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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28

ing all forms of materials he will
need in the next three months.
Locally the acquisitions will he
handled through the priorities Of
flee at,73l0 Woodward avenue
James Wilson, the manager, said
blanks are not yet available but
are expected soon TO arrive.
At the same time the manufac-
turer will be asked 10 report the
important features of his plant
and the power-driven equipment
and machinery in his plant. This
will act as an inventory which
will bring TO light available ma
chinery in small plants for war
orders and aid in the placing OF
contracts.
Immediate availability of mate
rialS 10 the smaller shop is aimed
10 stabilize employment by elm
mating the lay-Offs resultant from
avoldable shortages.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
State Gets S4,21O,74
For Work on Roads

LANSING. Jan. rs CUP).-
State Highway Commissioner G..
Donald Kennedy said today the
state of Michigan had been allo-
Gated a total Of S2l0,7i9 in
federal fund, for military highway
improvements IN the state
lie said S3O29.9i5 would 90 for
primary highways, $500 065 would
60 for secondary roads and SOL
139 represented an outright grant
for grade separations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
TRUE IN THESE CASES

ThlS-maS- true -of-ttfc -GhrVSler
tank arsenal. where some $40 600. :
600 and more is involved II wax
equally true with the Hudson
Motor Car Company 10 whose
original $50 00Q,0un naval ordnance
arsenal contract some other mil
lions have been added.
That Hudson could have handled
this job in It's own factory even
with naval permission docs not
stand up The navy specified II
one-Story and separated buildings.
so arranged that bombing would
inflct minimum damage Hudson
automobile operations arc enclosed
in two 10 Slx-Story buildings and
arc located in a congeSted factory
district.
The army originally asked Chry.
Slor for a Sclf-contalned tank
arsenal 50 fcMbly laid out that
changes IN tank specifications
could be handled in the future.
Later, with an expanded schedule.
the unit vas made strictly an
assembly center Chry>lcr was
merely an advisor IN this pro-
cedure and now operates the plant
on lease from the government.
Siudehaker was awarded large
grants 70 construct aircraft engine
plants The sites were passed by
the war department with an cyc
on transportation labor supply Snd
safety from bombing Studcbakcr
could not possibly have rc-dcSlCncd
itS South Bend factories 70 fulfill
tho contract
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
Motor Makers
Attest Action in
War Programs

This is the last of a series of
articles on the automobile in
dustry'S answers TO the Truman
report
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
UNTOLD AMOUNTS SPENT

Untold amounts have meanwhile
been voluntarily spent by automo-
bile companies on a preliminary
war order prog Without gov
eminent subsidy General Motors
poured hundreds of thousands oi
dollars into the experimental work
on the Allison aircraft engine
which has now become a vital war
instrument
The ChrySlor Corporations ini-
tial engineering on the tank
project ran into six figures before
the letter of intent came
through. ChrySlcr also expanded
and leased outside space in the
belief that war emergency was
approaching
Even moro pertinent is tho story
by Charles +. SorcnScn vice preSi-
dent Of the Ford Motor Company
HOW 1T WAS DONE
THE Willow Run airplane
plant was started without any
government appropriation or
authorization" he says I'VE
asked what we could do and
were told the automobile indus
try would he asked In the future
10 shoulder an increasingly large
share Of aircraft production.
1T cost uS milliOns To do the
Job. Instead Of wasting time, we
have advanced ny months the
day on which we will he produc-
ing planes In great quantities"
In war Of machines tho auto
mobile induStry'S disposition for
action without governmental com
mitment can we'll mean hundreds
Of American lives.
The industry was m OV in &.
spokesman somewhat bitterly point
out. while many congressman were
hagclng about appropriations and,
disregardinG military counS . J.
fighting 10 Get defense contracts
for their own districts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
Jumps BIG WITH LITTLE

An attack like that Jumps the
big with the little. the responsible
with the irresponsible in a gigantic
meshwork that includes the sup
pliers of parts with the aSSembler
No one can state uncqulVOcably
that such an explanation would
not uncover some wrong. From
available evidence. however. auto
mobile manufacturers have A case
General Motors has said II Will
accept government financing for
new plants only where II can fore
see no afteT-War utilization Of
facilities. This was true of two
large aircraft engine plants and a
tank plant.
In the better known cases Of
federal financing the loan was
arbitrarily part of tho contract.
The war department insisted on
advancing funds because il wanted
control and planned the plants as
permanent depotS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28
BY ROBERT VI. ROSS

