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Evening star., 1944-02-06

where radio serials are concerned.
and neither Of them wastes many
words expressing them. Those f'r
EN- say the soap operas are great,
those agin' 'em say they're lawful.
That's why the stand Of Phil Carlin,
program chief of the Blue Net
works, is interesting.
During the hours between 9 am.
and noon, the Blue goes In for va
riety shows and hasn't even one Is
minute hand-wringer to its network
name. Despite which it seems to
be doing all right. The networks
9-to-l2 fare has the highest average
listener rating of any chain, and,
according to Carlin, will continue to
present the music and variety stuff
and to shy away from the serial pro-
ducers. He admits there is a place
for serials, but added that the place
definitely is not on his network. So
there!
What's COOkin'.
Ginny Sinms emerges as a comic
strip character in the cartoon series
Joe Jinx" beginning February II.
-. Dwight Weist of Valiant Lady
is on leave to appear in Peep Show"
on Broadway. Mariana Dorm,
Hollandborn actress wife of screen
idol Philip Dorm, is playing the role
of Klassje Beekman in T Love a
Mystery. ;. Duke Ellington is now
carrying five trumpets regularly for
the first time. Generally a four
trumpet band, Duke raised the ante
when Rex Stewart rejoined the band
after short absence. Rumor
has it that Bing Crosby will pro-
duce films on his own, and wants
"Oklahoma!" as the first vehicle.
Everett Sloane, DR.. Ordway on
the Crime Doctor program, is a
proud papa again. Mrs. Sloane gave
Birth to 7-pound-1O-ounce daugh-
ter, their second child. Elon-
gated actor, Millard Mitchell, who
plays the part of Crackpot O'Toole,
the forger, on Duffy's, is also fea-
tured on Broadway in Maxwell An
derson's latest drama, Storm Op-
Grafton" During the prepro-
gram warmup for We, the People,
Emcee Milo Boulton told the audi
ence he wanted them to meet Dave
Levy, producer director of the show
Davy stuck to his seat in the con-
troll room and big laugh came
from the audience as three actors
walked on stage and took bows
Practically
name doubles are 1t. Dina Carlson,
co-ordinator and assist
ant producer on Your Army Services
Forces, and Dean Carlton, narrator
of the shows weekly story. .. Those
scrawly marks on bits of paper held
by Jeri SULLIVAN as she sings into a
CHS mike are her lyrics. She
writes them in shorthand. NYC
television set owners will be able to
seas well as hear-what goes on
at the coming Republican and Dem
ocratic National Conventions. !
NBC will take movies of the pro-
ceedings, put the films on a fast
plane and televise them few hours
later over WNBT.
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Evening star., 1944-02-06
For RadioL listeners
By Ben KapIan.

sThere's a lot that goes on behind
the scenes in radio that you listen
ers never hear about. And I don't
mean what the stars wear or what
they like for breakfast. But they
do have a lot of personal broad
casting idiosyncracies and there's no
one who knows them better than
the building superintendent of
MICS Hollywood Radio City.
Take, for instance, the business
Of preparing the stages for the
hroadcasts. Each orchestra leader
has his own idea of how his musi-
clans should be arranged on the
stage, and it's up to the superin-
tendent's department to carry out
his wishes. A giant loose-leaf fold
er contains diagrams for each pro-
gram. There are little round marks
indicating seats, straight ones
meaning music racks, and circles
with crosses that identify the posi-
tion of stools.
Sometimes it takes weeks of ex-
perimenting before the final deci-
sion of just where each person
should sit or stand is reached. Then,
as If that weren't complicated
enough, each program demands it's
own special equipment. The Bergen
show, for example, uses settees for
its artists instead Of chairs-on the
theory that it affords a more home
like atmosphere Then there's
special chrome stand and stool for
Charlie Mccarthy and another rack
where Charlie and Mortimer Snerd
are kept when they're not at the
mike.
When Bing Crosby goes on the
air he likes to sing at his own wal
nut and silver music rack. His gui-
tarist, Perry Bodkin, requires a spe-
cially built riser on which he can
rest his foot while playing. There's
a special stool needed on the Ginny
Simms' show for Johnny, the Call
Boy. Ginny herself has rack that
Is cut off at one corner so she can
put it close to her guests rack and
thus increase the intimacy of her
interview. Wherever you go in that
studio building, you're going to find
some one who wants some special
little thing-and gets it.
X X X
TVhera ore fu,o coboole of @Lo,,rL&
Evening star., 1944-02-06
FEATURES ON THE AIR TO-DAY

