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Evening star., 1943-05-13
Mrs. Roosevelt Hits
Labor Factiona|iSm
As Source Of Trouble
Public Should Direct
Action Of Congress, She
Tells Union PorIey
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 13.-Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt said here yesterday
she believed many Of the troubles
that we face today arise out of the
fact that the labor movement in this
country is divided
Addressing the third biennial
convention Of the Textile Workers
Union OF America, CIO, Mrs. Roose-
welt said she knew labor conditions
probably as well as ANY of you or
any of your leaders, and that she
knew "a great deal about what the
miners have suffered under She
adoed that she was grieved to find
that labCX leaders have refused to
work together.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who had heard
convention speakers criticize the
Office Of Price Administration, the
War Labor Board and the 'hold-the-
line order, which. it was charged
stripped the board of its powers,
said that many of the things that
are SAID here against things that
have happened are perfectly true"
I think that probably it might
nave been possible to have stopped
the demands Of the farm bloc and
to have done something that was
much falrer in both wages and
prices IN other ways" she said, but
IN order to do that you would have
had to make-and when talk about
you l mean the people as a whole
would have had to make your rep
resentatlveS in Congress understand
Evening star., 1943-05-13

families and their country and most
wages are at higher levels than
ever before in the history of the
country.
Quoting from a woman war work.
ers letter urging passage of a meas
ure to end strikes, Senator Connally
said: She wants to work in peace
and in furtherance of her Nations
efforts to win the war. l am conf
dent that there are millions of other
workers who feel the same way
about delays or interruptions or
showdown in the program of pro-
duction."
Reminding his audience of the
evils that have befallen labor under
Fasclsm and Naziism, the speaker
pointed out that our defeat would
destroy the progressive and ad-
vanced legislation the United States
has adopted in the interests and for
the benefits of labor. Labor unions
have been accorded many privileges.
he said, but he emphasized that
privileges carry with them RESPONSE
bllltieS and duties.
Duty to Country.
No citizen of the Republic Is
above the duty to his country and to
his fellow citizens. The war must go
on until victory is achieved. Plants
and mines must go on if the armies
are to crush the enemy"
Senator Connallv denied his bill is
intended to establish any system of
wholesale operation of plants or
mines.
1T is specifically provided that
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Policeman Dismissed
In Fatal SHOOTING Case

Acting on the recommendation of
Police Supt. Edward J. Kelly, the
Commissioners yesterday ordered
the dismissal from the Police De-
partment of Pvt. Charles A. Brown,
33, colored, in whose home Motor
cycle Patrolman Charles Riley
Johnston, 25, was fatally shot last
Saturday.
Browns removal was ordered be-
cause of his gross neglect of duty"
when he failed to warn Johnston
of the danger he was facing"
Held for the fatal shooting is Mon
roe Neely, 81, colored, a roomer at
Browns house. GIT Twenty-frst
street NE. Nicely is alleged TO have
shot and seriously wounded his wife
and then killed Patrolman Johnston
when the policeman attempted to
arrest him. Police allege that
Browns service revolver was used
IN both shootings.
The suspects wife, Mrs. Lola Nee
ly, remained in a serious conu-
ton at Casualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Six Dead, II Missing
As Arkansas River
Floods Pass Crest
Hundreds Left Homeless:
Soldiers Credited With
Saving Many Lives
BY the Associated Press.

