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“WHAT DO WE DO IF?" was the question Andy
‘Anderson and his boys ‘kicked around during inter-
.. mission time at the’ Sapphire Room of the Washing_ton_hotel yesterday. The “What do we do if?” ausston ‘concerned the eurrent assembly bill which would prevent A. 8, C. A. P., and similar organizations from doing. business In Indiana. “They'll probably never pass the bill,” said Andy Anderson, laying his drum sticks aside. “Let's not get too excited.” “You never know what that outfit at the statehouse will do, Andy,” Bobby Walsh, saxophonist, retorted. By this time the boys were off the bandstand and ‘seated at a large table, “Hey, you guys. Can you just imagine us playing ‘Roses of Picardy’ in 20 different arrangements?” Eddie Cox; vocalist, popped up, Danny Cummings, pianist and. arranger for the Band, tore his hair and his face twisted into a pained expression, «Now don’t get me wrong,” Danny said, “I-can "arrange ‘Roses of 'Picardy'—in tact it wouldn't be & ‘bad number, but wouldn't it be awful to dig into music graveyards for our stuff?” Humming “Roses of Picardy,” Danny beat time on the table with his hands. His face lit up with that “Not-bad, not-bad” look. “Say, just what is this A.’ S. C. A. P. business all about?" Andy asked me, As best I could I tried to explain senate bill 210,
. “The Anti-Music Monopoly Law.” If you've ever read
a bill you'll ‘appreciate my efforts. Bills aren't the easiest things in the world to read.
“Royalties Not Cricket
{ TOLD THEM thet some legisiators: belleve it's not cricket for A. 8. C. A. P.-and other licensing ageneles to collect royalties on music played in Indiana, so if it's not cricket, these agencies will have to go.
“But where do WE go if we can't play copyrighted ,
music?” one member of the round table asked. “That isn't the pitch,” Andy said. “Am’' I right In thinking that we can play copyrighted music if A. 8. C. A P."is banned, but well have to deal directly with the composer?” I nodded my head. “As far as I understand it— yes, you can play anything you want provided you get the composer's permission.” “Where are we going to find Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and Eddy Howard in a hurry?” Danny wanted to know. “They're in the United States, aren't they?” “Yeh—that makes it easy. Can you just see us writing Cole Porter for permision to play ‘Begin the Beguine’ July 10th at 9:30’ p. m.?” Danny asked. “Who dreamed this dandy up?” Andy asked me. “Senator Samuel Johnson of Anderson.” “What happens if we just say nuts and keep play-
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WASHINGTON, March 6-—Russia tried prohibition once, but it didn't work there either. Any diplomat arriving in Moscow Monday next may buy at a reasonable price in a state-supervised store a white fluid known variously as vodka, vodki, and wodky. The last vodka I tasted was distilled obviously by an anti-Communist of Newark, N. J. It was flavored
_ with old overshoes. Moscow vodka, compounded of
75 per cent potato alcohol and 25 per cent distallant of maize, has-no taste. It gives the taste buds no
‘opportunity to function.
I mention this as a sample of my-special information on Moscow for visitiig foreign ministers. None of my hints on how to live with the Muscovites will be found in any tourigt guide to Mocsow. There is no tourist guide, gentlemen. I suggest you paste this in your high silk Hats (and hats we will -consider first):
No Toppers, Please
RED SQUARE is better than half a mile long; as of now if is. a favorite battleground of young generals deploying their troops in snow forts. The populatigh of Moscow is well disciplined, but I have my doubts about the 12-year-old population when it has owballs in both hands. Do not- wear your toppers in Red Square, gentlemen. A favorite tipple in Moscow is hot tea served in water glass; an unsuspecting diplomat, not wearing asbestos gloves, easily can blister himself. Russians drinking tea en masse prefer to suck it through a cube of sugar. This is hard on the teeth, but provides a soothing sound, as of wind in the trees.