There is one section of the Tru.
man report TO the United States
Senate that would, were it not foI
grave implications, cause many ar
automobile executive TO. smile.
This section reads:
after the program OF CONVEX
sion Of such plants has had
sufficient time To get under way.
the committee will insist upon
receiving an explanation from
the parties involved, particularly
as 10 factual basis, II any,
upon which they contended that
they should be given millions Of
dollars to spend over months Of
time to create entirely new plant
facilities instead of being re-
quired 10 convert a substantial
part of their existing facilities
to defense production"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
BIackou+ Hat
Is HIighIigh+
Of Show
BY JOAN DEAN

THE LID IS OFF the 1912
handbook. Hold your hats, dam
sells! We're off TO see what the
bonnet wizards have shaped up
for our spring refreshments.
Over on Woodward avenue, to-
morrow and Friday, you and 1
shall witness a parade of the
prettiest hats in the store.
It's an annual affair. Maybe
you've attended, but hat show
has never before been so impor-
tant in the life of the fashion
minded. Until this year. almost
anything you wore upon your
Uranium was called a hat f, I.
a stylish hat, at that.
Not so this coming spring. AS
you will clearly see in this pres
entation, all new hats are sweet
and flattering, befrilled and be-
decked hats that men smile
at, with sheer admiration. No
more surrealism in our chapeauX.
No more loud outlaws from mas
culine onlookers.
IN SHORT. the motif Of the
show is prettineSS TO please the
men. There's no set formula for
achieving this end. We can't tell
you TO buy big hat or one with
ruching trim or even one as col
orful as jellybean.
You just have TO find the hat
that's right for you and right for
your clothes collection. There's
no telling how it's done, but the
designers of good hats manage.
with trick here and a cut there,
10 make them the most out
standing part Of costume.
For instance, take our model
in the photograph. She is wear
ing an expensive suit and a lux
urious fur piece. but her hats
receive the first line Of attention
because they're distinctive.
startling and Oh so ladylike in
one fell swoop.
FIRMLY RESOLVE to Join
the ranks of the frankly femi-
nine. Buy a chapeau that brings
out your best features. Buy one
that makes you feel like visiting
royalty or a flower garden come
10 life.
One headliner in the show is a
lowered hat for blackouts. The
hat itself is black, but the white
posies are painted TO illume in
pitch darkness. Another is a
black straw bonnet, brought 10 a
peak at the front and adorned
with pair of pink roses. It's
veil ties demurely al one side of
the chin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
BY PRUDENCE PENNY

CANNING for self defense is
canning for national defense,
says Ralph Errolle. currently
appearing at the Wilson. After
hearing him sing the part of
RhadameS in Aida il is difficult
to picture him carefully packing
tomatoes into q jar or down on
his knees patiently working the
soil around plants.
Yet, it is the garden or the
kitchen where he spends time
when not singing in opera. He
won't even call il a hobby, for it
means more TO him than such.
His gardening is done in a large
plot at Montclair. N. J. =.
and he speaks of the kitchen as
the canning factory.
Double Purpose
Mr.. Errolle points out that his
garden is not only a health con-
ditioner through the exercise it
gives, but il also provides the
kind of food he wants. Having a
small plot he can grow things
which are not grown CONNER
cially, since plant diseases may
be more easily controlled. AL
ready tomatoes have been
planted to be ready for use in
June.
After working with a garden
10 TO Is years, it's easy to I'M
derstand why this man feels
that everyone who has even a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
WhyMen Stay
Young Longer
Than Women
BY HELEN ROWLAND

