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Evening star., 1945-05-06
FIDDLE MAN
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SAIvAeER- Sam Stochek makes
fine violins from old scrap lumber.
Whenever he hears of an outdated
building being demolished he prowls
around in the wake of the wreckers,
searching for slabs of maple or spruce
which he transforms into fiddles that
bring up to $l,5OO apiece His New
York workshop is crowded with fine
old lumber "a spruce beam from
dismantled church in FitchbuIg.
Mass, a floor joist from a wrecked
loO-year-old house that night
watchman was happy to sell to him
for Is cents
These boards have age" says
Stochek. fondling them as if they were
children. People have lived with
them and given them soul"
EXPEAINlENT. Sans mother
handed him fiddle when he was
seven. and he practioed reluctantly
till he left high school and the violin
to be a runner on Wall Street. This
lasted till the happy day ia 1917
when his teacher was drafted. He fell
in love with fiddle in pawnshop.
He started to study again and dou-
bled in teaching. always managing to
keep a couple of lessons ahead of his
pupils.
Soon he wanted a better fiddle,
and through a swap, made friends
with a violin maker who let him hang
Evening star., 1945-05-06

around his shop and help out. On a
dare, Sam made violin which he sold
for $50. He got so excited he made IL
more flddles that year.
Today, Stochek's fddles are played
by concert artists - like Joan Field
and Andor Schoen - and members
of symphony and dance orchestras. A
master craftsman, he still experiments
with tone and varnishes. You can't
rush him. If you want a fiddle in a
hurry, he'll send you to competitor,
The old painstaking methods OF
Guarnieri and Suadivari are the only
ones for him.
Three. maybe four hddles a year"
Stochek says firmly. For me, that
is enough K. K MARDUs
Evening star., 1945-05-06
MMkMM;ry

NO CONFEDERATION. This story
was retailed to us from the Pacific.
During u. S. nopping-up operations
on Two Jima, one small Jap company
came rushing out against Our armor
in suicidal charge. A Jap officer,
handishing his Samurai sword, led
the charge. got close enough to tank
to hack at the ueads. A CT head
popped out of the turret: Hey. you
jerk. quit nicking my souvenir
RULE. A taxicab was jammed full
of Spar officers coming from a meet
ing. 1t was a nasty night. wet under
Evening star., 1945-05-06

conflicts and complexities of the man.
power question, it has worked with effl-
ciency and freedom from major scandal,
accusation or politics.
There have been faults. of course: but
no such scandals as marked Civil War
drafting and some World WM l Instances.
1t was inevitable that in creating
mass citizen army for all-out war there
would be confusion of regulations. fire.
quent shifting of policies border-line inter
pretations and all the other uncertainties
of constantly changing situations both at
the front and at home Plagued by those
conditions and by all the questions they
created among regstrants and their fami-
lies, the local draft boards had to carry
on the most delicate of assignments.
WORKING usually in small and uninviting
quarters in a schoolhouse or fire station
or borough or township hall or some avail
able public room. with modest assort-
ment of old furniture and makeshift
equipment, these groups of neighbors
have decided the fate of their home town
and home street young men.
Draft headquarters is seldom much to
look at Some patriotic posters, mlmeo-
graphed notices and newspaper clippings
on the wall; few desks and uncomfort-
able chairs; groups of boys and their
fathers and mothers and employers wait
ing outside This is where some little
group of men has given many hours
daily and several nights week for over
four years to unpaid public service.
Only the clerical help receives pay.
Often the work has been agonizing 1t
has involved the lives of the sons of neigh
bors and friends, the disruption of homes,
all the deep domestic dislocations and
griefs of war The draft board members
must rule - and then continue to live
with the neighbors 50 vitally affected.
they've been able to go on living among
their neighbors because they've done a
hard job honestly. They must tell Others
to fight; they deal in lists, files and fold
ers - the cold stuff of paper and steel
cabinets Yet they also work with flesh
and blood, out of which has come an
armed force battling without reprieve to
finish the war and gain the goal of peace.
After victory, when our aim once again
will be happy living. these men - whose
only badge is local board member, Selec-
tive Service" - can feel real satisfaction.
They've shown the world that democ-
racy can act - quickly and effectively.
Evening star., 1945-05-06

foot and still drilling. Standing on
the curb, obviously left out. was a
Spar lieutenant commander with a
look of grim desperation on her face.
An ensign rolled down the window
and helplessly murmured, But regu-
lations say that junior officers are
supposed to enter a vehicle first"
PRINlA DolNAS. Perhaps the
most pampered group of war work.
ers is bunch of spiders in a New
ark, N. j.. factory. It's important
that they spin threads for gunsights.
So the management has figured out
a new way to keep them happy and
efficient: Their working quarters have
Just been air conditioned.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
This Week Magazine

