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Evening star., 1941-06-13
C.l. 0. Chiefs on Way
10 Coast for Purge
Of Communists
Charges Filed Against
Regional Director; Other
Unions Fight Reds

Ry the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, June ia score
OF top-ranking c. I. o. officials are
coming to Los Angeles in response
TO Richard T. Frankensteens call
to purge the Pacific Coast leader
ship of the United Automobile
Workers of subversive elements.
Mr.. Frankensteen, national head
OF the Aviation Division of the
c. /. O.-U. A. w, declared in a
radio address their purpose is to
clean out Communists from posi-
tions where they could dominate C.
I. o. policies in the U. A. w. organ
zing drive on the Pacific Coast"
He reiterated his declaration that
the hve-day strike at North Ameri-
can Aviation plant called by local
union officials during negotiations
before the Defense Mediation
Board was "a wildcat and outlaw
strike"
II condemn the irresponsible acts
OF the local leaders of the striking
U. A. w. who surrendered our union
to the Communist party and who
sought to use its strength to pre-
cipitate strike against our ma
tional union, our national Gov
ernment and our national defense"
he declared.
Mr.. Frankensteen has suspended
officers of the local union and men,
bers of its Negotiating Committee,
along with five U. A. w. inter-
national representatives. He an
nounced he had filed charges against
Lew H. Michener, U. A. w. West
Coast regional director, with Ma
tional c. I. o. headquarters.
Next objective of the U. A. w.
aircraft organizing drive, Mr.. Frank
ensteen said, will be Douglas Air
craft Co.'S 10000 workers.
Among early arriving c. I. o.
executives was Walter Smethhurst.
Mr.. Frankensteen's assistant in the
National Aircraft Workers organiz-
ing drive.
Mr.. Smethurst said constitu-
tional amendment to forbid any
member of the Communist Party
from holding Office in the union
would be submitted to the National
q. A. w. Convention in Buffalo,
N. Y, July 20.
Evening star., 1941-06-13

action Of the I. w. A. leaders in
rejecting the Defense Mediation
Boards back-to-work proposal and
voted to negotiate independently.
Yesterday the Olympia Local q
l91, representing about 1900 log
gers in Southwest Washington,
voted to return to work under the
Mediation Boards proposal.
Previously in Port Angeles the
Northern Olympia Peninsula local
voted to renounce the stand taken
by the I. w. A. leaders and to open
independent negotiations.
Evening star., 1941-06-13

SEATTLE, June 13 LP.-As the
revolt within the ranks of the In
ternational Woodworkers of Amer
lea &C. I. o. continued today,
Schafer Mill No of Aberdeen be-
came the first plant to resume op-
eratlons since strike of $4,000
mill workers and loggers tied up 50
Western Washington operations.
The Schafer logqers oYerruled the
Evening star., 1941-06-13
G.. /. O. at Brewster Plane
Plant to Try % Members

NEWARK, June 13 P.-The
Executive Committee of Local 365,
United Automobile Workers &C. I.
o.. last night called a general
meeting of the local to act on
charges against % members of sub
versive activities at the Long Island
City plant of the Brewster Aeronau-
tical Corp, busy on defense orders
for fighter planes.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., June
13 P).-Matthew Woll, vice presi-
dent OF the American Federation
Evening star., 1941-06-13

of Labor. calls on the A. r. L. and
the Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations Ito clean their ranks"
Evening star., 1941-10-03
SH0RI.WAVE PROGRAMS,

SYDNEY 5:l5-"The Truth Of II Is = s. ~:
W07, l1.86 meg, Isl m.
LONDON, 5;45-The News: CSC, q58 meg,
3i.3 m.; GSD, Ills meg. 255 m.
BERLIN, 6:OO-News in English: DID,
til meg 25.4 m.; DID. 1854 meg,
285 m.
MOSCOW, 645-Broadtast in English: RaE,
z meg, Is m.
LONDON, 7:3O-Britain Speaks, J. B. Priest
ley: CSC, 9.58 meg, 3l.3 m.; GSD, It's
meg 25.5 m.
BUDAPEST, 7:30-News in English: HAT4.
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meg, 1853 m.; l64, 1910 meg. 1913 m.
LONDON. S:t5-Demouay Marches: CSC,
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MOSCOW, 9;30-Engish Period; Ry96,
1913 megr 1877 m.
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o;58 meg, 3l3 m.; GSD, HIS meg, 25.5 m.
ROME, lOOO-Eews in English: 2RO4,
1881 meg. 25.4 m, FROG, 1880 meg,
1876 m.; 2R08. i7.8z meg, i68m. i,
BERLIN eio:39-Hew in English: DID,
iii megs 15.4 m.;;sDzD, 1854 meg, 28.5
m.; DXP, SOB meg, 49.7 m.
LONDON, Il:15-husit Of Britain: CSC,
9.58 meg, 3l.3 m.; GSD, IT'S meg, 75.5 m.
MOSCOW, 1900 a.m.-NewS; N96, 1918
Evening star., 1941-10-03
IHE EYENlae,S HIGH LIGHIs.

