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Show THE PAGE TWO TRIES-NEWS- . NEPHI. UTAH LABOR DRAFT: Looms for Millions WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Yank Fliers and Subs Blast Jap Ships In Battles for Supremacy in Pacific; Rubber Czar Speeds Synthetic Output; Fuel Oil Rationing Covers 30 States WPB Seeks Greater Unif With Invitation to Labor AFL and CIO Representatives Will Work With Management Members to Help Further Production Demands. (EDITOR'S NOTE: when opinion sr. expressed in theme columns, they are thou of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' Released by Western Newspaper "-- '" - f -- wn" " " rsl"l"sst' e iminjji.Mii i i By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. tVNU Service, 1313 H Street, N-Washington, D. C. When it was first announced that Donald Nelson had invited the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to submit a list of names from which he might choose two new vice chairmen of the War Production board some eyebrows were lifted in discreet doubt. "Politics," said the cynical. "Nel- son is in a tough fight to keep the army and the navy from running away with the WPB. If he makes a generous gesture toward labor it will help him with the administration." Later on, however, some of the labor people, neutral as between CIO and AFL began to pass the word around that Nelson was be coming sold on a greater participa tion of labor in councils where war production policies are being settled His agreement to have "a frank talk," they said, was not merely a matter of clever politics. Meanwhile, the military men have by no means given up their struggle to get control of war production and, for that matter, control of ships and shipping, the Maritime commission's domain, but that is another story. There are many indications that labor is being brought into the fold not merely because the union of ficials would naturally join forces with Nelson In any struggle between mufti and khaki, but because many people are beginning to feel that it will be a healthy thing for d the capitalistic system and the institution vaguely described as free enterprise. In other words, it is better to try o get between capital end labor by forcing each to share the other's troubles around a table than it is to depend on fighting it eut on the picket line. Especially when there are a lot of New Deal planners whose plans usually tend to give labor the break. Two things probably have done more to bring about a growing faith in the idea of at the top instead of strikes and lockouts at the bottom than anything else. One Is s phenomenon which kas set some of the in the labor department rubbing their eyes. It is the way representatives of industry and labor on the War Labor board have palled around. A real, mutual respect and admiration has developed among some of the members of these two camps who have been trained to believe that all on the other side wore horns. As one veteran conciliator put it to me, "We have witnessed a miracle." The other thing that has helped has been the way in some instances (not all, by any means), that the committees have been able to work together. In many places this attempt to have the management of war industries sit down and talk over the problems of how to increase production has been an utter failure. In many of these cases I am told personalities are to blame. The word "personalities" covers a multitude of sins and sinners. much-assaile- rs Seeing Other Fellow' View In this particular case really more than personal characteristics have been the snag. It is a case of finding men on both sides who not only have the mental and spiritual breadth to see the other fellows' view. But Just plain every day experience and training have a lot to do with it, too. When labor first spoke up and said: "We want to lend a hand," many people sympathetic with the labor viewpoint were exceedingly skeptical. They said: "Who will Jo the since labor has not yet developed in its ranks enouuh 'hands,' sufficiently trained in the t category of complicated tdministration." That may be true. There are outstanding exceptions in both the AIL and the f"IO, but these exceptions, these men who have revealed their ability to deal with problems above the routine of anion administration, polities and nego Ulpcr-brackc- BRIEFS A 0 PrJuc'.ion of gas masks Civilian use will soon be at the of 2.500.01)0 per month. Colonel Lord, a brilliant army officer who has been the right hand of Vice President Wallace in his important behind the scenes Job in the Board of Economic Warfare, was recently ordered to shift to the War Production board to take charge of inventions. I ran into him in the club the other day and asked him if he had taken up his new work. He had not, he said, and never might, because he thought he was going to be assigned (as all of his ilk would like to be) to active duty in the thick of things. He made no comment but a brother officer sitting beside him and also chained to a desk against his will, remarked: "It's got so now that they tell us we are cowards if we try to desert Washington to get to tho front." was crossing the park late one night. A full moon spread a coat of silver over silont lawn and sleeping trees. Suddenly I noticed ahead of me on a bench, an officer and a girl. He was a tall, attractive fM. low, the ideal fighting man, handsome. The eirl was beautiful in the moonlight. They sat close together, talking earnestly. 