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Evening star., 1941-06-22

was alone in strange community, un-
able to find job.
She is one among many bewildered,
discouraged, unhappy women who today
are struggling to adjust themselves to
a life turned topsyturvy. Such girls are
not the most useful citizens. They are
being hurt and becoming bitter, and
finding it hard to appreciate the ad-
vantage of living in democracy.
We propose to cheer, help, and guide
these girls The Government has prom
ised to build more than 800 service clubs
near Army and Navy bases and defense
industries. The U. S. o. will provide
funds to operate them. The clubhouses
will be adapted to the needs of the in
dividual community, and housing, recre-
ational and welfare facilities as well as
personal guidance by professionally
trained leaders will be provided.
Because the defense program has sud-
denly and greatly increased the popu-
lation of certain areas, the housing prob
lem is tremendous, particularly in small
er communities In the camp areas, IN
many cases, women and girl office work.
ers and laundresses have had no pro-
vision made for them. Families of de-
fense workers have difficulty finding
homes. Visiting families and sweethearts
have no place to rest overnight.
We will advise these home-seekers,
and will provide for them a register OF
desirable rooms available in the COM
munity.
Not only will games and dramatics be
Evening star., 1941-06-22

Each step contributes to putting defense
on a mass production basis.
In some cases the "make-ready" period
has been little longer than usually is
the rule in "finalizing" new automobile
model But there have been exceptions
even in the handling of unfamiliar as
signments.
Outstanding is Chrysler Corps tank
plant, now nearing completion on what
was corn field little more than seven
months ago. Soon it will be turning out
from five to a dozen 28-ton mobile fort
reSses a day.
There is also the Ford aviation en-
gine factory, recently started and now
expanded to triple its potential output;
ana The bomber plane parts factory near
Ypsilanti, Mich, work on which is be-
ing speeded for production activity.
General Motors stepped up the output
of Allison aviation engines considerably
faster than had been expected.
Today is the "make-ready' phase of
the automobile industry's defense effort
and-as one leading car manufacturer
explained recently-the motorcar fac
tories are ready to grind out defense
machinery in real" volume.
Once tanks, bomber plane parts and
completed planes, aviation engines and
other of the heavier" vehicles of de-
fense begin to flow freely from newly
Evening star., 1941-06-22
By Pat McGrady

They could never put Frisco Joe to-
gether again-but his story was diff
ferent matter.
They pieced it together in the smoking
room of the Continental Limited as 1t
rolled east from Vancouver to Montreal.
A few of the Royal Canadian Air Force
pilots knew him until he was washed
out of that service; an artillery gunner
picked up from there and Royal Cana
dian Navy lad saw Frisco's finish 500
miles off the coast of Ireland.
Fresh and full of hell he was" said
a middle-aged aviation instructor. Il
saw him the day he came up from Cali
fornia-flght in his blue eyes and fire
in every red hair of his thick head.
Trouble with him was that he con-
sidered this war a personal affair be-
tween himself and Mr.. Hitler"
Don't we alp" asked slight, pale
faced youngster who had only recently
won his wings at Western training
school.
There was thoughtful silence.
swell, anyway" resumed the in
structor. "he could fly. He was gradu-
ated cum laude-as an instructor. That
burned him up, because he couldn't carry
on his feud with Hitler.
Frisco never did get over it. He
thought life was unbearably dull So he
took to new sport. He used to dive on
an clubhouse just outside the village.
Then one day he misjudged his dis
tance. 1t was the end of the clubhouse
1t was the end of the s35,0oO trainer
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Auto Plants Speed Defense Work

created assembly lines, the motorcaf
industrys chiefs say, the stream OF goods
will be almost staggering in magnitude.
certain amount of rivalry that
augurs well for the total output of avia-
ton engines and planes has developed
between the automobile and the air.
craft industries.
The subject is approached delicately
by the carmakers, Of course, but the
rivalry exists.
I'VE don't intend to tell the aviation
people how to handle their own busi-
ness" said one leading automotive e.!gi-
neer, who has devoted the past mouths
to aircraft development.
Dependent on Man Power,
"We can learn much from the airplane
manufacturers, but don't forget that
mass production is our baby and pei
haps We can teach them something, too"
And while the tremendous efforts
have been going forward to make mill
tary tanks, bomber planes, aviation en-
gines and such implements in over
whelming volume, the assembly plants
also have completed approximately
4,5O0,000 passenger cars and trucks in
less than nine months.
The volume of the defense produce
tion, say most of the automobile indus
try's leaders, will depend only upon the
availability of man power.
Evening star., 1941-06-22

