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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
Steals Mixer
He Finds Is Ton Truck
Just Too Tempting

SAGINAW, Dec. 4.-Something
new in auto thefts was on the
books today after police arrested
a Lennon resident for going on a
80 mile JOY ride with a 10 = ton
cement mixing truck.
at seemed like good idea"
said the driver, Thurman Ruby
% years old.
He told police he saw the truck
parked on a Flint street, fully
loaded with gas and concrete.
Surrounding 10 temptation, Ruby
said he jumped behind the wheel
and drove off.
Ruby was arrested after the
mixer sidcswipped an automobile
near Saginaw Al the time. he had
a hitchhker with him and the
mixer was whirlng merrily.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
William r. KdIes,
Steel Firm Head
Dies in Office

William r Kales, 72-year-old
indu,tUaNst engineer and preSi-
dent of the Whitehead & Kales
Company. is dead today as the re-
suit Of n heart attack IN his office
in tho Kalcs Building, IS West
Adams avenue.
Mr.. Kalos headed tho firm which
fabricated and erected All Of the
structural steel used IN building
tho Ford bomber plant az Willow
EF2u, 4pd- tpa huCc Wright plants
near Cincinnati.
Born in Chicago. Mr. KaleS
attended the PhillipS-ENeter
Academy Exeter \ II and was
graduated from The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1892.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
Obituaries
Donald 7. McKinnon
Insurance Lawyers Rites
Set Tomorrow

Services for Donald T. Nackn-
non. 81. counselor for the Provi-
dent Mutual Life Insurance Com
panv. viii be held al . p. m
tomorrow at the William r. Ham
ilton Chapel 1875 CasS avenue.
Mr.. MacKnnon of Ala Washing
ton road Crosse Pointe had been
connected with the insurance firm
for 20 years. lie Is survived by his
wife. Ida. two sons, Charles and
Donald Jr.. his mother, Mrs Will
liam L. Barnes of Miami Beach,
Fla. a brother, George NJ. Nc
MILAN. and three sisters, Mrs.
Luther Davenport. Mrs Leroy
Swift and Mrs Robert Davis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
special to rHr nrrRorr I'M,

NPffla 10 iht ~ ih''i' t'"'
WASHINGTON. ,'Ce 3 Nrer
the home fms hlrr.Nc. Mt don
forget thccc may hr u heghCr
The 00ire o.. Civilian 1san-e
to-day I~sgcr f.- r!c
Don't forget The glow from
your fireplace lIouschold'r~
who turn out ODE lights and
leave a fire burning on am open
hearth ~maN destroy the effect
Of a hlaCk0ut
NO hrc producing light Ni>i-
HE from the .oItSidc should hc
left unattended, and whore coal.
wood or 0rhTT SUtId fuCtS 7rr
used, II IL not ALWAYS possible IN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
ToURED EAR EAST

During the twenties, Mr.. Kales
made extensive tours IN the Far
East and came 10 he recognized
as an authority on China and
Japan
Surviving are his wife the for
mer Alice Gray, three daughters,
Mrs. Robert Hartwick of Crosse
Pointe. Mrs. Neil c. McMath of
Bloomfield Hills, and Mrs. Hugo
G. Huettig Of Washington and a
son. 1t. Robert G.. kaleS of the
navy. now stationed IN Wash
inGton.
The family home is al 1870
Burns avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
Hanover Urges j. 5.
To Feed 400 Million

NEW YORK. Dec. q 1NS).-
Food must be sent Immediately to
900 100000 starving people in
nations of Europe.
Herbert Hoover, who fed famiShed
Europe after World War I, told
Herbert Lehman. assigned 10 the
Job in World War H.
interviewed after their luncheon
meeting yesterday Hoover re-
,oalod that he fcciS America must
start feeding Europe before
winter"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
Bomber Developed
For Raids on Europe

NEW YORK. Dec 4 GNS).-
Consolidated Aircraft has de-
signed a great new plane that
could make nonstop bombing at
taCkS to Europe and return Tom
NJ. Girdler. corporation chairman
told members OF the New York
Chamber of Commerce. Develop
ment of this plane has reached a
point. he said. where industry
could begin production on it
1T could span the Atlantic
in few hours and carry a crew
with 400 passengers, Glrdler
said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
u. 5. Plays Santa
To British Children

