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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17
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up in the smoke Of those fires?
Well a board foot as lumbermen measure
is a piece of wood foot square and one
inch thick An acre is somewhat smaller
than a regulation football playing field. Yet
when you try to figure how much lumber
there is in an acre stand of trees, you run into
complexities An acres lumber content
NAV run around 100000 or more board feet
in the case of giant old Douglas fir in the
rain forests beyond the Cascades, or 1t may
be 5000 or less board feet in thinly stocked
acre in the pine and hardwood country OF the
Central States Again, in rare cases, single
tree might cont ain as much as 5000 board
feet as did a gigantic Sitka spruce the for
esters were telling about some days ago. There
is another eomPAeatiHg factor A cut-over
and burned-over acre now may support only
young growth too small to provide lumber to-
day, and yet be potential storehouse of lum-
Der for peace or war ten, fifty or a hundred
years hence.
But for all that, we do have statistics,
estimates as to the amount of board feet lost
in particular forest fires. For example, there
is the Tillamook Oregon. fire of 1888 which
burned over 10 billion board feet of merchant
able timber on some 100000 acres before it
was finally stopped. Or the Cedar Camp fire
in the Siskiyou National Forest in 1888 which
swept over "a 600 acres and destroyed 30
million board feet Or the practically total
destruction Of the timber in the Mckenzie
Mill fire in the Tahoe National Forest in
So work bf the fire wolf which wiped 1S2
million board feet from 10000 acres
These estimates give some idea of the
amount of lumber in board feet, that forest
fires destroy. Compare those figures with
the amounts of wood, again in board feet re-
quired for war implements The comparison
brings out what forest fire really means in
terms of ships shell boxes, airplane hangers,
mosquito boats and the like.
modern battleship, while generally
thought Of as all metal, requires from 100000
to 100000 board feet Of wood for decking,
gun mounts etc.
Cargo ships with steel hulls are reported
to require as much as 100000 board feet of
lumber and 800 900 square feet of plywood in
the building.
New type airplanes constructed of thin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

a host of other civilian products. This re-
leases steel for Indispensable war uses. SINH
larly wood in the form of plastics and other
conversions is substituting for metals in the
making of cans containers, coapsible tubes,
washing machine blades and many other COM
mon-use articles.
High explosives are also made in part from
wood pulp, are transparent moses" for
bombing planes. Charcoal for gas-masks, tur-
pentine for flame throwers and fine surgical
dressings are some of the more surprising war
necessities that now come from our acres of
trees
These comparatively new wartime uses for
wood are in addition to others that as old
as war itsef-docks wharves, wagons, pom
toons bridges ties poles, trench props and on
and on.
Not long ago the u. S. Forest Products
Laboratory listed more than 4 900 present-day
military and civilian uses of wood Hundreds
of these uses have been developed more or less
recently by science. Often it would take an
expert to recognize that some of the new
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

The Equivalent of Almost an Acre of
Tinfberland Goes Into the COnstruc-
ton Of Each OF These High-Powered
Little Waterwasps, One of Which
Took Gen. Macarthur From Bataan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

FORMS OF Wood really come
from trees, Examples are
"jewels" from the resins of
Southern pines. or Army
parachute silk" from wood
pulp. Still in the labora-
tory stage are many expert
ments for alphabetically maxi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

q NAV IL. 1912
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Nazis Claim 50
British Planes
Are Shot Down
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN From German
BroadcaStSl, June british
bombers attacked several locali-
ties in Western Germany. includ-
ing DuiSberg and Oberhausen,
last night and SO were shot down
during the day and night, the
German high command said to-
day. The British admitted loss
of 35 planesD
The raids were said to have
been centered on residential
quarters.
CDuisberg, Oberhausen and
Essen-which the British said
was the main target last night
form a tight triangle of cities in
the industrial Rhineland)
The German air force was said
to have raided Ipswich, port in
South England. and to have re-
peated an attack on Canterbury
with heavy -caliber bombs.
A British plane on offensive
patrol near Cologne, heavily
damaged" in Saturday nights
raid, was shot down, the official
account said.
The communique called the
r. A. F. raids terror attacks
directed solely against the civil
ian population.
Night fighters and anti-aircraft
were credited with downing 81
British planes over Duisberg and
Oberhausen, and naval artillery
was said to have bagged three
more.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Boy, Is, Fatally Burned
By Hiqh-Tension Wire

