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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
The War
TODAY
Allies Bid
For African
Resources
By CAPT. JOHN II. CRAIGE

Service
REASONS FOR a union
between Gen. Charles De
Gaulles forces snd those Of
Gen. Henri Giraud are many,
not the least Of them the
development Of the resources
Of The vast French-African
empire for the war.
This huge territory, bigger
than the United States, pos
sesses many resources, most
vital of which is the fighting
manpower of millions of IN
habitants.
Members Of the AEF Of
1e17-1S viii never forget the
Senegalese, Moroccan and AL
gerian soldiers in the French
service in that war with their
red fez-caps, their cleaning
white teeth and their long
knives.
According 10 reports Of the
time. they were magnificent
fighting men on the offensive,
not so good on the defense.
They fought in sectors close
10 American divisions in the
actions Of scissors, st. Mihiel.
the Ch pagne and the
.Argonne.
THE CONTRIBUTION in
manpower of the French
African colonies to metropoli-
tan France during the first
World War-was- very large.
Much was due 10 the brains,
tact and organizing ability Of
General later Marshall Louis
Lyautey. When war broke
out in 1914, this able soldier,
then governor, was ordered
10 strip French Africa Of
soldiers, send them to France,
then withdraw French occu-
patton TO the sea coast.
Lyautey obeyed to the ex-
tent of shipping 81 battalions
across the Mediterranean
within few days, but he
did not withdraw to the coast.
Instead. by a mixture of
bluff, bribery. f1attery and
force, he extended the French
occupation even while the war
was going on. and built up
-troop-training depots stretch
ing from Dakar to the Tripoli-
tanian border. From these,
during the four years Of the
war, he sent more than $780,
600 combatant troops to the
western front.
A VAST malority of these
French-African troops were
freely enlisted volunteers.
They joined the colors because
the thing they liked best TO
do was fight and the French
offered them two francs a
day. or about II cents at the
1918 rate of exchange, to
do so.
This might not seem like
much in the United States.
but in French West Africa it
was a lot of money and re.
cruits were never lacking.
French Moroccan, Algerian
and Senegalese troops won
many honors in World War
]. In the years that elapsed
after the armistice Of 1918.
skeleton formations were pre-
served and many of Lyautey's
training depots maintained.
With the system Of enlist
ment and training well estab-
hshed and the depot facilities
available, there seems no
reason why large forces of
this infantry should not soon
he ready 10 take its place in
the combat line with General
Eisenhower's men.
Advantage Of such troops
over American and British
soldiers would be that they
are already on the ground and
accustomed 20 the food and
climate, resistant 10 local
diseases.
With a French-African pop.
ulation Of more than 10000
900 men, 1t should be easy 20
raise as many as a million
lighting men, providing They
can be fed, c1othe d and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
Arms, Farms Up
Mdnpower Need
To IS Millions
McNutt Raises Estimate
for I943 by 3 Million;
Depends on Women

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UP).
War manpower commission Of
fcials said today they faced a
more difficult problem in filling
1913 manpower needs than had
been originally estimated because
of upward revision of war produce
tion and agricultural schedules.
VINO Chairman Paul V. McNutt
disclosed at press conference
yesterday that he was now igur-
ing on 100000 men and women
being under arms or employed at
some essential job by December,
l943.
A VINO statistician said later,
however. that the number who
must be AZ work might Of neces-
.sity rise much higher, as much az
100000
FACE TOUGH JOB
Referring 10 an earlier estimate
that 10000 would be fighting
or laberiHg by December, 1913, he
said
I'VE were in tough spot. We
now have the tougher problem
Of getting 65.OO0,0OO. We will
have 10 intensity our efforts TO
get the people. /" ======
Administration sources have dis
closed that the manpower problem
will be thTashed out in Congress
early next year as the time Is
near when legislation 10 permit
the drafting of labor and compuls-
DRY registration Of women is neceS-
sary
McNutt. however. contends that
there still Is no need for such leg
iSlauon, hut admits that Il viii be
requested when needed.
DEFENDS ON WOMEN
4 Available statistics show that
in the next u months the en-
listed personnel Of the armed
forces will be increased $500 600.
while the number Of persons IN
war industries Will increase p
100000 and l,00O0 900 more will be
employed IN agricultural and mis-
/ cellaneouS types Of Jobs.
( 70 fll these needs. according 70
WING estimates. 40O0 900 men and
women who never worked before
must take Jobs. and the vast ma
( iority Of these Will be women. II
was expected that at least 5000
900 women IN all would be work.
| ing outside their homes by the
end Of 1913.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
Caucasus Drive
By Reds Begins

