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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17

Daughters Of the American
Revolution today announced
that a collection center to re-
ceiye Yankee Claus" gifts for
soldiers stationed here will be
maintained Friday through Tues
day in the NYA headquarters,
kearsley and Harrison streets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17

Two tavern operators cited be-
fore the Michigan liquor control
commission were given hearings
here on charges of having fire
hazards and today had been re-
leased without penalties on their
promise 10 remove the hazards.
Walter p PetriS, operator OF the
Hayloft IN Mt. Morris. and Charles
Baker. operator Of Samoa in Gene
see Township, agreed TO make
changes recommended by liquor
control inspectors in hearings be-
fore Theron w. Atwood. liquor
control commission attorney.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
BOTTOMS UP:
For jap NdUy

Eight Japanese aircraft carriers
at least half of that country S
known carrier poWer-were sunk or
so badly damaged in the Midway
and Coral Sea battles that they will
be unfit for early action, informed
naval sources have estimated.
Aircraft losses were considerable.
reports indicate, inasmuch as the
decks of most carriers were filed
with warplanes when they were
damaged or sunk. Although official
reports on personnel losses were
lacking, unofficial estimates are that
approximately 5000 Japanese were
killed in the Coral Sea and twice
that many in the Midway battle.
Based on communicates issued by
the u. S. army and navy and Allied
headquarters, capital ship losses of
Japan and the United States from
December z up to and including the
Midway battle are as follows:
JAPAN
Battleship l Seaplane tender
4 Aircraft carriers 16 Cruisers
UNITED STATES
Battleship / Seaplane tender
/ Aircraft carrier / Cruiser
The official communicates concern
only those ships whose loss is I'M
questioned. Unofficial reports in
clude ships whose loss, though un-
verified, is fairly certain.
1t has been estimated that at least
81 ships Gncluding above) have been
knocked out of japanese fleets or
badly crippled. Twenty Jap war;
ships were reported sunk or dam
aged on March 10 in the South Pa
cific. The Tulagi raid on May 4
accounted for an even dozen. Fiji
teen more were reported sunk or
damaged in the Coral Sea battle and
the Midway fight added another
score to the list.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
in the weeks news

President Roosevelt and congress.
At the White House, President and
Mrs. Roosevelt and British Ambas-
sador Lord Halifax were on hand to
greet them. On Capitol Hill they
were greeted in the house cham
Der and by senate members.
ENGAGEMENT: Danielle OAR
rieux, Frances topmost motion pic
ture star who made several pictures
in Hollywood, now is engaged to
Porfiro Rubirosa, Santo Domingo
diplomat.
DEATH: Political quarters in
Berlin announced that Free French
soldiers captured at the Biz
Hacheim outpost in Libya are ir-
regulars and, as such, are liable to
execution under the German and
italian armistice terms with France,
which forbids subjects to serve in
anti-Axis armies.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
LIBYA:
TANKS at TObruk

Biz Hacheim in Libya had fallen
and the British thought this might
slow somewhat the desert thrust of
the Nazi forces aimed at Tobruk
but on came the tank army of Col.
Gen. Erwin Rommel. Forgotten
was the fact that last year the Brit
ish had held that city throughout the
Libyan campaign and had made his
tory during its siege.
There were mine fields and strong
barbed wire defenses stretching al
most Is miles around the city and
at its back door was the Mediter-
ranean sea. But it was at the CEN
ter of the land front that Rommel
threw his heaviest tanks. These
were met by British soldiers at the
controls of American-made "Gener-
al Grant" tanks, most successful
weapons yet found to harass the
mechanical units of the enemy.
There was some speculation at
first as to whether or not Rommel
might try flank thrust to reach the
sea to the east or west of the city
but from the start of the battle the
fate of Tobruk hinged on frontal
drive itself. This fact stood out,
experts said, because Rommel was
intent on taking the city itself and
thus avoid the risk of leaving it as
a British ''sore-spot' as it proved
to be last year.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
HIGH IT S

