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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-03

the labor relations department ioI
the corporation.
George + Adde's. UAW-ClO sec
rotary and treasurer Walter J.
Reuther. the unions Gu depart
roent head and Richard r Resin
GER. international board member
Elnncd lnI The -LAlon-
Wilson said
general Motors realizes the
importance Of. and the difficult
tics i'm. the present labor problem
created by the curtailment of
non defense production, particu-
LARRY by the drastic cut IN auto
mobile production, and the
necessity ia transfer workers to
defense production.
PRINCIPLES OUTLINED
I'm working with the office
Of Production Management and
labor representatives on AN in
depreciation Of the oPM policies
regarding defense employment
and transfer OF employees 20 de-
tense work a. these policies
would affect the General Motors
plants, the following four prin-
Ciples were kept In mind;
That euerythine must be
done 20 expedite the defense pro-
Prou.
"2-That the Importance OF
enlpIoye morale must be reeoe-
nised. and everything possible
done for the employees no1
working IN our plants, so that
they you'd know they had been
given every consideration and
treated Uith the utmost fairness.
"3-That IL wos important 70
reduce migration of workers be
tween plants and communities TO
minimum.
"z-That the Interpretation of
the policies should be simple and
readily understood. and nor dis
turb any existing satisfactory
procedures.
BACKS OPM POLICIES
Wilson stated that these aims
were in accord with policies emu
merated by the OPM Septem
Der
He said that while the seven
point program applies "techni
cally- only 10 plants where III,
UAW-CIO has bargaining rights
he expects that the same PROV
siens- viii he satisfactory te EN-
ployes in all plants The GM deal
with Is unions. IN all. in addition
10 non-union employees.
Those agreed upon interpre-
taiions of policy do not upset
any of the current labor agree
ment of the corporation, but rec
ognize the special problem which
now exists. and provides for an
orderly handling of the employ
ment a. men are transferred
from nondefense TO defense
work." Wilson said.
1--WE hope that all of the en-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-03
Ambulance for Red Cross

An ambulance will be presented
10 the American Red Cross by the
Northwest Detroit Post No 100
of the American Legion az cere-
monies 10 be- held az 2 p. m
Sunday in the post headquarters,
Schoolcraft and Ardmore avenues.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-03
Engineers Pick Parker

NEW YORK, Oct. SC. z.
Davies, secretary of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
today announced the election OF
James w. Parker. vice president
and Chief eneiseeI.of the Detroit
E.rns,.. -..---..,,.~-AkA rxssident on
Evening star., 1941-08-31

the pride of the Nation in those
chosen to bear an active part in
its defense, the keepers of its gate,
the watchman of its safety. On
the home front as well as in the
field, the trumpets must not give
forth uncertain sounds.
Time Not Sufficient Hope.
1t is. therefore, not enough to
hope that time and material i'm
provements will cure all the Army's
ills. OF course. every new job un-
dertaken has it's period of initial
enthusiasm, followed by period of
reaction and letdown as the task
becomes more familiar and hard
work takes the edge from novelty.
But that ought to be followed by
an increasing pride in accomplish
ment, in the development of team
work from squad TO division sup
ported always by the confidence
and encouragement of a grateful
people. We have talked long enough
about injustice and incompetence
and broken faith. Let us rather
give our thoughts to the darkness
of the. future for the struggle both
materially and morally, both in
hand and heart.
Let our trumpets ring out clear
and true and certain, the trumpets
of a united people who have sworn
no truce with tyrants-or with fear.
Such an America will have no cause
for anxiety as to the morale of its
soldiers.
tCopyright, 1e41. by New York Tribune
Inc)
Evening star., 1941-08-31

