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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
ALASKAN ATTACKS

ALASKAN ATTACKS
The senate military affairs COM
mittee got some encouraging news
when it met behind closed doors to
hear the report of a subcommittee
which has returned from an inspec-
ton tour of our Alaskan fortifica-
tons. -,
For military reasons, the greater
part of the report cannot be re-
vealed. However, this much can be
told: ~
The subcommittee, composed Of
Senators Happy Chandler Of Ken
lucky, Mon Wallgren of Washington
and Rufus Holman of Oregon, was
unanimous in declaring that our
aerial defenses in Alaska were
strong enough to repel any attempt
ed Jap invasion.
Remarkable progress has been
made since Pearl Harbor in estab-
fishing new land and sea bases in
the Alaskan area. The three sena-
tors also paid high tribute to the
morale and skill of U. S. airmen,
who are forced to fly in the worst
kinds of weather conditions.
Though refusing to predict on how
soon we can start an about air Of
fensive to drive the Japs from their
footholds in the Aleutians, the SUBJ
committee reported that one OBJ
stacle which has been holding up
such an offensive has now been
licked.
Hitherto we have been unable to
send protective conveys of fighting
planes with bombers raiding Jap
positions in the Aleutians, because
our fighters do not have the flying
range for the 1,000-mile round trip
from the army base at Umnak is
land, nearest outpost to the Japs.
However, this problem has been
solved by the installation of belly"
gas tanks on fighters. They carry
several hundred gallons of fuel and
can be dropped after they are
iemptied.
The subcommittee also reported
that interference with army and
navy radio communications in the
Alaskan area, caused by bad wealth.
er and the Aurora Borealis, was be-
ing largely circumvented by com
pass flying. d afs
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02

The U. S. Rubber company's first
synthetic rubber plant in New Eng
land in Connecticut-is
now in operation. This picture
shows the butadiene storage tank
completely enveloped in water spray.
Cooling prevents undesired poly
merization and protects against ex-
ternal fire.
NATION WARNED:
A warning that Americas losses
in the war may run as high as
three million men was voiced by
Lieut.. Gen. Ben Lear, commander
of the Second army, who spoke be-
fore the oath annual convention Of
the American Legion in Kansas City.
General Lear's grim appraisal
was blunt: "Can we, resolutely and
without wavering, face a war in
which our losses may be a million,
or two million, or conceivably three
million men? Can we lake it,
without talk of stalemate p"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
UNFOUNDED RUMOR
DEPARTMENT

The Rumor: One of the Freuhauf
brothers in Detroit, who manufac.
ture trailers, gave his yacht to the
navy, but before doing SO said he
wanted to take it on a farewell
cruise. He had no sooner got few
hours offshore, however, when he
received peremptory demand from
the navy to return, after which Har-
ry Hopkins and his new bride took
over the yacht and sailed away on
their honeymoon.
The Truth: Harry Hopkins doesn't
like yachting, gets seasick easily,
spent his vacation in Connecticut.
Harry Freuhauf, interviewed by this
columnist on the telephone, said:
"My brothr did turn his yacht over
to the navy, but the arrangements
were entirely amiable, and Harry
Hopkins never was on it at any
time or place. We have heard all
sorts of rumors about this, but there
is absolutely nothing to them"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
EARNED APPOINTMENT

Jacqueline Cochran has earned
lrer appointment to direct women's
air work and women everywhere
will be proud of her achievement.
WOMEN IN THE AAA PROGRAM
The war is changing the position
of women in many ways. ! notice
that the department of agriculture
has requested the farmers of the ma
ton to consider the election of farm
women as well as men, to county
and community committees to adj
minister the AAA farm program.
The AAA's Articles of Association
are being amended to permit farm
wives, as well as women farming
in their own name, to vote in the
committeemember's elections and
to hold Office.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
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LITTLE BUSINESS CRUSADER
DREw fEARs0N
Washington, d. G.