NEW YORK, Dec. a (INS).-
There will be a merry Christmas
in thousands of England's poorer
homes this year because OF toys
provided by American funds and
workmen, Mrs. Robert Worth
Bingham, president of Bundles for
Britain announced today
Mrs Bingham, widow of the ior-
mer American ambassador 10 Brit
ain has Just returned from a
visit 20 London, where she ar
ranged for the distribution of lO0,-
600 Christmas package sent from
the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
Salvage Drive Digs
Into Dentists Offices
speciai ~ mn nTTROIT TINES

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4 Better
hurry 10 tho dentist, before tho
salvage snatchcrS take his forcepS
and drills away. And don't leave
Your upper plate lying around
Today tho War ProduCtio n
Boards salvage branch issued a
call for most everything not nailed
down m The nations dental Offices
The American Dental Association
Is cooperating with WPB.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
fOtN DED STEEL WORKS

I'm 1909 he and the late James
r. Whtcbcad founded the River
Rouge structural steel works
which bears has name As the bus
ness grew with the automobile
Industry. he extended his interests
to real estate and bank stocks.
a World War I veteran. he
served overseas with tho air corps
for IA months and returned with
a captains commission,
a leader in civic affairs, he
ser, ed on the public lighting com
mission from 1906 10 1912. He
became n member of the city
planning commission in 1924 and
resigned several years ago. In
1893. his family was thrown into
the spotlight when a granddaughter.
Margaret NCMath, was kidnapped
and hold for three DAYS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
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Chaplain Of Admiral Rank
Irur petot Times Washington Bureau

7 f"m UTifUIt INNS Washington Huf'au
WASHINGTON Dec. / A bill
10 establish a chief Of chapiaInS IN
tho United States Navy with q
temporary rank Of admiral was
introduced In Congress today by
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
and Representative Plumicy Of
Vermont
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Watch That Fireplace
Glowing Hesrfhs Can Spoil BlackOut; OCD Asks
You to Screen or Otherwise Obscure Them

eliminate dangerous glow
immediately.
In such rooms all outside
openings muN be hlackcd out.
or the Light must hc oh>curod
h, a screen. ar ma some other
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Evening star., 1942-12-04
45O laps Are Killed
In MerciIess Attacks
On Coma Coastal Area
Allies BIust II Planes
In Blow at Enemy Base
At Koepone, Timor
BY the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Dec. AT the cost
of only light casualties, Allied
troops were reported today to
have slain $50 Japanese in the
Coma area of New Guinea as
they frightened the moose around
enemy forces trapped in that
coastal stronghold and at near
by Buna.
A communique announcing the
Allied successes acknowledged that
the japanese were resisting stub
bornly, but said they were being
subjected to merciless battering
by planes and artillery designed to
soften their defenses.
Allied airmen also ranged across
the sea northwest of Australia to
strike a heavy blow at the Japanese
base at Koepang, Dutch Timor,
where they destroyed or damaged
81 japanese planes, the bulletin
said.
In the action at Coma two jap
anese machine-gun posts we're re-
ported captured in the Allied ad-
vance. In addition to the $50 Jap
anese reported slain. an Allied patrol
was said to have inflicted approxi-
mately 20 casualties on the enemy
in a skirmiSh.
At Buna, isolated from Coma by
Allied forces holding a seyen-mile
strip of coast, the Japanese were
savagely contesting every foot of
ground.
Evening star., 1942-12-04

