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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25
ALL and Clio Map
Plans 10 5idefrack
War Service Bill
Labor Sees Proposal Of
Tying Workinemon to
Job as Vicious
By JESSE O. IRWIN.

~ UAo6A VI x1Ns
Organized labor today is map
ping plans to keep the proposed
National War Service Bill
drafted by President Roosevelt's
personal friend, Grenville Clark
from being introduced during
the forthcoming session of Con-
gress.
The proposal, which would, in
effect. regiment workers for the
war effort under direction of the
: selective service system, was viewed
by CLIO and AFL spokesman as an
effort to cram compulsion down
the Threats of every workingman
before voluntary methods have been
given a fair trial"
They said they had given the
measure thorough study and they
labeled it as vicious" Because.
they said, its authors prominence
and the part he has played in re-
cent compulsory labor measures, to-
gether with the fact that he drafted
the original Selective Service Act.
they are giving his latest proposal
considerable weight
Showdown Forecast.
Vice President Eric Peterson of
the International Association of Ma
chinists declared "if this war can
not be won until law is passed
tying workers to their jobs, then
there is equal need for the enact
ment of legislation denying employ
ers every cent of profit from regi-
mented labor for the duration"
Mr.. Peterson views price control
and wage sterilization as measures
that will definitely limit collective
bargaining. "Clamor for compulsory
manpower legislation" he added, lis
another trend in the same direction,
and 1t is foregone conclusion that
a showdown will soon be due on
the issue of free VS.. compulsory
labor.
"Compulsion and reorganization
are poor substitutes for co-opera-
ton and production graphs will soon
present convincing proof to that
effect"
Blacklist Efforts Seen.
Despite action by the War Man.
power Commission to prevent rec
ognition of voluntary agreements
formulated by employers without
commission participation or super
vision, it was reported that these
agreements are having a tendency
to spread, and organized labor views
them as efforts to formulate black
lists"
The commission has sent instruc-
tons to its regional directors that
where voluntary agreements have
already been established among en-
ployers, without commission par
ticipation, such agreements must
not be recognized" and eff no need
for employment Sterilization exists,
the participants in such voluntary
agreements should be advised that
the continuance of such agreements
is contrary to War Manpower Com
mission policy"
In some sections of the Ma
ton" a spokesman for organized
labor said, employers have reached
an understanding among themselves
to prevent workers from choosing
where they shall work.
Army Draws Fire.
ut is apparent from the informa-
ton obtainable that it is a revival
OF a custom, under the patriotic
guise of promoting production, that
was better known as the blacklist.
Army personnel are said to be
lending active assistance to this pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

mund came to this city in 1919 He
is retired butcher and q World
War veteran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

If you can't sleep ut night-go out
and buy . bend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

being investigated. violators are
subject to heavy fines and imprison-
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

Naturally there will be obstacles. Your work
may take Ionger-we may ask you to make
an appointment to have repairs made. We
promise you our best during the emergency
and feel certain that you will bear with US!
We want to serve you otter the war as we'll
as now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25
Army Draws Fire,

ut is apparent from the informa-
ton obtainable that it is a revival
OF a custom, under the patriotic
gulse of promoting production, that
was better known as the blacklist.
Army personnel are said to be
lending active assistance to this pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

GLASSES, in brown leather case, gold
rims, lost near 14th and H SITS. NV.
Call NIL l0Ql after 6 pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-25

IRISH SETTER, male 10 months old.
Answer to the name of Rusty: wearing
d c. dog tags in the vicinity OF Takoma
Park Reward. Mr.. Rossler. 62S Elm ave,
Takoma Park. Md. Sligo 11SN.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
EXPANDING COMMUNICATIONS

