Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-04
Fierce German Attack Pushes Reds Back in Kursk Secto
Gen. SomerveII Here
Army Supply Chief Visits War Plants, Confers
With Labor Leaders; viii Review Troops

Accompanied by hish'state and
m ilitary officials, Lieut.. Gen.
Brehon Somervell, the man who
tells the President what 1t takes
to win the war, began a review Of
the Detroit battlefront today.
Moving with characteristic dis
patch, he visited the Chrysler
tank plant. the Hudson naval
arsenal and the Packard aircraft
engine factory and then paused
for precedent breaking con-
ference with William Green, presi-
dent of the AFL, and Philip Muir
ray, Go chieftain, that was broad
cast to all armament centers.
GOVERNOR WITH HIM
The general. with Gov. Murray
d. Van Wagner. Donald E. Ken
needy, state highway commissioner,
and a half-dozen army officers,
landed in his two-motored Douglas
transport at City Airport from
Lansing precisely on schedule at
q AS a. m.
They left Immediately for a trip
to the munitions factories.
At the labor parley. attended by
so representatives of the AFL and
a like number of Go directors,
the general repeated his Lansing
charges that neither machines nor
men have yet reached their full
potential in production.
After the luncheon m In &
General Somervell was off again
this time to visit the Ford bomber
plant at Willow Run.
TROOP REVIEWS
Military aspects Of the officials
trip, his first since his return from
London, will be furnished at the
Ford airport and Belle Isle. Para
troops will descend on Ford air.
port at D. m. In a simulated
attack of an actual blitz. Troops
from the 131st Infantry will be
reviewed on Belle Isle at Z p. m.
Somervelrs official day will
wind up with a dinner at the De-
troit Yacht Club. He will return to
Washington tonight.
The general arrived In Michigan
yesterday.
Met at Lansing Airport by Gov
|ernor Van Wagner, state officials
and Sixth Corps Area army chiefs,
General Somervell and his party
spent an hour at the Olds Motor
works where 20-mm. aircraft
guns and 75-mm. tank cannon are
made.
az sit In Washington and zee
discouraging figures Of produc-
ton 70 across my desk." he
said, "then I get into the held
and see what Il being done. It's
mighty encouraging to see the
finished stun pour out"
At the banquet in his honor, the
general poured straight from
the shoulder" talk to the manu-
facturers..
"You have asked me 70 speak
frankly and that I intend to do"
he said. 81 como to you be-
cause Of the vital part you play
In the war. Your responsibility
r. measured only in terms Of life
or death, freedom or servitude.
GRIM MOMENT
1--WE meet In one of the grim
NEST moments Of the darkest
hour of modern times. We must
face the truth, no matter how
bitter the truth may be. We're
not winning many battles. We
certainly have not won the war.
We haven't lost it-yet. We
will not lose IL IL we all do our
parts.
I'VE will not lose Il II we ap-
ply to the industrial front, the
labor front, the farm front, the
same loyalty, the same devotion
that we expect our soldiers to
display In the face OF our en-
emies. Wen not lose II II we
all remember at all times one
simple fact-there's only one
war for US to tight, the war
against the Axis.
Nothing else counts. Were
all In the same boat, manage
ment and labor, Democrats and
Re pub l cans, fasteners and