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Evening star., 1945-05-06
They re the members of the
local draft boards, who've
shown how democracy works

THEY'VE never seen action. and never
Il will yet the war couldn't be won
without these ten American divisions.
They have served for four and a half
years, without furlough or relief. And it
has been hard service, trying, tiresome and
frequently sorrowful - performed with
out pay, without acclaim. without decora-
tons, with almost no public recognition.
These ten divisions consist of about
10000 men who comprise the nations
$500 draft boards and their related agents
and agencies - appeals boards, appeals
agents, legal advisers to registrants. exam
ining physicians. medical advisers and re-
employment committeeman.
They are the human element of Selective
Service - the machinery that put the
major part oftwelve million men into uni
form without disrupting the home front
They've been on the job since late in
1910, when Americas first peacetime draft
began functioning with the drawing of
blue capsules from gigantic bowl in
Washington Remember when No. 15S
came out first? They were working then
i oDAY, as victory approaches, they are
still feeding men into the war; but in
creasingly, their work now is with men
returning from war to seek jobs back
nac
Bile duty of putting men into uniform and
getting them back into jobs when those
uniforms are put aside.
The men who make up SeleCtive Serv-
ice are your neighbors. For the basis of
Selective Service is local control. Washing
ton fixes general policies; state head
quarters administer them; but the local
draft board applies them and determines
who shall 20 and who shall stay And the
local board is neighborhood group, living
with those whom it must judge.
On your board you will find men who
are the backbone of your community,
Not only the Judge, the banker, the mer-
chant and the teacher, but the man.
around-the- corner, that civic-Innded citi-
zen who has gwen up the time in which
he used to putter around the house, play
with his kids, and who has volunteered, IN
stead, for this important war job at home.
The o. board has more power than
any group OF unpaid volunteers in our
history Yet for all its troubles for all the
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Names and descriptions Of all Characters IN
fiction stories and semi-6ction articles IN this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same as that OF any
person. living dead. is entirely co'ne,denAi'
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-07-27

R. Robertson of North Dakota With Chairman Robinsou's road group will be Congrossmeu Will liam M Wilmington of Mfssissipz pi. Jennings Randolph of Wesl Virginia. ]. GIeen BeaI of Mary land and perhaps one other.
 Accompanying the committees will be M. w. Godigs, Acting Chief of the Alaska brIlnch in the Division of TerritorieS and Island Possessions. Interior Departments Dr Meredith Burrin. Director of
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-07-27

the board on geographical names. Interior, Thomas Macdonald. Com missioner of Public Roads. and J s. Bright. Deputy Commissioner. Public Roads Administration. Don Eastwood Chief Investigator for the road committee, Lieut. Col Ray Haffner, War Department.
 Chairman Peterson will be ae- companied by Mrs Peterson. their son. Hugh. Jr., and a niece.
 Gov Gruening will meet the party at Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-07-27

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-07-27

of Alaska. Homer D. Angel of
 Oregon. Paul Cunningham O f Iowa. A. l. Miller of Nebraska. Marion r. Bennett of Missouri. Harold c. Hagen of Minnesota and possibly Representatives George P. Miller of California and Charles
The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-07-27
PERISInPE
(cUntinued from Page one)

