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Evening star., 1943-08-01
Strike Vote
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secret strike vote to be held at the
end of 30-day cooling-of period
following the filing of a notice that
a dispute exists.
Mr.. Biddle was asked to determine
whether the phrase "the representa-
tive of the employees of a war con-
tractor" means the representative of
a majority of the employees, or
whether it means the representative
OF any group of employees.
Issue is Wartime Strike.
He held that there was nothing in
the language of the act to support
view that a notice requiring a vote
could be filed "only" by the repre-
sentative of the majority, and that,
moreover, the House Military At
fairs Committee, which drafted the
measure, had considered but re-
jected such restriction.
The NLRB said the strike ballot to
be submitted to the Allis- Chalmers
workers would present a summation
OF the dispute, leading up to its
dismissal of the United Mine Work
ers petition ION the ground that the
contractusl relationship" begun June
"a, 1912, between the company and
Local 100, United Farm Equipment
and Metal Workers of America, CIO,
constituted bar to an election"
The plants approximate 1000
workers will be asked to vote yes"
or mo- on the question: DO you
wish to permit an interruption of
war production in wartime as
result of this dispute?"
Evening star., 1943-08-01
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, D. G, AUGUST l. 1s4s

plans for making Ration Book No.
available to all members of Ameri-
can and Allied armed forces who
need them.
Special application blanks will be
distributed by commanding officers
about Is. and applications will be
mailed to a central Office in Chicago
Inmates of Joliet UllD Prison will
do the clerical processing of the
applications.
When civilians applied for the
book recently. servicemen were ex-
cluded specifically so that their
applications could be handled sep
arately and without duplication.
Comparatively few in the service
will net the ration books. it was
said, but they are to be made avail
able for those who maintain living
quarters apart from their camps,
for example, and for those who need
them on furloughS.
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Birth Certificate
Racket Uncovered

Sale Of forged American birth
certificates on large scale has been
discovered in the State of Michoacan,
Mexico.
Investigation In Jalisco revealed
that Mexicans wishing to go to the
United States to work on farms or
railroad gangs are willing to pay
for the chance to pose as American
nationals. This enables them to avoid
the delay of lining up for days out
side an Office in Jalisco, where a
committee selects those who are to
go to the United States
1t is believed in Jalsco that a
similar situation exists IN other
states. Complaint is also heard that
the racket" is operating on the
American side of the border and
that foreigners vino have never seen
Mexico before are getting in as
Mexican nationals.
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Gen. GiIIem Says U. S.
Tanks Are UnequuIed
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FORT KNOX, KY, July 81
Just back from the fighting front
in Sicily, Maj. Gen. Alvan G. Gill
lem, jr., armored command chief,
told graduates of the officers candi-
date school today he had seen
American tanks in action, and Il am
certain there are no tanks in the
world that can match them'
He said he saw the massing of
American fighting men on the
ground, in the air and on the sea
and that he knew they could do
their job "if provided the proper
leadership"
Evening star., 1943-08-01
No. ; Ration Books
Mailed 10 $4,000
Applicants Here

