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100,000 'FORGOTTEN' PEOPLE
As hod been foreseen members of the Mocomb
County Boord of Supervisors on Friday rejected Sher
iff Jacob F. Theut's proposol fhof he be granted
authority to employ six additional deputies to safe
guard the lives ond properties of the 100,000 persons
who reside in the unincorporated areas of the county.
The Board s move wo* predictable simply because
of its record. Down through the years the boord has
consistently opposed granting anything but the most
rudimentory assistance to the rapidly expanding
South Mocomb areo
A small, but highly vocol, bloc of Mount Clemens
and rural supervisors, acting os self appointed guard
ions of sccfional "rights", has but added another in
defensible item to its long history of stubborn opposi
tion to the interests of the county at-large.
That bloc, calmly choosing to ignore the fact that
every person in Mocomb county is entitled to consid
eration from all of the supervisors, prefers to stand
upon an out dated program of individual "rights" and
community, versus county, interests.
There is, however, this much to be said for ot least
some of the rural supervisors: The haste with which
the matter was disposed of would seem to indicate
thot they had not been fully informed concerning the
jeopardy in which they were placing the majority of
the residents of Macomb county.
It seems about time that the honorable gentlemen
who moke up the boord of supervisors fake their eyes
from the ground immediately before their noses ond,
in actions concerning life and property, select instead
the broad borders of the county os o whole as o pot
tern for modern government.
The "horse ond buggy days" are gone forever.
Horse ond Buggy politics should hove faded e'er
this.
UNION DUES FROM SOLDIERS
Leon Schacter, business manoger of the Meat
ond Connery Workers Union, scents a smear against
union labor" when the president of the New Jersey
Farm Bureau discloses that soldiers, who were fur
loughed to work in canneries in an emergency, were
required to pay union dues
We think Mr. Schacter is unduly sensitive Mr.
Voorhees did say, when he described the incident,
thot he was "shocked beyond words " He is not the
only one who feels that wav about such a situation
Mr Schacter, on behalf of the union, does not
deny that the soldiers, who went into the cannery be
cause manpower was so short that huge quantities of
tomatoes were ready to spoil, were required to pay
union dues in order to help save vital food.
On the contrary, he gives details The canneries
were operating under a closed shop agreement, he
says, ond therefore nobody could work in them with
out paying union dues The soldiers didn t have to
work there Thev could have gone on soldiering at
Fort Dix ond let the tomatoes rot.
* * *
What happened there has happened in ot least
several instances elsewhere Emergencies have aris
en in which too scarce foodstuffs would have spoiled
for lack of help to harvest and handle and process
them The Army has given furloughs to those who
volunteered to help The men continued to receive
their Army pa\ ond were permitted to receive also
the wages for the work they did
Under Army regulations soldiers in uniform ore
not permitted to compete with civilian labor In time
of war soldiers con not take off their uniforms, tech-*
mcally 'though actually, in dirty work, they may do
so occcstonoHy- unofficiallyt.
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But theoretically they ore ir uniform when they
help out in such emergencies, ond therefore can not
"compete" with the non-existent civilian help whose
absence caused the emergencies
If these Fort Dix soldiers had not paid union dues
they would have been competing with civilians Smce
they paid the dues there was no competition
New Jersey farmers are described as being "very
incensed Mr Schocter can not understand why.
Con you^
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• IN HOLLYWOOD
BV I.ItSKINK JOHNSON
Your Hollywood correspond
ent interviews Tallulah Bank
head •
JOHNSON: How do jou do.
Miss Bankhead. Welcome hack
to Holly . . .
BANKIII.AH: Oh-o-o-o-o-o o!
Have 1 got a hangover. Not li
quor, mind you. Haven't had a
drink since Dunkirk. Swore off
the stuff till we win this war.
But am I weaving. Sitting in a
boat all day. You know, for Al
fred Hitchcock's picture, “Life
boat What a sweet guy he is
But tlie boat rocks all the time.
And I m weaving even when I
got home at night. People look
at me. lift their eyebrows and
say, “Ah. ah there's Tallulah
again But there I go again,
talking too much. Have 1 been
talking too much?
