Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1942, Page 11

Joe Cook’s Retirement at 51 Shocks Broadway Yeterans ‘Four Hawaiians’ Imitator Quits Due to llIness By the Associated P NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Broadway had to swallow hard to believe it— Joe Cook retired? At 51? But there was the zany come- @ian’s announcement yesterday to his friends: “Have been ill for some time now, with little encouragement from the doctors for any rapid im- provement, so have decided to retire from show business. Kindest re- gards, best wishes, and thanks for everytning. Joe.” Broadway vegulars knew he had sold his fantastic clown-house, “Sleepless Hollow,” at Lake Hopat- cong, N. J., to give his time com- pletely to the stage last summer. They knew he didn’t want to quit. “Joe’ll always be around,” one veteran showman said. “Why, they've got a bronze plaque in Evansville, Ind., to mark the spot where he first did a back flip.” Millions of people have seen Joe's one-man vaudeville show—juggling, walking tight ropes, sharp-shooting and telling tall stories or describ- + JOE COOK. ing “how to imitate four Hawaiians.” He did a medicine show once at 12— “Dr. Buckner's Corak Wonder Co."— and after vaudeville days he was the star commedian of Earl Car- roll's “Vanities.” u.s. R;ilroads Plan Carefully for Change To War Time Monday Advancing Clocks 1 Hour Is Major Maneuver for Far-Flung Systems By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—American railroads are all set for the ticklish job of changing their operations from standard to wartime in the small hours of Monday morning. For the average citizen, it merely will be a matter of setting a watch an hour ahead and going to bed, but the railroads must go through a major operating maneuver when they depart from the old standard time at 2 am. Every clock in every station, every watch in every trainman’s pocket, must move forward accurately at the prescribed time so that schedules can be maintained with the maxi- mum of safety. Extraordinary pre- cautions have been taken to avoid accidents on the lines which bear the heaviest burden of war traffic. Rules for Rock Island. Special instructions issued for the far-flung Rock Island lines state that at 2 am. “all trains and engines will stop, avoiding such stops as tunnels, bridges, heavy grades and obscure places.” Train crews then will advance their watches, compare them, and proceed to the first open station to report their adjustment by wire. A similar plan will be followed by the Santa Fe system. At each point on the Rock Island lines where a standsrd clock is maintained an employe has been designated and - will be held re- sponsible for advancing the hands at the right time. Clock faces will be covered at each station closed before 2 am., and the clock will be adjusted the next day. J. T. Gillick, chief operating offi- eer of the Milwaukee Road, an- nounced time table schedules would be maintained during the transition period, but that no special train or- ders would be issued for operations which could not be completed by 2 am. Extra Telegraphers on Duty. Train crews along the 11,000 miles of track maintained by the Milwau- kee Road in 12 States have been in- structed to stop at the first open telegraph station reached after 2 o'clock to compare their Treset watches with train dispatchers. The road will have as many additional telegraph operators on duty as is necessary to protect the movement of trains. Since all travelers will lose an hour overnight, a Milwaukee Road spokesman said its trains at im- portant connecting points would be delayed up to an hour to permit eonnections to be made. This prac- tice will be followed generally throughout the country, he said. The Pennsylvania line has sought to avold confusion with an order directing all overnight trains depart- ing on standard time Sunday to complete their trips on that time. In most cases, conductors and engineers have been instructed to make no effort to regain the hour lost in conforming with the new Federal war measure. Julien Bryan to Lecture Julien Bryan, world traveler, will give an illustrated lecture on “Ar- gentina Today” before members of the National Geographic Society at Constitution Hall at 8:15 p.m. to- morrow. One phase of his lecture will deal with maintenance of homeland cultural ties by large set- tlements of Germans and Italians in Argentina. Stock Market, Schools and Courts Reopen In Hawaiian Islands Virtually Every Citizen Carries Gas Mask; Labor Shortage Rises HONOLULU, Feb. 5.