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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
Washington
Labor Report
By Bradford v. Carter

The housing controversy which is now rag
ing on Capitol Hill is significant not only in
itself, but in the fact that it raises the issues
which involved in all of the social legisla-
ton which has come before Congress.
The opposition of the most powerful lobby
which has been organized since the wars end
is based not on inspiring a fair profit but
limited profit The objects of the anti-hous-
ing lobby's attack in tthe Veterans Emergency
Housing Program are the proposals for pre-
miums payments and subsidies to producers
of building materials
The idea behind the premiums and sub
sides is for the government to compensate
the housing producers for the extent to which
existing prices will not yield fair return and
to compensate only those producers whose
cost situation warrants such financial assist
ance from the government The end result
would be that the cost of the premium pay
ments and subsidies would be substantially
less than the amount the veterans would have
to pay in higher prices II there are no SUBJ
sides.
LOBBY OPPOSED
But no, the anti-housing lobby doesn't want
this. They want to be able to get what the
traffic will bear with no controls either by
government or conscience And in this hold
up for unlimited profits, Congress is providing
an able assist by refusing to go along with the
Wyatt program. The House of Representatives
knocked out of the Patman Bill, which incor-
porated the Wyatt program the provisions for
ceilings on old housing, premium payments,
and subsidies.
Some idea of what happens to housing
costs to consumers-veterans included-iS re-
vealed in the latest report of the Civilian Pro-
duction Administration. The CPA admins
ters the existing housing prioritieS program
which gives preferential treatment to housing
which will sell for not more than $4,000 or
rent for more than $50 month.
In apprasing the figures which follow keep
in mind that average weekly earnings in man.
ufacturing are somethink like $40 week or
on an annual basis a little more than $4,000
a year. Keep in mind, too, that budget ex-
perts say that no family should pay more than
a weeks wages for a months rent or more
than twice its annual earnings for the pur-
chase of house, if the family is not to de-
prive itself of other necessities of life What
this adds up to then on the basis of current
earnings is that the average family should not
pay much more than SAC for monthly rent
or more than $4,000 or maybe $4,000 for a
house.
RENT FIGURES
On the basis of 100000 housing units al
ready authorized for preferential treatment by
CPA:
70% of the housing units will rent for
more than $40 month.
909o of the housing units will sell for
more than $780,
This isn't the whole story.
sou of the housing units will rent for
more than $50 month.
70% of the housing units will sell for
more than $500.
You don't have to bother about the statiS-
tics if you can see that the vast majority Of
housing units which are now being given
preferential treatment are way beyond the
means Of the average worker and veteran.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29

Detroit auto manufacturers
have decided not to hold their
annual auto show. Too bad.
1t would have been fun see
ing Grand Central Palace jam
med to the doors with the cars
General Motors didn't produce
between November 2l and
March 13.
Field hockey outfits and
snow shoes were removed
from price con.iols last week.
The NAM, always full Of
bright ideas where its manu-
featuring clients are concern
ed, probably has it all fig
ured out that if they can pro-
mote the idea of playing field
hockey on snow shoes it'll not
only turn up handsome profits
but also keep workers minds
off such things as pay raises.
The boss called his faithful
old clerk into his office.
Jones" he began, You've
been working for me for Is
years and in all that time
you've been faithful, you've
never joined a union, you've
never failed me-" "Yes, sir"
said the clerk expectantly.
$50 in order to show my ap-
preciation," the boss continu-
ed, you will henceforth be
addressed here as Mr.. Jones'"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
JAW Names Reufher

