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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-09

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18

the whale killed.
Well. the boatsteerer looked
mighty old fashioned. for the
mate had a tongue like No. 2
sandpaper when he was going on
a whale.
That'll give you some idea of
what whaling was like in those
days. The voyage went on from
there down to South Trinidad
where the pirates once had &
port. It's said that there's a
mighty big treasure of loot
buried there. dropped a hint
that I'd like to go ashore for a
-look-ses--But- Ray-uhele -remer--
bered Fayal and wouldn't even
put in for water.
Whalemen, with their cruises
In out Of the way places could
have told much Of the sinister
designs of the Japanese against
the democratic world. Next week
Cap'n Mosher will open his log
to a yarn Of Jap seal pOachers
In the islands north of the Aleu-
tians, and of how one lone whale
man thwarted Jap gang who
wished to wreck the fur industry
Of the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-18
SALTY YARNS0F THE WHALERS

When we put TO sea our boat
steerer. Nanton. was gone so the
bow oar was made boatsteerer
and was promoted bow oar.
That meant / would help the
boatsteerer and mate with gear
when killing whales II also
meant that ! got a bigger lay.
We sailed in September and
headed South towards the ST.
Helena Grounds. About a week
out we ran into a small school
of whales going to windward. That
always means hard, long pull
and we got IL. The ship can't
sail TO windWard.- you see so the
boats have to make IL under oars.
We pulled our hearts out before
those critters brought to and the
boatsteerer was in an awful
temper.
We pulled close to one just as
he preached and the boatsteerer,
without waiting for the order
from the mate, darted his iron.
Well, sir, when the whale felt
the prick of that iron. he kicked
and his fluke knocked the boat
steerer galley west out of the
boat. He managed TO hang on
TO the bow until the mate got
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Dempsey's Resignation
Accepted by President

President Roosevelt today ac-
cepted with regret" the resignation
of Undersecretary of the Interior
John J. Dempsey, who has an
nounced himself as candidate for
Governor of New Mexico.
Il understand fully your keen
interest in the affairs of the State
of New Mexico" the President wrote
Mr.. Dempsey, so that in the cir
cumstances I cannot do otherwise
than abide by your wishes and &C
cept your resignation as rendered"
The President expressed apprecia-
ton for valuable and distinctive
services" rendered by Mr.. Dempsey
as Undersecretary of the Interior
and previously as a member of the
Maritime Commission.
Mr.. Dempsey made no reference
to his plans to run for Governor OF
New Mexico in his letter of resig-
nation. He wrote the President that
IT shall be more than glad to serve
when and wherever you may desire
during this terrible war"
At the same time, Stephen Early,
presidential secretary, said he knew
noshing about the reported resigna-
ton of Francis B. Sayre, Philippines
high commissioner, when asked If
Mr.. Roosevelt had received it.
Mr.. Sayre refused to confirm or
deny reports he was stepping out.
saying ANY information must come
from the White House"
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Nation Combed
For Axis Spies
Struggled Cash
Treasury Will Seize
Money Banned From
Importation
3, tht Associated Press.


The Treasury today ordered a
Nation wide search for and seizure
of an estimated 100000 of Ameri-
can money which the Axis is be-
lieved to be trying to smuggle into
this country for use by agents and
spies.
The money consists mostly of
$1,000 and $500 bills, with a few
SOS and zoos, it was said. Serial
numbers have been sent to all banks
and other financial institutions.
The numbers will be posted in
tellers' cages throughout the Ma
ton as was done few years ago
in the search for ransom money
paid to kidnappers Of the Lindbergh
baby and others.
The money actually is good Amer
ican money which has fallen into
Axis hands and its importation into
the United States is prohibited
ANY of the money found will be
seized or impounded, but officials
said persons who might acquire the
money innocently would be reim-
bursed.
While not disclosing the means by
which it discovered the smuggling
attempt, the Treasury said it had
learned that a batch of the money
recently arrived in the Dominican
Republic on a Spanish ship and part
of this batch is expected to show up
in Cuba before reaching the United
States border.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
| Drive toCoNect
| Cooking Fats
| Slated by WPB
Ev the Associated Press


