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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-07
Woods Perfect
In Pro Fights
Continued from First Sport Page

out Of six professional starts three
hv knockoutS
Robinson. ai0UE with manager
Kurt norman and Sparr.rg part
nor Gus Levine. viii arrive here
Thursday DubS VIII resume rcgu-
lar training tomorrow.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
Philadelphia Museum to
Protect Treasures in Raid

PHILADELPHIA-INS- Philadel-
phia's museums have completed de-
tailed plans for the protection OF
their priceless exhibits in event Of
an air raid.
The Philadelphia Museum OF Art
has compiled a list OF al" things
which are to be moved to bomb
proof storage at the first warning by
officials. The Pennsylvania Histori-
cal Society has decided to place its
10 most valuable items in bank
vaults and to move other precious
objects to fireproof storage.
Franklin Institute is considering
a special shelter for its Fels Plane
tarium, and has already placed a
number OF irreplaceable objects in a
vault in the basement.
Fifteen or twenty of the most valu
able paintings at the Pennsylvania
Academy will be moved TO a place
of safety. and the Carpenters Com
pany, owner of Carpenters Hall
where the first Continental Con
gress met, has had its records in
bank vaults for some time. officials
said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
Motion Picture Stars
Buy Shares in Farm

MANSFIELD, Dup - Author
Louis Bromfield has revealed that
four film stars have an interest In
his 700-acre Ohio farm.
Kay Francis, Mary Aston. Will
liam Gargan and Humphl ey Bogart
each own an acre.
Bogart says he plans TO build a
cottage on his acre OF land to pro-
vide place of relaxation. All except
Gargan have visited the author S
Malabar farm IN the Richland Coun-
ty hills.
Bromfield believes his farm Is
1.-The most beautiful spot in the
world" Because OF its beauty. be
cause Ohio was his boyhood home,
and because the state has been de
scribed as the farthest east from
the west, the farthest west from
the east and the farthest north
from the south" Bromfield says he
chose Malabar as his home.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
War Emergency to Give
Mayors Broadened Powers

CHICAGO-UP- Blackout and
war emergency ordinances enacted
by cities since war was declared
have broadened extensively the pow
ers OF mayors, city managers and
local defense agencies, the Amer
lean Municipal Association revealed.
Ordinances enacted fall into four
classes and ragne from the type that
delegates all authority to the city
executive to the type that merely
outlines complete orders on civilian
conduct during blackouts.
Seattle. first American city to en-
act such an ordinance. has new
law which vests the mayor with all
authority to proclaim emergency
rules with the force Of law. Wash
ington. D. c., Baltimore and Rich
mond follow the Seattle model
Portland, Ore, has an ordinance
which specifies degrees and types
OF illumination in a blackout AM
makes 1t unlawful for amy person
firm or corporation to refuse or ne
elect to comply with such orders
promulgated by civil authori-
ties or by the Army or Navy.
Violations Fined Up To $500
In Atlanta. the power Of making
rules rests with the Municipal
Defense Council without specifying
procedure as it relates to duties
performed by regular civil authori
ties Additional provisions for com
bat action are provided.
A fourth type OF ordinance adopt.
ed by Los Angeles directs the police
chief to sound blackout and all-clear
signals only on notification by the
L. S. Air Force InteTceptor Com
mand and authorizes police and fire
men to enter Illuminated premises
during blackout.
Violations Of provisions OF various
city blackout ordinances are punish.
able by fines ranging from 5000 to
$500 or prison terms ranging from
80 days to IL months, or both.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
Gilt Eagle no Bargain
at SIS Over Century AGO

