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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-11-13

NEW YORK tANP)-"Road to
Tokyo" an article appearing in a
recent edition of YANK, an army
weekly. by Sgt. Ed Cunningham, a
Yank staff correspondent. in part
describes how a company Of u. S.
Negro engineers is doing its job
toward constructing an important
supply route through hostile Burma,
a big highway under constant
danger of enemy attack. Literally,
it is said that the engineers "are
carving a road out Of the side Of
mountain"
Officially, states Sgt. Cunning
ham, the new military highway
from India to China is not known
as The Road to Tokyo" That's
just what it was christened by the
Woodworking Negro engineer regi-
ments that hewed it out OF solid
rockmasses 100 yards long and car
ried it up over mountain ranges
that rise as much as 1000 feet in
two miles. But the soldiers who
built the road figured they had the
right to name it. So it's The Road
to Tokyo and they've posted signs
bearing the name"
The Road to Tokyo" which Is
moving in but on direction. may
become the new supply line TO
China, said the writer. Along the
road may travel the weapons. ma
terials and men for the coming
united nations about offensive in
Burma and China.
Under the direction OF Col. Tate,
a 28-year-old white officer from
Eunice, La. the aviation engineers
undertook their new duties on Dec.
IL. 1912, explained the writer. The
road had just been started by the
British army with Indian labor
when the Yanks took over. A few
months later it was cut through to
the Burma border.
Orders from Mai. Gen Raymond
Wheeler. commanding officer OF the
Tokyo highway project, called for
the road to cross the India-Burma
border not later than March /, 1943.
A lot Of experts said it could never
be done in that time. They pointed
out that the crossing would have
to be made at a point $500 feet up
in the mountains, with a rise OF
1000 feet in the last two miles. The
entire route was blocked by trees
$50 feet high and IS feet in diam
eter, and by huge boulders that
had TO be blasted by dynamite be-
fore the bulldozers could 20 into
action.
But Gen. Wheeler had said that
in time Of war. there is no such
thing as difficult job" explained
Sgt. Cunningham. and added. "the
| Negro soldiers in the aviation en-
gineers battalion proved this point"
In speaking OF the Negro soldiers
determination to carry out orders
Cunningham tells the following
brief story TO illustrate his point
During the rush TO reach the India
Burma border by March /. Col. Tate
issued an order forbidding vehicle:
not needed for work from going UP
to The Point" Recon cars and
even jeeps often got stuck In the
mud and had to be hauled out with
tractors and graders So Pvt. Nor.
ris Humphrey, Negro soldier from
East Point, Ga. was posted at the
roadside to enforce the "Off Limits
edict.
1t. Willard o. Pierce Jr, Of Bur.
lington, NJ, relayed Tate's order
to Pvt. Humphrey, emphasizing
that nobody. not even a general
is to get through"
LAS luck would have it," sale
Cunningham, Gen. Wheeler-whC
hadn't been up to The Point FOL
several days-chose that day &
make an inspection"
The generals jeep however. wa:
promptly halted by Humphrey a:
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-11-13

Colonel Morris H. Marcus, Com
handing officer, 9th Cavalry. Fort
Clark, Texas, today announced the
promotion of Pfc. Douglas f. Tibbs,
Jr., to the grade of T-4th grade.
T-4th Grade Douglas E. Tibbs is
the son of Douglas Tibbs of 1927
Beaubien street. Detroit. Mich.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-11-13
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cases was the same, the infliction
on the soldiers Of inept leaders who
reached their rank by routine
methods instead of on real leader
ship ability
The army veteran said Il Is not
a matter OF giving the Negro soldier
either white or Negro officers. but
that il is essential that he have off,
GERS he can both respect and admire.
Evening star., 1943-07-02

tl1c OTlBuldl W Ill dlCOBctIAcI 6uItlI-
rable degree.
Latest piece Of current literature
to put the studio under its spell
Is Walter van Tilberg Clark's 1.-THE
Ox-Bow Incident" With spine-
chilling force. Mr.. Clark's story Of
Nevada life in 1885 said that the
mob was a beast, no less beast for
being American than If 1t were one
of Americas current enemies. The
picture adaptation which opened
at Loew's Capitol yesterday with
Henry Fonda In the principal role
reiterates the point with cold,
emotionless eloquence that makes
you take back some Of the nasty
things you have been thinking about
the movies recently. Not since the
unforgettable 'Fury" Of half dozen
years ago have mob brutality and
stupidity been so remorselessly
X-rayed. If the negative has
blotch in one or two corners. which
it has, it is of minor consequence
and inadequate to detract from the
dramatic message of THE Ox-Bow
Incident"
y
William Wellmans direction and
Lamar Trottis screenscript OF
Clark's evil except from frontier
history are two of its most note
worthy features. They have COM
bined their talents, with that Of a
large and nearly all-male cast, to
produce a photograph of passion
ate violence that is taut, exciting
and profoundly provocative.
In the accomplishment OF this
purpose, deletions have been deemed
necessary. They are not CT a ma
ture, however, that admirers of the
original will count it against the
producers of the screen adaptation.
They have done the author the
honor Of keeping his characteriza-
tions intact, a neat trick which the
movies so often bring of as If 1t
were the least important thing in
storytelling.
Clark's emphasis upon the COM
parative helplessness OF right-heart-
Evening star., 1943-07-02
By ]. w, STEPP,