plane. And 1t was the end of Frisco In
the air force"
The artilleryman told how Frisco
joined up with his outfit under another
name. His turn to 60 overseas finally
came up, and Frisco celebrated in a
Quebec cafe. When his head stopped
whirling he found himself in jail charged
with insubordination. There was only
one way out-down dumb waiter and
over the fence.
The navy boys said that as member
of gun crew, Frisco did a fine job until
a German bomb landed on deck near
him and cut short a career that had
endless possibilities-good or bad.
In Quest of Adventure.
The chief criticism the r. C. A. r.
men-continuing the talking-made of
Americans generally was that they were
too wild and reckless.
They don't realize" the instructor
explained, that this is a pretty sober
business. They're here for adventure
and when 1t doesn't turn up on the dou-
BILE quick, they go out of their way to
find it,
Just case Of too much dawn pa
troll" an air force radio man summed up.
But" said an officer, "the Americans
make good flyers once they get down to
business. About one in ten men in the
training centers I've visited are Ameri-
cans. 1t seems as though most of them
are from Texas and go under one of
two names-Tex or Slim.
AT one camp very unhappy acci-
dent sobered up the daredevil Americans
Evening star., 1941-06-22
American Pilots Are Joy to the R. G. A. F.

big" he said without smiling. That
should be reward enough. The other
even greater-is pure gravy. Some fine
day I might be over Unter den Linden
loaded with bundles for Berlin. If, by
some lucky break, certain gent should
happen to be on the street below
me-"
laughed. He didn't. The war, for him,
was a grim job, and he looked forward
to it with more relish even than the
others.
POrter's Tribute.
The conversation swung around to
pacifsm. Almost all, including the in
structor who had seen service in 1914
1918, said they had been vigorously
against war as a horrible, unnecessary
fraud.
Until we declared ourselves in" said
one youngster. Then I changed my
mind overnight. We are fighting for
something great-greater than life. This
isn't the kind of war once opposed"
Others nodded.
Lawson johnson, veteran porter saw
the last one of the air force to an upper
berth and returned to the smoking room
mopping his broad black brow.
"Whoo-ee," he said. sinking into a
seat, these soldiers sure do keep me
hoppin."
Porters on two-score other trains
streaking for the same convoy point
probably were saying the same thing.
When they sleep" he continued, "they
look just like little boys-the very best
kind of boys"
Evening star., 1941-06-22

near a base, need help in getting a
position that will not be dangerous And
they need special counsel on their per-
sonal social and health problems.
The letters that draftee writes his
mother and the letters she writes him
certainly affect the morale of those two
citizens and may possibly indirectly In
fluence many others. The u. s. O..
strives to maintain morale. 1t hopes to
be helpful in keeping a contact between
men in the service and their families.
Men who come to u S. o. units for guild
ance will be urged to write their families
often. and mothers who do not hear
from their sons may learn about them
by inquiring of the U. S. o.
The agencies embraced by the U. S. O.,
which have had long experience in social
service must participate now to great
er degree than ever before with citizens
in the communities concerned, in order
to understand special area problems and
Ito cooperate fully in helping solve them.
A Spiritual Challenge.
We are challenged to overcome vice
and suffering and to promote oppor-
tunities for health and harmony. 1t is a
social and spiritual challenge.
Our youth may come into contact with
organizations which are undemocratic.
Our Government stands for freedom
and justice, and therefore we IN the
U. S. o. shall help to sustain Americas
defense by helping to overcome injustice
and thereby strengthen our country's
morale The interdependence of freedom
and Justice and morale must be recogniz-
ed by all Of us.
The agencies making up the U. S. o.
include the Y. w. c. A., the Jewish well
fare Board and the National Travellers
Aid Association.
The total cost of the co-ordinated
program has been estimated at $40 1885,
900 for the first year. Under the national
craftsmanship of Thomas E. Dewey a
countrywide campaign for this amount
was launched by u. S. o. June =.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
By Miriam Offenberf.

