clarence E. Bright, both of
Washington.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
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generally regarded as a proponent
of collaboration with Germany-as
Minister of National Defense, with
full control over the nations land,
sea and air forces.
Darlan. who also is Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Naval Minister,
thus becomes the most powerful
figure in France-outside Of Petain
himself.
Political Parties Banned.
Seconding the appointment. the
chief of state announced these
measures.
l. Suspension of all political par
ties or groups of political origin"
and a ban on any public or private
meetings by such organizations.
2 Immediate disciplinary action
against state officials guilty of false
declarations regarding membership
in secret societies has been ordered.
3. Ousting of series of public
officials whose names appeared on
a newly published list of holders of
high Masonic degrees.
4. Virtual elimina ton of members
of the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies by suspension of their pay.
5. Doubling the means of police
action. whose discipline and loyalty
should guarantee public order
6. Appointment of group of
commissars of public power" who
will have the mission of ferreting
out or destroying obstacles which
abuse of the rules of administrative
routine or activity of secret societies
can oppose to the work of national
revolution
War Guilt Report Ordered.
7. Creation of a high tribunal to
try and punish those responsible
for our disaster" with instructions
to report to Petain by October Is.
This presumably would halt further
postponement of the war guilt trials
of former Premiers Daladier and
Revnaud and other high pre-armi-
stice officials
Marshal Petain also announced he
had ordered reorganization of the
National Food Supply Bureau to
Safeguard the interests of consum-
ers" The food supply question has
been one of the sorest problems in
France
Concerning Frances foreign poll
cies. Marshal Petain said his govern
ment often had been misjudged by
the American press, but he said the
Evening star., 1941-08-13

a group of about Is members whose
final votes were in doubt. They ex-
pressed chagrin privately when that
modification was rejected by voice
vote.
A mild stir was created when Rep
resentatiye Healey, Democrat, of
Massachusetts proposed the $40
bonus and Representative May op-
posed it on the ground it would cost
$500 900 900 annually. But it went
into the bill by teller vote of l3l
to "a, in slightly different language
from the Senate section.
Outcome Was in Doubt.
With routine acceptance of minor
amendments by the administration,
the stage was set for the deciding
roll calls.
Representative Harness. Republ-
can, of Indiana Immediately offered
motion to send the bill back to
the Military Affairs Committee with
instructions to strike the declara-
ton that the national interest is
imperiled, to retain the 100000 limit
on selectees to keep the Guards and
Reserves another year while re-
leasing the selectees at the end of
II months.
AS the roll call progressed. the
outcome was obviously in doubt,
but group of Democrats came in
at the last minute to help defeat
Representative Harness motion.
215 to 100.
Sponsors believed the fight was
over then because recommittal votes
usually forecast the final decision.
But some members switched their
votes on the deciding roll call and
it took the recapitulation to verify
that the legislation had mustered
only one-vote margin of victory
Evening star., 1941-08-13
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Evening star., 1941-08-13
London Paper Sees Petoin
In Hindenburo Role

LONDON. Aug. 13 tP,.-Authori-
tative British circles said today that
Chief of State Petain's new policy
underllnes "the determination of
the Vichy government to align
itself more closely" with Germany
and Italy.
These circles said Petains plan is
designed for the purpose of sub
iugating the French people and
forcing upon them policy which
they detest."
The French peoples own ten
dency, these quarters said, is ito
turn with growing hope toward
Evening star., 1941-08-13

Britain and her Allies and TO de-
sire ardently a British victory"
Minister of Supply Lord Beaver
brooks Daily Express, referring TO
strong new powers granted to
Frances Vice Premier Admiral Jean
Darlan, declared:
"Darlan has become Frances
fuehrer and Petain his Hindenburg.
Petain is 85 Germanys late
President Paul Won Hindenburg
was 86 when he died. after yielding
full powers to Hitler.
Evening star., 1941-08-13

United States has no reason to fear
decline of French ideals
The French version of democracy
he declared. never had more than a
few traits in common with the de-
mocracy Of the United States, but he
added:
"As for the instinct of liberty. 1t
still lives within US proud and
strong"
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Menzies May Visit U. 5.
On Way to London
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MELBOURNE, Aug. 13.-Author-
itatlve sources said today Prime
Minister Robert Menzies probably
would go to London by way of the
United States to confer with Presi-
dent Roosevelt if the Federal Par
lament agrees TO his visit.
Parliament has been summoned
to meet briefly August 20 to discuss
the tense Far Eastern situation and
the cabinets proposal that the
Prime Minister go to London.
Evening star., 1941-08-13

the case. There were yells and boos
from the Republican side.
He wasn't even in the room. +"
shouted Representative Knutson,
Republican. of Minnesota.
Speaker Rayburn would not allow
the New Jersey legislators vote
to be recorded, so the final margin
was one vote instead of two.
Evening star., 1941-08-13

