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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-26
BY JACK VINCENT


WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.-That
coat Of paint the American home
owner puts on his house this spring
may be the last one for the dura-
.tion Of the war.
As a matter Of fact, war produc-
ton officials say, the home owner
lis due for some high adventures
before this war is ended. He will
encounter shortages, delays, sub
stitutes, inferior products, and ris-
ing labor and material costs.
Once present stocks Of awnings
are exhausted there just won't be
any more. The army and navy
has taken over all supplies of
heavy duck.
Nor Will there be any more cop
per screens or weatherstrippinG.
And. if the war goes on long
enough. the home owner may have
10 go 10 a local rationing board
TO get a new hot water tank or
furnace.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-26
Home Owners
Hard Hit By
War Shortages

(The following is the second
in a series of articles from
Washington by Jack Vincent
of international News Service
on what effect the war is 60
ing 10 have on the average
mans bread and butter, his
home and the comforts Of life
normally enjoyed by every
American in times of peace.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-26
I P| dnts Here
Given Penndnts
By Morgenthdu

Presented by Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.
and his wife. in the first such
ceremonies ever held in the United
States, blue and white flags lily
today over two local defense
plants as symbols that their work
ers are pledged to buy defense
bonds every pay day.
One flag, given by Morgenthau,
is on the flagstaff at the main
gate of the Great Lakes Steel
Corporation. The etheF,presentcd
by his wife because the secretary
was suffering from a severe cold
and was forced TO rest at his
hotel, is at the Chrysler tank
arsenal.
ALL WORKERS BUY BONDS
The two companies are the first
in the country 10 receive such
awards, given 10 the steel firm
because all its employees have
subscribed 10 the pay roll doduc-
ton plan of buying defense bonds,
and TO the tank plant because
more than 90 per cent of the
workers are supporting the plan.
Morgenthau, with his wife and
son, Henry Morgcnthau III, made
a special 6-hOur visit 10 Detroit
yesterday TO present the flags and
10 speak al a UAW-CIO defense
bond rally of 5000 persons at the
State Fair Coliseum.
Although unable TO appear at
the Chrysler plant, Norgenthau
addressed the rally and praised
the unioniSts for their whole
hearted support OF the defense
bond campaign.
At the Great Lakes Steel plant
Morgenthau cited the 100 per cent
bond sale record of the company
as proof Of what can be accom-
pllshed by the complete cO-opera-
ton Of labor and management.
working together harmoniously in
common cause
MRS. MORGENTHAU TALKS
Thirty natieHaIities are rep
they are all Americans" he
said. The results speak for
Themselves.
Az the Chry>lcr tank plant
work was halted briefly for tho
presentation Of the flag by Mrs
MorgenthaG who climbed upon a
tank 10 address The mon
This il "A thrilling thing 10
be here today and actually see
YOU men turn out the things Ne
are going tn HrCd - beat tho
NaIis and the japanese.
"lour company WAS the first
In Michigan 10 introduce The
pay roll deduction plan. What
YOU have done in subscribing -
the plan j. a credit 10 both
management and labor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-26

BUY a Bomber
Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24

Reds Run
GamtIet to
SevastOpOl

LONDON, March "a QNS).-
In an audacious and skillful ma
neuver that will rank with the
most spectacular exploits of the
war, the Red navy has conveyed
a fleet of transports with supplies
and reinforcements to the Red
army garrison at Sevastopol, the
Daily Herald reported today.
The garrison of the Crimean
port has stood off the Germans
since the Nazi sweep into the
peninsula, but has been cut of
from all communications except
by sea.
The convoy fought off sub
marines and dive bombers. and
dared mine fields sown by the
Germans in the Black Sea, the
Daily Herald dispatch declared.
There was no indication that any
of the ships Of the convoy had
been damaged or destroyed by the
Nazl air and sea attacks.
While the Red navy battled
Valian,ly 90 bring the supplies and
rcinforCements safely into port,
the Red army garrison Of Sevasto-
pol attacked the German land
army surrounding it. creating q
DIVERSION SO me enemy shore bat
teries would not be able 10 shell
the incoming convoy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Like Father
MacArthur's Son. 4, Eyed
by Thrones in Stores

