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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

From within a two-story red
brick building al 9016 Michigan
avenue in Detroit. just six blocks
east of the Dearborn limits, orders
are issued which are psralyzing
the worlds largest industrial plant.
No major battle in a world
shaping war could reveal greater
strategy
The efficiently operating head
quarters Of the UAW-CIO Ford
organizing committee might be
compared to an armys CHG.
CROWD JAMS AREA
Only evidence Of confusion is
the crowd which Jams the struc-
ture and spills over into the high
way outside tying up Michigan
avenue traffic.
But inside the machinery Of pos
sibly the worlds largest concen-
trated strike functions smoothly
Vigorous. stocky Michael F.
Widman Jr.. director Of the Ford
organizing committee. commands
from his office IN the building.
Arrival Of r. J. Thomas. JAW
CO president is expected momen-
tsrily 10 visit CHIC, but there is
no trtch IN ffy absence
Bland, Conseryatvely dressed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02

August Scholle. Go regional di-
rector. moves through the offices,
Maurice Sugar. smiling Go attor-
ney. and Walter p. Reuther Go
veteran leader, are on hand.
Every CHG releases announce
ments broadcast every 30 minutes
over Radio Station WJBK inform
ing all interested Of the strike s
progress.
FREQUENT MEETINGS
Press communiques are issued
By the strikes military intelligence
officers. Frank Vim. Ford COM
mittee publicity director and Eddie
Levinson. UAW-CIO public .rela-
tons head. both union press agents
Of extended experience.
Frequent meetings held
often including lesser officers and
occasionally a buck private
Guards on building entrances
pass all who are admitted.
GHQ also holds the key for entry
within the picket line with admis-
sion granted only on a pass given
over WidmaNs signature
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-02
Strike SideliShtS
Motorist OUTFITS Pickets - Grim Hur,or in Near
Violence-Workers Cynosure of Eyes

Sidelights Of the CLOS siege Of
the Ford Rouge plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Minimum Price Law
For Liquors Held Void
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
FRANKFORT. KY. Jan. 27.-Ken-
tucky's Liquor and Wine Fair Trade
Act, empowering the State to fix
minimum profits of wholesalers and
retailers. was held unconstitutional
today by Circuit Judge w. B. Ardery.
Terming the markup profit mar
gins required by the 1910 act sales
taxes he declared the law violated
the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution. which he declared,
prohibited taxes for any but public
services.
The act compelled wholesalers to
add minimum of Is per cent of
cost in selling to retailers and the
latter to mark up a minimum of
1915 per cent in reselling.
State Revenue Commissioner H.
I Clyde Reeves said the ruling would
be carried to the Court of Appeals,
the States highest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
MarshaIs Held 0pen
To SANDER Suits

United States marshals are not
immune from SANDER suits in per-
Torrance of their duties, as cab
met officers are, the United States
Court of Appeals said today, in rul-
ing that United States Marshal
joan B. Colpoys must face trial on
SANDER suits brought by two dis
missed deputies.
Marshal Colpoys was named de-
defendant in suits totaling 10000
filed by William H. Gates and John
B Crawford, deputies who we're dis
missed by the marshal following
statements of John B. Upperman,
another deputy, during the Emmitt
Warning ury-flxing trial two years
ago. Upperman served a year in
prison for jury tampering
Upperman testified that Gates and
Crawford accepted gratuities from
defense counsel in the Warning case.
in which. the appellate tribunal re-
called, bribery and corruption &C
Cured"
The two deputies sued on the
grounds that Marshal Colpoys. in
demanding their designations, made
false statements to the press that
were published for the purpose of
lnjuring" them, the Court of Ap-
peals recalled.
Marshall Colpoys asked the Dis
trict Court to dismiss the cases on
the grounds that his acts were done
in connection with his official duties
and therefore were privileged. When
the lower court refused his motions,
he took the case to the Appellate
Court.
The appellate tribunal, in its
opinion, said:
1T has been held that a cabinet
officer is absolutely privileged to
publish defamation, not only in do
ing his duty, but also in discussing
it. 1t was appellants tColpoys)
duty to investigate charges. if any
were made, against his deputies. 1t
may or not have been his duty to
dismiss his deputies. 1t was not his
duty publicly to discuss their dis
miSsal or publicly to explain the
reasons for it, He had no duty to
tell the public anything about them,
unless possibly the bare fact that
they were no longer on his staff"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
British Planes Kill q
In Raids, Germans Soy