novels are in all the book stores
both in the original language and
translated into Icelandic. The pres
ent best seller displayed in the
bookstore windows-there are more
book stores than "bjor joints" in
Reykjavik-is a novel called "A
Hverf Anda Hveli" This means
Gone with the Wind" There is
hardly an Iceland girl who isn't
in love with Rhett Butler and
doesn't think Scarlet O'Hara was
a shameless hussy.
Names Prove q Puzzle.
Family names in Reykjavik puzzle
the Americans. William Jonsson's
son, Peder, would not be Peder Jons-
son but Peder Williamson. He
probably would name his own eldest
son Jon after the grandfather, SO
the "Jonsson" would be restored in
the fourth generation, II the boy
lived
williams daughter Gretta would
be Gretta Williamsdotter. Her own
daughter would carry her husbands
given name. Gretta would not take
her husbands name when she mar
ried, but remain Gretta Williams
dotter throughout life. The contin-
uing family name is essentially un-
known in Iceland.
This is apt to cause much con-
fusion until one gets accustomed to
it. For example. the leading de-
partment store in Iceland is the
emporium of Haraldur Arnasson, the
worlds chief exporter of elder
down. Mr.. Arnasson is we'll known
in America, where he was the Ice
landic representative at the New
York Worlds Fair.
Soda Fountain Breaks Down.
The Reykjavik business is largely
in the hands of an extremely pro-
gressive and affable young Ice
lander, Arni Haraldsson. He is, Of
course, Mr.. Arnasson's Oldest son,
named after his fathers first name,
which was the last name of his
grandfather.
Mr.. Haraldsson will explain it all
in perfect English to any American
soldier who can catch him when he
isn't busy with his drygoods store
or the charming garden cafe which
he has opened. BY the time this is
printed he probably will have opened
an American soda fountain. He has
one, but it broke down just when
the town was invaded by about 1000
American soldiers. That little mis-
hap cost him about 10000 kroner
in profits, and Mr.. Haraldsson was
in a frame of mind to give lesson
in some of the choicest oaths used
by Lief the Lucky when interviewed
In the storeroom of his emporium.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
uxes
Continued From First Page }

that the bill as reported from COM
mittee will not be materially
changed. On the other hand, many
Senators have been out of the city
since before the committee acted.
and 1t may be several days before
the Senate's reaction to the lower
exemptions can be fully measured.
The lowered exemptions account
for 1903 100000 out of the total of
$435, 900, 900 the Finance Committee
added to the House bill, and this
fact will prove an obstacle to any
move to restore the present exemp-
tions. 1t would require sharp up
ward revision of other forms OF tax
alton to replace the lower exemp-
tions.
Joint Return Not Involved.
Some well informed Senate
sources believe the community prop
erty States may win their fight for
elimination of the com ittee
amendment affecting them. The
Senate bill does not involve the con-
troversial issue of compulsory joint
returns by married couples, which
was beaten in the House. AS the
bill now stands, husbands and wives
in all States may continue to file
separate returns.
The amendment is designed mere
ly to remove particular advantage
the committee felt exists in a few
States, where local laws permit the
property of a family to be divided
equally between the husband and
wife on separate returns. Senators
from the States affected are ex-
pected to contend, however. that this
question should be postponed for
consideration in a later bill, revis-
ing administrative features of the
tax laws
The committee proposal, esti-
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Charge Film Makers
Invite j. ). 10 War
Denounced by Hays
Movie Industry Chief
Agrees to Testify in
Senatorial Probe
Rx the Aksociated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3o.-will n.
Hays, president of the Motion Pic
ture Producers and Distributors Of
America, Inc, today denounced as
false and shameless" charges that
the industry had filmed propaganda
intended to incite Americans to war.
He accepted an invitation to sp-
pear before a Senate interstate COM
merce subcommittee appointed to
hold hearings on resolution for
investigating war propaganda in
films.
In a letter to Senator Clark, DEM
ocrat, of Idaho, committee chair
man, Mr.. Hays declared the accusa-
ton was baSeless and is in
dignantly denied"
The freedom of the screen, like
the freedom of the press, radio and
other means of expression Mr..
Hays wrote, lis an essential pillar
of American liberty. No freedom is
secure if the motion picture may
not dramatize what the press prints,
what the air carries, what the
magazines serve to their readers,
what book publishers present in
current literature, or what the liv-
ing stage portrays of the world
scene of today.
Regardless of how great the
pressure, the industry cannot resist
every attempt to prevent the exer-
else of such rights. The industry
recognizes the distinction between
liberty and license as is evidenced
by its self-regulation in the field of
morality, decency and good taste,
and by its impartial presentation Of
economic and political issues"
He said that to yield to the de-
Rand that picture makers ignore
the fact that we live in an era of
destruction and tyranny that sur
| passes the blackest period Of bar
barism, that all the principles upon
/ which American life is based are
being destroyed in a great part of
the world, would best serve the pur-
poses and interests of the most bit.
ter enemies of our way Of life"
Evening star., 1941-08-31
japanese
Continued From First Page.)