FORT SMITH, Ark, May 13.-
The worst Arkansas River flood
in history gushed down the lower
valley today, topping or smash
ing levees and flooding addition
al thousands of acres after
cresting here at Alt feet-37
feet higher than the record stage
which had stood 10 years.
Receding here almost as rapidly
as it had risen. the river left in its
wake known dead. % missing,
hundreds homeless and untold prop
erty damage in Oklahoma as it
pushed its burden into Arkansas.
Seven of the missing were Camp
Gruber (Okla) soldiers who were
engaged in rescue work.
Downstream the United States
engineers abandoned hope, with one
exception. of saving any main line
levees between here and Little Rock.
They turned their attention to saw
ing dikes below Little Rock on the
Arkansas and to battling the ram
paging White and St. Francis
Rivers in Eastern Arkansas.
Soldiers Play Rescue Role.
Relief agencies. whose rescue op-
erations were overshadoWed by the
spectacular work of soldiers from
nearby posts. expressed belief that
all valley dwellers now had been
brought to safety.
The soldiers and their amphibious
ieeps were credited with saving
scores of lives. The jeeps. resem-
bling giant, comic water bugs,
dashed in and out of the sWirlng
food waters over a 4O-mile radius
and brought out marooned lowland-
ers. Their operations extended deep
into Oklahoma.
Rubber pontoons, assault boats
and speedboats also were employed
in rescue work by troops from
Camps Gruber. Chaffee. Robinson
Claiborne and possibly other posts.
Ground-Water-a teamwork en-
abled the flood-riding soldiers to
hang up fine rescue records. Civil
Air Patrol planes reported to Red
Cross headquarters the location of
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Cumocho Gets U. S. Flag
Used at Roosevelt PurIey
By The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 13-The
American flag that flew over the
naval air training base at Corpus
Christi, Tex, last month when Pres
ident Roosevelt and President Avila
Camacho conferred there was pre-
sented to the Mexican President
yesterday.
The flag was forwarded by Rear
Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery,
commander of the base
The Mexican President thanked
Admiral Montgomery and informed
him the banner would be placed in
the National Museum.
Evening star., 1943-05-13

marooned families The Red Gross
passed on the information at the
Army. BY short wave, the Army
contacted the soldier driven jeeps,
which sped to the rescue.
Red Cross Praises Army.
Scores of lives would have been
lost without Army help" said Nor
man Durfee, st. Louis, regional re-
lief director of the Red Cross.
Fort Smith and Camp Chaffee
were cut off from their principal
sources of water with only six days
supply in emergency reservoirs.
Across the river, Van Buren was
without light and power and one
third of the community was under
water. Some 600 blocks of Fort
Smith, city of 10000, was under
water ranging from a few inches
to several feet in depth.
The pipes which carry the Fort
Smith-Camp Chaffee water from a
lake in the Ozarks burst under the
pressure of the flood and debris.
The conduits were swung under the
Fort Smith-Van Buren bridge whose
floor was under water. Emergency
connections on top of the span were
expected to be completed late to-
morrow.
Fort Smith virtually was isolated
by the main stream and its back
waters All rail traffic was sus-
pended. Only the rooftops of build
ings in West Fort Smith. across the
Arkansas Oklahoma bridge, showed
above the surface of a lake of back
water that was 5 miles across.
Army engineers estimated $4,000
persons between here and Pine Bluff
are homeless or will be when the
crest reaches their communities
Upward of $4,000 acres were mum
dated between here and Little Rock
and the total was growing hourly.
Soldiers from various camps were
requlSltioned by the United States
engineers for work on levees below
Little Rock and on the White and
St. Francis.
Evening star., 1943-05-13

such plant or mine shall be returned
by the President to the private own
ers when it is determined that such
plant or mine shall be privately
operated in manner consistent
with the needs of the national de-
fense," he said.
He reminded his hearers that the
Government has assumed control
over seven plants at various times
and in various localities. In each
instance the labor disturbances were
quickly adjusted and the plants
were returned to their private own
ers or managers within the matter
of few weeks"
He described his bill as "a cham
pion OF neither employer nor of en-
ploye. 1t is a champion of the ma
tlonal need-the superlative and cli-
matte national need of keeping the
stream of weapons, equipment and
munitions going to the battlehelds
where our flag is flying and where
our boys are battling and dying.'
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Delay on Strike Ban
Will Weaken j, :,
Conna||y Warns
Senator Describes Bill
In Address Before
National Radio Forum