BERLIN, Jan. q (P).-The Ger
man high command reported today
that British planes killed four per-
sons and injured six in raids on
Western and Central Germany dur
ing the night
Fires caused by the raiders were
extinguished quickly, the daily COM
munique said, and other damage
was Slight.
The high command acknowledged
the loss of three of its planes.
German planes successfully" at
tackled British shipping off the
southeast British coast last night,
the bulletin said, and two direct hits
were reported on one merchantmen.
Returning flyers also reported sight
ing a burning merchantmen which
had been bombed January 25.
A German patrol boat was re-
ported attacked by a plane off the
coast of Norway. but bombs were
said to have fallen harmleSsly into
the sea
Two British merchantmen. each
of about 1000 tons. we're claimed
yesterday as victims of NaZi air
attack in widely separated raids on
British shipping.
In one attack a German recon-
Nuisance plane was said to have
passed over HarWich, on the Eng
lish east coast, just as convoy
was leaving the harbor.
Four medium bombs were claimed
to have scored direct hits on one
steamer. the last causing a large
fire, and the vessel was listed as
apparently destroyed.
In another foray, about 300 miles
west of Ireland, the high command
said a long-distance bomber on rec
onnoitering patrol sank another
merchant shin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
France
Continued From First Page.

sections of France because of the
food shortage
The British position against allow
ing wholesale food shipments TO pass
through their blockade into France
has been based on the contention
that the supplies would benefit Ger
many indirectly even if they were
not actually seized for the use OF
the German Army. alleging that
Germany had drained even the I'M
occupied section of France of much
of its normal food supplies and that
the responsibility for feeding peo-
pies under German domination was
up 10 Germany.
NJ Henry Haye said he also in
tended to discuss with Mr.. Welles
the situation in French Indo-China
where fighting between French CO.
lonial forces and Thailand has been
submitted to japanese mediation.
We have tried to do the best we
could" the Ambassador said, with
the facilities we had"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27

gandists in the history of our coun-
| try
Maj Rudd said group engaged in
teaching history, aided by a grant
from an educational foundation, had
undertaken a program containing
the promise and philosophy of left
wing educators
They contend" he asserted, that
our American way is failure and
of society"
The student. he added, lis given
distorted picture Of conditions in
America, together with propaganda
material pointing to utter failure of
the workings of our present system
of private enterprise and the repub-
lican form of government"
This group, Maj. Rudd charged, is
teaching American history as "a
drab story of selfishness, greed, i'm
periaist expansion, exploitation and
class antagonisms."
Senator Willis Speaks.
The administration, while con-
demning appeaSement in Europe,
has been guilty OF economic ap-
peasement,' Senator Willis. Repub-
lican, of Indiana said in a luncheon
address
Much is heard these days about
'appeasement', Senator Willis point
ed out. 1T is a vague term which
is supposed to signify failure to
deal with political realities in the
same hard terms used by certain
adversaries
But have We not been guilty of
economic appeaSement'? We have
encouraged the growth of trade dis
ordinations by 'appeasing' their
protagonists. We adopted foreign
trade policy that stimulated these
antagoniSms to new activity. be-
cause it caused upsets in the econ
omies of other nationS-which they
naturally tried to repair
With the return of peace. we
shall be confronted with a new set
of realities. For the good of the
world at large, as well as for our
selves, we must do better job of
facing them than we did in the few
years before this war began
Senator Willis urged, as trade
policies after peace comes to Europe,
a stable national currency, an in
ternational monetary conference,
and preferential concern with MAIN
tenance of the American standard
of living.
About 500 delegates are attending
the annual meeting of the coalition
Walter S. Steele. chairman of the
Committee on National Security,
presided at the opening session.
John B. Trevor is president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
kayne Admits Forgery
In Change Of Plea on
Pe||ey-Dies Letters
Sentencing Date Set
For Friday; Another
Case Will Be Dropped