MELBOURNE. Australia. March
"a tINS)-Another Macarthur
was the center of attention in
Melbourne today.
Four-ycar-old Arthur, son Of the
general. was getting new clothes
having a haircut. and purchasing
new toys. as his thoughtful mother
took him on a shopping tour.
The two spent very busy time
on their second day here, and at
tracted crowds of admirers every
where they went Mrs. Mac
Arthur purchased some new out
fits and proved 10 be friendly and
at ease with the excited sales
women.
General Macarthur was seen
only hurriedly on his veranda
several times. each time being
greeted by appIauding crowds, who
are maintaining a steady watch
over the entrance Of the hotel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
.HousehoIdGoods
Frozen

NGTON, March "a
-HNS4-The Office of Price Adj
ministration today established
maximum retail price ceilings.
effective March 30, on new type
writer's and seven ma ior house,
hold appliances.
Appliances under federal price
control are:
New household mechanical re-
frigerators. new household vacuum
cleaners and attachments. new
domestic heating and cooking
stoves ard ranges, new domestic
washing and ironing machines.
new radio receiving sets and
monographs,
Regulations on typewriters,
washing and ironing machines.
radios and monographs, and stoves
and ranges are 60-day temporary
orders" and peg prices at the
March 10 level Typewriters. al
ready rationed. viii be pegged at
March ) prices.
Regulations on vocuum cleaners
and refriGcrators are permanent
and the ceiling prices will be the
manufacturers recommended re-
tail price list. Price margins Of
wholesale distributors will be
frozen 10 the levels of October LIS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Chinese
Attack i'm
= Areas

CHUNGKING, China. March q
(INS).-A major battle was re-
ported under way today in the
Hongkong area as Chinese forces
attacked japanese troops landed
from gunboats on Chungshan Bay
Another Chinese force was said
to-be ON the offensive against
japanese positions at Samshui, an
important river port west OF
Canton.
The japanese landings were be-
lieved part of a Japanese effort 10
eliminate or drive back from the
coast the Chinese forces that
have almost continuously harassed
their positions in Kwagtung prov.
.ince and threatened communica-
tons between Hongkong and
Canton.
The area is highly important 10
the japanese as a way station on
the route from Japan to the
JapaneSe-controi1ed areas to- the
southwest. including Hainan
Island. French Indo-C China, Malaga
and Burma.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
IN THE NEWS
CONTINUED from Page One)

spurred the people to de-
nounce and in part eliminate
"bOondOggling" in the civilian
defense administration, and
to resent and oppose pork
barrel expenditures unessen-
tial to the war effort.
None of this is public dis
unity, but public DISGUST.
The American people are
none the less united for the
purpose of winning the war,
because they are Disguised
with Intellectual political
leadership.
1t is their enlightened and
determined unity which gives
them understanding of pOliti-
cal blunders and gives them
voice and strength TO demand
and assure their correction.
The sO-called "unity" which
some elements within the
government would have is
submission and subservience
blindly and unquestioningly,
without challenge of mistakes
and incompetence.
That kind of unity is unat.
tainable i'm America, and is
unWanted= here,and= instead
of winning the war would
surely lose it-and i'm losing
it would accomplish the sui,
eide of democracy as a prel'
ude to conquest.
There will not be and
MUST not be less public in.
terest, public voice and con
structive public criticism in
this war because we are q
united people, but MORE
AND MORE of those essen
tial democratic qualities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Ndzi Reserves
TO Cheek
Reds Advance
German Resistance
Increases: American
Planes in Battles
BY NJ. 3. HANDLER
United Press stan Correspondent

MOSCOW, March 24.--The Ger
mans resisted the Russian drive
with new fury today, throwing
more planes, more tanks and re-
serves intended for the spring Of
fensiye into battle. but Russia re-
ported new successes, especially
on the northern front.
Having surrounded IAN ancient
walled city" believed TO be Nov.
.gorod. 10 miles southeast of Len.
ingrad. the Russians said in last
communicate that they
had killed 1900 Germans in two
days fighting on the Leningrac
front.
The communique said German
resistance was desperate" and or
the southern front the German,
had greatly increased air activity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
THE treasury department
has made a RECOMMEND

