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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Hunt Tire HOarderS
New England Survey May Result in Seizure
Of Spares Shortage Becoming Acute
BY JACK VINCENT
Init News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 16,--A
test survey will be started in New
England states April II to deter
mine whether the federal govern
ment should requisition the extra
tires of all motorists, probably
about June /.
Officials said today that unless
the survey-ordered TO discover
the total of all scrap rubber and
other waste materials available
for the war effort-shakes loose
a large amount of rubber not now
available for acquisition, then seiz.
Iure OF extra tires will be neces-
Isary.
The WPB, il was reported, first
may order autoists 10 turn in al
in excess of five tires that they
own, in a step designed to hit
hoarders of old or new tires
Later, il necessary, motorists may
be ordered to surrender all spare
tires.
WPB rubber experts described
the situation as much more criti
cal than on March 5, when Civil
ian Supply Director Leon Hender
son made his startling statement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Dies 10 Conduct
Secret Probe

JASPER, Tex, April Is (UP).-
Chairman Martin Dies of the
House committee investigating un-
American activities, today awaited
arrival of 100 talkative 'house
guests" and predicted his CONVEX
sations with them would result in
indictments against 1900 enemy
agents in America.
He said that committee agents
would bring witnesses. most OF
them from the West Coast and
Mexican border cities, to his Sc
cluded farm and that their teSti-
mony probably would provide
clinching evidence for wholesale
indictments that may avert an
other Pearl Harbor."
The witnesses will be brought
TO the farm ito conceal their iden-
titles and protect them from bod
lily harm" he said. When he has
correlated their testimony. Dies
said he would 60 to Washington
TO ask a special federal grand jury
n return indictments against "ss
many as 1900 persons all over the
country"
The Detroit Times has far moro
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Smokes Soar
Ciearefs SIS Apiece in Bus
Court Ediet for Two

Cigarets we're costing SIS apiece
in Judge Joseph A. ellis court
today-if smoked on DSR bus.
Two defendants. Calvin Cole. A,
OF SIS East Philadelphia avenue
and Carter Smith, %, of 5720
Brush street. both Negroes. were
each fined SIS or Is days because
they continued TO smoke despite
regulations against it and protests
of the bus drivers.
Cole, in addition, held up an
Oakland bus for Is minutes be-
cause driver Peter Hahn wouldn't
move AS long as Cole was smoking
and Cole wouldn't put out his
cigaret. Cole also pushed Hahn
from The drivers scat because he
was irked by the delay, it was
testified.
Smith chose bus at Farms
worth and Hastings street upon
which TO smoke his cigaret. Police
removed him, too.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16

would be enrolled into the service
Such a proposition has been dis
cussed with President Roosevelt
by Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
chairman of the maritime commits
sion, Vinson said.
The recommendation that the
navy take over all United States
merchant ships and operate them
as naval auxiliaries was included
in % specific demands for tighten
ing protection of ships against
sabotage, fire or other damage.
ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITY
The report said that while no
evidence was revealed to substan-
tiatte charges of sabotage. "oppor.
tunities for sabotage or almost any
subversive activities" were abun.
dant on the Normandie.
Faulty fire-fighting equipment
lack of organization TO guart
against fires, failure 10 investigate
the patriotism of men working on
the ship. and division of respon-
sibility that left no one in supreme
command-these were among the
findings Of the committee.
ct II difficult to imagine q
moro confused state Of affairs
than that which existed on the
Normandie at and during the
course Of the fire, the report
said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Sales Tax Needed
Leaders See Levy Necessary K
Achieve Billion Dollar Tax Goal
BY GRIFFING BANCROFT

The Presidents personal opposi.
ton 10 a sales tax was believed tc
have led him TO decline 10 ask for
even higher taxes than the treas.
ury originally. proposed, although
many Inner circle" advisors are
known to favor such step.
I'VE have absolutely no indi-
cation that any more taxes than
originally proposed are to he
asked" ways and means chair
man Doughton CD of North
Carolina announced after a As
minute conference with the
President.
Asked il he told the Executive
that there is strong congressional
sentiment for sales tax, Dough-
ton replied, We'll, that is well
known" -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Girl Missionary
Slain by Youth

