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Evening star., 1942-06-18

below to test the temperature OF tne
bombs and warheads. When he put
his hand on their cases his palm
was scorched. This means, of course,
that the temperatures of the explo-
sives inside were beyond the heat
level at which scientists decreed
they would detonate.
Capt. Sherman Last to Leave.
Singed, his clothing half burned
off, Comdr. Seligman reported to
Capt. Sherman the existing condi-
tions below decks and the immi-
nence of devastating explosion OF
the ships munitions. This explosion
was delayed for two more hours.
When the blast came Capt. Sherman
slid down a rope to a rescue boat.
the last man to leave his ship.
But I am getting ahead of my
story. The time had arrived to
make the momentous decision of
abandoning the famous old ship. a
powerful weapon of war which rep
resented an enormous investment in
cash and security for the Nation. 1t
always is hard for a captain to leave
his ship, especially so in wartime
when she is needed. But before
Capt. Sherman spoke, Admiral Fitch
suggested that abandonment begin.
heard the exchange Of words,
which was far from the usual con-
ception of such a dramatic moment.
Admiral Fitch leaned over the
high railing around his little bridge
on "the island" and spoke to Capt.
Sherman, who was pacing the nav
igating bridge 10 feet below him.
The admiral pitched his voice in a
conversational tone, saying:
"Well, Fred, I guess it's time to
get the men or"
It was Sis pm, the end Of the
battle for the LexingtonlH
Her battered. exhausted, scorched
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Letters TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

4 - a Tx Iii VIZ
WHILE Mr.. c. r. Walker,
w whose letter you published
on April 10, is absolutely right
in saying that Pvt. Thomas
Heating deliberately flouted reg
ulations in going A. w. o. l.. TO
visit his wife, / still agree that
the suggestion 10 have some ar
rangement made for the soldiers
wives 10 make visits TO keep up
the soldiers morale is very
good idea.
At the present time, married
men in the service are much in
the minority and some regula-
ton could be made whereby no
one would be able 10 abuse the
visiting privilege.
| wonder if Mr.. Walker would
like 10 be deprived of the COM
panionship OF his wife and fam
lily for several months at a time
even if he were a young newly
married man
We are all willing to make
sacrifices, but before some one
can say that / am a bride and
immature, ! am sending this let
ter to say that I have been mar
ried nine years and have two
fine young sons.
/ have only seen my husband
two weeks in the past IA months
since he enlisted in the army, so
do you blame me for wanting 10
60 and see him before he is sent
away whore / can not or may
not see him again?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Suspend Trust Laws!

THE public has been ahead of politicians in facing
] time realities.
In the interest of a speedy and thoroughgong victory
the Axis the American people, in Spartan mood
are ready to make sacrifices.
public officials have been slow to recognize that
political pap usual must be suspended at least for the
duration
Gradually however the realities catching up with
us and the administration is to be commended for its
sensible determination to suspend antitrust litigation
which might interfere with armament production
WITH the Japanese overrunning the Pacific and the
w Nazi submarines operating in Atlantic waters,
il is silly deter American industrasts from making
about productive effort through continuing inhbitions
growing out of arbitrary provisions in the antitrust laws
Donald NJ. Nelson generaissimo of production, needs
the power to induce ndustasts to pool productive fac
ties bueprns and other human and mechanical resources
To do these obviously desirable things, however would
render business subject to penalties for technical vo
lations of the antitrust laws
1t is not enough in the emergency, for bureaucrats
give the Ego ahead signal Apparently they lack the
legal authority to do that
In MIRA days, Oil Co-ordnator Ickes induced oil pro-
ducers to act cooperativey and later after the legislation
had been held unconstitutional oil indicted for
complying with a federal officials suggestions.
IN ORDER to make the current reinsurance from the
/ executive side binding Senator Frederick Van
Mugs Democrat Of Indiana is sponsoring bill which pro-
vdes for statutory suspension Of the antitrust laws
when the production board chairman and the attorney
general find concerted action by companies essential to
the effort.
The senator recalled that after World War l
VINO compHeo were
prosecuted for what they asked to do
Such proposed Qualification would tend to accelerate
the production of guns, ships tanks and planes.
In light of the urgent need for managerial concenra
ton stepping up armament production in industry
should not be DETECTED from this urgent objective
THURMAN ARNOLD, who is in charge of antitrust
prosecutions suspend his activities for the dura
ton and leave Americans free to devote their full time
thought and energy to making the weapons needed to
whip the Axis.
Any needless continuation of business batting will be
distinctly deleterious to the national Interest.
In the circumstances, why not take sensible action
suspendng the antitrust laws Immediately?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14