Prompt enactment of anti-strike
legislation by the House is i'm
perative' to meet the "audaclous
and brazen threat" of shutdown
in the coal fields. Senator Connally,
Democrat. of Texas warned last
night in an address on the National
Radio Forum sponsored by The
Star
Delay or hesitation will weaken
the arm of the Government" and
give encouragement to those who
scorn and defy the national in
terest." declared the author of the
Senate-approved bill restricting
strikes in war plants. His address
was delivered over the Blue Network
from Station WMAL
The issue is clear-cut," the Sena-
tor continued. The administration
must meet it. 1t must not finch.
II must not vacillate. If the line is
broken in the coal fields it will be
broken in other places. The time
is here for the Congress to deter
mine that there shall be no strike
In war plants. The time is here to
meet this audacious and brazen
threat
BlameS Union Leaders.
Reviewing events in the coal sit
uatlon Immediately preceding the
l5-day truce, Senator Connallv de-
Clared the same situation could arise
In any war plant But he absolved
the majority of workers from blame,
placing it squarely on the shoulders
OF union heads.
Strikes in war plants are usually
fOmented and promoted by am
bilious and aggressive labor leaders
to increase their own prestige and
power" he said, recalling John L..
Lewis refusal to appear before the
War Labor Board after breaking his
hO-Strlke agreement with President
Roosevelt
The anti-strike bill authored by
him is not offered as a cure-all
for all labor dificultieS.' Senator
Connaly said. 1t is not proposed
as panacea for all abuses of man
hgement or employees. II approaches
the issue from the national view
point, from the war needs, from the
dire necessity to keep plants moving.
to keep production going TO our
heroic men on the far-fung battle
lines and on the sea and in the air" -"
Right to Strike Questioned
No citizen anywhere has the right
to strike against the United States
In time of war, he said He asked
how the Nation consistently could
draft men. take them from their
wives and families and mothers and
fathers and put them on the battle
line to shed their blood, and. per-
hapS, to give their lives. and At the
same time permit employees in
plant to refuse to produce the arms.
equipment and supplies needed by
those men?
Most workers, he felt sure, are
anxious to continue work for their
Evening star., 1943-05-13
$500 Worth of Fish
And Driver Get Awoy

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. - Police are
searching for the fish that got away
all $500 of it.
Customers began phoning fish
and oyster company to complain
that their deliveries were late.
The delivery truck was found. but
the drlver-and the fsh-were
missing.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Allies Now Hold
More Prisoners
Than Germans
Y the Associated Press.

ps tiie aS9oIldtcu TItSS.
LONDON, May 13.-The mass
surrender of Axis troops in North
Africa has put more German pris-
oners into the hands of the Allies
than there are British prisoners in
German hands, and this fact was
seen today as a new lever in the
effort to get the Germans to strike
shackles off British and Dominion
prisoners of war.
Before the blow fell in Tunisia
this week, the number of British
prisoners in German hands was
about 10000, of whom 10000 had
been taken in the battle of France.
Up to the fall of Tunis and BIZ
zerte the British had taken about
10000 German prisoners. The count
is not completed in Tunisia, but
Allied headquarters said yesterday
10000 prisoners had been taken
in the last eight days.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
that you wanted certain things

that you wanted certain things
done.
Il am quite willing to agree with
you that often administrators and
representatives fall down on their
jobs, but basically, in a democracy,
the ones who cannot fall down on
their jobs are the people. There is
only one way in democracy of get
ting what you want. That is by
being eternally vigilant."
She said people today are much
more interested in how labor stands
and what it thinks. adding that was
"a sign of your growing strength
and also of your growing RESPONSE
bilitV.'
Evening star., 1943-05-13

Counting three to family, more
than half a million people will read
this issue of The Star. If YOU have
a want" tell them through a Star
Want Ad." Phone Ma. 5000.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24

Carlo in public. he loves to en-
terrain at parties.
HE'S 81, ACTS 1T
There is nothing OF the dcca-
dent matinee idol in Chaplain.
He doesn't bask in past triumphs
and Will discuss his pictures only
with a sort of academic detach-
ment. He is well and conserva-
lively tailored, moves and
speaks with quiet. dignity and
generally behaves like man of
43 He never dyed his hair ex-
ccpt when making picture,
and even then the color was
washed out each evening. and
applied again next day.
A stranger would find ii diff
ficult to identify the off-screen
Chaplin with his familiar movie
Characterization. The actor, too,
is oddly remote about the tramp
and speaks Of HIM only in the
third person as he or the
little fellow
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24

announced. Pending the outcome
Of a blood test and possible pa
ternity suit, Miss Barry is re-
ceiving settlement from Chap
lin
Sensational events of the past
few weeks have led some Chap
lin admirers to liken him to the
late John Barrymore, a great
actor who tossed away his dig
nifty and much of his artistic
standing because, finally, he
simply didn't care. Chaplin long
has been criticized by members
of the movie colony for his re-
fuSal TO make more pictures.
Reams of court testimony
have explained something of
Chaplins technique as Holly
wood Great Lover Miss Barry.
in critical retrospect, has said
he sounded "corny.'
But everyone who has attend
ed Chaplin's partics-and more
recently his crowded Sunday
morning champagne breakfasts
can tell you that he has great
charm for either sex and any
age. The comedian works hard
as a host, has flattcring knack
of being Individually attentive
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24
Pumping Station
Plans Completed

