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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Measure Included in Bill
Restricting u. S. Labor
Bill Sets Up Stiff Penalties for
Interference with Interstate Commerce

WASHINGTON, May 27-(P)
Congressional advocates of
restrictive labor legislation stu
dies today the possibility - and
wisdom - of attempting to gain
a house vote on wartime wage
and hour controls when il con-
Siders a bill making labor I'M
ions liable to prosecution under
the 1884 anti-racketeering act.
One southern representative,
active in the fight for a show
down on the issue, said he was
exploring tn e parliamentary
technicalities of the subject to
find out whether an attempt to
broaden the measure to include
wage and hour restrictions could
be blocked on points of order.
APPROVED BY COMMITTEE
The bill, setting up stiff pen
alties for interference with in
terstate commerce, was approx
ed by the house judiciary COM
mittee yesterday over the OPP
position by spokesman for the
American Federation of Labor
and the Congress of Industrial
Organizations.
Rep. Smith (D-Va.) author of
several bills to curtail union &C
tivity during the emergency, de
clared that he was opposed to
jeopardizing the chances of the
measure by loading it down"
with any additional labor legis-
lation.
Smith, a member of the rules
committee, also expressed be-
lief that any attempt to broad
en- the bill through riders cover
ing wages or hours would be
thrown out on the ground that
they were not germane to the
misunderstanding act.
DRAFTED BY HOBBS
The newly approved measure
was drafted by Rep. Hobbs Cd
Ala). While it does not men
ton labor unions as such, he
said that it was designed to off
set a recent supreme court rul-
ing that unions were beyond the
scope of the 1884 act. That rul-
ing was handed down in a New
York transfers case.
Farm group spokesman urged
the bills approval, contendirg
that union agents, especially IL
the New York area, had com
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Congress Studies Wisdom Of Vote on Wage Control

lars TO its members for losses,
was forced to discontinue bust
ness last November because of
abnormal losses sustaind in 1871
and prior years. The members
of the company met on Novem-
Der z, 1941 and authorized the
officers TO re-insure all risks in
another company, and TO levy
an assessment in an amount suf-
4icient TO pay its liabilities.
Last August, after the reSig-
nation of the former Secretary
Treasurer, Frank j. Hirt was
elected by the directors of the
Company and has since cOntin-
ued in charge of that office. No
new risks have been accepted
and since the November meet
ing Mr. Hirt has been cooperat-
ing with the State Department
of Insurance to straighten out
the company'S financial affairs.
Representatives of the Insur-
ance Department have given
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

His two passions seem to have
been snakes and long staple cot
ton. He "froze" sea island cotton
seed in q giant icebox to inure
the seed to cold weather and ear
ly planting. He made Ounce
caps to protect the young cot
ton plants, and turned 1000
geese into his 5000 acres of cot
ton to eat the Johnson grass.
Other farmers long since stop
ped laughing at his eccentric
lagronomy, for it made him
fortune and produced, some say,
the best long staple cotton in
the country. Now other farm
erS use geese as cotton chop
pers."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

1889, when they were reconcil-
ed. So Hornersville figures
there must be a later will some
where. If there isn't, the town
is looking forward to the biggest
law suit in the history of Dunk
lin County, since the heirs are
almost certain to try to break
th2 will.
Meanwhile things are at a
standstill while the musty old
house is being ransacked under
direction of the estates admin
istratoS. The search began be-
c. Sc the local banker reported,
after the old doctors death,
that he had sold him $4,000
worth of war bonds in January,
and the bonds were nowhere to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

valuable advice and assistance
to the officers of the Company,
and since March 5th when the
first notices of assessment were
sent out sufficient funds for the
payroll have been collected.
Hirt informs this newspaper
that the cost of collecting the
funds required to make the first
payroll has been less than one
cent on the dollar. He reports
receiving splendid cooperation
from members, and he has hopes
that the affairs of the company
will be wound up within the
next few months.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
BY CLARK PORTEOUS
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HORNERSVILLE, Mo. May 81
DIR. Floyd Kinsolving lived a
strange life. But perhaps the
most fantastic chapter in an &C.
centric career began on May 5,
with the death of this 79-year-
old physician, planter, lawyer
and snake fancier.
What has set this century-old
village seething with excite
ment is the discovery of a siza-
BILE fortune hidden in the old
Kinsolving plantation house on
Little River, a rambling, 16-
room structure where few of
Hornersville's 875 residents were
ever admitted. Now these resi-
dents are waiting to see if furth-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
OKLAHOMA VS.. U. S. NJ. A.

