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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 PAGE FOUR "REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR E. V. Durling "On the Side" Peter Edson "Behind the Scenes" Novel Launching mmmmmtmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmMmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm eMMBHeMMeiBMaaeMMraMHaMMM Dorothy Kilgallen "Voice of Broadway" pledge allegiance to the Flag and the Republic for which it etandf Shamokin News-Dispatch Bink I 1033 SHAMOKIN DA1LV NEWS SHAMOKIN (EstablUhed 1893) (Founded I88) PublUhed Every Evenlm Sicept Sunday by NEWS PUBLISHING AND PRINTING C0MPAN1, IB. Cor Rock and Commerce Street, Shamokin, Pa. Robert E.

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Seattle Poruud. Rochester. N. x. I A THOUGHT FOR TODAY i Give uiito the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring an ottering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

Chronicles 16:29. God attributes to place No sanctity, if none be thither brought By men who there frequent. Milton. I RED BROWDER RIDES AGAIN We have returned to normalcy. Earl Browser, secretary-general of the Communist party in the United States, again is telling us how to manage our affairs.

It would be more courteous than truthful to say that we had missed Mr. Browder's voice since he was confined to a federal penitentiary for deliberate, repeated violation of federal statutes. Truth to tell, we had been getting on quite well. There were flaws, some serious, in the conduct of our war effort, but none which had deteriorated since we were deprived of Mr. Browder's guidance.

For example, here and there local unions had been conducting silly but vicious outlaw strikes, slowdowns, "vacations," and similar unfortunate interferences with the production of badly needed armament. This, many of us think, was inexcusable under present circumstances. But surely that was not for lack of Mr. Browder's personal attention. Because his Communist party for more than two years deliberately instigated strikes in key war industries for the purpose of slowing down our armament manufacture.

Why did Mr. Browder want to prevent us from making arms? Because they were for use against Adolf Hitler, then the ally of Russia. Perhaps Mr. Browder personally did not instruct Communist units to promote such strikes. Perhaps all he knew about them was what he read in the newspapers.

It is a matter of court record, however, that Mr. Browder made several trips to Russia. It is officially established that, in order not to make a record of those trips, he used phony names in procuring passports, for which he was convicted in federal court and sent to the penitentiary. There are plenty of men available who will swear that they saw Mr. Browder in attendance at the Comintern's "universities" where sabotage, espionage, and other methodology of world revolution were taught to party agents stationed in capitalist nations.

For the world, we wouldn't be uncharitable, but Earl Browder's record does not inspire trust. We feel that the democratic peoples can get along quite well without his advice and assistance. Obviously, Red Browder is not constrained by any sense of shame to hide his head in oblivion. He insists upon foisting himself upon a public that is interested in nobler things. Well, we're not helpless.

We have a ready recourse. We can ignore Mr. Browder's advice completely, and look to those whose line does not switch on orders from a foreign government. Nelson Comes Through Henry Kaiser's confidence in Donald Nelson's good faith has been justified. Mr.

Nelson has come through with a trial order for three super-cargo planes. Now we shall find out whether the wonder man of World War II production has taken on more than he can handle. If Mr. Kaiser should fail, he still will remain one of the great men of this era. We do not expect him to fail.

He has succeeded too often before, where lesser men could see no possibilities of success and surely the manufacture of huge cargo planes is feasible. In any event, he earned the right to try, and Mr. Nelson has ignored bitter opposition and given him the chance. Kudos to both. Despite rising markets, some manufacturers are still making money selling dresses short.

I love, love, love I Love i like a dizziness! It winna let a poor body Gang about his business. James Hogg It was in 1864 Secretary of toe Treasury S. P. Chase had "In God We Trust" put on the United States coinage. Mr.