sylvania, John S. Gibson of Geor ia, Henry D Larcade. Jr, of louisiana James P. Geelan of onnecticut. E. l.. "Bobr Bartlett
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Reconversion Details
Can Be Solved Soon,
Truman Tells NAM
By tn. Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Dec. 5.-The Ma
tion's top industrialists. gathered
amid labor-management deadlocks,
strikes and threats Of strikes, were
told today by President Truman
that reconversion problems are "ca-
pable Of orderly solution and speedy
solution"
The President and Secretary of
Commerce Wallace praised the war
time role of industry.
In letter to the National Asso-
citation Of Manufacturers, read at
the opening of the Golden An
niversary Congress OF American In
dustry," Mr.. Truman said manu-
facturers, with their workers" had
provided the tools for victory"
Wallace Praises Industry.
Secretary Wallace said it was fit
ting to open the Congress with
strong world of praise for the
great Job which American industry
did during the war"
Discussing reconversion, the Presi-
dent said its problems were due to
many factors, some unavoidable
perhaps, but all capable of orderly
solution and speedy solution"
Much depends upon such a solu-
ton for these problems" he said. IT
am hopeful, therefore, that the
manufacturers of America will ap-
proach the problems which confront
us now in the spirit with which they
approached their problems during
the war. This will require not only
determination, but the spirit of toll
erance and ability to see the other
fellows viewpoint which Is char
scteristic OF our democracy"
Can't Dip Into Treasury.
Secretary Wallace, long identified
with the liberal wing OF the New
Deal IN the minds of many NAM
members, expressed these views:
We can't spend our way into
good business conditions Just by
dipping freely into the Federal
Treasury"
Satisfactory profits for stable en-
terprises and higher rewards for
venture capital in new undertakings
are essential"
Increased output per worker is
essential to steady rise In real
wages"
Call 1t by any name you like
full employment, full production or
plain, ordinary good business con-
dlt1ons-we do have universal
agreement that that is what we
want"
MIR. Wallace said his full employ-
ment plan was fundamentally a
declaration of policy and an as
sumption OF responsibility by the
Federal Government that it will as
slst and not hinder the private en-
terprise system in operating at q
high level Of production to bring
about adequate employment oppor-
tunities and better standard of
living for all"
The Secretary declared: "Obyi-
ously, the answer isn't simply one of
raising wages, then raising costs,
then raising prices, and going on
Into a vicious spiral of imitation.
What we do need is a genuine in
crease in mass purchasing power.
Must Raise Living Standard.
We are up against nothing less
than the necessity for raising the
American standard of living-well
above prewar leVels-and that means
making more goods and selling more
OF them to more people than ever
before" S--4s.,---;s5-. :
Mr.. Wallace warned of the danger
OF def1ation, declaring the incomes
OF farmers and wage and salary
earners In the next few years would
be substantially lower than during
the war. and that "the long-run So
luton to our problem lies In the
direction of seeking profits through
Evening star., 1945-12-05
mass production and mass consump.

mass production and mass consump-
ton"
Philip Murray. CIO president, who
had been scheduled to discuss
"labor's responsibility for full pro-
duction," sent word last night he
would be unable to attend, but was
seeking q substitute from among
CIO officials.
Ira Mosher. president Of NAM,
said $500 industrialists had regis
tered for the three day sessions. He
will report Thursday night on the
Presidents Labor Management
Conference which recently adjoined
without agreement.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

sale Of Christmas Seals as at Is
more than ever essential that our
homes should be protected from
disease and our health standards
raised to improve existing standards
of public health
TO protect homes from the
tragedies caused by tuberculosis Is
the commendable. objective Of the
annual Christmas Seal sale. cam
paign. Each OF us may participate
IN the fight against this dread dis
ease BY buying and using Christ
mas Seals. The amount which we
spend Is small, but 1t has far
Evening star., 1945-12-05

reaching influence in protecting
community health" the statement
said.
Mrs. Truman was received at the
booth by DR.. Walter K. Myers, vice
president of the Washington or
ganization's Board Of Directors;
Mrs. Norman Gerstenfeld, board
member. and Mr.. Sleeper, Citizens
Christmas Seal Sale COMMITTEES
chairman. Chairmen of the "A Dis
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Dr.. Furber to Speuk

DR.. Eduard Farber will lead dis
cussion on legislation to create re-
search bodies under Government
control at dinner meeting of the
District chapter Of the American
Institute Of Chemists at $50 pm
tomorrow at Wardman Park Hotel.
Local chemists have been invited to
attend.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Mrs. Truman Opens
|YuIe Seal Sale Here

Mrs, Harry s. Truman yesterday
opened the l945 booth sale Of Christ
mas Seals for the District by pur-
chasing the first seals at the May
flower Hotel booth from Mrs. Paul
D. Sleeper. volunteer worker.
Mrs. Truman through the District
tuberculosis Association. urged the
public to support the seth annual
Evening star., 1945-12-05

trict Christmas Seal sale booths
also were present.
The booth sale Is the second
phase Of the Christmas Seal sale
campaign. The national drive was
opened ofiicially by President Tru-
man November 10.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