David A. Mayne today changed
his plea to guilty on charges of
forgery and false pretenSes in con-
nection with letters which purported
to link Chairman Dies of the House
Committee investigating un-Ameri-
can activities and William Dudley
Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts.
Justice James M. Proctor took
the charge in plea in a crowded
court room at District Court. The
case was referred to the probation
officer and sentence date was set
tentatively for Friday.
United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran said he would drop
another charge of forgery against
Mayne. The defendent faces a total
of two to Is years on the two cases
to which he pleaded guilty.
Mayne was accused of forging
letters which purported to show that
Mr.. Pelley, who was in the court
room today, and Mr.. Dies had
reached an agreement whereby the
Dies Committee would not investi-
gate Mr.. Pelley or his organization.
Gardner Jackson. former legislat-
i've representative for Labors Nom
partisan League, and Harold o.
Weisberg, former editor of the La
Toilette Civil Liberties Committee
report, bought the two letters for
sos, the indictment against Mayne
said.
Mayne admitted the forgery and
sale of letters before both the Dies
and House Rules Committees. Mr..
Pelley denied authorship.
The letters were brought to light
when Representative Hook of Michi-
gan quoted from them in a speech
on the House floor.
In court today Assistant United
States Attorney John w. FINELY
told the court Mayne had no crimi-
nal record that he knew of and
agreed to defense counsel request
that the defendant be permitted to
remain on bond because of heart
trouble. The court granted the re-
quest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Hanover Target
For R. A. F. Bombs,
British Declare
Air Activity Of Nozis
At Minimum; English
Kill 4, Germans Soy
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 27-The British
officially announced today that "a
small number of r. A. F. bombers
operated over Hanover last night,
dropping some bombs in industrial
areas of that city, in North-central
Germany.
"All our aircraft returned safely
the announcement said.
An Air Ministry communique later
said that two large and several
small fires were started"
(The German high command
said four were killed and six in
jured in British raids on Ger
many during the mighty
Nazi Activity at Minimum.
German air action over Britain
was at a minimum. British reports
said low-f1ying German plane ma.
chine-gunned northeast coast toWr
today and flew over two other towns
before British planes chased it Out
to sea. No casualties or damage
were reported.
Nazi air activity over the East
Midlands, Eastern England anC
Eastern Scotland also were reported
this afternoon. Bombs were said tC
have been dropped in only one dis
trict, and the Luftwaffe's operations
apparently still were minor.
London Quiet Again.
London had its seventh successive
night without an after-dark all
alarm.
A government communicate noted
some very slight air activity by the
enemy during the early part of last
night but no bombs were dropped. u
The quiet night followed a day in
which the air war over Britain was
marked only by the dropping of a
single bomb by Nazi plane on the
northeast coast and the shooting
down of a raider by the crew of a
trawler in the North Sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
British Aid
Continued From First PageD

