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La gaceta., 1941-04-26
Nay m~ejOTada

Hoy damos la noticia de la
franco mejoria de la Sra. Mar
garita Rodriguez de Rivero, es
posa del Sr. Cesar Rivero Mas,
canciller del Consulate de Cuba
IN esta ciudad, que desde ell pa
sado domingo Sc hallaba conf.
NADIA en- sus habitaciones, pade-
'iendo un fuerte ataque gripal,
Mucho nos alegramos de su
mejoria.
La gaceta., 1941-04-26
SECCION DE CULTOS
(Viene de de Ia ga. pdg.)

100 p. M; Quito en- Italiano,
100 p. m.
Iglesia Metodista West Tam
pa, N. Albany y Gale Union.
Escuela de la Iglesia, 9:45
a. M; Quito en- Ingles, IL a. m.
Quito en- Espanol, 7:45 p. M;
Quito de Oraci6n, ell jueves. a
las 800, p. m.
La gaceta., 1941-04-26

Para pintar mejor 81
casa, compre la pintura
e. L. p, vendida exclu-
sivamente pOr King
Hardware. ga. avenida
y Gale Is.
La gaceta., 1941-04-26
Oro Picnic

OtrO Picnic
Tambien la Sociedad del San
70 Nombre, de la lglesia Cat6li
"a Nuestra Sonora del Perpetu,
Socorro, celebra un picnic, er
los terrenos de la Iglesia.
La gaceta., 1941-04-26
En- la fincd NUcciO

En- la fincd NucciO
Mahana por la noche parti-
an lei Circulo Ctbano, para
las posesiones campestres de- CO
nisionado del Condado, Sr.
(PGSG a la Ia. pdg.)
La gaceta., 1941-04-26

Santos del diG
Sabado: Marcos y Herminio
Domingo: Cleto y Marcelinv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
L. $. BACKS BOLIVIA

WASHINGTON. july -. -
QNS)-The American government
today pledged its full support anc
cooperation TO Bolivia in the
event any international compiled.
.tions should arise from Bolivia's
action in ordering the custer oil
the German minister for subver.
siVe activities.
Acting Secretary OF State Sum
ner Welles disclosed the American
governments action and said as.
surances had been given Bolivia
that the expelled envoy would be
denied entry into the United
States.
The commerce department to-
day announced that Paul Won
Bauer, German director of Nazi
aviation expansion in South
America, had been forced 10 flee
Colombia by the United States
government blacklist of 1900
Latin-American firms acting as
agents for the German and Ital-
ian governments.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

Ford UAW-CIO workers at the
Rouge, Lincoln and Highland
Park plants have begun negotia-
tions with the company for wage
increases. II was learned today
Determining scale in the nego-
tiations will be the rates paid by
plants competing with Ford, which
have been designated by the union
and agreed to by the management.
A clause in the acknowledgement
contract between Ford and the
union stipulated that the Ford
company would pay rates in the
various classifications at least as
high as those paid by major COM
petitorS in various industries.
UNIONS SELECTIONS
The union has designated the
following concerns as competitors
General Motors Corporation
For rates in the motor axle,
spring and upset, pressed steel,
foundry, tooi- and die and B
buildings; foundry machine shop
and maintenance men and truck
drivers; wash rack men. painters,
dingmen. welders and checkers in
transportation department.
Detroit Edison Company - For
power house unit.
Goodrich Tire and Rubber Com
pany, Akron-For rubber plant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

loaves rolled In the ditch OF water
separating the road from the path,
what mattered? Though children
played in the ditch and dogs drank
from it, the soldiers picked up the
bread laughing and went on.
The germ theory, as every
American who has travelled abroad
knows, is exploded once you leave
our borders where cellOphane, tin
foil, waXed paper, and wrapping
paper play such an important role
We marvelled at the kindness
and patience of those soldiers. For
in some parts of France thousands
(among them the Negroes from
the African cOlOnies) suddenly
found fighting stopped. and every
one in flight; no rooms nor food
available; no trace of their fami-
lies, no money, no officers TO keep
them i'm order. Behind them defeat
and humiliation; ahead of them,
what:
No known future, no Jobs. only
disillusiOnment Yet the ones we
talked to were kind. quiet perhaps
rather dazed by the rapldity with
which France had fallen but out
wardly calm and matter-of-faet In
demeanor. American fellows would
not be so passive, i thought.
But America, thank God, has
never encountered defeat, and let
us hope never will.
Sincerely,
MRS. HENRIETTA
MEYENDORFF.
(Final communication will be printed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

