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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27
House Might
Voteon Wage,
Hour Control
Studying Wisdom
of Move

Washington, May 27-AP-Con-
gTessional advocates OF restrictive
labor legislation studied today the
possibility-and wlsdOm-of at
tempting to gain a House vote on
wartime wage and hour controls
when it considers a bill making
labor unions liable to prosecution
under the 1884 anu.Racketeering
Act.
One southern representative, ac-
tive in the fight for a showdown
on the issue, said he was exploring
the parliamentary technicalities OF
the subject TO find out whether an
attempt to broaden the measure to
include wage and hour restrictions
could be blocked on points of or.
der.
Stiff Penalties
The bill. setting up stiff penal
ties for interference with inter-
9AoNC NGS ONtQ ny
the House Judiciary Committee
yesterday over the opposition by
spokesman for the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor and the Congress
OF Industrial Organizations.
Rep. Smith (D-Va) author of
several bills to curtail union &C
tiy:ty during the emergency, de-
clared that he was opposed to
jeopardizing the chances of the
measure by loading it down" with
any additional labor legislation.
Smith. a member of the rules
committee, also expressed belief
that any attempt to broaden the
bill through riders covering wages
or hours would be thrown out on
the ground that they were not
A ~ 80
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27
AWAITS SENTENCE

Bay City. Mich. May 81 ms
Beneditto Giacslone, alias Ben
Grimes 3l-year-old former Flint Of
ficer. today awaited sentence after
pleading guilty TO false claims OF
citizenship Assistant District Attor-
ney Louis NJ Hopping told Judge
Arthur J. futile that Grimes
claimed he was an American citizen
when obtaining the police post sew
eraT years ago.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

Gasoline rationing has revived
talk of the invention OF John
Andrews, who in 1916 demonstrate
ed to Navy officers claimed
method of Transforming water
into gasoline. Andrews has been
discovered living near McKees-
port. Pa. He told an interviewer
that he believes he can work out
the formula again. The govern
ment never has approached him
further since the demonstration
rs years ago.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27
Germans Planning
Evacuation of
Coastline

London, May 27-lNS-German
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has
started . Iaroe-seale offensive in
Llbya, all London evening news
papers said today. Earlier authori-
tative British quarters conceded
that the renewed Axis activity in
libya obviously is an enemy Of
fensive OF sorts.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

BARGAINS: Continuous rummage
sale. clothing for every member Of
the family. Thrift Shop. SIG West
Cross Open 10 10 IL, TO g. Satur-
days 10 10 u. Adv. 527'
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

Rear Admiral Van Hook
Here is an excellent portrait Of
Rear Admiral Clifford Evans Van
Hook. commandant Of the Fiji
teenth Naval district. Balboa.
Canal Zone. Lieut.. Gen. Frank
NJ Andrews is commander Of the
entire Caribbean area.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

HOLLYWOOD-INS- Stepping
off the train with four new bicy-
Gle tires slung over one arm, Mary
Mcclure, 16 year old Chicago
beauty, arrived in Hollywood to-
day to begin a screen career. I've
got a movie contract" said the
starlet, but they won't pay me I'm.
less | report for work every day,
and ! might have to ride a bike
to get there, so | brought my own
tires"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

HOLLYWOOD-AP 49, Registra-
ton OF every worker in the motion
picture industry is under way az
the Central Casting Bureau. Deci-
sion TO determine the citizenship
status OF all movie employees regu-
larly or casually employed was
reached recently at conference OF
studio and union representatives.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

BUENOS AIRr5-AP-Complete
accord among the q American Re.
publics on the exchange of infor
nation TO combat seditious crimes
will be sought at the Inter.Ameri.
can Conference on Coordination Of
Police and JUDICIAL Methods called
into session today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Cool, Cloudy

LONDON-lNS-An appeal 10
American Jews TO urge the United
States government to accept a man
date for Palestine was broadcast to-
day by Lord Josiah Wedgwood.
There is no longer any hope from
British administration" Lord Wedg-
wood declared in a critical attack
of British supervision OF the man
dated territory.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
V. MeNutt, chairman Of the War
Msnpower Commission, pledged
today that there will be no
draft Of labor" despite the need
for 100000 new workers by
the end of 1912. "Just as most
industries converted themselves
in large measure by voluntary
action, so American workers
will switch Jobs freely and en-
Enthusiastically" MeNutt told
Junior Board OF Commerce as
sembly.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

