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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
0Mdy Answer
Arnold S Attack

WASHINGTON, March % (UP)
Clio officials were meeting here
today for an emergency session &c
consider current labor problems
and probably TO answer the charge
by Asst. Atty.-Gen. Thurman Arm.
old that unions legally are "injur,
ing and destroying independent
Meanwhile, Senator Harry S
Truman tDl OF Missouri. chairman
of a Senate committee Investigate
ing the war effort, indicated viii
ingness 10 investigate charges by
the ALL and Go that an organ.
lied campaign is being waged
through mail and telegram. &c
force repeal or drastic alteration
of labor laws.
A demand for extra pay for
Sunday work on continuous opera
tons vas withdrawn today by the
Federation OF Glass. Ceramic. and
Silica Sand Workers of America
tCIO) in a dispute with the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company and
the Libby-Owens-Ford Company
The war labor board granted the
union a five-cent an hour pay in
crease with a provision for upward
or downward adjustment of wages
whenever the Bureau of Labor
Statistics cost OF living index
luCtuatcS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Tire Retiring
Mexico Says You Can
Buy New Ones There

MEXICO CITY, March % (UP)
American motorists can buy new
tires in Mexico-provided their ole
ones will stand the trip.
The government told the Mexi.
can Tourist Association today that
new tires may be purchased but
old ones must be traded in. Tire.
may be bought by securing a per,
NIT of genuine need" either from
the tourist association or the
Mexican Automobile Association.
Also, tourists may have their ole
tires recapped or retreaded at any
time. without obtaining a permit.
The encouragement said. how.
ever. that tourists should be def.
nitely discouraged" from coming
to Mexico for the sole purpose oil
buying tires.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Woman S Death
Called Suicide
Times stan Correspondent

PORT HURON. March 23.-Al-
though he said he could discover
no reason for the act. Coroner
Arthur Smith today declared that
Miss Margaret Blattert, %, COM
mitted suicide by leaping into the
ST. Clair River a few minutes
after she left house party with
member Of the Michigan State
Troops.
Miss Blattert and William Nc
Kenzie left the party and walked
to the river, where they boarded
an old coal barge moored 10 the
shore, Smith said. After few
minutes, Smith said, the pair left
the barge, but Miss Blattert made
an excuse 10 Mckenzie and re-
turned to il, leaving him on the
shore.
When she did not return, Nc
Kenzie investigated and found her
goat on a railing. Her body was
recovered six hours later by coast
guardsmen.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Nelson's
LabOrPIaIl
Gaining

WASHINGTON. March .
GNS) .-WPB spokesman today
said that Donald NJ. Nelson Is
winning the toughest battle Of his
reign as war production czar-tha'
OF selling" the idea Of labor-man.
agement committees as a spur &c
laying war production.
The plant committee proposal
keystone Of Nelson's recently an
nounced production drive TO obtain
an immediate 25 per cent boost II
war output, met with stiff opposi'
ton in several quarters.
Despite glowing accounts re-
ceived by WPB from most OF the
meetings currently in progress
throughout the country 10 inaugu
rate the drive. some leading indus
trialists fought the plan from tho
start as an attempt 10 "sovietize'
American industry.
Opponents of the labor-manage
ment committee plan saw in II the
embodiment Of essential features
OF proposals advanced by &C
President Philip Murray and Wal
ter Reuther, head Of the JAW
General Motors Division for giving
labor a larger voice in manage
ment OF war plants.
When the tempest arose, how
ever, Nelson called in labor leaders
and told them that his propose
did not encompass any labor
plan" and directed them 10 make
this clear in their discussions O
the production drive.
Nelson stoutly defended his pro
duction drive and denied that j
was either a labor plan or man
agement plan"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
FreeTOrcFl
Killing