1 I felt emstopped in the shadow. barrassed. It was as if I were walk-ininto a room, an intruder, shot. tiring the romance and beauty of that scene. They had not noticed me. so instead of walking past them I turned o(r and cut across the grass that carpeted my footfall. It was auiet and as I tiasned he. hind them I could not help hearing: Dearest, he was savine "vim know perfectly well that you can gel those extra gasoline ration tickets from your office " Buy War I'.onds I square-shouldere- d, for rate Buy War Bonds soldier is the most educated man in the world today. Forty-on- e per cent of all white selectees inducted into the army during the past two years are either high school graduates or hsvs gome College training. The war, navy and post office tie-- r The Italian press reported that street cars are to be used to deliver f jod to retailer in order to economize on motor fuel and save automobiles. What the automobiles wert to be saved for was not indicated. DEPARTMENT QSHES'giZf hairy-cheste- i SSS MittrtMfcM - " ' X far-fetch- Acid Indigestion awmWwtfKMrtaMMISwaiSSlBSS William M. Jeffers (right), newly appointed rubber administrator, confers with War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson concerning problems to be solved in the nation-wid-e rubber conservation program which he heads. The former president 'of the Union Pacific railroad called for the of all Americans in making the program effective. Task number one for Mr. Jeffers is to step up the production of synthetic rubber and increase the capacity of new plants making it. PACIFIC FRONT: Jap Ships Smashed far-flun- FUEL OIL RATION: Forecasts 65 Degrees Home owners in the 30 eastern and midwestern states affected by the WPB's fuel oil rationing order were told by Price Administrator Leon Henderson that domestic al lotments would be pegged to a daytime temperature of 65 degrees un der average weather conditions. Approximately 3,140,000 ing residential units in the rationed area will be affected by the order. The plan is designed to reduce consumption 25 per cent in the desig nated area. Mr. Henderson said the amount of oil allowed each heating unit would be based largely on the floor space and the amount of fuel used last year. In order to obtain coupon rationing sheets, householders will be required to furnish local rationing boards with detailed information concerning the dwelling and furnace. RUBBER CZAR: Tough Job Ahead . Blunt, energetic Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers had a big job on his hands and he knew it. War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson knew it too, for when he an- nounced Jeffers appointment, he called it "one of the toughest" assignments in the whole war effort. As recommended by the President's special inquiry committee, Mr. Jeffers was given full authority over every phase of the rubber program. He was charged with reorganizing, consolidating and administering the government's efforts to alleviate the rubber shortage. One of the new rubber czar's biggest-tasks was to drastically step up synthetic rubber production. The report of the President's committee headed by Bernard M. Baruch had noted that there was "grave danger" that construction delays might hold up the present program as much as four months-- , leaving rubber, supplies next year insufficient even for military needs. Directness was one of the things Jeffers .was noted for as president of the Union Pacific railroad. He showed the same approach when he said: "This means I have a tough job. But it is also a job for all the people of the United States. The biggest stockpile of rubber we have is on the wheels of our automobiles. I ask every motorist, every truck driver, everybody who runs a car, to remember that he is now the custodian of a material more precious than gold." RUSSIA: Needs Second Front As the news from Russian battle sectors had become gloomier, the increasing necessity of an second front in western Europe to take the pressure off the battered Red armies and thus avoid complete disaster was urged by Soviet military experts in London. Although the eleventh-hou- r arrival of thousands of crack Siberian troops at Stalingrad had enabled the Reds to throw fresh reserves against Marshal Von Bock's Nazi legions, the over-al- l picture remained somber. The need for a diversion elsewhere appeared as press ing as ever. Soviet representatives In London DRAFT: were said to believe that Allied inFathers or Hoys? vasion of western Europe would Congress was given its choice be- draw 30 to 40 German divisions tween drafting 1.500.000 youths of away from the Russian front. 