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Show PAGE TWO PRO VP (UTAH) '.DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY,- JULY 28, 1942 Satarda (Cseapttas Snndar) PaMtsh Sunday ktoralae Pnbllaaed r tna Barald Corporation, I oath rirM Wait Strfrtt, Proro, Utah. Kntarad M mmM iIih matter at th poetftfttc la frer. Utah, aadar tha act f March a. 1IT. Oilman. Nlcol A Sathman. National Advartie-fn Advartie-fn rapr atatlraa, Naw York, San Franclaeo, Datrait. Boatoa, Loa Anralaa. Chlcaao. hUaibar Cnl tad Praaa. H. B. A. Sarvlea, artppa Laarua af Nawipaprs Baraaa a ClrcataUon. alii a wt in in MaaaaMa Mad r MID" IteiM Ubartr throash U tha land" Tha Libert? Ball BubaortptUa tarma y aarrlar la Utah aeuntr. aau tha month. II. far aU month. In advanca: 17.10 tha year, la advaaaofc by mall anywhere In Unltad Statea ar Ha poaaaaalona It eanta tha month; It. II tar eta month; 11.71 tna yaar ta advance. Th Harald will not Urimt flnanotal .aa aponalblllty for any arrora which may appear In advartlnaman'a publiahad ta Ita eel u ran, la thoae Inatancaa where tha papay ta at fault, tt will raprtnt that part af tha advertUetneat ta ahlch tha typographical ailatako Canada Comes Through Before Pearl Harbor, a great argument argu-ment of Anglophobe anti-interventionists was that the British dominions domin-ions were holding back and trying to force the United States to carry the burden against the axis. For one reason or other, the Canadians Ca-nadians and the Australians chose deliberately not to answer such jibes, at first. By the time they began be-gan promulgating the record, much harm had been done. Never, up to now, has the Canadian case tjeen presented frankly and clearly. Just for the record, it is worth while examining a few facts about the Canadian war effort. Australia can be left to fend for herself. The Aus-sies' Aus-sies' fighting has provided a better answer to detractors than any figures. fig-ures. So, too, has the Canadians', but it has been less dramatically publicized. 9ft 9fi Canada already has half a million mil-lion men under arms, and is adding 20,000 a month. Considering differences differ-ences in population, the United States" will need an army of six millions, mil-lions, calling quarter of a million into the services monthly, before we can criticize Canada. Canada actually has expended five billion dollars on the war. Considering Con-sidering differences in national income, in-come, we shall have actually to pay out eighty billions before we shall equal Canada in financial sacrifice. Canada has multiplied her prewar pre-war airplane production by 120. She is making 4800 planes a year. We should have to turn out 57,600 air-craft-a-year to catch up with Canada. Can-ada. Canada has put 835,000 men and women into war jobs. This is equivalent equiv-alent to 10 million American' war workers. 3 3fr 3fc We have surpassed Canada in the proportionate number of persons per-sons engaged in war production. The HI Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission chairman, announces that we have 12,500,000 thus employed. em-ployed. But it must be remembered that this was an industrial nation to begin with, while 25 years ago Canada Can-ada had so little industry that the government did not jtrouble to take an annual census of manufactures. We have far fewer than six million mil-lion men under arms. We are taking in fewer than quarter of a million men monthly. We have actually spent less than 35 billion dollars on the war from the middle of 1940 to the end of last month. We hope and expect to make 60,000 airplanes this year, but this will represent considerably consid-erably less than a 120-fold expansion expan-sion of our pre-war production. Carping at Canada isn't a popular popu-lar pastime any more. Nevertheless it may do no harm to note what our neighbor is doing for the defense of democracy. Changing Jobs Unless they are weighed carefully careful-ly and to some extent even then the most recent Labor Department statistics on job quitting are disturbing. disturb-ing. They are for April, and the situation situa-tion may have changed again. But the trend up to that time was consistent. con-sistent. . Half again as many workers were leaving their jobs, for one reason or another, this year as against 1941. That was true alike of voluntary quitting and of discharges. The first, of course, reflects men going into -the armed forces and workers taking tak-ing better positions. The second