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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18

SOMEWH HERE ON THE
CARIBBEAN. June 1S.-Because
two young navy pilots and their
crew risked their lives, six teen
age youths and an older man to-
day were alive and safe after
drifting seven days in a stormy
sea following the torpedoing OF
their merchant ship.
The seven men rescued, four oil
them members of the gun crew OF
the merchantmen. were among 70
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
SURVIVORS LAND

CARACAS. Venezuela, June is.
+INS) -Four boatloads of sur
vivors from an American ship tor
pedoed Monday landed yesterday
on the Venezuelan island Of
Margarita. The vessel was at
tackled between Trinidad and the
coast of Venezuela.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
OFFER PREPARATIONS

WASHINGTON, June Is (UP)
An indication that Argentina is
swinging toward closer co-opera-
ton with the United Nations
came today with Germany's Of
fer of Preparations for the tor
pedoing of the Argentine tanker
Victoria.
Germanys apology to Argen-
tina for the Victoria torpedolng
was interpreted here as showing
that Hitler is trying to halt an
Argentine trend toward the
Allies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
COMMITTEE PRAISED

Patrick V. Mcnamara, member
Of the committee and now Detroit
rent car for the OPA, praised
tho work of the committee at its
final meeting yesterday in the
council chambers.
Numerous officials in Wash
irgton have told me" Mcnamara
sald. that they recognized that
the Detroit fair rent committee
had done the best Job along
these lines In the country"
II was through the committee S
efforts that Mcnamara, who Is
vice president Of the Detroit and
WAYNE County AFL, was appointed
To his present post.
Final action OF the committee
was TO vote TO surrender its rec
ords to McNamara's office and
adjourn indefinitely, or until such
time as there is again need oi
its services.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
NICARAGUAN SHIP SUNK

HAVANA, June Is INS).-
Twenty members of the crew OF
a torpedoed Nicaraguan ship ar
rived at Havana yesterday aboard
a vessel that picked them up
drifting in a rowboat. Five other
crew members are missing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
Nelson J. Dessert
Funeral Of Dairy Head
On1OrrOW

Funeral services Will be held
for Nelson j. Dessert. "a, with
prayers al $50 a. M. tomorrow IN
the William v. Hamilton Funeral
Chapel, followed by a requiem
mass AT $50 a. m. in the Gesu
Church.
Mr.. Dessert has been \ resident
OF Detroit for 45 years and associ-
atcd with the Detroit Creamery
Company since il was organized
~ years ago. He was president
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18

Of the Michigan Allied Dairy
and vice president of
the Arnold Home.
Surviving are his widow, Mabel;
his brothers, Peter, Joseph and
Frederick, and his sister, Mrs.
Marguerite O'Reilly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
City Writes Fins
TolisConnmittee
On Fair Rents

It's purpose achieved after two.
ycar struggle. the common council
fau rent committee panel sang It's
swansone today when il turned
over its records 10 the Detroit
rent control office of the OPAI
and adjourned indefinitely.
The committee had its beginning
m 1910 when private citizen,
Richard Hill. complained TO the.
council that his rent had been
raised and requested a city inves-
LEGATION Of unfair rent practices.
Headed by the late Councilman
John w. Smith. a fair rent fact.
finding committee was formed
which evolved into the fair rent
naneI which heard and ruled on
many complaints of tenants. IT.
was one Of the first and foremost
committees Of its kind in the
country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18

Mae Murray, Famous Holly
wood Actress, Tells OF Her Star
fling Rise to Fame and How a
Prince Cut His Wrists on His
Doorsteps 10 Show His Love.
Read Her Wide Open Confess
sions I'm The American Weekly
with Next Sundays Issue Of
The Detroit Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18

n normal times the individual waste of cup of coffee did
not seem so important 1t much less, proportion
atey than the daily of other foods But things dill
ferent now. Consider this
According to latest figures, over 80 million families in the
United States coffee time every day-a big per-
centage more than day. Now if only half of these
families po out just cup Of coffee day. that's 10 mil
lion cups-nearIy 100000 pounds of cofee-DOWN THE
SINK :. WASTED every day!
OF course there is plenty of coffee the world today
green coffee And there plenty of coffee In the United
States today-for right But coffee is grown in this
country only blended and roasted here Coffee has to be
impored-mostIy from South and Central America That
takes ships. And the Importance of ships in winning war
across two that many be spared for
transportation of coffee.
So far there is rationing of coffee That may have to
come-but perhaps it need be if you're willing to help
The various Departments and Agencies of our Federal
taking every step which, in the light OF pro-
crossing circumstances appears protective and proper to
continued and adequate supply for every person
in our country. With 40 million people they have
big job to administer.
And today coffee importer every coffee roaster and
every groceryman working hand in hand with the Var
Production Board in program of Coffee Conservation The
plan limits production for civilian but only to point
that represents little sacrifice for the average person
everyone will do his and her part in avoiding waste.
Here's how you help:
You needn't deprive yourself of the coffee that YOU
are accustomed to drink daily.
You needn't forego an occasional extra cup when the
strain of wartime business civilian effort calls for lift to
your morale.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-18
Chicago Mayor. Wife III

