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Show THE RUU.ETtN. mNC.HAM. UTAH Fights Mussolini King George of Greece looking over his troops, Greek naval, air and land forces combined under the king's leadership to resist the Italian army. New British Cruiser Launched . I; shifts T k Vf " t lw I wr;i ! . A Jt . iff . A new British cruiser Is here shown being launched at an undls-- i closed port in England, to Increase the hitting power of the British navy, ' j "As months go by the British navy Is becoming Increasingly powerful." So states the British caption which accompanied this picture which is truly remarkable considering the "strafing" of the embattled Isle. WASHINGTON. Little known fact regarding Britain's attempt to aid Greece wai that this time, the Brit-ish were not caught entirely nap-ping. Several weeks before the Italian advance, they had smuggled one division of Australian troops into Greece, and they Bre now reported to be holding the passes in the rug-ged mountains of Macedonia. However, the total Australian force Is not much more than 20,000 men, a mere drop in the bucket compared with Italy's 200,000 troops now advancing from Albania. Biggest help the British can give ' the Greeks, of course, is at sea. There have been no major engage- - ments between the British and Ital- - ian fleets chiefly because the Ital- - ians have kept pretty well out of sight. But now, with the necessity of sending a constant stream of sup-plies to a large army, the Italians are sure to run into some major engagements with the British. Unquestionably, If the Greeks should fall, It would be Jugoslavia's turn next With the support of the Jugoslav army, the Greeks would have a real chance, for the Serbs are among the best fighters in Eu-rope. However, the Balkans seem to be following the same policy of the Dutch and Belgians; that is. letting Hitler pick them off one by one. LABOR TRUCES Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman's crack labor advisory board Is making use of an old ad-age, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" to over-come one of the most serious ob-stacles to preparedness work stop- - page. Quietly, the board has adopted the rule of getting employers and workers together on a mutual agree- - ment for the settlement of disputes before activity is begun on a de- - fense project. This new system ensures labor the protection of Its rights, and at the same time safeguards the em-ployer from loss through strikes or jurisdictional squabbles between ri-val unions. Illustrative of the plan is the agreement arranged between the contractor building the new six-wa-shipyard at Orange, Texas, for the Consolidated Stoel corpora-tion of Los Angeles, and the unions. It was negotiated by Charles Mac-Gowe- n, able vice president of the n. r. 01 l. uoiicrmaKers ana a member of the labor advisory board. Before a spade was put to ground, MacGowen secured from Harry Morton, contractor representative, an agreement guaranteeing payment of prevailing wages, lf for overtime, double time for Sun-day and holiday work, and no lock-outs. In exchange, Morton secured trom labor a no-stri- guarantee and arbitration of jurisdictional dif-ferences. V. S. BLANKETS Cable dispatches have made no reference to it, but one factor cred-ited by military authorities with helping to maintain the morale of bomb-batter- ed Londoners has been several hundred thousand American blankets. They have been a life-sav-for the harried men, women and children crowded into dank, subterranean shelters. Some time ago the British Red Cross cabled a frantic appeal for blankets for use in air-rai- shelters. The American Red Cross decided to buy the durable and warm blankets used by the U. S. army, which av-erage around $6 apiece in mass wholesale lots, but immediately ran into serious tangles. One was the fact that the govern-ment was heavily in the market for blankets for the army and navy, and if the Red Cross also entered the market, prices would certainly skyrocket. So the Red Cross turned to the defense commission's busi-ness aces, who immediately called a conference of leading merchandis-ers from Macy's, Sears Roebuck, Filene's, Montgomery Ward and others. By long distance telephone these experts immediately made a flash survey of U. S. mills, which re-vealed the discouraging fact that the mills didn't have 200,000 n blankets on hand, even at $6 per blanket But there were am-ple "seconds" available, blankets rejected by government inspectors. These could be bought at around $2 each. And that was done. The British got blankets without delay and at a saving of $800,000. Simultaneous-ly American mills cleared their shelves and the domestic market was undisturbed. CAPITAL CHAFF To keep step with the new civilian army, the war department has add-ed a civilian adviser to its press section. He is Harold Jacobs, vet-eran newsman, borrowed from the wage-hou- r division. Dies Committeeman Joe Starnes of Alabama has come to the defense of Rep. John Coffee of Washington, who is being accused by his Repub-lican opponent of opposing the Dies investigation. Starnes sent Coffee a letter commending his support of the committee. ft Irfr-L- . i Newspaperman Stuff Charles Chapin, who was city edi-tor of the New York Evening World at the beginning of the century, never drank, and was Intolerant of others who Imbibed . . . Johnny Quinn, a young reporter who worked under Chapin, Indulged In an occa-sional glass of beer, and Chapin sternly lectured him about It . . . Quinn became ill