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also was forecast by L. C. Major,
regional manager for the Grey
hound Lines, who said ticket sales
indicated passenger list of about
20 900, as compared with the pre-
vious record of $4,000 set last Christ
mas.
There will be some delay in trips,
he said, because all available equip
ment is being used and it is neceS-
Sary, consequently, to service and
check incoming buses for imme-
diate turn-around trips, and patrons
must wait until these are ready.
Mr.. Major agreed with Union
Station officials that travel seemed
to be equally distributed in all di-
rectionS. He said that efforts to
hold down travel cut of Washing
ton undoubtedly had been effective,
and added that I'm glad of that
because We might not have been
able to handle the crowds that
otherwise would have wanted to
move"
Greyhound is carrying standees,
as is the National TrailwayS, which
serves the South. Marvin E. Walsh,
general manager of Trailways, said
his line had 90 buses operating
and brought in four more from
Baltimore. He was certain also that
the no travel admonition had its eff
feet.
People seem surprised when they
find they can get tickets" he said
In conformity with the wishes of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, Government agencies generally
refused to give employees annual
leave over the holidays if they con-
templated leaving the city by public
carrier. No restrictions were ap-
piled otherwise, however.
Another factor that may have
served to cut down travel was that
today was a full work day in the
Government, while in the pre-War
years it was not unusual for Christ
mas eve to be holiday.
At the American Automobile As
Sociation it was said that requests
for travel information we're light,
gasoline ration, Of course, cutting
into private automobile travel.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Spare Tire Seizures
Hinge on Synthetic
Output, LETTERS Says
Plan, However, CoIled
Lost Resort and Step
He Isn't Looking For
By tie Associated Press.

by ife Associated Press.
OMAHA, Dec. Whether
tires will be taken from persons
with more than one car depends
on the speed with which syn
thetic rubber plants get into
production, William Jeffers, rub
Der administrator, said last
night.
But taking tires from motorists
owning more than one car or spare
tires from those with only one ma
chine will be last resort-a last
resort I'm not looking for" Mr..
JeferS said.
L don't anticipate any trouble" +"
he added. He said earlier yester-
day the rubber shortage may make
such action necessary.
Mr.. Jeffers, in Omaha to discuss
problems with Representatives from
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota,
said about 40 per cent of the TO-
100000 tires collected recently are
scrap, 30 to IS per cent are worth
recapping, and the rest are usable
10 Million Collected.
Mr. Jeffers said the recent tire COL
lection drive netted 100000 tires,
but about 40 per cent are scrap and
from 30 to 35 per cent are worth
recapping. The rest are ready for
immediate use.
He outlined plans to simplify gas
ratloning problems of farmers at
the meeting. He suggested that the
several different and complicated
forms now required be consolidated
into two formS-one for all farm
production such as tractors, lighting
equipment, brooder fuel, pickup
trucks not used for hire; one for
the farmers automobile and for
any trucks used for hire.
The two forms would be joined
and would be presented first to
township committees, which would
go over the estimates of his needs.
These recommendation would be
accepted automatically by the ra-
tioning boards in practically all
cases, Mr.. Jeffers believes.
In the case of trucks for hire,
the applications would go to trans
portation committees.
Under the plan, local committees
would have wider authority and the
first committee will get an over
all picture of the farmers needs.
Mr.. Jeffers will present the new
forms to Defense Transportation Di-
rector Eastman for approval.
A plan to bundle all the farmers
needs into one form was not prac-
ticable, it was decided, because city
drivers might feel the farmer was
getting preferred treatment if he
could lump his auto with all other
uses.
Mr.. Jeffers expressed disapproval
of any penalty clause.
Il don't like that" he asserted,
That's the whole trouble so far
we always start out with a puni-
tive idea. I think that all we need
is statement from the farmer, over
his signature, that he won't use
gasoline for production or other pur-
poses.
/ think we can go on the theory
that 50 to SO per cent of the farm
erS are honest"
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Macarthur Receives
Greetings From Marshall

