Evening star., 1942-01-05
U.S.. Rebuilt OVERNIGHT
By Jap Attacks, Navy
Official Declares
Mrs. Roosevelt, McNutt
And Labor Leaders Also
TuIk on Radio Panel

Attacks on Pearl Harbor. Wake
and Manila have rebuilt this Ma
ton overnight" Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Ralph A. Bard told
Mutual Broadcasting System audi
ence last night on the 14th ami
versary program of the American
Forum of the Air, titled United
America Looks Ahead to 1922
Cochairmen for the anniversary
broadcast were Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Theodore Crank, the
attorney who founded the forum
program. Other participants, who
outlined victory plans for 1912. were
William Green. president Of the
American Federation of Labor: AL
bert W. Hawkes.. president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce; Paul " McNutt. Federal Sc
curity administrator and co-ordi-
nator of Health, Welfare and Re-
lated Defense Activities: Philip
Murray. president of the c. I. O.:
Donald Nelson, executive director
of the S. P. A. B. and O. P. M,
Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary
of War. and Nelson Rockefeller CO.
ordinator of the ONCE of Inter
American Affairs.
Results of the awakening with the
japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
and our other Pacific outposts, Mr..
Bard said, will make last years ac-
iel, &c ck,i1I-S y11ou
when compared to the results to be
achieved during 1912. The Amer
lean people, safe from real danger
from without for more than 100
years. now fully realize. many for
the first time" the prize they have
possessed in their way of life in
this country, he told the radio audi
ence.
Victory Predicted.
The speakers. heard by an audi
ence of approximately 900 persons
at the Shoreham Hotel ball room,
in addition to the radio audience,
agreed that victory was at the end
of the road because of the vigorous
and immediate unity that was
achieved by the Nipponese attacks.
The year 1912 will not be an easy
one Mr.. Patterson said. adding that
our program of victory is going
to require unprecedented energy on
the part of both our soldiers in the
front lines and our soldiers of pro-
duction."
Quick settlement OF national en-
ployment. defense housing and price
control problems were urged by Mr..
Patterson.
Reiteration of the no strike
pledges given by the c. /. o. and
A. F.. L. at the recent labor industry
conference was made by Mr.. Green
and Mr.. Murray.
The problem of production can be
solved, Mr.. Murray said in answer
to a question by Mrs. Roosevelt, If
industry accepts cooperation Of
labor in switching over from peace
to wartime basis.
Industry Ready to Do Its Job.
Mr.. Hawkes. promised that indus
try was ready to do its job we'll and
win the battle of production. pro-
vided it is not interfered with to
the point where its efficiency is de-
stroyed"
Nj. Hawkes.. when asked by Mrs.
Roosevelt what kind of 'interfer-
ence" would destroy industry's eff
cheney. said that a proper" body
which understands" industry should
regulate it.
Asked by Mrs Roosevelt whether
it would be possible to keep the cost
of living within reasonable bounds,
Mr.. Henderson replied:
Within reasonable bounds, yes,
but there will be some increases in
price because of the dislocations in
duced by the war"
The 81 republics of the Americas
are 'closer together than they ever
have been before" Mr.. Rockefeller
told the radio audience.