ONE REASON a man STAYS
young longer than woman does
Is that woman insists on doing
most OF his worrying for him.
Man was made 10 mourn-but
woman always beats him 10 il.
When A man marches off 10
camp or 10 war, his heart may
be torn with the sorrow Of part
ing. but his spirit is filled with
determination. hope and adven-
ture. II is the wife or the
sweetheart he leaves behind who
will lie awake.
TO A MAN. all of life is an
exciting adventure. Even in
peace times, he can squeeze
more excitement out of it in one
day than a woman can extract
from 1t in a whole year.
A man makes a game of his
work; woman can't even en-
JOY a game unless she makes
work OF il. That's the real secret
oil mans protracted youth. and
OF the success of beauty parlorS.
A girl is always anxious 10
Know how novel is going 10
turn out She can't take much
JOY IN a romance unless She
Ai'o"s just where its leading.
UNTIL A woman learns 10
look upon life as a great adven-
lure a gay, exciting game of
chance, she will never delight in
IL as a man does. Unless she
mas discovered that work and
business are not dull routines
out fascinating sports. she will
never get a mans real low out
OF them. Most career girls have
iounu the secret already.
whether he's playing at golf
politicS, money making or love
making a man always PLAYS
Just Tor the sheer JOY of playing
~ ,hlngS go wrong, it merely
increases his zest and enthusi.
oSiil' ana inspires him 10 make p
more skillful stroke. a greater
EFFORT. 1t is then that he wins
THAT'S WHY most men keen
thelr looks, their figures and
ther spirit of youth without tho
aId OF plastic surgeons and
beauty parlors. For Youth is
the spirit of adventure of hone
That buoyant feeling Thai
something delightful and won
derful may turn the trick for
You, at any moment.
The thumbs-up spirit is the
spirit of soldiers and civilians.
the spirit of America. which
makes us young nation-a ma
ton Of eternal youth.
We must take war as mon
take life-and play the game.
Distributed By King Features synd.. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03

TRIM YOUR linens-decorate
your closets-with these popular
pineapple edgings. This varied
collection gives you large and
small edgings for straight and
round pieces, and a corner.
Pattern 238 contains directions
for making edgings; illustrations
of them and stitches.
Send IL cents in coins for this
pattern to the Laura Wheeler
Pattern Department. 1925 Times
Square, Detroit, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03

CARMEL SNOW, editor OF
Harper's Bazaar arrives to-
morrow to talk at Fisher Town
Hall when we shall expect
10 learn what's new on the
spring fashion calendar.
Following her talk there will
be a 45-minute fashion show
with styles from several Detroit
shops clothes for children
as well as groWnupS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
Opera Singer Also Chef and Gardener

few feet of available ground
should plant it particularly
during war time when some
foods may be difficult TO get.
There are only four or five
weeks in each year that he
doesn't have something fresh
from his garden. He not only
cans foods. but puts them into
frames, pits and other types of
storage.
Large Variety
Some of the foods which he
raises are pears, peaches, apples.
ounce, blackberries, tomatoes,
green peppers and ground
cherries.
He points out that red, green
and yellow peppers make an at
tractive relish and that ounce
and pear jam is delicious. The
ground cherries are used for
conserve TO be served over tapi-
oca and custard buildings.
Here is Ralph Errolle'S favor
tie recipe for Bolognese Sauce.
It's one which has much ro-
nance in its background, but
nevertheless he did make the
addition of the chilli powder
over the original recipe.
Bolognese Sauce
I cup finely minced onion
u cup olive oil
IL cups tomato PURGE
l Glove garlic
Ia teaspoons salt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03

y pound mixed veal, beef and
pork
= cup chopped parsley
pinch thyme
- cup IL cam tomato paste
2 cups water
l teaspoon crumbled basil
leaves
! pinch marioram
a teaspoon chilli powder
2 pounds spaghetti
Saute the onion slowly in half
Of oil until cooked through. Add
the PURGE.
Mash garlic with salt until in
a paste. Have meat finely
ground. add parsley and thyme
and brown thoroughly in other
half Of oil. Withdraw meat and
to the oil and residue add the
tomato paste which has been di-
luted with the water. Let both
Skillets cook slowly for - min
utes, then combine.
Add remaining seasoning and
let simmer slowly for ] 4 hours.
Cook spaghetti until tender in
boiling sailed water; drain and
mix with sauce and about y cup
grated Parmesan cheese. Never
use yellow cheese, advises Mr..
Errolle.
If you wish to dress the dish
up, you may add Il or a full
pound of fresh mushrooms that
have been slightly Drowned in
butter. Or you may prefer TO
add chicken liverS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
BORDEN'S s sSes MINCE MEAT

For pie-eoiers, Irish or Otherwise -. serve up
the eatingest mince pie that ever came out of
any oven. With spicier, fuller-havored Bor-
den's None Such Mince Meat smuggling un-
der the f1aky, golden crust. A-a-hl
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
Editorials and Comment
so AMERICAS ASLEEP
TO WAR NECESSITIES?