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Dec "a (P.-Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, Allied COM
mander in chief in the Southwest
Pacific, disclosed today he had re-
ceived this Christmas message from
Gen. George c. Marshall, Chief of
Staff of the United States Army:
You have my admiration for the
splendid campaign you have accom-
plished. You have seized the initia-
tive which presageS victory for the
future. You can count on my doing
all in my power to bring this about. "
Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, COM
mander of Allied land forces in this
theater, received Christmas mes
sageS from 1t. Gen. Morshead, COM
manding Australians il the Middle
East, and from Gen. Waveli, COM
mander in chief for India.
Gen. Morshead said: 1--WE are
watching with great admiration and
pride your splendid achievements in
New Guinea" j."
Evening star., 1942-12-24
By the Associated Press.
DTFFf AINT-T nTTT

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. "a -
Friendly French and Arab inhabit-
ants Of the Algerian coast saved
hundreds of exhausted Navy men
floundering in heavy surf after their
ship, the Leedstown, was torpedoed
off North Africa. 1t. Comdr. Bernard
P. Caraher, navigator of the trans
port, revealed yesterday.
One OF the ShipWrecked Seamen,
Comdr. Caraher said, put on a fez
and some borrowed clothing, got
himself a tommy gun, filled his
pockets with ammunition and went
off to fight the war on his own"
Comdr. Carahers story was made
public yesterday by the 4th Naval
District The officer is living in
Philadelphia while on leave.
Surf Called Terrific"
THE sea was covered with fuel
oil and debris. The wind was blow
ing toward the shore, which was a
blessing" Comdr. Caraher recalled.
There was a terrific surf. The life
RATS were tossed end over end when
they got in the breakers and that
was how those rescued came to owe
their lives to the French and Arabs.
Evening star., 1942-12-24

as holding augury of victory and
peace.
Allied successes in Africa, at
Stalingrad. in the sacrifice of the
French fleet at Toulon ARE the
prelude of a new day." the Arch
bishop of Canterbury told occupied
Euorpe in a broadcast.
Mai. Gen. Russell P. Hartle. act
ing commander of the United States
Army in the United Kingdom, said
that nothing would stop the ad-
vance to victory
In India 1t. Gen. Joseph Stilwell
sent Christmas greetings to the men
of the Far East command with a
hope that next year you will all be
back where Christmas can really be
merry"
At Turning Point of War.
Britain's Air Marshal Sir Arthur
Harris, chief of the bomber COM
mand, told his men that on them
depended vastly whether the end
of l943 would bring a real Christ
mas of peace and good will
King HaaKon OF Norway voiced
the belief, in message to his in
vaded homeland. that I'VE are
standing at the turning point Of the
war"
On the eastern wing of the
African front there was cause for
rejoicing at the United States Air
Forces headquarters near Cairo.
1t. Col. Jack P. Morrison, an Air
Forces chaplain, of Louisville, KY,
came up with a box of American
Christmas snow" and two dozen
Christmas tree decorations. In all
Egypt there probably was not an
other haul like this. He's using it
to decorate the tree for the head
quarters Christmas party
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Soldiers Seek Law
r O Regain Children

Soldiers of South Africa seeking
custody of their children are asking
for new law. A number of them
have returned from up north" to
find that their wives deserted them.
The only ground for divorce avail
able to the soldiers for lack of other
evidence is deSertion, and in that
case the law gives the children to
the mother. A movement is on foot
to amend the law so that in cases
where fighting soldiers have no al
tentative but divorce the children
be given to the fathers.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Curtin Calls for Message
To TOTO in Bullets

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. "a
(P).-Prime Minister John Curtin
sent a Christmas message to Aus
tralian soldiers on many fronts to-
day, telling them they had a
message to deliver to Gen. Hideki
TOTO, japanese Premier. next year
and asking them to deliver it in
bullets, bombs and shells"
There are Australians and other
British subjects locked up in Singa-
pore" the message said. There
are Americans in the Philippines,
Dutch and Indonese in the Neither
lands East Indies, Chinese in China.
They are going to be released. You
can't stop free men fighting in a
free cause"
Evening star., 1942-12-24

non-defenSe Government agency.
wanted to do something more di-
rectly connected with war service"
She expects to be ordered to In
diana University for storekeeper
training during the first part of
January. Mrs. CANDLES father is
with the General Accounting Office.
Mrs, Gamble is graduate of Cen
tral High School and was for some
time employed by the Public Works
Administration.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
u. ). Soldiers Abroad
To Mark Holiday in
True American Style
Spirit Not DuIIed, but
Menus and Decorations
Moy Be Different
r. the Associated Press.