Chase said he believed no country could succeed without faith In God Despite such referencw to male citizens as "tall, tan and terrific," the young women of the country have no marked preference for alx-footers. They don't like their men too small but If their heart-throb la over five feet eight it 1 all right. The poet, Byron, besieged by beautiful women wherever he went was five feet eight and a half inches tall slant on the Japanese sense of humor is shown by the fact that in Tokyo a musical version of Shakespeare'! "Hamlet" was produced and It included a singing and dancing chorus of gravedlggers. ASKING Queries from clients: Q. In your years In New York what would you say was your most interesting experience? A.

I would have to give that question some thought It might have been the time I won a live turkey In a raffle and took him home In the subway Q. What do you think of young women smoking as they walk along the street? A. It's all right with me though I can't say it Improves their appearance and appeal. The smart girl acts modern, but not too modern Q. What did the poem say about those married on Wednesday? A.

It said: Monday for wealth Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all. PASSING BY Mrs. John Hertz, Jr. Professionally known as Myrna Loy. Mr.

and Mrs. Hertz, are going to settle down in the big town, having taken a penthouse apartment in the Sutton Place district Kay Francis. Now playing mother roles. And why not, with most mothers looking aa young as they do nowadays? I wonder how many yeara it will be before Lana Turner starts playing mother roles Lois De rYe. Amazonian burlesque queen.

Lois, who if six feet three Inches tall and weighs 176 pounds, was recently married again. This time Miss De Fee married Dr. 1 T. 91 1 -l 1 1.1 ft 0 ijoeepn saiawin, a meuiuai uuiuer in uie u. o.

maiuiw Corps Meg Mundy. Said to be Manhattan's highest paid model. Meg is from Pittsburgh. She's an army wife now, having recently married Lieutenant Mark Daniels, who is also from Pittsburgh. ALMOST CONFIDENTIAL Contemporary says "Abie's Irish Rose" was the best moneymaker in United States stage history.

He's wrong. It was "Rip Van Winkle," which ran for 60 years, playing 40 weeks of each year Kerfoot, Lightfoot and Marfoot was the name of a law firm in Los Angeles When mentioning songs with quaint titles I forgot the one Gypsy Rose Lee sang when she was in popular priced burlesque. I mean that ditty titled: "Ida, the Wayward Sturgeon" A Corona, couple becoming the justly proud parents of triplets, named them Faith, Hope and Charity In 1918 Marshal Foch was willing to have the armistice start on November 8. as requested bjr the Germans. His decision was delayed by General Pershing who didn't want any armistice at all.

The A. B. F. commander wanted to keep right on going to Berlin. Seems now the old boy was really in possession of something there.

PLEASE NOTE Note it claimed that most men Judge a woman's ag first by the coior of her hair and then by the line of ner race, it may De true, as ior uiyseu i never ij -v figure out a woman's age. However, experta on this matter say feminine age is most revealed by the hands, elbows and the knees Seems long ago, but in the film version of "Diamond Lil," it was Cary Grant to whom Mae West addressed the immortal lines: "Whydont you come up and see me some time?" SIDELIGHTS The first shot in World War I was fired by the United States Marines. It was fired over the bow of a German cutter at Guam in April, 1917 "Before the man I married asked me to take the step we had been going around together for seven years," says a Milwaukee subscriber. Very interesting. I had known my girl friend 18 months before I put the question.

I know of a fellow in a Los Angeles, who went around with a girl for 15 years before he proposed. And after one year of marriage they were divorced. So They Say I was repeatedly forced to sit down Japanese fashion on the floor and was beaten for hours with rubber hose and leather belting. Dr. Edward Hughes Miller, American citizen held by Japs.

They will have to turn combat planes out faster than I can use them. I must have enough airplanes to win this war. Lieutenant General Henry H. Arnold, commanding general, U. S.

Air Forces. We shall wade through blood, sweat and tears. But we will win in the end, without a shadow of doubt. Joseph C. Grew, former U.

S. ambassador to Tokyo. Words alone can make no man understand the ungentle rain from heaven of bombs and screaming steeL Captain Eric Knight, U. S. Army author.