TOKYO-(From japanese Broad
casts) -AP-Premier Hideki TOTO,
in a lengthy war review in his cap
acity of war minister. told the diet
today that Japanese military forces
had captured 100000 troops and
shot down or destroyed about l,s00
aircraft in all operations from the
outset OF the Pacific war TO May
Is
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

COMPLETE rooming house ana
fraternity furniture: beds. rugs,
misc for sale 500 Lincoln. Ann A.
Dor. Thursday. u TO ) p. m. Adv.S27
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

LOS ANGELES ms Hun
dreds of bars and might spots" in
the Los Angeles and Hollywood
area may be designated "out of
bounds" by military authorities in
a step to crack down on enemy
agent activities and to eliminate
vice conditions, the southern Cali
fornia Tavern Association was
warned today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

NEW YORK ms Madeline
Webb. attractive and impetuous
IS year old model on trial with
two male co-defendants for the
hotel murder of Mrs. Susan Flora
Reich wealthy middle aged refu-
gee. threw the courtroom into an
uproad today when she jumped
from the witness chair, pounded
the rail before her and cried out
that she wasn't getting a square
deal
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

SAN FRANCISCO-INS- With
all japanese already ordered
cleared from every coastal county
10 the Pacific states from the Ca
madam to the Mexican border. the
Army's evacuation program today
centered on inland areas in the
state Of Washington lying within
military area No. l.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

WAsHINGTON--AP- Admins.
tration leaders expressed conf
dence today that the Senate would
approve a pending price subsidy
bill by nightfall, despite unexpect-
edly strong opposition.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

LONDON-INS - Reuters news
agency reported from Stockholm to-
day that 400 Poles were shot in
Lithuania in reprisal for the Staying
OF two Germans. Those shot in the
mass execution were accused by the
Germans of being 'saboteurs and
communists"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

LONDON ms - Additional
Canadian fighting forces were set
thing down in Britain today follow
ing arrival Of a transport convoy
Canadian headquarters said the
newly arrived troops included
ordnance units, engineers and
forestry troops.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27
Gas From Water?

See WAR-Page s
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

See WAGES. HoURS-Page 8
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

SAN FRANCISCO-INS-Prom-
Using sensational disclosures con-
corning an alleged tie-up between
Rome propaganda and leaders OF
San Francisco"s Italian colony.
Harry Bridges. president OF the
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's union, today pre-
pared to testify before the state
legislative committee investigat-
ing un-American activities in Cali
fornia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-27

SAN JOSE, c. R.-INS-A small
vessel of undisclosed nationality
was torpedoed and sunk off the
coast of Costa Rica Friday, accord
ing to unofficial reports in mari
time circles. The attack was said
TO have taken place $50 miles from
the mouth of the Panama Canal.
All members of the crew OF the tor
pedoed ship were reported saved.
Evening star., 1942-10-04
Western Front

It was the old Hitler, braggart, sneer-
ing, yet worried, who in that Sportspalast
speech said If were opposed by an
adversary of true greatness, military
greatness. then would be able more or
less to calculate where he would attack
If, however, one is faced with military
idiots, then one cannot know where they
will attack. One never knows what they
will do next"
In those words Hitler formally recog-
nized the prospect Of the second front
He demonstrated the success of the
psychological strategy of the Allies in in
dicating from time to time that there will
be second front without saying when
or where. Talk on our side about the
second front Is like q strong medicine,
useful If a spoonful is given. unfortunate
If two spoonfuls are given. A little bit
strengthens the morale of the people
waiting in Europe for deliverance. Too
much talk, with no following action, dulls
the expectations of the walters.
The week began with reports that
Wendell Willkie, in Moscow, as the spe-
cial emissary of
Second front ToIk President Roose-
Grows ouder welt, had expressed
last, Saturday a
wish for an opening of the second front
before next summer in order to relax the
pressure on the brave Russians The
statement had more than sentimental
meaning because Of Mr.. WILKES official
standing. In New Delhi, Gen. Sir Archi-
bald Wavell, commander in chief for
India, said as soon as the British and
Americans were ready, they would start
a second front, but he could not say
when or where.
ITS biggish problem starting on the
continent" Gen. Wavell said "Well
have some casualties, very considerable,
both American and ours, before we get
back into the continent. But we'll get
back
On Tuesday the British Broadcasting
Co. told its French listeners that an AL
lied attack "is in the making" On the
same day Prime Minister Churchill
voiced emphatic dissaproval of specula-
ton on the time or place of a second
front. The next day Mr.. Churchill said
the Allied strike at Dieppe met tank bar
riers of unforeseen strength, but he
added that, while the attackers lost about
half the men they sent over, the Raj
over Dieppe was victor in the greatest air
battle of all time. Ross Munro, Cana
dian correspondent who saw the Dieppe
raid reported in WASHINGTON that Dienne
proved the practicability of landing for
an invasion.
In the midst of those remarks, the
Evening star., 1942-10-04