Times staff Correspondent

ANN ARBOR, March %. - A
suspect who has been held since
last Friday in the torch death of
Orville Wurster near Manchester
last Tuesday has been released,
Sheriff John L. Osborn of Washte-
nav County said today
The suspect, a 40-year-old Chel-
sea factory worker, was arrested
when it was learned that his car
was seen parked near the scene of
the crime sometime after the time
that doctors fixed Wurster's death.
Shortly after his arrest it was
learned that he underwent OBJ
servation lately by psychiatrists.
Osborn said that after tracing
the suspects movements he was
convinced of his innocence.
Wurster's body was found, partly
burned, in woods near Man
chester. His was the second such
torch d a h near Manchester
within a year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Old PaIS--Or Stranger
Dog That Governor Hell ped Recover for Woman
Fails to Recognize Her-Husband Dscaims II

Gov. Murray d. Van Wagner
today was credited with an assist
in the possible recovery of Spot
tie." a dog who appears TO harbor
some doubt as 10 whether he has
found the right owner.
On the other hand, the possible
owner. Mrs. Ellen Johnson of
Ypsilanti, has some doubts as 10
whether she has found the right
dog.
Mrs. Johnson lost "Spottie" last
January 30 when she was in De-
troit. For some reason not quit
clear she wrote TO Governor Van
Wagner asking the governor 10
find him.
The governor turned the letter
over TO Detroit police and yeSter-
day Andrew Juryeal of 6472 Wood
row avenue. who had found a dos
answering "Spottie's' description
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23

took him 10 the Grand River police
station. Mrs. Johnson was notified
and police began drafting a job-is-
done letter 10 the governor.
When Mrs. Johnson arrived.
however, she was not at all sure
whether the dog was her "Spottie."
For a half hour she debated the
point with officers, who insisted
they had the right animal. Finally
she was convinced and Mrs. John
son gathered up the dog. who
showed not the slightest sign of
having seen her before.
With her husband she left the
police station, but not until he had
given Puryeal a S25 reward.
That's not our dog" the hus-
band insisted.
Nevertheless, police have marked
the case closed. The governor will
be SO notified.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
SeIfridge' S Ex-Chief
Returns from Far East
Tlnr. stan Correspondent

MT. CLEMENS, March %
Brig. Gen. Henry B. Clagett, for
mer commanding officer of Self
ridge Field, has returned from
China. Burma. and Java and is
reporting his observations 10
Superiors in Washington, close
friends of his said today.
General Clagett left Rangoon
shortly before japanese troops
captured OF and arrived in the
United States March Is, friend
said. He has now been assigned
TO active service in the Philippines
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Hunt for Arson
In 4-Store Fire

Detectives from the arson squad
today are investigating a fire
which swept a two-Story building
at Joseph Campau and Edwin ave-
nues and destroyed four stores and
four office suites.
Hamtramck Fire Chief Edward
Sawtell said the blaze started in
the basement Of a cleaning and
pressing establishment and spread
TO a drug store. hat shop. barber
shop, upstairs beauty parlor and
three doctors offices.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Women Open War
On Cancer April |

The sixth annual campaign of
the women's field army of the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer will open in Detroit
April and continue throughout
the month, it was announced to-
day by DR.. Harry M. Nelson,
chairman of the executive COM
|mittee.
Headquarters Of the drive will
be in the Wayne County Medical
Society Building.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
FATHER IN INDIAN ARMY

Take LIE ding Aircraftsman
Barnes, for example. Barnes, son
of a World War captain in the
Indian Army, was at ST. Edmunds
College. Cambridge University,
Imajoring in science for a year
when he joined up in the volun-
.teer reserve of the Raj, and the
next thing he knew he was on his
way 10 Crosse lie for training.
With Barnes came Leading Air
craftsman Lloyd who was junior
clerk 10 a money lender at Roch-
dale in Worcestershire, and who
unblushingly admits that his en-
ployer often asked-and obtained
20 per cent interest on the loans
he made on notes of hand"
Quite a veteran of the army at
the age of u, and the only mar
ried man in the detachment. is
Staff Sergeant Forrest who before
he Joined the army in 1889 had
made his living by Staying ele-
plants, lions and other wild beasts
in equatorial Africa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
New York Raid Feeding Plan