Selective service has dramatically un-
derlined what visiting conductors have
marveled at and Washington has taken
for granted - the youthfulness of the
National Symphony Orchestra's musi-
clans.
Two men have already been called,
20 other National Symphony musicians
have received their questionnaires. In
ALL 49 men in the orchestra are of selec-
tive service age.
Leopold Stokowski. making his much
touted search for talent for his all-Amer-
ican Youth Orchestra, also harvested a
crop of young musicians from the Ma
tional Symphony.
One member of the National Symphony
is so young that selective service will
have to wait two years before sending
him a QUESTIONABLE. He is Harris Sluy-
ter, who joind the orchestra last year
when he was 1s. He plays first oboe.
When DR.. Hans Kinder, conductor of
the National Symphony, was asked If
he didn't consider that he was taking
a chance on young Sluyter's talents,
he responded, "Yes, a wonderful chance" ="
Long before Stokowski started to put
his emphasis on youth, in fact, from the
beginning, DR.. Kinder has been develop
ing a youth orchestra. In the decade
of the orchestra's life. it has grown
younger rather than older.
Still within selective service age are
several of the men who have been with
. the orchestra from the beginning. There
is. for instance, George Wargo, who
brought his viola to the National Sym
phony in the 1881 season. He is now 20.
Harry Cherkassgy 33-year -old violinist.
was one of the pioneers in the National
Symphony, and Carroll c. Bratman,
percussionist, also joined the orchestra
in 1881. He is "a.
Prefers Young Musicians.
Another National Symphony veteran
is Howard Mitchell. first cellist, who
Joined the symphony at the opening OF
its 1888 season and is now 20.
Compared with concert masters OF
other top-night orchestras, Millard Tay-
lor who holds that post with the Ma
tional Symphony, is still a baby. Mr..
Tavlor is u and has been with the
orchestra since 1888.
DIR. Kindler's preference for younger
musicians goes back to his own early his
tory. In Europe, where he became noted
as a cellist, it was difncult for young
man to break into an orchestra. In fact,
he was the youngest musician in the
p.r,;n Onera and recalls now that his
fellow musicians looked askance at first
on their baby member.
When he started selecting men for the
National Symphony. he took what he
could get, but gradually many Of the
older men were weeded out because the
pace got too fast" he says.
As he looked around Washington, he
found a number Of young men who had
to play among the knives and forks but
wanted something else" In other words,
they were musicians who made a living
out of their music as best they could
until the symphony came along.
In the beginning, he recalls, his young
Nen made up in enthusiasm what they
acked in mellowness. They worked hard.
1t Is that peppIness, that enthusiasm
that has sent him toward youth. If .
conductor tried to sell new way Of play
ing Beethovens Fifth Symphony" to an
orchestra Of bald heads, Dr.. Kinder
points out, the musicians would be in
clined to grumble at the whole proceed.
Ing. They've played Beethoven's nth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
Routed
From Outpost
International New. seryie. Cab.

International News Service Gable
CAIRO, March 22.-Mechanized
British and Australian troops con-
solidated new positions in south
eastern Libya today after captur-
ing the Italian stronghold OF
Jarabub oasis following a siege OF
more than Is weeks.
The fortified desert stronghold
capitulated after a brief but
furious assault. The Italian COM
mander and 800 soldiers were
captured, with considerable equip
ment.
Can Italian war bulletin adj
mitted Jarabub's loSs.l
Capture of the oasis conceded
with fresh British advances in
East Africa, where a violent
Italian counter-attack at Keren,
strategic Eritrean strong point,
was thrown back with heavy
Fascist losses.
Earlier the British captured
Hargeisa in British Somaliland
and drove further into Ethiopia.
Capture of Jarabub obliterated
the last Italian outpost in eastern
Libya. Defenders of Jarabub dur
ing the siege were believed 10 have
suffered hundreds Of casualties.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22

there when he thought the word
was mis-spelled. Britain calls
Help. Help! Is there no succor
at hand" And America answers
Here Is the suckcrw
Incidentally, there is an idea for
your cartoonist, Gale, In your
paper.
Very truly yours,
SONIA MacCONAGHY.
29l9 Date ST.,
San Diego, Calf,
Feb. II, 1911.
William Randolph Hearst,
California.
My Dear Fellow:
'VOU certainly are an adroit
i aduncOus dOvetailer of chrO-
neiegy: and viii never write or
edit a more interesting and truly
clever column than this Of Feb.
18th, al.
am wholesOmely pleased to
congratulate you for you rather
deserve 1t and have adequately
earned 1t.
You're liped the life God
meant you should:
No matter ,Ohdt men say.
Moments utIiU'd are neUer
knOlcH:
Men lire but to obey.
Each IN his sphere: IRE
servants are,
Tho WrOHg or right the
score.
We build his house cen as
he planned:
Man neUer may kH0lO
more.
Cordially,
z. DOUGLAS BIRD.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
Widow Left Bulk
Of GrinneII Estate

