Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1941 — Page 12
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19. 194
Hoosier Vagabond
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 19.—The University of Minnesota has 15,000 students, which is about 14,500 more than I would know what to do with if I were a university. One way it copes with them is through a Movie department. This is called the Visual Education Service, but that’s just to make it sound scholarly. : It happens that this service is directed by a friend of mine, and there's nothing like pumping your friends for a living. My friend's name is Robert Kissack Jr, and although he isn't a professor he’s just as deep into his work as though he were a professor Other universities have movie departments, but there is none quite like the service at Minnesota U. It is all things to all men. Modern education has gone a long way beyond a pedagog getting up in front of a blackboard with a ruler and a piece of chalk. Today they teach medicine by showing movies of an operation; they teach voice by recording your chatter on a phonograph record and playing it back; they carry the professor's learned talk out to the assembled thousands by loud-speaxer; they pipe voices and speeches and music all over the campus. Movies were used last year in more than 80 courses and departments at the university.
They Make Movies, Too
Now all this takes a lot of equipment, and a lot of people to look after it. Instead of each department or class having its own equipment, it is all centralizea in this Visual Education Service. If a professor wants a certain educational film shown at a certain time to one of his classes. he calls up the Visual Education Service, they dig the film out of their vast air-conditioned film library, and dispatch a man and a machine to the appointed place to show it. Then the Visual Education Service sends the professor a bill. The university has more than $200,000 worth of this movie and sound-amplifying equipment, and jast year the service went out on more than 2800 cails. In the nine vears since the service was organized, they have made more than 60 movies. There's hardly a one where boy meets girl. Theyre all educational, but that doesn't mean they're dull.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
THE COUNTY COUNCIL, which has been pretty tough all year on department heads asking increased appropriations, 1s in an embarrassing spot. : Last fall, in passing on the 1941 budget, the Council allowed itself the usual $840. That's $10 per councilman for each of 12 meetings in the year. But up to last week, the Council had been called together so many times to ccnsider requests of other departments for budget increases that the Council itself already was $370 over its budget for the entire year.
Now it looks like the councilmen will have to ask themselves for an additional appropriation to pay themselves. And theres a pretty good chance they may get turned down. we hear,
Hay Fever Tip LAST FRIDAY, Inside Indianapolis told how “Bob” Roberts, the Letter Shop man, always is visited by hay fever promptly at 10:30 a. m. each Aug. 13, and how this Aug. 13 was no exception. Joseph B. Agnew of Frankfort writes us with a suggestion how Mr. Roberts can balk the pesky hay fever germs next year. The fact,” writes Mr. Agnew, “that it is always at 10:30 whether it is CST or DST. proves beyond all doubt that these germs are clock-watchers. and if research workers can isolate the clock-watching germs; the hay fever plague will be conquered. You might suggest to Roberts that he stop his clock next year on Aug. 13 at 10, and fool the pesky little critters.”
War Peril Shift
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—President Roosevelt's statement that the United States is no nearer war is an apparent answer to widespread fears in Congress and elsewhere that he pledged Churchill “shooting” aid. ile these fears are natural enough in view of British appeals for another American Expeditionary Force — as voiced by Gens. Wavell, Auchinleck and others—there never has been any White House indgication of such a step. Interventionists have hoped. and an:iiInterventionists have feared. that the President was tricking the country into a shooting war. Actually, to date, he has held to his original theory that short-of-war aid is practicable and adequate. Nevertheless, the President's statement that we are no nearer war does not mean as much as it seems to. For the chief danger is not now, and never has been, that he would deliberately and directly involve us in shooting —as ga result of a secret deal with Churchill, or otherwise. The danger, rather, has been that the Axis would start the shooting to prevent decisive American aid. That is still the danger. And it is graver today than two weeks ago—not in the Atlantic but in the Pacific, where Hitler is trying to precipitate a proxy war through his Japanese Axis partner.