A campaign to recover household
cooking fats will be launched by
the War Production Board some
time in early July.
Lessing J. Rosenwald. chief OF the
Bureau of Industrial Conservation,
announcing that today, asked that
housewives save cooking fats and
to sell them, when the drive starts,
to neighborhood food stores, meat
markets and frozen food locker
plants.
Fats are essential in the war ef-
fort as source of glycerine for ex-
plosives and the WPB, Mr.. Rosen-
valid said. hopes. to secure over
half billion pounds a year of
wasted cooking fats from the
kitchens of American homes"
Collection centers will pay for the
fats at a yet undetermined number
of cents a pound, Mr.. Rosenwald
said. He added that one cent a
pound might be charged for hand
ling. Housewives were asked to
keep the fats in clean metal con-
tainers in a cool place and not to
dispose of them until they have at
least pound.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Italy Claims Penetration
Of British Positions

ROME, From Italian Broad
casts, June II tP.-The Italian
high command said today that Axis
forces had broken into some British
positions in the Acroma and El
Adem areas before Tobruk and
taken more than 5000 prisoners on
the Libyan front.
Booty captured during operations
that led to the capture of Ain el
Gazala, as so far ascertained,
amounted to 224 tanks and motor
trucks, IS guns and several hun
dren motorized units either de-
stroyed or captured" it added.
In air operations, the war bulletin
said, italian planes shot down three
Curtiss planes, bombed Tobruk and
made day and night attacks on
Malta
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Contractor Shoots Self
In MARYLAND Home

Robert T. Rohrer. 46-year-old
building contractor, shot and killed
himself in his Elgin lane home in
Bannockburn Heights, Md, this
morning. according to Bethesda
police. DR.. C. E. Hawks, Montgom-
cry County coroner, issued a cer-
tificate of suicide.
Mr.. Rohrer's body was found in
the basement of his home by his
butler, Joseph Trancy, colored
police reported. Only other person
in the home at the time, police
said, was Mr.. Rohrer's 16-year-old
son. Mrs. Rohrer, who is employed
as a receptionist in a downtown
doctors Office, was at work.
Police said Mr.. Rohrer had been
in Ill health for the last year.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Rohrer built several homes in the
Bannockburn Heights area. He was
a graduate of Lehigh University.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
laps Win Shanghai
From Chinese al Cost
0f8,00O Casualties
Chunekine Admits Gap
Between Enemy Columns
Is Cut to so Miles
By the Associated Press.

CHI VI N G K IN G, June H.
Shanghai, important station on
the Chekiang -Kiangsi railway,
has been abandoned to the Japa-
nese, but only after an all-day
battle in which 5000 casualties
were inflicted on the invaders,
the Chinese high command an
nounced tonight.
Shanghai, so miles within Kiangsi
Province, fell Monday to the jap
anese column which has driven
westward along the railway from
Chekiang Province seeking a juno
! ton with a second force driving
eastward from Nanchang, western
terminus of the line.
Gap Cut to 50 Miles.
With the fall of Shanghai, the
Chinese admitted that the gap be-
tween the two japanese columns
has been cut to so miles.
Sanguinary fighting in the streets
preceded the abandonment of the
city, the communique asserted.
CThe japanese reported the gap
reduced to less than so miles as a
result of a further advance west
of Shanghai. Their western col
umn was at Keweiki, so miles
west of Shangbo, according to
DomeiD
The Chinese communique said the
Chinese defenders of Kiangsi now
were attacking fiercely the f1anks OF
the japanese columns and had re-
captured several points.
Chinese Retake Hosueh.
Chinese troops recaptured the
Yangtze River port of Hosueh in g
counterattack yesterday "a hours
after its occupation by the japanese
and drove the invaders into full re.
treat, the Central News Agency sale
today.
Hoseuh LES on the middle reaches
of the Yangtze in Hupeh Province
and was sought by the japanese as
a shipping center.
The news agency said a japanese
prisoner who gave himself up q
month ago war weary and dis
satisfied with Japan's endless ag-
gression," had led Chinese in ar
attack wrich destroyed invasion
barracks and warehouses at Line.
shang, in Human Province, last
Friday
For projection of his family ir
Japan, it reported, the name of the
japanese was withheld.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
President Signs Bill
Boosting Service
Base Pay 10 $50
Dependent-Aid Measure
Held Up on Capitol Hill!
For Editorial Correction
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A measure boosting the min
imum base pay Of the Nation s
fighting forces to $50 a month
was signed today by President
Roosevelt.
For most of the men. it means at
least $40 more each month for neces-
sites and entertainment on time-off
or to send back home to depend
ents. The bill carried a clause max
ng the increase retroactive to June l.
The measure covers ranks up to
and including that of second lieu
tenant in the Army and the COM
parable grade of ensign in the Navy,
whose base pay would be increased
from $500 to 81 300 year.
The bill alsc will boost rental al
lowances for officers. Under exist
ing law, enlisted men abroad or on
sea duty receive an extra 20 per cent
and officers 10 per cent of their
monthly pay.
Meanwhile, legislation to provide
IlrldnCldl assistance 1Or OepenOentS
of soldiers and sailors and stating a
congressional policy that the Sc
lective service should not break up
the institution of the home" was
temporarily held up on Capitol Hill
for an editorial correction to be
made by a concurrent resolution.
The House approved a compro-
mise version of the measure yester-
day, in the same form that it was
accepted by the Senate, but check
showed that a date had been omit
ted from one clause. The House
Immediately adopted the corrective
resolution and the Senate is ex-
pected to do so tomorrow, after
which the legislation will be sent
to the President.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Rubber Piles Grow,
But Not as Fast as
Leaders Hoped
CoIIifIower Says People
Of District Approach
Campaign Seriously

