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Washington, D. C.
WAGE STABILIZATION
You can write it down that the
President will use his executive
powers to keep wages in check
rather than ask congress for any
new legislation dealing with wage
stabilization.
There are two reasons for this:
(1) Wage control legislation would
be sure to stir up another bitter
congressional controversy, as bad
or worse than the brawl over farm
parity prices. It might even re-
quire months to get both houses to
agree on a bill satisfactory to the
administration.
(2) The President believes that the
policy proposed by the War Labor
board’s recent steel wage decision—
limiting wage increases to 15 per
cent over scales prevailing on Janu-
ary 1, 1941—plus additional ration-
ing of consumer goods, will be suf-
ficient for the time being to brake
inflation threats to the working
man’s pocketbook.
Inside fact is that the War Labor
board is contemplating only one fur-
ther step in its wage stabilization
program, and this is not so much
an anti-inflation move as a conces-
sion to certain labor groups and a
contribution to the prosecution of
the war.
Wages in certain industries, in-
cluding shipyards and tool-and-die
plants, are above the 15 per cent ip-
crease ceiling set by the board. This
raises the question—shall wages in
these industries be brought down to
conform with scales in other war
plants which pay below the ceiling?
The answer is—there will be no
reduction in wages. The President
has decided definitely against this.
Instead, to prevent piracy and mi-
gration of workers away from vital
war plants paying below the 15 per
cent ceiling, the War Labor board
is planning to amend its wage policy
to permit the payment of “premi-
um wages’’ (above the ceiling) in
such plants.
Note: One industry sure to be al-
lowed “premium wages” is aircraft,
which has lost many workmen, by
piracy and migration, to higher-pay-
*lg shipyards.
NEW ARMY FOOD
To save shipping space, the army
is sending food overseas in dehy-
drated form. Experiments in taste-
preserving dehydration have been
carried cat and tested on a group
of army cooks.
At the Chicago depot of the quar-
termaster corps, the cooks sat down
to a meal of dehydrated foods, prin-
cipal item on the menu being scram-
bled eggs made by adding watdr to
a yellow powder.
It has been discovered that one
pound of dehydrated turnips will
serve 28 persons, after water is
added.
* • •
BEHIND THE AIR CORPS
This war will be won or lost in
the air. But despite that fact the
air forces will win or lose the war
on the ground. In other words, the
success of operations in the air de-
pends on ground crews, who out-
number air crews ten to one.
Featured in the headlines and the
newsreels every day are the pilots
and machine gunners. But the un-
sung heroes of this war are the
ground crews.
Real fact is that it takes only one
man to pilot a fighter plane, but it
takes eight or ten maintenance men
to keep it in shape to fight. A four-
engine bomber requires a flying
crew of nine, and a maintenance
crew of 25. Often a ground crew
will be assigned exclusively to one
plane, and will become attached to
it with the affection a stable boy
has for a race horse.
Chief of Staff General Marshall
has revealed that the over-all
strength of the air force is expected
to reach 1,000,000 men by the end of
1942, and 2,000,000 by the end of next
year. If the war is won in 1943, it
will be won by these 2,000,000 men
But 1,800,000 of them will be “fight
lug” on the ground.
They are the overall-boys, the
grease monkeys, the men who spend
all day overhauling an engine which
has been flying all night, the men
who know what heat is like in the
deserts of Africa, because they don’t
get up in the air for relief, as do
the pilots.
• • •
OVERSEAS CANDY
The quartermaster corps is in the
market to buy 2,500,000 pounds of
hard candy: peppermint, orange,
lemon, lime, anise, and cherry.
The hard candy is being bought
for overseas troops, as part of the
regular field ration. Official expla
nation is that candy is si excellent
source of energy.