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NO WAY OUT—If senate bill 210 goes resentatives of both sides’
through, Andy Anderson and his orchestra start to the situation.
playing the Arsenal "Victory Song." ing what we want?”
“Oh, a small item like $5000 fine—or a year in the Therefore, it is felt, there|than $16 a met probably will be none. If there is, strike.
clink—or both,” I replied in a low tone. “Well dig me with a tuning fork—that’s rough) Bobby Cox decided.
phory®” “Tchaikovsky is good for a long. time,” Cummings sald,
Danny
Serious Situation
BOBBY WALSH thought the boys could compose their own music—that would be safe, wouldn't it? The rest of the men waved him down. THis situa-| tion was serious. Something for the all-veteran band to consider. Someihing for every one in Indiana to consider. “I have an idea,” nny said loud to get the floor. “Danny can take my high school victory song— hrumph—Tech, of course, and arrange it in various rhythms, The song is an original composition and we would probably be safe. Eddie, I can just see you giving out in a snappy swing arrangement—'For we are ardent students of Technical ...'” “Cut it—cut it—HOLD IT.” The boys had enough. “You guys wanna eat?’ The band thought it would be a good idea. “0. K. Danny-—if this bill goes through go to work on the Arsenal victory song. Let's go now—while we still have good music.”
By Frederick C. Othman
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Now, unhappily, there is plenty of strong tea, but no sugar. One of the delicacies for which Moscow long has been famous is the gumdrop flavored with the genuine juice of the lemon and the orange. Go easy on these, gentlemen; the town's dentists are overworked. The long, lean aristocratic pups of Moscow are known as Russian wolfhounds. They weigh up to 105 pounds. each and look best when connected by
Neither side wants a strike. |! Neither side can afford one.
it is not expected to be anything like ‘the “big strike” that injured |
| ployees so badly a year ago.
Big Three—General Motors, Ford | and Chrysler—have lost: more than
145,400,000 days’ pay through !strikes, stoppages, and shutdowns due to strikes by others. At cur-|
rent wage scales this cost more
|than $250 million. 2 84.8
THE BIG G. M. strike alone cost 170,795. workers a total of 123,000,000 man-hours. The Kelsey-Hayes strike deprived Ford employees of pay for 4,823,908 hours when there were no wheels to put on cars. Ford hands alone lost more than 16,000,000 hour's pay in shutdowns caused by the steel strike and by rail enbargoes resulting. from the coal strikes. The general feeling is that the rank and file has had enough of strikes. It has used up much of its war-time savings, sold , war bonds, and is in no position to finance a long period of idleness. Rent evictions in a recent threeweek period skyrocketed from 15 to, more than 100 a day in Detroit. 5 n n GENERAL MOTORS’ workers had it hardest. They had the only| big strike. Most of them have not recovered from that. Neither have their union “locals. The Interna-| tional, which helped the locals out | last year has been dodging tnsal-| vency ever since. Its strike fund is flat. Its general | fund is hardly more than enough to| rephy $250,000 borrowed last year!
of 23% cents an hour. “How about an .outfit like the Indianapolis SYM- | poth .General Motors and its ems |any idea that the rank | would be willlhig to-fight for- ha;
Since V-J Day employees of” the oF @ large part of i.
themselves.
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Spring Without Strikes Forec: For U. S. Automobile Business
Neither Industry Nor Labor ° Can Afford Major Tieup
By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staft Writer
T, March 6.—The United Automobile Workers
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y has 60,000 members. The average slightly more
The U. A. W, says)
8 ” » THE BUREAU of Labor statistics reports the average pay in the industry last November was. $1.395° an hour, $5299 a week.. Never{theless, workers are discontented. They want more money and, they want other benefits. One important U. A. W. official, whose ‘members are somewhat older than average, says. that “social security” provisions are-more important than a pay boost. Two other factors contribute to the hope of a strikeless solution here (and elsewhere through industry): One is the new congress. No sensible unionist wants to give am-
|munition to critics with which on-
the-fence can be
swayed.