LIeCIl0n OF waiter L. heutHSI 10 tHc
presidency of the UAW.CIO in Atlantic
City is an indication of change in think
ing in the ranks of the Auto Workers
which has become more marked since the
end of the war. 1t is also vindication of
the new UAW head and the policies which
he advocated.
1t can be said that the naming of Wal
ter Reuther to head the UAW constitutes
q mandate to the union to proceed with
the progress and policies which he and his
group in the union have been advocating
for the past few years.
Relationship between wages and prices
stressed by Mr.. Reuther before, during
and since the GIN strike are certain to play
q most important part in future negotia-
tionS in plants under contract with the
UAW.
Mr.. Reuther himself stressed the hope
which he has repeatedly made during his
years as union vice-president. These i'm
elude industry-wide agreements, equal
pay for equal work, low cost housing ac-
complished by mass production methods,
organization of the un-organized, i'm
proved marketing techniques, increased
and consistent political action; racial de-
mocracy and other ideals to which true
unionism aspires.
Not all the members of the UAW.CIO
agree with the viewpoints of the new JAW
president, but this is not basic difference
of opinion, but in many cases stems either
from factionaliSm or lack of education in
the basic principles of what the union is
all about.
Mr.. Reuther himself recognized the
basic need for real education and in one of
his campaign speeches quoted almost word
tion which appeared in this paper just q
few weeks ago.
OF one thing, we may be sure, the new
UAW head will not tolerate the type of
pork choppers" who have held jobs dur
ing the war era. The men who represent
the union in the new era will not be a
bunch of people who merely draw their
wages from the union and give as little as
possible in return, but a group of trained
union people who will do their jobs or
else.
Hope runs high in Toledo that the new
JAW head will not undergo changes
which sometimes occur when men are re-
warded with a high office. We do not be-
lieve Walter Reuther will desert his prin-
riples. We have every confidence that
under our new leadership, the Auto Work
srs will go forward TO new gains and be-
come a greater union by doing better
Job for the dues paying members in the
shops. The factionalism which has been
The bane of the Auto Workers for the past
years must go. Fights in local unions
which have not represented any really
serious division of opinion in the thinking
'f basic principles of the union, but which
rave been a reflection of the fight at the
op of the union, must go.
We believe that the UAW will become
really united union under Walter
seuthers able leadership and we are
lopeful that when the next convention
meets in 1947 that the UAW-CIO will be,
n fact, the worlds greatest, most progress
i've and most united union
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29

American business spent
1885, 100000 for advertising
during 1945, II was disclosed
last week---an increase of So.
An awful lot of that two bill
lion was spent on full-page
ads telling us that the adver-
tisers couldn't afford lave.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-03-29
FORD WORKERS PRAYER

Our Father who art in Dearborn
Henry be thy name
II shall be done at River Rouge
AS 1t was done at Highland Park
Give US this day and our daily 10 cents
And forgive US for taking it
AS We forgive those who take it from us.
And lead us not into competition
But deliver us from Kaiser and Frazer
For theirs Is the power of production.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

for five or six years, and it seemed
too hopeless, and having our own
company made it possible to make
the pictures we were interested in"
Story of VI Day.
I ask Niven why he didn't retain
the movie rights for his own book,
Duel in the Sun" But it seems
that it was sold originally to RKO
with the idea of starring Teresa in
the role now played by Jennifer
Jones. And then Teresa thought
she was going to have a baby-this
proved wrong, but she was very sick
for a long time. And RKO finally
sold the property to David Selznick
who is spending S6,000,000 or S7,0OO,-
900 on the production described by
the author as more of a psychiatric
study than a Western" l don t
know how much of the original
story will be in the movie. although
Selznick usually sticks rather closely
to the original idea.
Niven's new book, DAY of the
Conquerors,' story of VI day
will be published next month, ant
movie moguls are already bidding
for it. Unless the price is irresist
ible, Mr.. Busch may make the movie
himself.
Teresa is around 26 or 27. Her
husband says he is 43, although he
looks much younger. When l ask
Teresa when they were married
she has to look at the date inside
Evening star., 1946-04-21
HOLLYWOOD.

Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, the All Year Club, the Hotel
Mems Association, operators of
sightseeing tours and all other
groups and individuals in the
know" declare Hollywood, this sum-
mer, is in for the biggest tourist
drive in its history.
Not much question about that
and, among the thousands who'll
be heading westward via every pos
sible mode of transportation will
be far more than the normal en-
tourage of boys and girls deter
mined to carve out careers for
themselves on the silver screen. Not
only boys and girls, but precocious
kiddie-totS (ushered in by even
more precocious fond mammas).
large batch of middle-aged folks
with character actor ideas, and
If We can judge by our mail',-a
bumper contingent of dogs, cats and
other small animals, led by owners
and trainers who think Lassie and
Daisy are a couple of buns.
And Sc. just to pave the way for
HollyWood's 1916 parade of the peo-
pie, we're offering an article today
entitled Twelve Ways to Become
Movie Star" or Get Down From
That Bulldozer. Mother; We're
Going to Crash Them Movie Gates"
Sometimes We get awfully tired
of hearing those big movie moguls
stomp around their offices, har-
rumpping loudly and believing to
us that we should tell our reader
aspirants for movie fame to stay
away from Hollywood, to get them
selves jobs in little theater groups,
or on the radio, or a lot of other
things-but not to come to Holly
wood, where, they declare, they're
bound to get lost in the shuttle.
Ray Just Rode Buses.
Maybe the brass hats are right,
but (and don't you dare rush out
and buy reservation Westward
here are a dozen approaches to
stardom, unorthodoX as they Ger
tainly sound, which have proved
successful.
l. Ride the Buses-That's the
way Ray Milland got his start in
pictures. Ray, who won this years
Academy Award for his perform
ance in F'The Lost Weekend" and
who just finished big Western
called California" was literally
down to his last dime when he
heard of a job in a downtown Los
Angeles service station, so he spent
the dime to ride a bus to get there
BY one of those inexplicable COIN
cidences, a studio casting director
was riding the bus that day, too.
his car having broken down. He
Evening star., 1946-04-21

