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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
Uniformed Pair
Rob Benefd(tor

Police today we're searching for
two men wearing uniforms Of
Canadian sailors who. after being
befriended by woman. struck
her. stole Der car and drove off.
Mrs. Ann Van Asbury of 1886
Fourteenth street. told police she
drove the men downtown and.
then, at their request started 10
take them to the Eight-Mile road.
When Mrs. Van Asbury's car
stalled at Gratiot avenue and
Russell street, she said one Of the
men struck her twice When she
jumped out OF the car, the two
drove off.
The car was later recovered at
the foot of Mt Elliott avenue
Missing. however. were s. in cash.
ration cards and other valuable
papers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
.F0P 10 Battle
Detroit Custer
Of I Policemen
Court Fight Threatened
TO Block Suspensions;
Function Called Legal

A court battle threatened today
over the police trial boards dis
charge of Patrolman Henry Heine
and Detective Bernard Dugan for
activities in connection with the
outlawed Fraternal Order OF
Police.
1t. Henry Mida OF Dearborn.
state president of the organization.
declared petitions would be filed
Immediately seeking to block the
suspension.
I'VE still maintain the aims
Of the FOP are legal functions
Of police" declared Dugan, a
one-time University of Detroit
student who for five years
studied for the priesthood at
Sacred Heart Seminary.
Speaking at chapter meeting
IN Port Huron Sunday. where only
one Of II prospective members
showed up for initiation, Mida
said:
"If police are not permitted
To join the order, they will be-
come desperate and align them
selves with some pressure or
ganization that will push City
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
Scout Week
Troop Meetings Scheduled
on 33d Anniversary

The thirty-third anniversary OF
the Boy Scouts OF America today
saw Detroit Scouts begin the Sec
ond day Of National Boy Scout
Week with troop meetings seized.
uled throughout the city.
Scout awards for the past year
were made Sunday at services in
three Of the city's churches.
Al Blessed Sacrament Cathedral.
Belmont and Woodward avenues.
] 400 Scouts attended impressive
and saw % of their
members receive tho AID Altare
Del award, scout medal reserved
for service b. Catholic Scouts.
Calvary Presbyterian Churc h
and ST Mary's Episcopal Church
held services for hundreds of Pro-
teStants Scouts from all parts of
the city. Al Calvary Church. the
services were conducted by senior
scouts and, at ST. Mary's. the
troops assisted in the dedication
of lectern Bible and an Ameri-
can flag. Awards and badges were
also presented.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08

present on the basis of earnings made last year,
but let it be called this years taxes
Let each taxpayer in future years pay similarly
on the basis of his previous years earnings
Eliminate only his obligation of being always
year in debt to the government
When he dies, or his earnings otherwise cease
because of illness unemployment let his tax oblga-
ton cease.
Or if his income is diminished let his tax obliga-
ton diminish Of the same date.
THIS would put the nation on a pay-asyou-go plan
devoid of improbable suspicious
II would help the man unable to pay his taxes but
not the man whose income justifies taxes-uness he
die become i'll or unemployed, or otherwise suffer
reverses.
The man whose income is increasing might get
what Mr.. Paul would call advantage" out of
delaying year in paying increased taxes but that is
largely lawyers theoretical prospect the national
facts of the situation suggest income is at it's
believed peak and will start declining as soon as the
is over
The advantage in truth, therefore, would still be
generally on the side of the treasury-where the
treasury always 10 keen II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08

UNFORTUNATELY, the tax lawyers representing
- the public on the ways and means committee have
not had so much experience Mr.. Paul. Suspicion
and confusion have been spread among them
The administration has planted the suspicion that
the Rum plan would favor the rich lover $4,000 in
some way other not sufficiently evident to be pre-
sented clearly and forcefully.
The committee in turn has become suspicious OF
Mr.. Paurs sincerity in backing pay-asyou-go.
What will come out of it nobody knows.
The only thing certain to an observer is the fact
that the whole system of taxation has not been
efficiently organized to get the most money with the
least suffering
Neither the treasury nor Congress has been able
to furnish the leadership for devising methods,
but merely continued 10 increase old taxes more and
more each year toward the breaking point.
A SIMPLE solution for the conspred confusion over
N the Ruml plan would be to simplify it still further
Let Mr. Ruml eliminate the feature of his plan
requiring the taxpayer to balance up with the treas
ury in 1914 on the basis of earnings this year
Then the taxpayer would pay this year exactly as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
It's Tough Going i'm the SOlomOns
7-YearOId Veteran. Tired Of Rice Dned on lord