such income. and II probably
took considerable persuading to
get Spyros Skouras TO accept
the late Sidney Kents job. He
was the unanimous choice Of all
interests.
There are three Skouras
brothers. Charley is the oldest.
Spyros is next in point Of age,
and George. who operates a
SkouraS' chain Of theaterS in
New York and New Jersey. is
the youngest. They started out
in ST. Louis together on equal
terms, which means they were
all poor. Charley is active in
many public affairs on the West
Coast, and like Spyros, enjoys
making speeches.
CPYROS is married and has
~ six children. He is a great
home man He has a certain
humility about his success that
is rather beautiful. He served
with the United States Aviation
Corps in World War I as a pilot.
He was head of the Greek war
drive in this country that raised
a large sum of money for his
native land when il was strug-
Cling against the NaziS. He is
extremely popular with those
who know him and he is a good
man TO have as a friend.
AS president Of Twentieth
Century-Fox. Skouras becomes
the associate of Wendell Willkie.
the new chairman of the COM
panys board. Spyros does not
take an active part in politics
but is said 10 have been a Will
kie. man in the last campaign.
which may add 10 the happiness
Of the association However.
Charley Skouras is accounted
Roosevelt man. which shows YOU
that "the Skourii" are not par
ticularly clannish politically.
anyway.
Copyright. 1916? by Kine Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Play Ball

A LMANACS and weather bureaus may pirate all the!
a wish about spring arriving with the vernal equinox
March p.
In this country. especially in the northern states
spring is not accepted reality until the baseball season
starts.
So in Detroit we must admit TO-DAY that spring il
here.
Today they will dust off that old plate out at Briggs
Stadium for the first time this year.
Opening day at the ball park is swell American
institution.
The fans who pour ont to cheer their Tigers today
doubtless will appreciate baseball even more than nor
mally
1t will take their minds briefly off the grim facts o.
war and afford them needed relaxation from the bitter
the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
New 20th Cen+ury-Fox Chief
Rose Like an A|ger Hero
BY DAMON RUNYON

CPYROS SKOURAS, who has
~ Just been made president of
Twentieth Century-FoX Pictures,
has one OF those life stories that
the old time newspaper SCribeS
generally hooked up with Hora-
ito Alger. Horatio's heroes, as
you will remember If you are
old enough. almost always went
through the ragS-to-riches rou-
tine.
That is 10 say. they started
without any seat TO heir
britches, and wound up with more
money than most folks have hay.
Nowadays, we consider those
yarns Just enthusiastically
American. but-Horatio made
them sound more romantic with
a little of the Cinderella stuff.
Spyros SkouraS came 10 this
country as young immigrant
from Greece, and from a start
as bus boy in St Louis became
one OF the most important fig
ures in the world of public en-
tertainment.
uORAT1O would have made
II dozen chapters. at least. of
Skouras buSsing, but as l have
only few hundreds Of words
for the entire tale, l will have TO
glide over that rather briefly.
Suffice 10 say, he is said to have
been a good bus boy. This is
higher praise than some may
think. A good bus boy has his
no inconsiderable Importance in
this world.
Skouras Is now around 50,
dark Completed, stands about
five feet 10 and weights, per-
haps. 1S5 pounds. You might
call him good looking His Eng
lish is touched by an accent. He
likes To play golf and likes TO
make speeches, but his greatest
passion is the cinema. He prob
ably sees every picture ever
made, good. bad and Indifferent,
running them in his own pro-
lection room in his home in
New York.
LIE is accounted the most re-
H Sourceful man in the movie
industry and has a great feeling
for mass entertainment. In
short, he knows about what the
public wants. knowledge gained
IN The operation OF theaters
are all over the country.
He started in the game years
ago with little 300-seater
-house IN one Of the poorer Sec
tions of st. Louis and gradually
spread out over the city until he
had a chain Of houses. He sold
out 10 Warmers, but remained
as general manager for the pur-
-ehaser-in ST. EotifS. ---
He has done himself no favor,
financially, in taking the presi-
dency of n movie company. In
1882. he left Warmers to take
over the Fox West Coast theater
chain. which was losing $1,000
600 year and seemed ready for
the cleaners. II is now making
over 100000 a year. Skouras
became head Of National Thea
tiers. the dominating chain west
of the Rockies and extending into
Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.
I'VE Chase National Bank
i owns So per cent of Ma
tional and the Fox Company az
per cent, and it is said that with
salaries and commissions. Spyros
Skouras and his brother, Char
ley, who runs the Fox West
Coast chain. must have been
making between $780, 900 and
$500, 900 a year. AN
The presidency Of Twentieth
Century-FoX will return him no
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Gypsy Family
Con+en+ed in
Okie-Like Life
Construction Workers
Resent Being Pitied
Tuesday, April IA, 1912
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