congressmen
n ” » THE OTHER is the companies’ position. They took a beating last year. All lost heavily, though they were saved by the income tax Tebate. But there will be no such rebate again. They will have to.stand losses They are getting production into full swing. . They hope to make 80 per cent as many. cars this year as in 1941, which set an all-time record. A siitke would stop that. So both sides want peace. Both 'sides need peace. Neither can afford a big strike. And, in the words of a high industrial relations official for one of the Big Three:
a leash to a beautiful lady in a picture hat. If the(from the garment and steel _work-| “Thergwis. no issue that. can't be
leash is missing, diplomats, have a care. A hungry| wolfhound notices not whether the pants are ‘striped. His interest lies solely in the leg underneath.
Have to Build It First
BORTSCH is a soup made of sour cream and be juice. It is pretty, but it tastes no better cold en hot.” Moscow has the most beautiful subway station in the world but do not embarrass your hosts by asking for a ride. Most. of the subway itself remains to be built. The Doukhobors, who hate to wear clothes, came | from Russia. But I understand there are few left at home. Odds are against your confronting the nudist on May First blvd. If a Muscovite invites you to enter his droshky and visit his dacha, by all means do so. The droshky is a conveyance drawn by small horses with jingfe: bells | on their bridle; a dacha is a country house with pictures on the wall, inside and out. Have fun gentlemen. if it's not too much trouble bririg me a small bag of gumadrops,
Passion With Taste
By Erskine Johnson
* HOLLYWOOD, March 6.—Shrewd Maria Montes
is still right up there as one of the smartest gals in Hollywood. Now she's getting paid for letting her husband, Jean Pierre Aumont, make love to hep “The love scenes,” Maria promised, “will be hot but in good taste. I have never seen Jean play such good love scenes. Maybe it is because he loves me, yes?” Wearing a black wig and not much else, Maria again is playing the queen of a mythical country.
It's a role om which she has an almost exclusive priority. ‘This’ the picture is “Atlantis,” with
a slight ring of: aBeiiticity to the lost continent wna QROT G9 oe AE But the plot is typical Montez stuff—a queen who
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. mummifies 50 or so_discadred lovers until Jean Pierre
comes along. Then it's “they lived happily ever . after,” with, I presume, the 50 mummies still gatherIng dust down in-the cellar. “But this,” Maria insisted, “is a better story than the ones I got at Universal. They were dopey. Be-
- sides, I get $100,000 and 10 per cent of-the profits.”
, There's an accent coach (with a Russian accent) on the set seeing that Frenchman Jean Pierre doesn’t talk with too thick a French accent and to see that Maria Montez sounds more like the queen of Atlantis than Maria Moritez.
Swoon-Idol Losing Weight
SOME OF THE BOYS at Paramount were having 8 heated debate over the Hollywood star system. “How,” said one, “can we tell who is a star?” Unit Manager Harry Caplan sald he had the answer.
We, the Women
SHE WOULDN'T be seen in the clothes she wore 10 years ago. She can't wait to try out new decorating ideas on her home. Her hair styles change with the dictates of fashion. But it has been years since she has consciously done anything to brighten up the pattern of her marriage—which by now is pretty dull and drab, And there are thousands of women like her. They create a pattern/for living in the first few years of married life and hever bother to change or improve _ upon it, ,
Right Touch Needed
" THEY KNOW the right touches of color can brighten up a living room. But they don't see that the right touches can keep a marriage from growing
and commonplace TT Ht negra win
- husband’s. income small,
“offers an opportunity for changing the pattern. This
“It all depends,” he said, “on whether they have a dressing room.” Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth are straining at the leash again. .. . Van Johnson is taking injections to lose another 20 pounds. . . . Orchestra Leader Woody Herman is angling for a radio crooning job minus his band. . ... Frances Langford and Jon Hall are going out on the road as a ballroom singing team They open at Mission Beach, near San Diego, March 8, for $1750 for the evening's work. Dolores Del Rio says it isn't. true that she’s secretly married to Tito Junco, a Mexico City actor. “Just a friend,” she says. . . . Roddy McDowall goes east His summer to star in the play, “The Black Eye.” . Frank Morgan will soon-have<s AERISPOTISOT “for-|-his “Fabulous Dr. Tweedy” air series. , . Dennis Day’s impersonations are the talk of the town. a radio interview with Ronald Colman, Dennis sounded more like Colman than Colman.