18 and 19 years of age or the same Meanwhile as massed squadrons number of married men with de- of the RAF had continued their pendent families by MaJ. Gen. smashes at German industrial cenLewis B. Hershey, selective service ters in a "softening up" drive. Production Minister Oliver Lyttleton dedirector. In a statement before the house clared: committee investigating national de"We are approaching the breathfense migration. Hershey said: "We less moment when, if Russia holds are going to get 18 or a few more weeks, the gathering or 1,500,000 men out of the family." forces of the greatest alliance the He added that the war department world has ever seen will give us has certain reasons for wanting the first evidences of victory." younger men and .that industry Captain Lyttleton had predicted in would be disturbed less by taking July that the next 80 days would be the youth. the war's gravest n II I G II L I C, II T S .irttnents have set November 1 aa the drMdlit.e for mailing Christmas parcels overseas. CLASSIFIED Approximately 18,000,000 Amerl cans faced the possibility of being shifted, hired or replaced, as Paul V. McNutt, war manpower director, HONEY WANTED told congress that the national labor HIGHEST PRICES paid cans furnished shortage is becoming so acute that sny quantity large or small. Write for further details. SIOUX HONEY ASSOC, compulsory home front service for Sioux City, Iowa. Lima., Ohio, both men and women appears in Notes an of evitable. The gaily enameled unit insignia McNutt said the nation must find Innocent Bystander: The Magic Lanterns: The cinema you see on a soldier's lapels and 4.000,000 new workers between now and 1943 and that a large number has gone to war, all the newcomers overseas cap are reproductions of necessarily must come from the being armed to the teeth . . . "Wake his regimental shield displayed in the center of the eagle on his regiranks of women and of men either Island" is one of the most meritori ous of the battle stories. It sticks mental flag. It's a part of U. S. too old or too young for military to the grim facts of the case, with Army tradition. Traditional, too, service. no sugary heroics. It shows the is the Army man's preference for There were 57,000,000 persons em ployed in June, 1942, he said, and marines are a tough and glorious Camel Cigarettes. (Based on acbetween 62,500,000 and 65,000,000 will outfit even with their backs to the tual sales records from Post Exbe needed by December, 1943. There wall. Brian Donlevy, Robert Preschanges and Sales Commissaries.) ton, MacDonald Carey, et al, snap It's the gift he rates first from is no "evidence," he added, that la it up . . . "The World at War" is a the folks back home. Local dealbor reserves including women, Ne newsreel catalogue of all the out- ers are featuring cartons of Camgroes and other minority groups-woulels to send to service man. Adv. world overrages the easy-goin- g prove adequate. The manpower chief said he be looked for a decade. It shows the snatch of Manchuria as the first act lieved "the mere existence of statu that built tory power to force an individual to of a Jap' plan of stick-userve where he is needed" would be up to the surprise of Pearl Harbor Relieve fierv itchinq and d all that is necessary to establish a . . . "Across the Pacific" is Hay further irritation with meller of the spy school. B system of labor allocation that active, specially medicated would help meet the problem. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sidney Greenstreet, the aces of "The Sample Keslnol, X, is?"' FARM MACHINERY: Maltese Falcon," are reunited here Bolto..Md. JNfc to give your spine another fast workOn Ration List out. Here again the Japs perform New farm machinery and equip their familiar role of sneaks . . . Seeking Novelty Human nature craves novelty. ment went on the rationed list when "Berlin Correspondent" means well, as anything Pliny the Elder. Secretary of Agriculture Claude but it's as to come out of that town since Goeb-bel- s Wickard signed an order in Wash' ington. The present order applies opened up his free service to to sales for the remainder of 1942. the dopier U. S. newspapers. Mr. Wickard said a permanent or What many Doctors do lor it The Wireless: Ambass. . Grew der would be issued later governing When excess utomach acid causes gas, sour stomach 1943 sales and production. heartburn, doctors prescribe the didn't fool around with any pep talk or medicines known for symtomatic relief medicine like those in Bell snB Tablets. No laxative. If your The curtailment program was in his report from Tokyo. The Japs a ery firat trial doesn't prove better, return are tough, he warned, and won't quit bottls made necessary by military require to us sad set double your money back, 25c till they're carried out. The amments, the secretary added. "The temporary rationing system bassador seemed a little gloomy for 1942," he said, "is designed about the way too many of us are irovsi u to tat sine Kprimarily to control the distribution pretending the war is no worse than r?f the boss has boon a bad cold . . . Rex Stout deserves of the limited supply of farm ma chinery and equipment now on hand the biggest public. His propaganda PELMENAL There is moxie and to assure its greatest possible spiels are tip-tocontribution toward meeting the in his voice as well as his wordage . . . The Goebbels gabble now beprogoals of our to Nazis urges broadcast the ing gram." them to "forget how to be unbiased and just" and work up more hate BRAZIL: for the enemy, especially the BritWar in Earnest ons. Telling Nazis how to be unjust t is as unnecessary as telling skunks Brazil showed that it meant busi ness in its war against the Axis how to smell. when President Getulio Vargas ordered general mobilization. With a The Story Tellers: Frank King-do- n SALT LAKE BOISE POCATELLO takes care of the isolationists population of 41,000,000, this nation