WT0P, 12:30-karking its first anniversary
with program from Glasgow, Scotland.
WRc, t:30-"WorId Relief and RehabIita.
tion-W. W. Wilcox Of Wisconsin University,
7. W. Schultz Of Chicago U, and Brooks cax.
ION, Canadian alternate member Of UNRRA.
WT0P. t:45-"Whai Is Right and What
Is Wrong About the Presidents Policy for
Peace"
MAl, 3:00-RisYs clan Is SET 10 move
Into . rented house.
WT0P, 3:00-Bruno Walter conducts No.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
DANCING.

There are two schools of thought
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Humble Gratitude

Recently Marlene Dietrich. ap-
peared on the Playhouse program
and band of newspaper photograph
ers were on hand to take pictures.
They posed Johnny, the Call Boy on
La Detrich's lap, suggesting she
kiss him, and the next moment
Johnny was being smothered by the
Dietrich lips.
AS soon as the photos were
snapped, Johnny jumped of Mar
lene's knees and kissed the pro-
grams press agent, shouting:
Thanks, pal. I owe it all to you'll"
Evening star., 1944-02-06

lafs Prague Symphony and hahIefs Sym
phonY No. a." (Ded Halban. soprano soIoist)
VOL, 3:30-"MYtey in the Wax Museum" /"
WAl, 4:00-From an aircraft plant in
San Diego.
wToP. 4:3o-charIes KuIImsn. guest soIoisi.
WhAl. 4:30-Jean Gibbons, 20.ysar-old
Washington soprano, tries out
Wc. -SiokowsM conducts cesfi's
"Arioso." Sthubsns unfinished Symphony
hovseeks "Perpeiuum Mobile" world premiere
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Evening Stor Features
Over Stotion WMAL

Star FIashss-latest news, S:45 an. daily.
lothrop Stoddard anaIY1ss ths weeks news,
II an. Sunday.
High School Forum-Student participation
series, 7;30 Monday.
Story Book Folks-DamatIzatons by Gle.
msntaY school pupils, 2:t5 tuesday.
National Radio Foum-publie officials dis.
euM national affairs, 1890 tuesday.
New for NhooIs-For classroom listening.
I Wednesday.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Patriotic Dress

Blonde" penny Singleton at
tracted plenty of attention when
she appeared at a recent rehearsal
smartly dressed in a brilliant red
tailored ensemble with hat and
shoes to match.
"Dagwood" (Arthur Lake. shielded
his eyes. you look" he said, like
a wen-dressed blood donation"
Evening star., 1944-02-06

FROM OTHER FIELDSnto radio regular performers haze
gone the abope three eissare from HoHooods
NeO Yorks stage On the et Benay Venuta appearing on
the WMAL-Blue "Dutys"; directly aboue other than
Walter Pidgeon aoho DH and act for the WTOPCBS
Star and the Story series opening this eueing
Celeste Hol but recently signed h WMAL-Bue "Whas
NeD."
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Go Backs Bills
To Aid N.Y.vefs

ALBANY, n. Y.-CIO union-sponsored
bills providing substantial aid for veterans
when they return from the war have been
introduced in both houses of the New
York Legislature
The bills would set up a Veterans Aid
Administration with $S,250.O00 to spend.
The program advanced by CLIO would:
/. Assist veterans with free job replace
ments and rehabilitation and vocational
training, with regular wages while at
school.
= Establish hve-day-week work projects
for veterans at prevailing wage rates fixed
by collective bargaining.
5. Recommend Unemployment insurance
and workmen's compensation benefits for
all veterans.
4. Provide q special fund for education
of veterans.
The bill would prohibit any discrimina-
ton against veterans and would provide
for two representatives each for veteran
and labor groups to formulate policy in the
new administration.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Senafe Report Halls Output Record

Here are few figures on u. S. war pro-
duction. taken from the report of the Tru-
man Committee in the U. s Senate that
was set up three years ago to keep tab on
war output According to the report, the
U. S. has produced in war material:
20 million tons Of shipping, including
10000 naval vessels; $4,000 airpIanes;
100000 military trucks; close 10 90OOO,-
900 tons Of steel Tin 1913 aIone) and
countless" rounds Of ammunition.
TO make this output, American labor.
the Senate Committee says, put In nearly
As per cent more man-days Of work In 1889.
despite the fact that more than 10000
900 men were withdrawn from the labor
pool for the armed forces"
The report, signed by Senate commit
tee that includes Republicans as well as
Democrats, wound up by saying that all
Americans can feel pleased with this rec
ord since "the success Is due TO the accu-
mulated efforts of the millions Of people
who have each done his share rather than
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
More About PeqIer