fellows kept falling down. At
dawn ue- reached native vii.
lage, and the natives were swell
to us.
after we blasted the radio
station we took up a position on
the beach with nest of Japs on
n hill about 200 feet above Us.
They were giving US trouble.
"tthile-we waited there for
bigger guns to come and blow
them out, the Japs laid down
barrage at close range. My
buddy and were In the Same
foxhole. When the shells came
/ felt something sting in my
side and i card my buddy
groan.
II tried to move and managed
TO get to my knees. MY buddy
was still. They'd finished him of.
II was bleeding then and I
called for the navy medical men,
but they were too busy to bother
with those of us who weren't
hurt badly. so I started to walk
back to the dressing station.
II made il, and two hours
later I heard the big guns got
up there. That ended those
Japs."
The youngster is the son oil
Mrs. Bessie Livernois and attended
Burroughs intermediate School be.
fore he quit to enlist.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
BY VERA BROWN

Seventeen-year-old Marine Pvt
Willis Livernois is back home in
Detroit today nursing a shrapnel
wound in his left side and telling
of his round of fighting in the
Private Eiverneis lives when
he's at home, at 52l2 Conner ave-
nte. Eivernois avenue was named
for his great grandfather.
really went through the
SolomOns," he said. II spent La
Dor Day In Tulagi, Thanksgiving
Day on Guadalcanal and Christ
mas In the Fills. IT sounds like
Cooks tour. but IL was faster
and hotter. And the rest of the
boys are still going at It."
TOUGH GOING
It was tough going from the
first, the tough young veteran
found out.
I'VE landed first on the FIori-
das, n spearhead. Our job was
to catch the Japs coming out of
Tulagi. We had iron ratiOns, our
ponchos and all the ammunition
we could tote. We struck straight
into the bush for about II miles
and there we got our first Japs.
I'm there there isn't much
time or place to sleep. You must
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
aon Exposes Treasury Trick Behind Plan for Doubledp Income

years in one, making 1912 and 1913 taxes payable
this year minus 10 per cent.
Only those with incomes under $4,000 year
would fail to have their taxes approximately doubled
To ameliorate the suffering he would increase the
nations load 81 per cent.
MOT even Mr. Paul can believe that this could be
~ done, but he has found ngh-placed champion Of
his cause.
1t so happens that Chairman Doughton of the
committee actually saved his taxes last year for this
year and has them in the bank
1t would be no hardship for him to pay two years
in one, and he thinks every one else should have
saved similarly
So he is backing Mr.. Paul, with sympathetic
substitute
The treasury did not advance its proposal for
another 81 per cent increase in taxes for this year
as a formal plan.
smart lawyer would never do that in the face
of public enthusiasm for Ruml
He doesn't even officially oppose the Ruml pan
and processes to believe in pay-as-y ou-go.
He merely let himself be called as witness and
offered the doubling idea suggested substitute"
for Ruml
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
City Starts Hearings
On '43-44 BUDGET

Detroit's 1894 budget hear
ings will open today with Mayor
Edward j. Jeffries Jr. considering
requests of the geological park
commission and the house of COR
rection commission.
Manpower shortages. possible in
crease in length of the work week
and salaries are expected TO be
principal topics OF discussion be-
tween the mayor, his advisors and
the commissions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
SEES WAR PLANTS

He emphasizes that. unless the
little men OF Nippon are defeated
quickly. Japanese military and
naval power will rule the globe
Today and tomorrow, Grew
visits local war plants TO see at
first hand what part arms-produc-
ing Detroit IS playing in the COM
mon struggle 10 whip the JapS
The tour Of inspection includes
stops al the Chrysler Tank Ar
senal the Hudson Naval Arsenal.
the Willow Run Bomber Plant and
the Packard and Cadillac plants
Grew will be accompanied by
Detroit civilian defense officials
and John J. OBrien. fnancier and
director OF the Citizens Service
Corps of Crosse Pointe who is
Crews host AZ 4S6 Kercheval ave-
hue, Crosse Pointe Farms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
Movie Going Thieves
Hunted by Police

a hammer and chisel were the
only clues police had TO work on
today as they sought the thieves
who robbed the safe AT the East
Side Theater, PHI Gratiot ave.
nue.. taking more than $500.
Since there was no evidence
that any one had broken into
the theater. police believe the
thieves probably went TO the
movies first and then hid until
tho other patrons left.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
Tour of Detroit
War PI dnts on
Grew Program
Former Ambassador
TO Speak on jap
Menace Here Tonight

