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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26
Carolina S Risht

FUNDAMENTAL democracy seems 10 DE IN the saddle
i in South Carolina which is historical for doing the
unusual thing.
What was done in Marion, S c., the other day ought
to be done in every community in the United States
and done RIGHT NOW.
More than 500 citizens of Marion met at the court
house and peoned Congress and the President stop
strikes in war plants
"IF YOU CANNOT FAITHFULLY REPRESENT
US. COME HOME" the petition said
THIS petition rings throughout with the old time fer
L and determination of democratic American
these words:
'You aware that our country finds herself in a
more critical position than before in her life
nation Her continued safety depends upon the complete
and united effort of all of her citizens.
1.-THE intelligent and patriotic people of South Caro-
lima not at all satisfied with the attitude their repre-
sentatves in Washington assuming toward the
national emergency.
"H you doubt this is emergency, look to the East
and to the West and consider what has happened to the
countries subdued by the Axis powers.
1--WE i'm the state of South Carolina have intention
of permitting such a thing to happen to and have
become very tired of those who supposedly repre-
senting in the capital but whose time seems
occupied with matters of senteres and the acquiring
of of personal prestige than in the vOicing of
the wishes of those they represent"
Then follows a DEMAND that the President and
Congress shall stop strikes and crack down political
minded union leaders who stabbng in the back
HE action of this meeting of South Carolina citizens
and their return to first principles is soidy based
Article of the Bill of Rights, which declares that
Congress shall pass law prohibiting "the right of the
people peaceaby to assemble and to petition the govern
ment for redress of grievances"
The grievances just of the American people are:
Congress inactivity in regard to the labor situation
0-The action of certain labor leaders in threatening
political retaliation If there is any revocation the
WalshHea and wage-hour 4Ohour law while boys
face death "a HOURS DAY from the foxhoes of
Bataan to the tankers i'm the Caribbean.
0-The substitution of sefnterest in Washington for
patriotic and nonpartisan interest
COUTH CAROLINA has pointed the way for a peaceful
- and constitutional uprising of the people through
out America.
Meetings in the South Carolina manner should be
held everywhere.
STRIKES MUST CEASE.
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION, advocated by the
Hearst papers for years, should be inauguraed
FIGHT AND WORK must be our watchword hence
forth if we are TO win this war
Any further lay-down in the production field is
TREASON on the home front TO soldiers sailors and
airmen.
Let all patriots unite and tell their congressman:
III you cannot faithfully represent us, COME HOME"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26

THE loving friends, admirers
l. and even idolators of Mac
Arthur are thus doing him and
the country no service by over
emphasizing his genius and pay
ing too little heed 10 the dread
considerations mentioned here.
Those who go further. at this
crisis. to push him toward do
nestle politics. are doing him
an even worse service.
They do not remember the
history Of our country or Gen.
eral Winfiend Scott. who was
refused command in Mexico by
President Polk in favor of
Zachary Taylor. because Scott
was presidential aspirant-re-
fused that command while the
MacArthur-like victories of old
rough and ready made him a
popular idol.
Then Scott was put forward
In an unsuccessful attempt TO
destroy Taylor.
They forget the political fight
that prolonged the Civil War.
They forget that Macarthur
IS neither a politician nor
Democrat-much less New
Dealer. Why can't we give at
least one American soldier
clean break?
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26
LENTEN REDUCING DIET
For Friday
BREAKFAST

For Friday
BREAKFAST
Half grapefruit, l slice toast,
l cup coffee-no cream or
sugar.
LUNCH
One egg poached in y baked
potato-eat the skin of the
potato, l slice toast, l cup tea
no cream or sugar.
DINNER
One cup hot tomato juice.
average helping of lean broiled,
boiled or baked fish, 2 table
spoonfuls stewed celery, gelatine
dessert. l small cup coffee
no cream or sugar.
end of which is an electric
light, and an arrangement of
series of mirrors, which it is
true is not unlike the periscope.
In other WordS-it is all done
with mirrors.
The peritoneoscope has saved
many a patient from an abdomi-
nal operation. and in skilled
hands is very reliable and
accurate instrument in the dag
nosis of abdominal diseases.
THE physician who is trying
4 to make a diagnosis of
disease of the abdomen is up
against a rather tough job.
He has a sort of sack made
up of skin. muscle and fat in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26
MACARTHUR'S "suprem C

