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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

right on going without recon-
version.
Service industries - hotels,
restaurants, laundry and dry
cleaning establishments and so
on-could all use more help
than they can get now.
1T MAY NOT BE so TOUGH
Transportation industries can
also use more labor and have a
big accumulation of mainten-
ance and repair work to do. Lo-
connective and railroad equip
ment manufacturers, which
made tanks at the outset of the
war, have already been largely
converted back. though they are
still on war orders.
Electrical goods makers will
simply make different electrical
goods.
Problems of the automobile
industry have been considered
serious, but have been greatly
exaggerated. Truck m a kers,
now turning out $4,000 vehicles
a month, can 60 right on max
ing trucks for civilian use. Tire
makers will 60 right on making
tires. Only the passenger car
manufacturers have a problem,
but as it took them only six
weeks to convert from peace 10
war, it should not take them
more than two months to re-
convert. Refrigerator, washing
machine and vacuum cleaner
makers face about the same
thing.
Adding all these things and
subtracting this sub-total from
the total employment and pro-
ductive capacity of the country,
you come up with a rough fig
ure of 20 per cent of American
industry faced with problems
of reconversion.
Which doesn't sound too
tough.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

u GIN what direction from
Lower Silesia is Upper Silesia?
A-Southeast, by virtue of its
position nearer the source of
the Oder River.
Q-How many official auto
mobiles does the government
provide in Washington?
A-667, states Rep. Frank A.
Barrett of Wyoming.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
. IN HOLLYWOOD

pened in Algiers. 81 didn't see
the movie 'Algiers, he said,
so l decided to have look at
the famous Kasbah.
1t wasn't anything at all like
the movie. 1t was filthy with a
smell that Hollywood could
never reproduce. A gal stuck
her head out a window and
yelled, why, Sterling Hollo-
wayw
Il almost fell right on my
face Holloway said 1T seems
the gal had once lived in San
Diego and had seen a lot of my
movies"
The day he reported to Los
Angeles Fort Macarthur, his
first order was to make with
the comedy" for the morale OF
guys waiting to take their
physicals. Then he was assigned
W tiiC al tillSIy. Liz udy llS Wdo
promoted to private first class,
his commanding officer ordered
him to write, produce and star in
a CT. show.
Hey, Rookie" was the result.
To everyone's amusement, in
Guiding Holloway's, it ran 10
months at the Belasco Theater in
Los Angeles, rolling up a profit
of 100000 for the Army Relief
Fund. Later it was purchased by
Columbia for the movie of the
same title.
After the show closed in Los
Angeles. Holloway continued as
its star overseas.
ON STAGE TWO YEARS
For two years, he said, 81
was on stage every minute of
the time. | got a 48-hour pass
once, but l had to go to a radio
station for a program to recruit
WACs. 1t was a wonderful ex-
perience, though. The G.I.'s are
SO grateful it was embarras-
sing"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
THE POSTWAR BUS

Perhaps it is on unhealthy sign Of conservatism
or mental scerosis but we find ourselves much less
intrigued by promises Of revolutionary miracles in the
postwar world than by possible Improvements OF ex-
listing Institutions
Toke for instonce the bus. 1t is handy but by
no means perfect vehicle. Yet the Mack Truck Peo-
pie tell US that may hope for something nearer to
our hearts DESIRE And if their prospectus pans out
we shall most certainly oeree.
Among other things, the Mack people say, there
will be deqosser to Danish those noxous engine
odors that smart the eyes and nose cause the head
to oche and generally revolt the senses. Also anti
slip door steps and heavier insulation.
And there will be uniform ciroulotne-oir heat
nsteod Of the prewor inodequocy which scorched the
shns Of the frontseot passengers and froze those in
back The new bus will also have automatic trons-
mission and q torque converter thot should Danish
bumps and .grinds from eeor-shfting.
But perhaps best Of all is the thought that has
been given the stondee He will have his oblong
windows at is eye level, above the regular win
dows. Think Of it = more oricks in the neck, no
more constant bowling to see if you've reached your
stop.
All, strop-honeine we're paradise enow! Leod US
to it. q
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
. SO THEY SAY