Joseph Clark Grew, 81, tall and
shaggy proved former United
States ambassador TO Japan, was
in Detroit today to punch home
his message on the great danger
and difficulty OF the war against
the japanese.
He Will speak tonight at Masonic
Temple auditorium before an an
ticipated crowd of 5000. Most of
the audience Will be civilian de-
Tense volunteers, but one fourth
OF the seats are available 10 the
public on application AZ the Office
Of Civilian Defense in the Nc
kerchey Building.
Crews appearance is sponsored
by the Office Of War Information
through cooperation with state.
county and city defense councils.
Since his return from Toleo. tho
gaunt. pipe smoking statesman
repeatedly has warned that Japan
is potentially the strongest nation
in the world.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08

were too excited to bother with
sleep or food.
Next afternoon we were taken
aboard ship and taken to Tulagi.
THAT night six Of us were put
on watch on an outpost. IL was
the worst night / ever spent and
the longest. Everything sounded
like laps, and sometimes some
one would ret excited and sheet
Livernois said that after a few
days the rations ran out and they
ate rice left behind by the Japa-
nese. Finally he got tired of rice
and ate a lizard.
at wasn't bad, either" he
added.
FINALLY one night the supplies
came. We waded out TO The
boats and fioated the stun in
and then unloaded the ammuni-
tion. Finally we were ordered to
Guadalcanal. Henderson Field
was just across the bay and
inland little.
we had To march single fiIe
through the bush again, and the
night was so dark we had to
hold on to the belt Of the guy
ahead to keep on the path.
I'VE were headed for radio
station on the beach opposite
from where we landed. Some
times we marched through mud
up TO our hips, and some OF the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
MET IN DENMARK

Grew and O'Brien .beca N @
friends IN 1919 when they met m
Copenhagen when Grew was min
iSter TO Denmark.
The sllver-haired diplomat was
born in Boston and educated at
GrotoR Harvard and George Wash.
ington University. He travelled TX
tensively in Europe and the East
and. in 1904, entered the diplomatic
field as deputy consul-general at
Cairo. Egypt.
Since. he has served in some
sort of diplomatic capacity at
Mexico City. ST. Petersburg. Berlin
and Vienna and has been minister
10 Denmark and Switzerland and
ambassador 10 Turkey and Japan.
Grew went 10 Japan in 1892
Out of there now after 10 years.
he knows more about the japanese
menace than any American.
His widely-quoted book, recently
published, Report from Toxic. +"
insists that the government was
not asleep at the switch when the
Japs struck but that the general
population has unfounded assunp-
tions as TO vulnerability and weak
ness in war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
3 Hurt in 100000 Fire

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Fe5. S
t1NS).-Three firemen were in
Jured battling a 100000 general
alarm fire which swept the Elks
Building in Central Square yester-
Gay.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08
BY PAUL MALLON
Distributed by King Features synd.. Inc.
Reproduction In Whole or In Part
Strictly Prohihited

WASHINGTON, Feb s-Mr. Morgenthau's tax
w counsel Randolph Paul, has taken the smart
lawyers way of balling up the House Ways and
committee about the Ruml plan and pay-as-y ou-go
He has done good job of it. The committee is
bewildered, and the public doubt is also.
Mr.. Paul got his training a member of large
New York firm of tax lawyers and is supposed to
have made fortune working that side of the
street.
Coming to the treasury last year he indicated he
intended to use just much strategy and just as
many tricks on the government side.
What he devised a substitute for the Ruml plan
confirms his promise, although one except cor
poration lawyer could present it without laughing
LIE HAS suggested to the committee with straight
IL poker face, that the way to put taxpayers on
payasyougo in the face of these unprecedented war
taxes, is to double the payments this year
Actually, his plan to the problem of whether
these taxes can be collected is to collect two
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-08

curl up In the poncho. but IL
doesn't keep you dry. 1t rained
all the first night, and we were
In sea of mud. Besides, we
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
JAPANESE
: POSITIONS
ARE STRUCK
Allied A'irmen Hit Many
Sectors in Solomon
Islands Area