NEW BOSTON, y. HIP
Farmer Joseph Dunbar had a reputa-
ton as a man of few words. His only
speech on record contained Il words
tut they were potent ones and be-
cause OF them the top OF the New
Boston town hall is not adorned with
respondent gilt eagle, hand carved
from hickory.
With the selectmen ready TO vote
S. to purchase the eagle in 1910.
Dunbar spiked the plan at town
meeting with the following brief
speech:
"Gentlemen-and others, have
always reckoned the voters Of New
Boston were big fools, and probably
always would be. but II they are
willing to give five honest-to-good-
ness gold eagles for one gilt one,
they are burned sight bigger fools
than ] had supposed"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
Travel Might
be RatiOned

Washington, Jan. 2s-INS-Wal
production officials today are fore
casting that Pullman tickets for
train travel may be rationed this
summer and that full rationing OF
airplane travel may be expected
even sooner.
II the war lasts two or three
years. they added. all train tray
ell. even in day coaches. may be
subject to government order.
The edict extending govern
ment control over all commercial
airplane travel is to be announced
soon.
Federal Transportation Direc-
tor Joseph B. Eastman says that
there is no need for rationing
train travel now, nor, he adds. are
there any plans to impose 1t soon.
However, II is known that his Of
flee is preparing for any eventual
ity-just in case.
Movement OF troops and military
supplies is the No. job of trans
portation officials and they come
first and above any vacation plans
by the travel minded American
public. Lack of new automobiles
and new tires also threatens to
complicate the transportation
problem.
Airplane travel already is sub
ject TO priority control. Govern
ment officials and Army and Navy
officers, particularly pilots in the
U. S. Ferrying Command, get first
call on all seats on commercial air
liners when they are travelling
on government business.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28

Cash registers in Main Street
stores\yere faced with a quiet su-
tumn beSause OF the drop from &c.
900 bales\of cotton raised last year
to 5000 this season. Drought. rain.
and the boil weevil combined to re-
duce the crop.
With start OF construction on the
new field. one OF the largest In the
southeast. farmers left their fields
for good paying Jobs at the air base
Money began flowing and the bad
cotton crop was forgotten overnight.
Now with the arrival OF Army
sguadrons. business Is even better.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
TUNNEL BIRTH A PUZZLER

ALAMEDA, Cal.-UP-Baby Lin
da johnson is waiting for the county
supervisor to establish her birth
place Her father was driving Mrs
Johnson TO the hospital when the
stork overlook the car IN a tunnel
beneath the Alameda anad Contra.
Costa county line. Her parents dc
not yet know in which county to
register her birth.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
Establishment OF Army
Air Base ReSCueS City

SUMTER, S. C.-UP-Location OF
one OF the Army's new air corps
basic flying schools here has saved
the city from virtual bankruptcy
and financial staguation.
Sumter business men say that the
$l.5O0,O00 released into trade chan
nels by the payroll at the base from
July through October took the
place Of the cotton Sumter County
farmers didn't raise this year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28

Columbia, nearby state capital. u
off'limits because OF the $4,000 soil
diers there at Fort Jackson. The
nearest towns OF comparable size
are 40 TO so miles away. So the
cadets do Their trading In Sumterl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-28
LAwNmowERs IN JANUARY

HARRISBURG. In.-UP-on one
OF the coolest days OF the winter
Ernest Pesrce and Virgil STUDY. fur
niture store employees. had to work
outside all day. Their unload
ing lawnmowers purchased last
July.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