MACARTHUR'S supreme
NA command Of everything east
Of Singapore is symbol OF
some such position as that into
which he is being dragged and
with him our own independence
of action TO both our east and
our west.
What does supreme command
mean II joint inter-Allied boards
independent of Macarthur are
TO say what supplies and forces
he is 10 be given with which TO
fight his battle?
The plaudits he has so Justly
won by doing so much with so
little have left a sort of impress
sion that he is military magi-
clan, who can do anything with
nothing.
OF course, he Is no such thing
He is among the tops of soldiers
in all history. but even that is
not enough. He is no miracle
monger.
LIS Job is TO reconquer a
II quarter Of the globe half a
world away. He can no more do
that without a vast supply of
men and materials than Napo-
leon could have done il from his
prison island of st. Helena.
If he fails TO do it (as he
must fail without adequate sup
plies) his heroically won fame
will be frittered away.
II we do not see TO il that he
has adequate supplies, we shall
be accused of not meeting the
responsibilities into which we
have somehow been euchered
and. worst of all, will be seri-
ously hampered and threatened
on our Atlantic and European
fronts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26

BAERING GOWN ON THE NEWS:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26
DEfR0Hs TMES

Subscription rates Gin advanced by mail
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Dr Mexico con Canadian subscriptions add
10 per cent for war taxi.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-26
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS

r. c. NJ: Does a liver disorder
cause the legs TO swell?
Answer: In any case of
dropsy both the liver and the
legs swell together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Chicago Grain

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Early losses
of fractions to a cent a bushel or
more in the grain market today were
reduced or wiped out later, but the
markets recuperative power was
limited by the fact that buying was
only of the small-order variety.
Rye and soybeans. responding to
purchasing of dealers who had sold
short previously, led the recovery.
British factors depressing wheat
included reports that United States
interests were buying Canadian
grain and hedging these purchases
here. A prospect that large guam
titles of wheat may be returned to
commercial trade channels unless
Government loans on more than
$50, 600 900 bushels of 1941 wheat are
renewed when they fall due April 30,
also attracted attention. At present
price levels producers would profit
more by redeeming wheat now in
storage and selling on the open
market rather than turning the
grain over to the Government,
traders said.
Wheat closed 1a-34 cent lower than
yesterday, May, 1.29h-%; July, 1.3l;
corn. 7s-1s dewn, May, 873s-A; July,
$685.; oats, M down; rye, ~
of; soybeans, al lower.
s-h
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
F. w. Woolworth Co.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 LP,-F. w.
Woolworth Co. reported today Jan
uary sales of s28, 344905, or 28,8 per
cent above the s22,oo7,2o7 in jan
uary, 1941.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Iron Scarcity Curbs
Alabama Steel Rate
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb 5.-The
acute shortage of iron. from blast
furnaces held steel operations in
Alabama to 80 per cent of capacity
this week as orders with high prior
ity ratings increased pressure for
deliveries.
The scrap shortage also contrib
uted to inability to operate all
available steel making facilities.
Demand for plates, both for Ship
building and for railroad require
ments, was unusually heavy. Some
plates for fabrication in Alabama
plants have been shipped from east
ern States in recent weeks.
Iron production remained I'M
changed at 100 per cent, with all 10
Alabama furnaces in blast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Many Stock Leaders
Decline Slightly
In Slow Session
Small Losses Rule,
But Few Rails and
SpeciuIties Gain
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Editor.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The stock
market was a little the worse. for
wear today and many leaders in this
weeks mild recovery shifted lazily
to moderately lower brackets.
Lack of strong bids was apparent
at the start and prices began to
waver around midday. While few
rails and assorted specialties man
aged to edge forward, fractional de-
clines were the rule in most depart
ments at the close.
Negatively encouraging to bullish
forces was the fact that dealings
dwindled as trends faltered. Trans
fers for the full proceedings were
around 450,O shares
A batch Of good dividends and
earnings reports seemed to leave
speculative and investment contin-
gents cold. The suggestion was
made that the lack of any real mo-
mentum on the three-day comeback
was hardly rallying signal and the
modest average upturn was attri-
uted mainly to technical reasons.
There were few cheerful spots
in the war news, but the outcome OF
Japanese thrusts at Singapore,
Bataan, Java and Burma still was
sufficiently in doubt to restrain
many of those with a buying urge
for securities. In addition the idea
cropped up that more than the ordi-
nary amount of selling by individuals
for the purpose Of raising cash 10
meet March IS tax demands might
have to be absorbed in the next few
weeks.
Stocks inclined to give ground at
intervals were United States Steel,
Bethlehem, Chrysler, American
Telephone, Western Union, United
Aircraft, International Harvester,
United States Rubber. Anaconda,
Kennecott, Du Point, Dow Chemical.
Allied Chemical, Woolworth, Sears
Roebuck and Standard Oil New
Jersey.
Rail Bonds Supported.
Rail loans made a better showing
than other groups in an irregularly
higher bond market.
Despite considerable turnover in
selected issues buying was not
aggressive and changes either way
were measured in FRACTIONS by the
start of the final hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Construction Awards
II Per Cent Ahead
Of Last Year
Latest Volume Shows
II Per Cent Decline
From Preceding Week