Scrap rubber supplies were &C
cumulating in Washington at an
increasing rate today as officials
directing the two-week drive re-
ported widespread public CO.
operation.
James E. CollifloWer. chairman of
the District Salvage Committee, said
people in the District have re-
sponded "to the fullest extent" and
are approaching the campaign with
the serious attitude" reflected in
the opening address by President
Roosevelt last Friday.
William r. Boyd, jr., who heads
the rubber campaign section of the
Petroleum Industry War Council
said cities throughout the country
are doing a fine job" but that
preliminary reports indicate that
they are being outdone by rural
areas.
Checks made at neighborhood
depots by The Star indicated that
contributions of scrap were greater
on the second day of the drive than
on the first, but that the flow still
Jagged behind expectations. A goal
of 1000 900 pounds has been set for
Washington, based on an average
contribution of 10 pounds from each
of 200 900 homes.
Daily Progress Reports.
Mr.. Boyd said that daily progress
reports are being received, but that
no public tabulation will be made
until after the first week of the
drive, June %. The final report will
be made about July 5.
Mr.. Coll.fower said that collection
in Washington is being Spurred by
competition among citizens and
patriotic organizations and by the
activities of boys and girls. The
Maryland and District of Columbia
Industrial Union Council has sent
letters to all its members urging
thorough searches of houses and
garages to obtain every pound of
the material possible.
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son and Lessing j. RoSenwald, chief
of the WPB Bureau of Industrial
Conservation, will discuss the cam
paign in national radio program
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System CWJSV) at 1890 tonight.
Mr.. Henderson will discuss the
price question as it relates to scrap
(See RUBBER, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1942-06-17

Questions to The Star about the
existence Of an alleged gag" rule
at the District Building to silence
department heads discussion Of pro-
posed legislation disclosed today
that the Commissioners issued on
May l definite structures concerning
officials personal legislative cam
paigns.
This order, though mimeographed
and distributed to all department
heads, was not formally announced.
Officials insisted today that there
had been no effort or instructions
designed to keep the order secret.
One oficial said How could we
the order was sent out to all de-
partments."
In general terms the order means
that if department head seeks
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Argentine Senate votes to extend
state of siege. Page ALL
France is defiant starting third year
of Nazi occupa ton. Page ALI
National.
Mandatory fingerprinting for public
seen likely. Page Az
Child bride given 20 years in Staying
of husband. Page A
Washington and Vicinity.
Scrap rubber piles grow in D. C. and
over Nation. Page Al
Bernard J. Nees heads Junior Board
of Commerce. Page A-3
Eighteen of 80 House restaurant
walters back on jobs. Page B-1
Second cross-town bus line, in Upper
Rock Creek, proposed. Page B-1
Silver Spring rescue squad saves
trafic victims life. Page B-1
MiseeIlony.
Marriage Licenses. Page b.
Births and Deaths. Page C-S
Evening star., 1942-06-17