ing and upgrading workers and BY
encouraging a multitude of time
and labor-saving operations. A Ia
bor-management group, represent
ing the railroads, is working on q
plan to shift labor temporarily
from one road to another to meet
shortages, and another plan calls
for organizing a mobile corps OF
experienced farm workers, aided
by local volunteers, to meet peak
season labor demands. :,
The whole manpower situation,
involving as it does the critical
balance between Selective Service
and war industry, is by no means
simple problem capable of a
single solution. Efficient use of
manpower in the broadest sense
must take into account ~ the per-
son on the job, (2) the time needed
by that person to perform his work
or operations, go the skill he ap-
plies to the work, (4) fexibility in
shifting workers to places where
they are most needed, and. (5) the
need to avoid as far as possible,
additional population congestion.
All of it may be summed up in the
words of the President: "The right
worker . in the right place
at the right time"
In the general policy of wartime
record-keeping the consumer plays
a vital part, especially in the gen.
eral rationing program, designed to
give all of us fair share of scarce
commodities. If the new point"
system of rationing appears at first
glance to be more complicated than
the familiar unit" coupons ration
ing, it should be remembered that
the coupon method, while well
to arationing such products
as sugar and coffee, which can be
divided upon d simple per capita
basis, is not suitable for rationing
foodstuffs. Tastes vary
quite as much as do supplies, and
not all persons want the same items
in their daily diet. Point rationing
allows the consumer a wide range
of choice.
If, merely by way of example, a
shortage should. develop in canned
fruit juices, because of shipments
it might happen that can
ned citrus juices would be scarce
while canned tomato juice remain
ed plentiful. Under such circum-
stances, citrus juices would have a
higher point value than tomato
Juice, and the customer could then
choose between using UP more
points in buying canned grapefruit,
Dr. spreading" his points by select
ing tomato juice.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18
Civilian Supply
Women Demand Federal Care
For War Workers Children
National Poll Indicates Need For
New Agency To Handle Problem

American women believe that the
federal government should provide
adequate funds for daytime care oi
children whose mothers are en-
gagged in war work, and that new
government agency should be
formed for the purpose Of admin
istering them.
Their belief, revealed by the con-
tinuing poll of women's opinion
conducted by the Woman's Home
Companion, reflects a growing con-
cern about child care caused by the
increasing demands of war indus
try for women workers. The poll
is based ON a national panel of
women chosen to give an accurate
cross-section of the magazines
millions of readers.
The vote on the question of fed
eral care for the children of mo-
theirs engaged in war work was
approximately three to two. Sixty
three per cent of the women hav-
ing children favored such action,
as did 56 per cent of those without
children.
In answer to the question, CAS-
suming funds are available, what
agencies would be best fitted to
undertake such care in your own
community" AZ per cent favored
the establishment of new agen-
cy. Twenty-six per cent thought
the schools should handle the job,
10 per cent favored churches, the
same number public welfare de-
partments and the remainder were
scattered.
Breakdown according to age
groups shows that women from 25
to "a were most in favor of fed
eral child care, although a major
ity of every age-group voted for it.
On a population breakdown those
in small towns or rural communi-
ties were most in favor, but again
a majority in each group voted yes.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18
A WEEK OF THE WAR

An estimated 666O,OOO essential
war workers in the Detroit area
have been held at their jobs by an
agreement announced by Montague
A. Clark, Michigan Director of the
War Manpower Commission. The
agreement-intended to prevent la
Dor pirating and dislocations caus-
ed by shifting of workers to high
er-paying jobs-lists "a categories
in which employees may not leave
their jobs without specific Govern
mental authorization. President
Roosevelt's Executive Order setting
up the new War Manpower Commits
sion under the Craftsmanship of
Paul V. McNutt had provided that,
when the effective prosecution of
the war required it. all war workers
be hired. rehired and recruited
through the U. S. Employment Ser
vice, and had prohibited employers
from retaining workers more ur-
gently needed in a more essential
occupation. Mr.. McNutt said the
new program embraces the alloca-
ton of manpower to the armed
forces, war industries, agriculture,
and other essential civilian activi-
ties, the efficient use of labor for
war industries, the mobilization of
the country's labor reserves, the
transfer of workers from less es-
sential activities to more essential
activities, and the providing of
labor needed for essential agricuI-
ture. He announced the establish
ment of Bureau of Selective Ser
vice-to include the Selective Ser
vice System and to be headed by
Selective Service Director Hershey
within the new VINO, and said
that by the end of 1943 one out of
every five men in the civilian labor
force, instead of one out of every
nine, as now, would be in the armed
services.
The VINO and the Selective Ser
vice System are helping the coun-
try's war plants draw up manning
table forms to enable the employer
to plan for his future labor needs
and give the Government informa-
tion upon which to base the orderly
withdrawal of workers who must
be released to the armed services.
Secretary of Labor Perkins re-
ported 100000 women employed
as factory wage earners in mid-Oc-
tober, as compared with 2,7O0,O00 in
October 1941, and said that in the
same period total factory wage
workers increased from II ,400, 900
to 12,7O0,000. Under Secretary of
War Patterson said the average
work week should be raised in all
wage and non-war industries from
the present average of 42.S hours
to an overall average of AS hours.
Agriculture
An Executive Order of December
q gave full control over the ma
tion's food program to Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard. Mr.. Wick
ard is to control all phases of the
food program-requirements, pro-
duction, distribution, priorities and
ALLEGATIONS, purchase and procure
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18
@&ahsnQA,s
ASn9pdbo.b
H JAMES PREsToN