The irony Of all wartime ironles pop
ped its head above the surface Of Wash
ington turmoil Saturday. The admins
tratiop told the American public IN
few hundred words that somebody's got
to do something if we're going to win this
war, and intimated with great clarity
that the public had better begin to real
ize that there's a war ON.
What it amounted to was mat he ad
ministration was blaming the public for
troubles which the administration itself
has created We're asleep, they said.
There can only be one answer:
Who put us to sleep, and who's keep
ing us in the semi-darkness which in
ducas continued slumber?
1t was an unhappy (fOr the admins
tration) coincidence that the Office of
War Information blast at so-called pub
lie lethargy came on the same day when
another news dispatch told how l. S.
Attorney General Francis Biddle had
ordered a federal grand jury inquiry in
to stories in three Chicago. New York
and Washington newspapers which, ac-
cording to Biddle, revealed "confiden-
tial information The confidential
information which Biddle thought
should have been kept from the Ameri-
can public was the strength and dis
Battle of Midway - information which
the enemy most certainly knew, The in
formation was published, mind you,
when it was too late for the JapS to
change their plans, and could have done
them no good at all. 1t may nave been
another coincidence that the three
papers in which the stories appeared are
administration.
If the American people are asleep. it
isn't their fault. If they are without a
stern determination to make any ncces-
sary sacrifices and take any necessary
risks, it is because they have seen no
stern determination in Washington, nor
any inclination to take the slightest risk,
whether political or military.
If there is no tight rudder on the ship
Of state, no firm hand on the wheel, no
set course to stear, how can the people
be anything but confused?
If the country's highest leaders side
step responsibility because of political
embarrassment, and choose second-rate
lieutenants because Of political alliances,
how can the people feel that the situa-
ton is so serious?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
UNCOMFORTABLE
RUSSIA

(Rivarside Press
News of the moment looks very bad
for Russia. NaZi legions recruited from
every German devastated country IN Eu-
rope. have been thrown against the Rus
SLAMS, but with little or no help from
any OF the United Nations, she keeps 60
ing.
Russia cannot be conquered, can not
be ruined. For a.thouSand years of re-
corded history Russia has been fighting
off invaders. sometimes absorbing them
and making them behave, throwing the
leaders often. out of high windows onto
the points of lances. hanging the corpses
IN public places where those who See
may be warned.
Russia cannot be starved out. 1t has
endured famines beyond the magma
tion Of anyone in the western world. 1t
has endured serfdom and miseres be-
yond belief.
But the land Of the Soviets rises
again, struggling always for food
enough, for warmth and shelter, but
never satisfied with these. Russians are
satisfied only when they are fighting for
freedom and for growth IN the things
which make human beings men and not
in the last few years. Nothing can throw
them back into barbariSm.
Russia can suffer greatly. 1t has suf-
fered before and rose stronger for its
suffering. 1t can endure hunger and
thirst. war and devastation. But Russia
cannot be conquered.
The Nazs may think they have the
Ukraine with its grain and its coal, its
steel and its nearness to oil. But can
they keep it? History says no.
The Nazi has overpowered and looted
France, Holland, Czechoslavakia, and
the low countries But they have not
conquered them and never will. The day
of reckoning is on the way 1t will not
be happy day for Hitler nor for those
Germans who have greedily or supinely
let him keep his power
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10

Perhaps the establishment of
unified command in the Aleutians
will clear up some of the fog which
has surrounded those outpoStS OF
the continental United States.
The physical fog probably will
not prove amenable to orders from
the unnamed naval officer now in
charge But, as SO many have point
ed out already, fog sits alike upon
the just and the unjust, Americans
and Nipponese.
The whole Aleutian situation has
been surrounded by tragic sur
plusage of mental fog, and this a
competent naval officer, given
proper weapons and sufficient au-
thority, can dispel.
President Roosevelt must be pre-
sumed to have known what he was
doing when he gave the Navy su-
preme command there. The de-
cision has at least one unfortunate
aspect. The NaVy's high command
has insisted consistently that occu-
patton of this western hemisphere
territory is of no Importance and
nc concern-a bit of trivia, hardly
worthy of mention.
It is no reflection upon the ability
of whatever naval subordinate has
the Aleutian command to wish
that the task of sending the Japs
back home had been handed to a
department which was willing to
admit, even to itself, that it Is dis
graceful and alarming for us to
permit an enemy to stay on our
hemisphere soil so long.
The Army has realized, for yearsi
the potential menace of japanese
seizure of key spots in the Aleu-
tians, and sought vainly to get
appropriations for their defense
long before we were at war.
Now that the Japs are in, the
Army won't talk. But in Army
circles one can find an aWareness
Of the strategic menace of the
Aleutian situation which is not
apparent in Navy circles
outside the Navy, expert after
expert who knows the geography
Of the Pacific insists that the sit
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