Everything considered, 1t will be
a happy day when Hollywood gets
over its current siege Of star-com-
plex. While doubtless Of high box
ONCE value, the practice Of installing
droves af galaxian people in a film
tends to make the production too
much of a Milky Way Of talent. II
you look closely you can see the in
dividual stars and demi-stars, but
from a distance scarcely more meets
the eye than a vague, undeflnable
mass. This may not be quite so true
Of such as stage Door Canteen"
ant" Star -Spangled Rhythm" which
were extended series of vaudeville
like acts bound by mere wisp Of
story.
1t Is, however, emphatically true
of Forever and a Day." the very
soul Of which was supposed to have
been-or should have been-its
story.
The idea. patterned after "Cav-
alcade" and others, sketches the his
tory Of Britain from 1904 to Sep
tember. 1910. The lives OF one fam
lily through this period are the
means of recording it. Greatest ap-
parent purport of the Aim is the
resolve Of Britons to preserve the
heritage of their forebears by re-
naming free and by keeping the
family the basis of hope for the
future.
What actually develops is a nat
ural result Of the dabblings OF six
directors, some 80 writer's and four
cameramen-in addition to the in
dividual assertion Of personalities of
about two-score Of stars. Forever
and a Day" becomes a sequential
narrative that is q choppy, mostly
rambling parade Of characters in
period costumes.
At the same time it cannot be de-
MED that the gathering of brilliant
acting talents on the vario scenes
has merit from the spects view
point. One must. of course, consider
the episodes, or groupings, seperate-
ly. Individually, most of the actors
are just about at their best, reveal
ing an uncommon relish for the an
tique roles they portray.
BY a selective process, based more
or less on the order of appearance.
C. Aubrey Smith should get first
mention. AS Eustace Trimble, re-
tired admiral Of the fleet. founder
Of the Trimble home and guiding
spirit Of subsequent generations of
Trimble-Pomfre Mr.. Smith has
the sort Of role on which he likes
best to chew. He is bumbling, stern,
kindly, patriarchal-and altogether
rich as a character Dame May
Witty, the admiral's wife, shines
with her customary kindly light.
Claude Rains. as the first and hated
Pomfret in the lives of the Trim
bles, is a small masterpiece of spite.
Entering later in the piece are
Jessie Matthews, Ian Hunter and
Charles Laughton (buttling again., j,
all Of whom are of that generation
Of Trimble-Pomfrets which intro
duced bathtubs during Victorias
reign. A while later, Jim Trimble
Brian Aherne), the distant coal
carrying branch Of the family, runs
of to America with Jenny 0da Luz
pino), maid to the Trimble -Pomfrets,
Evening star., 1943-07-02
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showino

Capitol-"The Ox-Bow Incident
mob violence at its worst: II am.
1:50, 4:30. tbs and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: ITO, $50, $50 and 9:25 pm
Columbia-"Crash Dive" Ty Power
in q submarine: II am, 1:l0, $40
$50, TAO and $50 pm.
Earle-"Background to Danger
George Raft with gun in hand: II
am, 1:45, 4:35, 7::25 and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1:05, 3:55, 6:45 and
9:20 pm.
Keith's Forever and a Day.
England through the years: 11:15
am, 1:25, 800, $40, 7:20 and $50
pm.
Little-"Blossoms in the Dust
salvation for innocent waits: HOS
am, lis, 800, $50, TAO and $50
pm.
Metropolitan-"Action in the North
Atlantic" conveys at war: ILLS
am, las, 4:20, 6:55 and 9:35 pm
Stage Door Canteen, :"
quantity on a vast scale: II am,
1:35, AIS, 6:55 and $40 pm.
Pix-"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
Gary Cooper and tuba: 2, 4:25, $50
and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts
Continuous from 10 an.
Evening star., 1943-07-02

