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Show PAGE "TWO PROVO IVTAU DAILY tfERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL rl, 1942 " - - : : : : i 1 1 1 ' . : . Spring Showers eatnrday tM vary innoM, tMseapttag , swadayf , .- Sand Herald PobUabad Sunday Moral PtntMhM of t&e Htrild" Corporation. M oath First Weat Street. Pfoto, Ota a. Entered m aecond claaa matter at the poatoCflea la Prova, Utaa. under the act o( HarcA K 1171. 4 Oilman. Xtoot Rath man. National Ad rertte-tn rertte-tn representatives. New Tern, en. Vreaeleee, Detroit., Boaten, Loa, Anselee, Chloaco. Mmbw United Tram. K. . A. larHaaj the Bctippe . . Leue . of k Nevapapara Aodlt Buraaa at Circulation. rr.-t , Ubarty through all tha land" Tka Liberty Ball : ""bacrtptlon term ay earn at ta Utah aeunty. eenta tha months It. . (or at months, la advances 1M tba ear, in adraat y mall anywhere 1a United state tr n toaaeaaiona ( caata th moathi IS. for aia month i t.T tha yaar ta au vapca. Tha Haral4 will aot aaanroa fiaaaetal ra ponalbUlty for aay arrara whloh ' may aaaaar la advartlaamanta pub I la had la Ita aoiamna, la thoaa laataaeaa whara tha papar la at fanlt. It mUl reprtat that part at tha advartlaoakaat to wbtok tha typoBTaphleal mlatako aaoaira.' M $ dc Don't Worry About the. Women Some- of' our "national ' leaders ' have become concerned about the part American women are taking in the war. Mrs! Elinore M. tterrick, regional director of the NLRB in New York has urged that the gov-, ernment proceed at once to take inventory of our resources in women. wo-men. ltA recent Washington report showed that of five million workers in war plants in this country only 10 per certt are women. This is contrasted con-trasted to the waning days of the first World War when 25 per cent of the nine million workers were women! wo-men! Inasmuch as it is expected that 15 million workers will be employed employ-ed in war production jobs by the first of the year, Mrs. Herrick suggests sug-gests a labor registry be conducted without delay. The problem of labor shortages in defense industries already is on us, With so many men marching off to war. We recommend Mrs. Herrick's idea of seeing what we've got in the way of women workers, but we hope she doesn't worry too much about the possible failure of our feminine folk to bear their share. We may be complacent, but we feel she is going to be bowled over by the response of our womenfolk, bnce they know exactly what the needs are. That, we feel, is all that really is necessary tell the women about it, and watch them sail into how the women of Russia are driving driv-ing street cars, buses, tractors and locomotives, piloting planes, toiling at blast furnaces, helping to produce pro-duce weapons and ammunition. They have won praise for their heroism on the battlefields -and tending tend-ing the wounded in hospitals. We have heard, too, of the fine work British women are performing perform-ing in munitions factories. Not much has been told of the part our women are taking. Here and there we read of a mother whose son has met death in the flaming Philippines; Philip-pines; or a widow who glories in the bravery of her mate who has gone to a heroic death. For us, up to now, it has seemed to be mostly a man's war. Though there is now in Congress Con-gress a proposal to set up a women's wo-men's army auxiliary corps, perhaps per-haps most of us have assumed women wo-men would just go on being wives and mothers, .serving in the home, bolstering the morale of the soldiers, and serving as, nurses with the armies ar-mies and in the hospitals. But we have utter faith in the women wo-men of America to arise to the need when they see it. Our mothers and our grandmothers might not have worked in munitions factories, but they had what it took when the emergency em-ergency became plain to them. We have only to cast a brief glance backward to the deeds of our pioneer pio-neer women, in helping to blaze the trail" through the wilderness to know that they will not fail. ' .things. Much has been said recently of D1BH11 The IflCnilllinillH Was hill erry-Co-Round D:..;-.-r3,of.YYkaf Going On In National Affairt CT. o WAR QUIZ. 1. A hundred of these in the Philippines might have ruined Jap plans to attack the Island of Luzon, capture Manila and besiege be-siege General MacArthufs forces. What type of plane is it? 2. To help defend approaches to the Panama Canal, the Army has r if c jar -r . V.'