NORMAN, Okla, May 81 -
(AP)- Athletic Director Law
renee Haskell said today that
the University of Oklahoma
baseball team had been invited
to play the United States Mill
tary Academy nine next year
at West Point.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
Insurance Firm
Makes Big PayoH
Formers Mutuol
Mokes Return

The Farmers Mutual Fire In
surance Company of Macomb
County with offices at Armada,
has made a pay-off of so per
cent to its creditors.
This company which was or
ganized in 1875, and has paid
hundreds of thousands of dol
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
ESTATE VALUED
AT 100000

AT 100000
There is one will already in
existence, but that was drawn
back in 1917. 1t left his estate,
valued then at a half million, to
the University of Missouri and
the University of Louisville,
KyD. To his children he be-
queathed his DIVE and affec-
ten and 81 apiece DR.. Kin
solving didn't like his children
back in 1917, but he didn't like
colleges either-always said
that young folks went to them
to learn to get along without
having to work hard"
The old doctor and his chill
dren quarreled in 1908, and he
diGn't speak to them again until
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27

er search will turn up more val
uCbles or, more important still,
will.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
ACCUMULATED


DR.. Kinsolvng was no miser,
for all his talk of poverty. He
had kept all of his automobiles
since his first 1911 model. There
were 80 serviceable tires in the
basement. Two new Persian
rugs that had never been put
down were among the dozens of
expensive but never used arti-
Cles, found in the house.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-27
The Eccentric Doctor Died
But His Story Goes OH

jewelry included double hand
full of diamonds, several gold
watches, brooches and the like.
He was known to have had "a
women'S gold watches. They
had originally been sent on APP
proval and the old man was to
pick one for a young woman's
graduation present. He bought
all the watches and then didn't
give the Gift
Evening star., 1942-05-26
Discusses Need Of X Cards
BY Physicians and Clergymen.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The Star of May % informed the pub
lie that doctors cannot use x cards to
purchase gas to attend parleys. This
refers to the American Medical Associa-
tons annual meeting to be held in At
lantic City June 8-12.
Is this meeting just an outing" for
the doctors or is it an educational meet
ing, where doctors discuss certain phases
of medical science? Isn't it important
that doctors keep abreast of the times
in their profession?
The Methodist Conference of this area
is to be held in June. If the doctors are
not permitted to use their x cards to
attend medical parleys, will these Meth
odist ministers, who have no other
means to get to and from this confer
ence, be deprived of that privilege also?
This inequity certainly puts professional
people in an embarrassing position.
Is it more important that Congress-
man visit his constituents than for q
medical man to attend medical meet
ing or minister to attend the annual
conference or a milkman to make his
daily rounds to milk consumers?
I am not a gas card holder. But !
cannot understand why an intelligent
Government official should force these
inequities on "the other fellow"
F. JOHNSON.
Evening star., 1942-05-26

transported daily from Jacksonville
to northern points If the inland
waterway were deepened in some
places. Those improvements might
require several months, he said.
While the inland waterway route
would get scant attention by oil men
in normal times, there is plenty Of
justification now for putting 1t to use
as a supplementary means Of re-
plenishing the dwinding oil stocks
in the East. While gasoline prob
ably will be rationed, anyway, as a
instrumentation measure, the fuel
oil situation for home and industrial
use grows increasingly serious. If
barges can assure the East of suffi-
cient oil for heat next winter and
for other essential purposes, the
inland waterway will have defeated
one phase Of Hitler's U-boat offensive.
Evening star., 1942-05-26
Explains q Few Difficulties
OF Transit System Operation.
]. B. H. WARING, M. D.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The average citizen does not have
much idea of the trouble involved In
keeping a public transportation system
in working condition during peacetime,
much less during war.
I am not an operator on the cars or
buses but only one of q number Of fellows
who keep up the lights and electrical
equipment on the streets, in the barns,
garages and offices.
When we have bad weather, such As
snow, sleet and rain, we are subject to
call at any time. day or night, Sundays
sand holidays included. We work as
many hours as necessary to keep the
system in operation. And the work is
hard, dirty and right dangerous. as any
one could find out for himself II he
would go into a manhole in the street
with traffic flowing all around and over
him, inch by third rail carrying 900
volts to get on the other side Of the
track to do whatever needs done and
then, when finished, crawl back out.
The men who do this work do not get
80 days sick leave nor 80 days annual
leave, but only one week with pay each
summer and no pay II of because Of
illness. Neither do we get double time
or time and . half for overtime but
only straight hourly time for hours actu-
ally work. Foe the convenience Of the
Evening star., 1942-05-26
The Flying Cobros