A. E. F. Possibility Delayed
Thus the decisions of the President ang Prime Minister for more American supplies to Britain and Russia, and for a united front against further Japanese aggression, decrease the immediate probability of American hostilities in the Atlantic and Eurons but decrease the probability of Pacific involvement. The A. E. F. within the near future has been made virtually impossible by the joint decision to divert more materials to our foreign associates. An A. EF. would not be needed in Asia. as in Europe. Our present largely unarmed Army will continue to go without adequate planes, tanks, and anti-aircraft and anti-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday.—Yesterday we had a quiet and peaceful Sunday. The high spot of the day was a talk with the President in Washington after his return. I shall be seeing him there on Tuesday evening, but I could hardly wait to hear some of the details of his trip and some news of our two sons. He did not know that the destroyer on which Franklin Jr. is an ensign, would be anywhere near him, so it was a pleasant surprise when he was told it was part of the group of ships in attendance. I can well imagine what it meant to both Elliott and Franklin Jr. to have this chance with their father. I forgot to tell you yesterday about the gala benefit given under : the auspices of the Berkshire ’ Music Festival and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Mass, last Friday. Not even the rain, which would ordinarily have spoiled most festivals, had any effect on this one. Crowds were there. The music was perfect and the speeches, including Lord Halifax's which had to be read since he could not be present to deliver it, seemed to give the audience pleasure. . We were whisked away for dinner with kind Mr.
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We sat in the preview room and saw three or four of the classroom movies. And I've never seen any-| thing either more beautiful or more blood-curdling | than one, which was a close-up of an eye operation, in Technicolor. . Actually at times it was like a Dali painting. And | at other times it was so painfully real you had to] look away. But after a medical student saw that| movie hed either know how to operate on an eye or eise he'd better go back to the farm. Most of the university's films are for technical classroom work. and vou will never have a chance to] see them unless vou dye your hair and enroll this vear as a freshman. But they are now just finishing one which you may get to see.
He Comes From Missouri
It is a history of Minnesota, and they say out here it is so good that it may stack up alongside Pare Lorentz’s “The Plow” and “The River.” It is
the first state-history film made. A couple of others are just starting which fascinate me. They are “animated” pictures—Walt Disny-like cartoon affairs, in brilliant colors. One is the legend of the mighty Paul Bunyan. The other is the story of iron, for which Minnesota is famous, you know. I've seen the start of the Paul Bunyan picture, and it’s marvelous. Bob Kissack directs and thinks up all this. The department, in its handling of university equipment, is self-supporting. But these extra-curricular movies have been made, during the last three and a half vears, by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Kissack started out with the mules in Missouri, and went on to Washington University at St. Louis. | He taught English there for two years, then moved on | to New York University as an English instructor, lecturing on Shelley and Keats. And then he went with the Harvard Film Foundation. After three years there he was invited to Minnesota to organize this] department Kissack hopes to go on making educational movies for yars and vars and yvars—if the university can get the money. He has enough beautiful dreams in his!’ head to keep half the university busy ‘for a decade. | He loves his work, and isn't awfully interested in| the monev he makes. { I asked him what he would do if, some day, he| got a juicy offer from Hollywood. And do you know what he said? He said he'd take it, the cur.
Herve and There WE NOTE BY the Lion's Roar—weekly publication of the Lions Club—that Lion (Howard K.) Lewis ‘will handle the advertising for the Roar this year.”
Lion Lewis happens to be the club's tail twister. All right, boys, vou'd better behave—or else! . . , Dr. Robert Boggs is regaling his dental patients this week with a glowing account of the spectacular plays he saw In the double-header at Cincinnati Sunday. . . . Already there's talk about increasing the capacity | of the brand-new Billings General Hospital at Ft. Harrison. . . . Apparently theyre still in the dark out at the Fort as to who will move in to replace the 201st, which by now ought to be getting near Alaska. . Because the railroads are bocming under the impetus of defense, there's a shortage of telegraphers, it’s reported. Many old-timers who were laid off and forced into other lines a few years ago are being rounded up by the lines and put back to work.