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5-Heavy engi-
neering construction awards in the
last week in aggregate amount were
Y per cent larger than in the cor
responding 1941 week but q per cent
under the level of the preceding
week, the Engineering News-Record
reported today.
The current weeks volume brings
1912 construction to s789, $40 900, or
more than Is per cent over the six
weeks 1941 total.
Construction volumes for the lat
est week compared as follows:
Week Feb. g.. Prev. week. Last year.
S129,900,000 S1s7,231 900 S23,462. 900
State and Municipal.
e543,000 17,307,000 23.32s.0 900
Private.
21,647.000 17,156,OO0 46,e51,O 900
Gains over the 194l totals were re-
ported in bridges, public buildings
and unclassified construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05

Approximate Sales Today
11:00 AM. 5000 1900 Noon 100, 900
leo Pm 100000 200 PM $4,000
Total 100000
fUnit of trading, ten shares; saiee
printed in full In bankruptcy or receiver
ship or being reorganized under Bankruptcy
Act, or securities assumed by such COM
panies. Rates Of dividend in the foregoing
table are annual disbursements based on
the last quarterly or semi-annual DECLARE
extra dividends are not included I'd X
dividend. U Ex rights. Also extra OF
sd Tar this year. or ssose fa
last year h Payable In Canadian {unlS,
K Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year.!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Baltimore Stocks
Commodity Prices
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Press weighted wholesale price index of Ak
commodities today advanced to 97.II.
Previous day, $685.: week ago. 97.S7;
month ago, 1858 year ago. n SO
1871 AZ. 1910. 1899. le33-3s.
Hlgh----- $500 1925 1929 aS'l4S
Low 1903 $3.50 1918 4l.44 -
0926 average equals lOO.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05

7 + E A S U r Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
Jump Revealed
In Montgomery
Ward Sales
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Montgomery
Ward & Co., mail order and retail
merchandise firm, today reported
January sales of 41,854 ,472, an in
crease of IS per cent over s33,-
495,445 in the like 1941 month.
Sales for the II months ended
January 81, 1912, were s674,279, 739,
a gain of 23.5 per cent over s546,-
009,66l in the u months ended
January 81, 1871.
Evening star., 1942-09-27

yellowed pages and badly SCARED
binding. This opus was titled "The
New Pun Book" The authors, with
maidenly innocence so becoming to
jokesters, of the 1906 era, hid behind
the anonymity of "T. B. and T. c.
It bore the subtitle, collected, edited
and arranged from the notes Of two
learned pundits.'
Exhibits A and b.
Lets see," pursued Mr.. Hope,
What witty gems we can Gull from
this jewel case.
"'He's professional CRATER
"Who?' !
1.-The nurseryman.'
After you've recovered from your
convulsions of laughter at that one,
wiped the tears from your eyes and
rested to win back your strength,
you can start" Bob says, "All over
again with this masterpiece of fun:
"'You know Fatty Schultz, the
butcher. What do you suppose he
weighs?'
al don't know. What does he
weigh?'
Meat.
We'll, sir, If there's any one
around who knows just how to ship
that little thing into modern ver-
sion. I'd like to meet the man-if
only for the pleasure of choking him
Evening star., 1942-09-27
Lidice Picture
To Be Released
Next Month