All Americans who follow with
pride the performance of this Ma
tion's combat planes will have read
with great interest the announce
ment that the Bell Airacobra now
Is being flown to the fighting fronts.
The Airacobra. or the Cobra as it
Is more familiarly called, has been
one OF the mystery ships of this war.
1t was known to be heavily armored,
fast and maneuverable. especially at
medium attitudes. And 1t packed a
terrific punch, with its cannon which
fired through the propeller hub and
an unspecif1ed number of machine
guns. Despite these impressive at
tributes, however, there were peace
time skeptics who persisted in
looking askance at the Cobra-crit-
les who called it flying coffin, Z"
although the Air Corps men who had
handled the ship laughed at that
accusation.
But the acid test Of combat planes,
as in the case of all other military
weapons, cannot be had in time of
peace. That is reserved for war
when a plane must prove itself
in the air against enemy aviation.
1t was for this reason that the Cobra
remained something of an unknown
quantity. but with the advent of
Pearl Harbor the admirers of the
deadly little pursuit ship sat back
and confidently awaited the per-
formance reports. Strangely enough,
however, the reports did not come
in. Our other liquid pursuit,
the Curtiss P-40, was making q
great name for itself In the skies
Of Burma and the Middle East. But
Of the Cobra nothing was heard.
One Of two theories was beginning
to be accepted-either that the ship
was not getting into combat or that
it was not living up to expectations.
Nor could one Of these explanations
have been more disappointing than
the other to those who had seen
the Bell pursuit in pre- war
performances.
A few days ago, however, word
came back to this country that the
Airacobra was ready for action in
Russia. And in yesterdays Star
Henry c. Cassidy. Associated Press
war correspondent, told Of the en-
thusiastic response of Soviet pilots
who have flown the Bell fighter and
Of their rating it ahead of the Curtiss
Kittyhawks and Tomahawks. When
this first performance report on the
Cobras is coupled with the an
nouncement that they now can be
flown to the combat fronts, it is not
difficult to believe that it soon will
vindicate the fondest hopes of those
who always have believed that it is
one of the most deadly fighters Of
the air.
Evening star., 1942-05-26
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles +. Trdce1UeH.

Once so taking. they tend to look for,
to expect, and to be upset If the regular
Is not forthcoming, or If the unusual is.
It is all just another link between the
various forms of life. Man, arrogating
to himself the peak of creation" status,
fondly thinks of all other forms of life
as greatly different, and usually less,
than himself.
1t may be instructive for him to con-
template, now and then, how the crea-
lures, II they live the same lives as
man, can be quite as much slaves to
habit.
Many birds, including the Baltimore
oriole, have favorite branches from
which to sing.
An oriole will take the same bougn
day after day.
He will sing from his perch all the
time his mate is building the nest. Since
this is a very famous, finely constructed
affair, the female oriole requires about
two weeks for its completion. Part Of
the material is drawn from her own
breast.
All the time the male oriole is singing
away from his chosen perch.
Thrushes tend to seek the same
branches for their singing, especially
the evening song.
House cats. those curious animals, are
well known instances Of habit.
If they are kept in the house Or store,
they form daily habits as set as those
Of any human being, including those OF
going to bed at the same time and
getting up at the same hour.
The greatest instance of habit OF
which we have ever heard in cat came
the other day, with the arrival on the
back porch Of neat tom cat.
We called him Tom, for short.
He wanted to come in, but so binding
had been his habit, evidently, of going
in door that opened on the right side,
that he could not understand a door
which opened on the left.
We held the door open for him, but he
persisted in trying to get through the
side where the hinges were.
The whole performance seemed ridic-
ulous, until we stopped to realize that
the animal was simply creature OF
habit"
1t had been used to entering doors
from one side at home.
Out in the world, it would not do
otherwise,
1t was not a question of seeing. 1t
could see the opened door as well as any
one. 1t simply refused to enter in an
unaccustomed wayi
If it has been fleeing from large dog
the time it took to solve the strange
problem Of door which opened-for it
the wrong way, would have given the
dog time to seize it. Habit, indeed, is
good or bad, according to the use that
Is made of it. Go
Evening star., 1942-05-26
Protected Barge Line

