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Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
AIR THREAT DEVELOPING

meanwhile, an aerial threat
was believed developing against
the victorious imperial forces.
It was reported from Berne.
Switzerland, that the NaZis have
hastily concentrated 100 war
planes at bases on Sicily and
Sardinia, near the North Afri-
can coast.
However. this strong aerial
force may be designed for use
IN the expe d Axis drive
against Turkey The Ankara
radio reported today that the
Germans arc massing troops in
southern Rumania across the
Danube from Bulgaria. the logi-
cal point from which 10 strike
al Turkey.
("Thev are not pointed to-
wards Turkey vet" an NBC
correspondent said. "but compe-
tent authorities In Ankara say
they may move towards Turkey
this week. while other sources
say they may not move for an
other four or eight weeks
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
I'm !MemiOriasfi

HONOLULU, Dec. 27 lINS).
In accordance with President
Roosevelt's proclamation of New
Years Day as one Of prayer,
citizens OF Honolulu planned to-
day TO decorate on January l
the graves OF persons killed in
the opening Jap attack on
Honolulu.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
Hear Red Ship
Sunk by Jdps

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 QNS).-
"A British radio broadcast heard
by CHS said today that Rus
sian freighter is reported TO have
been sunk by Japanese aircraft
south of the Philippines off the
Gulf of DaVao.'
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
TRUCKS EXEMPTED

4 4-TruckS used for any Of the
purposes already named, or for
transportation of ice and fuel;
material and equipment flor
building and maintaining public
roads, public utilities and pro-
duction facilities. defense houS-
ing facilities and military and
naval establishments; essential
for rendering roofing. plumbing,
heating and electrical repair
services; carrying raw materials
or waste and scrap materials;
Scmimanufactured goods and
finished products, including farm
products, except in cases where
commodities are 10 be delivered
TO ultimate consumers for per-
Sonal, family or household use.
and transportation by comon
carriers.
3 Farm tractors and other
farm implements. other than
automobiles or trucks. that have
10 have tires.
q Industrial. mining and con-
Struction equipment other than
automobiles or trucks for which
tires are necessary.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
S217,157 in Clio Dues
Paid by Ford Co.

The Ford Motor Company today
sent check for S2l7157 TO the.
UAW-CIO for union dues an 4
assessments deducted from tho
pay Of Ford employees in Deem
Der under the checkof provisions
of the companyS contract with
the uninn
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
Toxic Tells of Subs
Off California. Hawaii
Continued from Page One)

legged United States and British
naval losses far exceeds the
losses announced by Washing
ton and London
Shimada declared Japanese naval
losses were confined 10 50 planes
three deStroyers, and one mine.
sweeper, with one minesweeper
heavily damaged and one cruiser
slightly damaged. He added that
five Jap submarines are missing.
TORGETS' BATTLESHIP
Editors Note Shimada a
clearly forgot the sinking Of
the Jap battleship Haruna by
Capt. Colin Kelly of the United
States Army air force off the
Philippine coast. Captain Kelly
sacrificed his life in his heroic
and successful attack on this
Japanese battleshipD
In the Eastern Pacific, Shjmada
claimed air and other military
facilities at Johnston, Palmyra
Wake and Baker islands were
virtually destroyed by japanese
warShips and aircraft and that
800 American prisoners were
taken by the japanese forces
which occupied Wake Island
During aerial fighting over tho
Philippines. he asserted, japanese
naval aircraft cStroye q SIS
American planes
Premier Hideki Tolo, repoytlnG
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27

riddled, frozen German soldiers
lying on the deep SHOWS. Recap
ture of 81 towns in this sector was
reported.
There were uneonfirmed reports
that the important railroad juno
ture of Kaluga, 40 miles south
west Of Moscow was retaken,
Kaluga had been the intended prey
in pincerS movement begun sew
eral days ago by the Soviets.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27

