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Evening star., 1942-10-20
I'D Rather Be Right
Propaganda Broodcusts Beginning to Make
Germans Look Bit Ragged IdeoIoeieoIIy

man services" In Rome, Milan,
Genoa, Turin and Naples Sounds
like a timetable) merely adds to the
insult. Italy seems to stand in need
Of great deal Of Himmler's curious
and special services, none OF which
have anything to do with the study
Of the fine arts, nor with archeol-
ogical investigation OF Italy's classic
ruins.
One is justified in suspecting cer-
tain disunity and confusion in Axis
circles. It is especial fun that this
has been precipitated, probably. by
our act in removing 100000 Italians
in America from the classification OF
enemy aliens. The Rome radios
resentment over our improved treat
ment of Italians is the most fun of
all; it tries, lamely, to make out
case that these Italians are, abso-
lutely, enemies, and should not be
treated well at all. Darn it.
Yes. in terms OF style (and style
reveals ones inner state OF security
or insecurity the Axis seems just
trif1e shabbier than it was; the boots
are not SO bright; the whipcord pants
begin to shine. I don't say we've
started to win. say only that we
must press on and increase the Axis
confusions until they are visible to
all of Europe.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
S924,00O in Back Pay
Awarded 10 Ford Workers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 2O-The United
Automobile Workers (CIO) an
nounced last night that an arbitra-
tors award of 1924, 900 in back pay
to 1,197 Ford Motor Co. employees
had settled all but Is NLRB cases in
which the union had charged that
unfair labor practices governed dis
charges.
The award, made yesterday by the
Rev. Albert H. Poetker, executive
dean OF the University OF Detroit
was disclosed through Richard T.
Leonard, director of the JAWS Ford
division. The cases were those in
which the NLRB and the Supreme
Court had found the company guilty
OF Unfair labor practice charges be-
fore the signing OF it's first collective
bargaining agreement on June 20
1941.
The agreement itself provided that
the cases would be negotiated and,
II necessary, arbitrated OF the ar
bitrators award, $4,000 goes to 30
employees in Edgewater, N. j., and
$500 to six employees in Buffalo,
Iron Mountain, Mich, and Memphis
plants.
Mr.. Leonard said the award would
bring to s2,6oo,5oO payments by the
Ford Co. to men discharged for
union activities from 1887 to l94l.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

On style: Ideologically, the Ger
mans are beginning to look little
ragged. They have been telling
the Russians, via radio. that there
will be no second front. At the
same time their broadcasters tell
the English that their leaders are
giving in to Soviet pressure" and
are planning an invasion Of Nor
mandy.
The two stories 60 out simul-
taneously, yah! yah! to Russia that
there will be no second front, and
beware! beware! to England that
there will be one.
To make it more convincing, the
Nazi propaganda machine splits into
two parts, like an anoeba. It is
the "Rumanian" stations, Nazi-
controlled, which prove emphatical-
ly there will be no second front,
and the Berlin stations, also, of
course, Nazi-controlled, which prove
elaborately that there will be one.
The Nazis will first show them
selves weakening when they first
show themselves to be confused.
We should watch for signs of con-
fusion carefully. There are num-
Der of such and they are coming
along more frequently than in the
past. For instance:
Laval, on German instructions,
pleads with French workers to go
to Germany, so that France may
enter fully into "the new European
partnership" and emerge into that
happy day" when every European
will be an equal member of the
glad new order.
Laval Contradicts Goering.
But at the same time Goering,
somewhat thoughtlessly, announces
that Germans will eat during this
coming winter, even If the rest of
Europe has to starve. 1t becomes
possible to call the Fascist, Laval
liar merely by quoting the Fascist,
Goering.
Hitler, in his recent major speech
told the German people that the last
winter was the worst of the war, and
that the next one will be better.
But when Germany talks to Italv,
as through the newspaper Koel-
nischer zeitung, she says:
mo one in Italy can have any
illusions as to the severity of the
coming winter. 1t will be more
severe than the previous ones. The
Italian people will have to marshal
all their resources"
A worse winter for the Italians,
and better for the Germans?
What has Italy won in the war?
Well, she has won the right to have
her chief of state, Benito Mussolini,
honored by formal, lengthy and
rather ominous visit from Heinrich
Himmler, the chief of the Gestapo
Now, it is highly unusual thing
for a chief of police to come calling
on foreign chief of state. The
functions of chief of police are
local, eXquisitely local.
There could be no more character
lstic Nazi insult to Italian sovereignty
and to the Italian people than this
visit. If we can imagine J. Edgar
Hoover dropping in, on Winston
Churchill to ask him how he is max
ing out with English opinion, we will
get an accurate if rather horrifying
comparison.
The semi-official explanation that
Himmler is in Italy to inspect Ger
Evening star., 1942-10-20
South Carolina Acts 10 Halt
Export Of lis Workers

