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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-25
Hunt Poison in Slamer Mystery Death
GN Arms
Output
200 Million

The General Motors Corpora
ton has delivered 5000, 500, 900
worth of defense products, S75,-
100000 worth in the last three
and the tempo of produc-
ton is increasing, II was revealed
today in a statement released by
Alfred p. Sloan Jr., corporation
Defense orders already assigned
10 the corporation or under nego-
tiation total 81 ,200,000,000, Sloan
So far as General Motors is con-
cerned a cut in its normal COM
mercial production schedule will
not benefit national defense and
may result in temporary unem-
ployment Of large numbers OF
workers, Alfred =. Sloan Jr., cor
poration chairman, asserted today
-f+.4 PER CENT weRH ON ARMS
-- Sloan pointed out IN advance OF
the second quarter report to stock
holders that at the end of June
only H4 per cent OF General
Motors productive workers were
engaged in national defense tasks.
To demonstrate how defense
activities, now just evolving from
the preparation stage into pro-
duction. have increased, Sloan
cited figures for the period prior
TO October !. 1910 and for each
quarter thereafter
81 MILLION BEFORE OCT.
Before the October date the
corporation delivered $4,000, 00C
worth of defense materials. In
October. November, and December
of 1910 the figure rose TO $43,-
100000.
During the first three months
of 1871 deliveries were worth $685.
100000 and in the three months
ending June 81 the S75,000,000
figure was reached.
The sos, 100000 worth of de-
livered products were divided by
Sloan into two -categories - es-
tablished GIN products adapted for
defense and special defense pro-
ducts by GIN.
In the first classification were
military trucks and transport
equipment worth S45, 400 900
Diesel engines worth S48.400, 600
and other products worth 3d.
100000.
Special products included air
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-25
Hint FREEZING
Toxic Assets,
Oil Embargo
By GEORGE DURNO
Init News service stan Correspohden1

Init News service SIAN tOrrespondens
y HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 25.-
United States retaliation against
Japan for her move into French
Indo-China and the South Pacific
is expected within "a hours.
Although President Roosevelt,
here at his family home would
make no statement, it was ex-
pected that the governments first
step of disapproval would be the
freezing of all Japanese credits In
this country.
Japanese assets in this cour-
try are reported as having an
estimated value OF $f25, 000,-
600. -
President Roosevelt, shirt.
sleeved and smiling. answered re-
porters most carefully regarding
the Far Eastern problem.
PUBLIC AROUSED
care the events IN the Far
East making the situation more
dangerous for this countryfs
asked a reporter. ~
Mr.. Roosevelt turned the an
swer. 80.
The events in the Far East Ne
SAID, are bringing a great aware
ness to the public of the world
situation.
The Chief Executive refused to
discuss the impasse with japan,
which Acting Secretary Of State
Sumner Welles yesterday bluntly
said imperiled the national security
and threatened such Pacific out.
posts as the Philippines. .s...,
MAY ACT TOMORROW =.
All he would tell newsrnen was
that later today-after Welles had
held his own press conference in
Washington and had received last-
minute reports from the new dan
ger Zone--a telephone call would
be put in to the state department.
In view of activities in the 1S-
tional capital before Mr.. Roosevelt
departed for weekend at Hyde
Park. it was considered certain
that the state department tomor-
row would announce the first OF
the economic sanctions against the
Toxic government.
Mr.. Roosevelt suavely refused to
discuss possibility of an embargo
on future shipments OF oil to
Japan. .T.74ls
He conceded that his externpo-
raneous remarks before group OF
Mayor LaGuardia's civil defence
leaders yesterday had been well
edited before they reached the
press room.
A. tic cnonch nac rnnorted fha
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-25
IN THE
NEWS
NEW YORK, July 3.
Mr.. w. X. Hearst,
vVvufNou