reflects discharges of unskilled workers taken on due to industrial expansion. Production will proceed much more smoothly when we get the machinery shaken down so labor turnover levels off. The Plea From Russia Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs brswAu:nT-n.Tiv.daV,r WASHINGTON If you are wondering what has been done about building those 30p wooden barges to relieve the oil transportation problem in the East and New England, the answer is next to nothing. Though the President okayed the program some weeks ago, during a conference with Senators Ralph Brewster and Wallace White of Maine, and though Donald Nelson also is strong for it, the Maritime Commission, which has $20,000,000 allocated for the barges, seems in no mood to get going. Senators Brewster and White informed the President that New England faced an oil famine this winter because of the war diversion of tankers, which normally deliver 90 per cent of the petroleum for this area. The two Senators urgently suggested that at least 300 wooden targes be built at once to substitute for the tankers. "We can build that many in Maine alone and they can be ued to haul oil, in barrels, anywhere any-where along the Eastern seaboard," Brewster pointed out. "We have in Maine a number of small yards which have been idle since the war began also, plenty of lumber and expert craftsmen crafts-men who have had years of experience in wooden shipbuilding." The President was all for the idea. He instructed in-structed Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief of the Maritime Commission, to get 300 wooden barges as fast as possible. So far, however, contracts con-tracts for only 35 barges have been let, and Maritime Commission officials admit no more are "in prospect.'' One inside reason for the delay is the Maritime Mari-time Commission's deep-seated antipathy to any type of wooden cargo vessels. The fact that there is no steel for the barges doesn't seem to count. Members of Congress who have inquired about the barge building program have been told that the Commission has no experts in its employ who are "familiar with wood," nor has an effort been made to get any despite the President's order. Other excuses have been that wooden barges were a menace to navigation because of the fire hazard;-and oil leaking from wooden barges, killed fish. However, until a few years ago, wooden, rather than steel, barges were used almost exclusively for hauling oil. Meanwhile, Thomas R. McDermott of New Orleans, and other Louisiana-Texas barge builders, build-ers, have been cooling their heels in the Maritime Mari-time Commission pleading for a chance to build wooden barges, and to build them almost overnight. DO-AS-DONE-BY DEPT. Realizing the vital problem presented by the fact that mills have only a little more than one montha supply of scrap iron on hand, one of the big , Midwestern newspapers, the , Omaha World-Herald, has .started its own program to get Nebraska farmers and businessmen to round up their scrap. Publishing a series of full page advertise ments In color, the World-Herald is reminding its readers that "Time is Slipping By." that we can't "Leave it all up to George," and offers awards of $2,000 in War Bonds to business firms, individuals and youngsters bringing in the most scrap. The newspaper also designed a "Scrap Scout" badge, awarded to any boy or girl who brings in 25 pounds of scrap iron or rubber. The campaign has aroused tremendous enthusiasm and it looks as if the World-Herald would be instrumental in-strumental in cleaning up all the scrap iron in Nebraska. CARUSO'S WIDOW When the S. S. Drottningholm arrived at New York on her latest trip, great confusion and disappointment arose from the fact that passengers were detained aboard for as long as six days, while rigid examinations were carried out by Immigration, FBI, and State Department officials. In the midst of this confusion, one passenger pas-senger remained serene Dorothy Caruso, widow wid-ow of the great Metropolitan Opera tenor Enrico En-rico Caruso. Returning from France and Italy, where she had been doing social work, American-born Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso was eager to get ashore in the New York she used to know. But Jesse Saugstad, State Department's shipping ship-ping expert, came to her and said: "Mrs,. Caruso, you have been a soothing influence in-fluence among these people through the whole voyage, and although I could get