Hold your Victory Loan Bonds
until maturity and take advantage
OF the increased return guaranteed
by the Government. Your Money
could not be invested more safely
than in Victory Bonds.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

MEDALS FORAMOvlE HERO -HowHollywood's
lankiest lad commanded 1000 bombers in fights
over Germany and won the Air Force equivalent Of
an Oscar. JIMMIE STEWARDS FINEST PER.
FORMANCE, by Col. Beirne Lay, Jr.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW. When the CIO
wants new one, it turns to its current darling, the
Honorable James E. Murray, Montana's junior sena.
tor and the wealthy co-author of the Full Employ.
ment Bill MILLIONAIRE MOSES, by Forrest Davis.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

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Evening star., 1945-12-05

PAY-DIRT FOR YOUR HEALTH. Science turns to
the soil and discovers one of the worlds richest
storehouses of powerful new germicides to combat
infections and fevers. NEW MEDICINES FROM
YOUR BACK YARD, by Steven NJ. Spencer.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

IS GERMAN INDUSTRY WAR BOOTY"2 The
Russians roared YES, and this is the story of the
ensuing backsage battle reparations that dead.
TOLD TRAGEDY OF POTSDAM, by Samuel Lubell.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

THE SkY'S NO LIMIT. Current No. l. Narrow.
escape Aier. Alaskas madcap Archie Ferguson dunks
his plane in peasoup fogs and boasts of ten crackups
but never damages passenger. WORLDS
CRAZIEST PILOT, by Jean Potter.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

The cash value Of Victory Loan
Bonds increases with each passing
year. Watch your dollars grow.
Evening star., 1945-12-05

PEEK INTO YOUR NEW BATEiRO OM through
the advertising pages Of The Post y. and see It's
modern fixtures designed for the home Of tomorrow
Millions look to Post advertising for previews Of the
Evening star., 1945-12-05

II YOUR SAILOR WEARS AN EARRING
Don't call him sissy. It's an old seafaring custom,
fresh back from the Pacific, and old sailors Of the
China Seas will tell yon mems earrings are moi new
Told in another Of those interesting Post shorts
Evening star., 1945-12-05

VOU'LL want to read The Post, today and always
nation. This weeks issue blends for you sparkling
short stories, significant articles gripping serials
you such wealth of facts and fun. Read -.
Evening star., 1945-12-05
Remarkable Treatment For
STOMACH DISTRESS
From Too Much. Stoma6 Acid

An yev tortured with
Mss bsrnins misery Of zoe
much free siomoeh Aeid7
Use Of the famous Won
rABlETS Is bringing com
jeriins relief 10 hundreds
sf such eesss. Siaesssly
ssaisful people tell d
what they call the ''wen.
daxs" X0N,S IAAlEIS
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-29
Youth Has
Its Fling