An extra day off now and then put the victory farther off and means more deaths to our boys. Donald Nelson, War Production Board chief. A country is Judged, to a large extent, by the great men it produces. Ray Coffman, newspaper feature writer. The woman who mends her husband's pants and takes care of the neighbor's children so that their parents may work In defense jobs is the unsung hero in civilian defense.

James M. Landls, director of civilian defense. The postwar automobile will really be the auto that would have come along about 1960 if the war had not speeded up research. Dr. Charles M.

A. Stine, American Chemical Society. There are not enough married men without depend nets for the mobilization of. say, between 100,000,000 and 13.000,000 in the United States. Director of Selective Service Major-General Levis B.

Hershey. Nation-wide gasoline rationing, the rubber conservation measure recommended by the Baruch committee, may go into effect a early as November 18. Nothing la final yet, but that is the date tentatively agreed upon. Big problem is getting the ration books printed and distributed, rationing boards set up, and car owners registered. When nation-wide rationing does go into effect, there will be further changes In the plan now operating in the eastern states where gas rationing is already in effect.

Principal change will probably be marked reduction in the number of permits Issued, and a further restriction in the amount of Edson gas Issued to C-card holders. Reason Is simply that there have been too many abuses of privileges. Nation-wide rationing will attempt to correct them. Provisions on fuel oil rationing are gradually being worked out. Every possible contingency is being considered and every objection to every restriction is being weighed to prevent a repetition of the yowls brought on by the first gasoline rationing code.

Present indications are that the areas where fuel oil rationing will go Into effect will be divided into five temperature zones, graded according to the severity of the usual winter weather experienced In each zone On an average, home owners burning fuel oil in their furnaces may expect to get about 75 per cent as much oil as they got last winter. But last winter was above average In mildness, so allowances have to be worked out to give more fuel oil if this winter should turn out to be more severe than last, less fuel oil if this winter should be even warmer than last. The margins being considered to take care of these alternatives is 10 per cent of last year's consumption, up or down. Thus the home owner would get from 65 per cent to 85 per cent of his last year's fuel consumption, depending on the weather. EXTRA ALLOWANCES It is probable that extra allowances will be given to families with children under four years of age, and invalids.

Doctors' certificates might be required to get these extra allowances. Home owners who have done everything possible to Insulate their houses by means of window and door strips, wall insulation, storm windows and so on, may be given extra fuel allowances. This may look funny at first, but the idea is to encourage every home owner with a non- convertible fuel oil heating unit to do everything he can to cut down on fuel consumption. This extra allowance for insulation is therefore a bonus for cooperation. To keep this from being considered a provision favoring the rich who can afford to insulate, an option may have to be provided here to take cars of home owners who can't afford storm windows.

Best idea so far is that if the home owner can prove to his rationing board that he can't afford the luxuries of Insulation, he'll get the extra fuel anyway. But for the home owner who can but doesn't convert his fuel oil burner to coal burning, little if any mercy will be shown. That lady whose likeness appears on the emblem of the WAACS according to Army authorities, Pallas Athene, or Athena. If you recall your mythology, Athena was an Olympian civic goddess, wise in the industries of peace and the arts of war. The Greeks believe she sprang from the brow of Zeus, who had swallowed her mother.

Aside from that, had you heard that one unofficial suggestion for the WAAC mascot nominates the I-B'S APPLYING Announcement that the Army would grant non-combat service commissions to a number of men classified as I-B, or with slight physical hmdlcaps making thern unsuitable for active duty, has brought in a flood of requests aa to how such men might get to be officers. First requirement is that the man must be drafted, inducted into the service, and undergo the basic 13 weeks training given to all Army rookies. While these I-B's take this basic training they may make application for admission to the new Administrative Candidate School. Iowa Senator Guy M. Gillette's sub-committee on agriculture, interested primarily in getting wider use ot surplus farm products in production of industrial alcohol for synthetic rubber, has not disbanded.

For the present, the Gillette committee is content to sit back and watch how the new administrator, William Martin Jeffers, tackles his Job. But early in October the committee will resume hearings and will have on the grill Ernest A. Hauser, an Austrian chemist now a professor at M. I. T.