we Always Ilrst got III inc, tntH
asked what might be available that
day. Butter ." my husband asked
the first time. mo, no." laughed
the old peasant women. mo more
butter-neverw
For several weeks we had had
no butter. nor chocolate, milk, nor
cream; only about one egg per per-
son each week, and tiny bit of
sugar for breakfast coffee.
The main food was heavy soy
bean bread, with expanding ca
pacities-like campaign promises
rather than digestive tendencies.
Meals were never satisfying, for
there was never enough, and moth
ing was sufficiently sweetened. No
fats whatever were available for
cooking. Plain boiled potatoes,
without butter, tasted watery, and
even then they were scarce.
We drank the old-fashioned herb
teas, so much recommended in
France to rejuvenate one, to give
more taste to our meals; although
my husband remarked that they
were designed for young girls and
wonderland that probably no man
had ever before INDUCED in them.
The government had requisl-
toned the hotel In Pau where we
had previously lived for the use of
fleeing officials from Paris. So we
had gone from Pau TO n small viii
lage in the Pyrenees. We arrived
about midnight up in the noun
tains in pouring rain, and were
told to stop In any room In the
hotel available. After that. as for
eigners,- weLwepe- net allowed
move. The hotel was very old. and
the little mountain village more or
less deserted until this sudden eXO-
dus of hotel guests from Pau and
the incursion OF several thousand
refugees from the fighting area.
Each day the soldiers walked
back and forth along the roads in
front Of our hotel carrying soup to
their rooms; soup I'm old wash
basins, crockery vessels. or any
kind OF broken pottery.-carrying
also large round loaves of bread
shaped like enormous cakes. II the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

Draft. Gets
.Senate>Ok

WASHINGTON. July 22.-The
Senate today passed by over
~hetmIng voice vote the contro-
verSial draft property bill, author
izing President Roosevelt TO seize
any industrial plants, machinery
or other materials needed for the
national defense.
AS il stands. the measure, now
en- route to the House.. enables
Mr.. Roosevelt to seize any facil-
ity or equipment which the gov
eminent cannot otherwise procure,
through normal purchase cnan-
nels, and which it needs to advance
the defense undertaking
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Breaks Vow
Sheriff Wolcon Finally
Rides State Police Car
Times stan Correspondent

Film T. July -. 49, Sheriff
Thomas w. Wolcott finally has
broken a vow made when he first
took office in 1888 that he would
never ride in a state police car.
Wolcott, who doesn't like the
state police any too much, rode
with Sergt. Bruce McGlone of the
Flint state police post on a traf-
fic survey in Burton Township
The survey was requested by
Rep. Earl w. McEwen, supervisor
of the township. who has asked
for the installation of traffic
lights at important road inter-
sections.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Daylight Raid
Nets Bandit S553

Armed with a short-barreled
gun, a bandit entered the Lee loan
office. 1887 East Dawson avenue,
shortly before m. today,
ordered the clerk into the base
ment and escaped with $5326 3 in
cash and "a rings
A postman heard the cries OF
Leonard Schultz. %, OF $40 Jose
phine avenue, the clerk, and re-
leased him.
The loot included Il diamond
set rings for men and Y Masonic
rings.
Schultz told police the robber
was ) feet S inches tall. weighed
l55 pounds and was about 81
years old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Union Threatens
Tieup on Pacific
international New. service Wire

SAN FRANCISCO, July GA
threat TO tie up the whole Pacific
Coast in protest over the signing
OF foreign crews to man Danish
ships recently taken over by the
federal government was voiced to-
day by Harry Lundeberg, chief Of
the Sailors Union of the Pacific
He ordered coaStwide strike
vote among the unions 5000 men,
berS.
The SUP's local membership, by
unanimous vote, demanded the
coastwide referendum on whether
If American Seamen
aren't given a chance TO sail these
ships at American wages.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Rev. MlConkey
To Leave Here

The Rev. F Paul McConkey
DID. for the pastt5-yrarS pastor
Of the Emmanuel Presbyterian
Church here, today was preparing
10 accept new duties in Seattle.
Doctor McConkey plans To
leave his ministry here Septem-
Der n and assume his new pas
torate. the First Presbyterian
Church Of Seattle, the first Sun
day in October.
His new church has the largest
congregation of the denomination
in the country Under Doctor
McConkey's guidance his Detroit
church expanded 10 become the
largest Presbyterian congregation
in Michigan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
New York Studies
Evacuation Of Million