WASHINGTON, April Is (UP)
A 17-year-old theater usher con-
fessed to police today the hammer
Staying Of a 25-year-old girl mem
Der OF the Jehovah's Witnesses sect
who had come 10 his mothers
apartment with a portable phono-
graph TO play records propagating
her groups religious opinions.
The youth. whom police identi-
fled as Richard L. White, led the
homicide squad 10 the apartment
and pointed out the partly clothed
body of the girl, her head crushed
in and her throat slashed with a
butcher knife. The body was
wedged into a clothes closet.
Lieut.. Herbert II. limbaugh said
White came TO the First Precinct
police station late last night anc
asked to speak to the officer ir
charge.
"Are you In trouble" Lieu
tenant limbaugh asked.
"You 70 up to 1922 ~ street,
and you'll sec the trouble" he
said white replied
Lieut.. jeremiah Flaherty OF the
homicide squad said the girls
clothes were half ripped off anc
there were indications she hac
been criminally attacked. He sale
IL was the most brutal crime M
had ever seen.
Police said white was almos'
incoherent in giving a description
of the crime. On the ride to tn,
anartment. he mentioned flight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16

before a congressional committee
that acquisitions of tires may be
necessary.
Faced with the growing short
age. Henderson has ordered 4O
agents to go into the New Eng
land area on April u as spot
&c h kers" to determine the
amounts OF all kind of scrap avail.
able. Including rubber. A cam.
ipaign also will be made for col.
lection OF old tires and other
articles containing the critical
material.
Government officials are pessi.
ImiStic over the collection cam.
lpaign. They point out that motor,
lists, instead of selling old tires
are now keeping them to try Il
crowd more mileage out of them
About Is per cent of all reclaimed
rubber comes from old automobile
castings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
u. S. Mission TO India

NEW DELPHI, April Is INS)
"A United States technical mis-
sion to India is expected TO arrive
this weekend and will have it's
first meeting with government
representatives Monday, it was
learned today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
big Sub Fleet

WASHINGTON, April Is (INS)
Swift approval was given by the
House naval affairs committee to-
day for a bill TO authorize a
200. 0O0-ton increase in the subma-
rine feet.
Estimates Of experts were that
this would allow construction ot
more than 80 additional subma-
rineS, more than doubling the
present feet OF this type OF war
ship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Navy Expected .
To Take Over
Merchant Fleet
By ARTHUR HACHTEN
Int1 News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. April 1e-The
House naval affairs committee to-
day recommended that the navy
take over the United States mer-
chant marine after finding that
"careleSSness and lack of proper
supervision" led 10 the fire that
wrecked the former French luxur,
liner Normandie.
Committee Chairman Carl Vim
son I'D of Georgia predicted the
navy action would take place very
soon" and that every seaman
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Plumbing Stock
Frozen; Burners
Banned May 81

WASHINGTON, April 16
tINS).-The War Production
Board today froze stocks of
plumbing and heating equipment,
effective Immediately, and banned
the manufacture OF oil burners
and coal stokers for residential
use after May 81.
The freezing order affects all
plumbing and heating equipment
stocks except those for retail sales
of S. or less or any sale on q
high defense rating.
Another order restricts future
production of commercial and in
6ustrial type units to orders bear,
ing high defense ratings.
OUTPUT LIMITED
Between now and May 81
manufacturers of residential
equipment must not exceed one,
twelfth of their production las
year.
The orders follow a recent WIPE
order slashing the output of ho'
air furnaces by one-third.
An additional 10000 stoker,
and $4,000 oil burners for resi-
Dental use will be produced by
May 81, officials said. Manufac
turers now have inventories of ap
Iproximately $4,000 coal stoker.
and 10000 oil burners.
The WPB said the action woulC
iexpedite conversion OF the OF
burner and coal stoker industrie,
TO war production and save nearl,
| 100 600 tons Of iron and steel.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
City Overtime Hearing Sci

Common Council today set for
May 5 the hearing on whether 10
pay overtime to Salaricd city en-
ployes. The date had been re-
Quested by the mayor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
War on NaZi Minds
>ay by Day U. S. Shot-Waves Bomberd Germany
With Wake Up. You Can't Win
BY WALTER HERMAN
Init New, ser,ic. star Correspondent