NEW YORK, March % GNS)
A comprehensive plan to keep
New Workers fed in the event of
an enemy attack upon the city has
been worked out and soon will be
ready TO be placed in operation,
Mayor LaGuardia announced to-
daV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
"A NHOUICy VFU"U
Big Game Hunter. Generals Son. Clark. Reporter
Among New Raj Tranees at Crosse lie
BY SHANNON CoRMACK

in Scotland was too tame, so he
volunteered and managed TO get
"a transfer 10 the Royal Air Force.
Forrest, a graduate of Scotland S
famed Edinburough Academy, has
a son. born the day he sailed for
America.
Hughes. a newspaper reporter,
went through the battle Of Lon
don, as correspondent for "a Syndi-
tcate of Worcestershire newspapers
and if and when he gets out OF
the Raj, he is going back TO his
newspaper work. hoping some day
TO connect with one of the great
London dailies.
Travers-Clark is the eldest son
of the British quartermaster gen.
eral OF World War /, now retired
and living on his estate in Devon.
The youthful Clark at 20
had graduated from Wellington
College. one of Britain's famous
military schools. and was a stu
dent at Trinity Hall in Cambridge
University studying modern Ian.
guages when he joined the Raj
TRINITY HALL STUDENT
Leading AircraftSman Mercer
also was a Trinity Hall student
when he volunteered. His father
like so many officers of World
War !, is back in the service
again, squadron leader in the
Raj. And there are Leading Air
craftsman Haggerstone, a pasteur-
izer in civil life, and johnson,
whose previous occupation was
that Of brickyard laborer.
Lockwood a farmer: Harring-
ton, real estate agent; Corporal
Reid, a commercial traveller, or as
we would say a travelling sales
man and Miller. who had a tenn
porary job as acting mail carrier,
are all IN the squadron.
And from Down Under" from
New Zealand and Australia in the
fleet air arm of the royal navy,
training with the Raj boys are
rangy youths from the big cities
and the wide, open spaces. who
vote with one accord that America
and Detroit in particular, is
"dinkum. 4"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
BACKS 40-HOUR WEEK

L. Metcalfe w alling e, newly
appointed wage-hours admins
traitor, denied that the 40-hour
week was curtailing war produc-
ton.
Taking the opposite side, Mcrrylc
Stanley Rukeyser. nationally
known economist and financial
writer, described the d0-hour week
as obsolete" w. T. Piper. presi-
dent of the Piper Aircraft Corpora
ton, said that added costs grow
ing out OF overtime payments arc
stimulating initiation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
SAW ACTIVE SERVICE

Sergeant Forrest is the only one
Of the men who has seen active
service. He was with the RoyaI
Scots Fusiliers in France and was
one of those evacuated from Dun.
kirk. But after Dunkirk. training
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
EXPLAINS DISPLAY

1--WE are making this show
ing of some OF our war products
such things as the army and
navy will permit us to show
for two purposes, said Wilson
in announcing the show. First.
we feel IL is good to have people
know what industry Is turning
out for the fighting men at the
front. Secondly, we want our
employees to understand better
the role of GM In the war.
MANY workers, assigned to
a single operation on a single
part Of some complicated war
machine, have only a vague idea
of what the completed machine
looks like or how their con-
tributiOn fits into the whole"
Wilson explained that none o
the samples ofwar products 10 b,
shown in the display are capable
of being used. Some are rejects
others are early models or hav'
been used for test purposes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23

"Your Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, Is one. OF many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Output
To Eclipse
al Record
BY WARD SCHULTZ
DETROIT Times Financial Editos-