Charles F. Baggett, jr., 13, of 1886
K street Sc, whose 9-year-old sister
died of burns in mid March, died at
Providence Hospital from third
degree burns he received shortly be-
fore noon today when he grabbed
a railway high-tension wire while
on top of a boxcar at the foot of
Fifteenth street Sc.
The boy, taken to the hospital by
police, was identified there by his
father, a carpenter.
The freight train, according to
police. was standing when the boy
climbed on. Two colored men, Her
bert l.. Davis and Edward Dawkins,
both of 1920 Twelfth street NV,
who were working nearby, called to
the boy not to grab the wires. He
either did not hear them or decided
to grab anyway.
Charles sister, Katherine, died
March 16 at Casualty Hospital of
burns she received a few days be-
fore when her clothes caught fire
from a gas heater at her home. Her
brother Charles, who was playing
in the yard when the accident oc-
Cured, pulled the flaming clothes
from her body.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Trice Gets Three Years
In Traffic Death Of Girl

Horace w. Trice, 81. of 2726
Thirtieth street NE, today was
sentenced by Circuit Court Judge
Charles C. Marbury in Upper MARI
boro, Md, to serve three years in
the Maryland House of Correction
and pay a fine of $1,000, following
his conviction last week on charge
of manslaughter.
The sentence was the maximum.
Trice was convicted in connection
with the traffic death May II OF
15-year-old Doris Stallings OF
Meadows in front of the Upper
Marlboro Court House. His attor-
ney, John S. White of Hyattsville
said he had filed a motion for new
trial.
Trice will be tried June 9 on
charges of reckless and drunken
driving in connection with the same
case. Trice was clerk for the
American. Red Cross.
Judge Marbury also sentenced
william T. Moore, 80. of Washing
ton. to serve 10 years in the Mary
land Penitentiary. following his
conviction last week on charge OF
criminally assaulting 16-year-
old District high school student
March 3.
William Collins, colored, was sem
fenced to Is years in the Maryland
Penitentiary on charge OF second
degree murder in connection with
the Staying of Henry Douglas,
colored.
John H. Sweeney, %, of WASH
ington, received a one-year sem
tence in the Maryland Penitentiary
on a charge of housebreaking.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Fierce Battle RACES
South Of Nanchanq'
As laps Press On
Enemy Forces Drive Down
Railway to Within 10
Miles of Chusien
Earlier Story on Page A-4)

(Earller story on rage A-4.)
BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, June 2.-Fierce
fighting is raging south of Nam
chang in Kiangsi Province,
where reinforced japanese col
umns numbering 5000 men have
started a new drive threatening
the rear Of the Chinese defend
ing Western Chekiang Prov
ince, a battle zone 200 miles to
the east, the Chinese command
announced today.
This new thrust southwark along
the Chekiang- -Kiangsi Railway ap-
peared to be an effort to form a
pincers with the forces in Chekiang,
which were admitted. to have made
further progress. driving down the
railway to within 10 miles Of the
vital city of Chunshien.
Vigorously attacking the flanks
of the Chekiang invaders. the Chi
nese claimed the recapture OF four
towns in that province, however.
Five hundred japanese were re-
ported killed in one clash in that
theater, and 200 drowned at a cross
ing of the Ru River in Kiangsi Prov
ince.
Continued fighting also was re-
ported west of the Salween River
along the Burma road, where 200
casualties were inflicted on the jap
anese, the communique said.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Dodge Plant Shut in Row
Over CoIored Workers

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 2-The Chrysler
Corp. today closed It's Dodge truck
plant, which employs 5000 men,
after, the management reported,
some TOO employees demonstrated in
side the factory protesting the
transfer of 20 colored workers into
the plant.
A company spokesman said the
20 were transferred from the main
Dodge plant under the Chrysler
agreement with the United Automo-
bile Workers tCIO) and at the re-
quest of international union Off
cialS.
When the colored workers entered
the plant, the management reported,
$50 workers left their machines and
threatened to throw them out of
the factory. Fighting was averted,
it was said, but about TOO employees
then staged protest in front of
the plant managers Office.
Morris Field, assistant director of
the Chrysler department of the In
ternational UAW-CIO. said "the To-
cal will have to accept the Negroes
The UAW and CIO policy calls for
equal treatment of Negroes, and so
does the American Constitution
The union will abide by that policy"
Evening star., 1942-06-02

