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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONe

flee of Inter-American Affairs,
which was not consolidated with
the other four organizations in
the creation of Owl. Add all
those in and you get total of
more than 1000 people working
on this war information job.
And that does not include the
$500 people who work full time,
nor the 10000 people who work
part time - for a total of 5000
man years. according to the
last Budget Bureau survey for
Congress.
Owl is making a start at get
ting all those non war agency
public relations activities whit
tied down to size.
The d ome t C part of the
show, which is of most interest
to American readers and listen
ers, is under Gardner Cowles,
Jr., of Des Moines, who is going
to the Middle East and the ORR
ent with Wendell Willkie. In
Cowles' absence, another smart
young newspaper operator, Paul
c. Smith of San Francisco, has
just taken over.
, HIRE PLENTY OF TALENT
Under Smith there is an ar
> ray of talent and personalities
that is probably more diversi-
fled than any writing factory as
sembly line ever put together
outside major stadio in Hel-
lywood. There is a policy de-
velopment branch under Arch
ibald MacLeish, reporting di-
rectly to Elmer Davis, keeping
in touch with other departments
of the government through five
liaison men, and thinking up
ideas for the rest of Owl to car
ry out.
Directly under S m t h are
eight bureaus organized to prop
agandize you through every me-
dunn.
There is news bureau with
385 people to get things into
the newspapers. And the entire
press gallery in Washington -
the people who work for and
get paid by newspapers and not
the Observation-Disclosures only
500,
Also under Smith is radio
bureau to put things on the air,
a motion picture bureau to see
that the story gets told in flick
err form, publications n d
graphics bureau to write tracts,
put out pamphlets and maya
zines, get up posters and car
toons.
There is new education bu-
reau, still small, supposed to
work with OCD in furnishing
information to clubs, l o d & e S,
churches and organizations of
all kinds that want to cooper
ate on war effort, and sec
ton that prepares material for
foreign language w papers
and foreign-language radio pro-
grams originating in the u. S.
There is the Bureau of Pub
lie Inquiry which is simply the
old u. S. Information Service
retained from OGP to answer
direct questions and letters from
Plain Joe Citizen. There is a
campaign bureau to help publ
cize scrap collection and such.
Finally, there is an Intelligence
Bureau supposed to find out
what people don't know but
want to know about this war ef-
fort, and then see that. the an
swers are prepared TO give the
rococear,, f;Il IN
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
BY PETER EDISON

The government Jop OF DISH
ing out news about the u. D.
war effort seems to be so COM
plex that the Office of War In
formation setup under Elmer
Davis hasn't yet been able to
whip up a budget that would
ieu. though the organization
has been functioning for more
than two months.
The administrative end of the
organization under M. s. Eisen-
hover, brother # the general,
knocked off a three months
trial balance recently and found
that the total cost of operations
for personnel, travel, time on
the air, movies posters. publ
cstions, propaganda and paper
matches to drop from bombers
would run to about STD mil
lion. This divides roughly into
S33 million for domestic oper-
atoms and S4.5 million for over
seas operations
The OWL hastens to warn you,
however, not to start multiply
ing those figures by four to get
the cost of their operations Tor
a wear. The costs might not run
that high. On the other hand'
they might run higher. A pure
w unofficial guess as to the
maximum would be SIS million
a wear for domestic operations,
SIS million for overseas opera
tons.
Owl was created, as you may
recall. by a June shotgun wed
ding of the fires, winds and wa
ters of the old Office of Gov
eminent Reports, the Office OF
Facts and Figures, the foreign
information division half Of Col.
William j. Donovan's old Office
of the Co-ordinator of lnforma-
ton. and the information Sec
ton of the Office f Emergen-
CIV Management, which is the
holding company for all defense
organizations.
For the last 10 weeks Owl
has been transferring personnel
all over the place, ironing out
overlapping functions of two or
more bureaus, going through
the typical Washington labor
pains that a new parent organl-
cation always experiences with
its first born.
STAFF TOTALS 3500-PLUS
Office of War Information to-
day admits that it has an &C
tive fulltime perso i OF
around $500 people, OF whom
some 1850 are assigned 10
handling government informa-
ton for domestic consumption
the remaining 1850 preparing
the governments propaganda
for consumption overseas. Inc
payroll for the whole $500 has
run about 100000 a month.
But that $500 does not in
clude the approximately 100
Army officers and 100 civilians
in the Army's Washington Blu
reau of Public Relations, the 5o
TO 100 officers, sailors and civil
ians in the Navy Department
Office of Public Relations, the
100 people transferred from the
old OEM information setup 70
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board and SIM
liar organizations which now
have their own independent
public relations staffs, clearing
their releases through owl.
It does not include the l2o
neople on the public relations
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
DISAPPEARING EVIDENCE