Hauser was one of the Baruch committee's technical advisers but also he is one of the authors of a new book, "Rationed Rubber." In the book, manufacture of synthetic rubber rfrom alcohol is called a "rabbit whisker process." Paul E. Hadllck, Gillette committee counsel, wants to know why and to look Into Mr. Hauser's background. Looking Backward Twenty-five Years Ago 1917 Many rural residents reported wells to be going dry because of the continued drought. Local plumbers and heating contractors received notice of a cut in supplies sorely needed for the war effort, Fifteen Years Ago 1927 William I.

Troutman left for Philadelphia to enter the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Rev. Fidelis Skiera, of Milwaukee, arrived in Shamokin to assume his duties as assistant pastor of St. Stanislaus Church. Five Years Afo 1937 A permanent park commission for Kulpmont was organized at a joint meeting of the Kulpmont school board and borough council.

Winter is the season when people hate to get up just as much as they do the other three seasons. Girls are still leturning from acation and forgetting to call their regular fellow by his right name. A California biilt a complete home on the chassis of his old auto. Home, fleet home. Barbs Raymond Clapper "In the News" WASHINGTON, Sept.

29 The real trouble farmers are in is not from prices but from a shortage of labor. The labor shortage has weaved in and out of the in flation fight as an argument in favor of boosting the parity basis for farm prices. Farmers are losing help for two reasons. One is that the draft and enlistments are taking large numbers from the farms. The other is that the high wages paid in aircraft and shipbuilding plants are drawing labor from the farm.

The draft is rapidly on the way to becoming the big factor. It is bound to hit industrial labor very hard within the next two or three months. Clapper Although the farm labor shortage has been used as an argument for boosting farm prices, it really is an argument for something else an overhauling of the whole manpower problem. Several things can be done before the question of government control over all manpower is decided. The Tolan Committee of the House has given much study to these possible moves short of manpower control.

One of the most important is to make the most, efficient use of existing manpower. Those who have studied this problem say that some employers, anticipating labor shortage and loss of men to the draft, have over-hired to be sure of a cushion. This hoarding of labor is one field which the Tolan committee believes the government should attack. Another is the training of older men and women for replacements. A third is the use ot men at their highest skills.

These are matters of intricate personnel management which in normal times the forces of competition take care of through regular management operation. But present conditions are chaotic. Employers do not know how many men they will lose and how rapidly. Anyway they are deep in new problems connected with production of war goods and simply are unable to devote adequate attention to training persons as future substitutes. The Tolan committee has recommended that the Manpower Commission set up a staff of specialists In labor utilization to assist employers in mastering their manpower difficulties.

With respect to semi-skilled labor, the Tolan committee has several suggestions. It would expand vocational training for groups hitherto largely excluded from industrial employment, such as women, the aged, handicapped, colored and other minorities. It would subsidize trainees and finance their transfer to areas where they were needed. It would have a civilian defense campaign in areas of general labor shortage to draw into the labor market persons living there who are not ordinarily employedsuch as housewives. Many other detailed suggestions of the same type are offered, some of them drawn from the British experience with manpower shortage.

The point of the Tolan committee recommendations is that most of them could be put into effect by the Manpower Commission or other government agencies without legislation and without regard to what may be done about the proposed National Service Law. Most of those who are studying the manpowir problem believe that it Is rapidly reaching an explosive point. It is reaching into dairying, and we may be forced to ration milk unless farm labor is provided somehow. While the Tolan Committee program would help, and much of it will have to be undertaken in any case, It la not likely to be sufficient. It offers little to relieve the farm labor shortage.

The administration must soon face the real task, which Is to bring about a balance in the whole war program. That means balancing at the top fitting strategy, military needs, labor supply, agriculture, materials and plant capacity into relation with each other, so essential production Is not interfered with by the draft, nor by unnecessary production. Are you going to slow down ship production so that draft quotas may be met? Or are you going to slow down the draft quotas until the ships to move the men are built? Such questions need the attention of a topside clearing house and there Is no such clearing house yet. Why? Jitst because Mr. Roosevelt hasn't got around to do it.