McCloud,
California.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
4 N EMOTIONAL haze per-
IA vades the country as we
contemplate our relationship
to this war-tOrn world, and i'm
the circumstances it may be
considered vulgar to discuss
the money aspects of our pol
Icy. Yet unless we realistically
face the issue OF costs, we will
drift on to the road to ruin.
As a matter of fact, though
the beneficial results of the
impulse to carry the four
freedoms to all parts of the
world may be cOnjectural and
speculative, the costs of the
effort are tangible and mex
Orable.
Although the federal debt
has already trebled in the last
eleven years, the human con-
sequences of prodigal govern
mental spending cannot be
envisaged simply i'm terms of
astronomical financial stats
tics. The cardinal fact is that
rising public debt and peak
governmental spending are
altering our way of life, and
diverting the peoples produc-
ton increasingly from their
own direct use to the pur-
poses OF government.
Back i'm 1890, it was COM
puted that gOvernment-fed-
eral, state and IOcal-ab-
sOrbed on the average the
product of one days work out
Of fourteen. Now the new de-
Tense and aid 10 Britain and
other powers, on top of years
Of bo0ndoggling, may at the
climax require citizens TO di-
vert to government as much
as two days work out of
every five. This would mean
that in the ordinary five day
working week, the average
worker would toll Monday
and Tuesday for the upkeep
of government, and would not
begin to support himself and
his family until Wednesday.
lie would then also devote
Thursday and Friday to his
private and family needs.
This shift of production to
government constitutes a
threat to the American dream
of perpetually supplying more
and better goods To the 80,
100000 families. The new
tax program, prepared by the
House ways and means com
mittee, gives special time
illness to this discussion, and
indicates that i'm the coming
period abstinence" rather
than the abundant life" will
be the keynote.
The trick of war finance is
to detOur goods from civilians
to the armament pile. Ger.
tainly no patriot, sensitive ia
the risks and abnormalitics
Of the international trend
will begrudge making what,
ever sacrifices are necessary
for adequate national defense
1t is a matter of record, MIR
Hearst, that through tn.
years when politicians were
blowing hot and cold on ma
tional defense, YOU and your
newspapers consistently adj
vOcated a modern and thor.
oughly adequate navy, army
and air force. When Bernard
NJ. Baruch warned of what
was coming several years be.
fore the outbreak of World
War III, he found the only con
sistent editorial support fol
his plea for better nationa
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-25

For the Inside News" of
Washington. Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column In the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-25

He conceded that his externpo-
raneous remarks before group OF
Mayor LaGuardia's civil defence
leaders yesterday had been well
edited before they reached the
press room.
AS the speech was reported. the
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Evening star., 1941-09-01

second floor of a half finished build
ing which had no windowpanes or
doors. We had to drag our beds
and equipment up scaffolding Once
insconced there we found it too
windy to light a fire and spent most
of the night shivering between layers
of blankets.
One day. was unforgettable. We
had been warned in Rangoon that
the Mekong River steel suspension
bridge had been seriously damaged
in an air raid, and that trucks were
being ferried across in slow and
hazardous trips. Around 3 o'clock
in the afternoon we found ourselves
approaching the end of a long line
of trucks which had been stopped
beside the road.
Drivers were standing about in
groups, talking, cooking food, work.
ing on their trucks. Most of them
were sikhs and later shared some
OF their hot curry, pancakes and
tea with us when our own stove
refused to work.
One of them, in broken English
and sign language, explained to us
that bombing hours lasted from 9
in the morning to 4 in the afternoon,
when no traffic was permitted to
cross the Mekong Bridge, one of the
favorite targets of Japanese bomb
ing squadrons. Only after the 4
o'clock all-clear signal could the
ferrying begin. Trucks, stopped 10
miles on either side of the river
valley, were sometimes forced to
wait days before their turn at the
ferry came.
The ferrying was carried on in
Evening star., 1941-09-01

typical Chinese fashion-on RATS
improvised of empty oil drums, their
/ load camouf1aged by bamboo shafts.
If one section of the Burma road is
damaged to the extent that traffic
is unable to proceed, gangs of coolies
unload the trucks on either side of
the obstruction, transferring the in
coming cargo to the trucks on the
Chungking side of the road and the
outgoing cargo to the trucks on the
Burma side of the road. The trucks,
when reloaded, then turn in their
tracks and proceed to deliver the
goods.
Coolies Show Ingenuity.
We mere amazed at the ingenuity
shown by coolies in repairing a bomb
crater in the center of the road,
carrying soil in baskets, mixing con-
crete with their bare legs and &C
complishing back breaking road
work with only crude tools. Today
many among the reserves of coolies
who live along the side of the road
as emergency crews, are Chinese
women. They work with their babies
strapped to their backs. No wonder
four years of war has not faxed
China-although she was unbeliev-
ably unprepared. The Chinese have
met the rigors of modern warfare
with weapons stronger than steel:
Resourcefulness, courage and the
will to win.
We were two days crossing the
Mekong, but once across, the worst
of the trip was completed. We trav-
eled the entire stretch with nothing
but truck and ambulance convoys.
Evening star., 1941-09-01