• • •
AFRICAN CAMEL CREWS
They are the mechanics, the ar-
morers, the metal workers, the
welders—yes, and they are the pick
and shovel men who build the land-
ing fields in foreign posts, and re-
pair them after enemy bombers
have passed over. They are also
the cooks and the mess boys, the
pay masters, the doctors, and the
truck drivers. In short, they are
the men who perform every duty
that keeps a plane in the air.
They do everything except replace
the African
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril
As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis;
CIO President Proposes Peace Plan;
Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval
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One of Uncle Sam’s newest weapons for the armored force, the M4
lank, is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the 28-
ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate
obstacles. It has a 75-mm. cannon in a revolving turret and a completely
welded hull.
RUSSIA:
Flank Tactics
While Moscow’s official radio was
telling the Germans in their own
language that the United States and
Russia had come to their agreement
on the creation of the second front
in 1942, Soviet troops were busy with
flank attacks on the Nazi forces all
along the 300-mile Don river front.
German drives had pushed far be-
yond Rostov, toward the Caucasus,
but the Russians were claiming that
their new flank attacks were netting
a terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men.
At Voronezh, northern anchor of the
Don front, the Russians had been
holding out doggedly while their col-
umns were being pushed back in the
other sectors.
If Germans in the homeland had
been listening to the Russian radio
tell of the coming of the second
front, they heard too that their coun-
try would be confronted with 15,000,-
000 men, 85,000 tanks, 100,000 guns,
and 50,000 airplanes. But this was
brave talk for even the official Rus-
the center of file Caucasus front.
This would more than likely mean
that the so-far orderly Russian re-
treat would stand a chance of being
turned into a rout—a result that
would be disastrous for the cause of
the United Nations.
Soviet officials had other troubles,
too. There were reports out of the
Don valley that large rings of fifth
columnists had been uncovered.
Many of the spies in these groups
were quickly executed as they were
caught trying to co-operate with
Nazi parachute troops who were
dropping behind the Soviet main
lines.
Meanwhile, through England and
the United States the cry was get-
ting louder for military officials to
establish the much-discussed second
front. From widely diversified
groups and sections came the urg-
ing. There was considerable agita-
tion for this move for many people
feared the United Nations would suf-
fer a most severe blow should Rus-
sia fail to last the year on the Euro-
pean side of the Ural mountains.
ALEUTIANS:
10.000 Japs
Breaking an official silence, a
navy spokesman officially estimat-
ed that the Japanese have succeeded
in putting “not more than 10,000”
troops into the Aleutian island area
and at the same time announced
there was no evidence that the
Pribilof island to the north had been
occupied by the Nipponese.
The statement came in answer to
a report made by the Alaskan dele-
gate to congress, Anthony J.
Dimond, that between 20,000 and
25.000 Jap troops were on the Aleu-
tians and that the Pribilofs had been
occupied.
Questioned about Dimond's re-
ports, the spokesman said that “we
believe that not more than 10,000
Japanese are in the Aleutians, prob-
ably one-half ashore and one-half
afloat.”
The Japs gained a foothold in the
Aleutians on June 3. So far, the
navy has confirmed the presence of
Japs only on three of the islands:
Attu, Agattu and Kiska, at the west-
ern end of the chain. The Pribilofs
are in the Bering sea, and consist of
four islands: St. Paul, St. George,
Otter and Waldrus. The latter two
are small and uninhabited'.
PETRILLO SAYS ‘NO’:
To Davis Plea
“I cannot grant your request to
cancel the notice that the AFM
members will not play for transcrip-
tions or records."
With those words, James C.
Petrillo, president of the American
Federation of Musicians, refused a
request by Elmer Davis, director of
the Office of War Information, to
rescind his ban against the making
of new phonograph records or radio
transcriptions for commercial pur-
poses by union members.
PEACE PLAN:
ForCIO-AFL
A proposal that the Congress for
Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor “ini-
tiate discussions regarding possible
establishment of organic unity” was
made by Philip Murray, CIO presi-
dent, in a letter to William Green,
AFL chief.