preparations is given by the picture Of
activity in Moscow at this moment,
where barricades of new kind are ris-
ing in the streets-barricades of piled
logs to be used as fuel against the intense
cold of the winter, which soon will visit
Northern Russia.
Already there is frost in the night air
in Moscow. Woodpiles are being stacked
in the streets and squares by workers,
mostly women. There has been, a tre-
mendous exodus to the country around
Moscow OF city residents carrying KNAPP
sacks, saws and axes. In the forests
these amateur John Bunyans were as
signed to cut two cubic meters of wood
a day. They worked over four months.
Now out of the forests their cuttings
are being gathered. Twenty thousand
citizens of Moscow gave up their Sunday
free days to work along the Moscow
River unloading barges bringing in the
logs.
Civilians joined with their uniformed
brothers in Stalingrad to work for the
Illustration of the
Germons Unable to Germans. The
Goin FoothoId Germans, after 40
days of trying,
have not yet reached point in the bat
tie for Stalingrad where they can say
with certainty that all is over but the
last few gunshots. They cannot get their
toes into the ground, although they are
in the streets in Northwest Stalingrad.
Red Star, the Russian Army publication,
said last week that the Axis is using
from 600 to 1000 planes to pound the
city each day.
From other fronts the Germans have
been sending new men into the Stalin-
grad battle. Hundreds of civilians are
reported to be holding to their homes,
battered, opened by bombs to the sky,
some of them nothing but walls and
floor. Outside the northwestern section
OF the CITY, the Reds and the Germans
are in titanic seesaw. back and forth
Evening star., 1942-10-04
Pacific Front

A bit south of the Equator last week ar
tiuery had triumph. Australian SOL
diers In New Guinea, determined that
the mountaineering Japs would not
reach the key city Of Port Moresby.
hauled their cannon up into the jungle
and let 60 as the Japs dug in along
Ioribaiwa Ridge with 25-pound shells.
The Japs moved back. American Army
airplanes bombed and strafed their COM
munications and their source Of supply,
Buna. Thus gradually the old ways Of
war are reasserting themselves. The
mechanical bntzkrieg Of the wars early
days is heard of no more from the Ger
mans In Russia, and it is not the fashion
In New Guinea.
At 1oribaiwa, the Japs, who had done
the impossible by crossing the Owen
Stanley Range, were only 80 miles from
Port Moresby, point Of embarkation for
invading Australia. Now they are about
so miles from Port Moresby. The Aus
traiians found them dug in at Ioribaiwa
as though they intended to stay. The
Japs had felled trees to barricade the
trail and set up trip wires to warn them
OF approaching enemy. At some points
their trenches were deep: Some of these
trenches were camouflaged, under trees,
and placed so that from them Jap ma
chine-gunners could place crossfire on
advancing Allied troops
In spite of these precautions, the Jap
anese soon found themselves pushed back
10 miles to Nauro. The
ions Withdraw air battering of Buna
HurriedIv and the supply line at
Menari weakened the
Japs while the Australian artillerymen
and ground forces pressed against them.
The Japanese withdrew hurriedly, leav-
ing equipment and supplies as they went.
The advancing Australians never made
contact with the main body OF the re-
treaters. This fact underlines the effec-
tiveness of the artillery assaults from the
ground and air.
The Japs by the weeks end moved
back from Nauro to Menari. The Aus
tralians advanced cautiously to avoid
traps. The thick jungle through which
they advanced was on sharp incline.
Airacobras and Flying Fortresses at
tackled the enemys bases at Salamaua
and Buna on the New Guinea east coast.
Along the mountain trails through which
the Japs are trying to move forward sup
plies, the planes went after the supply
lines bottleneck-the Wairopi Bridge
over the Kumasi River. The bridge, re-
ported destroyed is the only means the
Japs have of getting stuff over the swol-
len stream
Evening star., 1942-10-04
Russian Front