Save waste kitchen fats for gun.
powder. Take them In clean, wide
mouthed cans to your meat aler.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Temporary Food Ceilings
Extended Indefinitely
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A 60-day temporary order fixing
maximum prices on certain food
commodities, scheduled to expire
yesterday, was extended indefinitely
by the Office of Price Administra-
ton. - s.-.
The order applies at the professor.
wholesale and retail levels to milk
products, including butter. cheese,
evaporated and condensed milk, as
well as eggs, poultry fexcept tur-
keys, -four, cake mixers, fresh citrus
fruits cat retail only, canned citrus
fruits and juices, corn meal and
hominy.
Ceiling prices of those commod-
tiles will remain frozen at the high
est level at which they were sold
by each individual firm during the
September 28-October period, until
replaced by specific dollars-and-
cents ceilings.
The order yesterday provides that
if any maximum price is lower than
any price set by marketing agree
ment. order or license issued under
the Agricultural Marketing Act of
1897, the price set by the marketing
agreement becomes the sellers max
imum price.
Sale of raw and unprocessed milk
fluid by farm co-operatives, covered
in the original 60-day freeze .
were exempted today from price
control because they fall under
similar classification to sales by
farmers, which are not controlled
Evening star., 1942-12-04
British Methods of Hond|inq
Small Business Told at Heorina
BoIonce Achieved by Subcontroctine,
Commercial Leader Informs Senators

added, "all kinds of bottlenecks were
present, and 1t was not always pos
sible to find suitable plants at the
right time in the right place"
Mr.. Sieff said: Since the battle of
Dunkerque the tangle of subcon-
tracts has been unraveled and an ef-
fort and time-saving mechanism
have been evolved. This mechanism,
imperfectly though it may have
worked originally, is the clearing
centers, which are far more than
exchanges for machine tool capac-
ity. They are increasingly becom-
ing the clearing centers for all pro-
duction problems.
Very few factories in Great Brit
ain possess completely balanced ca
pacity for fulfilling any particular
order, and subcontracting has been
used as a means for bringing about
balance, by utilizing equipment
and labor of other factories. This
lack of balance may be either forseen
in advance and planned for by
means of regular and long dated
contracts, or 1t may arise from day
to day"
Mr.. Sieff explained that some ma
chimes were used part-time to fill
portions of various contracts. He
described how blocks of time" had
been worked out for different types
of machines and their skilled oper-
ators, under an arrangement for
almost daily exchange of production
information.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Canada Newspapers,
Magazines Queried
On Use Of Newsprint
Move Held Significant
In View of Plans for
Control in North America
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The Cana
dian Wartime Prices and Trade
Board has sent QUESTIONABLE to
all newspapers and magazines in
the Dominion requesting informa-
ton on their use of paper, prepara-
tory to control of consumption
through establishment of quotas for
each publication, it was learned
today.
While no announcement has as
yet been made of this step in OF
tawa, the fact the questiopnaires
have gone out was regarded as sig
nificant in paper circles here, in
view of the fact wartime control of
the North American paper industry
has been undertaken Jointly by
Washington and Ottawa.
Thus far, there has been no re-
striction on consumption in North
America. but the. Canadian and
American governments, by stimuli
taneous orders, have restricted paper
production as of November / at
levels no higher than the average
for the second and third quarters
of this year and ordered producers
to deliver paper to no consumers
having over a 90-day inventory on
hand.
Meeting Called Here.
The printing and publishing
branch of WPB has called a meeting
in Washington of its newspaper
Advisory Committee for December
10 and has selected subcommittee
to study methods of reducing use
of newsprint,
The Canadian questionnaire was
sent to publishers in the Dominion
November %, with instructions to
reply in five days. A statement ac-
companying it said until an order is
issued providing for the distribution
of paper supply on the basis of con-
sumers' USE" previous orders re-
stricting delivery to those not hav-
ing more than 80 days supply would
continue to apply. 1t said further:
THE ALLEGATION of paper supply,
through the establishment of a
quota for each publication, will be
based upon the use of paper by each
publication, during a period to be
determined, prior to November /.
1912. Economies currently affected
by a publication, within the limits
Of any prescribed inventory, may be
made without prejudice to the pub
lication's future paper supply quota
Incentive for Economy.
There is a direct war need for
every economy publishers can effect
In the reduction of their use of pa
per, materials, labor, transportation
and power, knowledge of this fact
will be sufficient incentive to pub
fishers to make every possible econ
omy through the reduction of the
size of their publications, by dimin-
ishing or eliminating return and free
copies, by cutting advertising check
ing copies to two or three, and BY
making a searching survey of every
operation in which waste may be
avoided"
The QUESTIONABLE for snewsprint
users asks the amount used in .the
IL months ended September 80. anc
from whom bought. If more than
Evening star., 1942-12-04
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