NEW YORK. April 16.-"The
z shots in The Nazi Party lead a
ife OF plenty ;. This second world
war certainly has enriched the
Nazi chieftains The Gestapo
has not left anything undone 10
curb free expressions Of the peo-
pie -.
Day by day, almost hour by hour
American short waves aimed a.
Germany drive home the theme
You can't win Wake up +.
Overthrow your Nszi masters
It's pretty secret stuff. The gov
eminent is not showing its entire
hand and probably not until the
war Is over will the American
public know all the material broad
cast 10 the Axis nations, 10 South
America and 10 the world.
PROPAGANDA LINES
National Broadcasting Company
reports that its programs follow
"a few main propaganda lines,
among them these;
. The pointing out OF the paral-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
OPPOSES SALES TAX

Morgenthau opposes compulsory
savings on the grounds that vol
untary bond selling will accom-
plish the same purpose in more
American way" His insfstence
on this is believed 10 have led the
President 10 refuse 10 recommend
that persons he compelled TO save,
as they are in England.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
DAILY AND SUNDAY
Postage Included

Mail remittance 10 Detroit Times.
designating IN whom to send and
camp address. Any necessary
change ~ address can he made
same day of notification.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
GINS BOND PLAN

These developments bee a m e
known as Secretary OF the Treas
ury Morgenthau arranged to bring
before the tax-writing House ways
and means committee two officials
of General Motors Corporation TO
explain that company's plan Of in
ducing the purchase Of war bonds
by voluntary pay roll deductions
on the part OF workers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Con-
gressional tax leaders said today
that President Roosevelt has been
told "in so many words that it is
extremely doubtful" that even ST.
OO0, 900, 900 in war revenues can
be raised without a general fed
leral sales tax.
The President, in return. has as
sured legislators that he has
turned donw proposals by Price
Leon Henderson
and other advisors TO boost the tax
goal above that figure and insti-
Itute compulsory personal savings
TO combat imitation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16

The Detroit Times has far moro
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Evening star., 1942-08-11
BY Lillian Cox Athey

on a commercial scale are New
Jersey, Indiana, Illinois. Oklahoma,
Kansas and California.
This plant thrives on light, warm,
sandy soils, well supplied with or
ganic matter. 1t requires abundant
moisture during the early growing
days, though some are able to pro-
duce abundantly in regions with
relatively slight waterfall. The wa
termelon is a sturdy plant demand
ing space, and like all other vine
plants is a gross feeder needing a
plentiful amount of available plant
food over a comparatively short
growing season. For this reason
the grower must know when and
how to feed the plant for quick
results.
Perfect melons must have brittle
flesh, few f1oers and thin rind.
Naturally, these cannot be shipped
TO distant markets. Only those with
firm and not too thin rind and OF
variety that is OF uniform size
and weight of from 20 to 30
PouiluS Cdll NC IdlSCu Aoi Sii1pAlCIlt
In growing watermelons for an
average family the few hills needed
should be prepared with care. The
young plants require protection
from insects; when they have
reached a vigorous stage the water
melon hill should not be populated
with more than four plants. From
this stage on weeds must be kept
down, and il all directions have been
faithfully followed there is no rea-
son why you should not enjoy your
own homegrown, lucious water
melons, even sharing the surplus
with Eeighbors and friends.
Evening star., 1942-08-11

1t has Sanskrit name, but none
in the ancient Greek and Latin
languages, so was very likely not
known much before the Christian
era.
David Livingstone, in 1857. writes
of it being abundant in favorable
years IN the kalahari Desert. 1t
seems that some Of the melons were
sweet and some bitter. but he makes
mention of the fact that animals
from mice to elephants enjoy the
watermelon with evident delight.
There are three types of water
melons cultivated on large scale.
The round preserving "citron," the
one used for livestock and the COM
mon watermelon used by the aver
age American with such pleasure
during the hot days of July and
August. Our grandmothers even
used the seeds to cure fever.
AS garden plant the watermelon
has wide distribution. But as a
commercial product its culture is
confined chiefly to the region to
which the long-leaf pine is native
This region includes the States bor-
dering the Atlantic from Virginia
southwark as we'll as those bordering
the Gulf. The only States outside
this territory growing watermelon
Evening star., 1942-08-11

scream at him at the top OF his
lungs. Thief! Thief! Thief" You
see, that was the worst thing he
could think of, and, after all, wasn't
Farmer Browns Boy kind of thief
If he was trying to steal the liberty
of Old Man Coyote?
Old Man Coyote himself felt very
much as Sammy did. He didn't
doubt that when Farmer Browns
Boy found that those carefully hid
den traps had been dug up and made
quite useless he would at once set
them again with even greater care
than before. OF course, it wouldn't
do for him to stay there, so he
slipped away to keep out of sight as
long as Farmer Browns Boy should
stay.
"Ill watch and see just where he
puts each trap, so as to tell you after
ne leaves" said Sammy.
Evening star., 1942-08-11
Uncle Ruy's Corner
By RAMON COFFMAN.