Forest Hills, N. Y. Aug. sap
Youth had It's annual fling in
the opening round OF the National
Tennis Championships yesterday
and In the opinion OF some quail
ned experts, two or three OF the
youngsters may stick around after
today to contend with such estab-
lished stars as Sgt. frankie Parker.
Bill Talbert and Pancho Segura.
The top trio OF youngsters In
cludes Air Cadet Bob Falkenburg
Of Hollywood, Calf, sixth In the
1914 national rankings and eighth
seeded player OF the 19l5 cham
pionships; Herbert Flam OF Bever-
ly Hills, Calf, successor to Falk-
enburg as national junior cham
pion. and Herbert Buddy Behrens
OF Fort Lauderdale, Fla, winner
Of the boys championship for the
past two years.
All three came through their
opening matches In fine style ana
face comparatively easy opposition
today. Other young players who
survived the first days matches
are Rolor Ray OF Sinton, Texas,
Tom Molloy OF Panama City. Fla.
Nick BuZolich of Los Angeles and
Brend!n Macken OF Montreal. But
they're rated q bit lower than the
first three and they're up against
a different proposition today.
Falkenburg already has proved
his right to a place in big-time COM
petition and he shouldn't have any
difficulty until he encounters Sc.
gura in the quarter finals. He
easily disposed Of Capt. Archie
Henderson of Chapel Hill. n. c.,
SO, SO yesterday and today faces
James Livingstone of San Francis
co, surprise winner over Chile's An
dres Hammersley, 8-3, 1-6, SO.
Flam, rated by expert observers
as the smartest young player to
come along since Bobby Riggs, turn.
ed in yesterdays other upset when
he trounced Heraldo Weiss, Argen-
tina's No. / player, 81, SO. His
second-round opponent today Is
Mark Brown, a University OF Miami
player.
Although Sam Hardy, former
Davis Cup team leader who has
played an important part In junior
development. says Flam now is
head and shoulders above the
other youngsters. He figures Beh-
rens may turn out to be q better
player in the long run. Buddy,
less matured and court-wise than
the little Californian, turned back
Fred West of Lynchburg, Va, 60,
6-3, yesterday. His opponent to-
day is another husky youngster.
Canada's Macken, who eliminated
the former Davis Cup player, Ii
Comdr. John Van Ryn, 6-S. rs.
The defeat Of two South AmerS
can invaders provided yesterdays
only high spot as the top-flight
players in both the mems and WON.
ems divisions, led by Parker, Tai.
bert, Pauline Betz. the defending
women's champion. and former
champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke
coasted through their opening
matches. They should win just
about as easily today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-29
ROut Browns
by 10 to One

ST. Louis. Aug. 29-AP-The De-
troit Tigers were feeling a whole
lot happier today after swapping
their three-gsme losing streak with
a lo-l rout of the pennant seeking
st. Louis Browns last night.
The Detroiters not only cooled
on the aspirations OF the 1914
American League champs. but also
got Hal Newhouser his 2lst win
and unleashed batting attack that
brought Joy 10 all Tiger fans.
Jack Kramer, who scored a win
over the Tigers earlier this season,
started on the mound for the
Brownies but didn't stay around
long enough TO get accustomed to
the arc lights.
A three-run blast in the first in
ming, spanked by Cullenbines 40
foot homer into the left field stands,
ended Kramer's mound duties for
the night.
Left handler Sam Zoldak took
over for the Brownies and got
through the second inning, but the
Tigers got to him for four runs in
the third.
Greenberg and Maier contributed
home run clouts to the third in
ming outbreak. II was Hanks
eighth. putting him Ave behind Cul.
lenbine who has 10 to his credit.
Newhouser, meanwhile, was do
ing all right by himself. Nine OF
the st. Louis men went down on
strikes, while they amassed only
four hits OF Hal. II was his 21st
win and the fifth straight victory
over the Browns, who beat him on
the opening day OF the season.
The win kept the Tigers a game
and a half ahead of the Senators
who crashed through with a win
over the hapless Athletics.
Jakucki. who has beaten the Tig-
ers three times this season and
is we'll on his way to becoming
their No. l jinx. will face them in
another encounter tonight. with
Les Mueller due to work for the
Tigers who have won 1S of the II
games from the Browns this season.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-29
Happy Tigers Snap Losing Streak
Fine Points in Bridge

spades on this deal took fewer
tricks than she because Of an In
spiration she got early In the play.
The defenders had taken the two
red aces. and q diamond put the
lead In the dummy with the X.
Seeing the desirability Of two en-
tries to her hand. to hnesse both
black suits. she also noted the I'M
possibility OF finding them. In
stead Of giving up the idea Of try
ing to avoid any loser In those
suits. she figured out q possible
way to avoid needing two entries.
"If East has three spades TO the
Q. without either the 10 or 0. he
probably will not cover the J." she
reckoned. That Is Just what hap
pened to the fourth trick. the ]
holding 1t. Followed then the
spade X and A. dropping the de-
tenders trumps. the club J. which
West did not cover. then the club
Q, A and the rest OF the suit when
the X fell. She. Of course. finished
with the spade 2 and heart X.
making five-odd.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-29

Games behind leader.
Tuesdays Results
Brooklyn Z, Philadelphia !
Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 8.
Cincinnati 8. St. Louis ..
Only games scheduled.
Today's Games
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
st. Louis at Cincinnati.
Only games scheduled.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-29
FORFEITS GAME

Unable to field a complete team,
Moose forfeited the Industrial
League game at Recreation Park,
Tuesday night, to Local SAG. Only
eight Of the Moose players showed
up at the park.