The Atlantic Coasts inland water
way may be given chance to dem
onstrate its usefulness as an emer-
gency submarine-proof water route
for the EaSt'S oil and gasoline sup
plies. 1t has been repeatedly claimed
that the Philadelphia to- F lorida
channels could relieve the oil
shortage along the Atlantic seaboard
and now there are indications that
Federal authorities are planning to
give the barge proposal serious try
out. The Maritime Commission has
disclosed that bids have been asked
for construction of shallow-draft
wooden barges, while Coast Guard
officials said contracts have been let
for thirty-three large concrete barges
capable Of carrying oil.
The inland waterway is twelve feet
deep most Of the way from Philadel-
phia to Jacksonville. According to
Senator Barkley, the President has
asked that study be given to the
practicability OF building a pipeline
to Jacksonville from the Gulf Coast,
so that oil from the Texas and
Louisiana fields could be delivered
to the barges on the waterway.
Meanwhile, a test Is being made Of
the feasibility Of using the Caloosa-
hatchee cross-State waterway as a
barge link between Jacksonville and
upper Gulf oil ports. Major General
Thomas M Robbins, assistant chief
Of engineers, told a Senate Com
n1srcs Subcommittee that approx
nsatsiy $1,000 barrels Of oil could b
Evening star., 1942-05-26
From Motor to Muscle

There is an old story to the effect
that parts Of Arizona are so dry that
frogs moving from there to more
favored localities have to learn to
swim. Now from Alaska comes a
variation, this time backed by truth.
A large dairy in Fairbanks puts its
cows in barns every October, where
they stay seven months until 1t gets
warm enough for their release. AS a
result, each May they have to learn
how to walk all over again, which
they manage without human help.
Some gloomy prophets say the
same thing will happen to our motor
lists. Pent up practically their whole
lives in automobiles, how are they
going to make the drastic change
from rubber to leather, and from
motor fuel to muscle power? Will
some instinct inherited from remote
caveman ancestors force its way
through the veneer Of civilization,
and make these victims Of war as
adaptable to changed conditions as
the hctional frogs of Arizona or the
factual cows of Alaska, so that they
can pick up walking? Or will pro-
fessors of pedestrianism have to be
employed for severe cases to cure
automatic clutch and brake opera
tions Of the feet and convert them
to push and pull? Time alone will
tell-and fortunately, at the new
travel tempo, they will have more
time than they ever had before.
Evening star., 1942-05-26
Heroes in Retreat

Readers of the story of Lieutenant
General Joseph w. Stilwell's escape
from Upper Burma inStinctively must
have thought of Xenophon's narra-
tive of the retreat of the ten thousand
Greeks from Cunaxa in Babylonia to
the Euxine and at last to the Bos-
porus and home four hundred years
before Christ.
The hardships and sufferings re-
ported in the two ordeals were similar
despite the vast difference in time.
War still is war without regard to
place OF date or minor deviation
from the standard pattern. So, too,
the heroic element In human char
acter remains constant factor Of
great importance-if the species Is
to survive.
A keener appreciation o6 the daunt-
Evening star., 1942-05-26