WMAL 7:l5-Radiu Magic: Dr.. Caldwell
outlines prospects for radO set made Of gold,
silver, magnesium and metaliled paper.
WJN. 730-AI PearteS Gang: Returning
for another season. with Andy DeWne and Ray
ErIenbom suppIemeOting the cast
WRC, E45-FIOYd D. 0dIum, director Of
0. P. MS Division Of Contract Distribution:
Little Business and The Defense Program"
WJSV, 80O-Kaie Smith, Return Of the
genial lady Of song First guests are Merle
0berOn and Tommy Dorsey; Nan Rae, Naude
Davis and Tommy TutkerS Singing Ensemble
round out
WpC, S;3O-Infomation. Please: Senior
Lefty Gomez Of The New York Yankees pitching
staff joins The board for night
WISV, 9:00-pIaYhouse: Eddie Cantor in a
more serious vein, June Moon"
WWOC, 9:30-The War TodaY Representa-,
tive John Z. Anderson Of California on Our
Navy Today"
WNAL, 930-charIes A. Lindbergh addresses
an Anerita First Committee meeting in Fort
Wayne, Ind,
.WJSV, tO:OO-HoIywood Premiere: Adapfa-
lion Of the new movie Married Bachelor"
with Robert Young and Ruth Hussey.
WRC, i0:00-Wngs Of Destiny: Story of
the progress Of dirplane designing.
WWDC, i0:0O-Skating Party; Opening Of
The indoor ite skating season presented in 20.
operation with The Federal Employees Council.
Evening star., 1941-10-03

3NT Pass g. Pass
Pass Pass
West opened the seven of spades,
dummy winning with the king.
Declarer looked at the dummy and
his own hand with justifiable salts
faction; the bidding had been good
and the contract was sound, even
though not iron-clad After some
thought he hit upon line of play.
He intended to draw two rounds
of trumpS, cash the spade ace so as
to discard diamond, then ruff a
spade. If the spade queen dropped,
the slam would be cold" If it was
still at large. he would run one more
trump, maybe two trumps. just to
apply little pressure to the enemy.
Then he would lead a diamond and,
if West played low, fineSSe the jack,
If that knocked out the ace, we'll
and good; if not he could enter
dummy with high heart to ruff a
diamond in the hope of ruff1ng out
the ace.
AS you can see. the fineSse of the
diamond jack would have worked;
and. if it hadn't. the diamond ruff
would take out the ace. Left to his
own devices. therefore, South would
have made his contract. But West
could see that defensive tricks would
be won only in diamonds. so decided
to obscure the diamond situation.
When South led the third round
of trump. West discared the eight
of diamonds. And when South led
fourth trump, West completed the
echo" with the deuce of diamonds
If West had been clever player,
this would not have worked; South
would have suspected guile But it
was beautifully in character, for
West was just a mediocre player
having brilliant moment South
believed the signal and played
dummy's diamond king on the first
diamond trick. That doomed his
slam to defeat.
Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's
partner and. with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
AKJ73
N29
nQ1O64
+J852
The bidding:
Maier. Jacoby You Schenken.
~ Pass (?)
Answer-Bid one spade. The simple
uncover one affords the best chance
to get to a sound contract. Players
iawile are tempted to- bid one no.
trump on this sort Of hand should
remember that one of a suit is
cheaper than one no-trump.
Score 100 per cent for one spade,
40 per cent for one no-trump.
Question No. 88I.
Today. you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
Maier. Jacoby. You. Schenken
10 Pass IA Pass
INT Pass t?)
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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POINTS FOR PARENTS

Courtesy teaching giDen only
1ohen members OF ones olUn
family are present is both pleas
anter and more eftectiDe than is
correction Uhen outsiders are
present.
Evening star., 1941-10-03

WMAl. WRC, W0L. WJSV, 10:30-Presdent
Roosevelt and Wendell WiIlkie in their first
joint broadcast 10 the Nation, opening the
community mobilization for human needs in
the United States and Canada
VOL. 1i;30-Re Representative Keefe Of Wis
tonSn: The War Situation.
Evening star., 1941-10-03
EVENING STAR fEATURES.

