WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
' Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
NEW YORK.—The Boilermakers’
union of Oakland now admits
women to full fraternal member*
ship. It wasn’t our fault, but our
Women With /Vice “7*
Sense of Rhythm ing into this
Fit in War Work servauon be
ing not altogether a non sequitur.
There’s a news paragraph today
about a pretty chorus girl working
in a defense factory. She’s a slen
der, pretty little thing, and when
you contrast her with the chorus
girls of other days, you realize that
our entrance cue for a war was
back in the time of Billy Watson’s
“Beef Trust,” when every girl on
the stage looked as if she could
shoot dice with anvils. That was
the time to open the Boilermakers'
union to the ladies—not now, when
no girl is happy unless she has the
running gear of a katydid.
The chorus girl is Dora Kal
▼Ina, 22, blonde, running a big
'•clicker” machine for I. Spie
wak tc Sons, North Bergen, N. J.
She Juggles 24 dies and shifts a
lot of levers, for a full eight
hour stretch, bringing through
laskinlamb suits for army and
navy pilots and bombardiers.
She recently received the Award
of Merit of the Laskinlamb Insti
tute for turning out SO flying
suits in one day, a record to
date for any one person.
Miss Salvina was decorating the
front line of ‘‘Crazy With the Heat”
not so long ago, and before that she
was in the World’s fair patriotic
spectacle, “American Jubilee.”
With the war on, she sidestepped
USO engagements and found her
factory job, figuring flying suits
were more important than enter
tainment. Chorus girls are tradi
tionally realistic and she says she
works for “pay and patriotism."
There is a cadence in machine op
erations in which the conditioned
rhythms of music and dancing
would fit nicely. This no doubt was
one of Dora’s assets in winning the
production award. She’s good box
office for I. Spiewak & Sons. They
recently doubled their production.
IN THE Bible phrase, one would
have to go to and fro on the
earth to find a team like Henry J.
Kaiser, the demon ship-builder, and
Two Go-Getter. %*£ £
Ready to Fly Over flier, tool
Sea of Red Tape plane . de.
signer and picture-producer. They
. get together to get those 500 cargo
planes out of the suspense file and
over to the war front. They indi
cate a short-cut to action.
At the age of 18, young Mr.
Hughes, now 37, inherited $17,000,
000, along with the Hughes Tool
'Company of Houston, Texas. His
money took wings, in the form of
his first moving picture, “Hell’s An
gels,” a World war aviation opus.
But it landed with a net increment
of $3,000,000 and ever since he has
been this country’s most interesting
blend of romance and business.
He kept right on with his tool
making, but in July, 1938, he
hightailed it around the world
in a plane in less than four days.
His uncle, Rupert Hughes, the
novelist, first lured him to Holly
wood, where he made more pic
tures, taking time out to build
his own plane plant and dupli
cate many of the hasardous
feats of the movie fliers. After
his world flight, the Federated
Advertising club of Chicago vot
ed him fourth in Its list of the 11
outstanding men of the year.
Born and brought up in Houston,
he attended the fashionable Fessen
den school of Boston, the Thatcher
■chool of Ojai, Calif., and Rice in
stitute of Houston. Yes, he has no
diplomas. Craving action on some
thing or other, he always walked
out on school before they could tap
him for Class day.
He is six feet, three, loose-geared
and lanky, with dark, stringy hair,
and he is an absent-minded dresser
who never worries about the crease
in his pants. He has the biggest
yacht on the Pacific coast—or did
have—but he gets his big thrill out
of pitching horseshoes. Hollywood
gossip columnists have had quite a
romp, getting him engaged to this
actress or that, but he is still unmar
ried.
We noted here recently Donald
Roebling, up to his knees in folding
money, who hid out in the Florida
swamps for seven years and brought
through the marvelous amphibian
tank for the marines. His grand
father built the Brooklyn bridge ahd
his father is a builder and inventor.
Mr. Hughes’ forbears were the same
kind of people. His father’s revolu
tionary pipe drill built the family
fortune. There’s a mother lode oi
this kind of genius in America and
naturally it’s going to yield cargc
planes, or anything else needed tc
win this war.
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WASHINGTON. — Americans are
talking a lot about the privations
they will have to endure if the war
continues for years, as seems most
likely. “Privation” is too strong a
word, yet an accurate one, for it
means to be deprived of things, and
we are certainly going to be de
prived of many things, the liberal
use of automobiles being the most
glaring at the moment.
Not only that, the style of living
of most of the middle and upper
middle classes is going to take a
tumble, due to taxation.
But consider what the average
German or Japanese thinks about as
he or she faces the next few years
of war, especially the Germans, for
many of them have enjoyed and all
of them have heard about a very
full life indeed, so far as food, drink
and comforts are concerned.
Thinking About What??
What do those normally heavy
eating and warmth-loving Germans
think about? We know that in no
winter of the war so far has there
been sufficient heat to make the
civilians of Germany really com
fortable. Austria and the other con
quered territories have suffered
more, but the Germans have been
plenty cold.
