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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
Akin TamiroH Had
The Experience

Here's the story behind ore ~
the scene. in rsramount's roman.
TIC comedy. New York. Town.
now At the Beverly thestsr.
Fred MseMurray IL supposed
10 show Mary Martin the trick
AZ eating for nothing IN the p.k
City. One n the best systems.
according % tho ingenious Fred.
IL 10 make Tho rounds ~ the d.
psrtment store food dsmnnstrs-
ton counters
Director Charles Nldot eounssss
Fred from the sldelines and insssts
that Fred act more wary less
confident and decidedly nervous.
Aaim ramlruff who appears
opposite the pair In the film. fii.
gets In his chair and finally can
contain himself no longer. he
offer. to show Fred how II should
be done. All eyes are turned To
tho distinguished actor.
1T 10 simple" explains the
Russian actor. with great dignity.
you see. ! really ate that way
myself In New York. once for
many weeks
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
F eminine Touch
Next at Temple

Modern comedy with back
ground of literary Bohemianism
brings four stars to the screen
in The Feminine Touch" return
ing to the Temple theater on
Thursday.
Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche,
Kay Francis and Van Heflin. Gre
ate a "four-cornered" triangle in
plot of conflicting emotions.
The supporting cast includes Dom
aid Meek, Gordon Jones, Henry
Daniel, Sidney Blackmer, Grant
Mitchell and David Clyde.
Sharing the screen at the Tenn
pie will be Ronald Regain, Olympic
Brsdna and William Lundigan in
international Squadron"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

Your postmaster can tell you
how to invest in u. S. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
BY PAUL HARRISON
Tacoma Tlpes correspondent
Thu laIt nicfnrn r,nLn
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD-The last picture made by Carole Lom-
bard will be released, of course just VIII Rogers
Steamboat Bill and Jean Harlows Saratoga" after the
deaths of those stars Not only theaer fans
making impatient inquiries about the recently completed
Be Not to Be- but there's revival old Lombard films
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

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lire are ne utlpo- mn<1prn uoen-
srnanas 80 N 1rumNtle pdore
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
Dancers al the
Temple Tonight

Carmalits Nsracci and her
dance group arrived in Teeoms
today 10 prepare FIR tonlkhts
performance II the Temple the.
alter. Hailed 81 one - the fsn-
est dancers sincs the famous
rrgentins. unusual interest has
been shown ~ theater- geerr IN
Msrsecls firss Tacoma appear
sncs
Tickets for tonirhts PERFORM
snce wiii ~ Oh sale until $50
.. m. to-day ~ Frss<r's and viii
10 available at the Temple eox
office after 4 =. m The man
srement requests that patrons
arrive AZ the theater IN time
~ that an may be seated.
The program starting At $50
p. m. IL the third event ~ this
seasons sl-s,ar series
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

You help yourself when you buy
L. =. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05


until she observes: That's just a
man-he's in his underwear" And
Berle whispers. well. he'd have
to be wearing something. Do you
want the Hays office after Us ?"
The censors killed the scene.
THEY ADMIT 1T
There We're few formal we'd
ding ceremonies. but there was
less shyness among Hollywood
people about admitting marriage
and divorce plans. Only two Sc
cret marriages were discovered
those OF Director Gregory La Cavs
and Mrs. Grace Garland, and Jack
Buetel and Creatha Browning.
Plaintiffs in divorce cases gave
the movie colony few laughs in
1871. oldest details were those
set forth by Sally Payne In di-
vorcing William Telsak. a gag
writer. She said he wouldn't let
her drink milk. eat liver or
oysters, part her hair on the left
side or register To vote. She
charged that he told her what to
wear how 10 walk. not TO talk
in front of groups of people be-
cause she never made any sense, "
and that he objected to her knit
ting because he said I always got
a stupid expression on my face
when / knitted"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

There are times when the sin
eerity of Miss Youngs portrayal
will pull You to the edge of your
seat and while you may find it
difficult to understand the i'm
pulses which prompt her actions.
impulses which brought her both
JOY and sorrow, you will recognize
those qualities which make for
good screen entertainment.
Gregory Ratoff produced and
directed the picture for the Column
bia studios and has given it the
benefit Of his experience and sbil-
fly which is just another way of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

Buy q. = Ronds and SAVE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
HUIlsi'tstNXAWW
At The Riaifo,

The telling of her story required the services of four of
Hollywood most capable male actors Conrad Vedt, Dean
Jaeger of Brigham Young fame John Shepperd and Otto
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

edy with music IN whsch she 10
teamed with Ray boixsr. dancing
star.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05

telling you 10 expect a great deal
and you viii not be disap-
pointed.
The companion attraction is also
a Columbia creation in which Pen
ney Singleton, Glenn Ford. Ann
Miller. Charlie Ruggles and Allen
Jenkins appear in a picture titled,
Go West. Young Lady"
l saw very little of this film but
enough Of 1t TO convince me that
Miss Miller can really dance j..
and does.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-05
/" Appointment for Love" 1t
Hamrick's Roxy Thursday
MUqorss Sullovon and Charles BOYER
Aqoin Starred In DrumolIc Roles