—With re- opening of the stock market, schools and the territorial courts, Hawaii re- turned to a semblance of normalcy today, but war and defense re- mained the uppermost considera- tions. Resident may stay out until 8 pm. However, they must not show any lights, not even the glow of cig- arettes, Previously 6 pm. was cur- few time. Gas masks are carried by vir- tually every man and woman; flow- ers plots and vacant tracts are being converted rapidly into vegetable gardens; the building of bomb shel- ters continues apace and nightly blackouts remain the unalterable rule. Plans for evacuation of all women and children from an 18-square-mile danger area along Honolulu's water front in case of an attempted enemy landing were outlined by Let. Gen.t Delos C. Emmons, Military Governor of Hawaii. All families were asked to provide themselves with a kit containing a four-day supply of nonperishable foodstuffs, blankets, gas masks, can opener and other essentials. Women and children must be prepared to leave for the hills within an hour after receiving notice. Private au- tomobiles will be supplied. Men were ordered to stay at home in event the emergency arose,-to fight fires. The re-opened schools did not in- clude those sponsored by the Jap- anese Educational Association. A growing labor shortage plagued sugar cane and pineapple planta- tions. There was no actual food shortage on the islands, but in some areas the choice was limited. ADAS ISRAEL (FIRST CONSERVATIVE JEWISH) CONGREGATION 6th and Eye Sts. N.W. Friday Evening Servil 8:15 RABBI SOLOMON H._ METZ CANTOR—LOUIS NOVICK Sermon—*Lincoln. _the Deathless Soul of America” Visitors Cordially Invited ADVERTISEMENT. 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In fact, United, to keep pace with the much greater air transportation requirements, is flying the most extensive January sched- ules in its history — 68,000 miles a day. Queuion: What effect has the war had on your service generally? Answer: There has been a substantial increase in traffic, and air trans. portation is demonstrating every day its great utility to Government, Army and Navy, and commercial travel. Queation: Is there space in your planes for civilians? Answer: Yes. The priority plan just announced by Brigadier-General Donald H. Connolly, the Military Director of Civil Aviation, and the War Department, insures the desired priority for Government and mili- tary personnel, to whom the airlines owe their first obligation, with minimum effect upon the traveling public. The War Department’s official statement says: ¢Priorities...will notinterferetoanylarge extent with the travel of the general puhlic:; It is necessary in some few instances that some on missions of vital importance must be assured through-space. The priority arrangement does that. However, the percentage of such priority passengers is and undoubtedly will be very small, and in the majority of cases the public will find airline space for its use as in the past.” Quesn'on: What about new planes, spare parts and supplies? Answer: The new planes the airlines have on order are for expansion of service. From the very start of the emergency, our inventories of all parts and replacements have been kept above normal levels. The Govern- ment has encouraged this, and through priorities, has made it possible. Maintenance is now the most efficient in the company’s history. -Question: What about pilots, mechanics and other personnel? Answer: Full cooperation with our armed forces leaves key operating personnel at their important transportation jobs, so that our planes are flown by our experienced airline pilots and serviced by our expert trained crews. Some personnel have left for military service. For the most part, these have been people in non-operating positions, which may have a tempo- rary effect on the personal service you have been accustomed to from United Air Lines. However, our new passenger service employees have been trained to maintain United’s high standards, and we will endeavor " to preserve all possible features of service which have added to air transportation convenience. * * * War has given tremendous emphasis to the value of swift trans- portation for passengers and cargo, both military and civil. Our military leaders are faced with tasks along two coasts separated by 3,000 long land-miles. Businessmen, too, must save vital hours in busy days by using air transportation. In the last war it required six days to travel or ship coast to coast. Today, modern transport planes epan this distance overnight. The airlines have shrunk the United States to the size of the State of Pennsylvania, measured in travel time. Our 3,500 employees, every one a citizen of the United States, fully understand their responsibility as members of the air transpartation industry. They recognize that our best con- tribution to winning the war is the efficiency of the service we render to our Government, which has first call on our services, and to travelers and shippers to whom speedy transportation has never been so important as today. Our first concern is to operate at maximum efficiency at all times. But we see no reason why that cannot be accompanied by good manners, courtesy and thoughtfulness to all our pas- sengers, and we will exert every effort to have United’s service in wartime reflect the same spirit of public service that it did in times of peace. We have rolled up onr sleeves and pitched in on the most important job ever assigned to United Air Lines. All of our energies will be given to performing that job. @’@(@m‘w/ PRESIDENT UNITED AIR LINES