and this sequence comes of effer-
vescently, the two principals making
fine cockneys.
In the flashback to World War I
(Anna Neagle, as the 1910 Trimble,
is telling the whole story to Ray
Milland), the most dramatic epi-
sode of the film occurs Gladys
Cooper and Roland Young make it
so as parents Of a young aviator,
who learn, while waiting dinner,
that their son has been killed in
action. In fact, it is in this episode,
where the Trimble mansion appears
as a boarding house populated with
colorful citizens, that Forever and
q Day" most nearly comes to life.
Still taking the picture piecemeal,
it may be said that even the merest
scraps of character portrayals are
handled we'll; Buster Keaton. Nigel
Bruce. Arthur Treacher. Herbert
Marshall, Edward Everett Horton,
Reginald Owen and Elsa Manchester.
But then, almost everyone in the
cast has long been known for his
acting ability.
Evening star., 1943-07-02

1t did not commit. In his helpless
protest Of innocence, his tragic sense
Of its uselessness, Andrews makes
collective passion as ugly as 1t ever
has looked upon the screen. Others
who perform capably include new
comers Henry Morgan as Carter's
itinerant cowhand pal, who is al
ways cautioning nonresistance on
the ground of self-preservation, and
William Eythe as the weak-willed
son Of the cold-blooded Maj. Tet-
ley, leader of the mob.
The action in which these and
others of the cast participate is q
straightforward piece Of narrative
leading from the report Of the crime
to the hideously greater one which
grows out of 1t. Time Is taken out
for but the barest asides into the
areas of romance and comedy. the
result of the former being that the
picture is womanless save for brief
passage which allows Mary Beth
Hughes to appear in the picture.
The Photographic background of
4llC oAsoO" A1AC1uCllt Id q AldAAA-
some asset to its story of brutality
one OF the best bits Of it the bleak
saloon In which the mob gathers to
rue its beastliness In one of the most
effective pantomimic passages the
cinema has produced in several
seasons.
It is timely drama easy to rec
ommend in spite Of a confession
scene In which the studio was badly
advised as to the rules of the Cath
olic Church.
X X X
Springly Oracle Barrie who took
over Bandsman Husband Dick Sta
bile's baton when the latter went
off to the wars provides a varied
and lively stage interlude at the
Capitol this week. In addition to the
sparkle with which the boys play
for the boss wife, the stage sequence
boasts of the comedy of Pinky Lee
and the singing of Miss Barrie and
of Jimmy Palmer.
A very nice thing Miss Barrie and
the band have made of carrying on
without the corpulent head man.
Evening star., 1943-07-02
Murder in the Barn

A cast Of energetic stand-bys and
a few newcomers to the Cross Roads
Theater Co., plus q large and fear
less audience which did not mind
the bus ride and the walk down
he lane, launched the seventh sum-
mer of light hearted drama at
Bailey's Cross Roads Wednesday
night. Joseph Kesselring's murder
Gus farce, Arsenic and Old Lace"
provided Howard Wentworth's COM
pany with its first vehicle and II the
company did not return the favor
brilliantly, it extracted enough OF
the hilarious essence Of the drama
to show that Mr.. Kesselring wrote
very funny thing.
No admiration for the gallantry
Of the group in defying the hazards
of transportation could justify un-
abridged praise for its efforts. Truth,
the inexorable wench, compels the
contrary estimate that things went
very unevenly with Mr.. Kesselring's
play.
Among the sporadically bright
performers nice words are due Miss
Catharine Ryan, the groups stately
star, as the gently murderous Aunt
Abby; for Eleanor Timmis as the
partner In the dozen kindly elder
berry wine killing; for Walter Tim
mis- as slaughterous Brother Jona-
than, and for Forney Reese as the
Brewster brother who imagines he
is Theodore Roosevelt and manages
to be one Of the funniest Of con-
temporary comedy characters.
The others, this reviewer is afraid,
played as If they were terrified Mr..
Kesselring had not written as we'll
as the imperishable run Of his play
on Broadway intimates.
They were wrong, but not SO
flagrantly as to make the trip a
foolish journey. ]. c.
Evening star., 1943-07-02

ed and right-minded men to resist
the sweeping force Of mob madness
gives Fonda the best role in the
picture. AS Gil Carter, he represents
the individual at odds not only with
the mob's lack of conscience, but
with whatever he possesses of con-
science himself. 1t is slick piece
of bitter portraiture that Fonda
creates in the role.
Quite as effective among the sew
eral neatly turned impersonations is
that of Dana Andrews as the leader
of the innocent trio which is hanged
for the cattle rustling crime which
Evening star., 1943-07-02