Junior Star Page; The popular feature of
The Sunday Star aired by its youthful con,
tribuioy; WNAL, tomorrow al iO45 an.
News Summary LOihrOp Stodddrd Of The
Star editorial staff anaIyzes the past weeks
news; WhAL, tomorrow al Il am.
Evening star., 1941-10-03
Contract
,y THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin d:
Maier, Oswald Jacoby and Howard
Schenken, worlds leading team of
four. inventors Of the system that
has beaten every other system IN
existence)
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
Germans Prepare
To Inuade England

Will the Nazis try to invade the
British Isles?
Most experts say. yes.
The question is when?
Recently sorne information has
come to my ears which touches on
this point. 1t ONE from two
sources which are sound and reli.
able. One is a story which was told
to me by a French newspaper wom-
an who is Hitler's Private Enemy
Number One. She is Madame Gene
We've Tabouis. and she escaped
France ahead Of the hungry Gestapo
and is here in the United States.
She told me that the Germans had
held a practice maneuver in France
which consisted Of pouring oil on a
certain river. They then ignited
the oil and hundreds of German SOL
diers, dressed in specially prepared
freproof clothing jumped in. The
next day the river was full of
corpses and the hospitals full of
frightfully burned soldiers.
The experiment did not work
Spreading burning oil at invasion
points is said to be one of the meth
DDS of defense the British are plan.
ming against invasion.
Now the second story comes from
a man whom l canno name but
who has recently been in Germany.
He says that the Germans have been
working a long time on perfecting
amphibian tanks-tanks which will
actually float. He believes that
there will be no invasion until these
tanks are ready.
He also says that a psychological
moment will be chosen. One when
British morale is at a low point.
For instance, if both the Suez and
Gibraltar were captured the Ger
mans might feel that this was the
moment.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
PRIORITIES:
And OPM

A new difficulty in the U. S. ham
ding Of defense work doomed when
William S. Knudsen, motor official
and head Of OPM, seemed to take
as a personal issue the question Of
taking priorities out of his hands
and giving them to a special organi-
cation answerable only to the army
and navy chiefs.
Knudsen was quoted as saying
that he would quit If the plan went
through.
Thus the question of priorities lift
ed its head as a vital defense issue,
further complicating the picture.
Priorities were becoming a very
real issue in business. also, many
manufacturers finding that this one
question might easily keep them
from cce or failure in carrying
out contracts. The right to a prior
ity Of delivery of machine tools
might alone answer an entire ques-
ton Of manufacture.
Knudsen took the attitude that
if the work of production manage
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
Soviet Diplomats
Hold an at Home"

Many a Washington official who
speaks of Russia's dictator with a
curl of the lip has a secret admira-
ton for the wiley Comrade Stain.
Some call him the "Volga Goat
man'-because he gets so many
diplomatic goats.
Recently it was the policy Of the
state department following the Brit
ish lead) to make up to the car Of
the Soviets. Russia wanted ma
chimes and tools. We wanted Russia
to growl at the Japanese. And so
the neutrality-suspicious. Sumner
Welles. our undersecretary of state,
"a forced to let his chin down at
least n hitch and converse pleas
antly with the anything-but-
aristocratic Tovarisch Oumanski,
charge d'affaires Of the Soviets.
Then came the sudden announce
ment Of the Russo-Japanese neu-
trality pact. 1t broke upon the dig
niied diplomatic world with all the
in%dignity of an average egg explod-
ing IN an immaculate shirt front.
About that time of the month
there occurred an "at-home" at one
of the Sixteenth streets most promi-
nent residences Ito quote the official
guide book. This mansion, built
originally by the widow of the Pull
man palace car millions and later
palace Of the perfumed and be-
monocled emissaries of the Roman
offs, is now the Soviet embassy.
The 'at home was a great sue.
cess. The great and the near-grea'
from belligerent and peaceful ma
tons were there. In fact, it wa!
quite a job keeping the Canadian
diplomats out Of one salon while
swastika and hammer and sickle
tete-a-teted over the tall tea-glasses,
Earlier that day the state depart.
ment had minimized to inquiring re.
porters the importance of the Russo.
Japanese pact. But diplomats, as
you know, use words to conceal
their thoughts. Their actions speak
much louder than their official state
ments. At the Soviet lat home"
state department officials were ex-
ceedingly conspicuous by their abb
sence
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
SHIPS:
Britain Bound