COMMUNICATION: The house
ways and means committee has ap-
proved an increase of at least so
per cent in the tax on telephone
and telegraph charges of all kinds.
RESIGNATION: In order that a
younger man might take his place,
Sir Harry Luke, British governor of
the Fiji islands and high commits
sioner of the western Pacific since
1888, has resigned.
OIL: Within six months the East
coast should be getting "an in
creased supply" of oil, according to
the WPB, as the result of that
agency's authorization of immedi-
ate construction of a 24-inch steel
pipeline fron4 Texas to Salem, Ill.
HEROES: Visiting Washington on
a tour of the nation in behalf of war
bond sales IS American and British
war heroes paid their respects to
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
HOUSING:
Conversion Loans

With a term as long as seven
years, a new type of war CONVEX
sion loan" up to $4,000 is available
for converting an existing structure
into additional living accommoda-
tons for war workers in war pro-
duction areas.
This new type loan was announced
by Federal Housing Commissioner
Ferguson at the same time it was
revealed that during the first five
months of 1912, 70,225 new dwell
ings were started in war housing
areas. New home programs gener-
ally are from IS to As per cent
lower than year ago.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
MANPOWER:
And Var Effort

Industry and the armed forces
must forget the ''quest for the ideal
man. for every job," according to
Selective Service Director Hershey,
who said the time was not far off
when all men and women will be
needed and Selective Service will
touch the fringe of men deferred
>. because of dependency"
Congress had acted to raise the
base pay of army men to $50 per
month and the plan for authorizing
assistance to dependents of mem
bers of the armed forces cleared.
Some method of procurement of
physicians for the army and navy
would have to be worked out, said
VINO Chairman McNutt if more doc
tors did not soon volunteer for serv-
ice. During the first six months of
war only 5000 physicians had vol
unteered compared with $4,000 vol
unteers during the same period in
the last war.
An army of 1000, 900 will take one
third Of all physicians in the coun-
try. Twenty-Five thousand doctors
are needed before the end of the
year and 10000 more during 1943.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

In Russia, even as the "citizens
army took up arms to defend to the
death their city of Sevastopol, word
came from Washington, Moscow and
London that gave them cause for
cheer although their immediate fate
was darkened.
It was the word that the Soviet
Union and the United States had
reached Misunderstanding with
regard to the urgent tasks of open
ing second European front in 1912.
After conference between Russian
Foreign Commissar Molotov and
President Roosevelt in Washington,
methods of speeding u. S. war aid
to Russia were developed and the
fundamental problems of postwar
cooperation to safeguard peace
and security" were decided upon.
The state department of the Unit
ed States had further good news for
the Russian people. It was that a
lease-lend agreement similar to that
signed betmeen the u. S. and Brit
ain as well as China, had been en-
tered into with the Soviet.
The good news from London was
that Russia and Britain had signed
20-year mutual assistance pact.
But in the Sevastopol area and
around Kharkov the Nazis continued
their pounding at Russian lines. CT
william morale was good, said Mos
cow reports, but in Sevastopol, ev-
cry man, woman and child capable
of bearing arms had found it neces-
sary to be mustered into service as
the Germans dealt them a continu-
Gus bombardment.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
ALEUTIANS:
FOggy Details

When the Jap radio announced
that Nipponese troops had made a
landing on the Aleutian islands
there was no immediate denial by
the u. S. government. For the navy
had to wait for the fog to clear in
that area to check these claims.
When the weather turned better it
was found that enemy landings had
been made on the island of Attu, at
the extreme tip of the island group
which stretches off Alaska in the
Pacific ocean. Also Jap ships had
put into Kiska harbor on an island
nearer the North American main
land.
Navy Operations" were called
into play Immediately to squelch
any threat Of a Jap drive for Alaska
It was believed that the landings
took place at the time of the first
raid on Dutch Harbor and about the
same time as the beginning Of the
Midway island battle.
Rear Admiral John II. Towers,
u. S. navy chief of the bureau of
aeronautics, c1assed the Jap thrust
as of mo real Importance and
figured that it could even become a
liability to the enemy.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
WAR INFORMATION
Gets or, OverhauIing