The will of Elmer w. Grinnell,
son of the one of the founders of
the Grinnell brothers music house,
was filed today in Probate Court
and listed personal property of
more than $4,000 and real prop
erty of more than $1,000. Mr.. Grin
nell. who died March 13. left 81 900
to son. Leonard, of 1926 Fuller
ton avenue, and 1000 to a daugh-
ter. Mrs. Allen Martin, 1855
Wellesley drive. The rest was left
to his wife, of 1101 Chicago boule-
ward.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
Midland ParIey
Lasts 13Hours

Weary negotiators who worked
into early morning attempting set
Element of the UAW-CIO Midland
Steel Products Company strike
were to resume conferences again
today. seeking to avert closing of
Lincoln Motor and Chrysler Cor
poration units for lack of parts.
After a 13-hour session in which
Federal Labor Goncfiiator james
F. Dewey and State Mediator Ed
ward M. Owen sought a formula
for settlement with company and
union officials, Owen said:
at looks as IL we are making
real progress
Dewey had earlier predicted a
break in the deadlocked two-week-
old controversy. Dewey and Owen
have presented a proposal to the
management which is now under
consideration.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
Wholesale
Army Pays Much Less
for Detroit Cars

WASHINGTON. March 21.-
The army is getting Ford, Plym-
outh and Packard passenger cars
at prices much lower than those
paid at the factory by individual
purchasers. a report to the House
accompanying the fifth supple
mental defense appropriation bill
disclosed today.
Following are the prices as given
by Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory, quar-
termaster general of the army. for
five-passenger standard sedans:
Make-Detroit Price Army Price
Plymouth. S79325 s 524 90
Ford. $3.50 IS sal 90
Packard Si.1JO 1.iee.S7
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22

thor credit. He's got a lot on the
ball, and IN A BIG WAY.
Yours very truly,
SAM b. MOFFETT.
539 West 2S2 Street,
Riverdale, N. Y. c.,
February Is, 1941.
Mr.. william Randolph Hearst,
Dear Sir:
MAY 1 add my words Of praise
IVA and appreciation for the won
derful work you are doing for
America thru "In the News" and
other features in your papers, TO
the thousands you must be receiv-
ing daily?
1 am young American, mar
ried, but of draft age.
have no hatred In my heart for
the German people.
England. in my estimation, Is
fighting no holy war, nor a war to
preserve democracy.
From my knowledge of history,
1 have come TO know England as a
selfish nation.
resent the sIurs cast on Amer
lea and its army after the last
war. l resent the fact that Eng
land made little attempt to settle
its monetary obligation to the
United States.
am young, but working hard.
1 want to own my own home, raise
a family, have a car and be happy.
1 am not a hysterical pacifist-I
love America; but do not want to
help fight England's war.
do not want to die for Great
Britain.
Please, for Americas sake, con-
tinue your fight to keep America
out of European conflict.
Sincerely,
WILLIAM w. LOVE.
4045 Los Fellz Blvd,
Los Angeles, California,
February 20, 1941.
Mr.. william Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon, California.
My Dear Mr.. Hearst:
A LOW me to congratulate you
n on your articles 'Tn the
News" i would rather miss my
than miss your column.
thought the following would
interest you. When 1 was a small
girl In school we had for a writing
lesson "Help! Help! Is there no
succor at handw We all set about
our tasks but for one small boy
who was much perturbed and when
the teacher asked what was wrong,
he insisted the word succor was
1 was eleven then, now
I am married with two boys Of
age and one In Berkeley
just this slde OF &. My husband
was In the last World War and !
think the little boy had something
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
PLANE OUTPUT PERLED

LOS ANGELES, March %
Sixty per cent Of Americas vital
war plane manufacturing industry
faced an acute situation today
the rapid slowing up of production
due to a strike of $50 craftsmen
in small die casting plant.
On strike were the workers OF
the II. L. Harvill Aircraft Die
Casting plant at Inglewood. which
produces 10000 parts daily for six
aircraft companies in the Los
Angeles area. 1t is the only plant
that can produce these parts i'm
mediately.
The $50 workers members of
the Go Die Casters Union. will
affect the jobs of $4,000 workers
unless the strike is settled almost
Immediately.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22
Wife, Brunei, Says
He Preferred Blondes