A comedy romance. appointment for Love~ comes -
the Roxy theater Thursday with Charles Boyer and Mar
lee Ruth Terry and Reginald Denny among NE players
cast in supporting roles.
The people's voice., 1942-09-25
ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
BY HARVEY O'CONNOR

Labor management committees
functioning all the way up from local
plants and communities to the federal
level in Washington, offer unions a
method to use their full strength in
helping to win the war speedily.
Already in the war production
board, the war manpower commission,
the office of price administration and
the selective service system, such
committees are at work bringing la
boris enthusiasm and know-how to
bear on problems involving the ma
tion's 50,OOO,OOO workers Latest to
urge wider use of labor-management
committees is Wendell Lund, head of
WPB's labor production division.
Testifying before the Tolan commit
tee investigating labor supply, Lund
praised the excellent work of the
WINGS labor-management policy com
mittee" and urged extension of such
manpower committee down through
regions to localities.
In order to strengthen the work of
abor-management production commit
tees in war plants, WPB is arranging
to channel adequate information from
both government and employers for
the committees use, Lund said.
Although 1900 such committees are
"the plan must be ex-
tended to a far greater number of war
production plants before its tremen-
dous potential contribution to the war
effort can be realized" he testified.
"Many employers have been unwilling
to grasp the significance of these
committees as an aid toward increas-
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
CAMPAIGN FOR
SEED FOR
RUSSIA ON

NEW YORK.-The finest seeds of
American agriculture will replant the
scorched earth of Russia next spring.
Plans for immediate Inauguration of
national campaign for gifts of high
quality grain, vegetable and forage
seeds for the people of the Soviet
Union were announced today by Ed
ward G. Carter, president of Russian
War Relief, in the organizations ma
tional headquarters at II E. 35th St.,
New York City.
Carter announced that DIR. M. l..
Wilson, director of Extension Work
of the United States department of
agriculture and internationally known
as a dean of American agriculture,
will head the campaign as honorary
chairman of the seed committee of
Russian War Relief. Officials of
other divisions and bureaus of the de-
partment of agriculture also have vol
unteered to aid the drive, Carter said.
The American Farm Bureau Fedora
tion and many state Farm Bureaus,
according to Carter, have undertaken
to obtain the cooperation of their
farmer members, and organizations of
seedsmen throughout the country al
ready are active in the campaign.
Iowa seed dealers, at their state
in Des Moines this month,
voted to give $4,000 worth of seed.
A large group of Minnesota farm
leaders and seed dealers has begun
of a state campaign COM
mittee. Other similar groups are ex-
Dected to follow the Iowa and Mime
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
LEGISL ALTON
Affects The
GRAIN Market
Reaction To Impending
Price and Wage Legislation
Mixed and Grain Trend
Irregular; Demand for
Sound Cash Grain Is Good.

Trade sentiment was mixed during
the week ended September IS, accord
ing to the department of agriculture,
influenced by uncertainty of the line
of action likely to be followed in pend
ing legislation concerning farm prices
and wages. Volume of trade there
fore in future contracts was limited
and price changes were again regis
tered within a narrow range. Prices
of cash grains however tended toward
the firm side as demand for sound
grain was stimulated by another week
of unfavorable weather in the north
west for completion of harvesting and
threshing operations. Rye prices
showed the best gain as some specu-
lative demand was again attracted by
the facta that current rye values are
the lowest of any of the grains as
compared with the parity basis
C.C.C. loans on 1912 wheat covered
100000 bushels as of September
IL. The quantity of corn held by the
corporation on that date was 43,101,-
900 bushels. The quantity of barley
under loan amounted to 2,052,000
bushels, of which 100000 bushels was
in California. At the middle of Sep
tember, wooden grain bins to a capa-
city of slightly over S4,000,000 bushels
had been delivered from total allot-
ment of 121 100000 bushels.
WHEAT: Heavy rains in eastern
portions of the spring wheat belt
made an unfavorable week for the
completion of the harvesting and
threshing and caused some further
damage to grain in the shock In
other areas, however, conditions were
generally favorable and harvesting
was in final stages in northern por-
tions of the belt.
The quality of the hard red spring
wheat appears to be above average
but not quite up to that of last season.
Durum wheat, on the other hand, is
grading considerably below average
and below early inspections last year.
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
By SCOTT NEARING