Has Ildut TtCoiiiiiith'
datiOn to Congress, in
connection with the pending
revenue bill, that stringent
limitations be put upon char
liable or philanthropic be-
quests which are not subject
ito taxation under existing
law.
The sole consideration of
the treasury i'm this matter is
that when a portion of an es-
tate is made exempt from
taxation by charitable or
philanthropic bequest, the
government revenue derivabie
from the whole estate is di-
minished.
However. there is another
and a very important consid-
Grafton.
Familiar to the American
people and most beneficial to
them for a long period of
years is the gift-supported
institution.
Many of our very best edu-
catiOnal institutions are i'm
that category.
Hospitals, homes for the
blind, the aged, the needy,
the sick and the victims o.
every kind of human distress,
are i'm it.
A very high percentage of
medical and scientific re-
search, discovery and useful
ness is conducted entirely on
the basis of philanthropy.
These are the things which
the treasury department now
proposes not merely to tax
but to DESTROY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24

uit Oil 6lsO WOulQ oASkNbh Ai'
40-hour week and outlaw TIT
closed shop for the duration o
the war.
eft IL obvious In the case Of
Jack n Heintz that the unit
cost compared TO the selling
price Ii entirely out Of line,"
Chairman Vinson CD of Geor-
gia commented. TT shows that
We must have some firm check
on that sort Of thing"
! The story Of payments to Off
GERS and employees were brought
nut by testimony of company
officials and records Of the firm
all of which showed:
That Jack himself was formerly
n labor organizer who. with Ralph
Heintz, founded the company ir
1889. incorporated IL in Cleveland
q little more than a year ago al
n capitalization of 100000 anc
now lists his assets at $4,000, 900
$4,000 TAX BONUS
. That his own salary rate i
100000 a year and that he tool
n Christmas bonus of $33, 900 anC
another bonus of SIS 900 in Marcf
to pay his income tax.
That his secretary. Adeline Bow
man, receives $3.50 a year il
salary and got a Christmas bonus
Of $50. 900 and another Of $1,000
in March.
That the firms assistant comp
troller, Harry E. YoxtheimeT
previously a 81, 80o-a-year employ'
at Wright field. Dayton. joined th'
company at $500 year and twt
months later got Christina
bonus of S11 900 and later anothe
bonus of $3.50.
That the comptroller Donal'
Lake, at a salary Of $500, re
ceived altogether SIS. 1873 last yea
when bonuses were added.
GAVE FREE LUNCHES
That Jacks son, William r
Jack. a vice president. receive.
bonuses of about $4,000 each a
Christmas and March as did IN
other vice president, Ralph Heint2
That the firm supplied fire
1unches-"the best in Cleveland,
according to Jack-to all its EN-
ployes.
That the company hires a ban
and a room in Cleveland,S Carte
Hotel once a month and gives II
employees d banquet.
That Jack spent "a lot more
than one $3.50 check which va
put in the records for tickets Z
football games and fights for nj
employees
That Christmas before last ever
employe in the plant was given
S15.75 watch. a 800 bill and
$500 life insurance policy
That last Christmas all bonuSe
20 employees and officers totale
more than 100000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Hand Cleaning Wins Vote

Detroit traffic signs will con
tinue TO be scrubbed by hand
common council decided today in
rejecting a request by D. Grant
Mickle, traffic engineer. for a $3.50
high-preSSure steam cleaner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Grips Begins
Talks in India

NEW DELHI. India, March -
INS). - Expressing confidence
that with energy and good Will
the essentials of success could bo
achieved" Sir Stafford Grips 20
day plunged into the formidable
task OF uniting midas tecmug
millions behind the war effort Of
the United Nations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Mercy Ship Sails Tomorrow

NEW YORK, March "a QNS)
The mercy ship Stella, lights
blazing and assured safe conduct
by the belligerent powers, will
leave New York tomorrow with a
cargo Of food and medicine for
the people of Greece, it was an
nOunced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
NAZI FLEET MASsED