I am not going to make any
prophecy about the end of the
war in the Pacific, but can say
that 1t is going better than ex-
pected and that we are more
than satisfied.-Adml. Sir Bruce
Fraser, British Pacific Fleet
chief.
The experience of doing a good
job is an education in itself, and
the acquisition of creative skills
is closely allied to the creative
impulse. DR. Everett Case,
president Colgate U.
The greatest gain of this con-
flict between democracy and fas-
cism lies in the fact that it has
drawn together everything that
was good in humanity. - Mar
shall Tito, Yugoslav resistance
leader.
think the men in the armed
forces feel there is an over-op-
timism toward the war and an
over -defeatism toward the peace
on the home front. - Comdr.
Harold E. Season.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
. BARBS

Talk is revived of drafting
women for industry. Perhaps we
don't need pin-upss as much as
buckle downs.
AT least cheek-to-cheek dane
ing changes the complexion of
things.
Every girl loves to wash dishes
until she gets to be five or six
years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
MOVIES JOIN THE GENERAL STAFF

If Waterloo wos won the playing fields Of
Eton, perhaps practise originated on Americas
football fields may be helping tp win this war. For
just coach looks at the movies Of his teams last
game to study and avoid mistakes in the next one,
so our General Stoff studies combat films for what
they can teach in the conduct Of war.
In western Europe alone there ore 200 combat
photographers who shoot an average Of $4,000 feet
Of film week. This is rushed to London for develop
ing, then flown to Washington. Thus for the first
time in the history Of war; the generals and odnoir
OILS who plan the brood stroteey Of bottle may share
the field commanders view of it's tocticoI oppIico
ton.
ConceNobIy this is saving lives and speeding vic
tory. So the next time we erow at spending money
for some mine run Hollywood product, we might
temper our ire with the thoyeht that the technical
sefinements of novie-mokino ore making real con-
tribution toward winning the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23

Sterling said the boys all had
their favorite Hollywood pin-up
girls but that he was asked the
most about Olivia deHavilland.
She's their No. favorite," he
said.
Holloway was in Naples dur
ing the eruption of Vesuvius.
They were bombing the harbor
at the same time" he said. Il
ran and hid under truck. Later
l discovered the truck was load
ed with INT"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
BY PETER EDISON

Problems of reconversion are
being magnified far beyond
their true seriousness, accord
ing to a new line of argument
beginning to be heard in Wash
ington.
Up TO now, all the emphasis
has been put on how horrible
this period of transition from
war to peace is going to be. Ev-
erybody is going to be thrown
out of job, there will be long
periods of unemployment while
industry retools for civilian con-
sumers' goods production, and
a tough time will be had by all
according to the popular notion.
A few people, however, insist
this is a lot of bunk. Congress
refused to believe it in consider
ing its reconversion bill, consis-
tently voting against unemploy-
ment insurance benefits beyond
state limitations. And among
the business men now in gov
eminent service, particularly
those in the War Department
procurement and purchases, the
belief is prevalent that recon-
version won't be such a terrible
problem after all. These civil
ians in uniform have been re-
luctant to speak out on their
ideas for fear their expressions
will be misinterpreted as an ef-
fort to sidetrack the movement
to start reconvcrSion right now.
But all of these men will take
off their uniforms after the war
is over and 60 back to private
business, so it would seem fool
ish for them to do anything that
would spoil their own future.
WHERE LABOR is NEEDED
Here IL the way the, situation
spells out to them:
Munitions industries will be
shut down, yes. Shell-loading
and explosive plants will be
closed up, but mostly they are
in out-of- the-way places which
have no industrial future, any
way. Only about 5 per cent OF
the present aircraft production
capacity can be used and the
ship yards will, in the main, 60
c. of business.
Estimates of the number OF
Jobs which will disappear in the
above industries vary from L.
100000 to 100000. That is the
negative and bad side of the pic
ture.
Now look at the other indus
tries.
In the first place, Navy will
not stop its present building
program, which is planned to
run beyond 1945.
Next is a big group of indus
tries which have no reconver-
sion problem at all. Steel mills
can 60 right on making steel.
Sizes and shapes may change,
but it will still be steel. The
same thing goes for all metals
Observation-Disclosures, copper
or what have you.
Food production and process
ing will likewise continue. Siz-
es of cans and packaging may
be changed for peace-time
trade, but there is no reconver-
sion problem.
The textile industry could use
100000 more employees right
niw, if it could get them. and
it has no reconversion prob
lem. Looms now making duck
will 60 back to making carpet
and the threads may be chang
ed for consumers goods weaves
but that's all.
Building material, furniture
and glass industries can keep
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
HOME NURSE
BY Iona l.. TROTT
Assistant Director,
Red Cross Nursing Service
Written for NEA Service


