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Evening star., 1942-09-05
Rivalry Between Air,
Ground Forces Held
Giving Way 10 Unity
Partnership Developed
By Army During Desert
Moneuvers in California
By the Associated Press.

WITH UNITED STATES ARMY
On CALIFORNIA DESERT TRAIN
ING MANEUVERS, Sept. 5.-The
rivalry that once existed between
the Armys ground and air forces
has given way to a feeling of part
nership, best exemplified In the
workings of the Ground-Air Sup
port Command in maneuvers here
The Gas" Command was an in
tegral part of the Carolina maneu-
vers setup. The same was true in
Louisiana. If anything, It's opera
tions are being studied even more
carefully and extensively here in
the California desert, where tactical
operations were resumed this morn
ing in the start Of three day ex-
ercise.
That extra emphasis probably Is
due in part to the fact that both
Maj. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, jr.,
maneuver director, and Mai. Gen.
Robert c. Richardson. jr., COM
mander of the Blue Army, have
sons in the Army Air Forces. What
ever the reason, the emphasis will
continue to grow.
Must Work Like Infield.
"Air support is a powerful weap-
on" Gen. Gillem points out, land
that is particularly true In this type
of terrain, where the pace of ground
movement is so rapid. Therefore
ground and air forces should work
together as smoothly as the best
big zleague infield-short to second
to first, slick as whistle and no
delay"
Gen. Richardson has issued spe-
cific orders to his officers that, in
any tactical situation, "one of your
first thoughts must be: What can
aviation do to help?' We cannot do
anything in modern war without
complete integration of the two
forces"
Just as the ground forces are eager
to obtain air support in the proper
places, so the airmen are eager to
provide it. and also to make sure
that the places are proper ones, and
that air strength is not being wasted
To this end, the Case has been
set up, its chief in this particular
operation being Col Richard Lee
But of almost equal Importance ir
the present development phase OF
grouIid-air work are the air support
parties, which 60 into the field with
divisional and regtmental com
manderss
Communications Main Problem.
They are all young pilots who
know what our planes can do, Col
Lee explains. "If a field ofiicer
points to camouflaged enemy anti
tank gun and wants a plane ordered
to knock 1t out, the pilot is there to
tell him it would be almost impos-
sible for a plane to hit such target
that he should use his own weapons
That's an extreme example, but
In short time I'm sure there won t
be any even similar ones. For all
of the ground officers are anxious
to learn as much as they can about
this work, and before long they
will be able to make such decisions
alone and thus will speed up the
actual functioning of the Case"
Communication still is the main
Case problem. Here, too, how
ever, there is constant improvement
from one maneuyer to the next,
from one problem to the next, even
from one mission to the next. 1t is,
in fact, on of the most encouraging
features of our present military
operations.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Scrap Shortage Closes
7 Inland Steel Furnaces.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Two of the
approximately 200 blast furnaces in
the Chicago area have been closed
down for several days because of a
shortage scrap, Wilfred Sykes, presi-
dent of the Inland Steel Co. said last
night.
Mr.. Sykes said the temperature
was being kept up in the Inland
furnaces and that with a little more
scrap coming in now" they are ex-
pected to be back in service in a
few days.
Inland has induced some rs scrap
dealers to keep their yards operat-
ing over the three-day Labor Day
week end, he said. Had these dealers
halted operations, he added, Inland
would have had to close down addi-
tional furnaces.
He said the company was operat-
ing on a hand to mouth" basis on
scrap.
Chicago area furnaces consume
more than 14,000 tons of scrap a
day for full scale operations.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Six Killed, AZ Rescued
As Axis Sub Sinks Ship
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
AN EAST COAST PORT, Sept. S
Six crewmen, including British
soldier assigned to the gun crew
were killed when an Axis submarine
sank medium sized British mer-
chant ship in the West Indian area
in mid-August.
A United States naval vessel
picked up 49 survivors who got away
in two lifeboats and drifted for three
hours. Three were killed when a
torpedo struck the ships boiler
room. The soldier and two OF the
crew were drowned.
Capt. George Eric Hodgson said
the first warning of attack came
when one torpedo passed harmlessly
by the bow. In few seconds the
ship was rocked by second torpedo
squarely in the port side.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Most U. 5. Agencies
To Ignore Labor Day.;
Stores 10 Be Closed
Heavy Influx Of Visitors
Anticipated Here Over
Holiday Week End