Americanese do more to tear down a sol
dier's morale than you realize"
Sgt Albert f. Gilbert, indianapolis: Peg
Ter is an example of the true American pio-
neer who knows what he wants and is not
afraid to fight for it. He censures his VIC
Tins with facts and figures"
Pvt Edward r. Porter. Richmond, Va:
"Westbrook Pegler is not a columnist but
a fifth columnist. He writes propaganda
which poisons. splits and sows seeds of con-
futon in the ranks of the American people.
His undertaking attacks on labor give moral
aid and support to fascist elements at home
and abroad"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

70 any miraculous planning Of . few
experts at the top"
And in a final note, the Senate report
warns that the production job is far from
over-won't be over. in fact until the vic
tory is won and the Nazis and the Japs are
defeated and peace is restored.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

Fro1 SGD. M0rfss WGfkiss, u. ). Army, 10 his
What do We think Of labor on the home
front? What do think? How about the
CLIO and the UAW?
Listen, brother, q million of Us CLIO
boys are In the Army, fighting for keeps,
with no holds barred. Most of You have
sons or brothers or husbands in the fight
The first American to die i'm this war was
. union man. And every day see what
the American workman is turning out
for victory. And every day 1t adds up
against fascism, for freedom the world
over.
STREAM OF EQUIPMENT
I remember the great stream of trucks
and jeeps at the port in North Africa the
day we landed. In a short space of time
they had transported many thousands of
troops away from the eyes of the enemy
observation planes to their bivouac areas
and had distributed the guns and ammuni-
ton. food and equipment that came with
US. Overhead we saw the stream of planes
starting on their trouble-making mission
for Hitler.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

There n . great bond between the
soldier overseas and his brother on the
production line. And we are not hood
winIxed by any Of this anti-Iabor propa-
ganda, which strangely enough emanates
from the same old, well-known isolation
lists, appeasement and native fascist eIe-
ment who enjoy the comforts and security
of peaceful America
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

CT: Last night | dreamed / married the
most beautiful woman in the world"
GIRL: How lovely! And were we happy
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

the South Pacific. In a
letter to a staff member
of The CIO News, Char
ley, who used to be bust
ness agent for CLIO Ship
yard Local 43, in Balti-
more, says:
There must be some
arrangements made so
that when we get back
after this war there
will be enough jobs for
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
Soys els Want
Jobs After Victory

I'VE feel that we are entitled to go back
to our old jobs" writes BIN 2/C Charley
Sweyko of the USN, from somewhere in
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13

all the servicemen. We don't feel that
we are better than anyone else. but we
would like to sec that the people in the
States look out for our interests"
OK, Charley, we will!
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-03-13
V-MuiI Letter from IfaIv

aSs Wafkis u s. Army his baddes UAWCO Local
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
Cigaret Shortage
Blamed On Bureaus

NEW YORK, Nov. IA Up -
Bernard Kirsch, president of the
Metropolitan Tobacco company
and the New Jersey Tobacco COM
pany, said today that the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the War
Manpower commission Wer
"chiefly to blame for the ma
tional cigaret shortage.
1.-The supply situation would not
be half as bad as it is" Kirsch
said, If tobacco and cigaret pro-
duction were properly regulated. "
Kirsch said the Department of
Agriculture should permit increas-
ed planting to take care of three
hundred billion cigarets year."
He said the War Manpower COM
mission should ''unfreeze" what he
described as the labor situa-
ton" in tobacco-producing areas
such as Richmond, Va, Durham
and Winston-Salem, N. c., and
Louisville, Ky.
Kirsch, who said his companies
represented 10000 retail outlets in
New Jersey and the New York
metropolitan area, declared in
creased planting would cause no
disruption of the labor situation
in the tobacco areas.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
Bowles Warns Against
Initiation After War

WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.-R-
Initiation will be an "even more
powerful and dangerous enemy
after the war than now, Price Ad-
ministerator Chester Bowles as
serted today.
Participating in "a spec ia
CLOSED circuit Blue network
broadcast TO grocer-consumer anti
initiation committees gathered in
l25 radio station studies through
out the country, Bowles said:
by actual practice we have
proved that ceilings are an effec-
tive way to keep war time prices
down. We have held food prices
down a lot better during this war
than during the last one-but this
Is big job and will continue long
after the last Nazi or Jap holds up
his arms in surrender. Initiation
Will be an even more powerful and
dangerous enemy after the war
than it is now
We learned that the hard way
In the First World war-When al
most half the initiation occurred
after the armistice. We saw prices
30 up almost twice as fast in the
Two years after the war as they
did during it."
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Meredith, Wake Forest
Merger Before Baptists

CHARLOTTE, Nov. II Up -
Centering the attention of more
than 1880 delegates to the North
Carolina State Baptist convention
in session here, will be a vote
Wednesday afternoon On the con-
troversial proposal to merge Mere
dith and Wake Forest colleges
into one great Baptist university.
The proposal has caused a diff
ference Of opinion within the de-
nomination and the prospect of
a decision by tomorrow's vote
was expected to draw perhaps
the largest tnrong Of the meeting
to the convention floor.
Both proponents and opponents
of the merger have been silent
with reference to the coming
vote.
The registration for the con-
vention today was 1924 men and
women from all parts of the state.
and the attendance was expected
to go we'll over 1900 tomorrow.
DR.. A. S. Gillespie of Wake
Forest spoke to the delegates to-
night during the foreign mission
session. He traced the history of
mission work and accomplish
ments of the denomination in that
field. He appealed to the young
men present to consider mission
work in a world which he describ-
ed as sorely in need of the Word
of God being spread abroad.
DR.. L. B. Olive of Raleigh, pre-
scented missionaries here for the
meeting, including Rev. and Mrs.
P. H. Hamlet, Rev. and Mrs. j.
C. Powell, Miss Hattie H. Boswick
and DR.. Gillespie. g.
The Woman's Missionary Unior
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FDR WILL TAKE
OATH AT "H0ME''
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tivities, the restriction of travel,
scarcity of hotel Accommodations,
shortage of critical materials, the
economies involved, the comfort of
guests, and the convenience of the
main participants.
''It is understood that the Presi-
dent desires that the Congress, the
Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the
Diplomatic corps and other distin-
guished guests, and the wives OF
those included, be invited to wit.
ness the ceremony"
The main participants, of course,
will include Senator Harry S. Tru-
man of Missouri, who will be
sworn in as vice president at the
same place.
Inaugurations as a rule are law
ish and attract many thousands OF
visitors to the Capitol. In the past
they have been accompanied by
a multitude Of private parties
tails and receptions, rio h with
furs, orchids and full dress uni
forms. Huge stands have been
built in the past at the Capitol
entrance, with Secret Service men
checking each spectator infinitely
as he entered.
President Roosevelt will not,
however, be the first president to
be inaugurated at the White House.
Rutherford B. Hayes took the oath
there in 1877.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-15
MRS. ANNIS BAKER
WILLIAMSON