who got patriotic after Pearl Harrepresented the largest source of unbor. In "Dangers of a False Peace," tapped military power in the WestEvil News ern hemisphere. in Free World, he points out they For evil news rides rjost. whil President Vargas' military decree kept bleating "peace" and "ignored news waits. Milton. ordered all Brazilians to take home- - every voice that cried of our danger good defense training. It instructed the' from those who kill and enslave civilians as well as soldiers." And there are those who are running forj MIDDLE-AG- E congress on a platform of that same ignorance! . . . Elsie McCormick reports "Boston's Fight Against Ru- ' HEED THIS ADVICE!! mors" in the Mercury. It is very' If you're cross, restless. Buffer hot odd very odd. indeed that so! flashes, nervous feelings, calculated! distress of "Irregularities" dizziness, many bits of chit-chacaused this period In a woman's life try by to disturb us in war time, can bd Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Comtraced back to the Nazi shortwavera pound at oncel Plnkham's Compound Is made . . Pic's editorial, "Coughlin oa especially for women, and famous to with is crowded Parade," help relieve distress due to this dynamite. female functional disturbance. K Thousands upon thousands of women have reported gratifying Clark Gable has been praised bf benefits. Follow label directions. the army and the press for doing, WORTH TRYING I it The Hard Way nevertheless Clark is receiving some nasty lei ters from females throughout the land . . . Claiming that The Hard Way "isn't starting in as Corporal"i . jut met is ui is: Any man en-- f tering the Officer Candidate School:' m'4.a rTfci'aaa iirismrirf And Your Strength and in Miami Beach is made a corporal GETULIO VARGAS at once. The army does this so Energy U Below Par It may be caused by disorder of kid. . . 41,000,000 to be tapped. that every man starts off equal . . . ney fu action that permits) poisonous as soon as a man begins vast to accumulate. For truly many government ministers and all other However, people feel tired, weak and miserable classes rathe loses the temporary when the kidneys fail to remove excess) federal, state and municipal agen acids and other waste matter from the cies to take measures dealing with ing assigned him at the induction blood. and from then his until on, gradua You may auffer tiufttfnz backache, military, economic, scientific and larheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness asj bor measures necessary to defense. tion, he is addressed simply fettine. op night, leg pains, swelling. Mr." in short he is not Cor-- I Sometimes) frequent and scanty urinaAlready in force was compulsory poral Gable, but Mr. Gable Iff tion with smarting and burning Is an other sign that aom thing is wrong with military service for males between and when he graduates he will come! the kidneys or bladder. the ages of 21 and 45. Men between out a 2nd . . In the last war,) There should be no doubt that prompt . Lt the ages of 21 and 30 were placed Gable treatment la wiser than neglect. Lae probably doesn't recall, being Voan' Pill: It la better to rely on in the "first line" with all others medicine that has won countrywide ap- a 2nd Looey was really doing it The leea farorahljr placed in the "second line." Action Hard Way , . . The quip then went: Eroval than on something Uoan' have been tried and teat against Axis submarines was being "What's your idea of a good time, ed many rears. Ara at ail drug sto tea. Gs Uoan' today. steadily taken by the Brazilian air soldier?" . . . "My idea of a good Internment of Axis force. was the retort, "is watching time," had been accomplished a boatload of 2nd Lieutenants sink d and banks, insurance ing!" companies and other enterprises had been closed. Typewriter Ribbons: James Coz- - WNU W 3842 zens Gould: He had a mind that MORE CHICKENS: hit and ran and got away . . . Ann To Supplement Meat Hunt: Better to carry the torch of More chickens in every pot were liberty and truth than have it come forecast when Secretary of Agricul- up and burn you from behind . . . ture Claude R. Wickard called on Margaret Culkin Banning: The fire burnt out and slept in its own ashes poultry raisers to produce 200,000.000 . Correction: extra fowl this fall and winter to Kay Riley should help counteract a prospective meat have had the credit for: It's a wise bride who knows whether it's shortage for civilian use. National poultry organizations es- Cupid or Conscription . . . Austin timated that 600.000,000 additional O'Malley: It's twice as hard to Ji,H ,,V.:miii j pounds of poultry could be produced crush a half truth than a whole lie Shoebrush-mustache. Time: for consumers if 200.000,000 birds were reared to a weight of three Tom Dewey , . . Margaret L. Hun- pounds each. Secretary Wickard beck: The baby opened her little was assured that poultrymcn and pink mitten of a hand . . . R. L. farmers, utilizing existing brooder Stevenson: She sat around sipping houses and other production equip- the conversation with her eyes , . , ment not normally used to capacity M. R. Eliot: She looks for trouble Convanisnt to bwtinsu, shopping during the season would participate as if it paid her a salary . . . R. L. HiMtrs. Dancing nightly to In Martens: Criticism is what you in the program. ssotk of nationally