NEW YORK. July PINS -
Plans were being formulated by
New York statr officials today TO
evacuate 100000 or more persons
from New York City if the me-
tropolls is ever bombed
A tentative provision Of b o
evacuation plan calls for the requi-
sitioning of city buses for civilian
transport. A survey Of available
hotels. resorts and homes in the
country is under way.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

lea.
"Americo is rich-Amer-
lea ,oiH help us they reit-
Grated through the 1CUr, and
eren after the drmiStice.
"Sir hundred French air.
plane experts are IN the
United States ROW buying
dirplaBeS for as" the
French papers had in
formed their readers.
Yet at the close OF war II was
found that most of the airplanes
bought here were secondhand and
not latest models.
The French and British govern
ments had openly boosted, for il
was published In their respective
papers, that France and Britain
were arming and financing Poland
and CZecho- Sloval1ia TO help them
strike at Germany "when war
comes"
France had supported the Com
munists ("Loyalists") of Spain and
given them refuge, 80 she could ex-
pect no help from Spain, and even
tually found herself surrounded by
enemies or those helpless TO aid
her.
Britain never gave her the help
that she expected; only a small
part OF the British army was To-
Gated in France to hold back the
Germans.
When the fighting got tough, the
British took to their boats. No one
that I heard in France called the
retreat at nunlSirk "Hiifaeie1Aso
was amazed TO find that this
British rout and retreat had been
polished up for American con-
sumption n a miracle"
When the British fired on
French dismantled ships at Mers-
el-Kebir, shortly after the armi-
stice. the French papers began TO
tell how fearfully Britain had let
them down, how inadequate and
slow her aid 20 them had been, and
how much they had helped her, for
IL was the French fleet that had
conveyed many troops from Can
ada TO Europe. o.
Y The correspondence from Prime
Minister Churchill was reprinted
in which he declared that Britain
could never forget the help OF
France, and that whatever the out
come of war, Britain would always
fight for the safety OF France!
When Britain soon after decreed
a day of prayer. the French papers
asked the British 10 kindly pray
too for the families Of the 1000
French sailors they had wounded
or killed who we're doing their
duty al Mers-el-Kebir, and merely
honorably obeying the terms Of the
armfstice.
Britain about that time forbade
any money from England to 20 10
Europe. lest, she said, II fall into
the hands or use Of the Germans
That was the final blow for us,
much worse than high prices,
scarcity Of food. and any other
worries, for our funds were in a
London bank,
What could we do: France
talked of facing famine.
Lines stood in front OF the only
little grocery store there was
waiting for the doors TO be un-
locked, although many days II did
mot open at sll-nothing TO sell
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
ARMY LOYAL

In spite Of the seizure of the
army officers and the arrests OF
others. including former finance
minister, the government reiter'
ated that the armed forces remain
loyal 10 the Bolivian president ano
commander-in-chief, Gen. Enrique
Penaranda.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Two Hold Up Gas Station

Two youthful bandits, one with
a handkerchief tied over his face
held up Carl Lucas. "a, Of Walled
Lake, at his filling station al
Cloverdale and Grand River ave-
nues today and escaped with $50
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Warrants
Asked i'm
Gas Deaths

The prosecutors office today
recommended manslaughter war;
rants for a suspended health de-
paftment inspector and an en-
ploye of a fumigating company in
the death of two boys from poison
Gus gas in the fumigating OF a
building at 474 Peterboro street.
Named in the warrants were
Samuel G. Brode, AZ. of 1882 CasS
avenue, in charge of guards at the
building the day ii was fumigated.
and Cornelius ]. Conway, SIS, of
1895 Yorkshire road, Crosse Pointe
Park, who issued a health depart
ment permit for the building to be
fumigated.
CALLED NEGLIGENT
A coroner's jury ruled that
Brodie-was- negligent in his duties
and that Conway was lax in fail
ing TO reach all the guards at the
building and instruct them in their
duties. (
Brodie disappeared after the
tragedy and is sought by police.
Victims of the tragedy were
Jimmy Cabaniss, 10. and Richard
Powers, 9, both of ESQ Peterboro
street. who were overcome by
fumes when they entered the
building 10 deliver papers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
House Group O.k's Joint Tax:
High Ranks Hit. DOuShfOn Says
Hard Fight Promised
When Bill Reaches
Debate on Floor