heavily laden with medical supplies,
cotton, oil, machinery, food and all
the many things Free China needs
to keep up her magnificent defense.
When we reached Running it was
difficult to resist the impulse to fol-
low our comrades on into Chung
king, but instead we said good-by
and took plane to Hong Kong and
from there sailed to Shanghai.
Our Buram road experiences,
though hazardous and often terrify-
ing, brought home the fact that a
people who can build such a road,
and keep 1t open, as only one of the
many astounding wartime accom-
phshments, are indeed deserving of
our speedy help and deepest friend
ship. They have worked and fought
for themselves. All they ask are
the tools with which to carry on
this unparalleled kind of defense.
They have made a tremendous
sacrifice to build the Burma road
and to keep democracy on its feet in
the Far East. Now 1t is up to Amer
leans to help keep supplies coming
Evening star., 1941-09-01
Chinese Courage Keeps Burma Road Open
In Face Of Bombngs and Disease

sands of whom lost their lives in the
construction of the Burma Road two
years ago. Although the road is a
veritable death-trap, this does not
prevent it from standing intact
as a 24-hour- day artery through
which China receives her life blood.
Our first night was spent at a
small roadside village, high in the
mountains. 1t was cold and quiet
and We were left to our own devices.
We rallied more strongly than ever
why no idle tourist is encouraged
to use the road as We prepared
ourselves to sleep huddled in the
seats of our car with few
pieces of chocolate for nouriShment.
MiraculouSly we were rescued from
this nightmare by clerks of the
South West Transportation Co, who
turned over their tiny Office TO US.
We set up our cots and stove and
were provided with a small urn Of
native wood oil and a tiny taper as
lamp. We consulted our maps around
this primitive device and discovered
that We had covered only 100 miles
after u hours of intense driving
The nights were lono ""| "0'5
and one of them was spent on the
Evening star., 1941-09-01

was not brought into sharp focus.
Before hitting the Burma Road my
husband and l had been driving
our car through the jungles, swamps
and mountains of southern China,
the Malay Peninsula and the Meth
erlands Indies. When we reached
Rangoon, Burma, we were deter
mined to continue our trip no and
over the Burma Road, even though
no Americans on private business
had previously been allowed to un-
dertake this dangerous 730 mile
strip III passenger cars.
In Rangoon we boldly applied for
a permit, and to our surprise, it was
granted. We piled our car high
with bedding. canned food, towels,
kegs of water, cots, a stove. Ian
terms. a wash basin and so gallons
of gasoline in small drums. and
started out. The road ahead wound
upward into the mountain spurs
from the Himalayas, twisting and
curving with unending and magnif-
icent ranges rising on either side
Here was beauty, calm and majesty.
Evidence of Sabotage.
But it was shattered by the abrupt
evidences of wars brutality. A land
slide ahead. provoked by saboteurs.
had sent truck and its passengers
to their deaths. One of the vic
tins, young American school
teacher, was on her way home from
Chungking to Chicago for the first
time in several years. We studied
the faces of the coolies who bore
her stretcher. They were gaunt and
bloodless. And then we remembered
that this was Yunnan Province,
known as the worlds worst ma
laria district. These coolies were
among road workers. many thou
Evening star., 1941-09-01

dent, made the award in apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Moore's activities in de-
veloping passenger and cargo trade
between Brazil and the United
States.
He is on his way back to New
York after a business trip to the
east coast of South America.
Evening star., 1941-09-01
Broziliun Government
Honors Ship Line Head
B, the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-Award of
the decoration of The Order of the
Southern Cross" by the government
of Brazil to Albert v. Moore, presi-
dent of the Moore Mccormack Lines,
was disclosed yesterday by the
steamship company.
Getulio Vargas, Brazilian Presi-
Evening star., 1941-09-01