All the blows which nave Deen'
struck by the Japanese, President
Quezon declared, have not daunted
our spirit or leSsened our faith in
America
The first President of the Com
monwealth of the Philippines. who
for seven years was a member of
the House as resident commissioner,
was accorded an ovation when he
mounted the rostrum beside Speaker
Rayburn, and was loudly applauded
during the course of his address.
Welcomed as Ex-Member.
Introducing President Quezon to
the House, Speaker Rayburn well
coined him as the chief executive
of a valorous people and as former
member of the House itself.
One of the first acts of the Filipino
Legislature, after he had beconI
president, President Quezon said,
was the passage of law creating a
Filipino Army, recommended by
himself.
Il secured the permission Of the
President of the United States to
bring Gen. Douglas Macarthur to
the Philippines to command and
train this Army" said President
Quezon. He added that the Filipino
soldiers had shed their blood will
lingly so as to prove to the people
of the United States their gratitude
for the treatment of the Fflipinos.
Halls Macarthur, Aides.
President Quezon praised highly
the leadership of Gen. Macarthur
whom he called the greatest hero of
the war.
But don't forget" he said, that
there were other men, too, who de-
serve recognition" He mentioned
the name of 1t. Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright, who was in command
when Corregidor fell
Mr.. Quezon said he would not
speak of the sublime heroism of the
American and Filipino soldiers"
fighting shoulder to shoulder. But
Evening star., 1942-06-02
100 More Warships
Will Go Into Service
In 1912, Navy Says
House Body Approves
S1,100, ,000, 900 for
Non-Combutunt Croft
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Rear Admiral A. H. Van Keu-
rem, chief of the Navy Bureau OF
Ships, informed the House Naval
Affairs Committee today that
approximately 100 more COM
batant ships would be commits
stoned this year.
Chairman Vinson disclosed the
report simultaneously with an an
nouncement that the committee had
approved a s1,100,O00, 900 measure
authorizing construction of 100000
tons of noncombatant ships.
He said, too, that he would intro
duce tomorrow a measure calling
for a big increase in the number
of naval aircraft carriers. At pres
ent there are IL carriers building.
Mr.. Vinson said the legislation to
authorize additional aircraft carriers
would push to about $4,000 900 900
the total planned for immediate
naval expansion.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Standard Oil Chiefs
Get stockholders
Vote Of Confidence
Gerord, Ex-Ambossodor
To Germany, Declares
Company Was Scopeeooi
Earlier Story on Page A-190

Earlier Story on Page A-190
BY the Associated Press.
FLEMINGTON, N. j., June a.
Stirred by Government attacks
on their company, several hun
dred stockholders of the Stand
ard Oil Co. IN. j. at the annual
meeting today gave a lusty vote
of confidence to the management
headed by w. S. Parish, presi-
dent.
Chief defender Of the company
was James w. Gerard, who was
Ambassador to Germany in the
years before the World War.
Mr.. Gerard offered a resolution
Of confidence after likening the
company to a scapegoat.
Three Dissent.
The resolution drew three dis
senting voices of the approximately
500 stockholders present.
Mr. Gerard said Assistant Attor-
ney General Thurman Arnold had
misled the Justice Department In
regard to Standards relations with
I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German
dye trust. and in regard to its pro-
gram for the manufacture of syn
thetic rubber. He said, however,
that Mr. Arnold was sworn pub
lie officer, a responsible official and
stockholders should have no fear
about the outcome of this contro-
verSy."
There were moments when Ger
tain loyal stockholders clamored
against the reading of statements
demanding from the management
adequate explanations" of the
Arnold charges.
A stockholder who identified him.
self as William Floyd, I'd, was the
spearhead of the opposition. Hold
ing proxies representing lis stock
holders, Mr. Floyd offered a resolu-
ton which was tabled by an over
whelming vote.
400, ,000- Ton Output Seen.
Amplifying his letter to Senator
Truman, Mr.. Parish said the COM
pany already had put s12 900 900 of
stockholders money into plants for
the production of buna rubber and
said he thought that before the end
of 1943 the company would be pro-
ducing raw material for 400 900 tons
of synthetic rubber. Standard, he
said, would produce a large part of
the Nations total output.
A company official who said he
had attended Standard meetings
for years said it was the largest
meeting in his recollection.
Regarding the company's present
earnings. Mr.. Parish said that while
it still is in the black, profits were
far from satisfactory due to shrink
age in. business and to the higher
cost of moving oil products into
the Eastern seaboard States. In
place of the former heavy tanker
shipments, he said, the company is
distributing considerable part by
tank car.
Evening star., 1942-06-02