LITTLE BUSINESS CRUSADER
Donald Nelson's "get tough" pol
icy gets increasingly unfortunate
reverberations. Part of this is be-
cause Donald, nice as he is, and
well liked as he is, just doesn't seem
to have knack for feeling the pub
lie pulse.
For instance, he should have
known that the most popular man
in Washington, as far as little bust
ness is concerned, is Guy Holcomb,
head of the justice departments
small business bureau. Yet Nelson
reached into the justice department
and demanded that the attorney
general fire Holcomb. The reaction
against Nelson has been bad.
Nelson had no jurisdiction over
the justice department, and it is
unusual for one executive to reach
into the affairs of an outside office.
However, Holcomb has been con-
sistently critical of WPB's failure
to award war contracts to little bust
ness; his cracks got on Nelson's
nerves, and he demanded that the
attorney general fire him. So to
keep peace in the official family, Hol-
comb was permitted to resign"
Actually, Holcomb was hustling
young business man from Atlanta,
Ca, who knew nothing about red
tape, spurned bureaucracy and went
around saying exactly what he
thought of people who seemed to
be lying down on the job. Result:
He made lot Of enemies, but he
got an awful lot done for little bust
ness.
For instance, he discovered that
only three companies in the entire
United States got all the contracts
for putting boilers in merchant
ships.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
ON TAXATION

It seems curious to me that we
accept with much less excitement
so drastic an action as the right of
the War Manpower commission to
shift workers without their consent
to new places of abode, or, into other
fields of work; and yet seem to find
it so difficult to accept any sugges-
tons for new types of taxation.
/ was much interested in Senator
Georges remark that the treasury's
spending taxi was leveling tax.
supposed that was the type of tax
we were looking for at present. 1t
must be, however, that the, pull of
material interest has always been
one of our strongest motivating
forces and is still stronger in the
minds of most of us than the right
to work where and whenever we
choose.
think that in the present situa-
ton we have to accept as workers
in civilian life, or even as private
individuals, the DEGREES Of our gov
eminent in exactly the same way
that soldiers have to accept them.
would not oppose any of these
DEGREES. The only thing which sur
prises me is, that where our pockets
are concerned, we fight SO much
harder and apparently so much
more successfully against certain
drastic changes.
suppose it is in our tradition
and it will take us longer to make
the changes. In the end we will
accept them, as we do everything
else when we realize that to do so
will shorten the war and give our
boys a better chance to come
through alive.
The Raj and our own men seem
to be effectively continuing their
raids on Germany, but it does not
look as though raids alone were the
final answer to the battle of Europe.
All we can do is to pray that our
production will really reach the
point where decisive action can be
taken.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-02
POLITICAL ECONOMY

Woodworking Representative John
H. Folger of North Carolina will 20
the limit for a constituent, but a
recent request from a job-seeker in
his district almost got him down.
IT have fled an application with
the Civil Service commission for a
position as an economist.
II am farmer Of many years.
experience and believe am emf
nently qualified for the job I'm
after.
II have practiced economy all my
iife."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Predicts Subs Will
Stay Down a Year
Simon Loke Eyes U-Boot
Attack on New York City

PHILADELPHIA. Sept % -
n - Simon Lake, designer
who byllt the worlds first big
submarine, says enemy subma-
rineS soon will penetrate the
East river in New York, torpedo
docks and shipping and lie un-
seen on the river bed for months
If neceSSary-until they can
get away
Il know of a secret process
for manufacturing air by which
the ships could remain submerg-
ed for a year and not even inn
pair the crews Nealth." he told
a luncheon club without disclos-
ing who developed the tech
nlque.
fff1e white-haired, 76-year-oId
inventor also said that one giant
"underSeaS freighter," of the
type he proposed to the Senate
Military Affairs Committee Aug.
3, would be worth 38 of the
mammoth super-cargo planes"
envlSioned by shipbuilder Henry
j. Kaiser.
Lake testified before the COM
mlttee that similar Super-sub-
marines were used by Germany
for troop movements. He told
the Philadelphia optimist club
he had suggested building such
ships here and added the Navy
just couldn't see things my
way"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Dynamite Jim
nj 3B Makes
SE..5O am Hour