1.-THE Ox-Bow Incident" 4 goth Century.
Fox production, starring Henry Fonda,
directed by william Wellman, screenplay
BY Lamar Trotti. based upon the original
of the same name BY Walter van Tilburg
Clark. At the Capitol.
TIE raaA.
Evening star., 1943-07-02
Too Much for One Film

FOREVER AND DAY" an RKO-
Radio picture. produced by Sir Cedric
Hardwicke, based on an idea by Sir Cedric
and on an unpublished novel by Robert
Stevenson.
Sequences Directed By:
Frank Lloyd, Herbert Wilcox Robert
Stevenson. Victor saville. Rene Clair and
Edmund Goulding.
Screenplay Prepared BY:
r. c. Sheriff.. John Van Druten, Keith
Winter. Alice Duer Miller. Alan Campbell
W. P. Lipscomb, James Hilton, Charles
Bennett. Robert Stevenson. Christopher
IsherTood ra c. g FoIrsster ,, A. J. Gron1in.
Lewis, Donald Ogden Stewart, Claudine
West, Dodie Smith Peter Godfrey, Charles
stone. Sig Herzig Norman Corwin. Lawrence
Hazard, Fmmet Lavery, Gene Lockhart,
Jack Hartflelo.
Writers Consulted:
Robert Sherwood. Sheridan Gibney and
Evening star., 1943-07-02
10th Century>Fox Tells
A Mob Story Eloquently
BY JAY CARMODY.

Twentieth Century Fox studio admirably alert when
keeping with
stenbkan similar proportions dudgeonouy
things goingor
Betty Cradle his handwagon quick wink making
the switch will maintain It's author
the moviestha will letter spirit
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Father of 7 Headed for Droft,
Refuses to Seek War Plant Job
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug 3O-Peter
Werp, father of seven, who SAYS
he'll take his chances in the draft
rather than run for cover In a war
plant. was step nearer military
service today.
I'm cinch.' the 36-year-old
bank accountant reported cheerily
after his preliminary physical ex-
animation It'll be the same when
I'm called to Fort Leavenworth for
induction, too. I'm disgustingly
healthy
A bank employe for Is years, Mr..
Werp was one of several hundred
fathers who reported for prelimi-
nary examinations yesterday. None
was informed officially whether they
had passed, Mr.. Werp said. But, he
laughed, Il couldn't miss passing"
Ifs he is drafted. his family would
receive 1922 month, and Mr.. Werp
himself S22. That hardly approaches
Evening star., 1943-08-30

who are deferred and those who
have died since registration.
The inventory is in line with the
promise from Gen. Hershey of a
Nationawide readjustment of calls
to postpone the drafting of any pre-
war fathers as long as possible
Through the inventory both State
and national officials will know
where pools of non-fathers are still
available The inventory includes
all registrants of draft age, includ-
ing the men between SO and As
years, who are now deferred as
overage
In counting children, draft boards
were instructed to include only the
children born before September IS,
1912. with whom the registrant
maintains bona fide family re-
lationship.
In the District, the nose count
ing will take in about 200 1000
regiStrants.
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Selective Service Plans Survey
OfAlI Available U.S.. Monpower

A Nationwide inventory to un-
cover all sources of manpower
before fathers are drafted will
begin on September Is.
First inventory in the history of
the Selective Service, the Nation
wide counting of noses is designed
to give an up-to-the-m minute picture
of what is left in the manpower
barrel.
For the first time national head
quarters will be told how many
children each draft eligible father
has. Under present regulations
this figure would have no signifi-
canoe since order number rather
than the number of children will
determine how soon a prewar
father enters the armed forces.
The figure will be available, how
ever, in case Congress wants to
use the number of children as
determining factor.
Hardships May Vary.
In some cases, however, Selective
Service Director Lewis B. Hershey
has said a man with one child NAV
be hardship case where a father
of several children could be drafted
without disrupting his family.
During the two weeks allowed for
the inventory, draft boards have
been instructed to stop all classifca-
ton. In other words, the classifica-
ton will be frozen as of the day the
reports are turned in SO that ma
tional headquarters will have last
minute view of the manpower pool
The inventory will be concluded
the day before the draft boards are
permitted to start calling prewar
fathers.
Every step to be taken by the
Selective Service System in the COM
ing months must be based on an ac-
curate knowledge of the classifca-
ton and status of every registrant,"
draft boards were notified.
To Cover All Categories.
'The inventory is a major step
In the program to make available
for induction every possible regis
trant who is not occupationally or
otherwise deferred before men with
Group 4 (prewar) children are
called.
TT will also disclose to the local
board those cases where registrant
had not been reconsidered in &C
cordance with the most recent regu-
lations and those cases in which
classifications should be reopened
and considered anew for any rea-
SON"
Draft officials explained that
while draft boards are required to
make a monthly report, it takes in
only the men that are available for
induction and does not include
those who have been inducted, those
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Two Killed, Six Injured
In Wreck Caused by Bee
By the Associated Presx