you off today, I would like you to stay aboard and quiet some of these ruffled tempers." Mrs. Caruso was glad to oblige. With her two daughters, Gloria and Jacqueline, she remained re-mained on the Drottningholm, tied up to the pier, for six days, mingling with grouchy and discontented passengers. On the last day. daughter Gloria, who had not seen America since she was a child, was asked what she wanted to do most when she got asfhore. r "I don't want to stay in New York," she said. "After all the confusion of the trip and the heartrending things I have seen in Europe, I just want to get out into the woods somewhere, some-where, and sit under a tree for a whole week!" CAPITAL CHAFF Probably the traffic cop who ticketed the limousine parked in front of the Commerce Department, corner of E and 15th Sts., didn't know it belonged to Nelson Rockefeller. The chauffeur had left the car just long enougn to walk the terrier . . . Despite the war, the muCh vaunted Civil Service system moves like molasses. mo-lasses. A young man who joined the Navy in-March, in-March, after working for six months 4n the Office of Price Administration, has just been advised by the Civil Service Commission that he is eligible to accept the job he resigned from three months ago. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) mMmw iff iV--" J r :.jP.iay' all I II ' I ' laal S ' i ii ill imm I ..I ' -i iiii . ..in' ' i i ii f i YmiViimm fclM awM, in . ... . ... .... 5) O Boots Questions On Price Control The following questionsvand ans wers on various orders and intf-N pretations of orders by war agencies were prepared by the Salt Lake Office of War Information: Informa-tion: . I it true that the Rubber ManufarturerM association Is going go-ing to provide all necessary civil-Ian civil-Ian tires under their recently announced an-nounced plan? A. The plan is understood to be based on the premise that there is no rubber available for nonessential non-essential driving. In other words, any program they develop will be used to bolster the supply of tires for essential uses. Otherwise, even some trucks and automobiles devoted to essential war and civilian use may be grounded before be-fore long. Q. Does fl:e fact that only five Utah counties were lnclmted in the first defense-rental area In the state for which regulations were issued mean that thes are the only counties In which rents will be controlled. A. Not necessarily. Tooele, Box-elder Box-elder and Cache counties, Utah and Bannock, Power, Bingham and Bonneville counties in Idaho have all been named in defense rental areas and the OPA may issue regulations controlling them later on. Q. Why has the OPA permitted the price of cranned soup to rise when the general maximum price regulation Is designed to stabilize prices. A. A new formula for pricing of canped soups was issued because be-cause of the WJPB orders conserving con-serving tin. Thee orders necessitated neces-sitated more use of solids and also bigger can. Thus, although you will ipay more for your can of soup, you will get a larger can and it will have more solid food stuffs In it and less water than heretofore. H' woes the government still want used typewriters for war agencies r A. Very definitely. If you have an idle machine no more than seven sev-en years old, get in touch with vour nearest dealer at onco w has full details and is authorized 10 Duy your machine. BIRTHDAYS Wednesday, July 29 MRS. B. L. PARKER JOHN HARRISON MRS. LOLA ADAMS , MRS. DICK . BOSHARD MRS". ED JONES Provo Flier Now Flight Officer Of Atlantic Wing Mrs. Jess Haws has an interesting inter-esting letter from her son. Captain Cap-tain J. W. "Bill" Haws, who is in England, stationed there as flight control officer of the North Atlantic Atlan-tic wing. Captain Haws was a reserve officer and resigned to become employed by the United Airlines. He was taken back Into the service serv-ice over two months ago and was called to Florida, where his wife and baby son. Larry, have remained at Palm Beach. Haws left Maine July 13, for England, along with another commander. com-mander. In his letter he tells of the fascinating and beautiful scenery viewed while passing over Greenland Green-land the hundreds of Icebergs, and the unusual red' and green coloring on the water. Urge Isolation Ward At Utah County Jail Upon advice from federal physical phys-ical inspectors, Sheriff Theron S. Hall recomended to the county commission Monday that an isolation isola-tion