Continued from Page 0ne)
fighting was in progress on the
approaches TO a large inhabited
locality. which it failed TO name.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
RESISTANCE OVERCOME

Stern Nazi resistance was over
come in the northern factory area
of Stalingrad and 81 blockhouseS
and dugouts were captured, the
high command said. Previously
the recapture of a number OF
shops and buildings had been an
nounced.
Northwest of Stalingrad the
Russians gained a Strategically
important height and the Germans
heavy losses when they
strove in vain to retake the posi-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
OWL Gives A,mu Clean Bill of Health on Liquor
Axis ON Defensive
On Every War Front
As Old Year PASSES

LONDON. Dec. 80 (UP).-Al-
lied armies have held the initiative
in all war theaters since the end
of October, the British war office
said today in a review of the war
on land in 1912.
Holding that the year marked
a turning point in the course of
the war on land, the war office
said last fall witnessed the passing
of the strategic initiative 10 the
United Nations.
AT the close OF the year Japan
is on the defensive IN its own
sphere. isolated from Germany
and Italy, and European members
of the AXIS are on the strategic
defensive. the review said. with
Italy threatened by the Allies in
Africa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
NAZIS' RESOURCES THIN

Germany had to spread her
resources more thinly over
France, had to find reinforce
for Tunisia and Tripoli, had To
face the potential threat Of
eventual vast on anywhere
along the Mediterranean coast
from the Spanish to the Turkish
frontiers, and had 10 deal with
a major defensive campaign I'm
Russia which made fair to
negate, whatever its outcome,
German hopes Of, n creative
pause during the winter" the
review said.
The review gave IereAitte
the. work Of The United States in
the Pacific, and 10 Russia. but said
the British army had played nc
mean part in the operations pre-
fuding the combined United Ma
tons full offensive.
1t was pointed out that after
the German attack OF
the Alamein line at the end OF
the British Eighth Army
had gone on the offensive October
% and had now all but destroyed
the German Afrika korps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
SOFT DRINKS FAVORITEs

"The best selling beverages
around army camps are coffee,
milk, matted milk and bottled
soft drinks" the report said.
"Army pay night Is rarely the
klOndike brawl and blowout
that rumor makes it."
Nevertheless, Owl said:
1.-The army. with an eye TO
its own disciplinary problem,
usually prefers wet communal
ties TO dry communities.
'Tn dry states and In states
where there is local option, the
military faces the problem Of
bootleg liquor" the owl ex-
planned.
"BootleggerS cannot be regu-
lated; legal dispensers can he
regulated"
AS n result of its survey, which
comes on the, heels Of senatorial
warnings that prohibition may be
come a prominent issue in thu
Seventy-eighth Congress. the OW.
concluded that there is a definit,
correlation between adequate rec
reational facilities and soldier
Sohriety.
Unable 80 find recreation. sol
dierly boredom results in "pil,
OF empty bottles in tho alleyway'
or "a busy weekend for the mill
tary police" the report said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30