Some inforW3ntS expressed be-
lief mat the Germans feared the
hIlicS intended 10 invade northern
Norway IN an effort 10 safeguard
RuSSla's Misunderstanding sup
ply routes
The Germans they said might
counter by invading sweden and
using IFS railroad 70 Narvik on
the Norway coast. 10 pour in
troops
II was noted that Germany had
been concentrating big fleet units
in Norwegian waters since the
escape of It's 2600G-ton hattleShipS
ScharnhorSt and GneiScnau from
BreSf Frame
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24


posed would disrupt the en-
tire educational and philan-
thrOpic life of the nation.
II would crush great uni
yersities which have bene-
ficially served the youth of
America, some of them for a
longer time than this nation
has existed.
1t would wreck religious
enterprise, and stultify cul-
turaI development, and make
benev client establishments
impOtent.
1t would impede science,
blight literature, music and
all the arts.
1t would negate the great
good and greater comfort
which the charitable instincts
of the American people have
made possible i'm the allevia-
ton of misfortune arising
from all social and economic
causes.
Can the treasury depart
ent possibly UNDER
STAND the proportions of
the national catastrophe it
proposes?
Scarcely a community In
the land would escape the
consequences of such a stupid
act.
Hardly a family in the ma
ton would fail to share the
injury.
The government, perhaps
most of all, would sustain its
share of injury.
Unless the government
should attempt, successfully,
to take up every obligation
and responsibility thus re-
moved from charitable and
philanthropic enterprise, the
ensuing national calamity
would be unreasonable.
And how could the govern
ment do SO without transfer
ring the burdens from char
ity and philanthropy to the
already Overburdened tax
payer:
1t has not been an ESCAPE
from taxation which has re-
suited from this beneficial
American system.
1t would not be a closing
Of lOOphOles to tax evasion
which would be accomplished.
1t would be an act of whole
sale destruction of good and
wholesome and useful things
i'm America which would be
dOne-as glazing and violent
an example of DESTRUC-
TiON BY TAXATION as in
competent political minds
have ever devised.
There should be a veritable
uprising of public indignation
against this mOnstrOus pro-
pOsal. and such an outpouring
of public protest that no COM
mittee of Congress will fail to
measure the wrath of the peO-
pie or dare to challenge it.
CHARLES -. RYCkMAN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
BATTLE TO RULE AIR

tAdviceS TO London said the
Japanese were rushing air rein
torcementS TO the Burma front
in a desperate effort to get air
supremacy. IL was certain, said
the London report. that the
United Nations also were re-
cciving reinforcemcntS, and the
Japanese were said to be "a long
way from obtaining mastery of
the air. L
United Nations f1lots hit bach
with raids on the Japanese-helc
air base at Mingaladon, 10 mile.
north Of Rangoon. A communiquc
reported u planes destroyed OF
the ground and five possibly de
Stroyed or damaged.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
u ). Filler GIories
In Sinking Jdps

kNouiiHuVu liuin db' outJ
big one to give a COED going
over. three Zeros jumped our
plane from over the nose.
''They came tearing at us out
OF the thunderelouds, splashing
machine gun bullets all around
our ship.
ENEMY TRIES BLUFF
"But don't let anybody fool
you with stories about their
Hara Kiri suicide diving-they'lI
try to bluff you, but they are
always the first to turn aside,
giving us a chance to blast them
from the side as they slip past.
Sometimes they come in
head-On, then lose their nerve
and dive, and our rear gunner
gets them.
Anyway. we fought off the
Zeros and made a run over their
transports and barges.
BOMBS HIT SHIP
1--WE dropped cluster OF
bombs square i'm the middle of
one transport that was crammed
with Jap troops. We were fly
Ing low. and i could see flames
billowing up toward the sky
after series of terrific cXplo-
siOns. We must have killed hum
dreds.
Looking down, 7 could see the
Japs diving Oft their stricken
ship, scrambling i'm the oily
waters and clutching for bits OF
wreckage.
Meanwhile Our gunncrs were
blasting away at the ZPrOS,
which were back i'm the fight
again. One of the .Jep ships got
a burst of bullets square on the
nose and fiuttercd down to the
sea I'm flames.
35-MINUTE BATTLE
81 had some near misses on
their destroyers but failed TO get
"A direct hit.
with my last bombs ! drew
a bead on loaded barge, scored
hit amidships and scattered
men and vreckage over large
area.
II don't think many Japs
escaped that one.
THE action lasted about 35
minutes. When our bombs were
all gone WI gave the ZeroS
gOod-by burst of machine gun
fire and headed hOmc.
Every ono of 0ar planes had
been hit during tho battle. hut
nobody was seriously wounded.
although three of orr boys were
nicked by shrapncl."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
ENEMY TRIES BLUFF