F. the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 24.-It will be
Christmas - American style -- in
strange lands tomorrow.
There may be no snow and
Christmas trees just don't grow in
many places where American SOL
diers are fighting. Turkeys are
scarce.
But the real holiday spirit hasn't
been dulled and American troops
are more than meeting the test of
making Christmas as homelike as
possible.
There will be enough to eat every
where, although the menu won't
match the Yule season in all cases.
There will be parties in camps and
some Of the boys lucky enough to
be in cities may get a whirl at a
holiday dancing party. There will
be packages and mail from home.
But playing Santa Claus for boys
and girls in Ireland. England, Africa
and in multitude of other posts is
the favorite role for American SOL
diers.
Will Entertain Children.
The Army in Northern Ireland
will entertain 10000 youngsters to-
night. Hundreds will find among
their gifts toys that were made by
patients in Army hospitals.
There was one edge to Christmas
that young American soldiers
throughout the world admit-they
hOmesick.
But the hospitality they've found
has helped ease that pain.
In great Britain there are so
invitations to Christmas dinner for
every soldier who can be spared
from his war work for the day and
many an English family has pulled
in its belt all this last week so
that it can present an attractive
Christmas feast within the limits
Of its ration card.
The story was the same in Aus
tralia and New Zealand, with pri-
vate families and public agencies
sharing the pleasure of trying to
make American boys feel a bit
more at home for the Yuletide.
The parties and the feasting were
not the whole story, however.
Church services will be held in the
cities and the villages and in the
battle areSa.
Hailed as Prelude to Victory.
Leaders both military and re-
ligious hailed this Christmas eve
Evening star., 1942-12-24

oWlleIS l. . d II
Corp. and is Wis
iting her par
entS, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. N. Quinn,
518 P e a b o d y
S t r e e t b., while
awaiting orders
to active duty in
t h e Women'S
Reserve of the
Coast Guard.
Il had been
thinking a lot of
doing this" she
said, especially
s. n ce I was
working for a
Evening star., 1942-12-24
NewIy-Sworn-In SPAR
Visiting Her Parents Here

Mrs. Eleanor Quinn Gamble, one
of the first five SPARS sworn in
at New York, has received indefinite
leave of absence from the Home
Evening star., 1942-12-24
FOUND.

KEYS between 18th and l4th on Mass.
Sfs Call Reed. NE. 1850
REPORT ABANDONED. STRAY ANIMALS
y the Animal Protective Association for
humane Disposition Atlantic f142 or Hill.
.lot lotE Present facilities limited to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
General Praises
Air Schools Here

A member Of n ground crew
may not get much credit but he
can be as important TO the sue
cess OF a mission as the flier him.
self, commented Major General
Weaver. Saturday. after his in
spection OF army air force training
facilities here.
Weaver. who is in charge OF
technical education for the service,
declared:
81 don't believe the public has
any conception of the tremen-
dous effort put forth In these
technical schools. The require
ments of men I'm the service
today Is approaching that of .
college-graduated engineer"
The general had high praise for
the progress made at the Briggs
Manufacturing training school,
Opposite the Michigan Central
Station. where he spoke to grad
yates, and at Willow Run. Briggs
is training soldiers in maintenance
of its newly devised aircraft gun
turretS.
Walter .. Briggs. chairman. was
host 10 Weaver at d. A. C.
breakfast preceding his inspection
tour.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Breadpinners Plight
Insignia Appeal
To Young, Old

Something OF interest TO practi-
cally every one, regardless of age!
Yes, the 80 Full Color United
States War Insignia Stamps, avail
able TO Detroit Times readers, APP
peal to both adult and children, for
these stamps are highly interesting
and will grow in value from year
10 year.
Stamps bear insignia used by
various units of Uncle Sans In
trepid fighting forces. Stamps are
gummed, serially mum ere d.
printed on fine grade paper In all
the beauty of full color.
Three series mos. /. 2 and 81
of so stamps each are available.
The charge: % cents for each
series of so stamps wanted.
Also available are three rotogra-
vure albums with spaces TO attach
stamps and printed information on
insignia. The albums lone has been
prepared for each OF the three
series of 80 stamps cost you only
Is cents each.
You are urged 10 obtain your
War Insignia Stamps and Albums
while the supply lasts! You car
order with handy order blank or
this page While ordering fol
yourself, why not also order fol-
some boy in the service?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20