CHICAGO, June lS (INS).-
Mayor and Mrs. Edward j. Kelly
both were in a hospital today with
severe colds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
DANCER MAY LOSE
DEFENSE D0WRY
Indications Ars Mrs. Roose-
velt's Blonde Protege
Slated To Go

WASHINGTON, Feb. H. R -
Mayris CLANCY, the blonde dancer
protege of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
velt, whose $4,000 job in the office
of civilian defense raised congress
sional blood-pressure, may shortly
be looking for a new billing.
James M. Lands, on his first
day as the new chief of OCD, dis
closed today that he was doing
some housecleaning and rearrang.
ing to attune the organization "to
prepare this country against physi-
cal attacks by the enemy"
Lands, former dean of Harvard
law school, was named yesterday
by President Roosevelt to succeed
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia OF
New York as head of the agency,
which has been under fire in Con-
gress for indulging in what critics
called frivolous activities.
The new director told press
conference that Mrs. Franklin D.
assistant director, was
thoroughly reorganizing her COM
and volunteer participation
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
NOrmandie Must Save
Self, Designer Says

balanced" and the bottom freed
from mud, he said he was certain
the once-majectic liner would be-
gin to rise.
Yourkevitch went to the pier
Monday to see flames eating away
the ships innards.
II couldn't stay long," he said.
ut was such terrible sight. was
afraid when l saw all that water
being poured on top that it would
turn over. The firemen were only
trying to do their job, but it prob
ably would have been better to let
it burn itself down.
Il went again yesterday to see
the ship lying on the bottom. You
can't realize what that did to me
seeing that beauty helpless"
Meanwhile, a group of men, ap-
parently marine experts, studied
the position of the ship, measuring
distances from piers and viewing
n
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12

vous perspiration, tell me without
the need of an official communique
that the war which started nine
weeks ago, 400 miles away, is to-
day in the outskirts Of this shaken
bastion of empire.
am sure there is bright tropic
sun shining somewhere overhead,
but in my many-windowed room
it is too dark to work without cleo
trio lights.
Over the low rise where the bat
tie is raging I can see relay after
relay of Japanese planes circling,
then going into murderous dives
upon our soldiers. who are fighting
back in hell over which there is
no protecting screen of fighter
planes.
Use Obsolete Planes
But the japanese are not COM
pletely alone in the skies this morn
ing! I just saw two 'wildbeasts" p
obsolete biplanes with an operat-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12

the same type. But some OF the
things I'll always remember.
Only 45 men out of 145 aboard
lived through the sinking - the
largest per capital loss on a naval
ship since the Maine went down
in Havana harbor.
I'm another Is minutes" Long
rubbed his eyes, ''every man would
have been at his battle station q.
as always 1T 6 o'clock in the morn
ing. If they all had been up, more
would have been saved.
'It must have been about 5:2O. l
had Just gone off watch and man
aged to jump into the water. We
were hit in the middle, and the
after part of the ship just floated
about 10 minutes . /. We. had put
down two depth charges, which
went off soon after the ship dis
appeared. That killed lot more.
1t was the worst part of it.
"Out of Is on the raft that l
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
U.S.. TROOPSLAND
IN DUTCH GUIANA
DISPATCHED To Protect West
Indies Oil Wealth From
The Axis Powers