violated her pledge in the Four
Power Pact.
The United States had denounced
Japan's actions in China every step
of the way and refuses to recognize
the conquest of Manchuria, now
Manchukuo, although the conquest
took place almost 10 years ago.
Since the differences are so prom
1nent over China, the general as
sumption here, pending further
actual developments in the CONVEX
sations, is that the two countries will
try to strike bargain on subsidiary
matters.
Restrained Irritation.
In return for a relaxation OF the
economic sanctions, Japan might
agree to GO no further into southern
Asia and rot to molest American
shipping to Vladivostok, Russian
port in Siberia. In other words,
the relations of the United States
and Japan might be restored to the
point of restrained irritation at
which they were before Japan joined
the Axis, last September.
The guarantees Japan is said to
want from the United States and
China as the price of evacuation of
the conquered provinces Except
Manchukuo) is recognition of special
Japanese rights, or privileges, in
China and the granting to Japan Of
an opportunity to assist" China in
her economic development.
The United States has never ex-
hibited any faith that the extension
of special privileges to Japan on
the Asiatic continent would pre-
vent Japan from using her preferred
position to injure economically the
United States and to exploit China
for Japan's own good.
Believe in Open Door.
The United States still believes in
the open door, while Japan believes
in a greater Asia co-prosperity
sphere, which is held here to be
inimical to the open door. Great
Britain has recognized Japan's spe-
cial position in China, but the
United States has not agreed to the
British point Of view. In fact, the
United States has won Britain to a
changed attitude.
Japan for a long time has been
trying quietly to arrange a cessa-
ton of hostilities in China.
Secretary of State Hull at his
press conference yesterday made it
clear that the Japanese american
discussions to date have been purely
exploratory
1t was reported from another
quarter that the United States ex-
port control authorities were con-
sidering invoking greater restrictions
against the export of oil to Japan.
The quotas for Japan may be fixed
on the quantity exported before
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1881,
rather than on the quantity ex-
ported before the invasion Of China
in 1887. The 1897 date has been
taken ~ the time meant In Presi-
Evening star., 1941-08-31

dent Roosevelt's embargo proclama-
ton of August 2, since when no oil
at all has been shipped from the
United States to Japan.
Difference of S12,5O0, 900.
The changed date would mean
difference of about $l2,500 900 worth
OF oil to Japan. Exports in 1896 of
oil from here to Japan came to $28,-
$4,000, and in 1881 to $16,337, 900.
This sort of news, indicating a
"show-me" attitude on the part of
the United States to proposal ad-
vanced in the first place by Japan,
can only serve to strengthen the
position of the United States in
whatever talks take place. Behind
the dispatch of the Konoye note lay
a trying period for Japan, when the
United States, in cooperation with
Great Britain and the Netherlands,
invoked sanctions against Japan
and made vague but threatening
preparations to interfere forcibly
with japanese ambitions in the re-
gion of Thailand.
Prospect of the imposition Of more
stringent sanctions on Japan would
give Toxic new cause for concern.
Evening star., 1941-08-31

In other words, If he got drunk
in saloon or got a black eye in
a fight over girl his lot might
be most unhappy when he tried to
relate his sad story. Before he got
through he would be geoveikur-the
Icelandic expression for nuts"
The extreme difficulty of ever
mastering the Icelandic language
strikes one almost the moment Of
stepping foot in Reykjavik. The
first sign to greet one, in red letters,
is Til naesta loftvarnabyrgis, "
which means ITO the nearest air.
raid shelter"
Fervor Over Language.
One of the soldiers first purchases
is cheap-and essentially worth
less-phrase book, and when he
opens it he becomes more puzzled
than ever. Icelands Language is
one of its dearest possessions, and
the people are chary about shar-
ing it.
This is the tongue of Erik the
Red and Lief the Lucky. 1t is es-
sentially the tongue of the Danish
Kings of England. 1t is the Ian
guage of the vikings, the basic
Scandinavian, which was prob
ably the first European speech
heard on the North American con-
tinent. The present tongues of Nor
way, Denmark and Sweden have
departed almost as far from this
as has modern English from Anglo
Saxon. Danish and Swedish-speak-
ing American soldiers, however, are
able to follow the Icelandic speech
about as easily as one can follow
the talk of some of the mountain
eers of isolated Virginia hollows.
The story is much the samoan iso-
lated people 'clinging with almost
religious fervor to the tongue Of
their ancestors.
The printed language has an Old
Irish look about it. but learned
Icelanders say that the actual Irish
influence on it from the long stops
of the original settlers in Ulster
was very slight. After few days
the English-speaking visitor rec
ognizes familiar words in a curious
spelling. After all, Icelandic and
English were derived from very SIM
liar original tongues.
Popular English and American
Evening star., 1941-08-31
World 10 Learn Soon
OF Axis Agreements,
Rome Circles Say
Supply Problem Reported
One Of Chief Subjects
Of Dictutors' TuIks
Nv the Associated Press.