one day and died shortly afterward, leaving a wife and children. The boys on the World, knowing the family wasn't too well off, started a collection, with each man giving what he could afTord. When they came to Chapin for a contribution, he brusquely dis-missed them . . . "Don't expect anything from me," he growled. "I won't encourage young reporters who drink beer to figure they can depend on the stall to help their families after they're dead" . . . When all the contributions were In, a group of the boys took the money to Quinn's widow. She was touched by their generosity, and tears trick-led down her cheeks . . . "The World has the finest men on earth," she exclaimed. "Do you know, boys we eouldn't have buried Johnny if it hadn't been for Mr, Chopin's i check." A new assistant editor at the Reuter's News agency, in London, was once handed a brief cable from New York. After a perfunctory glance at it, the lad filed it with a lot of other material thut wasn't of urgent importance. "Those Yanksl" he muttered. "They seem to think we're interested in their President's hunting expeditions!" . . . "What do you mean?" his superior asked . . . The new assistant picked up the cable and waved it in front of him, explaining, "New York seems to think It's worth five cents a word to tell us that McKinley's shot a buf-falo!" . . . The editor did a double-tak- e and, with a bellow, snatched the cable from his assistant's hand. It read: "McKinlcy shot Buffalo" . . . The first news of the Presi-dent's assassination. Several years ago Alexander Woollcott checked into a New York hospital for observation, and one of the newspapers received an errone-ous tip that he was dying. A re-porter phoned the hospital and checked the report with Woollcott'i nurse, who denied it . . . Woollcott, hearing the conversation, Insisted on talklne to the reporter and. erab- - bing the phone, introduced himself. The reporter repeated the rumor . . . "Tut-tut,- " d Woollcott, "I'm Just here for observation" .... "Then you're not dying?" asked the lad . . . "Of course not!" said Woollcott . . . "Well," queried the reporter, "what ARE your plans?" New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Hoot Gibson, the gweat big cowboy, dodging taxis and looking scared stiff, at 40th and Mad-ison . . . Hatless Hope Hampton holding hands with hubby, hurrying home . . . Tommy Corcoran, all work and no play-bo- y . . . Guy Lombardo and Ben Bernie melody-land- 's Sweet & Low . . . Karen Van Ryn, the gorjiss Dutch ballerina glammer competition for Vera Zorl-naahh- . . . Afternoon stroller on E. 5Gth Street Peggy Fears In sil-ver fox coat, red boodwah slippers and blue slacks . . . George Raft, the Merchant of Menace, watching the floor show at Leon and Eddie's, while the Leon and Eddie's floor show watches him. Sallies In Our Alley: Dorothy Park-er was being bothered no end by mag editor Harold Ross, the town bore. He kept Interrupting her par-ty of friends in an East Side Joynt with: "The revolution is coming! The revolution Is coming!" When he said It for the steenth time, Park-er popped him with: "And when it does it'll be EVERYBODY against Harold Rossi" . . . Dorothy Thomp-son has denied the rumors that Sin-clair Lewis was in Reno for a di-vorce . . . "It's not true!" she ejaculated to a columnist, "un-divor-me!" ... "I will not," he told her, "everybody in town knows that you switched your affections to a fellow named Roosevelt!" Manhattan Murals: Sign in a Srd Avenue beanery: "This is Noise Abatement Week Don't Gargle Your Soup!" . . . The Pullman por-ter on the Me chants Limited (very fast train from Boston to N. Y.), who announces the arrival like this: "Hunnered Twenney Fitt Street Sta-tion of the World's Greatest City Noo Yawk!" . . . Those new dice that light up when you throw a 7 . . . The drunk downstairs in the 50th Street subway waiting for a bus! Memos of a Midnlghter: How truzit that Charley Gehringer, the Detroiter, will wed into the Dodge millions via a widder? . . . Tom Harmon, Michigan's sensational (most publicized athlete of the year) will be engaged Decem-ber 1 to Margaret Thorn, daughter of a naval officer and the prettiest eo-e-d at Ann Arbor . . . Dick Rob-ertson, the of "We Three," is now walking with his shadow and talking with his echo since the di-vorce . . . Herbert Bayard Swope lays he merely twis'.ed his knee. FOR CUWsi THIS YEAR se deling Carj Distincliu AND Quality Air Brush (Hand P'WJ Oilettei Steel Die Engra, Box Asson Designed and fyk BVRG0YKI See yourPrken Relief At L ForYourCt Creomulsion relieves pro cause It goes right to the s trouble to help loosen a germ laden phlegm, and a to soothe and heal raw, ti flamed bronchial mucou branes. 