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct. 2O.-Gov.
r. M. Jefferies acted last night to
halt what he said was an attempt
to transfer 100 South Carolina agri-
cultural workers to Florida.
The Governor announced State
constables and local authorities at
Spartanburg had taken into custody
an agent of the Fellsmere Sugar
Production Association of Fells-
mere, Fla.
The specific charge against him,
Mr.. Jefferies said, was violating a
State law prohibiting the soliciting
OF labor without license The Gov
ernor said the agent tried to take
100 bean pickers and cane cutters
from the Spartanburg area to work
in Florida.
Gov. Jefferies said he received first
notice of the intended labor sollcita-
ton Friday, when he was informed
the United States Employment Serv-
ice had approved it,
There's an acute shortage of labor
now" the Governor said. Il warned
the employment Office I would jail
any one attempting to violate the
law"
Evening star., 1942-10-20
GuuduIcunuI VituI to Allies
Joponese Victory in Soomons Would Homper
Retention Of Offensive, Moi Eliot Says

words, the Japanese are now
compelled to conform to our will
because we have attacked them
at a vulnerable point. II they
can drive us out, they will be
able to undertake limited often
sives Of their own which will keep
us busy and tie up large forces
so that we shall find great diff
f1culty in developing another Of
fensive against them.
In trying to estimate the effect
Of these Pacific operations on
Japan's ambitions on the CONT
nent of Asia, the factor OF air
power is perhaps the most i'm
portant.
The very effective use which
the Japanese have made of a
rather limited air force has
given us an exaggerated idea of
Japanese air power as a whole.
Certainly some Of the published
statements as to Japanese plane
production are far in excess of
the facts. Japan has no separate
air force, her planes being di-
vided, as with us, between the
army and the navy.
Admiral Thomas C. Hart, in
his recent articles on the CAM
paign in the Far East, has noted
that all the Japanese planes en-
countered in the fighting around
the South China Sea were navy
planes. Apparently few, If any,
Japanese army planes took part
in those distant operations, and
the same thing is probably true
of the fighting in the Solomons
now.
This suggests that the navy
may have first call on the Japa-
nese plane production, and may
very well have insisted on using
the available planes in order to
restore it's lost positions in the
Solcmons. Some OF our reports
indicate that Japanese planes
shot down in the Solomons have
been found to be brand-new.
1t would be In this way, chiefly,
that, the fighting in the Solomons
would affect a Japanese attack
on Siberia. If the army could not
get enough planes. obviously it
would have very little hope OF a
successful campaign against the
Russians. Whether by land or
sea, no offensive can hope to be
successful unless air superiority
has been attained.
But If the japanese can regain
Guadalcanal, they can probably
carry on series of small-scale
operations in the Southwestern
Pacific with a reduced number of
planes and thus make additional
planes available for the army on
the Siberian frontier.
1t is, therefore, not too much to
say that the influence of the fight
for. Guadalcanal may be felt as
far away as Moscow, and perhaps
on the borders of India. This is
indeed not only a total, but a
global war.
Copyright, 1912, New York Tribune Jpr
Evening star., 1942-10-20
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT,

by MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.
The Japanese attack on Quad
alcanal must be considered
against the background Of the
war situation in the whole Pacific
theater. Very great issues may
depend on the outcome Of the
fight for possession of the air.
field on that one small island of
the archipelago.
If the Japanese are successful
in retaking Guadalcanal they
will reap great advantages. In
the first place, they will regain a
considerable degree OF freedom Of
action in the immediate area, of
which the SolomonS are the cen
ter, for we will then have to go
back to Espiritu Santo Island, in
the New Hebrides, which is $50
miles to the southeastward. This
is the nearest air base to Guadal-
canal which we now hold.
The japanese operations on
New Guinea would be aided by
their ability to concentrate larger
forces there We should remember
that in all the southern islands
the Japanese total force is very
limited; they probably do not
have more than $4,000 men all
told in the whole area from Su-
matra clear over to the Solomons.
Their military responsibilities
on the continent OF Asia are
such that they cannot easily find
reinforcements for these troops,
and shipping is an even more
crucial problem with the Jap
anese than with us.
Hence it has taken them a long
time to concentrate for this at
tack on the Solomons and II it is
defeated, they may have to 60
back to pure defensive in New
Guinea and New Britain, while
If it is successful they will be able
greatly to improve their condi-
tions there.
Furthermore, if our threaten
ing advance from the Solomons
can be thrown back, the Japanese
may then be able to detach naval
and air forces for pressure
against other parts of our great
trans-Paciflc line of communica-
tions, on which the security OF
Australia very largely depends.
For instance, the. Japanese
have established themselves in
the Gilbert Islands, which lie be-
tween their strongholds in the
Marshalls and our intermediate
base at Samoa. If the japanese
had greater freedom Of action,
they might easily launch sur
prise attacks from the Gilberts
toward Rowland Baker and Can
ton Islands, which are isolated
points of support in the COM
murications chain between Ha-
waii and Samoa.
A japanese success in those
islands, in turn. would directly
menace Samoa itself. In other
Evening star., 1942-10-20
Tire Destruction Brings
Sabotage Charge BY FBI
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT DODGE, Iowa, Oct. 90
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton yesterday filed a charge of
sabotage against Edward j. Elliott,
68, Fort Dodge businessman, in con-
nection with the dumping of 12
usable automobile and truck tires
into the Des Moines River Sunday.
The complaint charged that Mr..
Elliott, president and general man.
ager of dry cleaning company,
threw the tires into the river and
also slashed a number of inner
tubes with knife until they were
beyond repair.
James L. Dalton. special agent in
charge of the FBI in Iowa. said the
charge against MI. Elliott was based
on Federal statutes which include
destruction of such vital wartime
necessities as rubber tires among
crimes defined as sabotage.
Mr.. Elliott was arrested early yes
terday.
Ten of the tires were recovered
by men vino saw them floating down
the river. All were in usable con-
dition.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

AL military actions on other
fronts are overshadowed today
by the suspense over the battle
in the Solomon Islands where
the situation still can be de-
scribed as nip and tuck"
Neither the White House nor
the War or Navy Departments
has yet received a clear picture
Of the course Of this most mo-
nnentous battle. It is assumed
that the naval forces under the
command Of Admiral Robert Lee
Ghormley are now in action;
consequently, 1t is doubtful
whether they can communicate
with Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
commander in chief in the Pa
cific, who supervises the strategy
from Honolulu.
The only reports which may
be available to the high COM
mand in Washington probably
Evening star., 1942-10-20
This Changing World
Jops Appear to Be Throwing Bulk Of Fleet
Into Solomons in Hope Of Decisive Result

withdraw without damaging their
forces too much.
The success or failure of the
Japanese strategy depends en-
tirely on what naval and air
forces we have in the South Pa
cific It seems questionable
whether we shall be able to land
more forces during the battle at
Guadalcanal. But this, at pres
ent, is only of secondary i'm
portance.
The main things is whether our
naval forces have been suffi-
GENTLY strengthened after the
loss Of the three cruisers in
August. Sufficient" means not
only replacing the lost units but
also adding a sufficient force to
permit Admiral Ghormley to hit
the enemy with tremendous power
in the thick of the engagement.
Macarthur Cooperating.
There is no question that the
Marine and Army units now at
GualaEanal can hold out for a
while against any superior Jap
anese force provided, however,
that outside the island itself there
are American naval and air forces
sufficiently strong to make the
Japs' position uncomfortable and
force them to abandon the often
sive. The next few days will tell
the.story.
The Pacific area does not have
a supreme command, since the
area containing the Solomons and
New leland is commanded by
Admiral Ghormley while Aus
tralia and New Guinea are under
the command of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, but this division has
Evening star., 1942-10-20