lessness and endurance of General
stilwell and his companions In their
trek to Calcutta should be stimulated
by comparison Of their experience
with that Of the Hellenic auxiliaries
OF the defeated pretender Cyrus, slain
by his brother, Artaxerxes Mnemon.
The author of the classic account
had been a pupil Of Socrates and
was educated to the skillful use of
language. It Is with a magic pen
that he tells Of the long march
through hostile country, his follow
ers weary, many OF them i'll, most
OF them slowly starving, all subject
to the rigors of an alien and un-
friendly climate. Barbarous tribes
attacked the column as it moved
tediously onward. Each successive
moment brought its own quota of
danger. The leader Of the expedition
had no authority save that accorded
him by the soldiers themselves. He
"exhorted them to act with a vigor
and decision worthy of the Grecian
name, reminding them OF the heroic
exploits Of their brave ancestors in
circumstances equally discouraging."
In the end the army reached
Greece having lost less than a fourth
Of its personnel.
Modern history chronicles a num-
ber of retreats in which the powers
OF resistance Of troops as deserving of
praise as ever the ancients dared to
be was tested and not found wanting.
A universal public recalls the saga
OF Rogers Rangers in the French
and Indian War in 1883. With like
spirit 1t will remember General Still
wells struggle through the Burma
1ungles-and share his determination
to "go back" and throw out" the
japanese invaders.
Evening star., 1942-05-26
THIRTEENTH STREET.

Dear Sir:
1T seems to me that birds are quite
as much creatures Of habit as man.
They come back to the very same nests
every spring-at least some Of them do,
including the wren-and they demand
to be fed at exactly the same places.
I'VE had ap interesting example of
this in our yard the other day. I though
you and your readers might be interested
in hearing about it. We had been in the
habit Of feeding some Of the songsters
from our back porch.
"Raisins are what we have been using
mockingbirds have come to the porch.
This day the supply had run out.
There was brown thrasher in the lilac
bushes. He seemed to be demanding
food. But 1t was q catbird that put on
the best show. He came and made his
peculiar noise time after time.
There could be no question that the
birds were asking for more raisins. We
thought we would put the saucer out in
the grass, where all the birds could get
at it easily.
THAT was where we made our mistake.
Not a single bird would come down to
the saucer. They ignored it, heaped as
1t was with raisins, for half an hour.
Then we wilted, and put the food on
the porch.
The catbird flew down within few
seconds after the back door was closed.
"All the other birds came, one after
another. 1t was quite plain that they
were used to getting raisins from the
porch, and vastly preferred them there.
Sincerely. L. K"
There can be little question that birds
are creatures Of habits.
They are very much put out when
anything Is changed In regard to their
usual feeding This is all the more
strange. since in nature they must take
as they find, and probably never find
things the same twice over.
They very much resemble the male
human, who mostly resents any change,
especially in things about the home.
Women know how difficult 1t is to get
the man Of the house to consent to new
wallpaper, painting, etc. Usually he
goes to the office as early as possible,
and remains downtown. or at least
tries to. until it IS all over.
It may be that birds imbide some of
this by watching human beings. Ger
tainly in recent years, with the exten-
sion Of bird-feeding activities, they have
had unusual opportunities Of taking on
some Of the mental peculiarities of man
kind.
1t is probable that habit Is something
which grows out Of doing the same old
things in the same old way.
The birds, in nature, take things as
they come, but when they begin to tangle
with mankind. they take them on
schedule.
Evening star., 1942-05-26

public, burnt out third rails and all track
work possible is done after midnight and
generally finished before the first car is
due in the morning-when we go right
on with our regular work. ~
Surely, we must have a high sense Of
duty to our country, our city and our
employer. I wonder if the swivel-chair
generals as suggested by F. S. Wilson
in The Star for May 81, could do as well,
much less better, with the equipment
and manpower that is available?
c. M. WILSON.
Evening star., 1942-05-26
Objects to Permission
To Waste" Gasoline.
To the Editor Of The star:

Z
Leon Henderson's surprising statement
that holders of B cards are free to use
for any purpose they desire the gas they
save" by doubling up with other motor
lists may help to clarity the confusion,
but it surely does not satisfy those of us
who joined six-man transportation
clubs and therefore are entitled only to
A cards in most instances.
Such statement defeats the very pur-
pose of doubling up on transportation.
It just does not make sense to encourage
saving gas by group travel and to au-
thorize wasting it by unnecessary driving.
FRUGAL YANKEE.