Let "Em Draw Straws
WITH NOTHING else to worry about at the moment. State House workers are wondering just where the Attorney General's office will rank on the ballot next year. There are those who argue it should | go ahead of the Secretary of State. Others point out that it’s not a Constitutional office, whereas that of the Secretary of State is a Constitutional office. The reason they're interested is that one or the other may head the ticket, since the Governor and Lieutenant | Governor do not run next year. , . . Althcugh the! James Whitcomb Riley streamliner has been running daily for several months, its novelty hasn't worn off yet, railroad officials tell us. In the small towns along the route, people still take the kids and go down to the station twice a day to watch it roar past and to exchange waves with the engineer,
By Ludwell Denny
tank guns for many more months. The priority order now is Russia first, Britain second, and the U. S. Army | third—with certain Chinese and other requirements | fitted in. Of course, Hitler may start shooting at our Atlantic fleet any day, but he is very busy elsewhere. Secretary Knox says no German raiders have been sighted by the naval patrol between here and Iceland since the American occupation. The implica- | tion is that Hitler is trying to avoid any excuse for| American shooting at him—as he has avoided all suci| incidents hitherto, except in the unexplained Robin Moor case. Pacific War Nearer Moreover, Hitler has had to withdraw submarine, surface and air raiders from the British shipping lanes for use in the Baltic and the Arctic. So Russia is drawing off the German forces which would be used to shoot at us if Hitler changed his American policy. Whole Russian resistance and the RooseveitChurchill policy of more aid to Russia have thus pushed European war further away from America, they have brought war much nearer in the Pacific. For several reasons: Hitler now has an added reason to pressure Japan| into war. Before, it would have forced Britain to fight on three widely separated fronts, and diverted American aid from Britain. Now it would also stop American aid to Russia, and involve Stalin on two ironts. American war shipments to Siberia come much nearer home to the Japanese than the mere threat of American-British joint defense of the distant Southern Pacific around Singapore-Manila. Without American aid Stalin soon may be too weakened on the Nazi front to defend Siberia against Japanese invasion; | but with it he probabiy could send his Vladivostok! bombers against nearby Tokyo, if necessary. So Japan is row considering two counter-moves | to cut the Vladivostok-American supply line. One is to mine all the narrow approaches to that Siberian port. The other is to extend a so-called “neutrality zone,” like that around the Western Hemisphere, and prohibit war shipments through it. Either course would cause trouble with the United States.
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and Mrs. Myron Taylor and had a delightful time, though it nearly broke my heart to come in after Albert Spalding had begun to play. We were able, however, to hear most of the evening concert and
went home very happy that we had had the opportunity to take part in this benefit, given for our unitea Service Organizations and the British War elief. Each time I go to these concerts, I am more and more impressed with the wonderful piece of work which Miss Gertrude Robinson-Smith and her committee did in building the “shed,” which is one of the most pleasant places I know of in which to listen to music. I have just received a cook book, compiled by the American Friends of France, called “Specialties de la Maison.” The preface is writteen by no less a person than Louis Bronifield and I must quote one statement: “A man indifferent to food not only is uncivilized, he is without a soul.” So it is fitting that the proceeds of the sale of this bogk should go to: “Help those who are fighting for civilization, and in civilization the art of cooking holds a high place.” The illustrations by Alajalov will certainly catch your eye. Today I am driving with Mrs. Lyman Delano to
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the Girl Scout encampment near Springfield, Mass., but I shall have to tell you about that tomorrows
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Seeks to Cut Record Local Taxes For Next Year.
By RICHARD LEWIS City Councilmen concentrated on a 10-pound volume of City budget figures today in an effort to find out where the record-breaking $8,700,000 appropriation proposed for 1942 could be cut. The Councilmen lugged the heavy volume of figures home last night
after deciding to open formal review of the budget at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at City Hall. The public is in-
vited to attend, but will not be heard
until later in the week. Several Councilmen expressed concern at the proposed all-time high tax rate of $149—23 cents
above the current $1.26 rate—which |
City: Controller James E. Deery
to finance Civil
next vear.
Howevar, none of the members | {cared to comment on the appronria- | ition and rae until after a thorough
study. It was agreed that in addition to being the biggest budge’ ever presented, it was the nos: complicated.
Sharpen Economy Some members privately indicated they could find ample opportunity
to swing the economy ax, especially
among the increases proposed for
high salaried personnel Loaded with pay boosts for all classifications of City employees, the proposed budget appropriation is $616,000 higher than the amount
provided for this year. Of this in-| crease, $605,000 represents proposed |
pay raises. The proposed $1.49 tax rate, however, actually will provide a total increase of $1,340,000 compared to the amount raised by the current $1.26 rate. The difference of $724,000 is the approximate amount of the temporary loan deficit incurred last
year, plus loans made this year to|
finance municipal operatiohs pending receipt of tax money.
Deny Some Pay Boosts
Meanwhile, official disclosure of the budget yesterday brought to light a number of salary increase requests which were cut by City Controller James E. Deery and Mayor Sullivan. One $500 a year increase which a department head
proposed for himself was eliminated. | Several employees asserted they |
had been denied increases because of partisan political disagreements in the past. Others who gained only slight raises were equally dissatisfied. The bulk of the pay increases was for policemen, firemen, labor in all departments, Collection Department workers and City Hospital personnel. The 1942 appropriation request totaled $8.677,747.60 compared with $8.050,819.85 appropriated for this year, In addition to the budget appropriation—to be raised by property tax—is $985,120 which the City will receive from gasoline taxes next year. This amount has been budgeted separately.