I will tell of the heroism of Fill
pino mess sergeant-a cook he
said.
Every one expects a general to be
a hero, he said.
But a cook" he added. pausing,
"a cook is supposed to feed his men;
to be as far away from the firing
line as possible.
This cook was getting ready TO
feed his men. A thousand yards
from him he saw a gun and the
gunners began to hesitate. So this
cook threw away his cooking
utensils, ran thousand yards to
the gun and aroused the men to
battle again. And the fight was
won
In the whole of history there
never was another case of a cook
who ran a thousand yards to join
in and win a battle. To me that
cook represents the determination
of the Filipinos to do more than
their duty in standing by the United
States of America"
President Quezon described his
trip from Manila to Corregidor
under the guns and bombs of the
enemy.
Tells Of Trip to Corregidor.
II want my people to know" he
said, that I was not deserting them
in a time of crisis" He said Gen.
Macarthur had urged him to make
the transfer to Corregidor, since he
had declared Manila an open city.
He read to the House the procla-
nation of President Roosevelt.
pledging all the resources of the
United States to restore finally the
independence of the Philippines.
Il know" he said, that you will
support that pledge" He added
that he had inspired the Filipino
soldiers by telling them that Amer
ica will not abandon U.s."
Every man, woman and child IN
the Philippines will stand by Amer
lea, no matter what may have to
be done"
Evening star., 1942-06-02
| Flyer Finds Self
| |OnHighwoyAfter
| Nap in Plane
BY the Associated Press.


CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. June O.
A passenger on a plane unreported
since it left the Middletown Pa0
Army Depot last night for Louis
vile, KY, was found in a dazed con-
dition on a road 18 miles from here
today The plane was believed to
have crashed in that vicinity.
The passenger, picked up by a
trucker, was identified by Army Of
ficials as Second 1t Henry Alexan-
der Salm of Tuxedo Park, N. Y,
suffering from shock. He was un-
able to give a coherent account of
what happened. The pilot of the
missing plane was First 1t. John C.
Femenella, address unknown. Army
officials said both 1t. Femenella
and 1t. Salm were from Goodfellow
Field, San Angelo. Tex.
The trucker Charles Potts OF
Hagerstown. Md. told. State police
he thought the pilot Of the plane
was dead"
A party of searching planes was
sent out by the Middletown Depot,
go miles northeast of here, to aid
State police and volunteers in
combing the mountainous area
where the missing craft was believed
to have crashed.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Cabinet to Decide on National Gas Rotionine
u. S.-Mode Tank Has
Big Role in Axis
Setback in Libyo
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO. Egypt. June 2.-The
Gen. Grant" an American
made tank with plenty OF
ability to give punishment and
take it. Is one of the main rea-
sons for the Axis setback in
Libya, observers reported today
from the battlefield.
1t was officially disclosed that
the Gen. Grant" is armed with
4 77-milimeter gun firing high
explosive and anti-personnel
shells, plus a 37-milimeter anti
tank weapon and a machine
gun.
The tank is the United States
Army's M-3 medium type-a
big. numbering 28-tonner with
heavy armor plate.
Slower than the Honey"
which is the name for the
American light M-3, the Gen.
Grant" has what is most de-
sired in the desert-a big gun
able to knock out enemy tanks.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Sam Chopmon Ordered
Here for Flight Training
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Samuel Blake Chapman, 26, for
mer Philadelphia American League
baseball player and University Of
California football star. was ordered
by the Navy today to report to the
Reserve aviation base here June 28
for fight training leading to com
mission in either naval or marine
aviation.
Chapman, who volunteered. is now
stationed at the Navy's physical in
struction school at Norfolk. Va.
He was an all-America halfback
at California and captained the
eleven which defeated Alabama in
the Rose Bowl on January /, 1898.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
British Lashinq
Axis in TwoGaps
In Libydn Front
Take Offensive Clearly
As Enemy Retires in
Desert Fighting
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)
BY HARRY CROCKETT.

