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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-21

EWHAT I'm trying to tell
w you about is this date
Of Ends, II you'd just shut
up a sec and listen" Nudge
squirmed with delight as five
pairs of eyes looked away
from the mirror and focused
on her.
1t was noon and the girls in
the innumberable warrens of
gov nment offices were
making themselves beautiful
for a 10 mipute sally on the
corner coke" stand.
Some one waved a compact
and snorted, "You don't even
know her"
"Oh yes 1 do" Nudge cried.
with a whitening glance at the
speaker. land i know all
about him too; he's married.
and she proceeded to apply
her lipstick with cool disdain
for the volley of questions
which poured down upon her.
Mary Evans pulled a comb
from the deep tangle of her
bag. II don't believe it,"
she announced. Ends too
decent, she wouldn't 60 with a
-UaFFted= man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-21
HEART, MIND BATTLE

All the way home her heart
and mind battled almost in
rhythm to the lurching of the
street car. Her heart was
strong with faith. but her
mind shook with doubts that
were not TO be denied.
Last night when Ed had not
met her at the station she
had been bitterly disappointed
But she had not for a moment
questioned his explanation OF
late work. But now-well.
Nudge had seen them dancing
together, Enid and Ed-who
else could it have been?
"ShOw him your ring, honey"
Mary stared ahead of her, her
face empty, her eyes Opaque.
To the world. had it cared TO
look her way, she was a work.
ing girl. tired perhaps. but
without a thought in her
mind
But her expression was no
true gauge. Behind it all her
thoughts flowed swift and
fierce.
If the law did not require
that only one in a family
could hold a government
position Mary felt that life
would have been much
simpler. AS it was, she and
how many others like her, had
TO betray those honor codes
which society had taught
them TO respect if they were
10 have any normal happiness
in their harneSsed lives,
DETERMINES To ASK
Secrecy and subterfuge
were not in Mary's makeup
and now doubt had come.
"Tll ask him." For a mo-
ment Mary'S heart was lighter
with this decision. Then sud
denly through the rumble of
the car she seemed to feel the
very vibration of Eds voice
"Show him the ring, honey"
and she knew she couldn't
do il.
No! il was better not to
knoW-she stood TO lose too
much.
A gaunt red brick house
stands on the corner of II and
Twenty-Second street and to
this Mary made her way.
my husband and my best
friend, it's like a cheap story"
she thought. her distress
turning to anger. "And Enid
with a perfectly good date of
her own. oh, how could they"
For a moment Mary found
time to pity Jerry Black and
TO wonder what had become
of him. For some time past
she had been too busy with
her own affairs to keep up
with Ends.
There was light shining
under her door. But it was
not this which made her
snatch her hand from the
knob as though she had
touched a flame. II was the
sound of a low laugh-Enid's!
A silence followed and then
she heard Eds voice:
Darling, that's marriage
for you"
Here in my apartment"
Though no voice came Mary
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-21

Tomorrow's short story:
Bargain in Dreams. by
Hollis Starnes.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

early summer Of 1887 in the Orduna
sector of the Spanish War, after
taking part in the Guadalajara
battle which became an Italian rout.
Mark Barron, Associated Press
staff writer, who covered the Ethio-
plan War, recalled today that at
the battle of Deidei, when shells
were exploding and hundreds of
guns were barking, he passed close
to the general who was leading his
men, sometimes yelling and some
times blowing on a whistle.
"As I passed him I shouted to
him to follow me to the protecting
covering of a hill," Barron said.
"Bergonzoli tossed me a small pa
per bag-still half filled with candy
gumdrops he had been eating"
A few days after that battle Bar
ron craWled into the generals
speedy five-passenger armored car.
The other generals had portable
machine gun nests in the rear of
their cars, but Bergonzon had torn
his out.
In its place was big cabinet,
filled with canned food, marmalade
and bottled water.
Bergonzoli was an officer in the
World War, fighting in the Alps
and on the Austrian front.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Schools Fight Renewal
OF Cafe Liquor Permit