While chalking up all-time rec
ordS in sales and production,
General Motors Corporation in
l941 started its swing from civil.
ian products 10 ornaments and
Chairman Alfred p. Sloan told
stockholders today that output OF
war materials in the first quarter
of 1912 will reach $1,000,000,000.
This will amount TO 40 per cent
Of its entire 1941 military and
non-military production volume
and is nearly two and a half times
the total armament production
last year of S406. 1929.
Still operating largely on 4
peacetime basis, the corporation
turned out 2.257.124 cars and
trucks in 1871. which with its
miscellaneous products brought
sales TO record high of 81, 436.-
100000. This topped the previous
year by more than 600 millions.
200 MILLION YEAR
Earnings of the corporation
held up despite huge taxes. and
it enjoyed its second 200-million-
dollar year since 1929.
The net profit was $201 So, sos
equal, after preferred dividends, 20
S444 a common share as against
iS195, 621,721 or $4.32 in 1910.
AS compared with a 1910 tax
bill of S125 ,027, TAI, the corporation
was forced to set aside 1921, 1892 .343
for this purpose last year. And In
addition General Motors set up q
reserve of Sic, 598,644 for post war
rehabilitation, provided $3,430,00O
for inventory write-offs and held
out $1,000 900 to cover the cost Of
removal and storage of special
tools which will be used for the
resumption of civilian automobile
output after the war.
GREATEST IN HISTORY
In all, General Motors net earn
/ ings before taxes and special
charges, of nearly half billion
dollars were by far the greatest In
the firms history.
Chairman Sloan pointed out that
spectacular as is the corporations
rapidly increasing production Of
war materials, it becomes incon-
sequential in comparison with what
must be accomplished.
Toward this end. General Motors
will spend sec, 1000, 600 of its own
money for new facilities, exclusive
of tools and dies, and will in addi-
ton acquire S349, coo, 900 in facili-
ties for the account of government
agencies under contracts signed or
in negotiation.
Today, SO Of the corporations 80
factories or producing units arr
already producing war materials,
according to Sloan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
GIN Converts
Show Rooms for
Defense Display
Exhibit Of War Products
to Visualize Part
Played by Auto Firm

The General Motors Corpora
ton today was converting its
auto display rooms on the main
floor of the General Motors Build
ing TO a huge exhibit Of the war
products being turned out by the
corporations 81 plants.
The exhibit will be opened 10
the public at 10 a. m. Wednesday
and will remain open from 10
a. m. to 10 p. m. daily until fur
Their notice.
The display will be previewed
tomorrow by Gov. Murray ID. Var
Wagner, many of Detroit's lead
ling business men, Washington Of
ificials and officers of the army anc
navy who will be the guests of c
K. Wilson, GIN president.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23

Cambridge University students
an African big game hunter, the
son Of retired lieutenant general
he has a hyphenated name-a
money lenders clerk, who pro-
nounces it clark" and a news
paper reporter are all among the
latest batch Of British Royal All
Force student fiiers TO arrive for
training at the United States
Naval Aviation Base at Crosse lie
The~young men from all Sec
ffons of the British Empire and
from all walks of life make up a
true cross-section of the COM
position of the Raj, according 70
Flight Lieut.. Charles r. p. Culiam,
administrative officer in charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
DEMAND LEGISLATION

Demand for labor legislation
continued over the weekend de-
spite opposition from President
Roosevelt and other high admins
tration officials.
Senator Reynolds Cd Of North
Carolina, chairman of the Senate
military affairs committee. said
that successful prosecution Of the
war calls for an outlawing Of
strikes. suspension of the 40-hour
week and overtime payments and
q s per cent limit on wax profits
Further opposition 10 La b O :
legislation was voiced in radio
forum by Senator Murray ID Of
Montana, who charged that those
attempting 10 suspend the 40-hour
week are creating confusion and
discord at "a time when national
unity is a matter of life and
death"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23

Three Comic Pages every day
In Daily Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-23
Smith Proposes
Overtime Pay
After 48 Hours
Sponsor Of Measure
to Put Curb on Labor
Offers Notifications

WASHIN GTON, March %
UNS).-The House naval affairs
committee hopes 10 conclude this
week its consideration OF the Smith
labor bill, which was originally
aimed at suspending the 40-hour
week, outlawing the closed shop
and limiting war profits to 6 per
cent.
Representative Smith Cd OF
Virginia, sponsor of the measure,
however, has announced that ne is
willing TO modify the bill 10 pro-
vide for time and a half pay for
work in excess of AZ hours a week.
81 am willing to modify the
40-hour law so a. TO make II a
48-hour law, with time and a
half for work In excess of ~
hours" he said. This would en-
able war Industries To operate
three eight-hOur shifts six days
q week. Where extra work IN
required the time and half pay
provision could apply"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