At long last there came word from
Washington that all the information
functions of the government agen-
cies were being consolidated by the
creation Of an "Ofice of War In
formation" to be headed by Elmer
Davis, well-known writer and radio
commentator.
All the duties and activities of the
Office Of Facts and Figures, the Of
fee of Government Reports, the di-
vision of information for the Office
of Emergency Management and the
foreign information service of the
co-ordinator of information, will be
under the authority Of the new Of
fee, according to a White House an
nouncement.
Further, Director Davis will have
''full authority to eliminate all over
tapping and duplication and to dis
continue in any department any in
formational activity which is not
necessary or useful to the war ef-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
PRODUCTIONS:
Cheerful Note

Donald Nelson, chairman of the
War Production board, added note
of cheer to the current scene when
he stated that U. S. war production
is higher than we had any reason
to suppose it could be" when war
plants were being planned. He
said industry can more than dou-
BILE present production by 1914"
War production in May, 1912, was
4 times that of May, 1941.
The war effort is developing an
industrial plant that will be able to
produce more than enough goods
for everyone when the war is over,
he said. May war expenditures of
So, 1853, 100000 were four times great
er than expenditures in May a year
ago.
In a Washington radio address,
Nelson warned against the threat of
imitation:
ITO dealers and consumer alike, I
would like to say: abide by the
price ceilings and rationing controls
established by the Office of Price
Administration. It isn't smart to go
to the bootlegger in war time :.
We're in war, and violating
these controls is close to trea-
son
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
TREASURE HUNT
This Time Rubber

Although it was only one cent a
pound, that fact didn't stop Ameri-
cans from stripping their homes,
garages and factories of every avail
able pound of idle and Ito them)
useless rubber.
The rubber salvage program got
underway upon President Roose-
velt's order. Collected by the ma
TONS gasoline filling stations, the
scrap rubber is being transported to
central collection points by petro-
1eum industry trucks and sold to the
Rubber Recovery corporation.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
reported that army and navy crude
rubber requirements during the q
months after April l, 1912, will be
100000 tons, compared with the
present U. S. reserve of 100000
tons. He said he hoped the differ
ence would be made by the syn
thetic program. WPB Rubber Co.
ordinator Newhall stated that the
synthetic program will produce
$4,000 tons in the rest of 1912 and
100000 tons during 1943.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
CHINESE FRONT:
Nancheng Falls

On the Chinese front the Japanese
drive in Kiangsi province had adj
vanced 100 miles and forced the de-
tenders to evacuate the town of Nam
cheng, bringing the japanese within
125 miles of closing the gap be-
tween their eastern and western
forces.
Dispatches stated that the Chinese
had recaptured the town of Tsung-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

Germans in the political and mill
tary administration of Bohemia and
Moravia."
In Washington, Jan Masaryk,
Czechoslovakian vice premier and
foreign minister, urged destruction
Of several German villages by air
bombardment in retaliation for the
wiping out of the Czech town of
Lidice. Gidice was eradicated as
a reprisal measure for the killing of
Reinhard Heydrich, Reich protector
for Bohemia and Moravia.) ITO my
mind" said Masaryk, sit should be
ten teeth for one and ten eyes for
one."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
SYNTHETIC RUBBER:
And Cracking

U. S. chemists have perfected a
new petroleum cracking" process
for making high-grade aviation gas
oline that should also help break the
bottleneck in synthetic rubber pro-
duction, according to the War Pro-
duction board
The same refining plant turning
out aviation gas would be able also
to turn out butadiene, a vital ingre-
dient in making synthetic rubber,
according to this announcement
Although both these products come
from the same petroleum base, up
to now they have been produced in
separate operations.
Plants which can handle the pro-
duction of 100000 tons of synthetic
rubber from butadiene will be in
use before January l, 1943, but until
this new process was discovered,
there were grave doubts as to
whether or not a sufficient supply of
butadiene to keep them going could
be supplied.
1t is believed that the new proc
ess will permit just that.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

jen, approximately half way be-
tween Nanchang, Jap Kiangsi base,
and Nancheng.
A Domei news agency report
claimed that japanese troops, ad-
vancing rapidly, have occupied
Kwangfeng, 10 miles southwest Of
Yushan.
Japanese forces northeast of WI
ming were reported to be under Sc
we're attack, and Anyi, west Of the
Jap base of Nanchang, was under
seige.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
Weekly News Analysis
Russians Cheered by u Pact Pledgng Support of Second From