Three public school principals and
a spokesman for the Petworth
Citizens Association today urged the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to
reject an application by Leo j.
Rossiter for a renewal for his on
sale liquor license for his restaurant
in the 4l00 block of Georgia avenue
NV. They argued sale of liquor
in that area was a bad influence for
the many school children in the
neighborhood.
Miss Esther K. Lacy. administra-
tive principal of the Petworth School.
protested that children of that school
had to be kept after hours for Is
minutes recently until an intoxicated
person who had fallen near the
school could be removed.
Miss May P. Bradshaw. principal
of the Roosevelt High School. ap-
pealed to the A. B. c. Board to keep
sale of liquor away from the large
educational center in that area.
Miss Grace Lind, fifth division school
supervisor and principal, spoke of
the danger to impressionable youth
from the sale of liquor.
Objections by the Petworth
Citizens Association to renewal of
the permit were voiced by Ernest F.
Henry.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
British Destroyer
Torpedoed, Italians Soy

ROME, Jan. 8 [R.-The Italian
high command reported today
Italian planes had torpedoed a
British destroyer of the North
African coast, near Salum. The
result of the attack was not known
Immediately.
In the desert front in Libya the
high command said there was
patrol activity and artillery fire
between Bardia and Tobruk.
The high command also reported
in its regular communique that "nu-
merous raids" had been made by
Britain's Royal Air Force on various
localities in Eastern Libya and the
city of Tripoli where, it said, four
persons we're killed and some 10
injured.
Italian planes were said to have
machine gunned and bombed Brit
ish mechanical forces in the desert.
In East Africa, the communique
said, Italian fighter planes broke
up a British attempt to bomb an
objective in Eritrea.
Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda de-
clared in the newspaper II Giornale
dItalia that the British army's
dead and wounded" in the battle of
Bardia numbered in the thou
sands"
The British have asserted that
casualties on both sides at Bardia
were extremely small, listing their
own at some 500.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
British Meat Ration Cut
From 81 10 23Cents
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 8.-The British
meat ration for the current week
was reduced tonight to l shilling
2 pence (about % cents shortly
after Lord Woolton, food minister,
warned his compatriots he could no
longer bring the world to our door"
and urged them to "eat British"
The previous food ration was about
80 cents. Britain rations meat by
price, not by weight.
The minister said Britons must
live primarily on food produced at
home and warned that imports must
be kept to a bare minimum.
Lord Woolton explained that last
weeks meat shortage, the first in
the war was due to excellent rea-
sons" which include the diversion Of
some shipments to Libya, the scene
of British offensive.
Speaking to a luncheon audience,
the minister asked:
would you rather have a little
more meat for a week or two or
would you rather have Bardia?"
Bardia, chief Italian base in East
ern Libya, was captured by the
British Sunday.
After a virtually meatless week
end, Lord Woolton and most Britons
felt certain that the condition was
only temporary. Contributing to the
shortage we're transportation diff
culties and the fact that less stock
is being marketed by farmers. They
have been encouraged officially to
keep reserves of meat on the hoof
during the winter.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Continued From First Page)

which he said had the approval of
President Roosevelt:
l. Relief shipments to be confined
to medical supplies in the strict
sense, dried or canned milk, chill
dren's clothing and, with certain ex-
ceptionS, vitamin concentrates.
2. Distribution to be effected SOLE
ly by the American Red Cross either
direct from its own warehouses or
under strict supervision to chill
dren'S hospitals and clinics.
8. Extent of this program to de-
pend on developments and the full
fllment of the general conditions
of the agreement.
Mr.. Davis said the Red Cross be-
Ieved the question of relief for
children in unoccupied France pre-
sented a special problem which
could be handled without prejudice
to the British policy to maintain
contraband control against all sup
plies, except medicines, to terri
tories under German military DOM
ination.
Following an exchange of views
on the subject the British govern
ment expressed itself as glad under
certain conditions to collaborate in
a program of relief, having this par
ticular humanitarian end in view,"
Mr.. Davis said.
"In accordance with arrange
mentS agreed upon by the British
government, the American Red Cross
plans to send a shipment to France
on an American vessel sailing the
latter part of January, and this
ship will also carry a consignment
of flour and milk for distribution in
Spain"
American Red Cross ships are
permitted under the Neutrality Act
to enter European combat zones.
Chairman Davis said that the situ-
alton with reference to children in
Spain was particularly critical"
Indeed, wheat, rye and other cereals
are so short as to present not only
a menace to the health of the whole
pODuldUlOll, UuG Ill ooillC SCSgiOlio
actual famine" Davis said.
ITO meet this situation the Amer
ican Red Cross, in accordance with
suggestion of the President of the
United States, has offered to the
chief of the Spanish staff General
issimo Francisco Franco, on certain
conditions, the shipment of cargo
of wheat or. flour to meet the most
immediate needs of the civilian
population.
president Roosevelt, aware OF the
food stuffs difficulties of the Spanish
people, has authorized the Red Cross
| to make the necessary shipment OF
supplies to be purchased with funds
made available to him for foreign
| civilian relief.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