Foreign
Curtin warns Australia can be
lost. Page Al
British beat off two attacks on To-
bruk outposts. Page Al
q. S. bombers score IS hits on two
italian battleships Page Al
Chinese counterattack drives Japs
from HoSueh. Page Al
Reds dislodge Germans on Kharkov
front. Page Al
Discomfort growing" Petain ad-
mits. Page Ar
Jap bombers fail for fourth day in
raids on Darwin. Page Az
Russians interest in U. S. and Brit
ain stirred by war aid. Page Az
Britain's bombers resume blows at
Ruhr, Rhineland. Page A
Moscow asks British to send youth
delegation. Page As
Conference called to halt strikes in
Australia Page AS
Brazil has no future as rubber pro-
ducer, scientist says. Page A-9
Laval spurs export Of French workers
to Nazi industry. Page AS
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Nehru Warns Impassivity
Cannot Continue in India
BY TIE Associated Press.


NEW DELHI, India, June IL
Jawaharlal Nehru, influential leader
of the All-India Congress Party. said
today that "the situation in India
is becoming intolerable," but warned
that, despite Tokio's promises, the
japanese, if victorious, would only
continue "India's subjugation."
I'VE cannot carry on as impassive
spectators, he declared. "Other
deeds are necessary"
Nehru, the still powerful Mo-
handas K. Gandhi and other influ-
entail men in the Congress Party
have been comforting at Wardha on
whether they can further their goal
of Indian independence by helping
or hindering Britain's war effort.
Although some reports have de-
scribed Nehru and Gandhi as not in
full accord on what should be done,
Nehru described his views as closely
approximating those of Gandhi.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Army and Navy Are Silent
On Fighting in AIeutians
px tht Associated Press

Py the Associated Press.
The Army and Navy were silent
today on the progress of fighting
in the Aleutian area, where Ameri-
:an planes are reported to have sunk
japanese cruiser and damaged q
carrier and six othe~ vessels of the
enemy invasion fleet.
1t was pointed out last night that
foggy weather and poor flying con-
ditions frequently have interrupted
the American attacks on japanese
landing parties at Attu, most re-
mote of the Aleutian chain.
The latest Navy communique, Is
sued Monday night, said air at
tacks on enemy landing parties and
their supporting naval contingents
were continuing.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
American Aircraft
Saved Convoy From
Fascist Worships
~ the Associated Press.