fort :" Under policies laid
down by the President this office
will tissue directives to all depart
ments and agencies of the govern
ment with respect to their informa-
tional services"
This means that while the various
agencies and departments will still
continue to operate, their activities
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

must now conform to such direction
as the Office of War Information
may give them.
The presidential order provided
for close collaboration between
Byron Price, director of censorship,
and Davis to facilitate the prompt
and full dissemination of all avail
able information which will not give
aid to the enemy"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25
VENCEANCE:
Promised Czechs

In broadcast from London,
Czechoslovakian President Eduard
Benes promised that, following the
war. military law, including the
death penalty, will be imposed on
all Nazis responsible for the "bes-
tial destruction in the Czech nation.
Benes declared fatty that on the
first day of victory the policy of
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

personal RESPONSE
bility would be car
ried out mercilessly
a gain st all expo
nents of the Nazi
party and the Reich
govern m ent on
Czech territory, be-
ginnin 6 with the
former prote tor,
Baron Won Neurath,
all leaders of the
Gestapo and SIS for-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-06-25

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst. and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30
EVERYONE URGED TO VOTE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd

if, having won the battle Of
freedom at the far outposts
on the earth, our sons were to
return to a nation in which
the fountain-hea Of free
dom had run dry
The $4,000 Negroes who
have now found a place IN
Ohio's Industry by the efforts
of State government. The ap-
pointment of a Negro Judge,
Parole Commissioners, Doc
tors, Statictions, Tax exam
iners and thousands Of Col
ored citizens serving the
State, in this New Ohio is the
battle you have won at home
under Governor Bricker. You
right to vote was won for yol
by the blood and tears OF you1
forebearers. Only you can pre-
serve it. Voting is your per
sonal responsibility. The othe1
fellow can't do it for you
| Governor Bricker has Wol
the right to ask for the Negr'
Vote.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30

his wife and family in Van
Buren, Township In Montgom-
cry County. He has been ac-
tive in civic work in Dayton
for the last decade and is a
past president Of the Patter-
son School Alumni Associ-
alton, the Steele High School
Alumni Association, and is a
past District Governor Of the
Ohio State University Alumni
Association. He has served on
the Executive Committee of
the Miami Valley Centennial
Celebration and as Co-Chair-
man Of the drive to obtain
funds for the Miami Valley
Hospital at Dayton.
In 1884 Jeffrey served as
the first President of the
Younr Mems Republican clubs
of Ohio. He is a member Of
the Central Presbyterian
Church ait Dayton and Is q
32nd degree Mason.
In 1888 and 1889 Mr.. jeff
rev served as vice-P Presi.
! dent Of the Montgomery
! tional Association for The Ad'
I, County Cha,,tc~ nf the Ma,
| CONTINUED On Page ~
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30

You have he said, "a
greater reason to vote-for in
Ohio, not only is it q patriotic
duty, but an indication of the
victory you have won manner
lea through years Of suffer
ing. In Ohio you have a free
ballot and self government,
let us seek new victories with
it. This ballot which you have
fought and died for, is yours
on November 3rd: This free
dom of the ballot marks the
difference between Ohio and
other similar states.
Apathy will not preserve
this right--will not make
your voice heard in the halls
Of your government. How
tragic it would be il we neg
Iect this first duty Of citizen.
ship! What are we fighting
this war for, If it is not tc
preserve the freedom of the
ballot box and the right o1
self government which i
represents
1T would be a cruel tragedy
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30
Sgt. ROSS ENTERS
OFFICERS TRAIN.
ING SCHOOL