Peace proposals between the two
organizations have been discussed
for several months as a step toward
speeding war production. In his
letter, Murray proposed the estab-
lishment of a committee composed
of representatives of both organiza-
tions, with an impartial arbitrator,
to settle all jurisdictional disputes
between the two groups.
Murray named a committee of
three to discuss the problem of “or-
ganic unity.” He named himself,
R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO
United Automobile Workers, and
Julius Emspak, secretary of the
United Radio and Machine Workers
union.
pEF: ,
Two Varieties
In butchershops from the Bronx to
Boise there was considerable-beef-
ing about beef. Beef was high. Beef
was hard to get. What was the
trouble?
President Roosevelt told his press
conference there were three main
reasons for the current meat short-
age: (1) this is the off-season for
beef; (2) people have more purchas-
ing power now, with which to buy
better cuts of meat; and (3) around
4,000,000 men under arms are now
eating much more meat than they
ever ate on their own dinner tables
at home.
Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary
Claude Wickard reported that there
may be some relief in the temporary
beef shortage this fall when more
cattle are brought in off the range.
But other sources looked with dis-
favor on what effect this would have
on the normal spring beef market.
GIANT PLANES:
From Shipyards
There was a new answer to the
shipping problems of the United Na-
tions looming on the horizon. It
was an unofficial agreement from
the War Production board to give
the "green light” to plans of Henry
K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder,
to build giant cargo and troop trans-
port planes in nine of the nation’s
shipyards.
First hitch to be overcome in the
suggested set-up was the granting of
authority by military officials to re-
lease engines and other parts need-
ed in the building of aircraft for
the army and navy.
Donald Nelson, WPB head, ap-
peared to be willing to proceed with
the plan if these materials could be
obtained without hampering the war
effort. This came as a surprise as
WPB first voiced skepticism on the
plan.
Kaiser’s idea calls for the conver-
sion of three shipyards on each coast
to produce 5,000 flying boats a year.
The ships would be of 100-ton de-
sign fashioned after the 70-ton fly-
ing boat Mars, now in active use.
Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore
bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel
magnate and all others with knowl-
edge of production problems of
plane building would be sought, ac-
cording to Kaiser.
After Kaiser had discussed the
idea with Nelson he appeared be-
fore a senate military subcommit-
tee to testify and Nelson later issued
a statement stating that the WPB
was willing to “co-operate to the
limit in any practical way for in-
creasing the effectiveness of our . . .
transportation systems.”
At the same time, James H. R.
Cromwell, former U. S. minister to
Canada, was proposing that Kaiser
be made “czar of air transporta-
tion.” He said: "If we can’t get sup-
plies to the fronts by air transport
we are going to lose this war.”
AIR MONSTERS:
Things to Come
Reading like a tale from the pen
of Jules Verne, the story of two
super-gigantic cargo planes was un-
folded in Washington by aviation en-
gineers. Senate committees heard
the stories.
Details of a huge plywood plane
were disclosed by Dr. W. W. Christ-
mas, technical aviation engineer.
The plywood carrier, weighing
1,120,000 pounds, would be both a
cargo and battle plane. It would be
a 60,000 horsepower, two hull plane
with 400 foot wingspread and with
wings 16 feet thick, with a speed of
about 350 miles an hour. It would
carry 3,000 men. It would carry a
rack of torpedoes weighing 20,000
pounds. Dr. Christmas pointed out
that the torpedoes would have a
striking force of 19,000,000 pounds
when dropped. “A battleship deck
would be like wet paper when one
of these bombs hit it,” he said.
The second plane was a revolu-
tionary type of amphibian flying
cargo plane, which would be lifted
and propelled by a combination of
engines, helium gas and air tunnels.
The engineers are Horace Chapman
Young and Eric Langlands of the
Aerodynamics Research corpora-
tion.