The customary gaiety OF such
places as the Pacific Club,
Hawaii's leading rendezvous Of
business and professional men.
and the world famous Royal
Hawaiian Hotel at Waikiki Beach
ceases completely as the blackout
descends.
BLACK. EMPTY STREETS
Streets which used to be gay
and bright until long after mid
night now are black and empty
after sundown except for an occa.
sional pair of small blue lights
and echoes of occasional footsteps
Homes are absolutely dark
Guards stand at intersections
They stop you every few blocks
by waving small blue flashlights
to examine your passes. No one
is allowed abroad unless engaged
In defense business.
This correspondent spent six
hours obtaining civil. military and
naval passes and was forced
TO get finger-printed at the Homo
lulu police station.
There were only two swimmers
at famed waikiki Beach today
whereas ordinarily in peace time
there would be thousands. Native
boy surfboard riders were absent.
BUILDINGS PROTECTED
Downtown the stores have been
fixed with steel bands and tape
criss-crossing the windows.
All important buildings have
been sand-bagged. Soldiers in
khaki and soldiers in white throne
the streets. The military governor
has ordered no intoxicating liquor
TO be sold.
Even shooting galleries have
been deprived OF fire arms. but
they have solved that by insti.
tuting archery.
Gasoline is closely rationed
Stores are running short Of black.
out material.
Honolulu is alert from q mill
tary and naval standpoint.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
War Transforms Honolulu Into City of Black Empty Streets
Open Manila Blasted
By Is Jap BOnlbers
Continued from Page One

were Santa Catalina College and
the Santo Domingo Church.
These and the treasury build
ing are situated adjacent TO the
Pasig River. which runs through
the heart of the city.
There were some ships in the
river, and il was believed these
may have been the objectives of
the Japanese bombers.
The building in which this dis
patch is being written is located
just across the Pasig River. which
afforded this correspondent a
closeup view of the raid.
No direct hits were observed on
shipping anchored in the harbor.
But there were a number of near
There also were several
direct hits on one pier and a
breakwater also was struck.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
PLEDGE HoNGkoNG Return

CHUNGKING. Dee. u GNSl.
Chinese newspapers promised
today that when Ilongkong Is
recovered from It's japanese con-
querors. il Will remain British
and Chinese" as IL was before the
lNipponese occupation.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Dee. IL, 1916

Germans are reported build
inE defense lines along the
Somrne around BapaumC.
The car claims there will be
no peace Until RuSsias sin6
are won.
Germans pierce Russians line
in Rumanis claim they sTc
driving the Russians back over
wide front in Wsllschis and have
captured RimnikSsrst.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27

on japanese army operations
claimed the Japanese had de-
Stroyed or captured large numbers
of automobiles. tanks. light
armored cars and guns and that
427 enemy planes had been de-
Stroyed on the ground or shot
down
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
Okla RIVER SUCCESSES

Russian successes on the Okla
River front were hailed with eSpe.
cial glee in Moscow because il haC
been learned that the German
high command previously had tolc
its troops-there that the line must
be held "at all costs
The Soviet information bureaJ
said that under cover of night
thousands of Russian troops Slipped
stealthily across the frozen Okla
River to make savage dawn at.
tack that routed the bewilderec
Nazis from the town of Narofom
Iinsk, - miles southwest oi
Moscow.
The Berlin radio said that
despite heavy Soviet attacks in
the bitter sub-zero temperatures,
the German troops were 'un-
afraid
"A London report from Hell
Sinki said that the Firms.
deserted by their Nazi Allies,
still were holding out along their
entire front despite heavy as
SaultS by the SoVietS.)
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
SHIP LEFT SINKING

One vessel alongside a pier re-
celVed a direct hit. It maneu-
vered away from the pier and
then was Straddied by several
sticks OF bombs in a later attack
and was left-iH an apparently
sinking condition.
Meanwhile, United States mill
tary- y-headquarterS announced that
conditions remain unchanged on
both LuZon Island battle fronts.
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
BIueFIdshIight
fGudrd Halls
All Pedestrians
Seriousness Of MartisI
Law Accepted by People
Of Heweiien Capita

lanes L. KHgsilen, famous
International News Service staff
correspondent. has arrived at
honolulu 10 repor; on the Pa
eihc conflict from thar "on the
spot" vantage point. In The toll
lowing dispatch he describes the
deadly seriousness with when
once gay Honolulu takes the
war,
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27
RAIL TOWN RETAKEN