OLIVE SLATED FOR HIGH C. P. A. OFFICE
George S. Olive, senior partner in the Indianapolis accounting firm bearing his name, is slated to hold a national office in the American Institute of Accountants for the next year.
At the 54th annual meeting of the Institute in Detroit Sep:. 15 to 18, Mr. Olive’'s name will be voted on to serve as one of the two vice presidents of the Institute. Norman Looyall McLaren, San Francisco, has been nominated for the presidency. Mr. Olive has been in the accounting business since 1913 and is a past president and past treasurer of the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants and is a member of the National Association of Cost Accountants. Active also in civic affairs, Mr. Olive has served the Indianapolis Chamber of Cominerce as presicent. At present he is chairman of the Chamber’s industrial commission and is a director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. He also is a member of the Faculty Associates of the School of Business Administration of Indiana University.
Beauty's Loss Is Defense's Gain
MADISON, Wis, Aug. 18 (U. P). —Fingers that once waved Milady's hair are finding more reward for their deftness in fitting together thé machines of war, it was reported today. Marion Groth, supervisor of the Cosmetology Division of the Wisconsin Board of Health, said that unless beauty parlor wages can be increased, labor shortages soon will become an acute problem. Barber shops, she added, simflarly are finding it necessary to hoost wages or lose their employees to defense industries.
CONVICTED IN DEATH OF M’NARY COUSIN
REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Aug. 19 (U. P.)—A jury of eight women and four men last night convicted Capt. John M. Holmes, socially prominent Army flier of manslaughter for the gun slaying of Wilson McNary, Portland, Ore., cousin of U, S. Senator Charles McNary. Holmes faces a possible term of one to 10 vears. Holmes shot and killed McNary in the fashionable Benjamin Franklin Hotel at San Mateo May 3 after a quarrel over the affections of Mrs. Gwendolyn Johnson, widow of a sugar millionaire,
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Beavers Aren't So Busy After All
The Indianapolis Times By Ernie pie COUNCIL HUNTS!
WAYS T0 TRIM CITY'S BUDGET
SECOND SECTION
A beaver's life apparently isn’t the busy turmoil that it has been made out to be, for here at the State Fair beaver exhibit the dams and houses are being built for them by Howdy Wilcox (left) and Golden Smith. This is just one of the features being readied for the opening of the annual fair late this month.
"MEIN KAMPF........ -amenici
Mein Kamp is the accepted bible of German National Sacialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” The Times today publishes the eighth installment of Francis Hackett's powerful expose of Hitler’s fanatic purposes.
By FRANCIS HACKETT
What, after all, gave rise to democracy? Go back to the middle of the eighteenth century, and vou quickly recall the humane faith in which democracy was conceived. It was a liberation from privilege, a brave confidence in the unbounded possibilities of human development, a breakdown of discipline that had galled and gangrened struggling mankind, a belief in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” an affirmation of the new trinity, “liberty, equality and fraternity.” Whoever the enemies were, or wherever, there was a fund of magnanimity on which the oppressed could draw—an emancipation for the Catholics, a huge support in Europe for the American colonies, volunteers from Lafayette to Byron who could not live if freedom were endangered, poets like Shelley who rose singing it like the lark, liberators who burst through the chains of rusted empire, a host of nationalists who framed an ideology that still was bent to the reconciliations of reason and the processes of consent. The basic notions of democracy —universal suffrage, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. freedom to travel, the secret ballot, trial by jury, common law—were part of this animation of good will by which Jews could escape from the ghetto, prisoners could be redeemed from hell, children could be freed from slavery, the illiterate could be educated and the helpless given a hand. It was a costly process, and the greedy grudged it and still fight it. Nvery step had to be won against the entrenched and the assured.