WASHINGTON. July 22-Thc
House WAYS and means committo,
today has refused 10 eliminate
from the pending $500, 600 .OOl
tax bill the provision forbiddnl
husbands and wives from fling in
diyidual income tax returns Il
avoid higher Surtaxes. The vote
was Is 10 10.
Chairman Robert Doughton CD
Of North Carolina. in making the
announcement, said the provision
would not affect any family with
"A taxable income Of less than
$4,000 and that the increases
would be very slight up 10
$1,000.
A married couple earning 81 csc
a year. giving them taxable in
come OF 5000, would pay S33
more II the new provision finally
becomes law. Douehton said in Civ
Ing an example.
JUST NOT TRUE"
The impression that has been
created that this mandatory
Ioint return provision would fall
heavily on the lower bracket Is
lust not true" Doughton de-
clared. 81 would like TO have II
cleared up.
The provision is expected 10 net
the federal treasury $500, 100000
additional revenue. Since It's ten
tative adoption by the committee
a month ago il has been the CEN
ter of a storm Of protest.
The revenue involved enabled
proponents of the plan 10 keep II
in the bill. members said. Every
argument for elimination of the
jofnt returns proposal was coun-
tered with a demand 10 know
where the $500. 100000 was 10
come from IL il were deleted.
FLOOR FIGHT LOOMS
Representatives frank B X
I'D. and Bertrand w. Gearhart
(R). both of California, who have
p been leading the fight in the com
mittee against the proposal. an
nounced that the issue would be
carried 10 the floor OF the House
when the bill is reported out by
the committee. the middle or lat
ter part of this week.
II they should fail to reverse the
committee action in the House
they said they would appear be-
fore the Senate finance committee
10 seek its elimination there.
Committee attaches, meanwhile,
submitted statistics TO show that
A total of 15S. 900 families are now
filing individual returns, as against
2.7S0. 900 Joint returns.
Under the committee version OF
the bill. those $4,000 families will
hereafter be compelled 10 file
Jointly.
FIGHT PROVISION BITTERLY
The provision was fought most
bitterly by representatives from
community property states.
In community property states a
mans income is considered as be-
longing half TO his wife, so family
taxpayers there are allowed TO file
individual returns. even If one
spouse received the entire income,
In non community property
states, however. present law for
bids filing individual returns ex-
cept in cases where the income is
actually received individually by
the two spouses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
.Dinge|I Backs
Joint Return on
Couples, Taxes

( Although the Board OF Com
merce has urged. opponents Of
the Joint income tax return foI
husband and wife 10 write their
protests 10 Rep. John d. Dingell
Wayne County Democrat and
member of the ways and means
committee, Dngell today voiced
his unqualified support of the Joint
returp and even advocated an
Increase in the surtaX If the meas
ure does not pass.
Dingell said that in addition he
was in favor of wiping out all
especial privileges and unfair
advantages enjoyed by couples
where husbands have for tax pur-
poses assigned certain amounts OF
-thCir own incomes to their wives.
and where trust funds and other
legal devices have been created
for the purpose of tax evasion"
ANY attempt 10 strike the
compulsory joint return prOvi-
sion from the new tax bill will
he cOuntered with move on my
part 10 institute compulsory
split return of husband and
wife with sufficient Increase in
the SurtaN rate to compensate
for any loss of revenue which
might be occasiOned by the
elimination of the joint return,
he said.
UNCERTAIN OF SENATE
81 am confident that any at
tempt to strike the joint return
from the bill will be unsuccess-
full in the House, but I am not
certain that IL will survive the
attack I'm the Senate"
In a resolution opposing the bill
the Detroit board of Commerce
said that the requirement for a
joint return may deter marriage
>. and increase divorce"
''If the proposal now under
consideration were enacted into
law and had the effect of dis
couraging marriage. then, Of
course, the home would eventu-
ally become a secondary con-
Sideration as far AZ our economic
life is concerned" the board
said in a statement written by
Raymond T. Berry, chairman Of
its tax committee.
The effect of the joint tax re-
turn for husband and wife would
be- that all married couples who
formerly filed individual returns
would have to file joint returns,
thus throwing their taxable in
come into the higher brackets
where graduated rates prevail.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Bolivia JdiIs
High Officials in
Army as PI offers