Sgt. William G. Ross of Gel
ger Field, Wash, has recently
passed the examination board
sor training at an officers
Candidate School.
Sgt. Ross comes from Gin
cinatti, Ohio and received his
Masters Degree at Ohio State
College and graduated from
West Virginia State College.
Sgt. Ross is familiar whit
newspaper work as he was al
one time connected with the
Pittsburg Courier.
Entering the army August
Is, 1912 with no previous mil.
itary training. He made a Pri
vate First Class Rating ane
| then Withseemingly no trouble
at all, he went on up the steps
of the ladder to- become q ser
geant. Immediately after thi'
rating, he passed Officers
Candidate School Examining
Board with a very high rating
and will now go to Chemica
| Warfare School.
Sgt. Ross Is a happily mar
ried man and is expecting Il
be a proud father in Novem
Der.
/ Favorite pastimes of Sgt
Ross are. reading good liter
ture and listening to goo'
music.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30

never been, merely a polite
ian serving time upon the
bench. He has made a career
of administering justice. AT
ter his training in law he
gained a wealth of experience
as a prosecutor, and there
after, in 1926, he was elected
to his present place on the
Common Pleas bench. Only
his service in the World War
lin which he distinguished
himself as a combat pilot
has interviewed in the dcdica-
tion Of his life to court mat
ters.
However, experience and
training alone do not make up
Judge Bells fitness for the
bench. He has that essential
quality of an outstanding
Judge, a quality which for
| want Of better words usually
is described as judicial temp
erament. Judge Bell has pre-
sided over difficult trials,
spectacular trials. But he al
ways has conducted his court
in a manner to insure, on one
hand, the laws fullest rights
| to individuals, and on the
other hand, to make certain
that justice took its course
Impartiality, conscientious
ness, diligence, comprehension
Of both the fine points and tho
broad objectives Of law =
these are words easy enough
to handy about, but Judge
bell translates them into The
tangible. They live ane
breathe in his work, his rul
lings, his decisions.
Until recently Cincinnati
| was represented on the high
est court of the state by an
other excellent jurist, the lat'
| Gilbert Bettman. At the forth
coming general election th'
voters of Ohio will be callet
upon to elect his successor
Cincinnati offers the candi
dacy Of Judge Charles S. Bell
knowing in advance that HI
already finds favor through
out the state anoong thos'
eager to bring to the Suprem
| Court the very highest calibe
| Of jurist.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30
WITH WAAC

Miss Eva Brummit of South
Broadway received word this
week that her niece Rather
inc ("Rill'') Brummit is a
member at the WAAC and ID
stationed at Des Moines. Iowa,
"Bill' is "a graduate Of Wilber-
force University where she
was q star tennis player.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30

operation Of the States pro-
gram for the needy old people
or are guilty of deliberate
misrepresentation to the aid
recipients.
In four years Of operation
under the Bricker Adminis-
tration, not once have respon-
sible authorities or agencies
questioned the sincere and
competent manner in which
Ohio's program for the needy
aged has been conducted.
There have been no charges
of waste and incompetence
which under the preceding
Administration cost the State
81, ,338, 600, that amount hav-
ing been withheld by the Fed
eral Government because of
maladministration.
Not only have total pay
ments increased, the Division
Chief said, but also stated
that the rolls in the past four
years have shown huge in
creases chiefly because the
waiting list Of aid applicants
has been reduced to the low
est point in the Divisions his
tory.
BabD said that the records
reveal that when Gov. Bricker
assumed office, there were
more than 10000 applications
on file, some Of them as old as
two years and hundreds OF
them pending for more than q
Continued on page 3
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30
GOV. BRICKER ABOLISHED
DISCRIMINATION AT
DELAWARE IND. SCHOOL.

CLEVELAND, Ohio The
Ohio State Federation OF Col.
ored Women's Clubs through
its state president, Jane r..
Hunter, declared this week
that Governor John w. Brick
er had done a thorough job in
cleaning up at The Girls In
dustrial School at Delaware,
eliminating a victorious out
come of six years of struggle
by the association to better
educational and living condi-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-10-30

Marking the first time in Ohio
political history that four railroad
brothcrhoods have given a joint
Endorsement to gubernatorlal
candidate, the Cooperative Legis-
lative Committee Of Transports
tion Brotherhoods, State Of Ohio,
called personally upon Governor
John w. Bricker, and presented
their formal unanimous indorse-
Inent,
The. Endorsement cited tho nu-
merous moves Of Governor Bricker
which were beneficial to the rail-
road interests, dating from the
time of his appointment as d MEM
lbck.-of- the state utilities commis-