poRTRMT OF cANNY 7he Two Mrs caoHs first presented here
it n
to Ltomo1ru NLrih Miss RerQnerM OF
Evening star., 1946-04-21
By Harold Heffernon

spotted Ray, took him to the. studio
and put him to work.
2. Become a Dental Assistant
When a talent scout walked into a
Hollywood dentists Office he couldn' t
help but notice Jane Russell, the
dentists receptionist. The rest is
history. Jane is now being starred
in The Young Widow" after first
appearing in that sensationally ad-
vertised production, The Outlaw
3. Get Your Picture on a Maga-
zine Cover-That's what Lauren
Bacall did and look where she is to-
day! Mrs. Howard Hawks, wife of
the film director, noticed Lauren S
photogenic face on the cover of a
national fashion magazine and con-
vinced her husband he should send
for the model. She skyrocketed to
stardom.
f. See a Radio Progran-While
Sailor Guy Madison was on leave he
attended radio show in Hollywood.
Sitting behind him was a casting
director who introduced himself to
the handsome sailor and later took
him to Producer David o. Selznick
The result brought a small role in
Since You Went Away" and. after
the reception the bobby soXers gave
him, Guy found himself in the midst
of whirlwind buildup
Or Try Playing a Sax.
5. Be a Manicurist-As a mani
curist in a Hollywood barber shop,
Arleen Whelan trimmed lots of
mems nails. However, one day Di-
rector Bruce Thunderstorm not only
liked Arleen as manicurist but saw
screen possibilities in the titan
haired beauty. Today, after a
Broadway hit. Bring on the Girls,
she is back in town more important
than ever, playing one of the leads
in Paramount's Suddenly It's
Spring"
6. Play the Saxophone - Fred
MacMurray was picked out of the
pit at Warmers Hollywood Theater
by the California Collegians, a the
atrical band combination. Since
then he has appeared opposite more
feminine stars than almost any
other male movie actor.
7. Be Dentist-Edgar Buchanan
was 'yanked" out of his chosen pro-
fession and placed before the cam
eras. He was practicing dentistry
III Pasadena when he answered the
call of Hollywood to become one of
the screens finest featured players
8. Answer the Telephone-Oddly
enough that's how Loretta Young
got her break. When the telephone
rang at home it was Director Mer-
vyn LIE Roy seeking Loretta's sister
Polly Ann, for role. Pretending
to be her sister, Loretta said she'd
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Henreid Plays a Quiet Cello
By Gene Hondsoker
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Paul Henreid was having his cello
lesson, yum zum yum, SO his wife
Lisl Chats right, Lisl, without a
final and pronounced leezD
showed me around their place.
This is Paul's Workshop" she
said, opening little side room in
the garage. The place was mess,
the litter including scattered tools,
wire, a color photo of the dancing
De Marcos, and a doorben wound
with long electric cord.
Paul rugged up the bell to call
the nurse when I was SICK" said
Lisl, a former Vienna dressmaker
whose speech is thick with rs and
w's. Hes very handy. He can fix
the plumbing or the electric outlets" !"
Bought Fonda Home.
The Henreids, who have two
adopted daughters, Monica, 8, and
Mimi, /, bought their two-story.
tree-shaded mansion four years ago
from its builder, Henry Fonda.
After we had finished our coffee and
cakes in the big, massively furnished
living room, across a coffee table
large enough to accommodate
helicopter, Lisl said she was sure it
would be all right for us to go in and
watch the cello lesson.
In a paneled den, Henreid,
handsome, Austrian-born (but now
United States naturalized) giant
with creamed-coffee hair and long
creases bordering his mouth, sat
facing his instructor, Gregory Aller.
Each supported a leaning, spike
tipped cello.
Henreid is enviably cello-voiced
and as charming off the screen as
on. In Deception" a picture start
ing soon, he is to be a concert
celllSt. Aller comes in every after
noon for an hours lesson, and
tmplored them now to go right
ahead.
can Excellent Ear"
More veebratto," Aller urged as
they negotiated the scale together
A studio cellist who spent 20 years
with Damrosch in the New York
Symphony, he is bubblingly
friendly little man with spectacles
and a key chain hooked, for some
reason which I did not ascertain, to
the rear of his pants.
Henreid pursed his lips and sawed
determinedly. His cello made not
a sound-his bow was purposely
creased with soap and paraffin for
silence-but he sang in key with
his tutors playing. HE has an ex-
cellent ear" Aller said. He repeat
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Author and Film Star Form Partnership
Teresa Wright Hopes for Real Parts Phooplays Written by
Her Husband, Niven Busch
By SheiIoh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