not interfered in the least with
the operations.
Both leaders have seen eye to
eye from the very beginning and
have been willing to help each
other just as if there had been
a unified command. The Flying
Fortresses at the disposal of Gen.
Macarthur have been co-operat-
ing Fundamentally with Admiral
Ghormley from the moment the
Japanese appeared in strength
before Gualalcanal. 1t is believed
that the task fleet which has been
placed at the disposal of Gen.
Macarthur has been cooperating
with the forces under Admiral
Ghormley and at no time has.
there been any pickering.
Gen. Macarthur is fully aware
Of the danger to Australia and the
entire South Pacific if the Jap
anese win this long-awaited battle
and he has not hesitated to give
all the required support to the
hard-pressed forces of Admiral
Ghormley.
Evening star., 1942-10-20

. q ! ONIONS. But
the difficulties
involved h ave
b e en- foreseen
from the very
b e g / nning, and
the one thing
that causes Navy
men concern is
the inability of
the public ap-
parently to un-
derstand the real
nature OF the job
and the reasons
for the way news
Evening star., 1942-10-20

when he failed
to limit to four
the number Of
tires to be al
lowed each car
in the country.
He made a
mistake in all
lowing Us -
keep that fifth,
or spare, tire.
Forgetting for
la moment what
la mountainous
pile Of rubber
Evening star., 1942-10-20

HE opinions OF the rtters this page their o,un
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to gUe all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-10-20
U. S. Stroteqy
In SoIomons
Defended
misunderstanding Of
=. Problems Is Held
bosis of Criticism
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The United States Navy is UP
against one Of the toughest tasks in
all its history-the effort to make
secure the landing OF Marines in the
Evening star., 1942-10-20
McLemore
Remember Those
Tire-Chonging Duys?
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

Price Chief Leon Henderson
missed great chance to improve
the Nations health, as well as to
get extra rubber for war needs,
Evening star., 1942-10-20
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

here don't mind shootin performer if he's too
bad
The newcomers went on. They didn't have
much of an act, but the crowd stood for it. The
man kneW how to bang out few tunes on an old
square piano The woman had bc-sPangled sort
of an old ballet costume that she wore while she
sang couple cracked-yoice songs and hoped
around IN dance step or two
Nuttall was about ready to fire them one night
when man walked in, looked around, and picked
out a seat in a dark corner. The performers went
through their act
They were Just making their bow over the foot
lights when the spectator got up out Of his chair
and levccd pistol at them. He pulled the trigger
and a shot plunked into the rosewood piano behind
the couple. The man had missed.
Before lie could fire again the piano player
Strengthened out Of his bow with sX-shooter in
his hand one shot dropped the man in the audi
cncc.
The crowd was used to gunfire, but it didn't
figure ON the next act. The woman jumped over
the foothghts and clawed her way to the side of
the wounded man.
She slipped her arm under his head and started
10 cry.
oh darling YOU can't die this way
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22
CHAPTER VI.
Bellies Of the Bad Lands.

1912 Icy American Weekly Britain ch,s Reserved
HE OLD Gem Theatre was the hub of the
meuy-go-round Of miners, gamblers and
hurdy-gurdy gals in Deadwood When was
there dealing faro bank in Bedrock Toms place
there was better show put by the spectators
out front IN the Gem than | ever saw back of the
kerosene tootlghts. The real acts were written
IN lead and blood, with no rchearsals no encores
The Gem was run by fellow named Al Swar
enger. The stage was at one end of the room. One
corner was bar When the show was over chairs
were showed TO one SIDE fddlers reslncd their bows
the floor VAS cleared and the all-night hee-doWn
was on.
Along the sides of the room were boxes As
soon as the curtain dropped, the dancehall gals
made a run for them The fellows IN the boxes
always had money and don't YOU think the bellies
Of the bad lands couldn't spot man with fat
poke. The more hc spent the more they cot to
ship down tICIT stU- Kings
Every box had curtain. They always were
drawn when the show was over SO We didn't get
TO see much but You could hear plenty and once
IN while we q get an ON the last act when chair
or a girl would come sailing through "a box curtain
Sometimes 1t would Just be a scream and a pistol
shot.
Upstairs were rooms. There was more drama
there. Sometimes il WAS murder. sometimes sui
eide when girl found herself begged down IN the
pitfMs OF Dcadwood.
RGnnmg the-Gem "A close second was the Bella
Union. II was the same sort of combination dance
hall theatre and saloon. Curtancd boxes and all
Bill INITIAL ran the Bella Union
Theatrical performers were "a scarce article
on the frontier Most anybody who could thump
q piano or sing fow songs was sure 60 get billing
A couple got off The Deadwood stage one day and
hunted up Nuttal
We're a song and dance team" the man said
How about putin us on '
III Try y1a Bat yuh better BE- good Fcllcrs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