If YOU ARE GOING TO ?A An,
don't forget Vita Var II the oeS,
vet ihC lowest priced pam :" ~
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER h%'
do nice work on roln 'IG +,ui
Try lis. Phonr 2i6.J % BIN
shoe Shop. ney' TO 4. ana !, O.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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with electric ,trrC ana , g"'cr
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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reward for information i'!ol,F
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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Dincc Supply c.. ,6-U
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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meats. fresh fruits ana Ncs T,on,
from 1icrbcrts yellow 9I.d
phone i39 for free delivery
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

EIGHT ROOM HOUSE rOn py.,-
on bNiUrd road. Ami, "HNI
stevenson. D.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

WE SPECIALIZE IN ALL
kinds Of bod; and fender re.
par work. Motor Sales Co.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

ASH US ABOUT FURTHER ~
auctions IN automobile l!abiI,rN L'
Surancc. Gates InsYrancy All. H.
Phone 300 "sehcJ
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16
WANT ADS
Get Result,

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1942-11-16

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-08-29
In Realms
Of Poetry
The Eternal Question
BY NATALIE MATHEWS

Oh ageless endless time.
knoweth thou the secret Of the
agce?
II thou knoweth answer in riddle o.
rhyme,
Answer thou the eternal question
why.
Men search from birth unli they
die.
And hndelh not the answer to their
why.
wars. followed by pestilence and
death:
Principaliies are over roWuRe-
publics rise:
Sill men fght on and die
Without knowing the answer why.
Scientist decrease atone 10 minute
degrees:
They probe into proioplasni. stai
search on:
They bring forth life without the
natural cause.
And still no answer.
Deep to The bottomless sea:
And then above the clouds
They scan the sky:
And hndeth not the answer TO their
why.
Search on In vain until the las man
perish.
Until this earth pass away:
And new worlds come.
And bring forth seeds OF new man
kind.
And there arise within their breast
cry.
Forever and anon. the eternal cues
ton. why?
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-08-29
Fears Control
OF South Over
Commission
Chairman
Asks F.D.R.
For Change


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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-08-29
Protest Moving of F.E.P. Committee
SERGEANT
in CHARGE
OF PAYROLL

CAMP LEE. Na.-Thongh Sgt.
william Burns has only been Ia
the Army since the first OF this
year he is heing assigned one II
the most responsible positions in
the Unit Personnel section OF the
new 18th Quartermaster TRAINING
Regiment. Camp Lee. Va.
Sgt. Burns is in charge OF the
payroll section for the new regi-
ment. He will have the RESPONSE
biiity OF getting out the first pay
for the new soldiers that come to
the Replacement center for their
training.
This Job is complicated but i'm
portant one. Each man must he
paid for the exact number OF day-
that he has been in the service
Deductions must he made for Ma
tional Service Life Insurance. the
low cost insurance made svailahls
bv The government to men in the
services, as well as for other au-
fhorized purposes. Perm a n n :
members OF the regiment are paid
on varying scales according 10
rank and length OF service. All in
all the work assigned to cpl. Burns
places a good deal OF responsibility
on his shoulders.
Sgt. Burns originally came from
Ilalisboro. NC. He graduated from
Tuskegee institute in 1888 and did
post graduated work At Atlanta UNI
Nersity. Al Tuskegee. Burns played
on the football team and sang with
the glee club. He maiored in sociai
sciences and has maintained his
interest in this field.
Before entering the service the
sergeant wac teaching school a
Tabor Ciiy. NC. He hopes To re
turn 10 this work or TO find gov
ernment position once the pea
has been won and The war is over
A year ago Burns was married to
the former Charlse Spaulding cf
Hallsboro. The sergeant Is looking
forward 10 bringing his wife y
Petershure TO live near Camp Lee.