A single wing combination cargo-
flghter-carrier, the plane would have
a flying deck of approximately 200
feet, from which 12 fighter planes
could take off. It would carry
enough helium gas to lift 36 tons
and with its engines could lift 70
tons. Four tunnels would run
through the wing. Engineers in
these tunnels would create a semi-
vacuum, whose suction would sup-
ply pulling power while the propel-
lers gave it thrusting power. Its
speed would be about 200 miles an
hour.
LADIES:
Of the Navy
“Waves” is not a new word to
U. S. navy men but in the future
sailors will have to think twice be-
fore using it. For this is the name
being given to the Navy’s woman’s
auxiliary, counter-part of the army’s
WAAC.
Now officially organized, the
Waves plan to enlist 10,000. First
call was for 1,000 women, prefera-
bly bachelor girls, to volunteer as
officer candidates.
Miss Mildred McAfee, 42, presi-
dent of Wellesley college, Wellesley,
Mass., is being chosen head of the
feminine navy unit and will hold the
rank of lieutenant commander.
While there appeared to be a pref-
erence foi single girls, married
women are not prohibited from vol-
unteering. Unmarried women will
have to agree not to marry while in
or
men
jobs
for active sea duty.
Rationing Student
John Leigh, gas station attendant
in Washington, is pictured studying
rationing rules. When Price Admin-
istrator Leon Henderson ran out of
gas, Leigh refused to fill a ean for
him. Henderson later proved that
such an act would not be a violation
of the regulations, but his proof
eame too late. He already had
been forced to take a taxi.
COUSINS: Conklin Mann, New
York genealogist who discovered
last month that President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill are
eighth cousins once removed, an-
nounced that he had found the Presi-
dent to be a sixth cousin once re
moved of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
MARKETING: U. S. farmers in
the first half of 1942 marketed prod-
ucts totaling $5,773,000,000, accord-
ing to a department of agriculture
estimate. This compares with $4,012,-
000,000 for the same period in 1941.
FATS: The Office of Price Ad-
ministration has set a ceiling of
four cents a pound on waste kitchen
fata now being sold by housewives
to retail meat markets in the na-
tional salvage campaign.
GASLESS: Pleasure driving is
practically a thing of the past in
Britain. As of August 1, gasoline is
sold only to business and profession-
al automobiles.
DEATH: Maj. Gen. Julius von
Bemauth, German tank expert, was
killed in action on the Russian front,
it was announced on a Nasi broad-
cast. I*
by,_______
Eleanor Roosevelt
WOMEN AND WAR BONDS
I have been told of an effort which
is being made by the treasury de-
partment to integrate the interests
and the work of women to boost
the sale of war bonds and stamps.
It is quite evident that men alone
cannot make the maximum contri-
bution. They may allot part of their
pay, but if the woman in the home
does not learn to budget, does not
see to it that she feeds her family
well in spite of the economizing
she must do, that family will not
be making the greatest possible con-
tribution from their income.
In some cases, it is going to mean
doing without things, but these items
must not be essential to the family
health.
• • •
AMUSING BOOK
An entertaining and very instruc-
tive little book was sent to me the
other day. It is called, “Babies Are
Fun,” written by Jean Littlejohn As-
berg. If you are about to have a
newcomer in your family, I think
you will And it both amusing and
helpful, for it is written with charm
and common sense.
• • •
WARTIME THOUGHTS
As we drove away from Campo-
bello, Maine, I had a chance to
enjoy the sunset, and the calm,
beautiful water, surrounded by the
rocks among which the dark green
trees grow. Somehow I had i feel-
ing of remoteness, which I rarely
experience anywhere else, and it
was good to have that feeling even
for a few hours, when the world is
in such a turmoil.
I had gone up on the train with
a mother and father on their way
to see their boy, who was training
somewhere on the coast of Maine,
and when I flew back to New York
city, I found myself sitting across
the aisle from a father who told me
his son was leaving college to go
into a branch of the army air serv-
ice. He was going home to spend
a few days with his family, after
being absent on war work.