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ii Up -
To thwart any Axis grab for the oil
wealth of the Dutch West Indies,
the United States announced tonight
that it had sent troops to the Dutch
islands of Aruba and Curacao off
the coast Of Venezuela.
This follows up the government S
action last November in sending
troops to Dutch Guiana, on the
north coast of South Americsa, to
guard the mines producing bauxite,
from which aluminium is manufact-
ured.
Tonight's step was taken at a
time when the Dutch East Indies,
on the other side of the world, are
newly menaced by the imminent fall
of Singapore, and it was apparent
that the United States and The
Netherlands wanted to be in a posi-
tion to repu1se any synchronizing
stab by Germany at Dutch resources
in the Atlantic.
The size of the forces sent to
Curacao and Aruba was not dis
closed. A formal announcement by
the State department said the move
was made at the request of The
Netherlands government and that
the troops would be withdrawn at
the end of the war.
1t was understood, the statement
added, ''that the Venezuelan and
Netherlands governments h ave
reached an agreement whereby the
former will cooperate in this defense
measure in a mannr similar to that
agreed upon between the govern
ments of Brazil and The Neither
lands in the case Of Surinam lDutcn
Guiana).''
Curacao proper and Aruba, which
belongs to the Curacao group OF
six islands, are both highly import
ant as oil refiningg centers. Inc
Royal Dutch Shell has large reflner-
les on Curacao and the Standard OIL
company of New Jersey has import
ant facilities ON Aruba. These plants
refine oil from Venezuela.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
Defenders Reeled Back To
City Under Hurricane
Fire By Invaders
ISLAND IS A HELL
Tanks, Bombers, Bayonet-
Welding Infantry Are
Thrown Into Assault
(By The Associated Press)

SINGAPORE, Feb. II. -
British authorities ignored a
Japanese demand for uncon-
ditional surrender tonight as
Singapore's troops reeled back
on this city under a hurricane
fire by Japanese tanks, bomb
ers, fighters and bayonet-
welding infantrymen.
A japanese plane dropped
the surrender note at 7:30
a. M, addressed to the Brit
ish commander. Thus far it
has not been answered and
bitter hand-to-hand fighting
by the outnumbered British
Imperials continues on the
western approaches to Singa-
pore city.
The British communique said:
''The enemy drive from the west
has been directed on Singapore city
and has been pressed with vigor
during the night
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
Its Recapture Would Push
Germans Back Into So
vietized Poland

MOSCOW, Feb. 11.-(P)-With a
battlecry of ION into White Rus
sia," the Red army smashed dog
gedly on west tonight, painstaking-
ly overrunning more smoldering
towns where the swastika had
flown along the fortified line which
the Nazis tried at heavy cost to
save.
White Russia, where the German
army first pushed inside the old
Russian boundary last summer, lies
80 miles beyond Smolensk and some
so miles beyond the last reported
Soviet forward positions in the Tor
capture would set the Germans
back into Sovietized eastern Poland
where the first blows of the Ger
man-Russian war were struck.
Continues Push
A midnight Soviet communique
said that the Red army continued
to advance Overcoming enemy
resistance and captured more
populated places. A supplement
said that guerrillas operating on
the Leningrad front killed 1,462
Nazis in January, blew up several
railway tains and eight munition
dumps.
But reports from the front said
the Germans were persisting in
counter-attacks from both flanks of
the long battleline in a desperate
attempt to beat down the Soviet
offensive.
The Russians, however, said they
were engulfing battlefields where
the Germans lost $500 men in a
single day on the Leningrad front;
more than 1000 in unsuccessful at
tempts to stop the Red army on
the central front, and $50 in one
endeavor to stem the Red tide in
the south.
Fighting in one Of the winters
worst billiards. around Leningrad,
the Russians reported driving the
Nazis out of 46 more fortified points
of their battered siege line.
BayOnet Charge
At the southern end of the front
Red Star said the Soviet garrison
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
Flees AS Bombs
Seal Fate Of Singapore

Editors note: This is the
last dispatch from the Il st
American newspaper cores
pondent to leave the battle
gloom of Singapore. 1t is from
c. Yates Mcdaniel, mild-man-
nered China-born war cores
pondent of the Associated
Press. It is reproduced here
precisely as it was received
Mcdaniel will write no new
lead, to use his own words,
''for many days.")
BY C. YATES MCDANIEL
SIN APO R E, 10:30fa. m
Wednesday, 11:30 p. m. E. w. T
Tuesday)-R-The sky over Singa'
pore is black with the smoke of
dozen huge fires this. morning as
write my last message from this
once beautiful, prosperous and
peaceful city.
The roar and crash of cannonade
and the bursting bombs which are
my typewriter and my
hands, which are wet with ner-
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
Advancing Reds Vo1v
To Take teRussia
Japanese Use u. S.
Quake Relief Aid
In Bataan Assault