known orchestras. get when you have everything else. Micro f $ryANr MIDWAY AFTERMATH: tlNOlf MOM f KIcven others from Rudy Vallee's OOUIII (TWIN tfOS) MOM $ Taps (or Yorklon n tUITIt MOM $10 Part of the price America paid orchestra are following him Into the toaclal 35 dixovnt lor mm of Mi service . . . Petitions seekipg 10,000 for victory over the Japs in the Batormsd forces and rhslr faoillios. tle of Midway became known when signatures are being circulated A gonorally lower scale of rafos far aruong sporting circles here In bethe navy announced that the airlong form occupancy. craft carrier Yorktown had been half of former boxer Ernie Haas, sunk after the battle as a result of doing 20 years for murdering a Japanese bombs and torpedo at- Nazi attache. He wants his freedom to join the Canadian Commandos. tacks. Althouuh it had been known that He's Canuck . . . James True, the the 19,900 ton carrier was put out of Washington "publicist" (as he preaction during the battle, the actual fers to call himself) who has been loss of the vessel had been a closely exploited in Time and elsewhere for his Fascist comments has opened kept secret offices In mid town Manhattan. - p The Japs got a taste of American air and undersea power when air craft and submarines struck at g widely separated points on the Pacific battlefront and dam aged or destroyed 18 enemy ships. In the Solomon islands, American bombers attacking the enemy base at Retaka bay, north of the Amer ican airfield at Guadalcanal, dam' aged two cruisers and destroyed vital enemy shore installations. In the Aleutians heavy army bombers and long range fighters in flicted severe damage. Included in the American score were two mine sweepers sunk, three large cargo vessels damaged, three submarines hit and trapped and "several small craft" damaged. In addition the U. S. raiders set fire to storehouses Notes From a and supply dumps ashore, destroyed Broadcaster's Diary six enemy planes and killed or Two men who had served in the wounded approximately 500 Jap Midway battle were interviewed on troops. the air recently. The broadcaster, Elsewhere in the far western Paas is the custom, talked with them cific, submarines sank four ships wrote out beforehand, the Script and and damaged four others. The suc then submitted it to the two men. cessful attacks on these In the description of the engagement raised to 107 the total ofeight ships Japanese in which the men took part one man vessels of all types which the navy turned every "we" the interviewer has reported sunk or damaged by had written in the script to an "I." American submarine attacks since The other turned every "I" into a the outbreak of war. "we." by Hattkhage The 1942 edition of the American j tiation are so loaded down with responsibilities now that they simply cannot take on new burdens. . That is one of the difficulties that Donald Nelson knew he would have to face if he had to select two men from labor for his board. He has found it hard to find sufficient men whose breadth of viewpoint equalled their business experience in the field of industry. For that matter, it is hard to find men in any field, or in any country, who measure up to the colossal tasks the war has imposed upon them in business, in government, in the army and navy. If Mr. Green and Mr. Murray choose a man apiece who can live up to the requirements they will make a real contribution to the war One government agency effort. which, of its own accord, asked for such a from the ranks of labor, received one whose record proved to be so unsavory that it took some maneuvering to cloak the incident from what might have been some very unpitying publicity. We have witnessed several similar "mistakes" in the dismissals from the WPB. However, there is considerable optimism expressed in some circles Uf the effect that labor will be able to contribute its share. The optimists point to examples of high caliber men representing opposite sides of America's work bench getting their heads together without clenching their fists. They cite the War Labor board as an example. And these hopeful observers contend that this "miracle" which they have seen performed can be repeated. They even say that it will have to be repeated, for if labor and capital continue to fight after the war while innocent bystanders suffer in the melee, there is no escape for America from what they call the "hoosegow of State socialism." THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1942 LONDON': Home guards throughout England are to have live ammunition for training with the weapons they will use in the event of invasion, a war office communique said. Within the next few months, millions of rounds of ammunition will be released for rifles, Sten guns, Lewis and Browning machine guns and Spigot mortars with which home guards have been trained. Anglo-Americ- in thi iveek $ news OTTAWA: No relaxation of price in Canada and no compromise in the fight against an inflationary Increase in prices in commodities will be tolerated, Donald Gordon, price con- trol head, declared. Canada's counterpart of Leon Henderson Issued the statement following rumors to the effect that a breathing spell might be aceordol to admit an adjustment of prices. fastest-acting- 1 -r Mr WOMEN t, . , iiriii-sTit- .' ... PHP ... Axis-owne- J ;( d fouu w--.- M .- ffmjii - |