ROME, Aug. 30.-Political circles
said tonight the world would soon
learn of the decisions and agree
ments reached by Fuehrer Hitler
and Premier Mussolini at the Rus
sian front.
With some big move having fol-
lowed all previous meetings of the
Axis leaders. foreign observers found
nothing in the Fascist press to indi-
cate where the next would come.
The problem of supply, particul-
arly of raw materials such as oil
was understood in political circles
to have been one of the chief sub
jects of the 5-day meeting.
The Axis powers were believed to
have enough food in prospect. but
it was said that fresh sources for
some of the other sinews of war
remained to be found.
Meetings of Leaders Compared.
Newspapers compared the meeting
of the German and italian leaders
with that of Prime Minister
Churchill of Britain and President
Roosevelt.
Virginio Gayda. editor of II
Giornale d'Italia, who often reflects
MusSolini's views wrote that:
Roosevelt and Churchill met in a
clandestine bay, well protected by
arms and gendarmes, in shady
conspiracy not disassociated from
fear. Mussollni and Hitler met on
the battlefield, in the face of the
enemy, among masses of armed
peoples of their own countries. Two
agreed for defense of the old
European and world regime in
which defense of plutocratic priv
ileges expresses itself. The others
confirmed a desire for a new order"
Gayda spoke, too, of a possible
Soviet retreat to the Urals.
A Soviet retreat to the Urals. he
said, means their clearing out of
all European Russia, where the great
Russian political and industrial
centers are. 1t means definite
separation of Bolshevism from
Europe. Isolated in Asia. Bolshev-
ism will be principally a subject OF
interest for Asiatics and Anglo
SaXonS."
Small Nations Draw Comment.
The fate of small nations outside
the Axis sphere drew comment from
several publications.
The authoritative weekly Rela-
zione Internazionale said the Axis
attitude toward the British-Rus-
sian invasion of oil-rich Iran will
be clarified with operations under
way in Soviet Russia and their
necessary developments"
Turkey" the weekly said. must
be ever more alert in the face of
the Russian menace at its rear"
II Regime Fascista of Cremona,
said all states that believed in
Englands aattery, guarantees and
pacts, one after another, fell to
their knees in dishonor and blood
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Firms UnfurI Flags
In Celebration Of
Viipuri Capture
Victory Receivers Only
She'll Of City Lost
To Reds, However
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Aug. 30.-Flags were
unfurled joyously from every flag
pole in the country today as the high
command announced the recapture
Of the beloved 700-year-old city OF
Viipuri from the Russians, but it
soon appeared that all the Firms
were getting back was a mere shell
Of the once-proud Karelian capital.
People wept for joy in Helsinki
streets as they read leaflets pro-
claiming the restoration of Viipuri,
mourned for year and half fol-
lowing its fall to the Russians in
the Russian Finnish war Of l939-40.
To Firms the supreme event of the
whole war had arrived.
But dispatches from the front told
how Finnish troops, smashing three
Russian army divisions to storm the
city, mad found it in flames. The
Russians had left it burning in ac-
cordance with their scorched earth
policy.
Over Half Of City RaZed.
Tonight Finnish radio an
nouncer broadcasting from Viipuri
estimated that more than half of
the buildings Of Viipuri had been
reduced to ruins by the Russians,
only about 40 per cent escaping
serious damage.
Swedish newspaper CORE
spondents reported to Stockholm
that the Russians had defended
Viipuri house by house, setting
fire to each building they had to
give up. They destroyed the
Vuoksen Dam and the Rouhiala
power station, which partly sup
piled Leningrad, rs miles away,
it was reported0
Viipuri was key to the defense
of Leningrad. and further progress
of Finnish troops will be followed
excitedly by Firms, especially th'
drive on Leningrad and the sieg'
of Hanko, Finnish peninsula guard
ing the entrance to the Gulf OF Fin
land, where Russians are besieged
They occupied the big naval bast
there before the current hostilitie'
as a result of the settlement of tn,
1939-40 war.
But after Viipuri, Leningrad anc
Hanko would be anti-climactic. 81
often overrun by the Russians anr
lost again last year, Viipuri is deal
to the heart of every Finn as a sym.
Dol of the ancient sufferings of Fin
land and of the centuries-long strug'
gle against invasion.
Fire RACES Everywhere.
Military commentators explained
that two considerations dominated
the tactics against Viipuri-to keer
casualties low and to damage the
city as little as possible. But Fin.
nish Army Correspondent Olavi Lin.
nun reported after a flying trip ovel
the city that fire ragged everywhere
The burning old city throws 6
shuddering glare upon the clouds,
he wrote, "and the silhouette of the
castle stands cold against the ruddy
sky. Where wood houses burned
red smouldering heaps testify thai
somebody once lived there.
The biggest buildings still stand
but they are smoking from the inside
and the walls loom black. The gen.
eral impression striking a flyer 1.
that the largest part Of the city
Is devastated"
The announcer this afternoon re.
ported that the city's famed castle
built in 1898 by the founder of tn.
city, Tyrgils Knutson, continues t.
command the skyline, undamaged
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Army Flyer Is Found
UninjKed in Panama
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Army announcer yesterday
that Second 1t. Ralph E. Burnett.
Air Corps Reserve officer who was
reported lost after parachuting from
an Army plane 10 miles north Of
Chane, Republic of Panama, has
been found uninjured by searching
parties.
1t. Burnett's mother. Mrs. Fannie
PAUL Lowe of Greenville, Ala, was
notified by the War Department
that her son was safe.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Moscow
Continued From First Page.)