One of the two gases which make
TN water is the lightest of all known
gases. 1t is far lighter than air. A
quart of air is equal in weight to IA
and a third quarts of hydrogen.
hydrogen has been used as a gas
for balloons and dirigibles. 1t has
great lifting power, but 1t will burn
when touched with a lighted match
and can be ignited by spark. Ex-
blossoms causing loss of life have fol-
lowed the use of this gas. Hellum
has less lifting power but it is better
because 1t is safer.
Oxygen is the other gas in water.
It Is a little heavier than air, but
not much. Nine quarts OF oxygen
are equal in weight to 10 quarts OF
air, when the temperature and pres
sure are the same.
oxygen can be turned into n
LIQUID. When that is done, it be-
comes extremely cold-36l degrees
below zero Fahrenheit. Liquid oxy-
gen is highly explosive and can be
used In place of dynamite.
Oxygen gas is important for burn
ing. No bonfire would burn without
1t.
When oxygen and hydrogen are
put together in the right way, they
become water. This has been done
many times in the laboratories Of
scientists
This brings us to very strange
point. A gas which will burn quickly
is combined with a gas needed for a
flame, and the result is liquid
which will put out fire!
From early times, men have used
water to quench fires. The water
Evening star., 1942-08-11

II don't see how any one can be
so happy when he is trying to make
others suffer-" he muttered. ANY
way, he's going to be dreadfully dis
appointed when he sees these traps,
and I'm glad of it,"
But Farmer Browns Boy didn't
appear the least bit disappointed.
In fact, he actually seemed glad.
Sammy couldn't understand it. He
rubbed his eyes to make quite sure
that what he saw was really and
truly so. Farmer Browns Boy was
actually taking up his dreadful
traps. instead of setting them again!
Probably he's going to set them
somewhere else" muttered Sammy
I'M watch and find out"
So very silently he followed
Farmer Browns Boy at a distance.
Whistling merrily. Farmer Browns
Boy went straight back the way he
Evening star., 1942-08-11
By Milburn Rosser.
BY Art Huhto
BY Harold Groy
By Fronk Willard
By Will Eisner
BY Bud Fisher

had come across the Green Mead
ows. He didn't stop once, but kept
on right to his own home and there
he threw the traps in corner.
Then he walked over to where
Bowser the Hound was lying in the
sun, nursing his sore leg. the one
which had been hurt, you know.
when he stepped in one of the traps
set for Old Man Coyote.
mo more trapping for us, eh,
Bcwser?" said Farmer Browns Boy
as he gently patted Bowser's head.
We've learned just how cruel and
dreadful it is, haven't We old fellow"
Sammy Jay was too surprised to
even scream. He just flew over to
the Green Forest to think IT over.
Could 1t be that Farmer Browns
Boy had had a change OF heart?
You never can tell. You never can
tell" muttered Sammy Jay.
Evening star., 1942-08-11

been listening to Old Man Coyotes
story of how he was taken away
from his old home in the great, wide,
wonderful West and finally came to
the Green Meadows Sammy was
sure that it was to look at the traps
set there for Old Man Coyote He
didn't have the least doubt in the
world that Farmer Browns Boy was
hoping that he would find Old Man
Coyote caught in one of them.
Since he had heard Old Man Coy
ote's story Sammy had had a great
change of feeling toward Old Man
Coyote, and he felt now as if he
fairly hated Farmer Browns Boy.
He never had liked him. but now
he hated him. Yes, sir, that's the
way Sammy felt. He hated any one
who would set those dreadful steel
traps. So when he saw Farmer
Browns Boy coming he began to
Evening star., 1942-08-11