CINCINNATI. - The prose-
cutor had good case but the
evidence was dwindling.
Two men were charged with
stealing three cases of butter.
One pound of the loot was put
in the prosecutors property
vault TO show to the grand jury.
Informed of this, Assistant Pro-
secutor L. F. Britten investigat-
cd and found the evidence melt
ing away.
He decided tho butter carton
alone would convince the jurors
and called for mop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Mrs. Wilkinson Wagar of At
lanta, Ga, is a member of the
newly crowned national mixed
team-of-four champions. I have
a lways contended that Mrs.
Wagar is one of the greatest
woman bridge players in the
country. She seldom completes
in a major tournament without
winning at least one of the tro-
phies. She traps many an OPP
ponent into a bad contract by
her daring bidding.
In today's hand Mrs. Wagar,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
DOUBLE DEFENSE

RICHMOND, Va. - Univer-
sity of Richmond football play
ers have begun work on Two
types of aerial defense-one
against forward passes and one
against any hostile planes.
From $50 p. m. to $50 a. m.
members of the squad will take
turns in manning an aircraft
spoilers post atop the Chemls.
try building. No player Will
have more than four hours OF
watch duty week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
GOOD ENOUGH NOW

WHITE PLAINS, n. Y.-LaSt
spring the board OF education
closed forever" a one-room
schoolhousc in an outlying dis
trict on the ground it was out
of tune with modern educa-
tional trends.
Now the board has ordered 1t
reopened because 10 pupils 9TH
erwisc would be hindered by
gasoline rationing in reaching
bigger schools two miles away.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
All. A SECRET WEAPON!

AUSTIN, Tex. - Sugar RAJ
tioning didn't slow up the noon
sinners.
State and federal agents found
a still in Leon county using a
mash of watermelon juice and
post-oak grapes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
OUR VERSATILE ARMY

Ell PASO, Tex.-Mrs. Bill
Lovan. wife of a Fort Bliss sol
der, was visibly impatient as
she waited in a downtown
beauty parlor.
Then Pvt. A. r. Kuehm
dropped in. He used TO be a
hairdresser back east, he ven
turcd. and if she didn't mind
she didn't.
II was a lovely hairdo, she
said later.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
Nv the Associated Press
OIIIET IN TRURO

TRURO, Mass.-This Cape
Cod towns police force-con-
sisting of Patrolman DAVID
Francis-has joined the Coast
Guard. :.
Selectman Burton S. Hart
said a successor probably would
not be chosen until next spring.
There is no need for one
Hart declared.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
DEFERMENT-THE HARD

TOPEKA, Kas.-State Selec-
tive Service Headquarters says
bashing isn't permissible.
Officials said a departing
draftee at Great Bend, Kas.,
reached out the train window to
bash his draft board chairman
over the head, injuring his hat
and his dignity.
The youth got his deferment
"a six-months Jail term.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
HOW TO MAKE TIME FLY

YUMA, Ariz.-How to utilize
that Commute train stop?
Well. Corp. Martin A. Banks,
Blanco, Tex, and Maurine Sto-
baugh. San Antonio. Tex, sped
in a taxi to the court house. OBJ
tanned "A marriages license, were
married. and sped back to the
station in time TO reboard their
train.
Just a suggestion, of course
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02
LABOR CONQUERS ALL

PORTLAND, Ore. - Virginia
Newell couldn't get into the
WAACS; she'd never worked
and had no occupational spe-
cialty.
She got a job as a waitress and
acquired a few weeks expert
ence.
She was the Tooth WAC re-
cruited.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-02

SEATTLE, Wash.-John J. Nc
Tague, ships Waterman, didn't
know what to say when William
]. O'Brien handed him $3.50,
complete with wallet.
It was McTaguc's wallet; he
didn't know he'd lost it..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
; Ndzi Drives
Che(kedbyR Reds
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press stan Correspondent

