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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1944.
GEN. BRADLEY S PREDICTION
Not many weeks ago, the American
people were being wrarned that the Al
lied troops would have to suffer extre
mely heavy losses in order to storm Adolf
Hitler’s ramparts.
A bouquet should go, therefore, to
Lieut.-Gen. Omar N. Bradley, command
er of U. S. Ground Forces in Britain,
who- on April 7, nearly two months be
fore the invasion, told American infan
try officers in England that “this stuff
about tremendous losses is tommy-rot.”
Now that the beachhead has been well
secured, the facts prove that the general
was correct.
General Bradley called the turn ac
curately, saying Allied soldiers would
go “in there punching, backed by mass
ed naval fire and air power.” He told
the fighting men that they would have
air protection day and night and “naval
gunfire that will surprise you.”—Fair
banks News-Miner.)
MORE ADVENTURES OF CAESAR
This is another chapter in the breath
taking saga of James Caesar Petrillo,
president of the American Federation
of Musicians. Mr. Petrillo, as you prob
ably know by now- is mindful of his own.
Year in and year out, in spite of war
and manpower needs, he has been busy
ireaming up new and fascinating fields
>f employment for dues-paying practi
tioners of the tonal art.
Mr. Petrillo’s zeal has occasionally em
broiled him with stubborn people insen
sitive to his lofty esthetic purposes, but
he always wins. Today, unless you hap
pen to run into an impromptu barrom
tenor, it is practically impossible to hear
a note of non-union music in public.
It seemed that when Mr. Petrillo sue
! ceeded in getting an unpaid and unspon*
; sored symphony orchestra of high school
children put off the air, he had removed
all dangerous competition. But there
still remained one serious rivalry which
! pow threatens a strike in two major net
| works.
The new trouble hinges on this deli
cate point: Is the arduous feat of placing
music recordings on a turntable an en
gineering or musical operation?
Mr. Petrillo contends that as long as
there is music on the records, the hand
ling of them comes within his union’s
field. He got the networks to agree with
him (they long ago discovered that it’s
;futile not to). They signed contracts to
hire trained, sensitive, dues-paying mu
jsicians for this delicate and taxing work
|at a mere 12 bucks a day.
But the National Association of Broad
cast Engineers and Technicians feels
'that perhaps a man with a degree from
M. I. T. or Purdue can put on and take
off the records and even place the needle
in the right groove as part of their regu
lar work and at no extra charge. They’re
being a bit stubborn about it. They
threaten to walk out if a long-hair from
the A. F. M. so much as lays an irrev
erent hand on a recorded singing com
mercial.
And there the matter rests at the mo
ment. Our sympathies are with the en
gineers. But, since you can’t ignore past
performances, our money is on Mr. Pet
! rillo.
Most of all, however, we are intrigued
with the future possibilities for the mu
sician that the latest Petrillo contention
opens up. If a wax disc containing
grooves wTiich under certain conditions
give off musical vibrations should be
handled only by a member of the musi
cian’s union, then the musicians’ post
war employment problems are solved.
The piano mover will have to hold an
I A. F. M. card. A union musician will
|have to ride on every moving van to
,handle the family radio and Junior’s fid
! die. The boys and girls who sell radios,
phonographs, records, instruments and
sheet music will have to join up.
And you won’t catch us touching our
portable radio until Mr. Petrillo has
j passed upon our fitness and accepted our
initiation fee.—(Anchorage Times).
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
"LOOK AT THE WORLD", by
Richard Edes Harrison (Knopf:
$3.50.)
Richard Edes Harrison’s “Look
at the World” is certainly the
handsomest book of maps I have
seen. Most of the ones drawn in
photographic perspective look as
if they should be taken out of
the be ok and framed ; very likely
the jacket map, which was drawn
too late to be included in the
book, will be framed by a good
many astute people. It proves that
whatever the unfortunate charac
teristics of the Japs may be their
country makes a beautiful map
if Mr. Harrison draws it.