With men and women dressing so much alike, friend wife sometimes presses hubby's trousers into service. Mil GOSSIP IN GOTHAM Lulse Rainer rifled the rumors of a romance with Stokowski by concentrating on a West Coast songwriter Playwright Moss Hart has joined the Navy Air Corps Terrific crisis between Rita Hayworth and her atudio because she adores Vitor Mature. She may face suspension unless she gives him up Mrs. F. D.

traveling will be curtailed considerably for the duration, in keaping with the war effort Lieutenant Liudmilla Pavlichenko's heart belongs to a sergeant now fighting with the Russian army at the Stalingrad battle-front Margot Grahame, one of the patriots returning to Britain, on 24 hours' notice-nay be ordered to leave, via freighter, at any moment Lionel Barry-more is ailing. That's Broadway Note: At noon the other day, Abbie Frosch was served with divorce papers by Frances Faye. At 8 o'clock that night they were dating! Herbert Bayard Swope has recovered from his three weeks' Illness Louis Shurr, the ten per center, is now 1A. The $64 question is who gets the ermine coat? Wini in Shaw is sporting a black eye. She tried to stop a fist fight between Clarence Stroud and the manager of the USO unit in which they're both appearingand what always happens to peacemakers happened to her At the request of several night spots, Bobby Goelet now leaves his bodyguard outside when he enters.

Tommy Manville sent 20 orchids to Wynne Boze the evening she opened in Friends are betting George Montgomery and Kay Williams will name the date In the very near future. Of course George has named the date twice before with Ginger Rogers and Hedy Lamarr and nothing happened Al White, the dance director, is suing Mike Todd over a fee involving I "Star and Garter" Earl Carroll is having mob trouble in Chicago. He neglected to inform the "boys" about the night club he's planning to open Mrs. Thomas N. Cole, registered at the Pierre, "is a sister of the late Neville Chamberlain Edna Joyce, "Miss New Orleans" at Leon and Eddie's will soon have a new title: Mrs.

Ottle Capron Sergeant Jackie Coogan, despite his bitter court fights with his mother, spends his furloughs with her. Al Vanderbllt's newest diversion is Sunnie Pitts, a Hollywood lovely The Jerry (King Features) Dreyers are lullabying a baby girl. Martha Ann, at Gotham Hospital Senator Happy Chandler's younger daughter, Mimi, is being screen-tested at Paramount That was a fine battle at Kelly's Stable week. Two enraged belles battled it down to torn dresses over a beau who was too tipsy to care One of swingdom's most famous bandleaders came close to a court-martial recently. He was twice caught out of uniform Corinne Luchaire, the French actress who was reported to be the sweetheart of Otto Abetz, the Nazi biggie, la now confined to a sanitarium in Switzerland.

Hottest romance in town stars Barbara Bannister, the ham heiress, and Harry James, the trumpet player They met down South when he was barnstorming Preview audiences who have seen the Margie Hart flicker "Lure of the Islands," describe it as the most frightful thing since the bombing of Rotterdam. Poor Margie! Vivienne Segal and Corporal Robert Sidney, of "This Is the Army," have been seeing a lot of each other Lannle Ross, the m. o. whose charm Is the way he insults people, opens at the Famous Door. Supposed to be a scream There's a grea.

deal of Hollywood grumbling over Charlie Chaplin's failure to take a more active part in the war effort by bond selling and personal appearances for charity. He's confined himself chiefly to doing a few things for the British. Ruth Skinner, the ex-Mrs. Nick Stuart, married Sherman Hayes, vocalist with George Olson's band over the weekend Peggy Calvert, the chanteuse, tells friends she will file suit for $15,000 against Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer for allegedly using her name and an episode from her life in a motion picture. Scientist claims It Is possible to make diamonds from sugar.

His Uncle Sam better not catch him at it these days..