hSSOCldlcu FItSS WdE correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
IN LIBYA, June 2.-Harried by
tank duelS, bombing and Strafing
by planes, bitter infantry clashes
and artillery fire, the armored
might of Adolf Hitler's 21st and
18th Tank Divisions was retir-
ing tonight toward two gaps in
the British and German mine
fields.
The British, clearly on the Of
fensive, were lashing the Axis in the
two gaps-at Mteifel Es Seghir and
about 10 miles north of Bir Hacheim
CReuters, in a dispatch from
Cairo, reported that consider
able Axis force of all arms again
is thruSting east behind the Brit
ish Ain El Gazala- -Bir Hacheim
line.)
All tankmen agree that American
made tanks. with heavy striking
power and the ability ito take it."
were a major factor in turning the
tide of battle.
Air-Land Cooperation.
The unexcelled cooperation Of air
and land artillery was another fac
tor in ending the Germans lightning
sweep south of the British lines.
Everywhere in a 200-square- mile
box south of Acroma the ruins of
German tanks, skeletons of trucks
and motor troop transports gave
evidence of the fury of the fiye-day
battle.
The German desert high COM
mand, observers said. had gambled
on a desperate sweep in the south
and had lost so far as the offensive
was concerned.
The big question was whether
the German command can mold on
the Tmimi-El Mechili line west of
the battle zone and that was doubted
by observers since the British are
smashing at the rear and following
through intent on the utter defeat
of the Axis forces.
Germans Suffered Heavily.
The Germans obviously did not
know that the British had such
heavy striking power as the Ameri-
can tanks. which outspeed lighter
tanks, and they suffered heavily
from them.
The constant bombing of the long
supply route around Bir Hacheim
by the Raj with heavy Boston
bombers and bomb-carrying Hurri-
cane and Kittyhawk fighters plus
the excellent support of the Free
French in the south helped Allied
forces wrest the offensive from the
Axis.
British morale is high. Through
five days of travel over 1000 miles
of desert backgrounds that is al
ways evident.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Attack on Home
Of krupp Works
Starts Big Fires
Bombers Rour Across
Channel Again for
Day Ruids on France
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 2.-The Raj
turned the lethal, devastating
might of 1,036 RAF planes loose
on Germany last night, almost
all of them on the region of the
Nazi arsenal city of Essen, Prime
Minister Churchill announced
today.
The second of the crushing
raids which the RAF has made
against the sources of Adolf Hit
ler's military strength in three
days struck at the home of the
huge Krupp munitions works
and Mr.. Churchill promised that
more or even greater severity
would follow when we are
joined, as we soon shall be, by
the Air Force of the United
States"
Great forces of Raj planes
roared across the Channel today
in forays which Southeast coast
observers called one of the big
gest daylight operations of the
war
(Hour after hour many squad
rons headed for various targets
in Northern France Planes re-
turning early in the evening Gre
ated great DIM
The Essen raid came after a pause
of but one night. when bad weather
held the RATS great bomb-carrying
air armada grounded, after the
mammoth attack by considerably
more than 1000 British bombers on
Cologne.
Again, British losses were rela-
of such magnitude. Mr.. Churchill
said IS bombers had failed to return.
Widespread Fires Started.
He told the House of Commons
that the raiders had sown numerous
and widespread fires last night and
that the two raids introduced "a
new phase in the British air Of
fensive against Germany" which will
put the enemy to "an ordeal the
like of which never has been ex-
perienced in any country in con-
tinuity, severity or magnitude"
He cautioned the British, however,
not to expect all future raids to be
above the four-fgure scale" in
number of planes. adding that
methods of attack will be con-
tinually varied according to circum-
stances"
The Air Ministry's disclosure that
aircraft Of the bomber, fighter.
coastal and army cooperation COM
mands attacked enemy bases in
Germany, France and the Low
Countries to guard the route of the
Essen raiders indicated that the
nights operations may have been
of magnitude possibly eoualing
the startling strength of the Cologne
assault.
Text of Communique.
Its communique said:
Last night a force of a thousand
aircraft of the bomber command
continued the offensive against
Western Germany The main OBJ
lectives were war industries of the
Ruhr. including Essen.
Preliminary reports of the crews
indicate that the attacks were
pressed home most effectively.
During the attack on the Ruhr,
aircraft of the bomber, fighter,
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Fires Laid to Soboteurs

CAPETOWN, Union of South
Africa, June 2 P).-Authorities said
yesterday they suspected saboteurs
were responsible for numerous fires
which broke out in different parts
of Pretoria last night. the eve of
Union Day, South Africas chief
national holiday.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
U. S. Generals See Kinq

LONDON, June 2 R.-Gen. Bre-
hon B. Somervell, commanding gen.
eral of the United States Army
Service of Supply, and Maj. Gen.
James E. CLANCY, commander of
the A. E. F. in Britain, were received
today by King George VI in Buck
ingham Palace.