Number 3 War Ration Books have
been mailed to all persons in the
District who applied before the June
10 deadline-a total Of 767 ,600-the
District Office of Price Administra-
ton announced last night.
Those who failed to register for
the new books, the local OPA said,
may obtain them after today on ap-
plication to their local ration boards.
made when stamps in the new books
will become valid or for what COM
modities they will be used.
27,OO0-Hour Job.
The mailing of books, begun May
"a, was completed late Friday night,
according to Robert K. Thompson,
director of the District OPA. One
thousand volunteers furnished by
the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office
worked a total of $1,000 hours in
processing the applications and pre-
pairing the books for distribution.
Only 400 of the applications were
so poorly made out that it was i'm
possible to process them, Mr..
Thompson said.
Ar estimated 1926 books sent to
1924 addresses were returned unde-
livered, however, because the per-
sons to whom they were addressed
moved after filing their applications,
Mr. Thompson reported. He added
that in many cases persons who
changed addresses already have
made arrangements with the Dis
trict OPA to have their ration
stamps forwarded.
Thanks Heurich Co.
In reporting on distribution of the
No. 3 books, which marked the first
time ration applications have been
received and the stamps distributed
here by mail, Mr.. Thompson
thanked the Heurich Brewing Co,
which donated the Christian Heur-
ich gymnasium for use as the OPA
mailing center.
The District director also praised
the work of volunteers, and released
a telegram of commentator from
Price Administrator Brown, who
said these volunteers have saved
valuable time for busy war workers,
farmers and housewives-time that
is needed by America at war"
Meanwhile, the OPA announced
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Bandit Pair Captured
In $4,000 Oklahoma
Bank Robbery
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BROKEN ARROW, Okla, July
31.-Two bandits who held a
bank president and his wife pris-
oners throughout the night and
calmly admitted the iceman to
make a delivery while waiting
on a time lock, robbed the Ar
kansas Valley State Bank of
$4,000 today and locked six men
in the vault.
Six hours later a pair of suspects
were arrested near Ponca City,
Okla, after one of the most extern
sive man hunts since frontier days.
Bank robbery charges were filed
against the men by United States
District Attorney Whit Mauzy at
Tulsa.
$4,000 Recovered.
Highway patrolmen who arrested
the men said they recovered nearly
$4,000 and took two guns from the
prisoners, identified in the warrants
as Paul Bibee, 81, and Chester Don
PeeIer. 80. Omcers said both were
ex-convicts.
The bandits appeared at the home
Of K. M. Rowe, bank president, last
midnight and forced their way in
at gunpoint. Mr.. Rowe scuff1ed with
them and was struck in the head
with gun. They tied Mrs. Rowe
to her bed and taped her mouth
with adhesive. During the wait
they calmly ransacked the refriger-
ator.
Two hours before the bank was
due to open, they took Mr.. Rowe
there to be ready when the time
lock released. Three other bank
officials, A. M. Laws, vice president;
w. E. Laws, cashier, and Roy F.
Smith, assistant cashier, arrived for
work and we're herded to their desks
under guard.
Iceman Makes Delivery.
The robbers permitted the iceman
to enter the building, make his de-
livery and go on his way unmo-
Tested.
When the time lock opened, short
after 8 pm, the pair took all of the
currency and locked the bankers
and two customers, DR.. w. D.
Owney and j. o. Pike, in the vault.
They were released a few minutes
later by a clerk.
The State highway patrol sent
Is crews into the Northern Okla
homa area for the ensuing man
hunt.
Evening star., 1943-08-01

refuse to settle their disputes with
their employees. They tell them to
take it to the War Labor Board
They try to take advantage of
labor's no-strike pledge. They seek
to discredit the union with its own
members by making it impotent in
handling routine disputes in the
shop.
Some labor leaders refuse to
compromise on dispute in plant
negotiations. They tell manage
ment to give in or well take it
to the WLB.'
with the strike weapon taken
from labor, the tendency is to re-
main deadlocked, even in disputes
within the plant under a contract
unless there is an arbitrator to
render an impartial Judgment"
Evening star., 1943-08-01

NEW YORK." AND ALL
POINTS EAS T'-Commuters
in the Pennsylvania Station
wear startled looks these days.
Instead of the usual chant of
the train announcer, destina-
tions are called in clear FEM
mime tones. Here Mrs. Made
line Murray posts incoming
trains. She is one of three
women learning to take over
what used to be a mans world.
Wide World Photo.
Evening star., 1943-08-01
Gorden Yields $3.50 Gosh

BISHOP, Calf. (P).-Mrs. Patrick
Kane's carrot crop was quite a sue
cess, she acknowledges with mod
est smile. While digging it up, her
shovel struck tin can. 1t held a
mildewed money belt containing
$3.50.
Evening star., 1943-11-16

seven were sent to the bottom by
American forces and that Of these
twenty-seven. twenty-one were ac-
counted for by carrier-based planes.
AS for vulnerability. the recent
experience of one big American car
rier In the South Pacific speaks for
itself. According to Mr.. Knox, this
carrier was attacked by four waves
of Japanese bombers and torpedo
planes - presumably land based
and not only destroyed many of the
attackers but won a wholly one
sided victory without suffering a
scratch. It's own formidable array
Of antiaircraft guns. plus the inter-
ception Of its planes and the nre-
power Of its escort vessels, made it
anything but a sitting duck, so that
not even a single enemy bomb could
touch it.
Far from being obsolescent, there
fore, the aircraft carrier appears
to be growing increasingly more ef-
fective and deadly, and as the tempo
Of the war is stepped up, it will no
doubt lend itself powerfully to our
offensive operations, particularly in
the Pacific theater, where vast
stretches of ocean make it Virtually
indispensable. Perhaps in some fu-
ture time, when the range of all
attack planes may be such as to defy
all water barriers, 1t will no longer
be either useful or necessary. But
that time is not now, and it is not
likely to come for many more years,
and until then the aircraft carrier,
constantly improving upon itself,
will be one of our most important
weapons,
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Twisted Teaching