JOHNSON: Wh.v no Miss
Bankhead. But 1 would like to
a> k . , i
BANKHEAD: The studio gave
me a little reception when I ar
rived in. Hollywood. First time in
II \ears, \ou know. Made a lot
of piclures for Paramount. But
I didn't like them Terrible roles.
Anyway, the studio gave me a
little reception and some catty
dame says to my secretary,
* Hasn't Tallulah c hanged.’ She's
so charming I ask you. What
else can I be but charming?
What should I do, tear up the
joint? Women' Bah. I don't trust
them Cats Im always charm
ing Never temperamental. Only
with my work. That's rigid. 1
scream at a director or an au
thi ir because hr s wrong and 1 m
right. I know Tallulah better
than they do.
JOHNSON: Os course. Miss
Bankhead, but . . .
BAN KII LA l> Oh o o-o on o!
Have I got a hangover. Not li
quor, mind you . . . OH, I
told you about that, didn t P’
Or did I? Well, anyway, I'm
happy about returning to the
screen. It was a challenge to me
to appear in a good picture.
Play a good role. Os course, to
be .sordid, they're paving me a
lot of money. That ' nice. But I
do think it « a good time to be
seen on the screen with our boys
fighting thousands of miles away
from home. It helps a stage ac
tress to lie seen by a lot of peo
ple. Oh. and ands so much easier
than working on the stage,
where you even have to put on
your own make-up. In Holly
wood they do everything for
you. Working in a picture is so
much easier Ilian the stage, es
pecially when you arc’ on the
road. Why, I made H 7 one
night stands with The Ldtle
Foxes ’ Terrible It isn't just
going through the play ever.v
night, but the star -and 1 hate
the word >tar has to give in
terviews, talk over the radio,
meet the mayor of every town
and hut there I go. Talking
too much Have l been talking
too much?
JOHNSON: Whv no. Miss
Bank . . .
BANKHIAD: Ah. England.
That 5 where I'll be happy to
have’ them see me on the screen
again, loved there for eight
Nears, you know. Have lots and
lots of friends there Wonderful
people. But you know, 1 never
could figure out their pounds
and six pence. But 1 gurss it
wasn't so had. Id always say,
“Charge it to daddy.” How do
you like* my hair up? It s getting
me down. I'm not used to it.
Why, I had my hair falling over
one eve before Veronica Lake
was born People would look at
October 12, 1943
me and say, “There's that dread-
I l women. Why doesn't she do
something about her hair.” But 1
liked it. Have you any question
you'd like' to ask, Mr. .Johnson?
JOHNSON: Why yes, Miss
Bank . . .
BANKIILAD: You know, its
so foggy on the set we can t
even see the visitors. That's
good. I'd probablv see someone
I didn't like and spoil the scene.
Hollywood? It's wonderful But
I don't like the weather. 1 hate
it. I like fog and rain and snow.
The C h a m b e r of Commerce
• Questions and Answers •
U What is the Fulbright res
obit ion. recently passed by the
House of Representatives by a
800 to ‘JO vote?
A—The measure favors the
participation of the United
States in an international effort
toward a lasting peace.
# # *
Q Who will manage the
American and National League
overseas baseball teams which
will entertain our soldiers in the
Pacific area after the World Se
ries?
A Joe Cronin, of the Boston
Red Sox. and Frankie Frisch, of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, respec
t iyoly.
# # *
Q- What was the estimated
property loss caused b.v the fa
mcuis Chicago fire ’
A At least $20(1.000 000.
♦ # *
Q Men of what branch of the
armed services captured John
Brown at Harpers Kerry?
A A company of marines,
under the command of Col. Ro
bert K Lee
• • •
Q Which slate is known as
the Empire State' 1
A New York.
Q What important rommol
itv may be next on the ration
list 0
A Coal.
• • •
Q What is ihe weight of the
projectile fired from a bazooka’
A The tank-killing rocket
weighs but 2'? pounds.
* • •
Q Where did th e outmoded
feminine garment “bloomers ’
get their name -1
A Bloomers were named af
ter their originator. Mrs. Amelia
Bloomer, a feminist who intro
du-ced the style, copied from a
Turkish garment, in the early
Wist
• • •
Q How much silver was tak
cn from the fabulous Comstock
Lode?
A More than five hundred
million dollars worth.
• •
Q What action did President
Wilson take regarding the Vol
stead Act - ’
A He vetoed the measure.