for; BEAM, Democrat, of Illinois, against.
HOUSTON, Democrat, of Arkansas, for,
RABAuT,, Democrat. of Mlchigan. ssslnst.
SCOTT. Republican, of Pennsylvania.
against. SHEPARD, Democrat. Of Cali
fornla. for: COFFEE. Democrat, OF Wash
ington. against SCRUGHAM Democrat.
Of Nevada, for: ODAY. Democrat, of New
York. atainst. MITCHELL Democrat. of
Illinos. for. WHITE, Democrat, OF Idaho.
against OCONNOR. Democrat. OF Mon
tsna, for: O'HARA, Republican, OF Mime
sofa, against
Rehabilitation. Democrats for. 1872: Re-
publicans for, 2l Total for 2n3.
Democrats against. SIS. Republicans
asainSt. 1873. American Labor against. |.
Progressives against, 2 Total AGAINST. S09
Paired, "a: not voting. "a vacancies, 2
Total House membership. 435.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
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Evening star., 1941-08-13

Population Of the Ukraine in
Russia is estimated at $4,000 900.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Army Bill Vote
House Passes Service
Extension, 203-202

By the Associated Press.
Here is the roll-call vote by which
the House last night passed the
Army service extension bill:
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
AFTER DEFENSE, THIS
wall Street JournaD

One private industry appears already
to be engaged in planning its own meas
ures for coping with post-defense condi-
tions, without benefit of governmental
master plans. Leading motor car makers
are at work designing the automobiles
they will offer when their choice of ma
terials is again free and they are at lib
erty to turn out as many vehicles as the
market will take, after year or two or
three of making the old car do"
Many Of us are talking about the dan
gers to our economy which will corne
with the end of Europe's war and the
tapering-off of our armament effort
and We do we'll to think of them. Not
content with that the motor men are also
looking forward to an opportunity to
"do things" which for various production
and marketing reasons they have not yet
done Presumably they are now to have
time to develop these things to the point
which may be fairly long tine-of
violently curtailed automobile produc-
ton, they are more than likely to face
a host of buyers eager for cars quite
different from any they have ever driven
In such situation they should be able
= to "sWitch" from emergency to ordinary
production without too greatly interrupt
ing employment in their plants.
They are doubtless aware that if,
when arm-making abates, incomes among
the multitude are seriously reduced they
will have price question to wrestle
with. The answer to that question of
the future we do not profess to know
But the motor makers have dealt pretty
successfully with the same question in
the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
THE PRICE
WE MUST PAY
{ (Tulare TineS)

Americas giant industrial plant is
operating at only Is per cent of potential
capacity, according to Alexander P. Her
on. California representative of the Of
flee of Production Management for
training within industry. Mr.. Heron,
the former state director of finance.
warns that the people of the United
States must prepare to pay-and pay
dearly-in defense of their freedom and
the American way of life. If this nation
is to become the arsenal of democracy
in fact as we'll as in name, he asserts
that production must be trlpled within
the next few months And that stupend-
Gus industrial speed-up cannot be ae-
complished, he declares, without personal
sacrifices on the part of every American
citizen.
ITO do the lob right, reports Mr.. Her
on. each American will eventually be
called upon to surrender large per
centage of his standard of living. If he
does. the foundation upon which that liv-
ing is based will be crushed.
The truth is not always pleasant. par
ticularly when We have been lulied into
a false sense of security by gold-brlck
economists, who have told all and sundry
that the government owes them living.
But it is vitality important that the Amer
lean people should be told the truth, as
Mr.. Heron has told it, before it is too
late. For some years past, we have been
inculcated with the idea that whenever
we got tired, or bored with our job, we
could look to government tor support
and security. But now the government
is looking to us for support-and is tell
ing us frankly, even if belatedly, that we
alone can insure our security. 1t is to be
hoped that we have the hardihood and
moral stamina to stand the shock.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
AFTER ALL, IT'S
ABOUT TIME