I can well appreciate what it
means to every father and mother,
wife or sweetheart, to get a glimpse
of the boy they know is soon going
away, or who comes back from the
service even for a few hours. Ev-
ery time I see a casualty list, or
hear from someone who has had to
give up hope of ever again seeing
some loved one, I cannot help wish-
ing that there were a way in which
one could express sympathy.
Perhaps this is why I always feel
that I want to talk to or smile to,
or help in some way if I can, the
boys fn uniform whom I see on
the street or meet in my travels.
It seems as though even a kindly
word spoken to one of these young
men is something done for one’s own
boy, and perhaps someone else will
be on hand to speak or smile when
the need is there.
• • •
SHORT VACATION
It was fun being back on the
island of Campobello, Maine, even
for a day and a half. There is
something bracing about the Cli-
mate which gives me a lift. It was
very pleasant to find Mrs. May
Craig, one of the Washington cor-
respondents of the Maine newspa-
pers, on the train, and have her
company during the trip.
We visited the National Youth ad-
ministration Passamaquoddy proj-
ect. I wanted to see what changes
had come about there, and found, to
my joy, many improvements. The
project really provides some of the
best machine-shop training in the
East, and therefore, the pick of the
young men in the eastern states
often come here for the last stages
of their training. There is a farm
here, too, and highly important is
the self-government program, which
prepares the boys for citizenship in
any United States community.
I think I told you last year that
on their own time, a group of boys
constructed a glider, and were beg-
ging the navy and the army to come
and look at it, because they were
convinced that it might be of service
in the war effort. Today the use of
gliders is no longer a novelty, and
it is interesting to note that the idea
came so early to the young men on
this NYA project.
These boys are now going to
aircraft factories all over the coun-
try, and into active service as well.
Jobs are waiting for those who finish
their training, and employers seem
extremely glad not to have to break
in these new workers, which is
necessary in the case of inexperi-
enced newcomers. I think we can
feel that the National Youth admin-
istration is hastening the training of
manpower for work which needs to
be done.
• • •
‘THIS IS THE ARMY’
One evening, I took some navy boys
to see Irving Berlin’s show, “This
Is the Army.” It certainly was
wonderful show. There was so
much spirit and life to it. From
the first notes played by the orches-
tra, to the very last bar, we en-
joyed the music. The songs and
lines were delightful, and I have
never seen such acrobatics, or bet-
ter dancing. Perhaps because I can
remember the last war, the thing
which really stirred me moat was
the singing by Irving Berlin.
1/
RUTH WYETH SPEARS
'WHATEVER the limitations
* ▼ that priorities may place on
new bathroom fixtures there is no
limit to the gay color and good
cheer that you may have with
brightly painted cupboards and
towels decorated with pieces from
your scrap bag. In this bathroom
a morning glory applique design
is used for towels of two sizes
and for curtains.
The handy towel and lotion cup-
board is painted white outside and
SU« NORNINft GLORIES IN APPLIQUI1
oshsn row cvwrmns oho Towns
morning glory blue inside. The
sides, top and bottom are screwed
together at the corners. Use half-
inch metal angles as shelf sup-
ports, or make grooves for a neat-
er job. As shown in the sketch,
the cupboard is trimmed and
made rigid with plywood scallops
secured with half-inch screws.
• • •
NOTE: Her* U news for the man with
hammer and saw. Whether you have a
coping saw from the dims store or aa
expensive band saw. you may now make
eut-out scallops tor any purpose desired.
Pattern No. 207 Includes scallops from
one and a half Inches to nineteen inches;
together with numerous Illustrations of
their use In home decoration. The lady
with needle and thread will want pattern
No. 202 with ten hot Iron transfers of the
Morning Glory designs. Patterns are 10
cents each. Order by number and
address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
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desired.
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