President Roosevelt assured the
nation that the administrations OBJ
jective of 1000, 900 tons Of merchant
shipping for Britain would be real
lied by mid-June.
This assurance carried with it the
important promise that the bill per-
hitting the President to take pos
session of foreign vessels idle in
American ports "a in the category
Of sure things"
The senate and house engaged in
a desultory effort to write into the
bill amendments chief among which
was the Tobey amendment forbid
ding the use of conveys.
The whole convoy issue, as indeed
all other news Of the war on this
side Of the water took a back seat
during the news ascendancy of Ru-
dof Hess. but the issue was there,
ready to rip itself out into the open
at an appropriate moment, and to
become the central point of a whole
congressional debate on the Presi-
dents general foreign policy.
The 1000. 900 tons of ships for Brit
ain within a month came as the
Nazis were claiming TO- 600, 900 tons
Of British ships sunk by U-boats
since the start of the war, and with
the British, while admitting losses
Of at least half that amount, gen.
orally showing the pinch sharply.
Further drastic reductions in the
meat ration land little is as dear
to the Britisher as his beloved beef
and mutton) were announced and
the general trend of commons de-
bate indicated that Britain was feel.
ing the ship pinch tremendously.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
DRAFT:
Bars Lifted

OF extreme import was the deci-
sion of congress to lift all bans to
the size Of the army or to the ques-
ton OF selective service for any pur-
pose for which it might be used in
the national defense.
Also vital was the decision imme-
diately to classify the 10, 600, 900
young men still unclassified in the
first call, and to set up the second
call for an early date, probably in
July.
Two things were highly likely as
a resultant the draft would be
used to call men of a younger age
than before, and that it would also
be used to hunt out missing links"
among the skilled trades for use in
defense industry.
The first eventuality naturally
would follow the report of army
chiefs after a few months expert
ence with draftees that the younger
men were far more adaptable than
the older. and could take their train.
ing quicker and better.
The second resulted from the
realization that many men in the
uniform would be much more pro-
ductive to defense in shipyards or
munitions plants and that the classi.
fication lists, if turned over to de.
tense production men might result
in discovery of these facts before
the uniform was donned.
The lifting of any ban on the size
of the army tended to indicate that
there was justification for the grow
ing belief that the end of a calendar
year would not very likely mean
the end Of a mans military service,
under present conditions.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
BOMBSHELL:
Human Variety

The Rudolf Hess incident was the
dropping Of a bombshell into the
moors Of Scotland which went up
with a louder explosion than any Of
the tons of TINT that Hitler's aviators
had yet sent across the channel.
Imaginations ran riot-the house
Of commons was in a dither-more
than 20 basic theories we're adj
vanced to explain why Hess fed
Germany in an airplane and
dropped to earth In a parachute,
and with the Intervening and vari-
atoms Of these, one had several
thousand stories to choose from.
To list the British theories and
those Of neutrals would be futile be-
cause they we're not only limited by
the imaginations of their creators.
To list the German explanations
also would be futile because they
obviously were the propaganda out
bursts Of a government whose nose
was temporarily out Of joint.
Outside Of this, all was specula-
ton, all vas guesswork, but the
g%uessers, most Of them being paid at
so much a word, let themselves 60
and endless columns were printed.
Yet the story was not being "over-
played"-most thinking newspaper
men being at a loss for earlier COM
parsons in journalistic history,
which, n must recall, doesn't 60
far back when history is considered.
But outside of the type Of story
that history presented in the Middle
Ages and during the days of Caesar
and Hannibal, and Anthony and
Cleopatra, and Cassius and Brutus,
and Helen of Troy, Hess flight was
unique.
Most newspaper commentators
were willing to call it the biggest
story in centuries and let it 60 at
that. They wagged their heads and
said, What if Cordell Hull were to
fly to Germany, OF what if it had
been the other way over the chan
mel and Anthony Eden had made
the trip"
This vas enough to settle the point
as to the magnitude of the news to
their own satisfaction, anyway.
Basic explanation Of the Hess in
cident, on the standpoint Of logic.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22