KANSAS CITY, Sept. ESP
- Dynamite Jim. SO, has new
job, one that pays S150 an hour
James Abbas. as he is more
formally known, has signed as
a carpenter in a defense plant
and has no further need of his
old age pension and meagcr
Waterman pay check.
Said dynamite Jim as he set
out for an eight hour h f T.,
That's good money. ! don't see
how they do it.
Abbas was carpenter for
years, and expects to have no
trouble doing his job.
"Shucks,' he said, II put in
eight hours building forms and
l feel fresh as a baby
How's he going to spend all
this money?
Il won't go dancing. I'll put
it in coal for the cellar, and war
bonds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
MISC prexy Frowns
on Use Of Autos
Tells Students
TO Walk, Not Ride

EAST LANSING, Sept. 90 -
(A1- Socially-minded students
at Michigan State College might
do we'll to buy brogans along
with dance pumps this year.
They'll be doing plenty of walk
ing and bus-riding if President
John Hannah has his way.
Hannah disclosed today he
would follow a request that par
ents discourage use of cars by
their daughters and sons at col
lege with a pointed suggestion
to students themselves to leave
their cars at home in Difference
to the war.
The suggestion will be made
at the college convocation next
week, Hannah said, limiting that
failure to comply may result in
a more drastic step. He pointed
out that 700 permits to use au-
tomobiles in East Lansing were
issued to students last year,
commenting that in view of the
war that was abe ut 698 too
many"
In letter to parents, Hannah
asserted that motor vehicles in
the hands of students are, in
most instances, time consumers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Girl, Il, Found Hanged
in Empty Freight Car

PORT HURON, Mich, Sept.
% - (P) - Twelve-year-o ! d
Shirley Angus Maxwell of Port
Huron was found hanged in an
empty freight car yesterday,
presumably the victim of an &C
cident while he played in the
car.
The boys body was hanging
from cord attached to the top
of the car, which stood on a sid
ing near here. Police Chief
Thomas j. Davidson said the cir
cumstances were puzzling but
that he inclined to belief it
was an accident. There was no
sign of struggle.
The father, William w. Max
well, said there was no reason
for the boy to have taken his
own life. Shirley was last seen
alive at Sis p. m. riding his BIZ
cycle from the home of a friend.
The body was found half hour
later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Weather Bureau, Party
Line Bring Jap Scare

YREKA, Calf, Sept % -tP)
-Yreka had a brief parachutist
scare yesterday.
The weather bureau capably
assisted by a%rural party tele-
phone line, caused it all.
The parachute, STAN p d
made in Japan" was found in
the rugged Scott river region by
John Lighthill. He asked Dan
Mathis, county store keeper,
to get word to the sheriff's of
flee.
Mathis relayed the message
over rural party line and by
the time the story reached the
county seat it included time
bombs, Japanese parachutists
and other adornments.
After the facts were ascertain
ed, Sheriff Ben Richardson
praised the alertnesS of the citi-
Zens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Hospitals FACE
Help Shortage
Stote Feors Rise
i'm Accidents

LANSING, Sept. % - Up
The States hospital authorities
fear steadily increasing loss of
hospital employees will result in
a rise in accidents and unfbrt-
u~.ate incidents" affecting pa
tients, Charles F. Wagg. secre-
tary of the State Hospital Com
mission, asserted today.
Declaring an impossible sit
uation" will arise if employment
conditions in the 10 institutions
multiply in the next six months
as they have in the past half
year, Wagg said I'VE are won
dcring how much longer we can
give just an irredcible minimum
Of service such "a serving meals,
keeping the hospitals warm and
fairly clean and giving just the
SiimmeSt nursing care
From an employe turnover of
90 workers in the hospitals last
January, Wagg said, the rate of
loss rose TO 282 in August out of
about 300 employees. Ypsilanti
State Hospital, the hardest hit,
Wagg said, had lat staff vacan-
cies Sept, l out of 6l2 workers.
Many experienced workers have
left, he added.
Wagg said a detailed review
of the Commissions payroll
problem would be undertaken at
once with the Civil Service
Commission, but he added:
I'm beginning to wonder
whether the usual small increase
in pay will solve the problem. /
think our whole pay scale is SO
low that few people nowadays
will consider it a decent wage"
Asserting I'VE will grab at
anybody that comes along"
Wagg reported group of so
conscientious war DIRECTORS will
be employed in the hospitals as
nurses, orderlies, food service
employees and in similar jobs.
The conscientious DIRECTORS, &C.
cupants of two Michigan camps,
will be paid $3.50 pocket money
a month and will receive main
tenance.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23