Oakland County Prosecutor
Charles L. Wilson charges Morgan
beat the girl near Franklin VII
lage at the height OF an electrical
storm on the night OF May %.
Morgan has maintained she re-
ceived her injuries when she fell
from the car.
The case is scheduled for Octo-
Der 9.
The second trial viii be that OF
Seldom Drake. 81. of Walled Lake,
charged with beating TO death
Jackie Creech. 2-year-old son Of
his wife. Mabel Creech Drake, 20.
Mrs. Drake originally charged with
completely in the Staying. has
been released from the charge but
will be a material witness.
Friday will see the start OF the
trial OF Norman ~Crenshaw, Is. of
Rochester. who has admitted the
shotgun Staying OF his neighbor.
Clarence Lockwood. after the
latter allegedly made improper
advances TO Mrs. Crenshaw.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Cleaner S Trial
Clerk S Death
Near al Pontiac
z Other Murder Cases
TO Come Up Soon
Before Judge Holland
Times star Correspondent

PONTIAC. Sept. 2o.-The trial
of James Morgan. 35-year-old
Highland Park dry cleaner. In the
death of his clerk. Frances Drag
OF Ferndale. will be one OF three
murder trials begun here In the
next two weeks, Circuit Judge II,
Russell Holland revealed Satur-
day.
The 31-year-old Miss Drag died
early May 80 in Highland Park
General Hospital few hours after
being taken there by Morgan, who
had kept her on a cot in the rear
Of his cleaning establishment for
several hours after they returned
from an automobile ride.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
DSR Loads Continue
To Rise; 5000 Up

DSR loads continued TO rise in
the week ended September II, the
Board of Commerce reporte d
Saturday.
In its weekly business review,
the organization estimated a daily
average, excluding Labor Day. OF
] STA. 664 passengers, about 5000
above the preceding period.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Major
Claims Escape
From A|catraz
Confessss He Posed
q, intelligence Officer;
Denies Taking Money

Jack Frank, admitted "phony'
army officer, self-styled conf
dence man of national scope" and
claimant to a successful escape
from Alcatraz federal prison, Sat
urday pleaded guilty to charges OF
Illegally wearing the uniform OF
an army major.
Frank. arrested posing as Maj
George Baker, air corps intelli-
gence officer, pleaded not guilty
to a second charge. that he used
the uniform TO obtain money. He
was held under $4,000 bond BY
Ur.ted States Commissioner j
Stanley Hurd.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
State Railroads Win
u. 5. Safety Contest

Michigan railroads were winners
in the national safety contest of
railroad employees for the first half
of this year. the Michigan Railroad
Association announced Saturday.
The Michigan Central won first
in class B. and the Wabash won
second. In group E. the Lake
Superior and Ishpeming won first,
with no accidents reported, and
the Ann Arbor Railroad won Sec
ond. In the small railroads, the
Detroit and Mackinac won first.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20

and-one-half mile distant Stinson
Aircraft division OF Vultee Air
craft. Inc.
So-ae 80 similar temporary
communities have been created by
the federal government through
out the nation wherever the de-
mand for war workers homes
became most acute.
Tent colonies are their homes
and trailers. usually parked on
private property far from any
sanitary conveniences.
Breodpinners Plight
Others are being sheltered
within cellar holes rooted over
with tarred paper. Scores pay ex-
cessive rents for substandard
dwellings.
In hundreds OF cases the family
breadwinner Is here. rooming In
crowded quarters. awaiting the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Van Wagner Backed
By State Clio Council

The executive board of the
Michigan CIO Council has joined
with the UAW-CIO in endorsing
Gov. Murray d. Van Wagner for
reelection, il was announced Sat-
|urday by August Scholle, president
of the council.
Concurring in the endorsement
was the statewide Go political
action committee. The Go coun-
ellis executive board also reaf-
Ifirmed the endorsement of Prentiss
M. Brown for reelection as United
States senator.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Housing Shortage Hits
New Mexican Consul