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-(R
Life-saving equipment given to
Japan by the United States after
the earthquake and fire which
devastated Japan in 1928 has
been found in use in the land
ing barges i'm which Japanese
attacked the west coast of Ba-
taan peninsula in the Philip
pines.
Reporting this today, the War
department said barges cap
tured by the defending troops
contained equipment marked
'United States Army Transport
Merritt"
They were part of the relief
supplies which, ironically, were
loaded on the transport Merritt
in Manila for shipment to Japan
under the direction of Douglas
Macarthur, then commander of
the Philippine Scouts brigade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
British Indicate Loss OF
Key Center Protect
ing Rangoon

RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 11.-tR
Strong Japanese forces nave
crossed the Salween river above
Martaban after apparently seizing
that strategic city protecting the
approaches to Rangoon, the Brit
ish high command acknowledged
tonight.
The Japanese also were attempt
ing to cross farther upstream at
the east bank city Of Paan, and
communique said that "the sit
uation, although critical, is be-
lieved to be in hand with our posi-
tions still intact
Still farther north near the juno
ture of the Thailand-Burma-Indo-
Chinese frontiers, the communique
said that Chinese troops going into
action for the first time repulsed
another invasion thrust. Thirty cas-
ua1ties were inflicted and some
ammunition abandoned by the in
vaders, identified as Thailanders,
at that point, it was said.
In Enemy Hands
Lifting the curtain on the Mar
taban conflict at the mouth of the
jungle-fringed Salween, the British
said heavy casualties were inflct-
ed on the Japanese in the hills
east and west of the city, "but
Martaban itself now is believed to
be in enemy hands"
The conmunique locating the
crossings clearly revealed the serl-
GUS plight of the British defenders
of the lower railway which curves
north and westward around the
gulf of Martaban toward Rangoon,
this vital Burma road port. BY
airline this capital is only 80 miles
from Martaban; by railway it is
about 40 miles.
Seizure of Martaban imperilled
all the British troops operating be-
tween there and the first rail sta
ton to the north, Thaaton, which
has been heavily bombed by the
japanese.
The crossing above that city put
the Japanese in position to begin a
circuitous overland march on Ran
COON which receives the precious
American lend-lease equipment for
shipment to China.
Both British and Japanese bomb
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
BY WENDELL WEBB

ON HAWAAI1N AIR PAT
ROL, Feb. IL. -(R- There's
nothing like travel to put zest
into life - particularly on an
Army bomber hunting for troub-
lie far out over the Pacific
from the Hawaiian Islands.
This four-engined land plane
together with its crew, FORM
er mates of Colin Kelly, hero
OF the war in the Philippines,
is among the finest in Uncle
Sans arsenal.
There are a lot of these bomb
ers spread out over the ocean
on regular patrol to protect the
Hawaiian Islands, shipping
lanes and the Pacific coast
of the United States. Back at
the air fields in the islands
others are manned and ready
to go the minute word is flash
ed that the enemy has been
sighted.
l have just been all over the
ship and have decided definite
ly l would hate to be the enemy.
The sunshine's gone now and
the air could be smoother. But
it was a beautiful morning for
the take-off. There were great
orange streaks in the sky to
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
,i,tipg, Announced By
''IIti I'tiorities Based On
Conclusive Evidence
MINES, GUNS DO WORK
otA.t Vessels Also Report
',J sJ Destroyed By Fight
ing Off Amboina

RATAvlA, Thursday, Feb.
12D'~lP,-The ~ sinking of two
.1aoapese cruisers, one dec e.
,trover and a submarine o. oil
the Dutch naval base at Am
,oina island recently ", was san an
| nounced by the naval COM
! nlander here today to ono +h,.oo
,,nisers a,srs sunk along with the
otber II her. vessels in the first
weeks week Of fighting around Am
boina island, but the sinking
Of one Of them had been an
nounced previously.
i'oT Tsa commanders report today
=. bosod on an accumulation OF
,,,s- s's evidence regarding hits and
,a. a'.t;ros which he considered con-
elusive,
Tbs nrevious report on the fight
i,a off Amboina was made in a
n;cuo February 7 which list
ID one Jspanese cruiser as sunk and
,ddoi conservatively that another
cruiser and a submarine had been
hit.
The naval commander said his
new announcement was based on
these fresh reports:
On Feb. 2 the first japanese cruls-
er ia enter the mine field laid by
the Netherlands navy at the en-
trance Of Ambon bay, hit a mine
and sank within a few minutes.
Mines Take Toll
On Feb. g. in mine field laid be-
fore another Bay of Amboina island,
a terrific explosion occurred under
water, and later evidence indicates
that it was an enemy submarine
which was attempting to enter the
bay stealthily.
Nothing has been seen or heard
Of the japanese underseaboat since,
and its complete destruction is con-
sdered an established fact now.
On Feb, reliable eyewitnesses
Watching a japanese cruiser hug
Ing The Amboina shoreline saw it
suddenly enveloped in smoke and
lane Six heavy explosions shook
zoe snip 1t was learned later that
lAe Navy had laid a minefield ex-
Wontlnued on Page Two: Col. 6)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
RemoveIhose
Who Bungle,
Urges Landon
Roosevelt Asked To Put
End To Waste, Ineffi-
cheney, Confusion
NEW DEALERS SCORED
Accused OF Treating War
=" As Just Another Po-
litical Alphabet"