In this same area, the Soviet in
formation bureau announced, the
railway town of Byelev, 50 mile,
north Of Orel, was retaken.
London sources said the towns
of VyasMa and Oskuye were
back in Soviet hands. A fierce
battle occurred at wanna when
the Nazi hordeS were streaming
eastward. 1t is 125 miles directly
west of Moscow on the confused
NozhaiSk front. Oskuye is 62
miles southwest of Tikhvin, on
the Leningrad front. from where
the SovietS launched their win
terized tank. ski troop and
vavalry onslaught toward Volk-
hoy !
Detroit evening times., 1941-12-27

A COmmunlQue lSSucu Dy Zen
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
in the field, announced:
Fighting Is desultOry In the
north and very heavy in the
southeast.
THE enemy Is steadily bring
ing I'm endorsements from
feet of transports of Lingayen
and Atimonan. Enemy air activ-
ity has been heavy"
TANKS SLUG 1T OUT
1t was understood tank clashes
had occurred between American
defense forces and Japanese in
vaders on both the southeastern
and northern fighting fronts. To
days communique indicated the
action on the Atimonan (south'
EASTERN front was much more
severe than that in the north.
Refugees who left Manila at the
of the far eastern con
flict had begun returning following
the open city proclamation. Police
c a lc d on able-bodied Ameri
can and Filipino civilians TO volun
tcer for guard duty.
Presidential Secretary Vargas
the little president - remained
in Malacanan Palace, carrying or
details of the civil administration
President Manuel Quezon anC
United States High COMMISSIONS
Francis B. Sayre left Manila yes.
terday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11
Girl War Reporter Depicts
lis Terror and Gives WARNING
By Elsie Robinson

lizard work picking your
- reading these days. Such
a tremendous amount you
need to know and so little
time in which to learn II.
You must get the most for
your minutes, can't AFFORD TO
waste any of them on trash.
This column tries to help by
picking at least one good book
per week. This time. the joo's
a JOY. For I'm plugging as
fine a piece Of work as has
yet come out of Europe's hell.
Meaning young Virginia
Cowles' story of I'VE years
war reporting all over Europe.
Looking for Trouble" she
calls it.
A GIRL war correspondent
"A sounds like a pain in
the neck. doesn't ii? Female
correspondents, generally
speaking, are anything but
treat. They gush. They
gurgle. They gripe. They
take advantage Of their sex 10
demand special privileges md
exemptions.
Not so V. c. Here's
young woman who makes
women proud that they be-
long 10 the same sex. She's
energetic, smart-and quite
spectacularly lovely. But she
doesn't smear it all over the
wallpaper. Instead. she puts
herself in the one place where
every sensitive. sincere writer
belongs in the background.
And stays there. Then pro-
ceeds to give US exactly those
facts about war which We
Americans need to know
we'd save our lives.
Not merely the drama.
though her pages pulse with
il. Nor the terror and mount
ing mania. But the actual
makings of a world gone
amuck. The way people feel
when every civilized require
ment is swept away
when they are filthy. hungry.
cold. caked with sweat
too stunned or terrified to
react nationally to either
love or hate.
Above all. she tells How
and Why and Where Wars
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11

Ich traeumt i'm einem Schat-
ten
So manchen sue-ssen Traum."
WHIPS CRASH
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11

start. No, she doesn't moralize
or philosophize. Starkly.
sparely, she shows how people
live, love. think. work. mate
carry on, automatically.
the old gestures Of civilized
existence when, by every
vicious, mechanical maneuver.
they've been reduced to the
level of brutes.
THERE'S an old verse which
L has inspired many q
prophet since il was first
written in ancient Israel:
Where there is no vision,
the people perish" Did solemn
eyed young Virginia think Of
that, I wonder. when she
followed the bloodied trails
of Spain and Finland, Czecho-
slovakia, Norway, Poland,
Russia. Greece? Did she re-
member il as she wrote:
I'm that world Of terror,
panic and confusion, II was
difficult to believe that these
were the citizens OF Paris,
citizens whose fOrefathers had
fought for their freedom Ike
tigers and stormed the Bastille
with their bare hands. For
the first time I began to
understand what had hap
pened to France. Morale was
n question Of faith; faith In
your cause, faith In your
goal, hut above all else, faith
In your leaders. How could
these people have faith In
leaders who had abandoned
them? Everywhere the
machinery seemed to have
broken down. The dam had
begun to crumble and hysteria.
a trickle at hrst, had grown
into q torrent"
Where there is no vision"
young Virginia saw the
poisonous fruit of such in
difference ripen-and has put
the record down In words thak
will live. We need that book.
We should listen to II as the
old Israelites listened 10 their
awful and sacred prophesies.
Here is Truth. as only Youth
can reveal it. without cunning
or compromise.
God grant us understanding.
before IL is too late!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11