n louder explosion than bombs
brought personal considerations and
personal safety to the fore. 1t was
pointed out:
a. Hess had evidently wanted to
escape Germany for some reason
for he was practically under a de-
tainment sentence by Hitler's hav-
ing grounded him.
b. II his reason for escape was
sound, then to pick out a spot where
he would be utterly safe from retri-
button, England was the one and
only spot in the world.
c. If personal safety was his mo-
tive, then an unacceptable parallel
was that something must have been
wrong with the unity Of the Nazi
party of which he was No. 3
fuehrer.
This was enough explanation for
British serenity over the incident,
also for German perturbation. It
was significant that most German
dispatches covered these three
points.
Point No. l was covered when
Hitler announced Hess was crazy
and had been detained for his own
safety. No. 2. that he should select
England, Germans explained by say
ing that the nature Of his insanity
was that he believed that he, single
handed, could bring about peace.
Point No. 3 was handled by a
straight-out denial that anything
was wrong with the Nazi party.
Hess was a good Nazi but crazy"
Painted Toenails'
Whether crazy or not, when they
took off his shoe and sock to attend
to his fractured ankle, he was found
to have painted toenails. hardly the
American idea Of a hard-boiled
Nazi leaders personal decorations.
Everyone who ever had any con-
tact with Hess told his paragraph
or two, from the palmist who said
he was ''superstitious" to the news
paper commentator who took five
minutes coast to coast" to tell how
he had seen Hess 60 skiing two
years ago.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
B r | ELS bv Baukhage
TOO dumb to fght!"

TOO dumb to fight!"
That's a new one, but it is what
the army says about draft regis
trants who cannot read and write.
After trying to teach illiterate selec.
tees the complications Of modern
military machines, the Selective
Service administration has ordered
that a fourth grade education or its
equivalent is now necessary before
you car get into this new army.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22

II you want to be an army officer,
you pretty nearly have to be liter
airy as well as literate. At least, a
16-page circular advising as to the
type of books officers should read
include books on philosophy. political
science. military science, history.
international relations, Stalin's
Secret Service and Hitler's Mein
Kampf. Others r representative
works Of all the leading countries.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
MERRY-GO-ROUND

The Nelson Rockefeller committee
for cultural relations with South
America wasn't at all keen about
the Douglas Fairbanks goodwill pill
grimage. They resented Franklin
Roosevelt Jr.. close friend Of Fair.
banks. putting this one over with
his father while they weren't look
ing.
Mayor LaGuardia declined with
thanks FDR's request that he head
the new Civil Defense Commits.
sion, indicating to the Boss that he
wants q cabinet Job or nothing.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22

Of justice. or whatever government
agency might undertake the work,
may do or may be doing now for
that matter. is not officially re-
vealed. But this we do know: the
stations of the National Broadcast
ing company. Columbia, Westing-
house, General Electric and the pri-
vately owned station WRUL in Bos-
ton expect greatly to increase the
number of newscasts they are send
ing out to foreign countries in for
eign languages.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
STRIKES:
UPGRADE Again

The labor trouble tempo in the
United States defense industry was
on the upward curve again, it'll a
$50, 900, 600 order for Browning ma
chine guns held up at the Colt fac
tory in Hartford. Conn, and other
old labor difficulties threatening to
break out anew. including the coal
strike.
Always rearing its head was the
threatened General Motors strike,
which would. if it occurred, affect
millions Of dollars in defense work
and about 100. 900 employees, and
John L. Lewis said that if the coal
contract with southern operators
was not forthcoming soon, he would
call the 400. 900 coal miners out
again.
This brought the strike news back
onto the front pages with a bang,
and Representative Thomas of New
Jersey. a Republican, called for a
roundup Of Communists in labor
groups, and to order them all arrest
ed on treason charges. This was
the most drastic step suggested thus
far.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-05-22
NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward C. Wayne
Reports of Hess Flight to England
Fill News Columns and Radio Lanes;
Conveys Plus Strikes Plus Priorities
Equal Headaches in Defense Program

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