Although travel in and out Of
Washington over the Labor Day
week end promises to be heavy by
train and bus, plans of many Gov
ernment departments to work Mon
day indicate there would be much
activity as usual here.
Stores and most retail establish
lishments with the exception of drug
stores will be closed, but the War
and Navy Departments, together
with many others working on war
projects, will put in full day.
Throughout the country war work
ers in manufacturing plants for the
most part will stick to their ma
chimes, to keep up production.
Plenty Of Hotel Rooms.
Despite the big travel load ex-
pected by Washington railroad and
bus lines, the Greater National Cap
ital Committee of the Washington
Board of Trade indicated there
would be no shortage of hotel rooms.
Gasoline and tire shortages were
putting a crimp in Labor Day auto
mobile trips, according to the Amer
ican Automobile Association, which
said its affiliated clubs throughout
the country indicated curtailment
in planned trips by 10 per cent COM
pared with last year.
High light of the Labor Day OBJ
servance in this area will be the re-
view of the 10th Infantry Division at
Fort George G. Meade, Md, to be at
tended by At high-ranking Army,
Navy and Embassy officials OF Brazil,
headed by Carlos Martins, Ambas-
sador from the latest American re-
public to declare war against the
Axis.
Because of the thousands of troops
in the review, the largest number of
men ever in a Fort Meade military
exercise, the parade time was ad-
vanced one hour, to 2:20 pm.
Parades Called OFF.
Organized labor in many cities
Cancelled the usual Labor Day
parades, according to the Associated
Press, in line with the stay on the
job" theme. But William Green,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, will speak at Labor
Day rally in Omaha, and Philip
Murray, president of the CIO. will
speak at New Kensington, Pa.
Symbolizing the idea that war
work goes on at top speed on the
holiday, the Navy said $50 warships.
small and large, would be launched
or their keels laid in 27 States Mon
day.
The National Safety Council pre-
dicted traffic toll of 400 killed from
pm. Friday to midnight Monday,
compared with 600 fatalities last
year. But first reports today In an
Associated Press survey indicated
only three traffic fatalities, one each
in Connecticut, Indiana and Ken
| lucky.
A Labor Day rally and picnic will
be held under auspices of the Wash
ington Industrial Union Council
from 2 to 10 pm. tomorrow at Fort
Kemble Park, with a program of
entertainment and refreshment.
Henry l. Adams, labor consultant
with the WPB, and Kramer Goshal,
lecturer and writer, will speak.
For the first time in its history,
Alexandria city Offices will remain
open on Labor Day. according to
City Manager Carl Budwesky. The
rapid growth of Alexandria as q
result of the war has made more
work for city employees. Construc-
ton and other workers also will
forgo the Labor Day holiday there,
he said,
Evening star., 1942-09-05
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next meeting of the committee on
adopting sales tax in lieu of q
Treasury proposal for stiff levies on
individual expenditures.
Senator Guffeys proposal would
place fiat 5 per cent tax on pay
rolls, calculated to yield $4,000, 600, =
900 annually. We figured that 5
per cent sales tax on everything
except rent" would bring in an adj
ditional $4,000 100000.
The spending tax proposal found
little sympathy with committee
members. They discussed at length
yesterday proposal by Senator
Danaher, Republican, of Connecti-
cut. to collect approximately $4,000
100000 annually by a 10 per cent
stamp levy on retail sales.
Exemptions Provided.
Under this plan, the individual
taxpayer would be given certain
specified exemptions. For every dol
lar purchase over that amount, he
would have to buy 10-cent stamp.
When $25 worth of these stamps had
been collected, he could exchange
them for Government bond which
he could use in paying his income
tax or could hold until after the war
to exchange for cash.
Treasury representatives we're re-
ported to have objected that the
plan would yield no new revenue,
but would merely -rovide for adj
vanced collection of income taxes
and for postwar rebates. They were
said to have argued also that a
"black market" for the sale of the
stamps at less than their face value
would probably develop.
Congressional experts, meanwhile,
told the committee that a per cent
retail sales levy would be feasible
and would raise approximately $2,-
500 100000 annually.
The committee eased the regtla-
tions under which a corporation
may make tax-free contributions to
an employees pension trust and
adopted the rates previously ap-
proved by the House for the capital
gains tax.
Under existing law, 10 per cent Of
a firms employees must participate
in q pension plan before the en-
ployer can make a tax-free contri-
button to the trusts reserve fund.
The committee voted to allow the
contributions if Sc per cent of the
employees were covered.
The House bill set up two classes
of capital gains and losses: Short
term, resulting from the sale or ex-
change of assets held not over Is
months, and long-term, resulting
from sale or exchanges of assets
held more than Is months. The
Senate committee voted to make the
dividing line l3 rather than Is
months.
1t approved the House rates, how
ever. Long-term gains are to be sub
jected to maximum rate of as per
cent in the case of corporations and
short-term gains to the regular cor
poration rate of As per cent.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
U-Bout Sunk Schooner,
Rescued Crewmen Say
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRIDGEWATER, Nova Scotia,
Sept. 5.-Seamen rescued after five
and half days adrift in two dories
reported yesterday that their three
masted schooner, bound north from
the West Indies, had been sunk by
the shellfire of German submarine.
All of the crew of two Nova SEQ
tians and five West Indians were
saved, abandoning ship by order of
the Nazi commander before the
U-boat crew opened fire with deck
gun. They were picked up by a
Britain-bound vessel and then
transferred to a British warship.
Capt. Louis Kennedy of Conquerall
Bank, N. S., commanded the
schooner.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Auto Workers Refused
General Pay Increase
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
The War Labor Board denied yes
terday the request of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) for a
general wage increase of Is cents an
hour for 4,200 employees at the Mack
Manufacturing Co.'S Allentown (Pa.)
plant.
The board adopted, however, a
mediation panel recommendation
that the hiring-in rate should be
increased from so cents to IS cents
an hour, with additional raises of
5 cents an hour after so days and
so days, making the rate IS cents
an hour after three months en-
ployment.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Col. MooReody Named
Air Force Commander