One Of the few pleasures in the
dull grind Of school children's lives
is an occasional chance to catch
teacher in the wrong. Usually teach
er. from long dealing with the young
human animal. is cagey: but once in
a while he slips and goes out on a
limb. II he is not quick to leap back,
his pupils rush to saw it of. Proving
teacher wrong does not make up for
all the boredom and restraint i'm
posed by his profession, but it helps.
What field day. then, is in store
for German school children after
their country is beaten! Teachers
have been telling them that the
United States attacked Japan in De-
cember, 1941. and that Pearl Harbor
was the Jap answer-an answer so
thorough that the entire American
Pacific Fleet was destroyed there.
Midway and Coral Sea were great
Jap victories. Getting closer to
home, Poland invaded Germany in
August. 1889, while British and
French invaded Belgium the follow
ing year, necessitating the occupa-
ton of Holland. To crown all, teach
ers claim that the ancient Greeks
were really Germans. The theory
would explain the difficulty Won
Diogenes had in locating an honest
man, even with the help of a lantern,
and so far so good. But what Of Herr
Socrates, notorious throughout the
ages for being henpecked? Would
not any genuine member OF the
master race have recognized his OBJ
legation to retain supremacy, and
have liquidated Frau Xantippe? !?
German school children must puzzle
over this one.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Cosmos Club

The sixty-flfth anniversary Of the
founding Of the Cosmos Club, cele-
brated today, is an occasion of public
interest because of the nature and
character Of the service which It
renders not only to its members but
to the whole worldwide community.
A prophetic vision certainly must
have been granted to the original
sponsors OF any society that faith
fully should seek to justify such q
title. Though the club was to be
predominantly a Washington insti-
tuition, its range from the start was
universal. Like the Smithsonian OF
which 1t Is, in sense, an outgrowth,
it brings together a company OF men
concerned with ''the Increase and
diffusion Of knowledge" Differently
stated, its purpose is the application
Of trained and organized common
sense" to the problems Of human
kind. .
The clubs relation to the Govern
ment often has been remarked, but
its detachment also Is worthy OF
remembrance. Since 1885 its home
has been the house where Dolly
Madison once lived and its influence
has been comparable with that
which she exercised in her time
powerful, constructive but indirect.
The generality Of the Cosmos fel-
lowship Is Jealous Of its integrity.
Many Of the members are employed
by the Federal state, but they agree
with Ferdinand Sauerbruch that:
Science will fulfill what is de-
manded of it only on condition that
1t retain its freedom and independ-
ence in its work."
Politics therefore commonly is at
discount in the Cosmos rooms. The
atmosphere is not friendly to diver.
sive forces. Just now especially the
club is center for "the mobilization
and application Of the Nations in
tellectual resources" for the winning
OF the war. The ONCE Of Scientific
Research and Development came
into being as result Of conversa-
tions informally held in its lounge
and library. Numerous other aspects
OF the struggle for victory have been
launched by members in uniform or
still in ordinary dress, who sought
the aid of brotherly minds where
they had reason to believe they most
easily and quickly could be located.
But it is not only a triumph over
the Axis that the Cosmos Club is
helping to achieve. Long after Hitler
and Hirohito have ceased to be
objects Of scientific attention, the
society which still is young at sixty
five will be a "catalytic agent" as
the chemists say, for men who have
dedicated themselves to ideal ends.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Letters to the Editor
Figures Interpreted AlleSsdly to Show
That War Is minor Affair.""