• •
Q When was the l’. S. Co*st
(Liard established?
A In 1790.
• • •
Q -How were the Puritans
originally known?
A They were called the Sep
aratists at the time they left, for
America in 1020.
* • *
Q Who made the first suc
cessful airplane flight to Hono
lulu?
A— Army Lieut*. Albert F.
Hegenberger and Lester J. Mail
land flew* from Oakland. Calif .
to Honolulu June 28 29, 1927.
Mount Clemens, Michigan
probably won't like me. But
(iod will I like lu« weather in
New York. I don t like Sundays
in Hollywood, either. You're in
vited to a lot of swimming pools
and parties. Why, you wear
yourself out. I stay home. That's
a hotel room. That's just about
all I've seen of Hollywood this
trip. That hotel room and that
a- lifeboat OH-o-o-o-o! Have
I got a hangover. I'm weaving.
It's that lifeboat.
JOHNSON: Oh-o-o-o-o! Have
I got a hangover. I'm weaving.
It's that Tallulah Bankhead.
Q- How were the .Japs jolted
recently at Osaka and Tottori.
Nipponese cities?
A— A severe ear thquake
caused many deaths, much dam
age there.
• A •
Q How many men registered
in the first draft, on Oct. 16,
1940?
A Approximately 16.000,000.
tit
Q Who is the patron saint of
.shoemakers’’
A St, Crispin. His day is Oct.
25.
• * •
■ Q If you decided to spend
your day off fletching. how
would you occupy yourself?
A You would use feather ar
rows.
• * •
Q What is an ideograph 0
A A pictorial symbol used in
writing sia/h as that of the Chi
nese.
Q What does the epithet, a
Jack Ketch’’ mean?
A .Jack Ketch, an English
public executioner and hangman
noted for his cruelty. The nanm
i< applied derisively.
* * •
Q What size purchase of war
bonds will buy a Liberty ship?
A $2 000.000.
• • A
Q- When was. the continent
first crossed by an automobile,
entirely under its own power?
A In 1903. The journey took
52 days.
• A •
Q When did the Statue of
Liberty arrive in New' York?
A—ln 1885.
ii i
Q Os what value are record
ings of the underwater sounds
made of fiah?
A They are used to tram sub
marine crews to distinguish the
sounds from those made by pro
pellers and engines of enemy
ships.
i t i
Q What is the limit to the
number of words that may be
contained in a letter addressed
to a prisoner in Japanese Jiands?
A—Twenty-five.
• A •
Q —What was Thomas Edi
son s first invention?
A*—On June 1. 1869. he pat
ented a device which permitted
votes to bo taken and recorded
in the House of Representatives
within a few minutes.
TROUBLE I NRATIONED
SALT LAKE CITY E L.
Vetters, a meat market manager,
saw orders pile up hopelessly
after his truck driver failed to
arrive.
Police found the truck, wreck
ed. but the driver was missing.
So was $96. said Vetters. He
thought it couldn't be worse.
Later that mght, though, some
one stole his automobile.
• BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON •
By JAMES THRASHER
NEA Staff Correspondent
Some people have been saying
recently that the eye of the
Army’s procurement division is
bigger than the Army’s stomach,
and that in consequence civilians
are being deprived unnecessar
ily of certain foodstuffs. Specifi
cally, they have cited what
seemed to them a disproportion
ate supply of such things as ap
ple butter, jam, catsup and tur
keys in the Jiands of the mili
tary.
To get the Army’s side of the
story, these accusations were
presented to Col. Louis W’ebster,
who is in charge of procurement
of nonperishable foods for the
Quartermaster Corps.
‘ No,” lie said, ‘‘it isn't true
lhat we Jiave so mucli apple but
ter left over from last year that
we aren't ordering any this year.
But it's almost true, and I’ll tell
you why. The pack of apple but
ter in 1942 was set aside 100 per
cent for the Army. How much
we got depended on how much
tin w'as available to can it.
“Well, there w'as a big apple
crop, and WPB gave the boys a
lot of tin. They made apple but
ter till hell wouldn't have it
all the regular packers and sub
contractors we had never heard
of It was more than we expect-
• FLASHES
OF
LIFE •
Hi The Tuorlilrd Prf«
Ilf YA, SANTA CLAUS!