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, Sept. s.
1t. Col. John A. MacReady, noted
dawn to dusk" transcontinental
flyer of two decades ago, will take
immediate charge of the air forces
of the 4th Air Service Area Com
mand, with headquarters at Pendle-
ton, Greg, the Army announced
today.
The new commanders flight from
New York to San Diego in 1922 was
the first ever made within the day
light hours of single day.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Poles Publish Volume
On Nuzi Atrocities
By ROBERT w. WOLCOTT.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-A grim,
detailed story Of Nazi cruelties in
Poland, with official papers, pic
lures, maps and eyewitness ac-
counts providing documentary evi-
dence. Is related in a new 615-
page book
The Polish Information Center
which announced publication of the
volume yesterday, said it was a
Polish indictment of Nazi brutality,
describing events that have no
counterpart in history"
The center asserted the volume
was anything but atrocity propa-
sanda."
Proceeds from its sale will be used
for Polish relief.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Tibbett's Son to Wed

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. S (P.-Mrs.
Roland Witte has announced that
her daughter, Edith Ernestine, 90,
and Lawrence Tibbett, jr., %, soldier
son of the singer, would be mar
ried September 13 at Pasadena.
Young Tibbett was an actor before
entering the Signal Corps.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
American Girl BieyeIist
Released by Uruguay
4, the Associated Press.