WASHINGTON, Feb. ill.,
ALI M. Landon asserted tonight
that the United States might well
take a leaf from England's book
and "change leaders, in the field
or at home, whenever bungling
management of the war endan-
gers military success.
Landon did not say whether he
had any particular leader in mind,
but he made plain that he consid-
ers there is waste, inefficiency
and confusion" in the governme ent,
and that new dealers have been
treating the war "as just another
political alphabet" He called on
President Roosevelt to make an
end of such practices.
Ready For Action
The American people, he assert
ed in an address prepared for
broadcast over the Blue Network
at a Lincoln Day dinner here, are
ready for united action, ''but the
sound of their leaders trumpet
has been obscured.'
''The babel of conflicting agen-
cies in the nations capital is Gre
ating confusion throughout the ma
tion," the 1886 Republican presi-
Dental nominee continued. "Be-
cause of a lack of franlness we
are not sufficiently aware of what
is required of us. We are not eff
ficiently girding ourselves for bat
tie"
Likewise, the former Kansas gov.
ernor said, the President has mot
made clear the staggering sacri.
fices ahead of u.s."
."We have never experienced
anything like it in our history 81
he declared. ''Resolute and cou.
rageous as the American people
are, their mettle will be severely
tried in the years ahead. Whether
it be the man who fights or the
man who works, his dreams will
be broken. Life will not be again,
in our time, as we have hereto.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
KINGS BLUFF site
CHOSEN FOR WATER
Council Instructs Olsen To
Draw Plans For Pro-
posed Project

, Conclusion of the Pirnie water
survey-that the Cape Fear river
above U. S. Lock and Dam No. l
at Kings Bluff was the logical
source of water for the city-was
adopted Wednesday by city coun-
Gil.
Members of the council, some of
whom returned Wednesday morn
ing from a two-day conference in
Washington with defense public
works officials, instructed W. c.
Olsen, of Raleigh, consulting engi-
neer for the city to draw plans
and specifications for water sup
ply project on the basis of the
Pirnie report.
The council was also of the
opinion that a pipe line to bring
the water from Kings Bluff to
the city was preferable to the
nacal method recommended by the
P1ernie engineers.
Pipe Instructions
Consulting Engineer Olsen was
instructed to make up the speci-
fications with cast iron pipe as
the best means of transportation
Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-12
TWO JAP CRUISERS
DESTROYER AND SUB
ARE SUNK BY 1s.z4l ~
Wilmingtonia fots
Hawaii Patro. Bomber

the eastward when the plane
climbed above the palm trees.
Pilot of this bomber is Major
B. E. Allen, Air Corps veteran
OF eight years from Whining
ton, N. c. At 81, he is the old
est man in the crew. He's lust
flying for fun today-it's his
day off.
The co-pilot is Lieut.. John
W. Duerst, 27, of McMinnville
Ore.
The others in the crew are
Lieut.. John M. Menczkowski,
23, Chicago, navigator; Sgt.
John H. Hanson, Is, Goshen,
N. Y, bombadier; Sgt. William
J. Brewster, 26, Sunnyside, Ca.
engineer; Sgt. Paul w. Tulley.
26, Evansville, Ind, Radioman;
Pvt. George L. Wiseburn, 81,
Oxford N. j., assistant radio
sman, and Pvt. Warren F.
Morse, %, Middleton, Mass,
gunner.
So far, they've not dug up
anything to shoot at. A school
OF porpoises was sighted a few
minutes ago but recognized as
such before any guns cut loose.
The boys don't seem to be
bothered by having to view
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