NEW BRITAIN, Conn That
rosy glow' of a good deed well
done filled Frank Schades soul
as he walked down the street
after mailing a Christmas pack
age to Marine Staff Sgt. Edward
.lurczyk, in the South Pacific
for the past two years.
A booming voice from the
ottier side of the street broke the
spell Yep, there was Sgt.
Jurczyk. back home for a while
to train more jungle-fighters.
BA RBE RSHO P C A MPA 1C N
HARTFOR D, Conn.—Conver
sation is likely to 12 even faster
and furiouser in George's bar
ber shop for the next month.
The proprietor, George Ro
gow’, is Democratic alderman
from the third ward and is run
ning for re-election.
At the other chair presides
Louis Kosoff, who ha* just been
given the Republican nomina
tion for alderman from the third
ward.
HUBBY ON THE SPOT
PHILADELPHIA - Betty
MacAtce sav s she never was a
hark seat driver in an automo
bile.
But when she became a war
time trolley car operator and
w as made conductor on her hus
band's car—
‘ I never was so nervous in my
life. I found myself watching
what Ray was doing instead of
attending to my business 1
never do that when 1 m working
with other motormen "
STEALS HIS STUFF
PHILADELPHIA —Walter
Burns, a juggler, told police
someone literally stole the show.
While he lunched, his car was
looled of:
Six spinning plates, several
Indian clubs, an assortment of
colored wooden balls, two bat
tered hats and a trumpet he
blows while keeping the rest of
the stuff in the air.
QUOTE —UNQUOTE
SPOKANE—Asked by an in
terviewer for a brief description
of Spokane, Novelist Sinclair
Lewis declared gravely:
“The women are tall and the
buildings are beautiful."
PENITENCE
KANSAS CITY The Sabbath
Day theft of S. W, Porlpr s auto
mobile may yet trouble the
thipfs conscience.
Porter is a Bible salesman,
and the rear seat of the car con
tained Bibles and religious
tracts.
PUT IT IN BONDS!
STRINGTOWN. Okla. Ban
dits took $1,200 from Mrs. Vir
gil Chappell's purse hut tossed
aside a roll of war hoods.
Inside the bonds was SBOO in
currency.
HOMEY
KEARNS FIELD. Utah A
group of newly-arrived fliers,
inspecting their quarters, found
ironing boards, wash basins, dry
ing rarks and curtained showers.
A WAC contingent had just
evacuated.
IT'S A DEAL
KANSAS ClTY—Francis Kil
gore's car hit an obstruction in
the road, overturned and was
badly damaged. He and four
passengers were unhurt.
On the spot, the shaken Kil
gore sold the car to the wrecking
company for ten dollars.
ed and more than we needed,
but we had to take it all.
"But that was a break for the
taxpayer, because there won't be
as much tin or as many apples
this year, and apple butter will
cost more.”
Next came the report that the
Army had bought enough to
mato catsup to give every sol
dier seven bottles a year.
CATSUP LOVERS
“Sure.” said Colonel Webster,
“we use a lot of catsup. Most of
it isn't used the way you use it
on your table, but in cooking—
for beans, meat sauces and a lot
of other things. The soldiers like
it, and it's good food. You know,
you can plan a correct diet for
a soldier, you can lead him into
a mess hall, but you just can't do
anything with taste. Soldiers in
general simply like som£ foods
better than they do others. They
happen to like catsup.”
Then there was the charge
that the Army had bought half
again as much jam for its sol
diers as would remain for tHe
approximately 124,000,000 civil
ians.
“Yes. and we just bought 50.-
000 pounds more.” the Colonel
replied with a grin. “I wonder
what they're going to sa.v about
that?”
About those turkeys. You may
recall that the Army, OPA and
the War Food Administration let
it be known that there would be
no turkey for civilians until the
Army had bought up enough to
provide white meat and drum
sticks for holiday dinners for
overseas men.
One Washington columnist got
excited when he discovered that
one pound of undressed turkey
to a man averaged out to a very
generous helping, and that here
was the Army wanting 12,000.-
000 pounds of turkey to feed
2,000,000 men in the overseas
forces on Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
HOLIDAY GOBBLERS
Well, that was all right, except
that the Army earmarked 10,
not 12, million pounds of gob
blers, and the term “holiday din
ners” included New Year's as
well as Thanksgiving and
Christmas. That leaves 4.000.000
pounds still unaccounted for.