MONTEvIDEO, Uruguay, Sept. S
Helen Richardson, 28-year-old
Californian who has been making
a bicycle tour of South America, was
released by Uruguayan police yestcr-
day after she had been detained for
inspection of her credentials.
Miss Richardson passport, which
gave her address as Porterville
Calf, was found to be in proper
order and police indicated her de-
tention apparently was due to over
zealousness of officers mot used tc
seeing a blond. trousered woman
bicycling along country roads"
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Welsh Day Observed

BANGOR, Pa. Sept. S tP).-Ban-
gor began its 18th annual Welsh
Day celebration today with 5000
visitors from Pennsylvania and
neighboring States nearly doubling
its population. Joseph E. Davis,
former United States Ambassador
to Russia, and Associate Justice
Owen j. Roberts of the Supreme
Court were expected to attend.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Mccormack Would Defer
Droft for Primary Vote
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Sept. 5.-House Major
ity Leader Mccormack has urged
Secretary of War Stimson and Brig.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national
director of selective service, to defer
all pending calls for military service
quotas in this State until after the
September Is Massachusetts, pri-
mary.
Mr.. Mccormack said the defer
ments could be granted until the
day after the primary election with
out any serious impairment of serv-
ice requirements.
Evening star., 1942-09-05

Are you buying less gasoline?
Then you can afford to buy more
War bonds.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Weather Report

FURNISHED Burea
District OF Coumba-Slghty tonight light winds
Maryland-Slighty cooler tonight.
Evening star., 1942-09-05

On the metal collection drive you
have an S card. Go the limit.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital fcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1942-09-05
Expert Calls Shortage
OF Scrap Desperate ; /;
BegsPubIie TO Aid
Open Hearth Shutdowns
Certuin if Old Metal
Is Not SoIvoeed

The Uttul importance OF scrap
metal in the lDar program and
the danger OF the Increasing
shortage OF scrap is discussed tn
this article by the president OF
the Lukens Steel Co. and chair
man OF the American Industries
SalDnge Committee.
Evening star., 1942-09-05

Potomac slightly cloudy and Shenan-
ooah clear at HarperS Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Evening star., 1942-09-05
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Evening star., 1942-09-05

Report for Last 81 Hours.
Evening star., 1942-09-05

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetie Survey)
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22

has settled to the bottom of the can should be stirred into the liquid, so that the whole comes to an even consistency. I think that more troubles with painting come from improper mixing than from almost anything else. The floor should be covered with newspapers to catch spatters. The enamel or other finish should be brushed out with a few quick strokes to spread it evenly, and to prevent the forming of runs" and of drops.
 When work is interrupted for few hours or overnight. the can should be tightly closed to prevent the contents from drying and the formation of a skin on top. The brush should be wiped off, rinsed in turpentine, wiped again and wrapped in waxed paper. Other. wise it will harden.
 e By Roger B Whitman
 WNU Service.
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FIRST AED
 TO THE AILTNG HOUSE By Rouer B. Whitman
HOME PAINTING
By Roger B. Whitmon

TT HE last few years have seen | great changes in paints, and particularly in enamel and varnish. Formerly, enamel and varnish re- quired many hours, and even sev- eral days, for drying. Now they dry hard in four hours or so. More than this, they are harder and far more resistant to heat, moisture, and chipping than the older types.
 These quick drying finishes are so easily applied that they are com ing into very common use. For ex- ample, take the refinishing of set of kitchen furniture. The first step is washing with soapsud containing a little ammonia or washing soda to take off all traces of grease, fol lowed by rinsing with clear water. When the furniture has dried, any glossiness of the old finish should be dulled by rubbing with sandpaper. This will also smooth the edges of clipped places and of cracks. One coat of enamel is usually all that is needed for complete refnishing. to be followed, if needed, by touches of a contrasting color when the first coat is thoroughly dry.
 In painting chairs, they should be turned upside down. and the legs finished first. the under parts of a table are also finished more easily when the table is turned upside down.
 For a good job, the mixture in the can should be thoroughly blended before using With a small stick or a putty knife, the solid mass that
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22
POET WAS ONCE A LAWYER