Mexico's new CONSUL in Detroit,
Rodolfo Salazal. arrived in De-
troit, and Saturday was still try
ing to cope with his first problem
in the city-housing
The consul. his wife and three
daughters arc making the Whit
tier their temporary home. The
office. however, has been opened
at 1915 Fox Theater Building.
Salazal replaces Adolfo G.. Domin-
guez. consul here for two years,
who has been transferred to Hous-
ton, Tex.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Mrs. Gloria Topping
To Ask for Divorce

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 GNS).-
Mrs. Gloria CMinD Baker Top
ping today confirmed reports she
intends TO institute divorce pro-
ceedings against 1t. Henry j.
Bob Topping. tin-plate heir and
now a member of the United
States naval air corps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Wayne Problem Solved
Blu DOrmitOries, Trailers
w. P. BROWN


day when he can find an adequate
place into which 10 move his
family.
Willow Run workers are also
pressing Alderman for housing al
the Wayne project. However
Alderman said they would not be
admitted there, until all Bendix
and Stinson employees were shell
tered.
Typical Is L. d. Williams, Ford
bomber plant assemblyman. who
recently came here from Grand
Rapids with his wife and their
10-year-old son, Keith.
Although they are crowded into
one room in a Wayne private home
trey must wait until Stinson and
Bendix employees in similar pre-
|dicaments are housed.
Families the size OF Williams
are housed in The conventional
type trailer. provided at the
Wayne project for rental at Sc q
week 10 families OF two, three or
four persons.
Or. IL the family has it's own
trailer, as in the case Of Mrs. F
ID. Radabaugh, 32-year-old bomber
plant welder. they may rent one
Of the 100 private trailer parking
spaces for the project.
Here, again. however, Stinsor
and Bendix workers will be giver
preference.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
I'd Charge Denied

Frank claimed in court that, In
his 4S years. he has escaped from
Atlanta prison, q we'll as Alca-
|traz, and has served time in San
Quentin and Folsom prisons in
California and in New York state
on a larceny charge.
The false major Baker" was
arrested by FBI agents in down.
town hotel after reports from Ben
X. Jackson. another visitor TO De-
|troit. that jackson had been
|"rolled" for $50 while sharing a
room with Frank. It was this
charge Frank denied before Com
missioner Hurd.
In his possession. said John S.
fBugas, FBf chief, Frank had tefe-
grams purporting 10 have been
sent Major Baker by high army
|officials and three draft cards
bearing three different names.
- Another Uniform
Frank told Bugas he was hon.
|orabIy discharged from the army
in 1912, at the age Of 18, after
serving two years. He was court
martialed out of the army in 1918,
after a second enlistment, and sem
fenced TO five years in AlcatraZ,
from which he escaped, he said.
In 1921, Frank was sent 10 At
lanta for 10 years and, after four
"just walked away" he
said in court.
In his court appearance Major
Baker" was perfect except for one
flaw-nobody had told him that
the officers insignia are now worn
on the collar instead of the shout
derS.
Frank told Bugas he also had
a master Sergeant's uniform.
cit gets you into places n
civilian couldn't 60" he eX-
planned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Sorority House Aura

The women's dornitories here
are expected to take on a college
or sorority house atmosphere, judy
ing from developments at other
projects.
They will house 372. mostly
women in their early twenties. In
other war communities, Alderman
reports. the dormitory girls prove
to be as susceptible to fads and
sociable cliques as a group Of
goods.
Bendix Is renting two dorIni-
tories for women and Stinson one.
under unique arrangement with
the federal government.
Rents are deducted on a monthly
basis from pay rolls. In addition
there are three dormitories OF 81
beds each.
The project include:
Six dormitories for women. so
Idormitory trailers for men, hous-
ing three men each, 30 expansible
trailers for families of five or six.
100 conventional type traiicrs for
families of two. three or four per-
sons, and rental parking space for
100 private trailers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-20
Jack 0akie, Wife
Go Separate Ways

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 10 (INS)
Oakie, rotund film come
dian. and his attractive brunei
wife, Venita Warden. disclosed to-
day that they had worked out a
property settlement and gone
their separate ways. But. Mrs.
Oakie said, there will be no
divorce.
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