casts from the B. B. c. headquar-
ters. In a conversation with his Of
fees here yesterday Mr.. Bate said
only that he was injured while at
work"
N. B. c. said this was taken to
mean that Mr.. Bate was injured in
his own offices and not at the B. B.
c. studios. The present location of
the N. B. C.. Offices in London has
not been learned by the New York
headquarters.
Evening star., 1941-01-08

had been experienced in getting the
1885 100000 naval aircraft program
rolling, but predicted that, in the
light of what had happened in
British aviation production, the out
put would exceed estimates as ex-
panded plants got into full swing.
He said the Navy Department was
working on quite an extensive lis"
of legislative recommendations
which we're designed to facilitate the
work on both the aircraft and ship
construction programs. He said a
change in the Walsh -Healey Act was
among them, but did not disclose its
nature. The act requires holders of
Government contracts of $4,000 or
more to meet certain labor stand
ards.
Admiral Towers testified that the
act had interfered to some extent
with the Navy's negotiation of con-
tracts, but told neWsmen later that
it had constituted only a minor
difficulty" He said most of the
trouble had involved subcontractors
who, never having done work for the
Government before, found the law
too complex to make such work
profitable or desirable.
Temporary disorganization Of pro-
duction plants due to the tremendous
expansion necessitated by the Armv-
Navy aircraft program was cited by
Admiral Towers as among the prin-
clpal causes for initial delays. Other
factors, he said, were shortages of
machine tools and toolmakers, fail
ure Of subcontractors to fulfill their
obligations and lags in material
deliveries.
The admiral expressed belief that
everything possible was being done
to eliminate "bottlenecks, although,
he said, there would continue to be
a shortage of airplane engines for
another 18 months. He explained
that there would not be sufficient
engines to give the Navy the number
of spares" it deemed desirable.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Bate Of N. B. {. Receivers
From Bomb Injuries

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-N. B. c.
said today that Fred Bate, chief Of
it's London staff, had fully recovered
from injuries received in a bombing
raid four weeks ago.
Mr.. Bate spent a week in the hos
pital, N. B. C.'s headquarters here
said. He has been on the air re-
Gently with his regular broadcasts to
the United States.
N. B. C. said it had not learned
whether Mr.. Bate was injured by
bombs which destroyed its London
Offices or those which seriously dam
aged Broadcasting House, headquar-
ters of the British Broadcasting
Corp, where seven B. B. c. staff
members were killed in a recent
raid.
N. B. C.'s Offices were in a build
ing separate from Broadcasting
House, but Mr.. Bate does his broad
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Defense Heads Statement
Surprising Urgency Is Seen
In Arms-Producing Task

to retain the principles Of a free
economic system.
In any successful defense pro-
gram the active, intelligent and pa
triotic cooperation of the men who
man the machines is vital. Laws
now in effect make secure the prin-
ciple OF collective bargaining and
throw about the interests of the
workingman adequate protection.
Labor must know that under the
administration of the Office of Pro-
duction Management no sacrifices
will be asked of it that will not
be matched by corresponding
sacrifice on the part of capital, but
just as it is intolerable for capital
to seek a selfish advantage by rea-
son of the present emergency, so
must labor avoid any attempt to
make improper use of its position
in the present worldwide emer-
gency. The whole principle of COL
lective bargaining and the rights of
labor under our system of govern
ment and economy is being chal-
lenged.
All Have Stake in Victory.
If the totalitarian forces of the
world are victorious, all the hard
won rights of labor will be destroyed
and both capital and labor will
become the involuntary vassals of
an all-powerful state. Labor has
as great a stake in this crisis as
capital, and both must work to-
gether harmoniously if the United
States is to make its contribution
to democratic victory in the world.
To achieve the results which the
country expects from the Office of
Production Management, we expect
and must have the kind of CO.
operation from everybody that
counts no sacrifice too great to
make if 1t will contribute to a more
successful and a more efficient de-
fense 1t is this spirit which we
seek to invoke, and it is in similar
spirit that we undertake this great
task which the Commander in Chief
has committed to our hands.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Gen. BergonzoIi, Italian Chief
At Bordio, Escaped, British Say
Electric Whiskers'
Thought to Have Used
Motorboot Held Ready
By the Associated Press,