named Il "" And get this he will be a descendant
War. His pappy will War a o o War and his
nanny, yet chosen bred in old
Kentucky The breeder will be other than Vic McIaglen
ExPERT the subject four effective expressions
for by girl winning the affections
You're different" p you again. You have
the So 81 could hate you passionaey
didn't love you intensely" 4Who taught you kiss
wonderfully? These expressions expert have the
effect the trusting males if spoken intense voice
Boys in the army who my great sympathy those
stationed Iceland Consider their position when Winter
know young fellow southern California who with
the Iceland Think spending all your Winters in Cali
forns and then suddenly being switched to Winter Iceland
E Bible poems books Lincoln
read over. Poems Burns seem to
much effect Lincoln the Bible particularly the poem "A
Mans a Man for A That"
a really good cup you grind coffee
just before you put My father, brilliant coffee
maker. always made it that way
Football magnate George good
press a
running along top sports
scrbe to be of the play at all time Sounds all right
How about putting track track similar
that of roller have follow field of horses
from start to finish!
AM NOW engaged slightly argument with
subscribers as TO what Washington pie is My position on
this matter stated claim Washington pie made
in Brooklyn anyhow brown cake with white frostng and
custard in it.
Gifts of flowers by increased per year
For the made by retailing flowers by wire
the florists little thanks the genius who originated
the slogan Say 1t With Flowers"
Hoyvoodians keep reviving Madame X" Blood and
Sand The Spoilers other films Some Of these have
done four times What can't understand why they don't
revive The Covered Wagon" in talking picture form That
very being favore film of all time.
IN BALTIMORE groups young
they prefer companions soldiers sailors The
yet noted with interest is the reply of
Ethel Stockbridge:
1 prefer He generally Is
Besides who be just another girl In another
port" Another interesting reply that Of Catherine Ann
Smith "a blonde):
q There's a you. He's both
sailor n soldier"
mentioned somebody saying they knew q who
aloud time" writes feminine
knitted
Of pattern while reading With the Wind"
syndests. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11
Walter WiKscheu
On Broadway


WHAT pncepayboy can't return from Nassau because that
Ftyeghth hotel locked up all turban etc! He
owes $780, which they'll swap for
Intmates won't be amazed Franchot Wallace
pull Yumagc The Tom Corcorans peggy Dowd) of the
White House crowd imagng again The James Waterman
Wises (have world have been Renovated They
cled as her Renoice was maturing.
It's Blessed Robert Edwards Lady in the
Dark Kaye, president Of BM Murel Gray of the
Nation rveted fortnight ago.
Lord Halifax will the United shortly speak
to the nations Republicans at the Waldorf October 6 Was
Faith Bacon the fandancer secretly stitched three months
Eighty-hfth streeter!
Hurricane by Oliver Wakefield
in London.
Mrs Tommy Dorsey who having trouble, too will
get her decree edition. Her latest the drummer in C
Spivak's
George says it'll
girl about five weeks It's girl for the D. Abers at Gale
DOMAIN Hospital
DUDY vALLEE through with New York he says
~ Fortyeghh good Seventy.
second street gnm giving the twentieth precinct and the
their biggest headaches
Near almost nightly those 14-yearod vamps
Rex oMaly who lost his role suddenly in Lady in the
Dark" getting wages Gelaty heir and
Patricia Garfield. the cop-sapper are Boy Loses Girl
Broadwayes grooming Kay tnewcomer) Drinkers
busting from because the feminine star frankly
admitted:
"Gee, she
What's CasweL Adams and Richards vdmer
and off the Trbs sports pagesevebods talking abouf
ProfaH Rathbone the journalism department at
NYU, retires this week He is 70.
You only need pass into the state department
but get Virginia Pene posing for reducing ad
bruised had cancel her She's becoming
pretty again.
Versailles will feature gal-show starting October via
talented Nudge Fedngs direction
DIAMOND GRAM SWINGS pilots overShot
~ discover until they Norway when they fed back
you Britain Overseas Always from Baltimore
regular servce) don't make your tribe collects
you fly there a bonber-no insurance
If
this Nat Brandwynnes starts at Ciros
Hollywood October Is. Plus commercial hookup The
Dies the private letters from European
journalist agent Manfred Zapp She try
to convince Americans of her loyalty Her what!
Moran confidential secretary to District Attorney ODwyer
Is seriously aling Deweys assistant r H. Thayer resigns
September director United States Naval
Intelligence.
COUTH AMERICAN Nazs lapel embems which
~ feature quesion-mark
that ?" ask
They flip the lapel and Churchill in coffin
George Featured Hooray for What and other
shows) boss OF LaIIiTs Tavern
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11
WHAT HAPPENED'