Our armed forces now situated
on no less than sixty-five points on
the world war map are going to be
fed, equipped and properly taken
care of even though we have to dc
without great many things we are
used to having.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

The new Manpower program un-
der the guidance of Paul v. McNutt,
chief of the War Manpower Com
mission, will soon whittle down
from the present ratio of nine to
one, new deal which will put one
man in the armed services for ev-
cry five men in the civilian labor
force.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

Principal points in the Manpower
schedule which will have a great
deal to do with the Foodpower job
include:
1) ALLEGATION of manpower to
armed forces, war industries,
agriculture and other essen
tial civilian activities;
(2) Efficient use of labor for war
industries;
90 Mobilization of the nations
labor reserve;
(4) Transfer of workers from
less essential activities to ac-
tivities essential to the sup
port of the war;
(5) Provision of labor needed for
essential agriculture.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18


to the nations allies totaled S2,367,-
100000, the President told Con-
gress. This represents an increase
of more than 1s over the previous
quarter and more than four times
the Lend-Lease total for the quar-
ter Immediately preceding Pearl
Harbor.
Civilian Supply
Civilian goods will diminish
steadily in 194S, and every effort
must be made to insure continued
production of civilian supplies
through the concentration output
in a few plants, said Joseph L.
Weiner, new Director of the Office
of Civilian Supply.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

Delaware, at the coming session
of the General Assembly, will be
asked to be among the pioneer
states of the nation to petition Con-
gress for a resolution approving the
principle of World Federation.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

While Secretary of Agriculture
Claude r. Wickard, new Food Gear
cannot promise ANY complete solu-
ton" to the growing shortage of
farm labor, he pledged that the
government would do everything in
its power to alleviate this situa-
tion and give the farmers as much
help as possible.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

From now on until the Axis is
written off, the volume of hand
writing is going to be greatly re-
duced in this country. Sharp re-
ductions in the volume of wooden
pencils, fountain pens, and mechan-
ical pencils, to be produced next
year, was ordered recently by the
War Production Board. Mechani-
cal pencil producers will have to
cut their output down to forty
seven per cent of 1941 production.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18

The much-discussed shovel in the
hands of many public project work.
ers will soon be thing of the past.
February 1, 1943, will see the end
of all Works Progress Administra-
tion activities. The prompt liqui-
dation of this great public burden
will be pleasant relief to the mil
lions of taxpayers who have been
supporting this government activ-
ity for several years and who also
are occupied with the necessary
burden of the expense of this war.
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18
Production