"Men do not change character
when they put on n uniform.
If they drank rs civilians they
will probably drink as soldiers
but probably not SO much.
If they found their fun In
tawdry places as civilians, they
will hunt out the tawdry places
a. soldiers. Particularly In large
cities, troops tend TO seek their
own level OF amusement"
Owls touring investig { or S
who covered most areas in tn,
country where there are latg
troop concentrations excepting
Florida. said commanding officer
agreed that considerably NOR,
than half Of the troops dranl
nothing stronger than beer by
choice and many even abstainec
from beer
"The American soda pop
habit will wear no mans collar"
said the investigators, who made
firSt-hand observations OF condi-
tons in se-called4 "het- spots and
Sin zones"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30
ARMY DRINKING CUT

The OWL. recognizing that it is
still legal 10 take a drink in the
United States, declared I h
there Is drinking in the army;
there will continue 10 be drinking
in the army"
This is civilian army"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-30

a number Of localities close "a
kotelnikovski were occupied in the
final push into the rail center.
Evening star., 1942-01-13
Thousands Relieve
Constipation, with
Ease for Stomach, too

When constipation brings on acid in
digestion. stomach upset, bloating. dizzy
spells, gas, coated tongue. sour TASTE and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
''crying the blues" because your bowels
don't move. 1t calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels.
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach in taking. For years.
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa-
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to touchy stom-
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup Pepsin. Insist on DR.. Caldwell's
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation. And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative 50 COM
Portable and easy on your stomach. Even
finicky children love the taste Of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy DR.. Cald-
wells Laxative Senna 1t your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
SyrupP Pepsin for ease to your stomach. too
Evening star., 1942-01-13
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CHAPTER v.

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"ho va9" Mrs Cakson said following her into the
"A beau?"
subject be discussed3 Carkson
the
lap BETRAYED her Perhaps her mother
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Thursday, February II. 1912

Delays for interpretations OF the
interpreters.
In time | was TO marvel at the
amazing ability of some 100000
japanese on an island similar in
area to California to keep them
selves peaceful, law-abiding and
industrially progressive despite
the eternal habit of procrastina-
ton.
Not even an earthquake, tidal
wave or typhoOn. apparently. could
change or alter this Oriental para
doX of moving forward by moving
backward.
II was only five blocks to my
destination. but the taxi drivers
were really a nightmare.
Each driver had an assistant
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
In Chaos, Electric Train
Reminds Him Of Home

In the midst Of Oriental ruin
and chaos the train looked like an
old familiar friend from home.
1t was a three-coach electric
intcrurban affair, similar 10 the
ones that run from New York 10
the suburbs on Long Island or
from Chicago 10 Milwaukee.
EVeh=tht=rnatihed was SurprlS-
inCly smooth. much smoother. in
fact, than many | had ridden over
between American villages and
towns. If | closed my eyes | could
almost pretend l was back in
America.
1t wasn't long before / discov-
cred that the trains were not as
purely American as | had first
thought. Instead they We're a
Japanese copy of American trains.
with the typical japanese I'M
prHementS.
That was phase Of Japanese
that | was TO dis
cover more and more AS the years
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Old Town Clock
Points TO Quakes Start

Only the old town clock showed
itself, The building that housed
II was one of the two left stand
ing after the horrible disaster.
The hands had remained the
same as on the day the tremorS
first rocked the city--ll;59 on
September 1923.
| vas in my shore clothes. and
as the ship was not due to sail
until the following afternoon, l
had the ricksha man take me 10
the station.
There was time enough for me
TO visit Toxic the capital, an
hours ride away.
The electric train was almost
my first impression of the strong
American influence even then Wis
ible in japan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
2o-MiIe-Per-Hour Speed
OF Marrow Gauge Train