ward be constructed in the county jail. Citing the health problem that will arise from the influx of defense de-fense workers, Sheriff Hall also recommended, that Dr. J. J. Wieight be authorized to give a thorough physical examination to each new person admitted to the Jail. little Steel' Is Used As Crystal Ball By The Seer By PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Oorrespnodent In an effort to see what may lie ahead, take another gander at this War Labor Board decision giving the employes of the four "Little Steel'' companies an increase of $2.20 a week, which has been magnified into something that is going to break the nation. This speculation may be as futile as most crystal gazing, or trying to predict the outcome of the campaign cam-paign in Egypt and the valley of the Don. But now that Joy riding rid-ing is on the wane, experting becomes the favorite amateur sport, so pull up a chair. In the first place, the Little Steel cases aren't settled yet, and here is a possibility they'll be right back in the WLB lap before long, for this reason: The C. I. O. Steel Workers' Organizing Committee and the four companies compan-ies have to get together and sign something. The WLB decision merely settled the question of wages and union security. Unsettled Un-settled is the time element the question of how long this contract con-tract is to run. The unions may take the position that this is just another contract, and should therefore run for just another two-year period. The steel companies com-panies may take the position that since this is a war contract, it should be made for the duration. If the two parties can't get together, to-gether, wach for the case to come back to the WLB doorstep. The general Interpretation of the WLB devlslon on wages was that It was a victory for labor and a slap at employers and antl-Inflationlsts antl-Inflationlsts In and out of the government. gov-ernment. This probably would be denied by a majority of the Labor Board members, and labor maintains It took a licking. The WLB position is that it Is. just as interested in preventing inflation infla-tion as is any other department of government. Furthermore, the four WLB representatives of the pufclic, when they decided to vote with the four employer representatives, represen-tatives, and grant, increases of only 44 cents a day, were afraid the labor representatives would pull out and wreck the, war labor mediation setup for a second time. But labor agreed to "take the cut." WHAT IS A CUT? Was it a "cut?" The Labor Board insists it was. In setting wage-level vs. cost-of-living ratios back to Jan. 1, 1941 Instead of accepting as a base the ratio existing when steel got its last increase In April, 1941 WLB claims It reallr was cutting wages back to the relative cost of living values that existed in 1937. In other words, the Labor Board presents pre-sents its action as restoring steel wages to the levels of five years ago and wiping out all the wage increaea steel labor had gained in that time. Actual dollars and cents wages are higher, but the value of the wages is lower. If this is the theory which WLB wishes to establish, it means that on future decisions the board will disregard all the other major increases in-creases labor received in 1941, including the 10 cents an hour increase in-crease given Steel in April, 1941, the $1 a day increase given coal miners in April; the 10 cents an hour increase given General Motors Mo-tors in April, the seven cents and three cents increases given Chrysler Chrys-ler in February and May, the' 23 per cent Increase given Ford employes em-ployes in June, and the 10 cents an hour increase granted railroad labor in December. On this formula, for-mula, future wage questions submitted sub-mitted to WLB would be settled on the basis of, "How do your wages compare with what they were in reference to the cost of living in January, 1941 or 1937?" Wage increases granted since then will have little weight. Another round of raises Is not in order. LONG WAITING LIST But there are plenty of cases to settle. The War Labor Board Itself It-self has 125 unsettled cases on the docket, . including five major industries in-dustries the 'big three automobile automo-bile companies, aluminum, rubber, rub-ber, textiles and meat packers. The auto cases are perhaps the most Important from a wage standpoint, as auto industry wages usually follow steel and in turn influence other wage levels. The General