Many of the aborigines of
Australia wear no clothes, even
during the cold season.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Women to Walk Police
Beofs in Phoenix

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept % -
(A)-Women soon will be walk
ing regular police beats.
The jobs, paying from 81 500
to S2,328 a year are open to
women 25 OF As years of age,
with High school and preferably
college educations, and expert
enced in social work.
Policewomen are needed, said
Leroy Brenneman, Civil Service
Board secretary, because many
officers have left for war SER
vice.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23

WASHINGTON, Sept. %
[Pl-Openly confident of vic
tory, congressional farm bloc
forces today pressed their drive
TO write higher farm parity cell
ings into the anti-inflation bill
a move toward which President
Roosevelt has expressed "unal-
terable opposition.
Administration leader in the
Senate, apparently taken aback
by Yesterdays surge of support
for the parity change, made
hasty overnight canvass for
votes.
Farm state lawmakers want
the increased cost of hired farm
labor taken into account in
computing parity prices. This
is not done under present law
and is important in the impend-
ing bill because that measure
provides that farm price CELL
ings may not be set lower than
full parity, or the higeSt price
between Jan. and Sept. Is this
year, whichever is higher.
(Parity level is a level calcu-
lated to give farmers the same
ratio between the prices of the
things they sell and those they
buy which prevailed in a favora-
BILE past period, in most cases
1909-l4).
PREDICTS VICTORY
We're going to pass this
amendment 2 to L." predicted
Chairman Smith (D-SC) of the
Senate Agriculture Committee.
He added he thought the vote
would come today.
A similar amendment was be-
ing prepared on the House side
by Chairman Fulmer (D-SC) of
the House Agriculture Commit
tee.
The prospect of the passage
of this very fair amendment
looks extremely good" Fulmer
said.
Those who represent labor
and consumers Of the industrial
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Opens at Jewel Tonight

Dorothy Lamour braves
the Jungle again in her new
Paramount Techni o O
film, Beyond the Blue
Horizon" which opens to-
night at the Jewel Theatre.
Athletic. handsome Rich
ard Denning is Dorothy'S
leading man. The tiger Is
Dottys jungle pal and even
goes swimming with her.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
ASKS RECOUNT

BAD AXE tn A petition
for a primary election recount
was filed Tuesday by Merritt r.
Mcbride, who lost the Repub-
lican nomination for Huron
County sheriff TO the incumbent
John A. Graham. Mcbride ask
ed recount in II of the 10 pre-
cincts carried by Graham. and
the latter said he would file a
contemplation for recount in
IA precincts won by Mcbride.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Wild Gar, MOI Rationing,
Puts Him Out Of Business

KANSAS CITY, Kas., Sept.
% - up - Gasoline ration
ing will put us out of business
Norbert Zarda, service station
operator for Ii years. was tell
ing the station owner yesterday.
There was quite a commotion
just then. All at once he discov-
cred that he was already out Of
business.
An automobile out of control
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
State Jobs
Go Begging

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Sept.
% - P)- Do you want State
job?
If you do you're becoming
rarity.
A month ago the Merit Sys-
tenn Council ANNOUNCED compete
tive examinations for IL CLASH
fications of jobs at salaries
ranging up to Sl55 month. So
far 1000 persons have applied
for the tests.
Last year an examination for
only two jobs brought 5000 APP
plications.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Congressional Leaders
Confident of Victory
President Expresses 'UnoIterobIe
Opposition to Chonse in Bill

districts are beginning TO realize
that short production will come
more nearly to destroying wage
earners and consumers than in
creased production at fair pric-
es."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23
Farm Bloc Forces Press Drive to Up Parity Ceilings

ripped away. the piers which
supported his driveway canopy,
knocked loose two gasoline
pumps, setting one afire, and
ripped out air lines. signs and
other miscellaneous equipment.
Priorities prevent replace
ments.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-23