overheard two women dis
cussing the problem of feeding
their husbands. One said, "My
husband never drinks tea or
coffee because when a child his
mother gave him castor oil from
a tea cup and to this day he
hates cups and says they smell
and taste like castor OIL"
This Is a good example Of the
psychological effect Of a child
hood experience carried over
into adult life.
An adult Of my acquaintance,
when a small child, was given
a pill in a bite of thick Jelly.
which she made the mistake of
chewing instead of swallowing
quickly as was intended. Since
that time she has refused to
taste jelly because of this un-
happy experience.
The home nurse should be
very careful in giving medi-
cines either to children or
adults in order to avoid devel-
oping unpleasant associations
that may affect eating habits
or the enjoyment of food long
after the illness has passed.
VARY CHASER"
Food should never be used to
disguise the taste of medicine.
1t Is much better to offer the
medicine frankly, making no
reference to the taste of it. and
to present a cracker, a bit of
toast, or q little orange or other
fruit Juice after il. BY doing this
the association Is developed in
favor of the food instead of
against it. 1t is well. too, to vary
the food that is used as a "chas-
err" instead of giving the same
kind each time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

l had the pleasure of kibitz-
ing r. l.. c. Butsch of Milwau-
kee at recent duplicate game
in New York. He was playing
with new partner, who put
him in pretty high contract on
today's hand. However, after
West made the mistake of lead
ing the ace Of clubs, Mr.. Butsch
proceeded to play the hand well
and make his contract.
He ruffed the ace of clubs in
dummy, cashed the ace and king
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-23

376 TAX BILLS Since the poles wires and othe
property of Detroit Edison are spread over all Of
southeastern Michigan pay property taxes to every
township city and village in the territory serve
376 in all!
Don't w9sss electricity dvrins fhs eo0i shorfass
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Belsen Defendant Charges
Confession Was Forced
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LUENEBURG, Germany, Nov. 6
-Antoni Aurdziej, small, 21-year.
old Pole, contended at the Belsen
war crimes trial today that he was
forced at pistol point by two French
officers to sign a statement man,
ing himself as killer at the Nazi
concentration camp.
He was the last of the As defend
ants to take the witness stand.
Aurdziej said he was a prisoner
in concentration camps for five
years and at Belsen was assigned
to help distribute food. Accused oi
several killings. including the muir
der of a Russian, Aurdziej pro.
tested: Il was too young to kill
How could small person like me
kill a big Russian?"
He testified that he stayed a.
the camp for. five weeks after i
was liberated by the British to hell
handle internees and that he late
was arrested by German police be-
cause a former. Belsen prisoner that
a grudge against me-" So
The Pole testified that the French
officers questioned him and held {
pistol at my chest until I signed &
statement which was in German
and which I couldn't understand.
Evening star., 1945-11-06
II Pct. Absenteeism
Al Pentaeon Reported