LUMBERTON, Nov. IA Mrs.
Annis Baker Williamson, 81, wife
of Laban Williamson, died at her
home at Mcdonald Sunday at
4 40 pm, after a long illness.
Funeral services were held Tues
day at 4 p. m. from the resi-
dence. Burial was in the New
Hollywood cemetery in Lumber
ton.
Mrs. Williamson was born jan
uary 6, 1882, in Kinston, the daugh-
ter of the late Frank and Betty
Baker She has lived in Robson
county for many years.
Surviving are her husband; two
daughters, Mrs. Pope Crawford OF
Wilmington, and Mrs. Sam Nc
Lean of Rowland; three brothers,
Luther, Jack and Ben Baker Of
Kinston, two sisters, Mrs. Betty
Jones of Raleigh and Mrs. Addie
Huffam of Kinston. and two grand
children.
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DEVELOPMENT DUE
FOR FOE IN ORMAC
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SOHtAHucu IFOm rage Oue)
southwest and cut back toward the
Ormoc road.
At the same time, the first caval-
ry swung toward the road from
the east and southeast.
This placed the Japanese in the
position of having to retire or face
possible humiliation.
Macarthur estimated the Japa-
nese force thus threatened as "a
reinforced regiment" This would
give no exact indication of the size.
On the southern end of the west
ern Leyte battlefield, small scale
japanese attempts to bring in rein
forcements were repulsed by troops
Of the American seventh division
which caught the enemy moving
forward in small barges toward
Damulaan, IA miles south Of Or
moe.
This was the f i r S t mention in
more than week of the seventh
division driving toward Ormoc. on
~ remaining reinforcement port for
the enemy. from the south.
Meanwhile fighting was heavy
along the bitterly contested road
which runs from Ormoc to Carl
cara bay, sole land supply line for
the Japanese along the Ormoc cor
ridor.
Units of the American first caval-
~ are closing in on the Ormoc
road from hill 1925 and Mt. Cata-
baran, the communicate said, with
the effective support of artillery.
Heavy enemy casualties were re-
ported in that sector. Numerous
gun positions were destroyed.
Macarthur reported ineffective
enemy harassing raids on shipping
and shore installations and said Ii
enemy aircraft were shot down by
fighters and ackack.
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POUILLY RIDGE HOLDS
KEY TO METZ CAPTURE
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its only virtue. In the end, the
Germans walked out and we walk
ed in.
But barren and shell-pocked
Pouilly ridge is another story.
Only little while ago. bunch
of 'Yanks was forced to charge
with bayonets fixed, shooting from
the hip, across an open space to
rout the stubborn foxhole defend
ers.
They routed them, captured 90
prisoners and killed and wounded
lot of others, but not without
taking casualties ourselves" said
Staff Sgt. Floyd Williams of Wurt-
land, KY, a rifleman.
The ridge remains hotspot
about 5000 yards long and some
$40 feet high. It has forts-still
in enemy hands-at one end and
woods at the other. Enemy guns
thus cover its slopes both ways,
although both ends also are being
kept busy enough handling at
tacks in their sectors.
There is possibility the Ger
mans have Numbered by pulling
crack SIS elite Guard troops out
of Metz to meet other American
attacks, leaving the Pouilly ridge
sector slightly softer than their
flank exposed to the Fifth divi-
sion's attack. If this is true, Metz
may be defended only by garri-
son troops.
The Germans obviously used
these forts of the outer ring only
as barracks and even as barns
during the seige of Metz and did
their fighting from foxhole and
slit trenches and modern tenn
porary emplacements. Their opin-
ion of the usefulness of the old
type of fortress is indicated by
the fact that they already are hav-
ing civilians dig foxholes inside
Metz, just as they did in this Sec
tor.
Today Fort L'Aisne was used
by the doughboys as first aid
station where scores of American
and German wounded were
brought as the battle neared
Pouilly ridge.
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New Legislation Faces
Congress In Short Term
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gratulations and condolences, the
following proposals were placed be-
fore them:
From President Roosevelt-$400,-
100000 in supplemental appropria-
tons for a score OF federal agencies,
including 1899. 112, AS for the Ma
vy's Bureau of Yards and Docks.
From acting war food admins
traitor Ashley Sellers-a boost from
limit on the Commodity Credit cor
poration's borrowing powers. Sell
ers estimated that farm price sup
ports will be needed at lie a t
through 1916. He also asked an cas-
ing of restrictions on sales of cot
ton held by the CCC, saying that
otherwise domestic users may be
unable to obtain adequate quanti-
ties.
From Attorney General Biddle-
legislation allowing arrest without
warrants of persons suspected of
being aliens violating immigration
laws.
From Chairman Maury Maverick
of the Smaller War Plants corpora
tion-a request that the agency be
continued after the war and its cap
ital increased from $15,000,000 to
$'50000,00.
While most of these appear des-
tined to await the decision of the
new Congress. Senator Pandenberg
tR.- Mich.) put in a proposal de-
manding a decision b + o e the
years end. This was a bill to eX-
tend the Social Security tax for
another year at its present rate of
per cent on employer and per
cent on employe. Without action, it
is scheduled to double.
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u. S. TARIFF CUT
PROPOSED BY RYE
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can trade balance. such tariff re-
visions should be made.
The American statement was
greeted with enthusiasm by t h e
delegates from other nations for
it represented the first time that
business leaders in t h IL country
had taken so pronounced a stand
on lower tariffs.
The. American delegation, in ad-
dition to Calder, is composed OF
Henry F. Grady, president OF the
American President lines: Edward
Riley, vice-president of General
Motors; Winthrop W. Aldrlch,
chairman OF the Chase National
Bank; Harper Sibley, former pres
ident of the United States Steel
Export Co.
The American statement assert
ed the long term extension OF loans
and. investments abroad n be
justified only if there was COM
mensurate return in goods and ser.
vices to the creditor country.