The Philippines plan heavy expen.
ditures in Its defense program.
Evening star., 1941-09-01

Moreover, among the Chileans of
German background are also some
of our greatest democrats and pa
triots-Witness, for instance, Oscar
SChnake. whose friendship to the
democratic cause is one of the firm
est in this country.
Essentially, We in Chile are
democrats and Americans. feeling
deeply and hopefully our role in an
age Of Americans. But 1t must be
a new era of common respect.
awareness of the sensibilities of our
fellow nations, and an honest con-
cern for the integrity of these ma
tions, even when they are poorer
than our own, and still struggling
to gain their social and economic
sovereignty and independence"
Evening star., 1941-09-01

Her experiences in traueling
ouer the famous Burma Road
are recounted here by the first
woman to driue ouer the length
OF that dangerous thoroughtare.
Mrs. Sdmnlann, 1Cite of San
Francisco businessman, Who Gc-
companied her on the trip, re-
Gently drriued in NelU York.
Evening star., 1941-09-01
BY MRS. PAUL E. SAMMANN.

NEW YORK, Sept. l tN.AN.AJ.-
The road from Lashio to Running
is one of the most beautiful in the
world, But because it is the famous
Burma Road-China's lifeline-it is
also the most treacherous. I dis
covered this when. with my husband,
We drove it in its entirety last spring.
1t took us two weeks of the hard
est driving we have ever known to
cross 730 miles from Rangoon, India.
TO the Running -Chungking high
way, and barely day passed when
the evidence of heavy bombardment
Evening star., 1941-09-01
Chilean Official
Questions Sincerity
OF Good WiNers'
North Americans Still
Make Annoying Errors,
Says information Chief

Chile'S attitude toUard the
United States and inter-Amer-
icdn understanding is discussed
here in an interDietO NTH one OF
her political leaders by an Amer
icun correspondent Uho has trap
eled extensively in Latin America
and has been guest lecturer at
universities in Brazil. Argentina,
Chile, Peru, BoliDiu and MertcO.
She is president Of the Pan
American Women's Association
and the Inter- American InStt-
tute.
Evening star., 1941-09-01
You Save $20.5O on
Fine English Overc0ats
'"sf s;.s ~ss;. ;t; .;:s' s,s $3.50

Famous ees Of Gooe toored in the Incompatible British
in and double breasted models.
comfort throughout the Winter
indisnct mark the def otY
pontoking Scotch
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Radio
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should be maintained in radio de-
bate on any important issue.
DiSlikeS "Tin Pan AIley Stuff"

should be maintained in radio de-
bate on any important issue.
Dislikes Tin Pan Alley Stuff"
Radio chains also were chided by
Senator Wheeler for carrying too
much Tin Pan Alley stuff" when
he depressed to say:
IF they would take off a lot of
Tin Pan Alley stuff they would do a
public service. They think the pub
lie wants it, but I think they are
losing listeners with some of the
trash"
Senator Wheeler's statement was
prompted by Mr.. Fly's statement
that N. B. c. had suggested recently
that if the new rules 60 through,
public service programs like the
Farm Home Hour would 90 off the
air.
Mr.. Fly described this as a sug-
gestion that IF network DONNA
ton" Is not allowed to continue
high-class programs will be affected.
He indicated he did not believe that
would happen.
Small Stations Afraid.
Senator Wheeler revealed some of
the little stations are afraid the
new rules. designed to give affiliates
more freedom from the networks in
arranging their time locally, may
result in all the good programs
going to the larger stations in each
commllnitv
The Senator said that danger
might arise if advertisers putting
on a Nationwide broadcast could
say that in a certain community
they wanted small station dropped
and larger one brought into the
hookup.
Mr.. Fly commended that under the
rules the advertiser would not have
the privilege of picking and choos-
ing because he would run into the
contracts between the stations and
the chains. He agreed with Senator
Wheeler, however, that if that result
appeared the commission should
consider further action.
Mr.. Fly said one of the arguments
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Text of Executive Order
Army Authorized to Take Over and
Operate North American Plant