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Allegiance to Race
BUT, HOWEVER little it did to satisfy the dark angel in man’s nature, however it embittered the irreconcilable aristocrat or the homicidal rebel, the emergence of Hitler and Mussolini from the ranks of what Hitler calls “the depraved proletariat” was due to the opportunities provided by democracy. Such men, in the eighteenth century, would have been killed like vermin. Absolutism, to
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which democracy was the response, dealt summarily with malcontents. The tolerance of the Swiss police for Mussolini or the indulgence shown to Hitler in Landsberg prison were the outcome of decencies that absolutism had never imagined. A Fascist society, once established, would shoot a new Hitler at sight. The prime assumption in this romantic process was the one that Hitler contradicts. The Nazis, like the Japanese, draw their political good will from race, and from nothing else. They deny good will to the alien. Finally, they claim the allegiance of every member of their race, no matter what other loyalty he may pretend to. That is the precious doctrine that came out of the Landsberg prison, and Mein Kampf is its old and new testament. The United States is a direct negation of this doctrine. The United States is mongrel. What has distinguished the social process in the United States has been a nonchalance about ancestry, a mobility of the population, and especially a frowning on race prejudice. Even where the newcomer has been a Wop, a Yid, a Frog, a Bohunk, a Heinie, a Mick, a Squarehead or a Dago, and where the sensitive have shrunk from these ugly epithets, familiarity have, with a few grave exceptions, had no reflections in government, ” 2 2
Inimical to U. S.
THE IDEA OF erecting race prejudice into the central principle of a society, glorifying it and parading it in aggressive challenge, is not only alien to the American idea; it 1s the most sinister contradiction of it that can be advanced. Hitler's race program is directly inimical to the United States. It is not merely that it acclaims certain American citizens and directs them to serve Germany in the Americas, nor is it merely that Nagzitsm is in itself hostile to the American ideal. The actual danger from Naziism is, first of all, its military impetus, and then, unless honestly confronted, the danger to the American
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Nazi aggression in the world of the spirit. On the first page of Mein Kampf is this: “common blood belongs in a common Reich.” Apply this principle to the United States and it disintegrates before our eyes. The Irish then belong to Ireland, the Welsh to Wales, the Germans to Germany. The United States is specifically a commonwealth that denies this assertion as basically abhorrent, The political methods of Russia have been no less abhorrent, but Russia can desist from undermining American sovereignty and still be Russia. Germany, under Hitler, is unable to do this. That is the gist of the matter. The conflict between democracy
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and dictatorship is not a question of words. It is not even a question of state structure or organization. It resides in the heart of each person as he relates to the persons on either side of him, to the person above him and the one below him. In the nature of things, the democrat is not self-sufficient. It is the self-sufficiency of the German Nazi that is the law of his being. He proclaims himself a master, and he aims to dispose of the rest of mankind. This is the trespass on democracy that forces a democrat to ask himself, “Do the Germans attach no im--portance to other persons?”
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Hitler Is at Large
MEIN KAMPF valuable information on this point. Had it simply been a literary orgy on Hitler's part we should not need to ponder it. Many such books have been planned in the history of the world, and a few of them have been written. Hitler has the Messianic delusion and men with this delusion usually wander in well-kept grounds with phantom cuckoos in their heads, yet causing no public anxiety, But Hitler is at large. What is unique about him is the steel-hard will of which he boasts, the implacable determination with which he has imposed this will, and the vast, tempting plausibility of his arguments. Men such as himself in the middle ages induced thousands upon thousands to join in pilgrimage. There have always been contagious fanatics, but here is a modern one whom experienced political leaders mistook for a success-hound and adventurer. They said they read Mein Kampf. They certainly did not believe in it. And yet it is a brazen manifesto, so sharply chiseled as to be ineffeceable, and its author has adhered to its most fabulous assertions as if they were factory memoranda.
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Tomorrow — “The Importance of the Individual.” (Copyright, 1941 by Francis Hackett: Sistrisuted by United Feature Syndicate, ne.).
ASKS FOR OLD TOYS
The Indianapolis Goodwill Industries today issued its first appeal for dolls and toys which will be distributed Christmas. Howard G. Lytle, agency executive, pointed out that at least 500 dolls are needed at this time. “Our Christmas program has to be started far in advance because it is a volunteer effort and there is much work to be done,” he said. The agency also needs children’s clothing and shoes which must be cleaned and repaired and ready for distribution to needy children who soon will be returning to school. Sixty men and women are em-
are furnished work and in turn repair toys and clothing for distribution to the needy.