Explains His Title ;
“THE JOLSON STORY,” wasn’t the first time Larry Parks had a singing double. Johnny. Clark sang for Larry when Columbia starred him in a series of B musicals. Sir Cedric Hardwicke's explanation of his title:
“Several actors were knighted in England to raise
the status of actors in British society to the point where ordinary folk would speak to them: Titles impress my countrymen and actors did not, so by conferring a few titles judiciously, the profession of acting’ was raised, and the status of actors became almost that of people.”
By Ruth Millett
a new shared interest perhaps, or-with new and stimulating friends, or with the setting of some goal toward which both husband &nd wife can. work,
Keep Up. to Date
A MARRIAGE has to be kept “up to date,” too. Five years ago when her children were little and her the marriage was pretty much Set to one pattern from necessity. But a husband's advancement in his work and a wife's release’ from. the constant care of children
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is the time for more and varied companionship, for! wider interests, and for more, ambitious planning. If women were as determined to keep dullness out of their: marriages as they are to keep it out of their
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settled without a strike by negotiators who don't want a strike.”
Wells Urges Help To Rebuild Greece
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 6 | (U. P.).—President Herman B Wells | {of Indiana university believes that | the economic stability of Greece de- | pen s on rehabilitation of its trans-| | portation system. Mr, Wells, who toured Greece for {two months last year as a member |of the inter-allied commission to] |observe the Greek electicns, ex-|
asked the United States for aid.
tated from a transportation standpoint,” Mr. Wells said. political stability depends on whether she gets back on her feet economically. . This recovery -is -of prime importance to the entire world.” Mr, Wells said Greece was wholly dependent on its transportation to survive, and that the country could not rebuild its ruined railroads and highways without help from some outside souyce. /
smmioipm—————————————— 'Mitscher Leaves $58,000 WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.). —-Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, who died left an estate of $58,700, according to a ‘copy of his will filed for probate in district court. The wartime commander of task force 58 named. his wife, ‘Mrs. Prances S: Mitscher, as ‘sole Bevefiviary.
[ee as soon as possible.
ressed that opinion after Greece |stationed at Stephenville,
“Never was a country so devas-|forces.
“Greece's dor, Newfoundland. But because of
Flies 2000 Miles Past Destination
SHANNON. Eire, March 68 (U. P.). a Marie Dryer, of Kanar 2s i Man today - for what {she hoped. would be a short visit.
Mrs. Dryer was 2000 miles beyond {her destination. She wanted to
The 23-year-old wife set out {aboard a Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. transport to join her husband. He is Lt. ‘John Dryer, Newfoundland, with the U. S. army air
She expected to debark at Gan-
|bad weather the plane came on to Shannon without the Gandor stop.
Ranger Gives Up Search for Skier
SUGAR BOWL SKI LODGE, Cal, March 6 (U. P.).—The official search for Grant E. Cox, 21-year-old skier missing for four days in the snow-swept Sierra was abandoned ‘today. g The hunt was discontinued by Placer county officials, Constable Harry Johansen said a
Ranger Max Williamson cante in last night and reported “no traces”
“lof the. college student. .
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A Trip To The Moon And Back—No. 4: On The Way
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THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1047 ~~.
under way, behind an iron curtain, with Chrysler. The union has asked 23% cents. The company has made no counter-proposal. thus far has been on other phases of the proposed contract.
until next year, but can be reopened March 19 on economic issues. There can be no legal strike before May 31.
It can be reopened April 30. If nothing is done, it renews itself automatically. But that will not happen.
