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Editor of Stars & Stripes is Major Emsley M. Llewellyn, a Tacoma advertising man who covertly sneaks his own contributions into his "Army Poets" column. Business manager is an ex-Hormel Packing Co. executive, Private Warren McDonnel. News Editor Robert L. Moora, a staff sergeant, is a former Herald Tribune desk...
...Tacoma, Wash...
Before printing its series, the Seattle Times called Roscoe James Lamont, who is head of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. yards where Magnuson worked. Lament hit the ceiling: "If you run those articles you will be raising more hell than any bunch of people in the city of Seattle. . . . Your whole God-damned bunch ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are giving the company, the men and the war effort a stab in the back. How in the hell can you call yourselves Americans? . . . How the hell do you suppose the boys overseas will feel...
Plugger. In Tacoma, David C. Montgomery shot himself in the head with his rifle, reloaded, shot himself in the chest, reloaded, shot himself in the forehead. At the hospital he was expected to recover...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...