MORE BRITISH WOMEN
SOUGHT FOR WAR JOBS
LONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—Great Britain intends to use compulsion, if necessary, to put more women into war work because of a shortage of manpower that is “growing more acute every day,” Parliamentary Labor Secretary Ralph Assheton announced today. Assheton said that Labor Minister Ernest Bevin was contemplating
such a move embracing the following steps: 1. Choice of occupations open to women will be made more limited. 2. All women up to 30 will be registered within the next four months. 3. Older women will be asked to replace younger and more mobile women in certain jobs so they may be transferred elsewhere. “We not only have reached the point where no surplus manpower is available but where it is becoming difficult to satisfy all our important needs,” Assheton said. “The
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SHIPYARD CO. FINAL NOTICE
Navy to Take Over Yards If Plea Fails; ’Phone Parleys Continue.
By UNITED PRESS Defense officials believed today that President Roosevelt would make a final appeal for acceptance of Mediation Board recommendas tions before ordering Government seizure of the strike-bound Federal Shipbuilding Drydock Co. at Kearny, N. J. Government efforts to end the 12«
day strike coincided with moves to draft a labor stabilization program for the Southern California aircraff industry and to dispel the threat of a strike which might cripple tele phone communication. An authoritative source said the
| President would send a final plea
'to the shipbuilding company to ac
land Shipbuilding Workers
Defense Mediation Board recommendations for a “maintenance of union member~ ship” clause in a proposed contract With the industrial union of Marine «Cc. I, The clause represented a come
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promise with the union demand for | a closed shop.
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Executive Order Ready
The company rejection of the pro= posal precipitated the strike of 16,000 union members and halted construction on $493,000,000 worth of naval and merchant ships, Mr. Roosevelt discussed the work stoppage with defense aids yesterday, but the White House made no announce= ment. If the President's appeal to the company should fail, it was understood an executive order would authorize the Navy to operate the shipyard. At New York, officials of the West= ern Electric Co. and the Association of Communication Equipment Workers agreed after conferences yesterday with Federal Conciliator James W. Fitzpatrick to meet at Washington Friday with a ‘“super= panel” of conciliation officials.
8000 Approve Strike
The union conducted a strike vote among its 8000 installation employees last week-end. Henry Mayer, union counsel, said other unions affiliated with the parent National Federation of Telephone Workers promised their members would refuse to pass picket lines. He said such action would paralyze telephone systems over the entire nation. Western Electric has rejected union demands for a ‘maintenance of membership” clause and for a revision in tis wage structure. Representtives of labor unions and Southern California aircraft companies were conferring with de fense officials at Washnigton on a government-sponsored regional plan to stabilize labor conditions.
Steel Workers Out
At Monessen, Pa. 1200 C. 1. O. steel workers were an strike against the Page Steel & Wire Division of the American Chain & Cable Co, The union extended the strike from the wire mill to the entire plant last night to enforce demands for a restoration of a three-year-old wage cut. The company charged the strike violated a contract re= quiring arbitration of disputes. The Pratt & Whitney division of the United Aircraft Corp, laid off 250 of its night shift employees last night because of a shortage of crankshafts. The shortage resulted from a week-old strike of 1400 C, I. O. workers in the Leland-Gifford Co. plant at Worcester, Mass. Pratt & Whitney announced the number of idle workers might ine crease to 500 or 600 today and said its operations would be affected seri ously unless the strike is settled soon.
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DRAFT PAPERS SENT
‘ARMY MORALE LEADER
CHICAGO, Aug. 19 (U. P.).— Local Draft Board No. 91 sent a selective service questionnaire today to Charles Douglas Monsson, ree questing prompt response with “cere tain required information.” “Draft exempt,” Monsson wrote across the questionnaire. He is Capt. C. D. Monsson, attached to Ft. Sheridan as morale officer, in charge of orienting selece tees at the recruits reception center,
TEST YOUR. KNOWLEDGE
1—The rules governing debate are more strict in the House of Rep= . resentatives than in the Senate of the U. S.; true or false?
{2—Which of these capes extends ployed by Goodwill Industries. They | D
farthest south: Cape of Good Hope, off Africa; Cape Horn, off South America; Southeast Cape, off Tasmania? 3—Watches are sometimes facee tiously called t - - n - ps. 4—Name the capital of Northern Ireland. 5—Which military leader was affece tionately called the “Little Cors poral” by his soldiers? 6—What is the tallest man-made structure ever completed? T—Which Greek hero was vulners able only in the heel? - 8—Whom did Cornelia call “hep jewels?” :
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1—True. 2—Cape Horn. 3—Turnips. 4—Belfast. 5—Napoleon Bonaparte. 6—Empire State Building in New York City. T—Achilles. 8—Her sons, the Gracchi.
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