Neil Agnew, Paramount vice presi-
dent In charge of distribution, an
nounced yesterday that I'VE Refuse
to Die" the company's victory short
dramatizing the brutal Nazi mas
sacre at Lidice, Czechoslovakia, will
be released nationally on October
Is, which has been designated Lidice
Memorial Day throughout the
United States and in a number OF
other United Nations. According to
the Lidice Lives Committee of the
Writer'S War Board, towns in Eng
land. the Soviet Union, China.
Canada and Brazil will be renamed
Lidice on that day.
I'VE Refuse to Die" has been
hailed by Clifton Fadiman for the
Lidice Lives Committee as a film
that Should do much to make
Americans realize that the destruc-
ton. of Lidice is a symbol of the
destruction the Axis wishes to wreak
upon America. It should serve also
to steel our resolve that 1t shall not
happen here" Joseph E. Davies,
former Ambassador to the U. S. S.
r.. Is chairman of the committee.
The film features Barry Sullivan
and Ellen Drew.
Evening star., 1942-09-27

Can Have Its
Happy Effects
Reflections on Strange
Gases Oft obacco Road
And 'Abie's Irish Rose
BY Wide World.
NEW YORK.

NCW oINkA'
If you will go back to those golden,
plush days of 1888, which was the
era when Tobacco Road" was new
play, you may remember that this
drama was denounced almost as
badly as was "Abies Irish Rose"
Both Tobacco Road" and "Abie's
Irish Rose" paired here strictly
because they received the most
mortifying notices a play could get,
earned fortunes in the theater.
The story of Able" is we'll known,
the romance of the offspring of
Irish and Jews. The story Of TO
bacco Road" is equally we'll known,
that of the exhausted tobacco coun-
try of Georgia where the Jeeter
Lester family look forward to little
except death or charitable relief.
Now that Tobacco Road" has
sprung back to Broadway the actors
are complaining because the censors
aren't complaining. When they were
on tour, during the past several
years, they knew that there would
be complaints when the ingenue
would get romantic ideas and say
that the young man in the story
could Course cute"
In its extraordinary and profitable
history, Tobacco Road" has
achieved several triumphs as play.
1t was sunk by the United States
Navy when the boat on which it
was being played was pushed under
the waves of Michigan City, Ind,
and also it came almost to sudden
end one afternoon when Maude
| Orell died in the middle of per-
| formance. Fortunately, the rest of
the cast remained steady and ad-
libbed their lines until the final
curtain.
| "Abie's Irish Rose" earned a for
! tune and so did Tobacco Road" s"
and what is noteworthy here is that
both plays which were so soundly
denounced by both critics and box
office managers promise to be the
most gilded box Office investments
since, perhaps, Uncle Toms Cabin" "
Incidentally, Tobacco Road" is
announcing that its current visit to
Broadway is limited engagement,
which probably means that it is
merely using Broadway as stop
over gap between dates on the road.
Evening star., 1942-09-27
BY DON SHEA,
Wide World

HOLLYWOOD information
ally known rabbi has come to this
movie industry capital, and he's
ready to tel the makers to get
tougher if they want to give the
true picture of Europe.
He's DR.. Max Nussbaum, newly
elected rabbi of fashionable Holly
wood Temple Israel. When he was
"a he was Germany's youngest
rabbi; he is former member of
the German National Jewish Com
mittee which minutely studied Ges-
tapo organization while at the same
time he helped mold underground
opposition to the Nazi regime.
Soft-spoken. youthful DR.. Nuss-
baum has scrutinized many Ameri-
can films of pre-war and current
Europe-and Americans can't yet
realize how brutal the Nazi machine,
how ground down the Europe which
I saw crumble."
The motion picture industry must
tell this story more vividly if it is
to help awaken this country to the
real significance of the war, he said
Nazis Must BE Beaten.
DR.. Nussbaum, former rabbi OF
the great Jewish congregation of
Berlin and associate professor at
Berlin's Free Jewish University, says
the Nazi machine is as strong in
ternally today as it ever was and
will never topple of its own weight
Il know the German setup toe
intimately. have talked with its
leaders and passed myself off as an
italian or Spaniard at too many
meetings. They are efficient, COM
plete, hard. They will not fall.
They can be smashed aside only
by an equally brutal Allied invasion
1t should not come before 1943-
but If Russia is on the verge OF
mortal defeat, or a separate peace
Evening star., 1942-09-27