Bs the Associated Press.
CAIRO. Egypt. Jan. 8-The Brit
ish reported today that Gen. Ami
bale Bergonzoli, Italian commander
of Bardia, Libya, had slipped
through their hands last week end,
leaving the city a few hours before
it fell and possibly escaping by a
motor boat specially reserved for
the purpose"
When the British marched into
Premier Mussolini's chief base in
Eastern Libya Sunday they an
nounced that Gen. Bergonzoli
known to the British desert forces
as General Electric Whiskers," was
one of six Italian generals among
the prisoners.
Now, a British headquarters COM
munique said today, it turns out
that ION the night before Bardia
fell the Blackshirt corps commander
(BergonzolD and his two Blackshirt
(divisionaD commanders deserted
their troops, leaving the regular
commanders to fight on"
One of these commanders, ac-
cording to British headquarters, has
since been taken prisoner with the
bulk of his staff. They were found
wandering in the desert north OF
Bardia.
Gen. Bergonzoli and the others
are still missing" the communique
continued. 1T is possible they de-
camped by motorboat specially re-
served for the purpose. The search
is still continuing"
The general was a veteran of the
italian campaign in Spain during
the civil war.
London military circles, apprised
Of the Cairo announcement, could
offer no explanation of previous re-
ports he had been captured.
Gen. Bergonzoh is a short, wiry
man Of immense energy, a jack-in-
the-box in battle. The defects OF
his size vanish when he is seated in
a car or at table; then the impres-
sive thing about him is his thick
bristling beard, which seems to
crackle when he begins talking.
He led the Littoria division in the
Ethiopian War and turned up in the
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Marshall Says Army
Worthy Of America
Is On the Way
10000 Men in Training,
Outlying Gurrisons
Now Strengthened
b the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An army worthy of America is on
the way, Gen. George c. Marshall,
chief of staff, told the nation last
night. In a radio interview, he said
that more than 100000 men were in
active training.
A little more than year ago,
Gen. Marshall declared, the Army
had less than a thousand men in
Puerto Rico, only few hundred in
Alaska and no field army at home
-"only scattered regiments of the
Regular Army, incomplete in num-
bers, in training and in many vital
items of equipment"
During the last year, he said, re-
Inducements have gone to Hawaii;
the troop strength in Panama has
more than doubled, Puerto Rico now
has a garrison mot of 1000 but of
$4,000, and the lonely group in
Alaska has swelled to 5000"
This last force" he continued,
represents a development more i'm
portant than the numbers would in
dicate. With funds only made avail
able the latter part of June, 1910,
we have succeeded in delivering ma
terial and labor to that isolated
northern region in time to construct
the shelter and to develop airfields
before the winter closed in last No
vember. 1t is pleasant to report
that the Alaskan program is year
ahead of schedule.
Throughout the Caribbean region
airf1elds are being improved and ex-
tended. Gasoline and servicing IA
cilities are being installed to pro-
vide for any sudden movement of
our planes in that area. Next week
troops will sail from New York for
Newfoundland to garrison our new
airbase there"
Evening star., 1941-01-08