The narrow gagged train trav-
elcd AT an average speed of about
20 miles an hour. To hoard my
fow remaining dollars / travelled
.third-claSS. The cost, as / remem-
her il. was about 40 sen. or about
20 cents in American money.
Nearly a quarter Of a million
people had died in Yokohama dur
ing the quake-fire | remember
when the news broke.
l was printer on the Spring
field, Ill, State Journal the night
the story came in
| left the train at a huge Eu-
ropean-stNle station at Toxic,
built IN tho massive manner OF the
late eightecn-nlneties.
Across the station there tow
cred the largest building then eX-
iStent in Japan, a huge eight-StOry
affair covering a block II had
been built of reinforced steel and
concrete by a firm of American
engineers.
In searching back for early
factors in Japan's present indus
trialization and almost American
aggreSSivenesS, tn o earthquake
should not be overlooked.
Contrary 10 nay belief in highly
regimented Japan, The plaza was a
helter-Skeltcr of tangled figures
that reminded mo of nothing so
much as Times Square or Picca-
dilly on New Years Eve
Finally, | heard the welcome
sound Of German. Some one said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12

who devoted all his time TO lean-
ing on the horn while the driver
utilized the last horsepower out
of the four outworn cylinders OF
his battered car.
In later years l wondered why
the Japanese army didn't utilize
the Toxic and Yokohama taxi
brigades instead of the regular
army in their early invasion of
China. They probably would have
been more effective and certainly
less costly.
Tin his next article, the nth
in a series of 10, Mr.. lOuEA
describes the 1891 start Of WHY
led To war with America 10
years later.)
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
German InfiItration
BY Marriage, Business Ties

l didn't realize it then. but !
was seeing IN Japan at first-hand
the beginning OF a pattern that
repeated itself throughout the
world the subtle infiltration of
Germans into countries by mar
rlage and business ties.
l looked at my watch as /
started once again toward the
Hotel and discovered that
il had taken almost an hour 10
learn a simple direction and be
started on my way.
But this. | was soon to discover,
was typical, along with all the
noise, Of normal, everyday living
in the Orient.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Jailed for Accepting
Fake Business Cash

Robert J. Harvey, At. Of 2
Gladstone avenue, carried a good
thing too far and today he began
a three and one-half 10 five-ycar
term IN Jackson Prison for obtain
ing money under false pretenScs.
Specifically, Harvey was found
guilty in the court Of Recorders
Judge Donald Van Zile Of accept
ing 5000 from Or Edward +.
braves OF si49 Indiana avenue for
investment IN a noneXstont bust
ness Doctor braves alleged that
Harvey. twice convicted and fac
Ing sentence as a hahnual GRIM
inal. obtained a total OF So 200 from
HIM between August and October
1911
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Earthquake Started
JAMS OH Road ID War
BY JAMES X. YOUNG
bar East Correspondent and Author of BEHIND

My first glimpse of Japan was IN
1927, but the devastation of the
great 1923 earthquake and fire
was evident in Yokohama the
burial place for tens of thousands
who persisted IN the earthquake 5
greatest toll. E1
This VAS "A rude awakening from
my dreams OF cherry blossoms and
geiSha girls.
Few people were in the streets.
Wooden shutters closed the stores
and tiny bamboo-papcr houses.
Fhc city seemed deSolate. Not a
family had escaped the horrors Of
the fire, quake and tidal wave.
| felt the loneliness in this
strange land, AS the old rickSha
man tugged, grunicd, pulled, wcav-
inc in and around the street
the mudholeS and the
open spaces left in the ground by
the quake.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
THOUGHT GAYETY LOST

But London is gay in this. the
third winter Of The war Al this
time a year AGO she was under
going 'ormCniS night after night
BY this time a year ago tic
nightly raids, and sometimes
daily too had been gong on
since September. No one in Lon
con then II he gave such matters
thought, ever dreamed that
London would he gay again or
that he would be part of that
Gayety,
But London has come 10 life
with a bang this winter Suddenly.
despite the hazards Of the black.
out night life is booming.
The theaters are packed Even
IN this bitter Winter weather. /
have seen queues Of 800 persons
standing patiently IN front of n
movie house for the show that
goes on luSt after -tea-Ilme and
again for the show around 73O
n m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Japanese Move Forward
BY Progressing Backward