And they re needed, the Colonel
said, as safeguards against spoil
age and any emergency de
mands. He didn't specify wheth
er second came under
the heading of emergencies
Colonel Webster explained
that Army dietitians have the
first—and presumably the last
ward in the military food pro
gram. They prepare a series of
master menus, and when these
pronouncements on what and
how much a soldier is to eat are
multiplied by the number of
men, you have the Army supply
program This is presented to
Congress and, once approved,
becomes the ceiling for food re
quirements. The program is then
broken down into quarters, and
the War Food Administration
makes allocations for each pe
riod. Only then are procurement
directives issued to Army bu>-
ers.
Colonel Webster produced
tables to show. tliat, although
the Army has increased
from 4 5 to 7.7 million men in
the past year, the increase in
1943 purchases of non-perish
ables is of much smaller propor
tion on almost every item. This
is because of the holdover from
last year s bumper crops.
‘ Another break for John Tax
payer.'' stfid the Colonel.
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured ex
plorer, Chris
topher
7 Type of
garment
ft Ireland
10 Greater
quantity
11 Arabic letter
13 Mother
14 Half an em
15 Lieutenant
(abbr.)
Ift Near
I ft Skill
20 Indian
21 Dogma
24 Meditated
26 Artificial
language
27 Indian
mulberry
28 Proofreaders’
marks
32 Jeers
36 Constellation
37 Except as oth
erwise herein
provided
(abbr.)
40 Cabin
♦ 1 Negative
42 Type of
dwelling place
46 Per
47 He discovered
the New
49 Requirements
51 Flower
52 Walking stick
53 Mockers
VERTICAL
1 Concern
2 Not closed
2 French Article
McKENNY ON
BRIDCE
BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America's Card Authority
More game and slam contracts
are wrecked because of semi
solid units in each partner's hand
than for any other reason. Each
member of the partnership keeps
rebidding his own suit, not re
alizing that t/ie other half of the
pair has heard the repeated bids
in the same suit and is trying to
signal a misfit.
This situation did not hold
true in today's hand, however.
By a series of clever bids, North
and South arrived at a practical
ly unbeatable slam contract with
only seven of the trump suit
between them After South's re
versal bid of tw’o diamonds,
wFiich showed a strong hand,
North made a jump bid in
spades, showing a fairly solid
spade suit with some outside
strength. South, with only a sin
gleton spade in his hand, rebid
his club suit, and now North
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made the very fine bid of four
diamonds. North had bid and re
bid spades and if South had anv
support for Uiat suit, he would
show it at his next opportunity.
When South heard about the
fit in diamonds, he made the
Blackwood bid of four no trump,
asking for aces. North's response
of five hearts showed two of the
three missing aces South then
could safely bid six diamonds.
On winning Uie opening lead
with the heart ace. East return
ed a trump. South cashed one
high club, ruffed a club in du li
my. and after drawing tru. -ps,
spread ltie hand.
• SO THEY SAY
We have been told that Japs
never surrender. Their head
long retreat >wti«fie« us just as
well —President Roosevelt.
• • •
The Jap is on the run. We must
retain the initiative now in our
hands. The reoccupation of KisWa
as cleared our shortest highwav
to the Japanese empire- Lieut.-
Gen John 1. DeWitt. Western
Defense chief
• • •
If after victory is won we are
unable to stand squarely for co
operation with the nations and
peoples of the world, the pre«-
>ure of events will eventually
force us to the brink of another
and even more terrible war U.
S Bureau of Labor Statistics re
port.
• • •
The corporations which need
to t>e watched most closely are
those w-hich move in interna
tional trade, and those which en
ter into international cartels re
specting markets, prices, and the
use of inventions—Vice Presi
dent Henry A. Wallace
EARLY EXPLORER
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13 Entangle
17 Scatter foi
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19 Symbol for
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29 In a line
30 Sun god
31 Dispatcher
32 Pantry (Scot )
33 Exclamation
34 Chafes with
friction
35 Pig pen
38 Whirlwind
39 His Majesty
(abbr )
42 Course of
action
43 Otherwise
44 Close to
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