10y WIS DhtOOh Go1IR
TUCSON. Ariz., April 14.-At
Fort Huachuca. an Old FROM
tier post in the mountains and
desert southeast of here, much
construction of pine barracks
and the auxiliary buildings of a
modern. rush order army cam
Torment is still proceeding for
the accommodation, during their
training, of a division of Negro
soldiers.
The post is in a Godforsaken
area almost constantly whipped
by strong winds, which raise the
desert dust in high spirals and is
destitute Of any such town
amusements as ordinarily are
accessible to soldiers, but the
colored men in uniform never
theleSs. will be better off in all
practical respects than the white
civilians who have flocked in to
slap the buildings together.
They have a fine USO center
and other recreation buildings
and the usual army food and
m q d cal attention. whereas
many OF the construction men
and their families are living in
shacks. tents and trailers or a
brick-dry fiat in a settlement
called Fry. without any more
effective local civil government
than that which. by common
consent. they observe among
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
p YEARS AGO TO-DAY
April II, 1917

British troops in France take
the southwestern suburb of Lens.
French press Germans on the
north side Of the Ailctte River a
fcw miles from the city of Laon,
in Franco.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
THIS HABIT WILL
BRING VICTORY

Invest in your country
and help win the war.
Get the Victory Habit
buy Defense Bonds and
Stamps every pay day.
Do it the easy way
through your company's
Payroll Savings Plan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
April II, 1871

Germans force British 10
withdraw 10 new positions north
Of Nj. Olympus as they advance
from Salonika, in Greece.
Italians claim they have re-
captured the Albanian town of
Koritza.
Germans claim they now have
Fort Capuzzo and Solum on the
Libyan-Egyptian frontier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14

BETTE BIGLER,
Parkside Apartments,
Pontiac, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
Maxi Killed,
Wounded Set
At 100000
l. $50 900 Believed Dead
Mostly in Soviet Drive
BY PAUL MALION

WASHINGT0N. April IA
certain sluggiShneSS within
the Nazi military is now visible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
MRS. GLADYS TENINTY
SIG Conner avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
T'IIE FBI is working practi-
Il cally day and night 10 abol-
ish spies and Sabotage-the
point I'm trying to stress fol-
lows:
Detroit had an Army Day
celebration and the planes at
Selfridge Field were on display
for every one 10 inspect. Why
are they taking such chances
Any John Doe can be an
enemy spy on the Turk. They
would have no difficulty in MAX
ing notes and drawing a few
plans after their departure.
II seems that any one that is
n good American wouldn't doubt
the GOVERNMENTS word by hav-
ing to- have our war material
displayed before them.
Lately / have heard on the
radio that no more request num-
bers and dedications will be
played for any specified persons.
But for sale at a low price on
a certain air station arc War
Maps. These maps IA in alb
point out all of our direct loca-
tions of large plane factories, air
bases etc.
II we are 10 Serve in Silence
why do they hand out all Of
this valuable information 10
possible spy that has been wait
ing for his chance TO write
home? I'm sure he would appre-
ciate the maps very much.
BETTE BIGLER,
Parkside Apartments,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
0EfR0HsslTMES

Published every Week Day Evening and
sunday Morning nv The Times Publishing
Company a. 1928 Times square. Detroit.
Mich
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14

Subscription rates Cin advanceD by mail
10 any place in the United states Canada
Dr Mexico ton Canadian subscriptions add
10 per cent for war taxi.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14