.. i "Si ' 1 Th- AirNTON Behind the scenes, Jesse ry Jones fougnt to the bitter end against losing his bottlenecking control over loans to small business. w With the Army, Navy and War Production Board tearing their hair over Jesse's penny-. penny-. pinching obstructionism, and with Congress getting ready to legislate against him, the President Pres-ident finally notified Jones he would have to relinquish authority over small loans. Jones protested vigorously but Roosevelt directed that the necessary executive order be drafted. Jones sat in on this drafting conference of war production chiefs, where he made a final effort. to stave off the ax. His first move was to suggest that lawyers be called In to pass on the legality of stripping Us authority. "Jesse," said Sidney Weinberg, special assistant as-sistant to Donald Nelson, "you've created enough bottlenecks, without having a bunch of lawyers in to create any more. The President has ordered this done and under the War. Powers Pow-ers Act he has the authority to do it. No lawyers law-yers are needed to pass on the matter." - Jones then shifted his argument to an old favorite of his, the questionable soundness of loans to little business men. "Suppose these loans that will be made under the proposed new setup don't pay out," he said. "After the war you people will .be blamed. We've made all our loans On sound credit rules." "Ves, but these .are war times," retorted Weinberg, "and the controlling principle is not sound credit rules but war production needs. Further, why are you" always .worrying about money? After the war. none of us will have much money, so why worry about it? There are alot of other things In life far more important." im-portant." JONES' NEMESIS To witness his signing of the executive order, the President invited Senators Murray, . Mont!, Mead, N. Y., and' Capper, Kan. This " Was much merited recognition of their long . fight for little business men. One other man also deserved a public pat on the back, but was - not invited. , Probably Roosevelt didn't know him. Only a few insiders ". do. -; ' -: 1 v -He is Shreves Coles Badger, retiring, liberal lib-eral Chicago investment banker, who has been quietly-after Jones' scalp. Summoned to Washington in the early . days of the old OPM to help little business, : Badger , ran up against the iron-handed policy ' : of " Jesse . Jones in every move he made. "After months of vain effort. Badger finally compiled t report of 2,000 subcontractors kept out of war. production because of inability to get - needed loans from Jones, - - Armed -with this devastating document. . Badger began a quiet but tenacious crusade against 'Jones, soon had the Army Navy, WPB and 'Congress lined up against him. This proved one- combination the bulky Texan couldn't lick. When word reached Badger of the executive order taking small loans away from Jesse, he remarked,:, "Well, I may have1 worked myself out of 'a job, but it's a pleasure. Mr. Jones also : has been worked ' out of one." -v , ?. CtTTRATE HAIRCUTS : The liveliest 'part bf 'Hduie debate ort the ! legislative appropriation bill (providing funds , ' ' for the operation of Congress) does not appear in the Congressional Record. It was over the issue cf half-price haircuts for congressmen, and was deleted by members who feared repercussions re-percussions if their constituents learned about the boodle. Representative Frederick Smith, a plain-talking plain-talking Ohioan, raised the ticklish haircut issue. Representative Emmet O'Neal of Kentucky, economy-preaching chairman of a subcommittee subcommit-tee on the bill, was explaining various "miscellaneous" "miscel-laneous" items, when he remarked, with a disapproving dis-approving look at the press gallery: "It is a common fallacy that haircuts, shaves, soda water and things like that are furnished House members free. That idea is a mistake." Smith of Ohio immediately jumped up to question this. "Why not be frank with ourselves and the people about haircuts?' he demanded. "They cost us only 25 cents in the House barber shop, half or less than half the regular price. That's getting something free, isn't it? Why not admit ad-mit it to the people?" O'Neal was so startled that his pince-nez-glasses almost fell off. He coughed nervously, but did not attempt to refute Smith. Neither did anyone else. Later the Ohioan was besieged by members to delete his remarks. Finally he gave in. JAP PROPAGANDA According to A Tokio broadcast, beamed toward South America. Roosevelt took Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur out of the Philippines because he suffered suf-fered severe defeat This sort of propaganda was to be expected, but not expected was the source quoted by Tokyo a story in