dropped from sight The dead husband was buried
in Boot Hill.
Next to Calamity Jane, one of the most famous
of the Dcadwood bellies was Alabama Jane, a good
looking. dancing gal who came to the Gem with a
show troupe. She took fancy to Dcadwood anc
stayed
Al Swarenger put her to work rustling drinks
in the boxes She drank as much as her customers
and was wilder than locoed longhon when she
got loaded, which got to be pretty regular habit
with her.
saw Her on many a rampage, leading PaeF
of men all as drunk as she was, her long hair fly
ing and her black eyes swapping. They'd make the
rounds the Green Front the Bella Union, the Gem
Bedrock Toms, all Of them.
"Set out tn glasses an fill EN- full, was heI
greeting when she trooped into saloon.
Every night was her night TO howl, it seemed
like and her bunch generally managed to scare
up fight before it was over. Alabama always
was right in the middle of it, swinging her fstSpI
popping heads with a bottle if she could &c
hands on one.
Calamity Jane grew up in the West and was
lust as hard as the country But Alabama was
born in the South and didn't have Calamity's stay
ing power Drinking and fighting as regula1
thing was too fast pace for the battling belle from
Dixie.
She was a terror while she lasted, but a couplI
years of it finished her She took sick and died
1t was like Calamity said to me once: "Yul
sure gotta be tough TO live in this country"
Poker Alice was another enc. Her name tip
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

Bunch III gals an circle round,
Smack yur feet until they bound;
Swing along ri two-bit whirI,
While another teller grabs yur girl.
Old Hoe down.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

"BCfOTC ne Oul
Strengthened ont Of Y
Hand. one Shot DrOd
"Thc CrOTd Wax
Figure on the Next Y
FoOtH0hts. Slipped ~
Head and Started to 1
The wife bit her lips|
and got up.
Is this the man ~
The minister looked att
the stony eyed piano.
player. The fellow took
a couple steps 70 the|
woman ) side. Their feet
were pretty near touch
ing the dead mans body
There still was blood onl
her hand when he took III
in his.
The preacher cleared
his throat and opened
his book There was|
something about bcIngl
gathered there IN the|
sight of God 1t mast
have been Gods Il
visit too.
DO you take this|
woman TO be your lawful
welded wife ?' He went
ON about keeping the|
holy bonds Of matri-|
mony. Then, II pro-
nounce you man and
wife -
The crowd shuffled|
out. There was no cele-|
brating that night att
the Bella Union The|
newly welded couple
- -. - !
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

wouldn't last long That Teller | tried TO
kill took her away from me l focred EN- all over
tn West came here tonight to kill him, but he
got me instead. I'm done for. Reckon that's part
O tn game.
He stopped and gasped for breath couple of
times before he could go on
There's one thing ask yuh boys TO do for
dyin man. Git preacher an make that -
marry my wife right here before yuh touch my
body.
you bet Yuh can sure count on it, half a
dozen voices shouted.
Somebody ran TO find preacher.
The wife sat with her dying husbands head in
her tinseled lap. The man who shot him walked
up and stood at his feet but it wasn't his turn to
talk. He shot in selfdefensc all right but he knew
the crowd didn like the play.
I'm a few minutes man rushed back into the
Bella Union. A preacher, with his little book in
his hand hurried along behind him. l reckon it
was the first and last time preacher set foot
in the place.
Everybody moved back to make room A doctor
got down in the sawdust and put his fingers the
dying mans wrist Around the strange group
stood ring of dancehall gals miners, bartenders
and gamblers. For the first time since the Bella
Union opened for business there was no clinking Of
glass. click of cards or a rough song.
Pretty soon the doctor dropped the wounded
mans wrist.
Hes finished he said