One Of the results Of the war is q
new era Of road building all over the
world. Thousands Of miles Of strategic
roads ore being built in the Soviet
Union, Chino, Africa, and Australia,
New highways ore being rushed to
completion in the Western Henri
sphere.
In the lost two years new railroads
have been completed and extensions
made to former lines. Much Of the rail
rood building has been concentrated
in tn Middle Eost The line from Tur-
key TO Egypt has been completed; O
roll link now connects the port at the
mouth Of the Euphrotes and Tigris Riv-
ers with the Trons-Ironion Rood over
which supplies ore flowing into SOUTH
ern Russia. A railroad has been put
into operation from the Port Sudan
area on the western coast Of the Red
SEQ to the American base in Eritreo.
w JUL NIOIl " lIlS lIlOuSOOOS OF
miles Of highway and railroad build
ing under construction, the war stro-
tegists ore combining routes for air
transportation with the land services
News items indicate that many small
auxiliary air fields have ben establish
ed by the United Nations. In this
gIoboI war many Of the hereunto inoc-
cessibIe ports Of the world have become
important miIitory areas.
The immediate purpose in both
land and dir transportation is to win
the wor But offer the victory has been
won, the people living in many large
sections will be much more interested
in trode and communication than be-
tore. The present exponsion Of dir SER
vices is blazing O troll to more dro-
matte accomplishments in the coming
years Of peace.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
RUBBER AND THE RoMANIES

How are those colOrtul rolling
stones, the gyPsies, foring under cur
rent rubber restrictions? Some years
600 they discarded their picturesque
horsedrown conveyonces in favor Of
ancient but coPocious automobiles or
troiIers. Now, with new tires unobtoin-
able and used ones at q premium, they
are seemingly foced with q situation
which would dount the average stoy-ot-
home.
Whosoever assumes that this PEREZ
orinoting people have been grounded
for the "durotion" reckons without his
Romantics. In the day Of Oobbin, no
caravan was without its string OF
ponies. The men Of the group did q
thrivino business with farmers along
the woy The Romony is skilled in q
variety of crafts, with the ability easily
to master many others. Although the
cars he drives seem ready for the SOL
wage yard, whoever saw q Romony mo-
chine drawn up by the roadside for re-
poirs?
Those familiar with ROmony re-
sourcefuIness may easily enVision
gypsies as riding long otter others have
had recourse to the horse and buggy
or else onbIing IeisureIy along in TROLL
ers equipped with mokeshift wheels.
For upward Of q century, these nomods
Of the highway have brought much
needed touch Of color to the oft-times
drob American scene. One does not
like to think Of these "eorIy settlers"
as really settling down.
From the Christian Science Monitor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
O HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

thing else happens instead: A
yes-man pops IN, all the Venetian
blinds shoot up, music blares
masseur appears.
Most astonishing of all is the
automatic bar. When Moore
touches a button, the whole top
of the desk moves. out into the
room and things begin rising, UNI
folding and sliding into place I'M
til there stands a bar complete
with dozens of bottles, glasses,
Spigots, ice, apron and towel.
AND NO KIDDING
Such devices are not very far
fetched, at that. About a year
ago, Paulette Goddard was given
a glittering, stainless steel make
up table, on wheels, that looks
like a cross between a soda foun-
tainand juke box Matter Of fact,
il is Just that. Push one Of a row
Of buttons, and a side panel
moves down to reveal a radio.
Another button controls a SINH
lar panel on the other side, and
when it opens a little bar swings
out. with glasses, siphon and a
brace Of deCanters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
SMALL BUSINESS

On the basis Of partial returns from
q survey, government experts do not
believe that small business will be in
jured so seriously by the shift to total
war economy os had been feared.
Philip D. Reed, chief Of the WPB's Bu-
reou Of Industries branch, estimates
thot only $4,000 Of our. ! 1000 monu
featuring plants will be forced out Of
business by Oct !
That is comforting, by contrast
with the Pessimistic prediction that
10000 factories would be forced to
close down. Yet the economic destruc-
ton of $4,000 businesses, with on
annual turnover Of four billion dollars,
is no minor tragedy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
o McKENNY ON BRIDGE

Of Buffalo, N. Y, Walter Rob-
crtS Of Macon, Ga, Dwight
Hickerson Of Philadelphia, Pa,
Peter Hikes Of New Rochelle,
n. Y. and William j. McRob-
crts Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Although the leading pair
placed only fifth in pair score,
the all-round play of all four
pairs was so consistently good
that the team paced the field by
a wide margin.
Ham and Harris bagged the
very difficult strip and squeeze
nm hand No. 7, shown today.
North and South earn par by
making six hearts. and the play
has TO be very precise. Dummy
wins the spade lead and leads
the singleton club When East
docs not produce the ace, South
should duck. The defense prob
ably leads a trump. South then
leads and rufus a club. dropping
the ace. To attempt another club
ruff will clearly be fatal, so the
deClarer has TO cash all his
trumps and hope for a squeeze.
II develops, as East has the only
shoppers in clubs and diamonds,
and S-yth must make club be
sides his king or North must
make the five Of diamonds at
the end.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
High|ights from
the Latest Books
IMMORTAL SERGEANT" by
John Brophy Harpers; 2:50).