The bus walkout was blamed by
War Department officials for 81 per
cent absenteeism at the Pentagon
today, and the lowest absentee rate
was among the men who are used
to getting places the hard way.
The ground forces, which includes
the foot-slogging infantry, had an
absentee rate Of only per cent.
The normal percentage of absen-
teeism among the Pentagon's $4,000
employees Is per cent. Today, the
War Department reported, 6,72(
officers, enlisted men and civilians
failed to appear for work.
War Department buildings in the
District proper reported only to
per cent absenteeism. including Mu.
nitions Building, Z per cent; La Salls
Building, per cent; Maritime
Building, 9 per cent; Army Finance
Building, 9 per cent.
The War Department reported /;
per cent absenteeism on the gen.
eral staff, 81 per cent absenteeisn
among the Army Services Force:
and per cent among the Army All
Forces.
Employees at Gravelly Point, which
is served by Virginia buses, showee
S per cent absenteeism, while Tenn.
porary Buildings A, B and C a.
Buzzards Point reported II per cen
absenteeiSm.
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Hearing Continued
On Injunction 10 Halt
Bus Depot pickeiing

Conciliators reported no progress
today In ending the Greyhound
strike, which has tied up bus travel
on the Greyhound lines across the
country as far as New Mexico.
Meanwhile, Justice T. Alan Colds
borough in District Court continued
until next Tuesday hearing on an
injunction sought by the Greyhound
Terminal of washington. Inc, to
stop picketing at its terminal at
Eleventh street and New York ave-
nue. NV.
The continuance was ordered to
permit attorneys to file additional
data as to whether the strike-halted
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc,
controls the Terminal Corp. If it
does, Justice Goldsborough ex-
pressed the view that an injunction
should not be issued The Norris
La Guardia Act, which rules out
court jurisdiction in labor disputes
except in certain instances. also is
one of the items to be considered
1t was indicated.
| During today's argument on the
question of a temporary restraining
order, Attorney Warren L. Sharf-
man, representing the union-the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees of America. Local 1895
claimed the Pennsylvania Grey
hound owns SO per cent of the ter
minal stock.
Attorney Henry I. Quinn, repre-
senting the terminal, argued there
was no labor dispute with the
terminal. from which he said bu.
lines ran under contractual agree.
ment. Mr.. Quinn said the picketine
was unnecessary to keep out Penn.
sylvania Greyhound buses because
they are not running, and he addec
the terminal would see that the line
did not use the terminal during tns
J strike IL the union would agree tt
withdraw pickets.
-Four other buslines not involved
in the strike, Capitol Greyhound
; Lines, Inc; Blue Ridge Lines. At.
lantic Greyhound Corp. and Rich
mond Greyhound Lines, have con.
tracts for the use of the terminal
The Atlantic and Richmond buse.
cross the picket lines, but the othel
two lines will not, it was said. II
addition it is claimed telephon,
and telegraph company employe
refuse to cross the picket line.
Evening star., 1945-11-06

the stranded bus and streetcar riders
before they reached downtown. On
Connecticut avenue from 7:30 to
BIS there appeared to be even fewer
persons on the street than usual be-
cause motorists were picking uu
passengers on street corners as fast
as possible.
Cab drivers reported traffic was
heavier than usual because every one
who had car was determined to
use it. Many of the motorists, who
hadn't brought their cars downtown
for years, were worried about find
ing place to park. On the other
hand, streetcar riders who caught
rides downtown were worried about
getting home again tonight.
Generally, those who depended on
public transportation were more in
tent on discussing their own prob
lens than the merits of the con-
tinuous meeting" One woman said
she didn't know whether the workers
were justified in their case. but az
far as she was concerned the wal
wasn't over yet and nothing should
be done to keep the war worker.
from their jobs.
Variety of Comment.
Comments ranged from an In.
dignant, They ought to let ths
public know about these things be.
fore they pull something like this
to more tolerant, Personally Tn
all for them. I wouldn't drive 8
streetcar for all the gold in Fori
Knox"
Actually, many persons got tt
work ahead Of schedule becaus.
they were lucky enough to get rides
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Transit Company Statement
OffieioI Says Present Contract Expires
June 80, 1916, and Bons Halt in Service