The Axis today is still trying to accom-
plish in Russia what it was trying to
accomplish more than a month ago
reach the Volga at Stalingrad, reach the
Caspian at the Gulf of Kuma, cut off the
Soviet from its oil, cut off the Soviet
from American and English supplies that
enter from the south, through Persia
and across the Caspian. To slow up the
Axis the Reds last week began an attack
far to the north and west of Stalingrad,
at Rzhev, near the source of the long
flowing Volga, and to the south and west
OF Stalingrad near the Don Rivers bend.
Both these operations were calculated
to distract some of the German attention
from Stalingrad.
A year ago some bets were placed in
the United States about how soon the
Germans would be in Moscow, toward
which they were driving iercely. Long
ago the Axis gave up hopes of taking
the Red capital. Moscow now is getting
ready for its second winter of war. Some
idea OF the popular participation in war
Evening star., 1942-10-04

Volga River gunboats supported Red in
fantrymen in an attack within the city
against Rumanian riflemen.
The Nazis felt their way along slowly
eastward and southwark in the Caucasus.
The Axis forces approached Tuapse, on
the Black Sea, while another segment of
the Axis army in the Caucasus spent the
week in intermittent battle with the Reds
at Mozdok, on the railway which runs
across the Caucasian isthmus from Ros-
tov to the Caspian at the mouth of the
River Terek. Mozdok is 100 miles from
the Caspian shore
Evening star., 1942-10-04
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over the little hummocks that mark the
approach to Stalingrad. About 10000
Axis soldiers are estimated to be inside
the city. Up the streets where two
months ago automobiles and bullock carts
were driven the Germans now force tanks.
The rivermen are doing their part A
reporter for Pravda wrote last week that
the pleasure boats and steamers are gone
from the Volga along Stalingrad. In
their places are armored ships and fast
cutters, darting from bank to bank TAX
ing in supplies, ammunition and fresh
troops and carrying out the wounded.
Evening star., 1942-10-04

For German, things are not gong
we'll in Russia. The speech of Hitler
made this clear. The Fuehrer, who last
March Is said that "the Russians will be
annihilatingly defeated this following
summer" reported on Wednesday that
the German troops are getting ready for
another winters stay in Russia. The
summer has come and gone, and there
has been no annhilating defeat. Semeon
Timoshenko has an army today, as he
had one in March. Hitler made no prom
ises to the Germans about the oil fields
of the Caucasus he told them he would
Evening star., 1942-10-04
Canada in Dispute Over Prices
Warning That Ceiling May Be Extended to All
Cattle Is Followed by Attack on Farmers
By B. T. Richardson.

OTTAWA-Heralding strenuous efforts
to hold the price ceiling against farm
bloc pressure, warning has been issued
that beef supplies in Canada may be
rationed and that the price ceiling may
be extended to all cattle prices.
The warning came from the chairman
of the War Prices Board, Donald Gordon.
Coming into the open is one of the bit
terest conflicts yet to develop over the
Canadian price ceiling policy, a headlong
collision between the price controllers
and agricultural interests. The charge
that the farmers are on strike against
the price ceiling and are holding back
cattle from market has enlivened the
controversy.
Hitherto the price ceiling, while apply
ing universally, has operated only at the
retail level. The price of beef was con-
trolled, but not the price of cattle. Pre-
viously the farmers have had the assur-
ance that the price ceiling will not apply
to their products except when they enter
the retail level.
1--WE are studying methods" Mr. Cor
don said. "of establishing ceilings on the
prices of livestock in addition to the
present ceilings on the prices of meat"
Mr.. Gordon added that cattle prices are
substantially higher than the appropriate
seasonal level and they should decline
this autumn.
The farm viewpoint, expressed by
James H. Gardiner, Federal minister of
agriculture, and others, is that the farm
ers should not rush cattle on the market
to overcome a shortage that most of
them believe is temporary, that they
should feed their cattle until next spring,
when they will be heavier and more
profitable to sell.
Disagreement Over Shortage.
There is wide disagreement between
the price controllers and the Agricultural
Department over how to deal with the
existing shortage of beef, which is acute
in most large Canadian cities.
The urban public which is going
without beef is unable to make out the
truth amid the conflicting claims of each
side of the controversy. Most Canadians
find it hard to believe that they should
have to endure a beef shortage in a
country Of large agricultural capacity.
Meanwhile, black market conditions are
reported developing in rural areas,
especially in Ontario, with small slaugh-
ter houses doing much business GUS
tomarily going to city abattoirs.
Mr.. Gordon charged that farmers
were holding back cattle from the mar
ket. "The present shortages In Canada" !"
he said, have been caused by a failure
in marketing Of beef cattle which are
being held back in the mistaken impress
sion that higher prices can be obtained
in marketings later in the season."
Evening star., 1942-10-04