WPB Chairman Nelson described
October arms output as "disaPe
pointing, as it was up only 8 per
cent over September, the smallest
monthly increase this year. He
gave the October box score for ma
jor .categories of war production:
airplanes were down per cent,
mainly due to special factors af-
fecting deliveries; merchant YES
sells were down 10 per cent but still
ahead of schedule; ordnance was
up 3 per cent; Army and Navy ves-
sells were up per cent; other mu-
nitions were up 9 per cent; and
machine tools were up S.9 per cent
"a new high for machine tool pro-
duction.
Because of the conflicting essen
tiality of many phases of the war
production program, said President
Roosevelt. the final decision as to
what is most needed remains with
the Army and Navy.
Lend-Lease
In the three months ended De-
cember IL, Lend-Lease assistance
Milford chronicle., 1942-12-18
Lend-Lease

In the three months ended De-
cember II, Lend-Lease assistance
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-22
M Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON (NEA Service Stan Correspondent

Hollywood-"Mission to Moscow" may be nonfiction best-seller, but for several months in Movietown it was just another volume on the shelves of research departments. Studio readers dismissed it was few phrases: A factual chronology
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-22

These unusual performers are the hard working lads of the all service show This Is The Army"
 Everybody knows about the way they took over the town in Irving Berlin's musical revue. But few know that, inaddition, the cast of the show is one of the most drilled units in the entire army. Whether they have done basic training else where and most of them have they have to rise early and run through the manual for two to three hours.
 They get no furloughs, as other army men do, for the show must go on and does-to the tune of $45, 900 week plus for Army Relief. But since most of the cast were per formers in civilian life they accept the applause of capacity audiences as compensation.
 However, I heard a few groans when I went looking for Private Bob Sidney, who is responsible for most of the fine chorus dancing of the show.
 Bob had an explanation for the sighs and the frequent rubbing of leg muscles.
 "You use different muscles in dancing" he said. Long muscles But in drilling you use knotty ones So some of these lads, who have to do a good deal of dancing in the show knot up on the drill ground and feel still"
 Private Sidney said he had just reached for a Hollywood contract, after putting on Eddie Cantor's Banjo Eyes," when the Army claimed priority. He was picked to do the dances for the show because of his experience including solo dancing and dramatic acting, and because he coached the "Floradora SeXtet" of Cantor, Tallulah Bank head and others at the Navy Relief show.
 "I'll tell you this" Bob said. '"These soldiers I had as chorus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-22
POL1'S

20th Century-FoX is bent on keep ing us happy for the duration for right on the heels of My Gal Sal" they have come forth with another grand musical just bubbling over with JoyoHs humor, merry tunes exciting dances and, best of all-Betty Gra- ble at her musical best. "Footlight Serenade' it's called and it opened yesterday at the Loew's Poli theater before a packed house that gave the glad welcome to Betty and her CO., stara John Payne and Victor Ma ture.
 Ah-that Grable! She's perfectly enchanting as she sings, dances and romances against Broadway back ground. And to complement the gorgeous blonde, Johnny Payne and Victor Mature turn in grand per- formances including a rousing pitched battle, that looks as if the boys aren't kidding.
 The star-Studded cast includes Jane Wyman and Cobina Wright Jr. who vie with Betty for the affec- EionS of Mature and Payne. James Gleason, as dyspeptic producer, and Phil Silvers, his corny best, team up for some genuine guffaws. The film boasts also some topnotch tunes of hit parade caliber, the best of which are Are You Kidding Me-, T Heard the Birdies Sing, I'm Still Crazy For You, and an in- Spiring air called "I'll Be Marching to a Love Song"-all by those mas ters of tunes, Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.
 Hermes Pan, who created the dance routines for the hit, appears In several and show why he is the top dancer director in Hollywood. Ingenious Gregory Ratoff directed the film and kept at fast clip. The sparkling script was by Robert FL lis, Helen Logan and Lynn Startling from story by Fidel LaBarba and Kenneth Earl. William LeBaron, who produced the film, saw to it that all of the embellishments were of the finest.
 "Footlight Serenade" is the per feet tonic for the times. Don't Miss It.
 The second hit is "A Haunting We Will Go" with Laurel and Hardy, hilarious comedy.