Supervisor Earl Tallman said
Wednesday that plans to build
modern pumping station in con-
nectlon with the Mound Park
Drain already have been COM
pleted with Warren Township.
the drain commission and the
Rotary Club cooperating to I'M
derwrite the estimated $4,000
expense.
The station Will divert sewage
into the Nine Mile Sewer Plant
and floor waters into Bear
Greek. Work will start in the
near future, Tallman said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24
SURPRISE!

SURPRISE!
So MoVietoWn was flabber-
gasted by his marriage to the
minor league poet and actress,
Oona O'Neill. who last autumn
was chosen Glamour Girl of the
season by Stork Club saloon So
clety.
All Of his wives and most of
his protegees have been young
sters. Chaplin was % when he
married Mildred Harris, who
was II and his leading lady.
Next time it was Lita Grey. his
feminine lead in The Gold
Rush" Their settlements. fol-
lowing their divorces, cost him
1892 500 When her turn came,
Miss Goddard Jared very well,
too, but no specific sum has been
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24
Chaplin Miscast as Sad Little Comic;
He's Really Holywood's Great Lover
By NEA Service

HOLLYWOOD. June 24-Mo-
vietown has come TO the conclu-
sion that through all his years
of success and acclaim. Charlie
Chaplin has been miscaSt
OF course he did all right as
an inarticulate clown 49, a visit
full, futile little guy who almost
always lost the girl IN the last
reel.
But his newest adventures in
romance, including his marriage
10 l8-ycar old Ooona ONcill,
serve to confirm what quite a
number of people hercabout
have slyly suggested for long
time - that Charlie Chaplin
really is Hollywoods great
Lover.
Movie colony gossip about the
white-haired comedian has been
busy every since he acquired
new protege year or more ago.
He began 10 be seen here and
there with Joan Barry about the
time that Paulettc Goddard Oh
tanned divorce in Mexico on
June 4, 1912. Miss Barry, 1t
turned out, was going to be the
star of Shadow and Sub
stance" which he had bought
for personal revision and film
ing.
ROMANCE RUMORED
Naturally, considering the list
Of other Chaplin Studio appren-
tees who had married the boss,
there was some speculation
about whether this one would,
too. But none of his friends be-
lieved that he ever would be
married again, TO anybody. That
also was the expert opinion of
Paulette Goddard, whose own
marriage 10 Chaplin remains
something of a mystery TO this
day.
The comic and the 18-year-old
daughter Of Playwright Eugene
O'Neill have been acquainted
about eight months, but the
flourishing quality of their ro
nance remained unsupported
until it was learned that she, too,
had become a Chaplin protegee
and that he was planning TO give
her a starring role in picture
Her father was reported doing
his indignant best 10 break il up |
Meanwhile the Chaplin Barry /
association had broken out in a
dash Of farce and melodrama
After the teen-age ex-WaitresS
had been arrested on vagran
cy charge, having confronted
Chaplin with pistol in his
home, and after she had brought
him TO court with the charge
that he was the father of her eX-
pected child, Hollywood as
sumed that he would be far too
busy with legal unpleasantries to !
concern himself with romance
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24

First Methodist pastor and
church attendance doomed as a
result.
Folks can't catch fish in
muddy water" he explained.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24
VIRTUOUS WEATHER

WARSAW, Mo.-Rainfall was
heavy for eight consecutive Sun
days in this Ozark community,
beams the Rev. j. II. Wagner,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-24
DESIGN FOR SAVING

The government order to
Streamlin lighting fixtures will
save $500 to 800 tons OF metal
i'm l943.
Evening star., 1943-08-16
Versatile FIGHTERS