4AoAAI VS1A.
Teresa Wright and Niven Busch
have formed what seems to be the
perfect partnership. In private life
they are Mr.. and Mrs. and live with
the three Busch boys-one of them
is Teresa's-in large house in
Encino. In their working life,
Teresa, who, to my way of thinking,
is the top younger" actress in pic
lures, and Niven. who has written,
among other things, Duel in the
Sun" and DAY of the Conquerors,
have formed a film partnership
called Hemisphere Pictures. Teresa
will star, Niven will write and pro-
duce. All they need now, to be sue
cessful, is good director, and every
good director in town would jump
at the chance to make picture
starring Miss Wright, with the story
written by Busch.
I went to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Busch, and Teresa came out of the
garage in checkered shirt and an
old pair of slacks, with a paint
brush in her hand and a smear of
brown paint on her face. She had
been staining mahogany book
case and the stain had run over the
edges and she would have to do the
whole thing again.
What she really likes to do is
gardening" says Mr.. Busch, who is.
handsome in blue-eyed Gary
Cooper sort Of style-only Niven is
more articulate. And after that
she enjoys doing the housekeeping.
And l used to like horseback rid
ing" interrupts Teresa, but this
seems to be gag. Before they
were married, Teresa rode with
Niven-but more to please him than
because she loves the sport. Direct
ly they were man and wife, Teresa
gave up the horse on the plea that
she had no time to ride.
Praise From Hitchcock.
"Teresa's first picture for our own
company is The Pursued" con-
tinues Niven. In this she plays
gal who marrieS man-and wants
to murder him. "She hasn't had
real part in pictures since she came
here for The Little Foxes" says
the lady's husband, who agrees with
me that the way to get somewhere
in Hollywood is to play a strong
| type of woman regardless of her
morals.
When I make the picture with
Niven," says Teresa, I'm going to
try to behave as though 1 were
working for some one else, but if I
think that there is something wrong
with my part, would like to be able
to tell. Niven.'
You know what Hitchcock said
about her?" interrupts Mr.. Busch,
he said that if Teresa can't act the
line, then there is something wrong
with the line"
When Miss Wright made THE
Trouble With Women" with Ray
Milland she had trouble with Di-
rector Sidney Lanefield who did not
understand how to get the most
from the sensitive actress. For a
while I understand that they want
ed to replace Teresa with Betty Hut
ton in the comedy role. But the
finished result is said to be okay. I
would still rather see her in drama
than comedy. 1 think that her best
pictures have been Mrs. Miniver"
and as Mrs. Lou Gehrig in Pride of
the Yankees
We made the deal with Goldwyn
to allow Teresa to make one out
| side picture year. says Mr.
Busch, explaining the formation Of
their new company. That's because
I'd wanted to go back to the stage"
explains Teresa. But I couldn't
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Twelve Ways to Become Hollywood Star
They Are Unorhodox and Not Recommended but Each Has
Worked at Least One Time