Pretty dark-haired Mrs. Jane
Simpson, Is, a Wayne University
student. told Circuit Judge Vim
cent M. Brennan that her hus-
ban, Edward. kept saying Il
should have married a blonde"
She also accused him of non-sup-
port and declared they separated
after a few months of marriage.
She was granted a divorce.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-22


equate.
Yours truly,
CRUISE GABRIEL.
Public Relations Counsel Mer-
chants and Manufacturers
Association, Los Angeles.
Jockey Alley,
New Bethlehem, Pa.
February 26th, 1941.
DEAR MIR. HEARST:
CONGRATULATIONS on 1.-THE
~ Song of the River" 1t is a
classic in its way quite as was the
other delightful "Have You Ever
Dined" poem. But THE Song of
the River" under its lifting melody
dips down deep into the heart of
life.
The reason we are SO leathe to
leave this world is because we re-
alize how perfectly impossible IL
would be TO collect all the impress
siOns of this wonderful world in
the short span of mans life which
Is so easily terminated by accident,
disease or design.
Anything that holds out to us
the hope that we shall live again,
but NOT in some chilly pearly
mansion with all those terribly
cold sounding walls of semi-pre-
cious stones and those steep golden
stairs, outmoded now since we are
no longer on the gold standard, is
indeed comfortable.
III man must work out his des-
tiny, what better place than right
here on this earth? The earth is a
school room with which we grow
familiar. And 1 never will believe
that the headmaster will ever
burn down the building while his
students are learning their life les
sons In IL.
Thank you for your splendid
poem and for the lesson 1t teaches.
With best wishes, 1 am,
Sincerely,
Long Beach,
Feb. 25, 1911.
w. X. H.:
MEL now it's poetry. You GER
w tainly are the cats pajamas.
Better step down and let some of
those young people have chance.
/ mean those you were shedding
such large tears for yesterday.
JAMES ARMSTRONG.
Flint. Michigan.
February 20, 1871.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
c/o Detroit Times Editor,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
RE The Song of the River.
WHO wrote that poem "In the
News" column of The Detroit
Times February 25, 194l3
For Gawd's sake! Give the au-
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yearly. so that we may have you
in our library permanently.
1t isn't possible to be too ex-
travagant in praise of your col
umn. IL doesn't matter what you
say, it Is such pleasant reading,
your thoughts are so stimulating,
your sarcasm so luscious, your
slave, rhetoric, so entirely at your
command. 1, for one, persue 1t each
morning, spelIbound, before can
do anything else. Mr.. Roosevelt a
superintendent? Did you ever
read over your own column!:
There's one little comment i
wish to make-as an humble adj
mirer-I adore Little WILLIE; /
love willie" rs a young man; 1
cry with them and laugh with
them, and they are super-enter-
tainment, but Willie as he is now,
disillusioned and cynical, trying to
make over a world he admits he
cannot, wasting his wonderful tai
ents futilcly makes me a little sad.
Don't you know the only people
who read you and love you are
people like me who cant do any
thing anyhow?
have a boy twenty-five, grad
uating this June from college, with
a End It's commission I'm the
army (reserves) and you're not
helping me a bit; you're just max
ing me sad. 1 don't want to know
all those things you tell me that
can't be helped-I just want to
hear more about little Willie.
And is there anything you could
do about transportation in Los
Angeles? That's near to home and
maybe something really could be
done about such as this. For in
stance, IL you could fix II so one
could get a street car In West
wood on Santa Monica Blvd. that
would really 20 down Santa
Monica Blvd. all the way thru
Beverly Hills and on down town.
Now don't tell me the japanese
may come and take over and 1
won't need street car; that
would be decidedly avoiding the
issue. And from what I've noted
you are not an issue avOider.
After all. We love you and the
LITTLE WILLIE that still lives
In your indomitablc spirit. God
bless you. Mr.. Hearst; long may
you live.
VALERIE b. LOVETTE.
25 February. 1911.
William Randolph Hearst, Esq,
San Simeon. California.
Dear MIR. Hearst:
i WISH to thank you for "The
i Song of the River"
II is beautiful.