table was a typewriter.
WHAT HAPPENED
"What happened TO you:"
asked Radam.
Nothing" I said.
did anybody hurt you:"
"NO."
"Nobody?"
Nobody"
$50 nobody hurt you:"
Nobody hurt me-"
"All right" said Radam,
turning to the typist. write:
Everything 1 am saying now
voluntarily and of my
own accord. i am making
this confession freely, without
cOmpulsiOn of any sort"
The typewriter clattered.
els that right?" asked
Radam.
That's right" I said.
And you don't remember
the murder 20"
NO"
IL shall assist you In re-
freshing your memory"
Eyes"
YOU WERE PRESENT
"On the nineteenth of
May you were present at
conference OF the leaders Of
the party units of the harbor
district. The leaders of de-
tachment three of the Red
Front League were also
present. This conference dis
cussed an assault against the
newly-established storm troop
ers' headquarters on the
Schaarmarkt.
This assault took place the
next morning. shortly after
midnight. The storm trooper
Heinzelmann was stabbed to
death, six others were seri-
Ously wounded. During the
conference In question, you
proposed that a Nazi had to
he murdered I'm order 10
brighten off further attempts
of the National Socialist Party
To gain n foothold I'm the har-
bOr districts. Right"
mo"
The typewriter clattered
while Radam spoke. 1t
recorded question and an
swer.
"You were leader of the
seameu's union
Eyes"
you've fought the growing
NaZi influence on the ships
and on the docks ."
With each question came a
swift hail OF blows and kicks.
eyes"
Told your followers 90
heave overheard any Nazi who
might board a German ship"
FOUGHT THEM IN PRESS
"No, I fought them in the
press. by leaflets, In meet
ings."
'In demonstrations ."
"Ncs, also in demonsira-
tions."
with guns and knives"
That's not right"
you've never shot or
stabbed storm trooper
Never"
"YOu were wise. You pre-
ferred tn have your rank and
file do the shooting and stab
hing. You sat back in the
dark, pulling the wires. and
now you're afraid of punish
ment, and YOU deny IL. That's
right. yes?"
"No. I do not believe In
terrorism"
"You believe In revolution ."
eyes"
"Strike? Armed uprising
Revolution
Eyes"
"You were present at the
meeting where 10 was decided
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11
On the Side
By E. V. During

Where beauty is there 1gH be love.
Nature, that aCiscIy nothing made IN rain,
Did make you lovely 10 be iored egoiH.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-11

in the nineties popular song was titled
The Bird on Nellie's Hat"
The ladies seem TO have revived nearly
everything from the age OF bicycles and
bustles except the bustles. Suppose men
started wearing turn Of the century styles.
AS for instance. high choker collars, but
toned patent leather shoes, fancy colored
vests and handle bar mustacheS? MyStify-
ing angle to this style revival thing Is that
a woman looks smart. glamorous. etc.
wearing gay nineties or turn OF the century
styles but when a man wears what was
popular 40 years ago he looks ridiculous.
THIS has been big week for me. Last
night l had turkey for dinner and il
wasn't my birthday or anything. Yesterday
learned / had a reader in Smackover.
Ark And this morning find a race horse
is going 10 be named after n. The horse
isn't born yet but when he arrives VIII be