Nothing from the American
point of view, was carried on in
the orthodox manner. The only
thing YOU could be certain of in
the ordinary course of events was
delay
Delays for questioning.
Delays for answers.
Delays for interpretations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12

provements' in everything they
copied. w.
1t was my nose that first dis
covered how they had improved
upon the original American model
of a passenger coach. ! discovered
a series of highly utilitarian de-
vices set into the floor of the car.
They were, | discovered on
closer inspection. underfoot brass
SpiltoonS, set neatly on a level
with the floor 10 prevent ones
tripping over them The reeep-
taCleS were there to be filled, and
they filled them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Nurses TO Hold Symposium

"Mgnlcipal Programs m Civilian
Defense is the subject Of a sym
postum 20 he presented IN the an
nusl meeting of the Detrol {
Nurses ASSOCIATION tonight fol
lowing a dinner a. : p. m. AT the
For Shelby Hotel
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
RADIO

that she was properly the wife of
the man.
Later, l learned that this Ger
man VAS one of many captured at
TSinGtao during the World War.
After the war he had remained, as
had other interned Germans, going
into business and marrying into
japanese families.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
SHOWS SOLD OUT

The prlm man who runs the
kelth-Prowse ticket agency AT the
Savoy Hotel where | have OftCn
bought theater tickets IN London.
shook his head sadly today when
/ tired 10 buy pair OF decent
seats 70 see Robert Morley IN The
Man Who Came TO Dinner
Il just haven't got them. miss.
Sometimes l think this Winter
season beats the coronation" he
SAID. ANY show. just any show,
mind you, IL a sellout on Sat
urday nights
The smart and correspond
lnGly expensive 80 luncheon and
dinner places are damned One
lines up with fair patience behind
their velvet ropes 10 await A table,
even II II is practically in the
kitchen or on top of the kettle
drum.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
MUST HAVE AN I'm"

II is imperative 10 know the
famed maItre d'hotcl OF the Savoy
Santorelli, If one hopes 10 get
either a table or a dinner IN the
Savoy'S internationally nnown grill
room. This room IS always 50
packed that one Is IN grave danger
Of confusing has own brussels
sprouts with that Of ms unknown
nelChbor, whose table is practl-
Cally on top of the first diner.
In all truth, the man who comes
10 dinner IN the smart west end
restaurant must come early If he
expects 10 get food or service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
German Business Man
With japanese Wife

I turned with sigh of relief "a
A portly German businessman ac-
companicd by a japanese woman.
! said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
Il only want to get to the Inn

My German rcScucr explained 10
the policeman what | wanted. but
before | could get my directions
the policeman had 10 question the
German as TO the identity Of the
Japanese woman with him and was
only mildly satisfied TO discover
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-12
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-12-25
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Gasoline for Trucks

recent example of bureaucratic bunglng is the
the office of defense transportation made Of gasoline onng
for trucks The QUESTIONABLE
practically could Not commercial opera
tor thousand could accurately supply the information
quesed And not farmer in 100000 could do than
make wild at the to of the queries which
asked for instance detailed information everything the
farmer hauled each month during the past year.
The instance has been cited of large baking
pany which maintains records complete that knows all
down the third decimal point but found impossible
accurately than half the questions contained
the ODT's certificate of war necessity application.
If the ODT had deliberately produce question
would give maximum irritation the truck opera
the nation them whole
rationng program they could hardly have done better
To make matters still worse the rationing office
of the ODT took these queonnares which farm and
applicants had supplied the best available information
requirements and proceeded to virtually ignore these
making gasoline allowances countless instances
the gasoline ration that approved would if unadusted
the commercial of business the
very the appealing for increased pro-
ducon to help the effort
Most the county OPA raoning boards helping to
straghen the by issuing emergency gasoline raons
and the legitimate applications doubt will be given
adequate attention But why the job of ratonng
gasoline trucks not to the local raonng boards
in the place still deep, dark Observation-Disclosures
Farmer.