districts are beginning TO realize
that short production will come
more nearly to destroying wage
earners and consumers than in
creased production at fair pric-
es."
FDR LEADERS GLUM
Glum but not despairing, the
Presidents leaders in the Sen
ate were ready to present their
side of the argument today. To
persuade wavering votes, they
were ready to cite Mr.. Roose-
velts letter of last Thursday TO
the chairmen of the Senate and
House Banking committees, in
which he wrote:
Il should like to make clear
my unalterable opposition TO
any recomputation of parity at
this time. In my message of
September z | stated, in COM
putting parity, we should contin-
lie to use the computation of the
Bureau of Agricultural econom-
les made under the law as it
stands today This will contin-
ue to be my policy"
The President said the parity
principle had proven good
standard for peace time and was
good one for war.
LOSING WORKERS
The NUB of the Farm Bloc
arguments was that farmers are
losing labor to the war plants,
and that unless they are given
higher prices for their products
they will not be able to compete
in the labor market and the ma
ton may face a paralyzing
food shortage.
The Office of Price Admins
tration estimated that under the
new parity formula proposed by
the Farm Bloc the cost of liv-
ing would increase by $1,000
100000 to $3,500,000,000, or a
jump of 4 to per cent in the
index.
The announced purpose of the
Administrations anti-inflation
Bill is to effect general stabl-
ization of prices, wages and 9TH
er factors in the cost of living,
on the basis of Sept. Is levels.
DEMAND RECOGNITION
Under a committee amend
ment, the President could mod
ify farm price ceilings to take
into account increased labor
costs. This provision was not
strong enough to suit lawmakers
from farm states; they demand
ed a specific recognition of the
increased wages of farm help.
Both the House and Senate
bills propose establishment of a
floor under farm prices at 90 per
cent of parity, supported by gov
eminent loans.
AS for wages, the Senate bill
provides that no employer shall
pay and no employe shall re-
ceive wages or salaries "in con-
PREVENTION of the regulations
promulgated by the President"
There is a further provision
that except in cases of gross in
equities, wages shall not be re-
duced below the highest level
paid between Jan. / and Sept.
Is for any particular kind of
work.
The wage section of the House
Bill, as reported by the Bank
ing Committee, provides that
mo employer shall pay, and no
employee shall receive, any fur
Their increases in wages or sal
aries unless approved by the
President or such agency as he
may designate" but it is mop
erative with respect to wages
and salaries which have not
reached Is per cent increased
cost of living level above the
wages or salaries paid on Jan. l,
1941."
Opponents contend this pro-
viso would result in mass salary
increases.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-13
He Must See All

Every one of these attempts at
illusion was submitted 10 Hitler,
of course, since he takes great
pride in his architectural interests
and is never too busy TO supervise
a small detail in this as well as in
other matters.
Hitler's own art work Is likely
10 become one OF the great curios
OF history. In the midst of his mill
tary campaigns and his planning
for the new order" he still finds
time for sketching and painting.
On the western front he sketched
the Maginot line after the attack
by the Germans. as well as num-
Der of other war scenes. He has
made voluminous sketches Of Ger
man naval vessels. among them
the new 35,000-ton battleships.
His strong psychic completes
receive play in his sketching of
strange ships and U-boats. Some
what over year ago he began
practicipgu this type of fantasy on
DRAWINGS Of human heads.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-13
%. Yeah! BaiOney!

The books include works on sur
realism and dada-lsm, although
Hitler has no time for this type OF
att. One of his ironical marginal
notes could be roughly translated.
Modern art will revolu,ionlze the
world? Oh, yeah! Baloney!
In writing these marginal notes
Hitler never uses a fountain pen
bit an old-fashioned pen or an IN
delible pencil.
in drawers beneath the book
hes he has a collection OF
photographs. drawings Of famous
actors, dancers. singers, both male
and female. One book on the Span
ish theater has pornographic
drawings and photographs but
there is no section on pornography,
as such, in Hitler's library.
The third section includes works
op, astrology and spiritualism pro-
|ct1red from all parts Of the world
and translated where necessary.
There arc also spiritualistic photo
graphs.
IN this third section there is a
considerable part devoted 10 nutri-
ton and diet. In fact. there are
probably 1000 books on this SUBJ
jeet. many of them heavily mar
|ginated, including the vegetarian
observation, Cows were meant 10
give milk. oxen for drawing loads. "