the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, written by its Washington Washing-ton correspondent, Fernando Ortiz-Echague. Actually, Oritz-Echague said just the opposite, op-posite, compared Roosevelt . and MacArthur to Clemenceau and Foch, predicted for them the frame brilliant', record as those French leaders. MERRY-GO-ROUND Senate insiders are predicting that Earl Harrison, able -Philadelphia Republican, will be confirmed as Commissioner of Immigration despite the "personal objections" of Democratic Senator Joe Guffey. Harrison did - a widely acclaimed job directing the alien registration last year and agreed to take the Immigration post at a personal sacrifice . . . Robert Guthrie, WPB executive whose, resignation exploded a bombshell, tinder profit-minded dollar-a-year men, asked Wendell Wlllkle to act as his counsel coun-sel when he appeared before the congressional investigating committee. The GOP leader-declined, however, on the ground that h did not want to appear in th light f harassing the Administration . . . In a letter to the War Labor Board, Ted F. Sllvey. plain-talking secretary of the Ohio CIO Council, charged that in order to bring unions into dispute, Certain employers are deliberately stirring up labor disturbances by placing negro workers among whites without with-out first consulting shop stewards. Sftvey declared de-clared that the T30 ts against race discrimination discrimina-tion but is opposed to precipitous action by em- plovers . ; . National Maritime Union, a CTO affiliate, has a, "foreign section, with ho control by U. S to organise seamen serving on U. 8. ships under the, flag of Panama. The union has a strong communistic flavor. (Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate, inc.) , j aaaUttJNaaNirfNM Wttia. stationed troops on the little Dutch West Indian island of Curacao. Cu-racao. This place has given its name to something many people find very delectable. What is It? 3. President Roosevelt at a recent re-cent press conference said America Amer-ica also had its Cliveden set. What country originally had one? What did they do? Answer on Page Eight I UNCLE EF Seems to me there's one important im-portant thing to keep in mind during all this argument as to the. 4 0 h o u r week. It's a grand thing, and it was . a grand thing in France, too, and French labor la-bor insisted on keeping it, and I wonder how many hours the French are working for the Germans Ger-mans now and for how many pieces of bread. ' - . MoCO ENTERS SENATORIAL RACE CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3l (ILE CoL. Tim McCoy, western movie ' star " who never accepted Hollywood fl'3 his . home, tossed his wide-brimmed Stetson into the senatorial ring today. . McCoy, former Wyoming state adjutant, announced he had filed application to run in the Wyoming Wyom-ing Republican . primary in a letter let-ter to Republican State Chairman James B. Griffith. . AUNT HET By AOtUCir QUUJLlBJ! Christian Science Church The current Christian Science lesson sermon treats on reality. Among the scriptural refer ences are: "O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee ? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world . and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them." (Ps. 89:8, 11). "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations." (Ps. 145:13). "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power; for thou has created all tnings, ana for thy pleasure they are and were created." (Rev. 4:11). The following excerpts are from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal." (P. 482:24-26). "The Scriptures imply God Is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence ex-istence except the divine mind and His ideas.. He is all-inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing noth-ing else." (P. 331:11-13). "Christian "Chris-tian Science reveals incontrover-tibly incontrover-tibly that Mind Is All-in-all, and that the only realities are the divine Mind and idea." (P. 109: 4-6). "All the real is eternal. Perfection Per-fection underlies reality. Without perfection nothing is wholly real." (P. 333:16-18). per net ton will be allowed where $1 or less. An increase of 5 cents per het ton will be allowed where the previous tariff was more than $1. Increases on a gross ton basis were also allowed. They will total to-tal from 4 to 6 cents.; RENO PREPARES FOR RACING SEASON RENO, Nev., April 1 (U.E) Work on 400 new stables and reconditioning recondi-tioning of the old stables at Silver State Park, Reno's horserace track, began today. . Secretary Jack Winston