MOSCOW. June pa triple
German offensive ragged on the
Russian southern front today
around kursk, Kharkov and Sevas-
topol-and there was little doubt
that Adolf Hitler was making a
desperate bid for the oil-rich
Caucasus.
The offensive around KurSk be-
gan yesterday, last midnights
Soviet communique revealed
Sevastopols defenders repulSed
unending German attacks that
shifted from sector to sector. The
communique said that in one sec
tor the Germans somewhat
pressed back the defenders after
an assault preceded by heavy
Smelling and bombing.
II did not report any changes
on the kharkov front, but earlier
from line dispatches said that
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko had
stopped the advance east of Kupy-
ansk. go miles southeast of Khar-
Continued on Next Page, Col. p
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
DOUBTS MORE LANDED

Speculation that other saboteurs
and spies may have been landed
from submarines along the At.
lantic coast was deprecated by
FBI officials. who said:
1.-TWO landings were made
and we got everybody who
landed"
The possibility still remained
however that other parties of
saboteurs and spies had been
landed at remote beaches along
the seaboard and led to an intensi-
fication Of military and civilian
vigilance
Identity Of the several" asso-
ciates Of the eight saboteurs who
have also been ScizcC was not dis
closed.
The eight saboteurs, all care
fully trained by the German high
command, were landed from SUBJ
marines in two groups of four
each. One group landed at ANA
gansett Beach, L. l.. June Is, the
other group al Pointe Nerda
Beach, Fla. June II.
Two OF the man arc American
citizens. One Of these. Ernest
Peter Burger, Vas revealed as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Aides Of Spies Landed
In US. by Subs Trapped
BY JAMES l.. KILGALLEN
Init News Service staff Correspondent

having been a member Of the
Michigan National Guard in 1881.
He and one of the six Germans
formerly worked in Detroit fac
tories.
All eight were trapped by the
FBI before they could launch a
campaign of bombing and terror
which might have claimed many
lives and have seriously delayed
Americas war effort.
FBI officials revealed today that
the eight Saboteurs had in their
possession when arrested forged
draft registration and social Sc
curity cards.
1t also was announced that
about $4,000 had been recovered
in addition TO the almost Sl50,000
in American currency found in
possession of the men when cap
tured.
From caches in the beach sands
government agents recovered large
stores of explosives buried by the
Germans when they landed.
"All eight men have made
Continued on Page Five)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Get Your Rubber Quote
Pounds Of Salvage Per Person Is U. S. Goal
by tomorrow Night TO Beat Hitler

IF you fail TO contribute one
piece of rubber not in actual use.
YOU are aiding Hitler" said
Burns I'VE must gather an
average of three pounds of rub
Der for every man. woman and
child in the United States to
keep our rubber recIaiming mills
going AT capacity. Let's see that
Michigan exceeds this goal by a
wide margin"
Filling stations are serving a,
rubber collection dcpotS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
The House Of Mystery
Left Intact Since Divorce Of 10 Years AGO
Now Police Order II Reoccupied

There is a fine brick house at
COS Webb avenue-"that house.
the neighbors call it.
The house is completely and
well furnished; food is on the pam
try shelves and clothes hang in the
closet
Doors arc unlocked so that one
who wishes may enter.
But for 10 years it has been I'M
tenanted. Most Of those who come
and 60 at that house" are van
dals and adventurous children.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29

Even if you have staged one rub
Der treasure hunt. scour the house
again for contribution to the Salv-
age rubber drive.
This is the last minute appeal
today BY Kenneth NJ. Burns, chair
man Of the Michigan salvage com
mittec.
The countrywide campaign 10
collect the nations old boots. golf
balls and dish drainers for CON
version 10 war ends AZ midnight
tomorrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Visits
Hitler al Front

LONDON, June % GNS) 49,
Reuters British news agency re-
ported today in a Berlin dispatch
that Baron Carl Gustav Manner
helm, commander Of the Finnish
army had paid Adolf Hitler a re-
turn visit at Hitler'S field head
quarters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Youth Held for FBl

Macomb County deputy Sheriffs
today were holding Leonard
Barnes, rs. of 1860 Wildemere
avenue for the FBI after Barnes
drove Oft the road near Selfridge
Field in an automobile reported
stolen from Evansville, Ind. The
youth, in 1871. faced an earlier
car theft charge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Your
Newspaper
Boy