be out to the studio Immediately for
knew that he had a future star on
his hands.
9. Have Admirers Who Hitch
hike-When two Santa Monica high
school boys were hitch-hiking to the
beach one Sunday, they were picked
up by William Meiklejohn, head of
casting and talent at Paramount.
AS soon as the youths learned who
their benefactor was, they began to
sing the praises of a fellow student,
Gail Russell. Their pitch was SO
persuasive that Meikeljohn investi-
gated the young beauty and signed
her to a term contract. She is now
in one of the leading roles in Our
Hearts Were Growing Up"
Stirling Found a Friend.
10. Be a Waitress-Ellen Drew
won a beauty contest and a trip to
Hollywood, but her hopes for a
movie career were shattered when
shescouldn't even get inside studio
So Ellen went to work as a waitress
in a candy store and soda fountain
next to Grauman's Chinese Theater
William Demarest. then an agent,
saw her and brought her around to
Paramount where she signed a con-
tract
II. Have Friends on a Newspaper
1t was EX-sailor Sterling Hayden
who sailed into Boston Harbor many
years ago and met a newspaperman
who was so impressed by the hand
some mariner that he wrote a fea-
ture to the effect that the blond
Adonis Ought to be in pictures.
Later the Boston scribe sent photos
of Hayden to friends in Hollywood,
and within a few weeks, Sterling
found himself playing leading roles
on the screen. Five years ago he
renounced Hollywood and walked
out on his contract. Today he is
back, sorry and willing.
-. Pump Gasoline-When Dana
Andrews hit movietown from Texas
seven years ago he was stranded
with a shattered jallopy and Sc. He
got a job pumping gas in valley
filling station and the two owners
took fancy to him. You look like
movie material" they said and
Andrews replied: you get me in
the movies and I'll share my earn
ings with you" That's exactly what
happened. The two gas station
owners financed Dana, he landed
up there, as you know-and now
everybody is happy.
There are, of course, IA or more
additional keys for cracking the
screen gates, but the round dozen
are typical.
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Evening star., 1946-04-21
Todav's Schedules

CAPITOL Bad Bascomb"::
lao, 4:30, 7:20 and 1910 pm.
Stage shows: Ito, 4, $50 and
9:40 pm.
COLUMBIA The Hoodlum
Saint: 1:3O, $3.50, $50, 7:30
and 9:35 pm.
Bandit of Sherwood
Forest: 1:20, $50, 5:35, 7:45
and 9:55 pm.
HIPPODROME-"Arsenic and
Old Lace: 2:35, $40 and 10
pm.
EITH'S S-"Tangier":: 1::2o,
$3.50. $40, 7:5O and 10 pm.
LITTLE-"Waltz Time: ITO,
3:15, $40. 7::30 and 9::40 pm.
METROPOLITAN Saratoga
Trunk: 1:25, 4, $40 and $50
pm.
PALACE-"The virginian"::
1:35, $40, $40, 7:45 and 9:45
pm.
PIX-"White Gorilla: 1:1O,
3::25, $40, sos and 1890 pm.
TRANS-LUX-NeWs and shorts.
Continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

her wedding ring to answer, May
%, 1912" "The time has passed
so quickly that it hardly seems pos
sible that we've been married so
long" she adds.
Their son, David Terence, was
born December 2, 1914 Niven's two
older sons by his previous marriage
are Peter, l3, and Tony, 9. They
and Niven call Teresa "Muriel"-
her real name She was born Muriel
Teresa Wright.
The Busches make quite a fam
lily in the big hillside house. But
there's room for one more baby,
which they are planning to have
"some day"
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Evening star., 1946-04-21

edly urged Henreid to spread his
string fingers farther apart, to keep
his left thumb down out of the air
and to get a little swing into his
body as if he enjoyed playing.
Leaving, I asked Henreid whether
he'd continue his cello playing after
the picture. Paul, who dabbled in
piano and violin as child, thought
a moment, smiled and made his an
SNer. 1t was a decisive "No"
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Coming Attractions

NATIONAL - THE Two Mrs.
Carols" with Elisabeth
Bergner, starting tomorrow
night.
CAPITOL Whistle Stop"
with George Raft, starting
Thursday.
COLUMBIA-"The Virginian,"
with Joel McCrea.
EARLE-"Road to Utopia"
with Bing Crosby, Dorothy
Lamour, Bob Hope.
KEITH'S-'The Spiral Stair
case," with Dorothy MCGUIRE
and George Brent, starting
Wednesday.
LITTLE-"Prisoner of Zenda,"
with Madeleine Carroll and
Ronald Colman.
METROPOLITAN-"The Wife
of Monte Cristo," with Leo
more Aubert.
PALACE - "ziegfeld Follies,"
with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly.
PIX-"The Bakers Wife," with
Raimu, starting Tuesday.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Skirts Get Longer
BY the Associoted Press

HOLLYWOOD.
Irene, fashion designer for Lana
Turner, Greer Carson and other
Metro stars, gives this seasons FASH
ion forecast:
Skirts for daytime will be longer
and longer, to the ankles by fall.
Shoulders will gradually lose their
heavy padding. Uneven hemlines
will grow in popularity, with short
front and long back.