~ me Associated Press.
LONDON, June United
States Army bombers alone
scored 35 direct hits on two Ital-
ian battleships in one of the
great Mediterranean convoy bat
ties Monday, it was disclosed to-
day.
With the battleships ablaze, s
i0,000-ton cruiser and two de-
stroyerS sunk, and two cruisers anc
two destroyers damaged by the joint
American and RAF onslaught, the
italian squadron turned and fec
back toward its Taranto base.
The Raj followed up Monday
night and penetrated a smoke
screen to hit one of the battleships
again with an aerial torpedo, q
Cairo communique announced.
Convoy Never Intercepted.
The Italian naval force never got
Into contact with the Tobruk-
bound convoy it had set out to in
tercept, a British source stated.
llC SOllNOy, dllu dIlOIliCl 1Oi
Malta. both got through with theil
important supplies, although al
considerable cost" primarily from
Axis air attacks, said a London
official statement which described
the convoy operation as "a limited
success"
Mai. Alfred F. Kalberer, COM
mander of the American flight OF
Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomb
ers. described his assignment as
like shooting fish in a barrel" Al
an Allied airdrome in the Libyar
Desert, he said today that all the
American planes returned to theil
bases.
The RAF announced that at leas
IA Axis planes were definitely de-
stroyed in the overwater fighting
and that many more were so badly
damaged they we're probably unable
to get home.
Silent on U. S. Warships.
The four-engined LiberatorS were
the only American fighting forces
specifically mentioned as partici-
pating in the four-day struggle to
get the conveys through.
Nothing was said to confirm spec
ulation that United States warships
might have escorted the conveys,
nor did italian or German COM
muniques mention them. An un-
official German report of yesterday
said United States battleship
probably was involved.
The extent of the shipping losses
was not disclosed. The BIC said
announcement would be withheld
until their revelation can no longer
help the enemy.O
In delivering their first blow in
the Mediterranean war Monday the
American airmen first concentrated
on the italian battleships, hitting
one 20 times and the other Is.
In addition they set one cruiser
afire and damaged a destroyer.
Mai. Kalberer is a former civil
airline pilot from Lafayette, Ind.
Axis Claims Fantastic"
The British Admiralty and Air
Ministry yesterday dismissed as fam
tastic the declarations of the Italian
and German commands that Axis
forces sank or damaged SO or more
warships and merchantmen in the
Mediterranean battles of Sunday
and Monday.
British communiques yesterday
announced the sinking of an Italian
heavy cruiser admitted by the
Italians) and two destroyers and
damaging of six other warships, in
Guiding two Italian battleshipS hit
(See CONVOY, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-06-17
u. S. Bombers Scored 35 Hits
On Two Italian Bott|eships;
Axis Repu|sed Twice in Libyo
British BeutOff
Two Attacks on
Tobruk Outposts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, June 17-British guns
and tanks were reported today
to have beaten off two Axis at
tacks at Sidi Rezegh and Acroma
as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
sought to storm Tobruk before
the vital supplies, newly landed
at the port under cover of British
and American warplanes, could
be put into the fight.
A military commentator said the
position is substantially un.
changed" with the British holding g
Semicircular defense position west
south and southwest of the port, and
the Germans smashing steadily al
that line with tanks and artillery
The commentators said the Ger
mans, for the moment, were in the
favorable position of having superb
ority in numbers of tanks and anti
tank guns.
Tank Strength Depleted.
Three weeks of intensive fighting
were said to have depleted the
strength of United States-built
General Grant" tanks which the
British had at the outset. thus fore
ing the British to fall back on older
type reserve tanks, described as nc
match for the Mark Fours which
Marshal Rommels forces have
thrown into action.
Some sources expressed belief that
the supplies landed at Tobruk might
include the necessary weapons to
enable the British to counterattack
and perhaps regain damaged but
repairable tanks which they left be-
hind in withdrawing from the
Knightsbridge area and their Ain el
Gazala-Bir Hacheim line.
The repulse of the Axis armored
forces at Sidi Rezegh and Acroms
was reported in a communique OF
British general headquarters earlier
today. An Axis force was masseo
at El Adem. another strong outpost
lS miles due south of Tobruk, the
communique added, but failed tc
attack"
Tanks and truckloads of In
fantry of both sides were reported
engaged in fierce fighting between
Sidi Rezegh, 25 miles southeast OF
Tobruk, and Ell Adem, Is miles
south of Tobruk. The Axis forces
were believed to have been rein
forced by new column which
moved up to this area at midday
yesterday.
Semicircle About Tobruk.
Thus, the Axis forces were pic
tured as drawn up on wide semi
circle around Tobruk, but still on
the outside of the arc of strong
British defenses.
The British line apparently is
anchored on the west at Acroma,
dips southwark through El Adem
and veers northeastward from there
to Sidi Rezegh. Is miles southeast of
Tobruk and so miles west of the
Egyptian border.
Having escaped an Axis trap near
Ain ell Gazala in a successful with
drawal of two divisions to complete
the reshaping of Britain's line, the
9th Army apparently was standing
firm again as the fighting for Libya
stretched into the fourth week Of
its newest, fiercest battle with the
strain of heat, sandstorms and con-
f1ict telling on the men and ma
chimes of both sides.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Commissioners DiscIoim Gag
In Curb on Department Heads

appropriations or legislation he must
first apply to the commissioner who
supervises his department and that
commissioner would place the mat
ter before the Board of Commits
sioners; that if the Commissioners
reject the proposals, the depart
ment head is barred from further
agitation" unless permission is given
by the Commissioners.
1t is recalled the Commissioners
were displeased some time ago over
campaigns" for certain requested
funds for the Health Department,
which then were not sponsored by
the Board of Commissioners. 1t
was indicated that motivated the
special order; though it was applied
to all department heads, but not to
the executive offices, including the
(See ORDER. PAGE A-3O