ID FAD this story of the conven- 1\ tional lawyer who became one of our most famous poets. Not a dreaming, unsuccessful lawyer, but a man with a profitable and impor- tant law practice, important enough to associate with Clarence DarroW at one time. A busy man of com merce who became a writer of songs and poems. sonnets. essays and drama!
 Edgar Lee Masters was born in the little town of Garnett, Kan, in 1868. His father was a descendant of old Virginia stock; his mother, the daughter of Methodist minister and descendant of Israel Putnam of American Revolutionary fame. The family moved to Petersburg, H., and later to Lewistown, where Ed gar was raised in the typically re- spectable atmosphere of small town America.
 He did newspaper work for the local weekly. learned the printing
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22

trade, and studied law under his father, who was one of the leading lawyers in the state. In 1891 Ed gar Lee Masters was admitted to the bar and practiced in partnership with his father. The following year he opened his own office in Chicago where he was a highly successful lawyer until 1920.
 But even in high school, Edgar Lee Masters was interested in writ ing and he never forgot his ann bitions. He contributed to the Wa verly Magazine of Boston and the Saturday Evening Call of Peoria; he wrote poems for Chicago news paper. His first book, published in 1898, while he was struggling to es- tablish a practice in Chicago, was called simply "A Book of Verses" "Songs and Sonnets" followed, but none of them attracted much at- tention until his Spoon River An thology" was published in 1915.
 Those of you who lament your unexciting lives and yearn for op- portunity, look at his dual person. ality, the poet who has won such high awards in the realms of mod ern literature.
 -WNU Service.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22

friendly with strangers, and show sympathy for their problems. He attended the Stony Point high school and the Packard commercial school in New York. Graduating in 1906, he was employed as bookkeeper. Jim was always interested in poli- tics; and, before he was old enough to vote, he called house-to-house, getting out the Democratic vote in Stony Point.
 His first political job was as town clerk of Stony Point. He was cour- teous to all, jolly, hale-fellow-well- met sort of man who had a pat on the back for everyone. Through AL fred E. Smith, whom he helped elect governor of New York, and Frank lin D. Roosevelt, for whom he was faithful lieutenant in the Presiden- tial campaign, Farley forged stead fly ahead. He won the top political plum in the United States, post master general.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22
BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON ". BURGESS

Forest, a stranger who wore black fur and was as big as Farmer Browns boy. Now, none of the lit tie people knew of any one as big as Farmer Browns boy unless 1t was another boy or man. But Sammy and Blacky said that the stranger was not man. So all their neighbors shook their heads sadly and said "They're crazy" and then again shook their heads sadly.
 "Too bad" said Jimmy Skunk. 'T always thought Blacky was smart, very smart, but there cer- tainly is something the matter with him now"
 "Yes, sah, there cert-nly is," said Unc' Billy Possum. Some things wrong with both Br'er Jay and Br'er Crow. They're foolish in their haids."
 Do you suppose it's catching?" asked Bobby Coon. You know, Sammy Jay had it first and now Blacky has it."
 What's all this fuss about?" de- manded a new voice. It was Peter Rabbits. He was all out of breath. he had hurried so. You see. he had been way up in the Old Or chard, when he heard the scream ing of Sammy and Blacky and he had started right away. for. you know, Peter would feel dreadful to miss anything that was going on.
 Nothing, only Blacky the Crow is just as crazy as his cousin. Sam my Jay" replied Jimmy Skunk "Blacky says he has seen the same stranger in the Green Forest that upset Sammy so. Just listen to those two birds! Did you ever hear anything like it? I'm going home." With that Jimmy Skunk turned his back in disgust and start ed up the crooked Little Path that comes down the hill.
 Bobby Coon and Unc' Billy Pos sum started for their homes, and Danny Meadow Mouse began to run along one of his little paths to get
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22

stands far away from the third finger. Under backward pressure the entire finger is found to be over flexible.
 WNU Service.
The Nome nugget., 1942-07-22
TWO-FOOTED
 MEN
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH

TWO-FISTED men have gone their way, UnWanted in this softer day. But what I'd like to see again At least is some two-footed men. For many men I come across Have one foot that's total loss. For many men each day I've seen Who stand upon one foot and lean. Some seek to lean upon a "class" To bring equality" to pass, Some lean upon the promises Of Townsend talking through his
 fez, Some iean upon the President, Some lean upon the government" Although they own the whole ma
 chine And tax one foot so one can lean. Yet all the men who have pulled
 through Stood not on one foot but on two. Not one success l ever saw Leaned on some bureau or some
 law. That's why I claim we need again A nation of two-footed men. Chats not the worst that I have
 seen: For some, alas, sit down and lean.h
 @ Douglas Malloch.-WNU Service