Speaking to the Init. Student AS
sembly, and through them to the
members of the U. S. armed forces,
President Roosevelt gave this assur-
ance: 1--WE will not let you down .
When you come home we do not pro-
pose to involve you, as last time, in
a domestic economic mess Of our own
making"
Other spokesmen for the admins
tration have GWEN similar assurances.
Some have even gone so far as to
promise the American people that the
necessary measures will be taken to
insure full employment, living wages
and fair prices after the war.
Economists are no in agreement
concerning he outlook for postwar
economic stability. If the United Ma
tions win a sweeping victory during
1943 and are able to make their own
armistice terms, they will be in the
most favorable possible position to
avert a postwar slump.
Godfrey Crowther, British econo-
mist and editor of the London Econo-
mist, believes careful planning will
ease the transition from war economy
to peace economy, but will not neces-
sarily prevent serious postwar de-
preston.
"It would be wildly optimistic"
Crowther writes, ito believe that the
alienation of boom and slump, which
has been plaguing industrial society
for at least a century and a half, has
now suddenly been cured. There is
likely to be some kind of slump some
The people's voice., 1942-09-25

~SeICdClOHS UelOTe Lle AuleI
ican Legion convention in ses-
sion at Kansas City at the same
time. Haber declared that
65, 100000 soldiers and work
ers must be drafted by the end
of 1943.
While the proposals are not new
former statements have been more in
the nature of trial balloons" sent out
as feelers probably, in order to get
the reaction of the public. Probably
encouraged by some lack of attention
| by the people to these earlier state
ments and consequent dearth of pro-
tests, those advocating the undemo-
cratic procedure are now coming out
in the open.
That organized labor bodies are not
going to submit readily to the draft
of workers is evidenced by state
ment by the American Federation of
Labor in Labor's Monthly Survey for
August September. The statement
follows:
"In the copper mines where labor
shortage is so serious that drastic
measures are being considered, $4,000
Americans of Mexican descent and
Mexicans are idle because of racial
discrimination by employers. Job
freezing in any situation where racial
discrimination is a cause of labor
shortage or where full use has not
been made of collective bargaining
and democratic methods is wholly un-
American. Resort to totalitarian
methods cannot be tolerated in a
country fighting to preserve democ-
racy."
Administration opponents of totali-
tartan procedure and many prominent
private observers have called atten-
tion to a surplus of workers employed
in many industries which are said to
be making practice of boarding"
workers. Kaiser, the shipbuilder
and now engaged in construction Of
great convoy planes, asserted that
there is no difficulty in security work
ers. Comments made on his state
ment suggested that his lack of diff
Guilty was probably due to the fact
that he paid good wages and had no
disputes with his workers.
1t is common enough to hear re-
ports of excess numbers of workers
being hired by contractors working
under the "cost plus" system, some
of these workers being warned by the
foremen to 'just move around, and
don't get caught asleep" While this
may not be common practice, it GER
tainly obtains in some places and the
reason it does, is, Of course. because
the more it costs the contractor, the
more profit he makes.
According to the Federated Press
Haber stated that "He figures on 81
100000 women over as, on 100000
farm women under 45 who have no
under 16, on 100000 sub
sistence farmers who would help the
war more in other lines, on children
between IA and II for war work and
)n persons between 65 and 81, as we'll
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
W0RL wide PLANNING NEEDED TO
AVERT POSTWAR ECONOMIC CHAOS

time in the half-dozen years after the
war"
The real postwar problem is not to
find jobs for demobilized soldiers and
war workers, Crowther continues, but
to keep them on the jobs they find.
The armistice will undoubtedly be fol-
lowed by period of hilarious spend
ing in the victorious countries. Gov
ernment policy must be shaped to
moderate the wild excesses Of pros
perity' in the armistice period"
In short, this British economis1 be-
lieves that the way to avoid a post
war depression is to avoid postwar
boom.
A postwar boom is inevitable under
free enterprise economy. In Bri-
tain to a great degree, and in the
U. S. to an increasing extent, govern
ment is loading up the public with
bonds and other forms of spending
power that will be availble after the
war. In both countries rationing is
creating an immense backlog of
spending for consumer goods as soon
as the armistice releases industries
from the war effort.
These two factors, plus fuller en-
ployment and wartime incomes, Gre
ate a spending power reservoir that
will burst with the armistice unless it
is subjected to drastic government
regulation.
Good intentions and promises will
not avert postwar economic mess.
Nothing less than economic planning
on world scale will avail against
the menace of postwar economic
chaos.
The people's voice., 1942-09-25
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST SMALL
STORES CHARGE