John Brophy has done the
most extraordinary job of COM
plicating a perfectly simple (and
remarkably good story l have
seen in years. This neatest feat
of t-e season takes place in a
novel called Immortal Ser
geant," a story of { e North
African campaign in the present
war
This is the simple story. Colin
Spence, in London, is in love
with very good plant but not
quite the man for her. He be-
lieves his failure with her is due
to some lack of manliness in
himself, yet he never reconciles
himself to losing her. And then
Spence finds Himself corporal in
a company of desert fighters
sweeping back and forth across
the Libyan sands-freezing by
night and sCorchinS by day,
dominated through both day and
night by tough sergeant who
also is a first rate soldier.
One day tWenty-four men, in
Guiding Corporal Spence and
Sergeant Kelly, are sent on a
desert patrol of very little i'm
portance. 1t is just another rout-
inc job, for time. But the patrol
is caught by a trio of Italian
dive-bombers, and havoc begins.
The patrol is decimated, and the
sergeant so badly wounded that
he kills himself rather than hold
back his comrades. Then Corpor-
al Spence must command. He
finds himself able to ommand
largely through his memory of
Sergeant Kelly and Kelly's i'm
mortal toughness, and although
only the corporal and the weak
est member of the patrol survive,
the corporal has found himself.
The straight narrative in I'm
mortal Sergeant" is about as
good as it could be, and the story
Of Sergeant Kelly's death close
to perfect. But the rush of the
narrative is clipped off every
few pages with a pair of prissy
literatary shears, and flashbacks
are introduced. These tell the
story up to the start of the pa
troll, and there are literally doz-
ems of them. Indeed they do
more than tell the story of the
pianist and the thWartcd corpor-
al; there is some literary criti-
CiSm, and even a scene in which
the author (Mr. Brophy) pre-
sides at benefit dinner of some
sort. This is introduced, it ap-
pears, so that Mr. Brophy can
tell off some of his literary con-
freres.
If it we're told straight through,
this novel Would leave you
cheering. AS it is, it leaves you
fidgeting.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25

out the lie by putting Victor into
B. G.. DeSotC's' office and using
every means except murder to
keep the rightiul tenant out.
Hollywood takes a rubbing all
the way, including a number in
which the Misses Goddard, La
mour and Lake form a glamor
trio and sing "A Sweater, a
Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang.
The fancy offices Of studio mo-
guls are satirized when Moore
sits at the boss desk and begins
pushing buttons in an effort to
summon Miss Hutton. Every
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

MA Service Statt Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, June 25 -- 1t
ought TO be a heartening lndl-
cation that the movie business
has attained certain confidence
and dignity when it and its boss
cs feel they can afford to poke
fun at themselves on the screen.
Anyway, the fans are going to
see something unusual when
"Star-Spangled Rhythm is I'M
yelled. 1t takes place all over the
Paramount lot
The story was written as an
omnibus to carry all the COM
pany's stars-Bob Hope, Bing
Crosby, Mary Martin, Dorothy
Lamour, Veronica Lake Paulette
Goddard, Fred MaCMurray, Ray
Midland, Vera Zorina and on
down the list-into a big must
cal It will invade sound stages,
addition and projection rooms
and an executive office TO watch
these people performing-appar-
emily in the making of other
pictures. The actual production
head, B G.. DeSylva, will be rep
resented as "B. G.. DcSoto' by
Walter Abel playing a neurotc
executive who complains of per-
secution by his enemies. Para
mounts president, Y F r n k
Freeman, is to be impersonated
by Cecil Kellaway as ~. Frank
Fremont" Cecil DcMille and
Preston Sturgis play themselves.
MOORE BETTER
For perhaps the second time
i'm his ill-cast Hollywood career,
Victor Moore gets a role in keep
ing with his Broadway accom-
plishments. He is shown as an
old western star of silent pictures
who has sunk TO the position Of
studio gateman. Trouble Is, he
has a son Eddie BraCken) I'm the
navy who has told shipmatcs his
father is the big boss of Para
mount. When the men get leave,
Braken and Paramount phone
operator Betty Hutton) brazen
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINCTONe

should do, insteod Of being
told. Firing right and left any,
one who isn't 100 per cent for
oII-out conversion, sub-con-
tracing, small business Porti-
ciPoton.
It oil gets back to the ques-
ton, "IsNeIson tough enough
for the jobo" His six months
honeymoon as the hoPPy BRIDE
groom is now over. All the in
laws will stort criticizine the
foir-hoired boy wonder now,
and the fight is over who's 60
ing TO wear the pants from
here on in-NeIson or his crit
les.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
o FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES ID
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY

55 YEARS AGO IODAH
1887
Barton Hubbard joins the
Oinia nine as shortstOp.
Oleomargarine is quoted high
or than dairy butter in De-
troit, but not as high as
creamery.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1882
A fastidiOus stranger hands in
the following note: This beau
tiful little town is noted for its
mineral springs, but if you had
CHANGED to walk down South
Gratiot street about 1870 Thurs
day evening, you might have
seen on the porch of a large
brick house a specimen of Mt.
Clemens stock picking his toes
with a carving knife
VIM. Cottrell has gore West.
A Chicago man tried for II
years to cure a sore on his leg,
but in vain. Three cakes of Mt.
Clemens soap put him in shape.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
o MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answer
ing the following questions,
then checking against the au-
thoritative answers below:
/. Should house guest take
his own toothpaste, shaving
cream, etc, with him, or expect
his host to supply him?
2. If someone you know only
slightly hears that you are 60
ing to make the same trip he is
taking, and offers to take you in
his car, should you insist on
paying part of the expenses?
3. If you spend a month with
a relative with whom you do not
ordinarily live, should you take
your sugar ration card along?
4. If there is a possibility of a
golf game, should a weekend
guest take his own clubs?
5. Is the hostess rude who does
not answer a guests breadand-
butter note?
What would you do if
An acquaintance who is very
proud of his garden wants to
give you some vegetables that
you won't like very well -
(a) Take them and thank
him?
(b) Tell him you don't like
the vegetables?
Answers
l. The guest should take his
own.
2. Yes.
3. Certainly.
4. Yes.
5. No. For il is not necessary
TO answer bread-and-butter let
tiers
Better What Would You Do
solution-(a) is more tactful.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The members of the Prince
ton team who won the interCol-
lcge bridge contest among 81
colleges were: Stephen l.. Ham
Of Southampton, n Y, David
r. Harris Of New York City,
Francis 3 Harrington Of Clin-
ton, n. y, Frederick BcllinEcr
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
o FLASHES
OF
LIFE o
BY the Associated Press
NO RATION CARD, EITHER

COLUMBIA, S. C Charles
Harmon, 13-year-old Shoeshine
boy, was seated on a midtown
sidewalk bench when a 500
pound chunk Of the concrete
walk suddenly rose under him,
popping with a pistol-like crack
as it tossed boy and bench five
feet into the air.
A long forgotten gasoline stor-
az, tank buried for II years
beneath the walk had exploded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
EMBARRASSED

3RADFORD, Pa. = A prac-
tice air raid blackout embar-
raised two young women carry
ing several bottles of beer down
street.
When the sirens sounded, a
special policeman hastily escort
ed them to the nearest air raid
shelter the first Methodist
Episcopal church
Il had TO do it, explained
II, officer 1T was the only
place to put them
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
BACK TO WORK