Motors case was certified cer-tified to the board in April, and hearings before a panel were held through May and June. The panel has adjourned to prepare a report. Panels have just started hearings on the Ford and Chrysler cases. Decisions are weeks, or months off. But behind the 125 cases certified certi-fied to WLB there are some 1800 cases now in the hands of Dr. John R. Steelman's Conciliation Service. Most of these involve wage increase demands. ' The President has said the increase granted to Little Steel labor does not constitute an increase in the cost of living. But if the word has been given to Dr. Steelman to try to settle his 1800 cases on the basis bas-is of the Little Steel , decision, you can bet your bottom dollar some of those 1800 cases and some of WLB's 125 cases will touch living costs. WAR QUIZ ,13 1. Card-playing Japs will rue the day they ever put the ace of spades into a deck. It is the insignia for one of our hardhitting hard-hitting aviation squadrons. Can you name it? 2. Soldiers in the field artll lery are aching for a crack at the axis, but none of them want to serve in Battery Q. Why? 3. Who is Brig.-Gen. Claire L. Channault? Answers on Page Eight Trailer Sanitation Problems Discussed For the purpose of correlating law and sanitation enforcement in Utah county, George Smeath, county planning director, Sheriff Theron S. Hall Dr. J. J. Weight, county physician Arnold Roylance, county attorney, C. A. Grant, county clerk and R. J. Murdock, Sylvan Clark, and William Johnson, John-son, county commissioners, met Monday afternoon. Anticipating the problem that will arise, from having haphazard trailer camps set up in the county, the officials discussed enforcement laws for the prevention of trailers being parked anywhere but in a licensed trailer camp. SERIAL STORY BANNERS FLYING BY MARY RAYMOND COPYRIOHT. It 41. NCA scnvicciNc. AUjNT Hhl By ROBERT QUILLEN "I knew what would - happen. Billy Is so sweet an tries so hard to please her, she can't resist the temptation to boss him." THE STORVl Ckriatlc CoHom kaa promised her Saace, Bart Baa-Seraoa, Baa-Seraoa, aat t Sy aay aaare. Bart, a a air eatamalaat klasaclf, la rJ-todleed rJ-todleed aaralaat vromra fly era, bat C'arlatle la tralalna;, la aerlona belief be-lief that ahe eaa be belafal ta war work:. Wkem ake la about to tell ker ahr twin alater, Jaa, tkat ah la ena-aaed, Jaa eoafaaaea ahe 1a tko brink of falUaa; la lore keraelf. From Jaa'a deaerlatloa, Ckrlatle deeldea the ma a laa't too Interesting. a a EMERGENCY FLIGHT CHAPTER IV JHRISTIE had a noon luncheon date with Bart. Meanwhile, he was spending the morning with his mother, and Christie was meeting with a committee on the Fete of the Lanterns, a benefit for Chinese relief. A group of her friends Ellen Wells, Roberta Barlow, Elaine Richardson, and Sue Foster, had already arrived. And Christie paused a moment in the doorway as a shock of surprise ran through her another girl! A girl with a cloud-of dark hair framing her thin face, a cigaret between her poppy -red lips. "Christie," Mildred exclaimed, "we're really in luck. This is Sandra San-dra Rydall. She spent some months in China once, and she has the grandest ideas. Wait until you hear them. "Maybe you've met," -Mildred continued. "Yes, we have," Christie replied, re-plied, "at the dance last night.", "You run into so many people at dances," Sandra said with a low laugh, "and sometimes three is a crowd." Roberta spoke up: "Sounds like Bart Sanderson was around. You are new in this town, Sandra, but it won't take you long to learn." "One of those .romances that haven't yet become routine," Sandra San-dra said, slowly. Only Christie caught the emphasis on the. "yet." And that, she was sure, was because be-cause 'she was looking for it. Poise completely restored, she spoke easily: "Stop chattering, Roberta, and let's get started. I've a luncheon date." She turned to Sandra: "So you have some Ideas?" ' "I'm filled with them," Sandra answered. "I don't know yet that they'll work." Again, that odd emphasis. "I'd like to hear them. We're here to plan decorations, you know." "That's one of the Ideas." Sandra's San-dra's eyes met Christie's without smiling. Mildred was looking startled. . . "In a moment, Millie, or somebody, some-body, will guess Sandra and Xare having a private war," Christie thought. She felt a little ashamed. Perhaps, she was at fault. Maybe, May-be, Sandra had sensed her resentment resent-ment in the