press references to l0-year strug'
gle, he said: This is nonsense
they (the Axis are coming to then
end much sooner than many ex-
pect."
The. Germans announced yester-
day the capture Of Talllnn, ano
there was no contradiction from
the Soviet Information Bureau
which told only of stubborn Soviet
resistance along the entire front
But the Tass news agency circu-
lated a dispatch dated Friday say
ing the Estonian capital still was
held by the Red Army.
Tallinn, this dispatch said, was
then leading IAN intense fighting
life with a peoples army sup
porting the Red Army and deter
mined ito die rather than sur
render"
(The Germans said both Tai
linn and Paldiski, modern naVal
mort 20 miles to the west, had
fallen, and the Russians had
suffered a severe naval defeat IN
attempts to evacuate trapped
Russian forces, losing at least 43
transports and II warships.
(On the other side of the huge
n,1tcracker the Germans ana
Firms are closing or Leningrad.
Finlands high command an
nounced the capture of Viipurl,
rs miles north OF the Russian
metropolis, and SAID FlnnlSh
troops had driven a wedge down
the Karelian Isthmus to within
80 miles of LeningradD
BattIefields Deadlocked.
The battlehelds west of Moscow
described in military dispatches AS
deadlocked. with the Germans con-
rentrating on assaults against the
Soviet flanks and mired by rain
falling In sheets. The front was
said to have. developed into a deep
series of rain-soaked trenches.
anti-tank barriers, minefields and
barbed wire.
Red Star, the army organ, re-
ported a full battalion OF parachut-
lists took of from one sodden air.
port under cover of night and oper-
ated for l8 days behind the Ger
man lines.
Starting from prepared positions,
1t said, the parachutists ambusheo
one German tank column near an
undesignated city and killed or
wounded 500 Germans, captured 23
srmored cars, six tanks, "a motor
cycles, 80 trucks and large quantl-
ties of material before working back
to their own lines.
Izvestia, the government newspa-
per. acknowledged that the Rus
slams also we're suffering consld-
erable losses citing the strength,
particularly, of the German air
force.
Nazis Show Lack of Munitions.
1t declared, however, that the
Nazis are showing signs OF lack
of munition. In some cases, 1t
said, German planes are dropping
barrels filled with stone and metal
fragments instead of bombs. In
one dispatch, dated August Is, 1T
reported that nine German planes
had circled for 80 minutes over Rus
sian positions and dropped only five
bombs.
Despite the German-Rumanian
encirclement of Odessa, Red Star
said it still was receiving its full
allotment of supplies, arms, NUM-
tions and food. Civilians COM
manded by military engineers were
said to be building barricades in
the streets.
Red Army forces have driven seq
ments Of the siege ring back in
sallies out of Odessa, Pravda said,
and have repulsed Axis efforts to
tighten the encirclement.