LII
;s here. Now that plant conversion dls-
nlocements have posed their peak,
we ore coming squorely up against me
need for finding workers among those
millions who do not really want 70
work.
There has been q labor bottIeneck,
IF sorts, for months. This wos in the
skilled trodes which form the corner
stones of most production-men per-
forming key tosks without which the
unskiIed worknen would be useless.
The pinch now ct hand goes FUR
ther than the matter Of trained work.
ers II involves industry's ability to OBJ
tain enough employees Of any sort,
skilled or common loborers, to carry on
the expansion we still have to make
in war production.
The National Industrial Confer
ence Boards survey Of employment
and unemployment as Of April shows
only q million and three quarters theo-
reticoIly available for hiring. Theo-
reticoIIy, because that number in
cIudes hundreds Of thousands who have
worked, who want to work, who need
the income, but who would get in
everybody's way if they had jobs, and
would do more harm than good.
Two years ogo we had slightly
more than nine millions classified as
unemployed The war hos put eight
and quarter millions onto poyroIIs,
including those who went into the
armed forces. Meanwhile normal in
creoses added almost O million to the
labor reservoir.
So today - or to be exact, two
months oeo, since we always ore be-
hind in the compilation Of such studies
there we're only ,753, 900 men and
women who we're theoretically avail
ob|e for employment, Of whom | ISL
600 we're on the rolls of the WPA, the
CCC or the MA, exclusive Of the
Iotter's student beneficiories.
The Army wants at least q couple
of millions more this year. The Navy
and the Marines will take many Aeri-
culture needs q couple Of millions Foc-
tories which have been retooIne and
converting from civilian to war Produc-
ton, would like to repIensh their per-
sonnels. New plants, built or building
to make arms and munitions, need
workmen.
Obviously the less than two mil
lions in the ranks Of the unemployed
couldn't supply oil these needs.
And that is only the immediate
problem. If the war goes on, and Uncle
Sam has to coll out q second five mil
lion men on top Of his 1912 quoto-
The moral is obvious. We've passed
but Of the era of depression and unem-
pIoynent. We've reached the point
where we must reinforce such person.
mel os is freed by priorities- tragedies
with oIdsters, the physically hondi-
copied. youths, women who don't
reoIIy want to work but con.
II is q iobseekers' porodise. So why
the WPA, the CCC, the MA, created
to relieve the effects Of unempIoy-
ment2
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25

DENVER - Completely baf-
fled is Col. Thomas N. Gimper-
ling.
He's received letters from six
Illinois women who wanted to
list in the hard-riding, hard
fighting women's cavalry corps
OF the Denver Recruiting Station
Of the L S Army. "
He's never heard of that unit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
F-FIXER

RENO. Nev.-Ronny Willhite,
s, couldn't pronounce his IS
because of a membrane in his
upper lip. They sounded like
is"
Parents delayed an operation.
Ronny tripped and fell, cut
ting the membrane on front
tooth.
Now he doesn't need the OPP
Grafton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25
TOUGH ENOUGH?

But Nelson troubles with the
politicians now seem TO be be-
ginning. Reported to be in the
works is another big reoreon-
izotion Of the war production
setup-the fourth in two years.
Nelson's own internal reor-
eonizotion may correct some
Of the things the politicians
don't like. Whot some Of the
Trumon committee forces feor
is that Nelson is being taken
over by the Army and the
Navy, transferring too many OF
the WPB-tunctions TO the Serv-
ices, to be run along conserve
tive lines.
Whot the senators wa n I
Nelson 10 be is rough, tough,
free-swineine boss Of the whole
war production Job. Telling the
Army ond Navy what they
Evening star., 1942-11-05
Raid Incident
Given Realism
By Error in Call
A simulated air raid siiicident,

A simulated air raid s1icident," :"
designed to test the National Cap
ital Parks communications system.
took on q realistic touch last night
when a park policemau's call was d.
rected through the Interior De.
partment's switchboard to the de-
partment's building guards ofiice,
instead Of to the park police ONCE.
Acting on Instructions, the police
man put In 4 call for the control
center in the park police ONCE. to
report the incident, " m incendiary
bomb at Broad Branch and Grant
roads In Rock Greek Park.
When the call was erroneously
transferred to the ONCE Of the
building guards, the omcer Of the
day promptly called the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation and the
District Fire Department. The FBI
soon determined that the incident. :.
was Of simulated variety but the
fire department Ient No. d Engine
co. 70 the scene.