Like a good many things of com
parable interest, Mr. Harrison’s
atlas is a joint enterprise When,
a few years out of Yale, he decid
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ed to draw the world as he saw
it, he needed a backer with mon
ey and imagination. This he found
in the magazine “Fortune”. He
needed a lot of research, and the
Time and Life building swarms
j with researchers. Lastly, he need
ed appreciation, and this was fur
nished jointly by explorers, geo
graphers, and an amused and ra
ther grateful public. It is some
thing to be shown a new world
at any age.
Mr. Harrison believes we are
victims of convention and a tacit
conspiracy. The latter was per
haps better described as a lack of
candor; all technically competent
persons knew that old-style maps
were badly distorted, but until
the plane came along nobody
thought it worth while to tell the
public. The conventions were nu
merous, but Mr. Harrison believes
the basic and therefore most per
nicious one is our curious ideh
that the top of a map must be
north. It is a necessary conven
tion often, desirable sometimes,
but in his opinion the chief ob
stacle to a flexible sense of geo
graphy. When one is accustomed
to seeing Italy in, roughly, a north
south position, it looks queer any
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other way. And it looks wrong
shown canting off to the south
east—which it actually does.
So today's cartographer figures
! out what he wants to show then
in effect gets into a balloon and
ascends very high into the strat
osphere and “photographs" the
world from that point,
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Meal Timbales On Toasl
1 1-4 cups ground cooked meat
2 cups soft bread crumbs
2 tablespoons minced parsley
3-4 teaspoon salt
| Pepper
1-4 teaspoon onion juice
2 eggs, beaten
, 1 1-4 cups milk
Chili sauce
Toast
Combine meat, crumbs, parsley,
salt, pepper and onion juice.
Mix milk and eggs and add to
i meat mixture. Let stand five
minutes, then pour into greased
custard cups. Place custard cups
in pan of warm water and bake
at 375 degrees 40 minutes . To
serve, unmold and place on
squares of toast arranged on serv
ing platter. Top with heated chili
sauce.
ALASKAN ARTIST GOES
'TO PT. BARROW
“Rusty” Huerline, Alaskan art
ist, who has spent the winter in
Nome, working on some very fine
pictures which he has just com
pleted and sold, left Nome Sun
I day morning to spend the winter
in the very far North, where he
hopes to produce more portray
als of Alaskan life. Mr Huerline,
it will be remembered, painted
the picture which was used for
the posters for the Fourth War
Loan drive.
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CROPS VS.
CURFEW
j Now' that the Line is drawing
| near to reap the benefits of
months of labor in the planting
j and caring for the various Vic
1 tory gardens, many garden own
ers are protesting with indigna
tion that their young plants have
been torn up by children after
curfew hours. Warnings Jhave
been sent to the various parents
of children who have been caught
and it is hoped that this impulse
1 of vandalism will be curbed be
■ fore any more destruction occurs.
Former Nomeiles Ferrying
Flanes to South Pacific
Chester Brown, former Nomeite,
is ferrying planes to Australia on
a regular schedule, as also is
Johnny Moore, another well
known Alaskan fiyer. who mar
ried a Nome girl. Madeline Cal
! kins Mirow. The Brown family
lives in Peteluma, Calif. The
Moores live in Santa Rosa.
There Will Be No More Ice Cream Sold Here Until
the Arrival of the New Ice Cream Machine.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
WHITE VS TAXI - BLACK 126
The Glue Pot!
! Simeon apd Goetzenberger, Props.
acorchy Smith.... Kol1 tall
[&KACHUTING DOWN,
SCORCHY AND HANK LAND
IN THE OCEAN CLOSE TO
SURVIVORS OF A BOMBED
NAZI SHIP... SMEARING
j OIL ON THEMSELVES, THEY
ARE PICKED UP WITH THE
OTHERS BY A NAZI
CUTTER...
Oh, Diana!
Double, Double Dale
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