Your Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, il on" Of MANY
famous features IN The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
MEET ALLIED THREAT

They said that If the Germans
calculated on an Allied offensive
on Norway, probably in the north
ern sector. they would need the
important railroad which from
Trondheim extends into Sweden
and connects al OcStersund with
the main north-SOuth line Thus
il was suggested the Germans
could reinforce their northern Nor
way GdrflSOnS.
Neutral observers said that II
there were any possibility Of an
Allied offensive on Norway. il
would certainly pay the Germans
10 get in to Sweden before the
Allies did.
They expressed belief that tho
Germans might be concentrating
men on tho Baltic shores 10 attack
sweden 10 Guard against an Allied
attack on Norway or 10 mass re-
serves 20 stem n possible Russian
drive through the Baltic states.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
DOWN &c NAZI PLANES

Twenty-six German planes were
shot down Sunday. against II
Soviet aircraft, the communiquo
asserted.
A Russian unit on the kalinin
front. the communique said, ousted
the Germans from two inhabited
localities.
The official news agency Tass
reported that the Soviet air force
was using large quantities OF
American-made Airacobra fighters
and the British and American
specialists were instructing the
Russians how ta-use- them at a
center deep IN the Rus
sain rear.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
USE AMERICAN PLANES

The Soviet war news, pub
lished by the Soviet embassy in
London, limited that more Amer
ican-made. planes were on the
way including Tomahawks 80
Curtiss P40-A's.
I'm this Springs air battles
with the Germans, Soviet pilots
will use the most up-to-date
American fighters" Soviet War
News said.
The British broadcaSting
Corporation said the Russians
had started a new drive against
the Germans second line of de-
Tense at wanna on the central
front, and that, according 10
an American message from Mos
COW. Soviet naval convoy
reached Sevastopol last Satur-.
day.
For the Inside News" OF
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24

For the .Inside News" OF
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column i'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
.Swedes Mobilize
To Meet Nazis

Continued from Page One)
and ships al Stcttln and other
ports just south of Sweden. the
informant said.
Norwegian sources said that the
Germans had considerably m
creased their garrison in Norway.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Chinese Troops
Under Sti|weI|
Attacking Japs
Battling invaders
in Burma Along
Pyu River Front
BY FRANCIS LEE
Int1 New. service stan Correspondent


CHUNGKING. China, March "a
Chinese troops under command
Of Lieut.. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell
| american aide to GcncraliSSime
Chang Kai-Shek, were counter
attacking Japanese invaders OF
Burma today along the Pyu River,
where a battle has been raging
since Friday.
The heavy action was 80 miles
south of Toungoo. Burma's rice
capital on the road to Mandalay
and was believed to mark the be-
ginning of the campaign for con-
troll Of this vital sector OF the
central Burma area.
,fffc Japanese threw newly ar
rived reinforcementS into the bat
tie as they attempted TO wrcSt the
Initiative from the Chinese. The
.lnXaderS-haltled- lercelx 10 hold
fSuiWe11'S hard-fightinG Chinese or
the north side OF the Pyu River.
AIR BATTLES RAGE
A terrific struggle was under
way between the United Nations
and the Japanese air forces fol-
control Of the air over Burma.
| American Volunteer Grour
pilots, Raj, Indian and Chinese
pilots were hereieally battling the
mass or m a { on $ of japanese
bomberS and fighters that have
been carrying on about assaults
against the defenders airports.
The Japanese We're reported
coming over in waves Of 40 so and
] 100 planes in a determined effort
10 knock out an important United
Nations airdro m in central
Burma. Some damage and casual
| lInS. u.nnn ndr,nittnL