said the first meeting, meet-ing, expected to draw turf fans from California where racing is banned, will open May 30. Why Uncle Sam Is. . At Your Job? Skills Lookinc Needec By PETER EDSON Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 1 Mailing Mail-ing out of the four-page ."Occupational ."Oc-cupational Questionnaire" to the nine million men from 20 to 44 who registered, for selective service serv-ice Feb. 16 ia only the beginning. It will be some weeks before the data : obtained from these cards can be i put into use and it will be months before the job Is completed com-pleted for all of the 40 million men who have registered in the first and second - drafts and "will register in the fourth and later. What will have to happen is this: The first cards will be mailed out April l. It will take five days; or so for the local draft boards to complete the job of addressing the cards and mailing them, so if a registrant doesn't get his card by April 2, this will be why. Within 10 days after a registrant regis-trant geta his occupational questionnaire, ques-tionnaire, he will be required to have it filled in- and returned to his local board. Here is where the first headache will come, for no matter how simple a questionnaire question-naire is, it's a formidable obstacle. As this one measures 8x15 inches, has 34 principal questions, requires re-quires a check on 228 trades and has to be filled in duplicate, with coupons and stubs torn off and disposed of according to directions, direc-tions, there is bound to be confusion. con-fusion. Many of the registrants will need help in filling out the forms. To provide this help, the 6500 local draft boards and the 1500 offices of the United States Employment Service have asked employers and labor unions for help. . To foreign-born workers and those with the lower I. Q., the listing list-ing of special skills may be difficult, dif-ficult, but that doesn't necessarily necessar-ily mean a man is no good as a dynamic balancer,, internal key-seating key-seating machine operator, steel mill pulpit man or template maker, to name just four of the 228 trades in which there is a shortage of workers. Clone Checkup When the forms are filled out, one goes to the local draft board and the other to the nearest United States Employment Office. Then comes the checkup. Every man must be interviewed and tested to prove that he filled out his questionnaire correctly. - A man who has been a grease monkey isn't a mechanic, a juggler jug-gler isn't a dynamic balancer, an internal keyseat isn't an usher, a pulpit man isn't a preacher and a template maker Isn't a dentist. So employment office tests must be given to see that every man 1 correctly1 classified. - - What happens next is interes ing. If a man Is classified as drill press operator but Isn't wt king at Jt and there is a ehoi" age, of drill press operators, U. Employment Service will tell U man where he can get such wo and if he takes the job, he will : 1 building up ' his own deferm 1 status if - he is performing t . I sential work in a war product! , industry. Or, if a man is qualify for training in an essential ;; d us try, he can be given the e portunity to build up his skill . that in time he may be given : ferment. : Will Watch Shortages The Employment Service v. keep draft boards advised on the' trades in which there may be lal shortages. Maybe, at a given tirt mere win ne a noruge or ia labor. Farmers coming up for t duction into the service may tY i be given temporary deferment J The emphasis will thus be ,! upon keeping out of the Army rf wno are - more urgently needed j war production, of replacing w kers who can do military se ice with workers who because age or pnysical disabilities . n not be able to pass Army tests, speeding up war production transferring workers from nom sential to essential industles. In all this cataloguing of wf Kers tnere will of course be nf lions of men in whom the production machinery will not interested. They'll go into , Army, if they can pass physlca For those workers who do h special skills, provision is made putting them on jobs where t will be the most useful. In do this, there is no idea of forcn skilled workers to take jobs thf don't want or of enforced mat! migration of labor to location where they don't want to live. 1 1 When the job is completed tui all the 40 -million selective service serv-ice registrants, however, the country should have a pretty good Idea of what its manpower situation sit-uation is going to be for fighting the war. LUNCH ROOM PROVIDED SPANISH FORK A new lunch room for the accomodation of all high school students who avalt themselves of the opportunity t take the hot lunches provided as a Nebo School district, P. T. A. and and W. P. A. project has been opened at the Spanish Fork high school. The room has a seating capacity of 125. So They Say . . . If the men of Australia fight as well as they argue, we are certain of victory. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, at dinner given for him by Australian Aus-tralian Parliament. The American people are resentful resent-ful and humiliated at being kicked around In this war. Clarence B. Kelland, Republican National Committee publicity director. It now seems that the United Nations crtnnot lose the war except ex-cept through our own failure to use our conblned overwhelming strength. Prime Minister Winstoh' Churchill. Concentration by high schools on classic college preparatory courses is a luxury the nation can ill afford at this time. Lamar Johnson, dean of Stephens Ste-phens College. Isn't it a glorious- way to unite our country to put Congress on the spot and condemn the one institution insti-tution which stands for representative represent-ative government? Senator. Elbert Thomas, Utah Democrat. O SERIAL STORY MEXICAN MASQUERADE BY CECIL CARNES COPYRIGHT. 144. NBA SaRVICC. INC Slight Increase Granted Coal Men "If this U a. war boom, it ain't like the ather one. You never t hear a high-nosed woman .askin' the clerk if he : ain't got something more expensive,' SALT LAKE CITY. March &-- IaiEvCoal dealers In 'the inter-mountain inter-mountain country have' received word from OPA that they will be penniuea . to mxe 1 ineir prices' wj meet the increase in freight rates recently, granted , by the interstate commission, it was learned today", v John E. . Hamm, OPA administrator adminis-trator urged wholesalers and retailers re-tailers wherever possible to absorb the rate - increased Increases f In the price will amount to 3 cents TUB 6 TORY i Allan Steele poa-iair poa-iair a matraslBe photographer, erka Dr. Hartteat aad daafhter, on U. S. mlaalea, la Mexleo'a Pea-limala, Pea-limala, who hare disappeared! alao Irm of Harry Blahop. maddened by mraterlooa lajeetloa walla aaaie mlaaioa. Iliahop, found, repeated re-peated onlr "The yellow devlla!" Allan learna from Sua So, Chlneaa proprietor af laolated Inn, whs la worklaa; with is. 8 that there la Japaneae cannery on nearby inland in-land that "beautiful and evil" Unraalan Ctrl, Aala Minor, who hatea the Emrllah, la connected with It. He meeta her, aeea Col. IQacobar, eaiirmarle oflleer of Rural Unard, ajlre her an envelop. Steele decide Jap cannery mlxht be front for plane and bomber a apply baae. AN INVITATION CHAPTER VII fOOL, clean and comfortable, Allan wandered out into the patio, feigned surprise at seeing the seated couple, and threw thera a friendly wave of his hand. As he had hoped they might, the guilty pair acclaimed him with one second and invited him to join them in a drink. The enchantress explained how she had already met Senor Steele; ' her cavalier, without going into details, confessed con-fessed to having had the same distinguished dis-tinguished honor. , Allan thought Escobar appeared a trifle moody, which he put down . to a reasonable resentment on the officer's part to being interrupted in his intrigues and amours. But when the- lady excused herself presently to go to her room and to hide that precious envelope surmised the American Escobar Seized the opportunity quIckly. Tve been dying to tell' you something strange and dramatic, senor, but I did not wish to men tion it in the presence of Senorita Minor. You recall the doctor with whom we left Pepe' this afters noon?" "Perfectly. Sounded like a good man." "He has sounded like one for 12 years in Ensenada. He came to San Saba only recently, when the old doctor died. Well, two minutes min-utes after we left, Pepe recovered consciousness, recognized the doctor doc-tor by a scar on his left' wrist - and knifed him seven times. - v "Good -;Lordl Recognized him? 