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 30.-A bee
sting caused the death of two per-
sons and injuries to three others in
trafic accident here yesterday.
A sixth person was injured when
he was struck by cab as he crossed
the street to give aid.
The dead were Mr., and Mrs. John
S. Harvey of Richmond, who died at
a local hospital after their car
crashed into telephone pole at
Chamberlayne avenue and Mitchell
street.
Before he died, Mr.. Harvey said
he was stung by bee and lost con-
troll of the car.
The injured were Mrs. Elma Simp-
son of Richmond. Miss Alice Moor
man of Lynchburg, Mrs. Alice Nor
ton of Richmond, all passengers in
the car, and Thomas Lythgoe, who
was hit by the cab.
Evening star., 1943-08-30
Roosevelt
Continued From First Page.)

more information = this reference
obviously being to the Quebec plan
for intensifying the war against the
Japs.
He said he felt the Mountbatten
appointment would be very much
welcomed" and added "T think he's
a grand person"
The President stopped for several
days on his way back from Canada,
where his last appearance was made
Wednesday, when he spoke at
Ottawa.
Prospects for a tri-partite meeting
among representatives of the United
States. Great Britain and Russia.
mentioned as possibility in the
joint Quebec communique, may re-
ceive the attention of the President
and the Prime Minister. as well as
political questions involved in ad-
ministering temporary governments
OF liberated nations.
Since their meeting at Quebec,
Denmark has famed into open rebel
hon against the NaZis and King
Boris of Bulgaria has been assas-
sinated-tWo developments which
are expected to claim the close at
tention of the British and American
chiefs of state.
Some officials, however, are in
clined to believe the Prime Ministers
latest visit here will be concerned
largely to gathering up any loose
ends or discussing secondary CUES.
tons that may have remained un-
settled at conferences in the Cana
dian city in the last two weeks.
Wording of Communique Cited.
They based this on the pnraseology
OF the joint communique which
said that the President and Prime
Minister were able to receive and
approve the unanimous agreement
on political issues underlying or
arising out of the military opera
tions." ..
1t also was pointed out by these
same officials that this would be the
nrSt opportunity for the Prime Min
1ster's wife and daughter Mary. a
subaltern in the Territorial Service,
TO see Americas wartime capital
since the British leader began his
trips to Washington in December,
194l, few weeks after the japanese
struck at Hawaii They did not ac-
company him here then or on his
visits in June. 1912. and MAY. l943.
Mr.. Churchill, who remained in
Canada after the Quebec strategy
conferences ended last Tuesday. will
deliver radio address tomorrow at
pm, EST. 1t has not been an
nounced when he would reach
Washington.
Domestic Conferences Expected.
For Mr.. Roosevelt. the new week
embraces conferences on many
domestic questions as well. Con-
eresSional leaders will soon be arriv-
ing for the September IA recon
vening and the legislative program
will need canvassing.
Major personnel shifts are pend
ing, too, with first official word
awaited on the reported resignation
of Summer Welles as Undersecretary
OF State, and successor and the
possible appointment of Justice
Samuel I. Roseman of the New York
Supreme Court to a full-time ad-
ministration job.
Norman Armour, Ambassador to
Argentina, home for consultations:
James C. Dunn, political adviser to
Secretary Hull; Breckenridge Long
an Assistant Secretary of State. and
several others have been mentioned
for the Welles post
Evening star., 1943-08-30

girls. range in age from . months
to IL years.
Mr.. Werp said the bank manage
ment had not asked any deferment
for him. but do give up my bank
training and experience. feeling
maybe like coward as I hunt for a
place in a war plant to escape fight
ing? No, I'll take my chances with
the draft"
Born in the United States. OF
Lithuanian descent. Mr.. Werp has
no prejudice against fighting.
If have to fight, I'm really 60
ing to give 1t all I've got"
Evening star., 1943-08-30

his bank salary, he acknowledged
ruefully.
That doesn't figure In, anyhow.
OF course. could make more money
in defense work. But I need to think
about these children after the war.
They will need all the security I can
assure them.
If l go to the armed forces, get
a leave of absence from my COM
pany. It's the promise of postwar
position. On q war job I would get
nothing much but salary"
The children, five boys and two
Evening star., 1943-08-30

The book Of the week is the War
stamp book. 1t spells Victory II
filled In.