Morgenthau would be the next wit
ness.
House Hearings Near End.
Meanwhile, the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, nearing the end
of its study of the legislation after
two weeks of open hearings, met in
executive session to hear Gen
staff. and Admiral Harold R. Stark,
chief of Naval Operations.
AS the legislation was considered
at both ends of the Capitol, Speaker
Rayburn and House Majority Leader
Mccormack joined in predicting
overwhelming sentiment in that
branch for the administration bill.
The leaders did not discuss the
question of what changes may be
made in the bill Mr. Mccormack
expressed the hope the bill will be in
shape to take to the floor next
Monday.
Before the Senate committee took
up the legislation, Senator Vanden-
berg. Republican, of Michigan, a
member of the committee, told re-
porters there was no intention on
the part of opposition Senators to
delay the lease-lend measure.
He said he believed two weeks OF
hearings should be quite ample,
even though the bills hackers de-
clared they would be doing we'll
if testimony ended in that time.
Another anti-bill development was
last nights attack on the lease-lend
proposals by the National Co-ordi-
mating Committee for the c. I. O
womens auxiliaries. The commit
tee summoned all its members to
write their representatives, express
ing opposition.
The committees stand provoked
speculation as to what position the
G o. eventually would take. The
organization has not yet officially
defined its attitude toward the bill
although the A. F. of L., through its
President William Green, has in
dursed it with notifications.
AS the House Foreign Affairs
Committee convened for its first
closed hearing on the bill, it was
understood that several members
wished to question the defense
chiefs on whether there is ANY real
threat" to American security at
present. The line of inquiry was
prompted by the testimony of Col
Charles A. Lindbergh last week
that the country was in no danger
of an axis invasion.
Supporters and opponents agreed
that the lease lend legislation would
be amended by both House and Sen
ate committees before it reaches the
debate stage. President Roosevelt
has been represented as willing to
accept substantial notifications in
the measure if that is necessary tc
obtain enactment by a substantial
majority of both chambers and with
a minimum of bitterness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Files
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Continued From First Pagel
ness Service has compiled lists of
owners of motorboats and the
mechanics on file in the Civil Aero
nautics Authority and employees of
the Washington Navy Yard. Gram
dali has been contacted previously
to secure list of ro0makers in
various cities of the United States
Crandall Suspended.
Crandall entered the Civil Service
Commission as messenger in 1880
and arose to a clerical grade and
has been employed in the Inter-
departmental Placement Service in
the old Barber & Ross Building from
where the records were removed.
He was suspended from the COM
mission when the condition was
disclosed.
The records, of special nature,
were compiled by the Civil Service
Commission several months ago, to
determine qualifications of every
employe in the Government for pos
Sible service in defense agencies. In
all, about 100000 had been prepared
under the direction of a special
unit set up by the commission in
the old Barber & Ross Building at
Eleventh and G streets NV.
The records, which actually con-
stitute master index of Federal
employees all over the country, we're
started by the commission soon
after recruiting for the defense pro-
gram got under way. Realizing that
there were thousands of men and
women in service who had other
qualifications than those for the
positions which they occupied, the
commission sent to departments and
agencies forms to be filled out by
each member of their stats. On
these they would list such data as
ability to speak foreign languages:
vocations-familiarit with radio,
for example-and in addition COM
plete description of the position they
occupied.
Information Was Coded.
Approximately 900, 1000 of the forms
were distributed and something
more than 100000 have been filled
out and returned to the commits
sion. The information they con-
tanned has been coded and then
transferred to the punch cards.
Under this system, when it was de-
sired to locate a worker specially
qualified for a particular position,
cards could be run through electri-
cal machines, and those covering
the personnel sought readily segre-
gated.
It was said today that the COM
mission, as well as other Government
establishments, constantly are being
importuned for lists of their en-
ployes by sales organizations Of
various descriptions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Coalition
Continued From First Page

effect the power to wage undeclared
war-not in defense of this Nation
but in defense of foreign powers.
Earlier in the day the coalition
heard an attack on radical textbooks
and influences in the schools
Propaganda in Schools Charged.
Maj. Augustin g. Rudd of New
York, president of the Guardians of
American Education, charged that
subversive elements in education had
reared a structure $50 powerful and
so well organized that its tentacles
reach into class rooms from coast to
coast" He added:
1T was conceived, organized and
successfully sold to segment of our
people by the most brilliant propa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Acute Cool Shortages
Loom, Britons Warned
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-David Gren-
fell, secretary for mines, warned
Britons in broadcast today of the
possibility of acute local shortages
of coal and urged them to share their
fuel in help your neighbor" plan
There may be districts so badly
placed for supplies or so hampered
by transport difficulties" he said
"that we cannot avoid temporary
shortages"
He attributed the transportation
priorities given to war necessities as
the cause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27

Morgenthau would be the next wit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
Pepper Supports,
Thomas DenounceS
lease-Lend Bill
American Forum of Air
Hears Verbal Bottle
Over Aid to Britain