'You mean 1" ; . V-- . . -"Dr.. Machado, 15 years ago, was leader, of the bandits , who tortured. tor-tured. Pepe. He inadeja nice stake : Jn crime, then retired to civil life, . practiced, medicine, and was in'all respects ' a ; reputable citizens - He told the story to the police before he .died.V '. A " , - . - :.; : v "Good griefl And poor Pepe? r Murder is murder, I know, but . considering the life he has led as a cripple-since that scoundrel in- Jured bira-welV hope the 'law will be lenient with hlm.w v "The law will" said Escobar, smiling faintly as he made wet circles on the table top with his glass. "Naturally, I have quite a little influence with the law in San Saba, and my sympathies are wholly with Pepe. Very wrong, is it not? However, the incident is interesting in the way it bears out what I told you this noon, that it is no longer possible to Judge men by their outward appearance. Imagine a man like Dr. Machado having a history like that 1 And here is our lady!" a '"THE three of them dined to-A to-A gether, and Allan discovered an excellent chef was one of the hotel's numerous delights. The Indian In-dian boy placed a pink-shaded lamp on the table that made Asia still more a vision of soft loveliness. loveli-ness. The boy also brought a summons sum-mons for Escobar. A messenger from San Saba awaited el senor colonel in the lobby. His orderly with the day's routine report, explained ex-plained Escobar for Allan's benefit, and begged them to excuse him for 10 minutes while he initialed it The two left at the table sat in silence for several moments. Asia, regarding i.him pensively, was smoking and plainly enjoying one of Allan's cigarets. And Allan was enjoying her till he suddenly shook aft the Circean spell which was creeping over his senses. . While she followed the movement, move-ment, idly at first, he wet the tip of one forefinger in the moisture from a glass and drew a bold V on the table, before her. At the same instant, a fingernail on his other hand began to tap a quick rhythm on the metal. Dot-dot-dot-dash. Dot-dot-dot-dash. The Morse code for the letter V. Dot-dot-dot-dash! - Had he reached across and slapped her face, her reaction could not have been more swift and spontaneous. The lithe figure drew back sharply, stiffened tensely; tense-ly; anger flamed in the eyes fixed on his. Her lips parted, but he managed to speak first. - .v- - ''"PORGIVE me, dear lady!" he pleaded; he dropped a hand on one " of hers - and. pressed it tight VI played that trick on you because I hoped it might show . me how yptt feel about some things. In this Mexico,; one. can never be sure of his' neighbor. But now I know one thing aboui you Asia. You hate the English even er even more than I do!" v?. . : '. : ! Slowly, her eyes calmed as she considered him. The color, came back; to cheeks which had - been , white with anger. She nodded. ."This coimtry is neutral, Senoi Steele. There is no reason why I should conceal my sentiments. Yes, I hate the English, and with cause!" Once more her eyes were sultry. "I'm a Eurasian, and " " "I know," he said, and made it sound sympathetic. "I'm American Ameri-can by birth, but I come from a family that has suffered much from the English er iyranny. Many of us have not forgotten past wrongs." "Ah. Now I understand!" She scrutinized him shrewdly. "But you do nothing about it, you and your great stupid country! Oh, if I were a man, I would strike hard for vengeance! A woman can do so little." ; "The hell you say!" thought Allan, and grinned to himself. Aloud, he replied: "Indeed, Senorita, Seno-rita, you don't do me justice. I am only watching for an opportunity oppor-tunity a chance to strike! Tell me anything I can do and and I'll show you something!" - "Perhaps later, we will talk again! Here is Escobar." She greeted him with a warm smile. lAlfredo, I am just suggesting to Senor Steele that he ride with me early tomorrow morning, before the sun is too high. I have prom ised to show him some subjects for his camera.". "Why not?" said the colonel cheerfully. "I must be away, myself, my-self, or I would be delighted to help you." ; "It's mighty nice of you, senorita, seno-rita, and I'll accept your offer with pleasure. Nine o'clock early enough? Okay, it's a date." Ha stood up. "And now, I'm off to bed, after a long hard day." He entered the hotel by the lobby, which ..was deserted. Ha half -turned to go to his room, then changed his mind and elected to stretch his legs in a five-minute walk up the road and back. There was a three-quarter moon to give him light" ... . , He had his stroll, and returr He was wearing tennis shoes, terly noiseless in the white dl . of the road, which was why came unnoticed upon a man stan ing by the gate of. the inn an4 watching the building. Allan no- ticed he was dressed in a dark-4 colored shirt and trousers, wore a 1 spreading straw - sombrero and was smoking a-cigaret .: . "Koia!" said Allan companion-ably.- Then he blinked, for the figure melted into the shadows and was gone .asi suddenly as if it had been a startled ghost "All right, my snooty friend; high-hat me as much as you please and see if X carel" - - ' i f (Te B Continued) V |