There's one way to stop the vi
cious gossip that has it that this
OF the person is in the pay of the
German government, or is a Nazi
Sympathizer, or used pull to stay
out of the Army. That is for the
person to whom it is repeated to
take a firm stand.
If someone says to you, Il have
good reason to believe that Mrs. X
isn't q loyal American don't just
think to yourself, This person is
a malicious gossip"-and go on be-
ing polite.
Instead say, IF you have any real
reason for thinking that, it is your
duty to report Mrs. X to the proper
authorities, and if you have no real
grounds for thinking SO, you have
no right to go around damaging
her reputation.
If We don't look the malicious
goSsips in the eye and tell them
what we think of them, we aren't
doing our part. A lot of innocent
people today, are having their rep
utations torn to pieces and their
places in their communities threat
ened because someone gets a kick
out of going around limiting or
saying outright that they are eth
er active enemy agents or sympa-
thetic to the enemy cause.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
Oh. SAY CAN you SEE?

Jacksonville Register)
Did you, reading tOdays story of the
Russian front battles, dismiss the mat
ter with the thought that Il see the Rus
slams are still lighting and then turn o
something more pleasant or interest
ing?'
The news Of the fighting below Rostov
ought to be the most important peWs of
all to every American, because in the
end it is going to affect his life more
than any other development. The Ger
mans and the Russians on that faraWay
battle-ground of npronOuncable names
are deciding how long this war is to last,
how long we'll do without tires, how
many Of us are going into the armed
forces.
The Russians as usual are putting
up brave fight. Thousands of Russians
are dying every day to slow up the Ger
man juggernut. But the fact remains
that Hitler's forces are drawing nearer
and nearer to the Caucasus oil. If he
takes it, providing himself with much
needed petroleum and cutting off Rus
sia from her principal supply the war
will inevitably be heightened. Capture
of the Caucasus oil might conceivably
mean an eventual stalemate of Axis vic
tory.
So, those far-aWay battles are determ-
ming for instance whether the United
States will need an army of 10 million
or more, and whether, in order to get it,
the United States will have to draft the
married men viii children. the men with
physical handicapS, and others who now
seem denote from military service.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
laps Claim kiska
Attack REFUSED

TOKYO, Aug. 10 - Japanese
Broadcast Recorded BY UP in San
Francisco)-Imperial headquarters
announced today japanese naval
forces in Aleutian waters on Aug.
successfully repulsed strong enemy
forces which appeared for battle.
The announcement said the ac-
ton successfully demonstrated sue
cess of Japanese naval forces in
the northern Pacific waters as well
as in the south.
(The United States has announc-
ed the bombardment of japanese
installations on Kiska island in the
AleutianSD
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-10
WHAT OF THESE CHARGES
IN SPECIFIC. DETAIL?

Let us see how it is the administration
arrives at the conclusion that the public
is only "ankle deep" in this war.
June output of vital arms is slightly
behind schedule, they say. Who arrang-
ed the schedule, directed the flow Of
materials. controlled prorities, knew
knew what the figures were, realized
where the lags appeared? Not the pub
lie
Merchant ship sinkings far exceeded
new construction, they say. Who waited
until public pressure grew to vast pro
portions before authorizing mass cargo
plane production? Not the public,
Our allies have carried most Of the
load, and we have not given them as
much help as we led them to expect they
say. Who led them to expect more aid
than they received, and who orders the
routing Of help for our allies? Not the
public!
Popular pressure for opening a sec
ond front can serve no useful purpose
unless military authorities approve it,
they say. Who promised second front
this year, and publicized the promise
throughout the world? Not the public.
Those who believe there will be plenty
of rubber for all needs are fooing them
selves, they say Who has failed to give
clear picture of the rubber crisis, but
instead has made it the most confused
issue of the war? Not the public