lower rank than he, into the plane,
wished him good luck and stated that
he could do more good for his people in
the Philippines than elsewhere.
Would BE Prize Catch.
Lending credence to the belief that
Brig. Gen. Roxas is the Filipinos' Draja
Mihailovic is the fact that the Toxic
radio has not yet announced his cap
ture. The japanese, who were irked no
end by the dramatic escapes of President
Quezon and Vice President Sergio Os-
mena, would not have passed up the
chance to cackle over the capture of Gen.
Roxas, whose national prestige was out
ranked only by those of Mr.. Quezon and
Mr.. Osmena.
President Quezon is confident of his
insurgent peoples ability to arm them
selves. He knows that Philippine law
enforcement officers were often ham,
pered by the natives ability to make
"paltiks," long -barreled pistols fashioned
out OF cast-iron pipe and other metal
pieces, and to manufacture their own
ammunition. This knowledge is throw
back to the days when Filipinos fought
Spaniards and Americans.
The Filipino leader also counts heavily
on the Filipino's ability to use the deadly
bolo. Evidence that this sharp-bladed
implement of the Filipino worker in the
fields is being used to chop off japanese
heads is the invaders order to inhabi-
tants of areas under their control to
surrender all arms, including unau-
thorized bolos
The tao, as the Filipino farm worker is
called, usually carries his bolo with him
wherever he goes. It comes in handy as
tool on as weapon.
Worker Adept With Bolo.
The Filipino worker knows how to
WELD his bolo. In the darkness of night
or in jungle ambushes many Japanese
falls and does not live to tell what hit
him, for the expert boloman usually
needs only one blow to eliminate his
adversary.
Nothing should demoralize the Japa-
nese, no mean guerrilla fighters them
selves. more effectively than finding
early in the morning the hacked
bodies of their sentires and patrolmen in
town streets or the decapitated bodies
OF their comrades on mountain trails or
in thick bushes at barrio outskirts. That
these are frequent happenings is indi-
Gated by constant warnings made by the
japanese authorities to the Filipinos to
cooperate more effectively with the con-
querors' new order or else.
Evening star., 1942-10-04

Through the Shiny, stony jungles on
New Guinea's mountainsides the Allies
pushed back the Japanese from their
advance base near important Port
Moresby. In Washington, President
Roosevelt, returned from an 8,0O0-mile
trip around the country, praised the
morale and war consciousness of the men
and women of the United States. In
London Winston Churchill criticized pub
lie urgirgs of the second front. In Africa
1t was time Of waiting. Field Marshal
Gen. Erwin Rommel went to Berlin to
hear Hitler speak. The ocean roadway
for supplies to the Allied armies In Egypt
was clear through the British occupation
OF most of Madagascar (see accompany
Ing map. The British last week took
Tulear, the last port of Madagascar not
in British hands. The offensive in South
Madagascar goes on.
Evening star., 1942-10-04
Americas Forty Third Week of War
(161st Week of World War ~
By Blair BolIes.

Now past StaGngrad the Volga's
enough Tor bathing when the Germans their
August Axis bombs and artillery shells
steadily last week that the dust settled
yard there the Russians
eventual by the
miracle The Reds fight deahe hopeless
last week unabated ferociy despite
earth could
Hitler said Sportspaa Wednesday,
driving the Germans into Sngd
the ounde military wonder whether the will
have the strength for another military
the United Nations should ready 10