Our conscience must be either afro
phied or asleep.
Ardent advocate that we are of freedom
of speech. freedom of the press and all
manner of individual freedom. and bitter
enemy that we are OF unnecessary ana
dictatorial government interference IN
business we still cannot work up any
vestige of a peeye at the government
over the film, THE Land of Liberty
We're inclined. if the horrld truth
must be known, to cheer a little, ALBEIT
with a mental reservation that we shaiI
withdraw our cheers in the event II IS
nroved the government was not at all
interested in having The Land OF Lloer-
tv" shown in American theaterS.
The Land of Liberty is a film pro
duced by Metro-GoldWyn- Mayer ana
made up of historical bits from other
films. 1t is a review Of American ms
tory 1t attained prominence IN the sen
ate hearing on movie propaganda because
of charge that an M,G.M. branch man.
ager told a theater operator that the
government had asked for the names OF
all theaters which refused to show it.
The inference: federal pressure to put
over a propaganda film.
Can YOU imagine the same federal
administration which called the ArleII-
can Constitution a remnant of horse ana
buggy days now eXerting pressure to
arouse the pride Of all Americans III the
achievements of those same horse and
buggy days? Or can you picture the same
federal officials who have scotted at
Yankee ingenuity and American enter
prise as signs of medievalism now trying
to nurture those qualities through pres
cI1re DrODaUaOda2
1t seems unbelievable that an admins
tration which has spent eight years prop
agandizing against the old fashioned
American way of life should now do such
a radical about-face that it spends time
and effort glorifying that very thing.
No wonder we're bit unbelieving.
If it is true, we're going to cheer as
loudly as vocal limitations will allow.
After all, if the federal administration
has decided for change to build up 10y
atty to American ideals Nnd institutions,
what the administration needs Is all the
encouragement it can get. There has
been too much loyalty in America to all
other sorts of tripe, and too little atten-
ton paid to real Americanism, for too
long a time already. We're about due
for some pride in ourselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
by Peter Edison :.
The Inside Track in Washinqion

pany, as vice president of Bell Of
Pennsylvania. Today, at 40, he has
New Yorker and success stamped
all over him, and he radiates con-
fidence like an ART dividend
check He is not quite six feet
tall, but he's big-not fat, just
in the pink He has magnificent
head of prematurely white hair
that should be the envy OF Paul
McNutt, and from HarriSon's big
broad, smiling, ruddy face there
shine two of the bluest eyes you
ever saw That smile of his would
diSarm a tank.
WANTS MORE THAN ENOUGH
But about this defense produc-
ton job he has;
Harrison is as dissatisfaction
unsatisfied is the Word-he's as
unsatisfied with what has been
done SO far as anybody could be
1t isn't enough. Nothing, no matter
how big or good it is, is enough
If l were the man in the street,
he says. I'd be yelling my head
off at all those flunkeys down in
Washington, and wondering what
they were doing that the stuff
didn't get out faster
At the same time, Harrison wants
everyone to know that whale of
q job has been done. His opinion
is that the Truman and other in
vcStigating committees uncovered
only few bad spots, no more than
you'd expect, and he points to the
important fact that the camps
were ready on time. The powder
plants are a tremendous achieve
ment. On sites that were picked
only last February powder will be
produced this next month. On the
Chrysler tank job, where corn
grew II months ago, five tanks q
day are rolling off the assembly
line now, a month ahead of sche-
dule.
AS for Senator Byrd's criticism OF
the defense program while Har-
rison doesn't know Byrd personally
he says he has always considered
him one of the ADLER men in Wash
ington. In this case, however, Byrd
got figures at least. month old
and they don't tell today's story
And watch for the production fig
ures next month"; says Harrison
They'll all see some surprises
there"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
WASHINGTON WRINKLES

-Four million pages of press and
industry information sheets are
turned out by OPM every month.
OPM now has 30 telephone trunk
lines coming into its headquarters
in Washington but that isn't enough
TO carry the load Soldiers in camp
will hereafter see first-run movies
as soon as they are released to
civilian theaters. Soldiers will see
the movies at the rate of 10 shows
for $14O but civilians won't be
permitted TO attend the camp
shows. In selecting the 100000 Sc
lective service soldiers who will be
discharged before Christmas, an eff
fort will be made to prevent in
creasing the unemployment in ci-
william industries closed by defense
production. Red Cross is 10 mvesti-
gate dependency claims Of soldiers
applying for discharge.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-16
by Willis Thornton :.
Sauce for The Gander

There is nothing funny about the
bombing of cities.
The dropping of death from the
skies on innocent women and chill
dren who have offended nobody is
grim and barbarous business.
If it were possible to squeeze a
single drop of tortured humor out
OF so bloody a business, it would
come from the German complaints
that the bombing of Berlin is a
Tout trick, cruel" low down and
contemplate" 1t is enough to make
the gods laugh-or cry.
These bombings took place al
most exactly year after the Ger
man all-out attacks on England be-
gan. For nearly a year, Britain
has gritted her teeth and taken 1t
as London flared into weired bon
fires. Coventry seethed in ashes,
and many another ancient home
and building became a raging crypt
for the innocent. All men could do
was to shake futile fists at the
dark skies in sheer heart-breaking
impotence. That, and grimly await
their turn.
That turn seems to have come.
With long range bombers at last
at the disposal of the British, Ber-
lin and other German cities are
feeling a tithe of the wrath they
unleashed on the cities of Britain.
Again innocent ones are dying
unoffending women and babies are
dying in Germany now, as they
have died all this long year in
Britain. The homeless range the
streets. distracted and dazed. 1t
is horrible now, as it was horrible
then.
Once again: no pilot, German
or British, knows what his bomb
is going to hit as he pulls the
bomb release 10000 feet above a
sleeping city. The variation of a
fraction of a hairs breadth in the