The boy who delivers The
Detroit Times In your neigh
borhoOd -. or any neighbor-
hood Is a young merchant,
endeavoring 20 conduct his
business In a business-like
manner.
You can help him save un-
necessary return trips :.
and encourage him 90 do his
utmost In rendering prompt,
dependable service nv
having change ready when he
collects.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Sdboteurs Blast
.Ndzis in France

VICHY, France, June % CUP) l..
erman demonstrators
have bombed two collaborationist
headquarters. set fire to a German
rubber supply depot and dyna-
mited a train in occupied France,
il was reported today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
WoolIcott Recovering

BOSTON. June % CUP).-Alcx-
ander Woollcott. So, author. actor
and radio commentator. was re-
ported resting comfortably al a
hospital here today after a gall
bladder operation. The operation
was performed a week aCn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29

The owner and former resident
is Mrs Hetty Green Cummings,
said by neighbors TO be a niece of
the famous Hetty Green, onetime
worlds richest woman and most
noted eccentric. I |
Mrs. Cummings will give no ex-
PLANTATION.
That's personal question"
was her reply 10 questions Of
Continued on Page Four
Three Comic Pages every day
In Daily Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Drive 10 Fill
Quota for Poll
0nHonneRu|e
Thousands Needed
10 Meet 2o3, 900
Necessary for Vote

Two committees struggled today
10 obtain thousands of peti.
ton signatures for constitutional
amendments designed to give
Wayne County more representa-
tives in Lansing. fewer in the
county building. and better gov
eminent all around.
The deadline for tho 203 900 sig
natures OF registered voters re-
quired TO put the two amendments
on the ballot is 5 p. m. Friday.
REDUCE SUPERVISORS
One constitutional revision
would reduce the county's cumber-
some 162-meJnber board OF super
visors TO a centralized 2l-member
governing body.
The other would compel legis-
lative reapportionment every 10
years, raise the countyS represen-
tation in the lower chamber from
p 10 81 and increase the house
membership from 100 TO l0S.
In its last report the Commit
tee on Government Reform said
Il had 191 900 signatures on petit
tions seeking the government
renovation. If the amendment is
10 be put before the voters next
November. 1900 more registered
voters must sign the petition.
However, committee members are
asking lbs, 600 more signatures be-
cause some signers are certain 10
be ruled out because they lack
voting qualifications.
Proponents of the measure con-
tend il would enable consolidation
Of useless departments and would
give Detroit two-thirds OF the
seats on the streamlined board.
In addition, a county manager
would be appointed, civil service
established and all county officials
elected on non-partiSan basis.
AL. CIO SUPPORT
Looking toward the AFL and
Go for solid support, directors of
the Council for Representative
Government expressed confidence
that their goal of 10000 sigma
lures on petitions for reapportion-
ment would be attained before the
dcadline. approximately $4,000
signatures have been received.
Under the proposed amendment.
which would not affect senatorial
districts. Wayne County legislators
would be elected by districts
rather than AT large. Should the
amendment carry. it would bring
about the first reapportionmcnt
since. 1925.
Perennially, the rural rcprcSen-
tatives have refused 10 abide bv
tho constitutional mandate for 10
year reapportionmcnt because such
a revision would cntitle the met
ropolitan area 10 more than 30
seats
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
Tank, Gun
Superiority
Decides Fd|!
Probably Unopposed;
Nazis Advancing
on Inland Flank

ONDON, June % (UP).--
Field Marshal Erwin RommeTs
Axis army has stormed and taken
Matruh, anchor of the British line
40 miles inside Egypt and 100
miles from the great naval base
at Alexandria, and the British
forces are trying desperately to
stop him by a defense in depth.
Axis and British reports indicated
today.
Axis claims to the capture of
Matruh were accepted here as
probably true because superior
German artillery and tank power
slowly were forcing. the British
Eighth army eastward and the
british could only hope that as the
Axis communications heightened
they could establish a semblance
of equality.
The Axis armies have taken
$4,000 prisoners and vast guam
titles of war material in the
capture of Matruh, a special
communique from Adolf Hitler's
headquarters said. The COM
munique added that SO tanks
and a number of batteries were
destroyed)
TANK SUPERIORITY
It was admitted here that the
Germans had marked tank SUI
periority and that the British
command could not risk a head-on
clash with Rommel on a firm
front.
So obvious was the British in
feriority, well informed quarters,
here suggested, that Gen. Sir
Claude Auchinleck, the British
Middle Eastern commander, prob
ably had withdrew from Matruh
and left the Axis troops to enter it
unopposed.
ct was noted that London dis
patches no longer referred to
Lieut.. Gen. Neil M. Richie. who
had commanded the eighth army.
II was reported from South
Africa Saturday, apparently on
the basis of official advices, that
Richie had been removed from
his command.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29