Inc P-40 pursuit ship, workhorse
OF the Army Air Forces and an object
OF much heated controversy, is dem
onstrating to the satisfaction of the
Japanese, If not to its critics at home,
that it is an extremely versatile piece
OF f1ghting machinery.
AS pursuit ship, the P-40 has won
proud place for itself despite the
detractors. And now 1t is disclosed
through photographs just released
by the Army that 1t Is also doing
quite a Job In the Far East as bomber.
The exact nature Of the changes
made In the plane is not revealed,
but the report discloses that the
bombing version of the P-4O is
known as the B-4o, and is capable Of
carrying 1.o0o-pound bombs against
the Japanese. There Is no telling
what this plane will be doing If the
war lasts long enough.
The P-4o is not the only American
pursuit ship, however, which has
been doubling in other functions.
Until recently the British lacked a
satisfactory scouting plane-a de-
ficiency which was not met until
they tried out the speedy North
American Mustang. Although it was
designed as a fighter-and it Is q good
f1ghter-this plane also has filled
the bill as scout.
The Mustang is fast and easily
maneuvered. And it is tough. In a
recent sweep over Northern France
one Of these planes had an ammuni-
ton box hit by an enemy shell. The
ammunition exploded, tore hole in
the wing and sent splinters flying.
Some hit the pilot, but despite his
wounds and the structural damage
he brought the plane back. On an
other occasion a pilot hit an aerial
between two masts of radio station
with his wing. But it was the aerial
which gave way, not the wing.
These incidents add up to the con-
clusion that we are building good
planes-planes that can perform the
tasks for which they were designed,
and more. There is no higher tribute
that could be paid to the men who
DESIGNED and built them.
Evening star., 1943-08-16
Sweeteninq q Lemon

Not so long ago Herr Goebbels was
handed one of the juiciest lemons
ever to come his way-the fall of
Orel and Belgorod. Yet, sour as it
was, he had somehow to sweeten 1t
and dish it up to his public. Whether
he succeeded will be learned after
the war. What he said, in effect, was
that the German high command had
cleverly lured the Reds on to attack;
that they had fallen for the bait, and
because of this military idiocy had
fallen into a deadly trap, the natural
result Of their own folly in taking the
lead.
Curiously enough, the same rea-
soning applies to the American
League pennant race-that is, if any
one wants to apply it and if any one
else would believe it. Just on the
chance that some one might, the ap-
plication is herewith given. All dur
ing the season, then, the Senators
have diabolically lured the Yankees
on to pile up big lead, and the
Yanks, those poor benighted baseball
addicts, have bitten hook line and
sinker and overextended themselves
by piling up an unwieldly lead. The
willy Senators, Of course, are chuck
ling with glee, patiently watching the
lead grow and waiting for the stra-
logically correct time to NOV 'em
down. Now you tell one.
Evening star., 1943-08-16
Open City Plea

The announcement by the Bado-
Clio government of its intention to
declare Rome an open city should
not be interpreted as meaning that
Rome is automatically removed from
the list of legitimate military targets.
AS the Rome radio has pointed out,
cities do not become open" or un-
defended through a unilateral decla-
ration to that effect. Both belliger-
ents must agree to recognize such a
status, and in the case of Rome the
Allies will want to be satisfied that
Badoglio has complied fully with the
applicable provisions of international
law.
This will not be easy. If the Allies
insist on literal compliance with the
prescribed conditions for establish
ing an open city-and they have
every right to do so-it will be neces-
sary for the Italians to abstain from
any kind of military activity in
Rome. II Italy remains in the war
the government would have to be
moved elsewhere, a difficult thing to
do. No military traffic could be
routed through the city and since
the principal Italian railroads run
through Rome the Fascists would be
hard put to maintain any kind of
defense in Southern Italy. II 1t is
true that Mussolini set up war
factories in Rome, hoping to obtain
security for them through their
proximity to the Vatican, these
would have to be shut down or
moved elsewhere. And, strictly
speaking, the Italian government
would have to permit inspection by
the Allies so the latter could satisfy
themselves that these conditions
were being met.
Obviously. it will take time to ac-
complish these changes. But If
Badoglio is acting in good faith and
is not merely stalling, the Italians
can rest assured that the Allies will
not bomb Rome during the period
necessary for its conversion to an
undefended city. Nor will they
bomb 1t afterwards. The Germans
destroyed Rotterdam and Belgrade
after they had been declared open
cities, but that is the Nazi way of
doing things, not ours.