with my own hands. But. wait a
minute, let s look at another:
"'She thinks her husband is very
economical
TN what way?'
"'She says that although he is
passionately fond of cloves, he
never eats but one at time"
Mr.. Hope gazed dreamily into
space for long time after reading
that one aloud. At length he came
up with the answer. "Oh, get it"
he said Economical. One at a
time" Then he muttered, 'it stinks!"
Maybe" the comedian mused,
this is an especially poor book to
serve the purposes OF the modern
gagster. Let's look at this one"
Pat and Mike, Yet.
Here Bob blew bit of dust from
a volume entitled Irish Bulls and
Puns, 500 Gems of Modern Irish
Wit and Humor." This editor did not
hide, as did the cowardly T. B. and
T. c., behind his initials. No, sir
He bravely indited his name, H. P.
Kelly. And Mr.. Kelly began his
volume with what he must have
thought the humdinger Of his entire
collection. Listen closely:
"Mike-I saw a man fall from a
roof on wagon load of soda water
yesterday.
"Pat-killed, suppose?
"Mike-No, he landed on the soft
stufI.
MI. Hope at this point became
strangely silent. He riffled through
the Mr.. Kelly's classic, pointing to
other such deathless masterpieces.
Nope" said Mr.. Hope, hurting
this book back on the shelf with
loud slam, I'm afraid it just
isn't that easy. I've got the books
I've got the writers-but what real
ly counts in the end is something
else again.
Bob Prescribes.
II don't know how you'd define
it. First of all, it takes a lot OF
experience. just plain experience
playing the tank towns, the Or.
pheum circuits, the night clubs
everything from the twent' house.
to the thirty Broadway shows
When you've had that-as Free
Allen, Jack Benny. Ed Wynn ane
Abbott and Costello have had
when you've had that, brother, you
begin to know what people will
laugh at.
Il guess maybe it's just knowing
what people will laugh at, some
thing you feel in your bones. Yo,
writer's and files fetch hundred
suggestions a week, but fellow
got to know what to choose. That
what does it. But these books? Tn
afraid not"
Still, Mr. Hope contends. book
do look swell in a chaps room
And what's more fitting for funn,
man than joke books? Jane Aus
tens novels would not be appro
pirate.
Evening star., 1942-09-27
'Vickie,' Rollicking Farce,
Makes Bow on Broadway
George Jessel's Humor
Makes New Vaudeville
Show a Merry Evening

Mr. Finklehoff's example. Probably
it will be followed. since showmen
are an initiative breed; but. lest it
be followed too precipitately, per-
haps whisper of advice will be in
order, which is this: Don't do it
unless you can get two comedians
like George Jessel and Jack Haley.
So doing. you will not have to ex-
pend a great deal of thought about
the rest of the olio. although Mr..
Finklehoff evidently did. thereby
environing his two comedians with
performers of wide variety and
pleasing accomplishment in an in
formal program of nine numbers.
But so far as this occupant of one
of Manhattan's dramatic watch
towers is concerned, a show merely
involving Messrs. Jessel and Haley,
one after the other and at various
strategic intervals both together,
would provide him with an evenings
sufficiency of ebullient satisfaction.
George has been around long
time, bless his merry soul. and if
his fun-making has something more
than a tinge of reminiscence, if he
has dipped into old horsehide trunk
in the Jessel attic for quip and skit,
let me hasten to say that he has
refurbished it, polished it, shot it
in the arm, injected new slants,
twisted. turned it and actually made
it better than new.
Georges function is to introduce
the various acts-a "conferencier,"
Mr.. Finklehoff has labeled him-and
this he does what time he is not
monologuing and cutting up either
with himself or with the aforesaid
Jack Haley, whose song and banter
and ouip have not been heard here
abouts since the merry days of
Take q Chance" after which he
was spirited to HOLLYWOOD and there
remained until, in the goodness Of
his heart, Mr. Finklehoff brought
him back to us.