disability plan for employees to which
the company will contribute 50 for
each 81 deposited by the employees.
Chairman Dash, in issuing his
written opinion on August %. 1945
concerning the award, stated as fol-
lows: However, regardless of what
policies were in effect at the time
this decision was written, he Board
of Arbitration elected to deny large
number of the demands of the par
ties that would have affected the
earnings of the company's employees
If the Board OF Arbitration had
granted number of these wages OF
fringe adjustments, it is highly i'm.
probable that, under its then existing
established policies, the War Labor
Board would have approved them.
Top Rate Is Sl.02.
The present top rate paid pc
hour to one-man car and bus oper
ators, including bonus of cent!
per hour based on gross revenues
is s102. This compares with Z!
cents per hour in January, 194l
an increase of % cents, or 20 pc
cent. In 194l the average annua
earnings of operators was $2,035
AT the present time the averag,
annual earnings are $3,442, an in
crease of SO per cent, considering
all factors of overtime pay afte
40 hours and additional allowance
granted under the recent arbitra
ton award.
| During the same period ayerag,
| hourly rates in the mechanical de
partment have risen 20 per cen
ana in way and structures nearl.
As per cent.
Under present conditions there i
little likelihood that the employe
will be restored to a 40-hour weel
during the life of the present agree
ment. The available manpower i
almost at the lowest ebb it has beer
since the war started. Thus, tn,
possibility of the employees TAX,
home" pay being substantially re
duced because of change in wa
conditions does not apply to Capita
Transit employees under presen
conditions.
The offer of the company to in.
corporate the 7-cent bonus into
straight hourly rates is in line witt
the Presidents statement of Au.
gust 81. 1945, to avoid both imitation
and deflation" by attempting Il
maintain now the same take -homt
pay for labor generally that it ha!
had during the war"
There is no indication that Capi.
tai Transit will be able to go to &
40-hour week for the life of thu
present contract. Opportunities fol
overtime exist at present and vii
continue to exist for some months
The rate of Sl02 per hour Offered
the union is as great as that paie
for comparable work in the Wash
ington area and greater than tn,
rate paid by majority of the com
panies in cities of like size in tn.
general Eastern seaboard area.
! Have Held Conferences.
Since receipt of the communica
tion from the union regarding tn,
request for the wage increase, com
pany and union officials have helt
conferences in an ATTEMPT tn recan.
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Strikebreokers
Used in Streetcor
| WoIkout in 1916

Old-timers today recalled the first
streetcar strike in Washington in
1915 when the company brought in
strikebreakers to combat walkout
by conductors.
Hundreds OF out-of- -towners op-
Grated the streetcars. They didn't
know the switches or the routes, but
they ran the cars, charging fares
but not ringing them up. In those
days strike-breaking companies fur
nished specified number of men
on order.
After several days, the union got
tough and a streetcar was turned
over on the street. The strike
finally was settled after two weeks
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Capital Transit
| Will Refund
| 81 on Passes

Bus and streetcar patrons who have
this weeks s125 pass will receive a
sl00 refund from the Capital Tran
sit Co.. E. C. Ciddings,. assistant to
the company PRESIDENT, announced
today.
The thousands, of Washington
ians who bought passes yesterday
and Sunday were instructed to mail
the passes to the company or leave
them at the company offices, at
Thirty sixth and M streets N. W.,
to receive the partial refund
Mr.. Giddings said about 10000
passes are sold each week
Evening star., 1945-11-06
Driver Tipped OFT
| By Passenger Takes
| Bus Back to Barn

One bus passenger has only
himself to blame if he didn't
get to work on time this morn
ing.
A bus driver reported for
work as usual at Sis am. and
started off on his route. Half
way to his destination. how
ever, the bus driver heard about
the continuous meeting" from
one of the passengers and re-
turned the bus back to its barn
at Fourteenth and Decatur
streets NV.
No one knew offhand If the
passenger who tipped him of
ever got to work.
Evening star., 1945-11-06

Some motorists stopped along their
routes downtown, without being
hailed, to announce their destina-
ton and offer lifts.
Motorists coming into town from
Hyattsville, Silver Spring and other
outlying areas served by Capital
Transit Co. buses reported that
every automobile with empty seats
was stopping to pick up riders.