That War Is minor Affair.""
70 the Editor Of The Star:
From the standpoint of the United
States this war is de luxe war. Secre-
tary OF War Stimson in his Armistice
Day report, comparing World War and
World War II with regard to casualties
makes this statement: Casualties in
ls months Of World War totaled
24o,4s6, with $500 killed, 1910 died OF
wounds, 2o5,69 wounded, 4s missing in
action. 4,480 prisoners: in the "a months
OF this war Army casualties total 80 $50
including l2,84l killed in action or died
OF wounds, 3o,263 wounded, 1884 miss
ing and 30,265 prisoners"
With regard to the size of the two
armies Secretary Stimson explains: I'm
1918 the Army had 4.057, 900 officers and
men, with 2,0s6, 900 overseas. Today the
Army is near 100000 and by the end
OF the year 2,50o,o0o will be overseas"
A careful review of these figures sup-
sests that while World War II is a global
war with many battlefronts, yet for
the United States from the standpoint
OF actual fighting, it is a small war-a
minor military affair so far as its ground
operations are concerned up to the pres
ent time
Ihls war on the home front also is
de luxe war, having produced the
greatest financial boom the United
States has ever experienced.
The mighty war debt of World War
II testifies to its vast and unheard-of
extravaganza.
WILLIAM H. HARGROVE.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
The Carriers Value

Not many months ago extremists
among aviation enthusiasts were
arguing that aircraft carriers were
already obsolescent and that instead
OF building any more of them, the
country would be wise to concentrate
on long-range planes. The carrier,
they said. was as vulnerable as a
sitting duck and would probably be-
come even more so as the war went
on.
Today, however, such talk seems
slightly ridiculous. with a whole
series of actual military events
tending to refute 1t. Thus, for ex-
ample, carriers played key sup
porting role in the Allied landings
at Salerno. and a great concentra-
ton Of them made possible the two
day pulverization of Wake Island
early last month. Similarly, they
have been decisive in the battle
against submarines in the Atlantic, q
fact made clear by Secretary Knox,
who has just revealed that Of the
sixty U-boats destroyed in August,
September and October. twenty.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
No Secrets at Moscow

Secretary Hull's categorical state
ment that no secret agreements were
made at the Moscow conference
should be reassuring to those who
have expressed apprehension that
the Atlantic Charter may have been
compromised by commitments en-
tered into at the meeting in the
Soviet capital.
Mr.. Hull's comment apparently
was directed specifically to the ad-
ministrative board of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, which
released a statement Sunday declar-
ing that the Moscow conference had
failed to dispel the fear that COM
promises on the Atlantic Charter are
In prospect"
What time may show in this re-
spect obviously depends upon the
meaning which one reads into the
charter. But the assurances which
Evening star., 1943-11-16
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Trnce,DeH.

ter all the English sparrows. And In do
Ing 1t they no doubt would kill OF thou
sands Of purple finch young-which look
like common sparrows- Thousands
OF song sparrows and white -throated
sparrovs, which to many bloody-eyed
people seem to be English sparrows.
Persons with blood in their eyes are
not very discriminating.
That is now being demonstrated the
world around.
I We believe that most persons who
really love the birds, and who think
that there is enough killing in the world
already. will think 1t is too late to be.
gin killing sparrows.
II 1t were to be done, 1t should have
been done between Is and so years ago.
Now 1t is too late, they will think.
After all, there has been a great
lessening In the number of bluebirds.
A tremendous sleet storm in 1912 killed
Thousands Of them. Man, too, by clear
ing up thickets, with young saplings,
has driven the bluebirds away.
A somewhat timid creature, the blue-
bird probably just isn't fitted for mod
ern life.
Who Is?
Bluebirds are not dumb, however. II
they will not nest one place, they try
another. If they do not stop In . given
garden, they 60 on to the woods.
There Is no Use for any one getting
red In the face over the plight Of the
poor bluebirds" Such persons seem to
think that If bluebird is run out of
box designated for bluebirds. the
specimens chased away are doomed.
Nothing Of the sort! The pair simply
flies away to the woods, where there are
not 20 many sparrows.
-
As communities build up snarrovr
come IN. and bluebirds 20 out.
Killing any one species, to insure an
other, Is rather on the bitter side OF
LIE. Interest IN birds, one Of our true
national assets, should not be bitter, IN
any sense.
If it does not give one Joy, it is best
abandoned.
BY trying the low bluebird boxes, one
will do about all that can be done to-
ward drawing this magnificent creature
Cats may get them, but that is a
chance they must take. In this regard
1t must be remembered that birds have
been outwitting cats for thousands Of
years. 1t is only the occasional cat
which Is a good bird catcher. Most ~
them do too much creeping.
Wesley Heights is one of the few re-
manning places in or around Washing
ton where bluebirds come regularly in
any numbers.
II from half dozen to a dozen prop
erly constructed bluebird houses are put
On posts, as directed about all will be
done that can be done to attract them
The houses should not be closer than
100 feet to each other, and given the
sun. a. suggested.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
William Cowper