LA PAZ. Bolivia. July 22.-Ar-
rest of numerous high officers of
the Bolivian army. including six at
the La Paz National Military Col
lege, was announced today as the
government moved to erase all
vestiges of an alleged Nazi plot
TO stage a coup and set up total
itarian regime.
In La PaZ and i'm the Province
of Cochabamba, large number"
Of high-placed officers. as well as
many civilians including German
residents. were taken into mass
custody.
Declared persona non grata for
alleged completely in the plot, the
German minister to La Paz. Ernst
Wendler. left the country for An
-tofagasta, Chile, en- route TO the
Reich by air.
DENIED BY ENVOY
Last night Wendler issued an
official statement denying the
charges. He said he had partici-
pated in no manner whatsoever in
Bolivian politics. He added that
he expected OF leave the country
today.
Government officials m a d c
clear, however, that the expulsion
orders did not apply to subordi-
nate members of Vendors staff
or to NaZi conSuiS in Bolivia.
"a strong German protest to
Bolivia against the expulsion of
Ernst Wendler. German minister
10 La Paz, was announced in
Berlin today.
(The German government. the
announcement stated, rejected
the Bolivian charges against
Wendler as "fabrications"
German officials stressed that
Wendler's expulsion and the
order that the Bolivian charge
d 'affaires leave Germany do not
mean severance of Gcrnan-Bo-
livian relations. They said both
legations will continue to func-
tom
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Windsor Drivers
Tank Up on Gas

Windsor was tanking up today
after its first gasless night.
Last nights closing of gasoline
stations at z p. m. caught a few
motorists short on their petrol
supply, with at least one fuellesS
car parked in the driveways OF
most of the citys 800 gasoline
stations.
Helpful motorists had pushed
these stalled cars 10 the filling
stations TO await the 7 a. m. open
ing today.
FEW u. s. CARS
There was a noticeable scarcity
of United States cars in Windsor
As church bells tolled the z p. m.
curfew, gas station attendants
closed the pumps. sometimes with
out completing filling auto tanks.
Meanwhile. Windsorites dis
cusSed the ban, arguing whether ii
would cut gas consumption, as in
tended, or boomerang by frighten-
ing away tourists.
Following a meeting last night,
the Retail Gasoline and Automo-
tive Service Association. a group
of retail dealers, is mapping petit
ton for gasoline price increase
to compensate for loss of revenue.
They ask l cent a gallon more
than set by the office of the fed
leral oil controller at ttawa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
Ford Wage Parleys
Clio Starts Negotiations, Cites Competitors Wages
in Fields for Company to Equal

Libby-Owens=Eord- PlaHtE9t
tawa. Ill,--For glass plant.
Republic Steel Corporation
Cleveland District-For the oper
hearth, rolling mill. electric fur
mace, blast furnace and coke
ovens.
Republic Steel, Central Alloy
District-For electric steel fur
mace.
Michigan Alkali Company-Foi
cement plant. -
MORE RESEARCH NEEDED
The union is conducting further
research before naming competi.
tive units for other classifications
l. A. Capizzi, Ford attorney
notified union leaders of the com
panys acceptance of the various
designations but asked that they
be more specific in regard to the
General Motors scale He sug.
gested that General Motors vari-
GUS divisions be designated for q
comparative scale.
Meanwhile. Michael F. Widman
Jr. and Richard +. Leonard, union
directors AT Ford plants. announced
that the check-off of dues i'm the
plants would not begin until next
month because of bookkeeping
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
IN THE NEWS
CONTINUED from Page One)

people first got in line ren
Amer asked what might be available that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22

(Final communication will be printe
tomorrow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-22
The Weather

The sun viii eel a; 500 p n today
and rise tomorrow a. 5.i1 m.
The moon rose toosy AZ 20 a. N,
and rises tomorrow az i.f7 a. n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
How Work Is Done Individually

At the school each student treated individual
Miss Estee Eskoa its teacher and director Under this pan
each pupil food specified by physiothrapt
and does class work suited only his her requirements
Miss Eskoa left the regular city
pedcs field The physiotherapt Miss Elizabeth Miss
Margaret Dunn dean and George Peppe recreatona
structor
the school, says Eskola been highly
gratifying Some pupils weaving;
boys carpentry and girls
duties.
those whose fingers won't there special
orthopedcs
walkers for those whose legs normal
help exercise lazy mouth muscles pupils told chew
crInchy candy. Tipping helps sn
Special speech training helps enunciation