NEW YORK. June %. - New
arrests loomed today on the heels
of the capture by government
agents of eight Nazi sabotage ex-
perts who landed in rubber boats
from enemy submarines on the
Long Island and Florida coasts
with orders to blow up bridges,
wreck key war production plants
AMI create a reign of terror.
Several fifth columniSts"-de-
scribed by FBI officials as CON
facts and associates" of the
eight Saboteurs - have been ar
rested and others, it was an
nounced, may be taken into Gus
tody in the near future.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
275 PLANES AND CREWS

1t reported also that with the
four enemy carriers sunk. went all
their planes, totaling about 275,
and all plane crews.
The enemy carriers sunk were
the 26.900-ton sister ships Akagi
and Kaga. the only two in their
class and the largest in the Japa-
neSe navy, and the 10,050-ton
Soryu and Kiryu. likewise sister
ships in a class Of only three.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
4 Carriers
Of Japs Sunk
At Midway
Revised Toll Lists
3 Battleships, Other
Warships as Victims

PEARL HARBOR. Hawaii, June
IS tUP) Delayed Japan def
nitely lost four aircraft carriers,
including its two largest, in the
Midway Island battle, the navy
announced today in a final COM
munique on the American aerial
victory.
1t suffered damage 10 two and
probably three battleships, one
seriously.
Reports of airplane pilots who
participated in the battle left
little doubt that one of these
battleships was sunk.
(Some $1,000 japanese sail
ors. filters and soldiers were
killed or drowned during the
battle. ii was estimated, said
ms
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
ADD TO TOLL

In addition, the japanese lost
two heavy cruisers and three 10
four destroyers sunk, three or
more heavy cruisers damaged. one
light cruiser damaged and four
transports or cargo ships damaged
or sunk by bomb and torpedo hits.
At least one and possibly more of
these ships probably sank
The communique. issued al Pa
cific headquarters by Admiral
Chester +. Nimitz, commander in
chief. not only confirmed previous
reports Of the magnitude OF the
United States victory but also
added 10 IL.
NimitZ released the communique
after three weeks OF analysis on
the basis Of reports submitted BY
all arms of the services engaged.
Personnel losses on ships
sunk Is known 10 have been
extremely heavy, and ships re-
ceiving bomb hits probably suf-
fered heavy losses I'm this re-
anocfu tho cov,,y,,tpfot,o cotJ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
SAYS BRAKES FAILED

Smith said he had seen the car
ahead in time TO stop. but the
brakes failed to hold, even after
he had Sanded the tracks. Smith
was able 10 slow the car only by
putting il into reverse. he said.
Fred A. Nolan. DSR general
manager, described the claim OF
defective brakes as "a common
albi.' Maintenance men. however.
were instructed to inspect the
brakes.
Not only arc all cars checked
periodically. hut DSR regulations
provide that report on any de-
fects of street car or bus be made
by the operator who brings it in
each evening, Nolan said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
STOPPED FOR AUTO

Police said that the first car,
operated by J. b. Bradford, 81, OF
2lS9 Montclair avenue. was stopped
because of a minor accident with
an automobile driven by Russell
Chambe. 81, OF ST. Clair Shores.
who was attempting TO back into
a parking space.
As the first Strectcar was
stopped, the second. operated by
Smith. one OF the newer DSR
employees, ran into the back of the
first car, teleScoping about two
feet, the police report said. Both
cars were on the Clairmount line.
All of the injured were in the
second car.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-29
The Weather

The sun win SET At a:It .. m. today,
and rise tomorrow 81 8 q. m.
The moon viii rise 81 1918 D. m.
today. and VIII set tomorrow a. 4 30 a m