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, March 8-Allied air
men struck at half a dozen Japan
csc positions over wide front in
the southwest Pacific Sunday,
bombing an 5000 ton enemy cargo
ship off the New Guinea coast and
shooting down lone reconnais-
sance bomber off Darwin, Austria
liza. ~
The communique announced ac-
ccleration Of aerial activity follow
ing the Bismarck Sea victory and
found the Allies hitting airdromes
and buildings on the western end
of New Britain, the Salamaua sec
tor across the straits OF New Guinea
and the Kai Islands northwest OF
Australia.
British Spitfires, in action only
few weeks, have shot down eight
japanese planes in the Darwin sec
tor and Liberator crew bombed
an enemy cargo ship in Stephen
Strait along the northeastern New
Guinea coast. The extent OF the
damage was not determined. but
the ship reduced speed after the
bombing
The strongest japanese aerial re-
ply made was upon Goodenough
Island off the Papuan Coast but nc
damage or casualties were inflicted
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
B0MBER5 IN
ACTION MANY
new SECTORS

WASHINGTON, March 8-Amer-
lean bombers attacked Jap bases in
the northwestern and central Sol
onions Sunday, the Navy announced
today, but results have not been
reported here.
The official communique OF the
Navy said. "On March 7, Liber-
ator heavy bombers attacked Jap
installations on Kahaili and Ball
ale Islands. in the northland is
land area and bombed enemy po-
sitions at Villa ON Kolombangara
Island. An enemy cargo ship at
Kaieta, Bouganville Island was al
so attacked by a Liberator
Bases on Shorthand Island have
been heavily pounded for several
days suggesting the possibility the
main power of Guadalcanal is now
being directed to the destruction OF
stronger enemy positions rather
than toward bases in the Munda
area, central Solomons, for which
Villa is one Of the ports"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
0bjecis 10
New Road
To Alaska
War Secretary Opposes
Proposal Made by
Secretary Iekes

WASHINGTON, March - The
War Department does not consider
the construction of a S25 900 900 mill
tary supply highway to Alaska
through Canadian Territory either
desirable or as military necessity,
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
has advised Chairman Robinson OF
the House Roads committee.
This letter was revealed by Alaska
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond after
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes had written to Robinson rec
ommending enactment of bill to
authorize the construction of the
highway
The Alcan Highway, completed
last November, is being improved
wrote Secretary Stimson, and will
provide suitable military highway
Representative Magnuson, Chair
man of the Alaska International
Highway Commission, told news
men he will continue to press pass
age for the proposed new highway
bill.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
W AR IS NOT
GOING TO BE
EASY VICTORY
Rear Admiral Byrd Calls
for Maximum Pr0duC-
lion Of Aircraft

SEATTLE, March 8.-Those who
believe the United States is headed
for an easy victory in the global
war are living in fools para
disc Rear Admiral Richard f.
Byrd told 1000 Boeing Aircraft
workers here.
Generally speaking, the people
of this Nation do not realize how
very hard and how tough the going
is to be to win this war. 1 do not
say this critically We piece to-
gether the news OF our own vic
tories Most Of them are small VIC
tories but they naturally lull us
into unWarranted complacency,
said Byrd
The Rear Admiral stressed the
Importance that maximum produc-
ton of aircraft is vital TO tn e
chances of the United States in
winning the war.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
RED ARMIES
ROLLING ON,
CRASH NAzI5
Blows Now Aimed at Ger
man Base at wanna
More Villages Fall

MOSCOW, March 8.-The Red
Army rolled on westward wit
fresh Soviet troops pouring into the
gap in the German lines far west
of Ghatsk, south of Olenio, where
two Russian columns are apparent
ly planning the doom OF the i'm
portant German base at Vyazma,
IS miles west of Ghatsk.
The Russians have captured
more than 100 settlements during
the past "a hours, while numerous
villages are falling continuously and
still others are blockaded by the
Red Army and on the verge of
falling.
Large Red Army forces are Sic
ing large chunks out Of the Ger
man lines. according to the official
communjque.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
Men 80 10 As 10 Be
Re(IaSsified;; Order
Will Affect Millions