Such ,Oas the nature OF his fog
bound days
He could not bear the city Nth
its strife;
He chose the fields and quiet rural
,Udys
TO carry on his narro,c round Of
life.
He gained a transient freedom from
despdirs
At Olney IN the greenhouse soN-
tudes:
His garden. tea-ttms, and the play-
tnI hdrss
Were things that soothsd and
modified his moods.
Before the sonber gray OF sventuo
came
A Dinter ,oalk at noon brought
hushed delight;
Then timidly he sought his hearth's
clear fame,
And ,otndoUs shuttered fast
against the night. F
! think he ipalks the pathUdys Of
the blest,
And smiles at fears that used to
crotDd hts breast.
REID cRowELL.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Says People do Love
With Their Hearts.

10 the Editor Of The Star:
Glancing through Haskins' Answers
to Questions in The Star of November
IL, I was startled by the answer to a
question put by I. T. g.: "Is there anv
evidence that a person loves with his
heart?"
The categorical denial of Mr. Haskins
has nothing to do with science" for
love belongs to those phenomena of
life that elude scientific" measurements
or proof.
Hence Mr.. Haskins assertion that
Science now recognizes that this is
actually facetious statement" is not
only superficial, but flippant.
Even though the emotions have not
been defined scientifically those who
have intensely experienced them know
that the heart is definitely affected by
them, thus the medical term "pfecordial
anxiety" and the expressions aching
heart" and broken heart" are not mere
metaphors. I.PI.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
CoIibun Loose
from the Manchester Guardian.

That seems curious contribution to
the war effort which is reported from
Stratford-on-Avon; If it reaches them
ut all the news must read little oddly
to the Russians who have not only
sterner forms of war work on hand but
who also have some real regard for
Shakespeare as poet and dramatist.
Daubins Bacon" in red-paint letters 2
feet high on the front Of the Shake
speare Memorial Theater, on the front
and back of the Cover statuary. giving
the efigy of Lady Macbeth q red face
and Hamlet head and feet Of the same
color-these are startling but ill-condi-
toned contributions to the Bacon
Shakespeare controversy. As a matter
d obvious fact, Of course, this is not
literature but loutishness run wild; the
authors Of this misguided exploit prob
ably know no more about either Shake
speare or Bacon than the names.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
EIGHTH STREET.

Dear Sir:
"A friend Of mine asked me the other
day could tell her why last spring
she had quite flock Of bluebirds stop
At her place and seemed As though they
wanted to stay and in fact tried to
build.
But every place they tried to make
nest, the sparrows chased them out So
they all left.
"A couple Of weeks ago they returned.
1t seems as though the sparrows again
chased them of. She would like to know
what is best to do about the bluebirds
should they again return next spring, as
she would like so much to have them
stay.
Sincerely yours, N. I. B."
We take it that these friends Of birds
would not bs willing to kill all the SPAR
rows just to take chance on having
bluebirds, as wonderful as they are.
So the only thing to do is to try
to appeal to them by erecting the proper
sort Of bluebird house in the proper
location.
Nesting sites with the right size open
ings for bluebirds also appeal to SPAR
rows.
Experience has shown. however, that
II the bluebird house Is erected In q
certain way 1t will tend to keep the
sparrows away.
This simply means that the box is
best placed low on a post in a sunny,
open location.
sparrows do not like that, for some
reason or other.
An expert has put It this way:
THE best results are obtained II the
box Is erected three or four feet above
the ground and preferably nailed to a
solid fence post, facing the south or
southeast. You will be more successful
with fence posts than you will if you
nail the box to the side Of a tree"
We can testify to the truth of that
last sentence. We put . fine bluebird
house on the side Of q tree, about 10
feet up.
Evidently 1t was too high, and the
birds did not like the tree site, either,
because the only pair to visit the yard in
10 years spent all day looking 1t over,
one March, but new away in the evening
and never came back.
4 y
The best bluebird house has a floor
by inches, with total depth of 8
inches.
The diameter Of the hole should be
Ia inches, and this hole about 6 inches
from the floor. 1t is best not to make
perch, for sparrows can stand on it
and poster the bluebirds.
There can be little doubt that the
Engnsh sparrows, and the starlings are
the great pests of bluebirds.
The question Is, what can be done
about It?
Some persons willingly would slaugh.