The Senate Small Business Com
mittee turned aside today for the
moment from its investigation of
Army purchasing practices to hear
report on how England has han
died small business during the war
years.
Chairman Murray excused until
later Frederick Tomkins, purchas-
ing co-ordinator for the New York
Army Ordnance District, who tes-
titled concerning the earmarking
of contracts for certain firms and
said the Army had not been able to
use the full resources of small plants
in his area.
I. M. Sieff, British commercial
leader, told the committee that the
British government had done much
to bring the smaller factories and
machine shops into war production.
"At the retail level" Mr.. Sieff said
mo direct action has been taken,
although Board of Trade commit
tees have already reported on the
need for a plan to prevent acciden-
tai casualties among small retail
firms"
Bottlenecks Encountered.
In the early days of the war, Mr.
Sieff explained, the government per-
mitted contracting firms to find
their own subcontractors. While
manufacturing agents combed the
country for suitable equipment, he
Evening star., 1942-12-04
FIuorine in Drinking Water
Blamed for Bone HARDENING

22-year-old soldier who had lived
most of his life in Texas areas
which the report said had an ex-
cessiv0y high concentration of
fuorine in drinking water.
The soldier entered an Ell Paso
hospital last June and died in Sep
tember from an anemia which the
physicians said was caused by hard
ening of the bone marrow, where
red blood cells are made.
Analysis showed the hardening, or
ostersclerosis, was due to chronic
f1uoride poisoning, they said. Oster-
sclerosis may possibly result, they
said, from the prolonged use of
drinking water in which the f1uorine
content is more than three parts
per million.
From public health standpoint.
excessive fuorine was said to be
serious because of the extensive
anemia and also kidney damage
which it causes Health authorities
have reported high f1uorine con-
tent in drinking water in scattered
parts of the United States, mostly
In some Western and Southwestern
States
Evening star., 1942-12-04
Richmond's Master X Seeks
Mule to Replace II Ju|opies

gasoline in pre-rationing days and
stored 1t in tanks buried deep on his
farm near the city. His tires we're
purchased before the rubber stocks
were frozen, although later he was
worried momentarily by the limita-
ton of five tires per car.
He held on to his rubber reserves,
however, by the simple expedient of
buying II old automobiles and
mounting the excess tires on them.
Master x says he's still looking
ahead. Now he is in the market for
horse and mule to solve his trans
portation problem when the tires,
automobiles and gasoline are gone.
AS for the hundreds and hundreds
of cans of food. he says he'll divide
in the lean days ahead with neigh
bors who help him on the farm.
You can't get them to save
things" he said.
Evening star., 1942-12-04
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 4.-"Mas-
ter X" portly purveyor of incense,
oils and lucky charms, balanced his
past against the future today and it
all added up to so automobile tires
(mostly new, $500 gallons of gaso-
line and mountainous quantities OF
food.
Master x, who works as a red
robed mystic, once predicted the day
would come when fish would come
down the James River kicking up
dust" behind them. AS a matter of
fact, the drought last year did leave
thousands of fish high and dry.
The personal counsellor to hun
dreds of fellow Richmond Negroes,
Master x, whose little-known name
is j. L. Boland. figured there was no
prohibition against laying in food,
so he stored 1t up. He bought the
Evening star., 1942-12-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. "A case of
bone hardening because of excessive
fluorine in drinking water-the first
reported in the United States-was
described today before the Radio
logical Society of North America.
Two Army doctors told of the case,
in T1as and recommended that
public health authorities make a
study to determine whether the
condition is widespread.
The report was made by Mai.
Joseph F. Linsman and Maj. Craw-
ford A. McMurray, both of Ell Paso,
Tex, who said that while f1uorine
in water has caused mottled teeth
in some States, the only cases of
this bone change reported previous
ly were in North Africa, India and
Argentina.
Fluorine is gaseous element, one
! of the most active and destructive
known. and it combines with other
substances to form a fuoride, the
usual form in which it is found in
water.
The case reported was that of a