WASHINGTON.-I In response to a
request from the senate small bust
ness committee, Leon Henderson,
OPA administrator, has agreed to In
vestigate charges that manufacturers
are discriminating against small re-
tailers.
This announcement was made today
by Sen. James E. Murray, chairman.
Numerous charges against manu-
facurers of scarce commodities have
been brought before the committee" !"
Senator Murray stated. "In some
lines, it is alleged, the big stores are
allotted as much merchandise as they
want, while the small stores are given
less than they need or nothing at ALL
Often, 1t seems, small retailers are
being forced by the manufacturers to
buy goods they don't want or can't
sell. Such good may be of inferior
quality or, at the other extreme, may
represent luxury items beyond the
price range of the small storekeeper's
regular stocks.
Many charges of this type come
from stores in rural areas. There
seems to be tendency on the part of
both manufacturers and wholesalers
to give preference to stores that are
nearer their warehouses and to dis
criminate against those that are
further away"
If evidence is uncovered to substan-
tiate the charges, it was pointed out,
the senate small business committee
will propose direct remedies. Many
businessmen have suggested to the
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
PRESIDENT
APPROVES
MURRAY COMM.

WASHINGTON-Evidence of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's interest in the pro-
gram of Sen. James e. Murray of
Montana for assistance to the small
businessmen of the nation, is con-
tanned In the following letter from
the President to Senator Murray:
"The White House
August 81, 1912
Dear Jim:
81 am glad that you have called
my attention to the hardships that
may be suffered by many small busi-
nesses as a result of the war effort.
The problem is one that has con-
cerned me for some, time, and | wish
very much that a solution might be
found.
81 notice that Senator Pepper has
introduced a bill creating a corpora
ton for the relief of such small bust
nesses. 1t would be helpful to me to
know what you and your committee
think of this bill, and what, if any,
changes in it might be needed to
make it workable and successful.
'In the meantime | am sending a
copy of your letter to the Secretary
of Commerce, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the chairman of the board
of governors of the Federal Reserve
System, and the chairman of the War
Production Board, with the request
that they do everything they can to
cooperate with the work of your COM
mittee.
Every sincerely yours,
(Signed) Franklin d. Roosevelt"
To this letter, Senator Murray re-
piled as follows:
September Is, 1912
Dear Mr.. President:
"Your letter of August 81 has been
forwarded to me here in Montana and
| thank you sincerely for it.
"The senate committee on Small
Business has arranged an extensive
series of hearings beginning Septem
ber 29 and extending through the
month of October. At this time all
the bills that have been presented to
us for the relief Of small business
will be considered and we have asked
Senator Pepper and others to appear
and testify.
I'VE hope, as a result of these hear
ngs, to bring forth some comprehen-
sive and constructive legislation |
which will be of fundamental and |
asting value to the small business
We are interested, not only
N the problem while the war is on,
put we are anxious to provide some
means of financial assist
lnce for small business so when the
var is over the small business con-
,erns will be able to carry on effec-
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The people's voice., 1942-09-25
RAILROADS
net PROFITS
INCREASE 70%

| NEW YORK (FP) - Despite tre-
mendous debts caused by years of
mismanagement and speculative op-
GRAFTON, Glass I railroads in the first
| 6 months Of 1912 had an estimated
net income, after all deductions, of
$289, 100000, according to Labor Re-
search Assn. This compares with
$169, 9,993,733 in the first half of 1941,
and represents 70% increase.
while gains have been general
among carriers" Ira quotes the mag
azine of Wall Street, "the most COM
mendable earnings improvement this
year has been registered by Atchison,
Atlantic Coast Line, Baltimore &
Ohio, Delaware & Hudson, Illinois
Central, Kansas City Southern, South
ern Pacific, Southern Railway and
Union Pacific"
The champion profit maker was the
Seaboard Airline, which increased its
net income by 1401%, earning $8,572,-
881 in the first half. of 1912 as COM
pared with s571,141 in the first half
Of 1941. Other leaders and the per-
centage increases:
Norther nPacific, 1,O20%; Rock
Island, 317%o; New York, New Haven
& Hartford 244%o; Atchison, Topeka
G Santa Fe, 1867; Wabash, 1882;
Union Pacific, 1882; Pullman Co.,
147%o; Atlantic Coast Line, 1862;
Delaware G Hudson, 58%; Gulf, Mo-
bile & Ohio 1870; Pennsylvania, 259o.
Greater speculative profits also are
in store for the owners of railroad
stocks and bonds, The Wall Street
Journal reveals. Coming weeks hold
the promise of still higher railroad
stock and bond prices" it said. {.
1t is likely that the net income for
1912 will not be far from that re-
ported in the best earnings years of
the 1920's."
One reason, Ira said, that profits
will be higher is the fact that the
railroads can more easily avoid taxes
than most companies. This is ex-
planned by The Wall Street Journal
as follows:
"They have large capital invest
ments which build up their credit
bases (exemptions) under the tax law.
This enables them to show sharp in
creases before getting into excess
profits tax brackets"