thing:
We've got 10 take a licking
until we are able 10 swing few
from the ankles ourselves
MEANWHILE, we are making
A'A heroes boys who fight I'M
der such impossible odds that
devotion to country is all that
can keep them going. This is
heartening. but heart-rending.
Where does the black news
from Bataan. the Bay of Bengal,
Burma and Ceylon leave us?
We've got 10 produce as never
before against time.
We must maintain orr out
posts as long as possible, even
If 1t means that the boys go
down fighting against time.
We're going To use that time
10 sweat out every last weapon
that we can.
We're going TO raise and train
and equip an army and trans
port II on a scale never before
attempted.
We will live on bare subsis-
tence If necessary 10 do this.
The time for all this sacrifice
is right now.
Already our potentialities are
beginning 10 be realized. Muscles
which were fat and flabby with
disuse are Strengthening
Actually in few short
months. we now appear 10 be
meeting the Presidents program
which al first seemed fantasia
cally high. But even this is only
the beginning.
The great need is ships. Tanks
and planes rusting in Warehouses
will do neither us nor our Allies
any good.
Every day the bedragglod sur
vivorS Of a torpedoed tanker or
merchant ship battle their way
into port.
Every dav we hear Of sagas
that remi ind US of Captain
Bligh's voyage after mutiny on
the Bounty.
Every day the oil. guns, tanks.
ships and planes, so sorely
needed on our battle-fronts, are
lost through sinkings.
THE rate of ship construction
l. is all too low 10 absorb
these losses and still get suf-
fcient equipment across the
thousands Of miles of ocean TO
the battle-tronts
This, then. is our prime battle
front. We must build ships
faster and faster and cut down
the sinkings.
When the time comes for our
own offensive, we will need an
avalanche Of weapons mustered
by unheard of numbers of men
carried in myriads of ships.
Bataan's loss and setting the
little so and so Nippons on their
ears can be answered only
through production on scale
that staggers the imagination.
The devotion 10 duty shown
by the men who fought there
must be matched in factories.
shipyards. homes. in the board
rooms Of corporations and in the
headquarters Of unions.
II must be matched by the
truck drivers, the train engi-
neers, the office workers, the
bank clerks. the miners. the
civil servants and the politicians
above all-politicians.
Washington and Congress
must remember that we are
fighting a war all over the world
with Americans blood and tears,
and not November congress
Sional election.
Distributed by King Features synd Inc.
Reproduction in whole or in part
strictly prohihited
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-14
U. Fighting
Against Time
On All Fronts
Sacrifice Now Believed
Key TO Victory
BY HUGH s. JOHNSON

THESE are tough times, and
they are going 10 get tougher.
Bataan is gone-gone after
forcing the Japs to gather ten
10 one odds in men and hum
dredS to one in planes.
Wainwright and his Ameri-
can and Filipino boys put up the
kind of a fight that makes you
feel like cheering and crying at
the same time. The fact they
lost detracts in no way from
their glory
But we can't shut our eyes to
the fact they did lose. Our
Pacific outposts are now Hawaii,
Australia and the Aleutians.
Corregidor is merely a tenn
porary and isolated rock of re-
sistance "a tribute TO undying
bravery, but no longer an inte-
grail part of our Pacific defenses.
No earthly good can come Of
talking about what might have
been, and / am going 10 keep
my mouth shut on that score.
Let's face just what we are up
against now.
We are PREPARING TO fight
a war and FIGHTING il at the
same time. This means just one
thing:
We've got 10 take a licking
until we are able 10 swing a few
from the ankles ourselves
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
Farm Bloc Drops
Parity Rider Plan
For War Fund Bi!I

WASHINGTON, March 2 CUPl -
Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla said
today the farm bloc would drop its
plans to write a parity price limi-
tation into the pending $32 900 600
900 war appropriation bill but would
raise the issue again when the an
rual agriculture supply bill reaches
the senate.
This decision. Thomas said. was
made at a meeting attended by
farm senators.
The group agreed. he SAID. on the
following program:
l To make no request to con-
fer with President Roosevelt, as had
been considered earlier.
3 To permit passage of the $32.-
GUO0O0,000 war appropriation with
out attempting to write in a parity
price limitation
3 To raise the parity price isSue
again when the annual agriculture
department appropriation on
which house action begins today
reaches the senate.
Thomas said that the agriculture
supply bill carries some S45O,00O000
COR soil conservation payments. and
has certain cOntractual authori2a-
tionS that may mean S200,0l9 coo OF
$300000,000 in parity payments
funds designed to increase the in-
come of farmers producing basic
crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
War Child TO Talk
Here Thursday Of
Tragic Experience