plant of said aircraft and other
articles and materials vital to the
defense of the United States was
interrupted by a strike which
still continues, and
Whereas the detectives of said
proclamation of May 81, 1941, are
jeopardized and the ability of the
United States 70 obtain aircraft
essential to its armed forces and
to the national defense is seri-
ouSly impaired by said cessation
of production, ana
Whereas for the time being
and under the circumstances
hereinabove set forth it is es-
sential in order that such opera
tons be assured and safeguarded
that the plant be operated by the
United States;
Now, therefore, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers
vested in me by the Constitu-
ton and laws of the United
States. as President of the
United States of America and
commander in chief of the Army
and Navy of the United States,
hereby authorize and direct that
the Secretary of War immedi-
ately take possession of and OPP
crate the said plant of North
American Aviation, Inc, through
such person or persons as he may
designate. to produce the air.
craft and other articles and ma
terial called for by it's contracts
with the United States or other
wise, and to do all things neces-
sary or incidental thereto. Such
necessary or appropriate adjust
ments shall be made with respect
to existing and future contracts
and with respect to compensa-
ton to the company, as futher
orders hereafter issued by the
Secretary of War shall provide.
The Secretary of War shall en-
ploy or authorize the employ
ment of such employees, including
a competent civilian adviser on
industrial relations, as are neces-
sary to carry out the provisions
of this order. And ! hereby di-
rect the Secretary of War to take
such measures as may be neces-
sary to uprotect workers return
ing to the plant.
Possession and operation here
under shall be terminated by the
President as soon as he deter
mines that the plant will be pri-
vately operated in a manner con-
sistent with the needs of the
national defense.
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Following is the text of the execu
tive order issued by Presiden
Roosevelt today commanding tn
Army to take over the North Amer
can aviation plant:
Whereas on the 9th day of
May, 194l, presidential proc
lamation was issued declaring an
unlimited national emergency
and calling on all loyal citizens
In production for defense to give
precedence to the needs of the
Nati0n@to the end that a system
of government which makes pri-
vate enterprise possible may sur
vive and calling upon all our
loyal workmen as we'll as en-
ployers to merge their lesser diff
ferences in the larger effort to
insure the survival of the only
kind of government which recog-
nizes the rights of labor or of
capital, and calling upon all loyal
citizens to place the Nations
needs first in mind and in &C
ton to the end that we may
mobilize and have ready for in
slant defensive use, all of the
physical powers, all of the moral
strength and all of the material
resources of the Nation; and
Whereas North American Avia-
ton, Inc, at its Inglewood
plant in the city of Los Angeles,
State of California, has con-
tracts with the United States for
the manufacture of military air.
craft and other material and
articles vital to the defense of
the United States; and the
United States owns aircraft in
the course of production, raw
material, machinery and other
property situated in the said
company's plant, and
Whereas a controversy arose at
said plant over terms and con-
ditions of employment between
the company and the workers
which they have been unable to
adjust by collective bargaining,
and whereas the controversy was
duly certified to the National De-
Tense Mediation Board, estab-
lished by the Executive order of
March 10, 194l, and whereas be-
fore the negotiations had been
concluded before the said hoard
and in violation of an agreement
between the bargaining repre-
sentatives of the company and the
workers authorized to appear be-
fore the board and conduct the
negotiations, production at said
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raised against the new rules is that
the industry itself would take care
of abuses needing correction.
History" he said, "refutes that
contention. The industry has failed
to do anything about abuses"
Chairman Wheeler went on record
as believing the time has come
when you have got to have regula-
ton of chain broadcasting.
When Senator Johnson, Democrat,
of Colorado, asked how many net
works there should be, Mr.. Fly pre-
dicted there will be fifth network
in existence "in the course of a year
or so" and that would be a healthy
number.
And" Mr.. Fly added, "television
will sweep across a broad field in the
course of few years"
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Prefers Jail in U. 5.
To Freedom in Europe
Ey TIE Associated Press.

EH TIE ASSOCIATED Press.
SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak-Being in
prison in America Is better than
freedom in Europe. Take it from
one inmate of South Dakota
Penitentiary. who wrote in the
Messenger, prison paper: 1--WE can
be thankful we are here safe and
sound and not on the battlefields of
Europe"
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President Issues
Executive Order
Reopening Plant
Army Given Charge 40
Minutes After Factory
Was Due to Open

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