To the extent they have sacrificed
warm clothing and blankets on the
pleas of their leaders they will be
colder this coming winter. And, be
ing cold themselves, they will be
more concerned about what the bit
ter Russian cold is doing to their
boys in the army. (This on the as
sumption that Russia continues to
fight.)
Entering the realm of wishful
thinking, let us assume that the Rus
sians are able to prevent the Ger
mans from winning any spectacular
victories.
This seems possible, if not prob
able, as we study the reports of
American airplanes grounded in Tur
key. Incidentally a lot of U. S.
planes and skillful crews interned in
Turkey might prove quite discourag
ing to any Nazi plan for shortcutting
to the Caucasus through that coun
try.
With American air power impor
tant over the Black sea area it
seems likely that even the capture of
Sevastopol may not prove the open
door to the oil fields that It once
seemed to the German high com
mand. The prospect is not apt to
make the average life-loving Ger
man, with his belt tightened and his
body cold next winter, too enthusias
tic about the success of Der Fuehrer.
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Difficulties Removed
From Dewey’s Path
The decision of Thomas E. Dewey
to serve out his four years as gov
ernor of New York, if elected, car
ries more significance than most ob
servers have read into it. As a sim
ple promise to the voters of New
York that, if he should be elected, he
will not be a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for President in
1944 is of course the most obvious
angle.
Such a promise removes consider
able difficulty from Dewey’s path to
success at the polls this November.
Incidentally it takes quite a load off
the rest of the Republican ticket,
for it is one thing to run behind and
with a popular figure of demonstrat
ed political appeal, and another
thing when one's opponents accuse
the head of the ticket of not being
really interested in the job he is
presently seeking, but is planning to
use it merely as a stepping stone.
Thus the Dewey announcement
might easily mean the difference be
tween Dewey winning the governor
ship and losing it. It might also
j just as easily mean the success or
defeat of one or more of his running
mates.
Shrewd old political observers
read a deeper meaning into the an
nouncement. Obviously, they point
out, the promise of Dewey means
that he will not be an important fig
J ure among the 1944 GOP presidential
aspirants, win or lose.
If he wins, there is his promise.
If he loses, he will come pretty close
| to being a dead cock in the political
pit in 1944 anyhow.
But they figure that if Dewey is
half as smart as they think he is,
he actually is sacrificing nothing by i
j making this promise. Their theory
is that no matter how strong Dewey
might be by 1944. it would be al- i
rmost unthinkable that he should
have a real chance at the presi- j
dency.
In 1944, they reason, the war will
either still be going on or it will be
just over. It cannot, by any stretch
| of the imagination, be as far in the
past when that election comes as
was the First World war when War- i
ren G. Harding crushed James M. I
Cox, who was burdened with all the
i feeling against Woodrow Wilson and
j a stiff isolationist sentiment.
To the men and women of
the Firestone organization,
whose loyalty, skill, and
efficiency have won the
nation’s highest industrial
tribute, we extend our sincere
appreciation of the fine spirit
and whole-hearted cooperation
which merited these Army
Navy Production Awards.
To our fellow Americans,
we of the Firestone organization
affirm that we regard this high
honor as a challenge for the
future as well as a reward for
the past. It shall serve as a
continuing inspiration to all of
us to strive for increased quality I
and quantity of production in I
further contribution to the war I
effort and to final victory. I
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Airplane Wheels and Brakes
Airplane Wing Panels
Airplane Rivet Cement
Airplane Frictionless Grommets
Airplane Parachute Seat Cushions
Airplane Pilot Seats
Anti-Aircraft Gun Barrels, Mounts,
Carriages and Center Sleeves
Barrage Balloons
Batteries
Bogie Rollers
Bomb Cases
Brake Lining
Bullet-Resisting Tubes
Bullet-Sealing Fuel Tanks s
Bullet-Sealing Oil Tanks
Bullet-Sealing Hose
Combat Tires
Crash Pads
Cushions, Foamed Latex
Deck Cleats
Engine Mountings
Eye Guards for Gun Sights
Fan Belts
Frame Bands for Motors
Gas Masks
Ground Grip Traction Tires
Gun Recoil Mechanism Seals
Gun Stocks, Plastic
Hatch Gaskets
Hose, Rubber
Landing Boats
Life Belts
Life Rafts
Life Vests
Metallic Belt Links for Machine
Gun Cartridges
Mattresses, Foamed Latex
Motorcycle Tires
Pads for Tanks and Pilot Seats
Para-Rafts
Passenger Car Tires
Plastic Helmets
Plastic Lenses
Pontoons
Rims for Cars, Trucks, and Tanks
Rubber Half Tracks
Rubber Track Blocks for Combat
Tanks
Shatterproof Oxygen Cylinders
Scout Car Tracks
Seadrome Contact Lighting Buoys
Shell Guard Facings
Spark Plugs
Tank Tracks
Tanks, Component Parts
Torsion Bushings
Trench Mortar Bases
Truck Tires
Ventilator Parts for Submarines
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