The following statement was is
sued yesterday by the four men,
bers of the newly created Office of
Production Management - William
S. Knudsen, director general; Sidney
Hillman, associate director general,
and Secretaries Stimson and Knox:
The task which confronts the
Office of Production Management
is one, not only of critical impor-
tance, but also one of surprising
urgency.
The President has said that the
United States must become the
arsenal of democracy. To create
such an arsenal and to establish
and maintain production that will
insure its efficiency and adequacy
require far more than we, who are
charged with its management, can
provide. We promise all that we
have to the fulfllment of this order
from our Commander in Chief, but
all that we have will be far from
sufficient.
We shall have need of the active,
aggressive and enthusiastic Coop
Grafton of every man, woman and
child in the United States If we are
to make this arsenal in America
adequate to the successful defense
of democracy and freedom. This
can only mean that in the imme-
diate future everything in our ma
tional life must be subordinated to
the necessity for defense.
Must Shun War Profiteering.
Industry must subordinate its con-
Germ over the possible future effects
of tremendous immediate expansion
1t must be satisfied with a normal
return for new capital required. If
there is in industry and manage
ment anywhere a subconscious, un-
expressed hope for wartime profits,
that must be sternly repressed. If
there are those who think they can
employ this emergency for any self
ish advantages, they must dismiss
such thoughts. Democracy is fight
ing for its very life in its struggle
Evening star., 1941-01-08

government is purchasing 1000 tons
of frozen beef from the Uruguayan
government packing plant, after
Argentine firms showed disinclina-
ton to sell additional meat in the
face of British disapproval.
Two other French merchantmen
in port here, the Campana, 10,816
tons, and the Formose, 9,975 tons,
are being painted in preparation for
loading to follow the Mendoza to
their German-conquered homeland.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Thomas w. Kane Dies;
Friend of Roosevelts
M the Associa ted Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8-Thomas
Woodford Kane, 80, former presi-
dent of the Railway Train Dispatch
ers of America, died Sunday.
A native of Galena, ILL.,, Mr.. Kane
was a friend of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt and made annual visits
to the White House.
He was train dispatcher for the
Northern Pacific and other railroads
sSor many years.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Great Britain Agrees
To Roosevelt Request

LONDON, Jan 8 (P.-The British
government has agreed to personal
request from President Roosevelt to
allow clothing and foodstuffs for
children in unoccupied France to
pass through the British blockade,
it was disclosed today.
The consent was given with the
understanding that the distribution
would be under the direct supervi-
sion of the American Red Cross.
The decision was declared at the
Ministry of Economic Warfare to
have in no way altered the British
policy of blockading unoccupied
Frapca
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Heavy Fire Heard
|0ff Coast Of Kent;
Battle Believed On
German Boots and British
PutroI Believed to Be
Engaged in Fight
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A SOUTH COAST TOWN, Eng
land, Jan. 8.-Persons along the
Kent coast heard sounds early to-
day which they judged came from
a lively fight between German boats
and a British patrol.
There was heavy burst of tracer
bullets and machine-gun fire which
shore observers declared sounded
as if German boats attempted some
reconnaissance or even tried to slip
through the patrol, but were inter-
cepted.
Conditions on the Strait of Dover
were ideal for sea reconnaissance.
The water was smooth and there
was slight haze.
During the forenoon residents on
the coast reported a heavy, con-
tinuing rumbling from across the
Channey in the direction of the
German invasion ports" giving an
impression that naval guns were in
action.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Mrs. Judson, Former
D. c. Resident, Dies

Mrs. Harry B. Judson. resident
of Washington until the death of
her husband about year ago. died
early today at the home Of her
son, Larry H. Judson. in Long
Branch, N. j., friends here were in
formed. She was a native Of New
York State.
She will be buried in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery here beside her husband.
Evening star., 1941-01-08
Educator Will Speak

A. Curtis Wilgus, professor Of
Latin American history at George
Washington University, will be the
speaker at the meeting of the WASH
ington Alumni Association of Delta
Kappa Epsilon Fraternity at the
Army Navy Club Friday at 1890
pm. His topic will be will Latin
America Really Cooperate in 1912"
Evening star., 1941-01-08
French Ship Will Sail
With Aroentine Products

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 8 P.-
Postal authorities announced that
the French merchant ship Mendoza,
loaded with meat, wool and other
products, would sail late today in
an attempt to reach France.
British sources insisted that the
8,l99-ton freighter would not be
permitted to pass through the Brit
ish blockade. They noted that two
British auxiliary cruisers-the As
turius at Montevideo and the Queen
of Bermuda near Rio de Janeiro-
might be apaaeble to intercept 1t.
It was LEANED that the French