WASHINGTON, March 8 = The
Selective Service has ordered all
local Boards to put no more 38 10
rs year-old men in Glass All and
10 transfer men now in that CLASH
fication into regular classes but not
TO actually draft them.
Several million men will be affec-
ted by the order, the spokesman
for the selective draft saidt
The action has the effect of es-
tablishing an order in which men
over 38 will be indicted IF and
when the armed forces determine
they can be used in military estab-
lishments," the Manpower Commits
sion put it,
The chief aim of the new order
will induce men over 38 to go into
farming.
The order provides that any mar
over 38 who farms now OF who takes
up farming by May /, shall be re-
classified promptly into defermen'
classes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
BRITISH 9TH
ARMY BEATS
ALL ATTACKS
Enemy Ranks Battered by
Ground Fire-Hdrdssed,
Aerial B0mbdrdment

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 8-Mar-
shall Erwin Rommel's initial smash
on the British Army has failed and
round one is over" with his tanks
and infantrymen in retreat toward
the Mareth Line at positions north
and northwest of Medenine.
A competent military source said
round one" has been won by the
British Eighth Army and Gen.
Montgomery's men, after stopping
two heavy German attacks last Sat-
urday morning, disrupted four more
thrusts in the course of the after
noon
Three stoppages forced Rommel
to withdraw again to the hills, bat
tered by ground fire and harassed
fConfinnad on paOe Thrpo1
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-08
TO SHIFT
OFFENSIVE,
NEWAREA5
Indications United Nations
Will Make Attacks in
Several Directions
lBy Associated Pressl

The United Nations Air Forces
have poured an increasing cascade
of bombs on the Japs from the
Solomons to Burma, Allied commu-
niques announced today as dis
patches from the United Nations
Pacific fleet reported general
feeling among the crews of the war
ships that new phase in battling
is imminent and that there is a
widespread belief by the men who
man the Nays guns that the AL
lies are shifting the offensive to
Burma as well as the European
front.
This is given following the boost
given by the smashing offensive
success of MacArthur's airmen in
destroying the 22-ship Japanese
convoy off New Guinea last week.
Concerning the defeat, the Jap
anese headquarters today made the
first grudging admission, although
it was only halfway acknowledge
ment in the light OF the Allied COM
muniques.
The Japs admitted two destroyers
and five transports were lost in
the Solomons area between Febru-
airy 16 and March 5, the period
covered by the convoy battle. The
Jap communique made no mention,
however, of the numerous bomb
ings in the Solomons and no men
| ton of the loss of an estimated
1000 Jap soldiers at the time the
Jap convoy was destroyed.
Gen Douglas MacArthur's Off
cial statement gives the Bismarck
Sea losses of the Japs as three
light cruisers. seven destroyers and
twelve transports.
Tokyo also acknowledged the loss
Of only seven planes whereas Gen.
MacArthur's communique was that
l02 enemy aircraft were put out
of the convoy battle alone On the
other hand, the Japs claim they
downed lib Allied planes and sunk
four Allied subs.
/ Authoritative quarters in the
Australian theatre are apprsfiensive
! lest the worlds reaction to the Al
| lied victory on Bismarck Sea may
prove too optimistic, however. at
the time Allied airmen swarming
over the convoy in reconnaissance
flights took photographs that
showed at least so other warships
or merchantmen were in the har-
Dor at Rabaul, New Britain. This
concentration was, however, not the
largest seen in recent weeks, as
large concentrations of Jap war
planes, many of them newly de-
veloped. are on bases or strips on
various islands facing Australia on
the north
Surprisingly, not a single Jap
! fighter or anti-aircraft gun has Of
fered opposition when big American
bombers have attacked the Ran
COON River or second formation
OF -motored bombers that
swooped low over the Thailand FROM
tier and poured bombs on docks,
starting one fire the size of a city
block.
These raids are believed to be a
forerunner OF further attacks other
than in the Solomons area