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IJOHNSON y Jour: Washington, D. C. LABOR AND MR. LEWIS The attacks on John Lewis from some elements of labor, because he indorsed Mr. Willkie in the cam-paign now closed, have no sweet taste. Mr. Roosevelt's claquers maint-ained that he is the only friend of labor. John Lewis said not and so, to them, that makes him an "enemy of labor." A worker who could swallow that must have been so tar gone In emo-tion that he could be persuaded that black is white. The New Deal has depended upon Mr. Lewis more than on any other single laborite until now. Then Fiorello LaGuardia ranked him with the forces of evil. Maybe as politics, that is under-standable, but the back stabbing by leading lights of the workers can't be excused especially In the C.I.O. Never before John Lewis was there any full and effective labor or-ganization and collective bargaining in our greatest industries steel, automobiles, rubber, oil, electrical, lumber and shipping. Never, ex-cept for John Lewis, would they ever have come. Other labor leaders so opposed it that John could only do it by seces- - j sion and the creation of the C.I.O. He believed in protection and or-ganization for all of labor, the lowli-est as well as the aristocracy of labor. They didn't He parted com-pany. The result was an addition to the ranks of organized labor of 4.000,000 workers and a tremendous improvement in wages and working conditions for all workers. Exactly that was what I was try-ing to do in NRA. There is not a single advance in the condition of organized labor that didn't have its birth in the nest of the Blue Eagle the acceptance by industry of the rights of labor to organize and bar-gain collectively free from the in-fluence of child labor the creation of a Labor Relations board for the settlement of disputes. Mr. Roosevelt says that the men who opposed that oppose him now. Well, John Lewis and this writer op-pose him now, and we helped do that when to do it was such pioneering and battle against both reactionary employers and reactionary labor leaders that sometimes I felt I hadn't a friend on earth. i nad at least two. One was John Lewis. The other was William Green. It is sad to me to see these two men split today. In those days I never asksd either for a sacrifice of his position for the common aim that was not made. I never asked either for help that was not given. Neither ever gave me a promise that wasn't kept. I can't say that those early efforts for labor had equal help from people who support Mr. Roosevelt now. His secretary of labor sniped at it con-- , stantly. Mr. Wallace's organization poisoned the farmers against it said agriculture should get theirs be-- , fore labor, and that higher wages under NRA raised the price of over-alls and cotton gloves. Mr. Roose-velt himself countenanced a disloyal-ty in the organization itself which led to its downfall. But here, as elsewhere throughout his whole line, John Lewis fought night and day with all he had to give for the common man in the ranks of labor-fou- ght to victories that ad-vanced that cause more in a few years than in all the years of the ab..r movement since its beginning. Le never led labor astray in his life. EMPLOYMENT CENSUS The United States employment service of the social security board is taking a sort of census of skilled workers to provide information on the availability of laborers for de-fense industries. The board announced that the enumeration and location of the vu.rirs is being carried on through 3 cspccally established regional Washington, Boston, New Wk, Philadelphia. Cleveland, Chi-cJfi- ". Birmmeh.nm m: i! n.a. City. A,', francsco. Seattle and Denver. rcaTh Ka?t fCW months the bus-a-te obtainine frm the er,,plynH,r, servj ST ? dttuiled market f u ,,Wmg number w s t,rkTs. wh0 re registered "''"t,m,'""ymrnt "-vic- as ''- -t in defense covers , CnSe ind"stries, be' next fccodddyh? 'Ufor This material indicates the tvne exp td fr Whkh Edition eme'yed. In " -.-tuen'stfatrhempiT vnce bor Z" I0" 00 Potential la- - Pation thri rcSt"" CCU-o- f u Jobs wh.ch y kind badd'-- ity have inKir; Planned anS"S? l mini un- - tl moven. vingr:rrso;Ktoanother Three Killed in This Wreck fitvs, VTkifiJiHi r--zz tew This soundphoto shows a general view where a northbound Atlantic Coastline passenger train was wrecked when it hit an open switch near Lake Alfred, Fla. The engineer and two firemen were killed. Embassy Aid Arrives v lit 1 - L, S'AV l lt i' )t - J - i Herman Merten, former transla-tor of the U. S. embassy in Berlin, shown on arrival In New York. Un-like most returning observers, he praised Nazi government reforms. , 31 President Although Roosevelt is listed as the thirty-sec- t dent of the United State men have actually held The discrepancy is er the fact that Grover 6 down in American his;: twenty-secon- d and toe President the only pre; served two Benjamin Harrison'itc vening. Pathfinder. Kennedy Says Farewell to Churchill A 1 I- -' v r'irf 'lV ?V,T! ?r ' f ? ft x - it , , , ,vir '?A'iL U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, left, Is shown as he bids good-by- e to Premier Winston Churchill at No. 10 Downing street, London, before he left for the United States by clipper plane. Following his return the ambassador conferred nearly four hours with the President. Mrs. Kennedy accompanied him to the White House. Shake on Pact V r : i Heinrieh Starmcr, special German envoy who arranged the Tokyo end of the Axis deal, shaking hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yo-6uk- e Matsuoka after the deal. Lasting Fleasu No entertainment is so reading, nor any pleasui ing. Lady M. W. Monta Noble Thoughts They are never alone accompanied with noble Sir P. Sidney. New Chief of R.A.F. Takes Over Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, new chief of Britain's fighting air force, takes over. Sir Charles succeeded Air Mar-shal Sir Cyril Newall as chief of the Brilish air staff, stepping up from bis post of chief of the R. A. F. bomber command. He is shown (center) going over plans with members of his staff at an R. A. F. station. Bomb Inventor C 1 'A f It 1 y-- t Antonio Pannutte of Warren, Ohio inventor of a new bomb that can be "deId t0he ta't by radio from that drops it. It has win and a rudder. B Sans Characttrj Nobody is truly unssj til his character Mj |