Senator Pepper, Democrat, OF
Florida last night urged passage
of the Administrations lease-lend
bill, holding it necessary to give
this country time to prepare its de-
lenses.
Speaking on the American Forum
OF the Air program broadcast over
Station VOL, with the controversial
bill as the topic, Senator Pepper
strongly disagreed with speakers
Norman Thomas, Socialist presiden-
tial candidate, and Representative
Stratton. Republican, of Illinois.
Col. Henry C. Breckenridge, As
siStant Secretary of War in the
Wilson administration, was the
fourth speaker on the radio forum.
He strongly favored enactment of
the lease-lend legislation.
Attack on Proposal.
Representative Stratton and Mr..
Thomas, who testified last week
against the bill before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, attacked
the measure, declaring it gives the
President dictatorial powers, de-
prlveS Congress of its authority and
threatens democracy from within.
MIR. Thomas said the threat to
democracy from within was chiefly
due to Americas failure to end I'M
employment.
Senator Pepper declared the threat
TO American democracy arises from
three SourceS-from those within
our borders . = who do not really
believe in the people controlling our
Government and our national life;
from those who cannot distinguish
between a Roosevelt who asks for
power TO save democracy and Hit
Ter who takes power to destroy de-
mocracy." and from those outside
our borders who hate the name of
democracy"
Col. Breckenridge urged all aid to
Britain. He said democracy is most
threatened by the 'bloodthirSty
tyrantS of the axis who have set
forth to conquer and enslave the
world"
Fears Isolation of L. S.
The former War Department Off
cial added:
If the British Isles are con-
ouered, the United States. with its
100000 people, becomes an iSo-
lated island surrounded by almost
two billions of people under the
control of despots. The survival of
American democracy hinges upon
the destruction of Adolf Hitler
Mr.. Stratton defended the right
OF citizens to criticize the Admins
tration. He stoutly declared the
greatest danger to our way of life
is the PRONUNCIATION of the in
tolerant idea that criticism of the
reigning administration is I'M
patriotic and un-American. The
deliberate cultivation and spread
ing of the notion that those who
disagree with the edicts of a Ger
tain individual or his highly paid
idea men should be ridiculed and
called Nazis. fifth columnists,
Tories and economic royalists,' is
dangerous threat to democracy"
Mr.. Thomas urged limitations
on the authority given the Presi-
dent under the terms of the lease
lend bill. He charged the nation
is being pushed toward war by
interventionists.
In the absence of Theodore
Crank, who usually acts as moder-
ator of the panel, Chief Announcer
J. Mccormick of VOL presided
Mr.. Crank is i'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-27
WiIIkie
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CONTINUED FROM FlrSC fdSe)
as an individual and not in govern
mental capacity, quipping:
You will remember that the
people decided I should not have
anything to do with the govern
ment."
His surprise announcement that
Evening star., 1941-11-01
Pedestrian Killed
By Hit-and-Run Auto;
Confession Reported
Police Soy Youth Tried
To Divert Suspicion
By Stolen Car Ruse

Police of the Accident Prevention
Unit said today an 18-year old
colored youth had admitted he was
the driver of hit-and-run auto
mobile which struck and killed a
pedestrian last night in the 1900
block of Fourth street NV.
The victim was Willis Scott. IS.
eolored, of the 1000 block of Euclid
street NV. He became Washing
tons 10th traffic fatality of the year
when he died in Casualty Hospital
less than an hour after being struck
The youth in custody attempted
10 divert suspicion from himself by
going to No. 2 precinct station and
reporting his car stolen, police re-
vealed The A. P. U. was notified
of this action because the license
tags of his car bore the same last
three numerals as witnesses said
were on those of the hit-and-run
vehicle. The suspect was taken to
headquarters and after persistent
questioning changed his story.
Auto Abandoned.
Police said he then told them two
other youths were in the car. He
related that they parked the car
around corner after the accident
and returned to the scene. Hear
ing the three license figures men,
toned, he said, they decided to use
the stolen car" ruse and drove to
Evening star., 1941-11-01

friends, Catholic and non- Catholic.
The Right Rev. Msgr Edward L.
Buckley, rector of the Cathedral,
will preside at the service.
Announcement also was made that
William T. Slattery. past depart
ment commander of the District
American Legion, will be installed as
commander of the Father Francis
j. Hurney Post. No. 1l2. Catholic
War Veterans, at Carroll Hall. Tenth
and H streets NV, at 8 pm.
Wednesday. Other officers who will
assume their duties at that time are
Matthew Angevine, first vice COM
mander; Charles J. Dean, second