"All right, and thank you" replied
Old Man Coyote. Il guess I could
find them just as have found them
before, but if you will do that 1t will
save me some trouble"
Sammy felt very important as he
flew to tree little way off, from
which he could see all that Farmer
Browns Boy did. 1t would be great
fun to spoil all Of Farmer Brown S
Boys plans, and at the same time be
of real help to one so smart as Old
Man Coyote.
Wont he be angry when he finds
how Old Man Coyote has been too
smart for him and has found and
dug up all his traps?" chuckled
Sammy.
Farmer Browns Boy came straight
to Old Man Coyotes home, and as
he came he whistled as If his heart
was light. Sammy scowled.
Evening star., 1942-08-11

smothers a fame. There are GER
tain kinds of fires which water will
not stop, but in general 1t is the
easiest thing to use for the purpose
Nature does not give every part
Of the earth an equal supply of
water. Great stretches of land are
deserts" because they have only a
few inches of rain each year.
Seeing the waste Of land, we have
worked out systems of irrigation in
many places. Dams have been built
to block rivers, and this has pro-
duced ''man-made lakes" From
such lakes, trenches can lead the
water to soil which is thirsty for
1t. Sometimes an irrigation system
takes water to land hundreds of
miles distant.
Here and there-where, rivers
could not be used to serve the pur-
pose-deep wells have been drilled.
We shall have more to say about
wells in our next story.
Fer seneral interest section of your
Evening star., 1942-08-11
Christmas May Reopen

TUCSON. Ariz. Pl.-Christmas
may return to Arizona. The Bureau
of Mines reports that the copper
mine which formerly supported the
small post office of Christmas may
be reopened. If the mine prospers
the post Office. once the Nation S
favorite mailing SPOT for Yule cards
probably will be revived.
Evening star., 1942-08-11
NATURES CHILDREN
WATERMELON.
(Citrullus pulgdriS) ]

Our watermelon crop will bring
s9,520,C00 this year, Sl,000,000 more
than last year This is the most
valuable vine crop grown in the
United States. The watermelon Is
a native of Africa and is normally
dry country plant.
At an early date the watermelon
was taken to India. 1t reached
China about the 10th century, AID
Evening star., 1942-08-11
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS

It's a fact! It's a fact! You never can tell
What 4 person will do. You never can tell.
That is why 1t is a mistake to
judge others hastily. People often
are much better than you think they
are. When Sammy Jay looked
across the Green Meadows and saw
Farmer Browns Boy coming straight
toward the far corner where he had
Evening star., 1942-08-11
1~eA @4

If you desire a free copy Of the
illustrated leaflet, Stamps and
Stamp Collecting" send a
stamped (3-cent). self addressed
envelope to Uncle Ray in care of
The Evening Star.
Read Uncle Ray in The Junior Sta
EUery Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-08-11
Take MyWord for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Sobotoge-Soboteur

The particularly odious kind of
destruction known as sabotage orig
mated long ago in France. Fearing
that the introduction of machinery
would deprive them of employment,
workers wrecked many machines by
casting their wooden shoes (sabots)
into the working parts.
Sabotage has two Anglicized pro-
nunciations:
First choice. noun and verb: sab
oh-TAHZH.
Second choice, noun only: SAB
oh-tidge.
A saboteur. of course, is one who
commits sabotage. But saboteur is
still regarded as a foreign word. 1t
should be given the French pronun-
citation. Do not say "sab-uh TOO
er." The third syllable, which
ceives the accent, rhymes approx
mately with her, per Say: sab-oh-
TER.
How Did 1t Start?
Phoenix: What is the origin of fly
ing flag at HALF MAST?-W. Y.
Answer: The custom is a survival
Of the days of the sailing ship. When
q ship went into mourning, as for its
captain, commodore, a king or a
president, the entire vessel presented
a slovenly appearance-the flag at
half mast, the yards Ispars) cock
billed (disarranged), the rigging
Stacked off, and rope ends trailing
This is comparable to the "sackcloth
and ashes" mourning Of Biblical
times.
Learn TO pronounce scores Of such
names as Petain, Goebbcls, De
Gaulle, Chang kai-shek. A valuable
reference for home and school, and
for broadcasters and public speakers
Send a stamped ,3-cent. self-ad-
dressed envelope to Frank Colby, in
care of The Evening Star. Ask for
Famous Names pamphlet It's free
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