U. A. W. is marking time to see wHat | | votes, wants to stick and keep with-'if present “union. Philip Murray gets out of U. 8. lin striking distance of the C. I. O. |sions are not cut down, there will be Steel.
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PEACEFUL SETTLEME "There's no issue that can't be settled without a strike." These words are the statement ofa high industrial relations official for one of the big three of the auto industry. They maka ’ sound track for these contrasting photos of the negotiations (top) which labor and business say will be completed this spring without picket pictures like the one below. Negbtiators shown at work are lot to right) yg A W s J. M. Rubin and Norman Matthews» hovers R. W. Condor and George ut
NEGOTIATIONS
are this year Mr. Murray apparently will might maneuver itself into scallion be allowed to carry the ball. where it could. not back down. . The International's board thus| SECOND--The question of union far has deferred decision ‘whether, shop and compulsory checkoff. if there is a strke, it should be| These are in the Ford contrack industry-wide or against one test|no Saestion: § is aid victim, as Reuther picked General! selention, Motors last year. o'G. The greatest threats to peaceful al Ms settlement come from two factors: up farming than gi FIRST—The internal union scrap, Chrysler Vice President between President Reuther and! ehinson has taken Vice President R. J. Thomas. against the closed shop. Neither faction is believed to want |W, is asking the union sk to sponsor a strike. But Mr. Thomas Chrysler as demand number one. and his associates, with 15 votes on Telit the question will be the executive board, want to oust raised with G. M. on March 19. ‘Reuther. And Reuther, with nine; However, many ol hs Mu that
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no strike this year over the union shop issue.
Sheriff: Clerk Foe Bill Is Criticized
increase the fee of sheriffs and county clerks is an “opening wedge to break down feé reforms of the past.” The measure, passed by both houses, but with different amendments, now is in a conference committee to be straightened out. It originally provided an additional fee of $1.50 each for the clerk and sheriff for collecting delinquent court, costs.
Last year Walter Reuther | presidency when Murray steps out. took the _play away from him, butiThe fear is that one party or other
Carnival —By Dick Turner
amendment which would exempt Marion county. Its contention was that the extra fee was offered as an incentive and that in this coun-
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the speed. The meter now registers an increase of 1.95 miles per second, and the power is shut off. The sensation of weight ceases and the ship is now traveling at a speed of 6.81 miles per—second. - The ship is -on her way.
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#8 THE RADAR records an increasing altitnde.. A dawn is ahead and now the rising sun is 6n the hort They: enter the light of day, the perpetual day of space, _Ad-
the moon's crescent, their destina-
homes and wardrobes, they could manage it. ‘But n_samamtea ;
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NOW THE ROCKET ship has completed her 2.5 circuit around {earth at 100 miles altitude and is The instant of midnight is at hand. The pilot turns on the power Immediately he ‘and the navigator experience a strong sensation the reverse direction of the ship's axis. integrating accelerometer with care, for it gives. the total increase in
jacent to the sun they see faintly
ready to take off for the moon.
They observe the
by the earth and the moon. It responds automatically to their combined force and moves in an orbit the plane of which contains the earth and ‘the moon. The earth and the moon move ‘in orbits about their common center of gravity. Sineé the’ ship is part| of the earth-moon system .it -adjusts itself automatically to. these motions, coming under control of the earth-moon gravitational forces. For these reasons the navigator is now free of any navigation problems, except the correction of any discrepancy - that ‘may
This is the fourth of six sketch-stories adapted from an article in the American Journal of Physics, “A Trip to the Moon and back,” by Henry ‘A. Erickson, émeritus professor of physics at the University of Minnesota. These stories take such a jour< ney out of the realm of fantasy and into scientific literature, describing in semi-technical language the problems of mechanics
and navigation and the surprising reactions of the rocket py
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the. ators performance with the ; master chart. The radar gives the eat, . distance to the moon at any instant. Two, distances a known time interval apart give’ the ship's speed
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