Salon Rigk. born IL va" torn
Srria. Will speak tA"ea tI#c> IN Fl
CeGtro Thursday. te.llns e his cN-
perienee in reaching America and
is Stsuac,C fOr success at.oy his
arrival III He lame q opportunity.
He vii speak flr>t a. Central
Union Hich >Choo, A. d am and
IoXt a Central Junior college as
>emhly Al II am. IHe NuNh, is
welcome 10 attend each assembly
He also Will SPEAK a F. Ccnro
Rotary club a, NOON Thursday
Che Of the yOunse>t lecturers il
lie country. Rllk las been acelaim-
ed living example Of The oNpoc-
tLnltleS America Offers
Rszk never knew LIS Syrian mo-
ther She died tie CAY he WAS born.
He Was a half starved lad during
he first World War He witnessed
The horrors of burning. pillaeug.
ana murdeYug After tie va" he
learned that his absent father was
q citizen Of the United States He
waited for five years before his
passport came ana lie WIS permit
sd % sail 10 AwesI.a IL ViI tell
r' lis experience "..tr H. arrival
= America. low he oyer1ame diff
,llueS many American boy, would
.>&ye considered hopeless
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
LaFoIletfe Probe
Report Lambasfs
Employer Groups

fCon-inucd frcn; 90 c"e'
ried OFT in ANTICIPATION Q. i.ve,.I-
cation.
THE si2rf.car-a . III in0uirv
is tha, nee i a reed for adding
10 and iaccoa>iag 'ne protection Of
,abors ci"., rigH:s .arog2h legis-
iatiye action if VI aEe . achieve
that pervasire Gccraa Of collective
Bargaining procedure recognized as
e>s >sential = an c-u,'a5.e division Of
he fruits Of industry IL . system ot
free private ontcgprsc@ The report
said
The California investigation. rs
na.Yzed il hi repse. ~tro.-.,
suggests ,ka' re ration, ,e~~~ r
lions act has no. .. proved Of
:ec'.Ye n Aa.-n- "a@s" Il "'.'.-
@rce Win Tie rI-l'z g labGl T.
o"gan.ze and bacce.r collectively.
>-cn organized consHraeIe> again,
the Hat.ona. labor ,a% of'en ca
.arg.c loca. ottlcia.Gon aLd 2ir" t.
! partisan tinge. creating cOnfus-
.n2 and demcraiizin2 corfl!ct be-
'ween federal AMI !oeai AN Ell
.C.CcmcIt
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
Blast Furnace on
Coast Authorized

WASHINGTON. March :. Up --
The Var production board today
announced that Henry Kaiser. Wc>,
coast contractor. had been -ranted
permission 10 Ccn>trset a ri. iron
bias, furnace V..n i ea.ly caNac-
.ty Of 200 IONS.
TXac. location Of tse ntW plant
has not seen determined BIZ II VII
5e IL s3athoru California. WPB Of
..cia.S Sald
ka.>ee's ar?,ca,.aH a,so included
.Ehl> to .Sa .ro2 deposits from
zaele mountain and coal .yom Utah.
4 ta.tke. application =. a steel
plate plant Is Neaan@ ard Is eX-
pecied 10 be acted Zen tayorab.y
soon.
TIE WPB approved Kaiser, ap-
p.!ea..oH. !. W.. understood. because
I Gl.tics.t.sS !" oo.a!ain- >tee.
production tac.H.a, OF the weS.
coaS. through eXs.tas steel corr
?3n.eS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
III Clubs Anxious
To Show Projects
AT CountyF

Imperial valleys All clubs have
50 many boys and girls wanting to
exhibit their farm projects in the
fair this year that several entries
will have to be turned down, H.
Lee Landerman. head Of the youth
organization here, had said Mon
day.
In the beef cattle division 18
club members have turned in en-
tries and a total of 25 is expected
before dcadline, Tuesday, March 3.
The poultry entries are also over
flowing. Landerman said. Entries
for more than 200 fowls are alread?
in and some of them will have to
be discarded because of the 200
limit set. Four breeds of chicken be-
sides ducks and geese are included.
This year. Landerman said, there
will be four feature booths in the
fair besides a display booth that
will show agricultural products pro-
duccd by members OF the clubs in
the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-02
COLORADO WILLING

DEWITT sent 4 telegram of ap-
probation and praise 70 Gov Ralph
Carr for announcing that Colorado
was Willing to contribute 10 the war
effort by accepting eVaeuees.
He said government. agencies were
engaged in far-rea2!.ing prepa-a-
tions to deal with the problem and
a study Is il progress by those
agencies REGARDING The protection Of
property. the reSet;lement and re-
location Of those WHO are affected ''
The completed preparation Will
include measures GeSigLad to safe
guard as far as possible prop .
and property rights. % avoid ne
depressing effect OF forced sales
ard generally 10 minimize result
ing economic dSlocat.on.
More than 5000 aliens have evac-
uated zones previously designated
by the department OF justice All
thorities reported mass migration,
had been avoided.