beginning. She remembered re-membered Bart had said, "Aren't you a little unfair? You don't even know her." Well, she knew Sandra could be cheap. Her manners were not only unconventional, they were rude. But she was here, offering to help. a CANDRA'S ideas were good, she had to admit. There'd be the ball, of course, with everybody wearing Chinese costumes. Then, in another room to draw the older crowd all the Chinese art treasures that could be borrowed in and around Westwood would be displayed. Maybe there'd be a special corner for Chinese fans. "Why it's wonderful," Christie exclaimed. She began appointing committees. commit-tees. Sandra would head the decorations dec-orations committee. Another group would collect the art objects, and another would arrange for insurance insur-ance on them. "I must dash now," Christie said, glancing at her wrist watch. When she reached the porch, she heard a step behind her. Sandra had followed. "Just a moment," Sandra said. "I wanted to say something to you. You and I needn't pretend. You know I'm not interested in the ball. I don't care whether it's a success or not. . It rather amused me to show up a lot of superior people. That's all. Behind all that show of good will in there, you really don't like me, and you know how I feel about you. This is just to keep the record straight from now on." "Why are you so sure we couldn't be friends?" Christie asked, slowly. "We happen to .care lor the same man," Sandra said, bluntly. The sheer audacity of it, the unexpectedness of it, caught Christie off guard. Girls didn't do things like this nice girls didn't. "I have been living abroad for years," Sandra said. . "Things weren't easy lots of times. I learned to be ruthless. And I learned to grab. Things are happening hap-pening so fast now, if you don't grab all the fun and happiness you can,, you're likely to be too late." "I see." Christie fought the primitive impulse to cry out: "But it won't do you any good here, Sandra. You are in a different world, where people still live by a different set of rules." Without a word, she turned and walked toward her car. a rN an Impulse, she slowed down. She still had a few moments to spare before time to meet Bart She'd drive by and tell Russ she was through with flying. Bill Blake hurried out to meet her. "Gosh, Christie, I'm glad you're here. You're an answer to prayer." "What's the matter, Bill? Anything Any-thing serious?"' "Serious as hell," Bill answered. "They phoned frolri the local hospital, hos-pital, they're sending an emergency emer-gency case here. Concussion from an automobile accident. They think this guy needs a brain operation oper-ation and they're rushing him td Lakeville to some chap there who specializes in brain surgery." "If I could reach Bart," Christie said. "There's no time to get an body," Bill said. "This chap's got to go now. They wanted the plane warmed up and waiting. You'll have to take him over, Christie. I know you can. You couldn't miss. Just follow the highway. They're keeping everything wide and clear at the other end." "But I couldn't," Christie said, trembling. "Oh, Bill, why can't you fly?" "Because I never learned. I know what takes them up, but I can't take them up. Funny, isn't it?" "It isn't funny," Christie said, "it's dreadful. But I might crack up and kill him, Bill." Bill shrugged. "Well, hell probably prob-ably die, anyway, unless he gets to ttiis surgeon. It's only 60 miles, Christie.- You've got td do It. There's the ambulance, now." "Warm her up, BiU," she said. They were lifting the injured man from the ambulance. Christie walked over and looked down on him. He was young, and he had good features. His blond hair showed above the wide, thick bandage that bound his head. As she watched, pity in her eyes, the wounded man opened his eyes. He was looking at Christie with a queer, bewildered, expression. After a moment, the bewilderment was gone. "Oh, It's you," the stranger said. He closed his. eyes again. "Know this chap?" the hospital attendant ' asked. "Relative of yours?" "I never saw 7 him before,! Christie answered. ,Ho must be delirious." The attendant shook his head. "1 think it's the first conscious moment he's had since the accident acci-dent Where's the pilot?" "I'm the pilot,: Christie said. She saw ' the amazement and . doubt on the faces about her. Suddenly, Sud-denly, she felt a surge of confidence. confi-dence. - - ---'- -- "ITl get him there" she said. T Be Continued) . |