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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
ABANDON SUPPLIES

The last escape route for the
japanese, who abandoned great
quantities Of stores in their fight
after holding out against an
American drive for IS days, was
severed by the Yanks on the
extreme right who swung To the
western shore 600 yards above
GuaraSi.
Other units using tanks slashed
across the eastern half of koken-
COLO Hill, few hundred yards
north Of the airstrip, and moved
along the southern, or shore side
Of the field 70 hem in the Japa-
nese. who repeatedly had sue
ceeded in evacuating some troops
severals days ago.
There was no estimate of the
number Of remaining Japanese
who must be mopped up at
Munda and al Bairoko Harbor.
10 miles north OF Munda where
another force is surrounded.
A delayed dispatch described
the attack Wednesday that had
taken Bibolo Hill. north Of the
eastern end OF the airfield, and
said the enemy's withdrawal was
anything but orderly
WOUNDED LEFT BEHIND
Dead and wounded were left
behind, along with big stores Of
rice, canned fish and such deli
caCies as crab meat and picked
plumS. The Americans found
hundreds of thousands of Japa-
neSe clgarets.
On the New Guinea end of the
southern Pacific offensive front,
Australian forces repulsed three
straight Japanese Counterattacks
ar Old Vickers Ridge, in the Bob
dub area near the enemy's Sala-
maua coastal base, pushing the
enemy back after breaking his
charges in sharp fighting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Father on Radio
Begs Kidndpers
ToReturn Baby

ALBANY, Ore, Aug. 6 CUP)-
The father of a baby girl kid
mapped from her hospital crib
broadcast an appeal for her re-
turn last night over a network
of radio stations covering the
Pacific Northwest.
The father, B. w. urney,
broadcast this message:
"To whomever has the child
I want to say this: The lives of
two people depend on you-the
life Of my baby and that of my
wife. Won't you please leave
the baby In a safe place so that
II may be returned to us? ?"
Gurneys wife, partially Grip
pied from a childhood attack of
infantile paralysis. was in serious
condition from the shock of the
kidnapping. The blond, blue-eyed
Judith was stolen from a crib IN
the nursery of the Albany General
Hospital before dawn Tuesday,
when she was 2 days old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
James |. Barrett

James L. Barrett. a. OF 1857
Sheridan. will be buried in Mt.
Olivet Cemetery following solemn
high mass at 10 a. m. tomorrow
in ST. Charles Church. Mr.. Bar
rett died at his home Wednesday
after an illness of five years.
A native of Detroit. Mr. Barrett
was employed by the Michigan
Bell Telephone Co. for Is years.
He was a graduate Of the Uni
versity Of Detroit. advertising
manager for the Federation of
Telephone Employees and presi-
dent of St. Charles Ushers' Club.
In addition, he was a member
Of the ST. Charles Holy Name
Society and the TIE p h o n e
Pioneers Of America,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Obituaries
Emma Laura Tietze

Funeral services for Mrs Emma
Laura Tietze will be held in
Christ Evangelical Lut her a n
Church at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The
body will be at the A. H. Peters
Funeral Home, 12057 Gratiot, un-
til 9 a. m, when il will be taken
10 the church 10 lie in state.
Mrs Tiotze died Wednesday at
the home Of a daughter, Mrs.
Edwin Joerin, 1i166 TroeSter. She
was born IN Germany and was
brought 10 Detroit at the age of
3. She was a charter member Of
Christ Church
Besides Mrs. Jocrin. she is sur
vived by another daughter, Mrs
Joseph +. MayeS; TWO sons,
Frederick c and Dewey w;
seven grandchildren, and three
decentralization
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
AEF Gets Speech
By Roosevelt;
Critics Ignored

WASHINGTON, AUG. G ms
Secretary of War StmSon today
said President RooSeyelts radio
speech Of a week ago has been
sent 70 American troops overseas
but that none OF the comments
on the message was sent
SumSon told his news confer.
ence a 2oO-word report on the
Presidents SiN-poinl proposal for
relief and rehabilitation OF dc
modified troops following The
war had been distributed by the
army news service.
Harrison +. SpanEier. Repub-
lican national chairman. demanded
that comments on the President :
address by such Republicans aS
Senator Styles y Bridges of New
Hampshire and Rep J. William
Otter Of Pennsylvania, also be
sent the troops
In general the press took
care Of that SunSon COM
mepted
The army news service report
on the President - speech began:
I'm a speech 10 the nation.
President Roosevelt announced
the government is taking action
10 handle special problems NJ
armed forces when the war
ends"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
sTIFFER RULES SOUGHT

Because of the turnover rate
and a widening area of critical
manpower shortages. renewed en-
phaSiS is being made, in official
discussions, on the need for allo-
eating manpower and a definite
job freezing order that would be
much tighter than the present
system.
In order to reach and maintain
cargo ship production schedules,
which call for 100000 dead
weight tons this year. officials ex-
planned, shipyards are under the
necessity of hiring 100000 addi-
tional workers between March,
1943, and March, 1914.
The labor turnover rate is so
high, however, they declared. that
the yards actually will have to
hire 100000 workers in order
10 get a net increase of 100000.
There are now only 1.600,0 900
workers at work in shipyards.
But, Of course, many of the
100000 will be hired several
times by different yards. owing
to the rate of migration from job
IN iOb
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
LOSS OF EFFICIENCY

No figures are available, Off
Gals said. on the loss Of man
hours from the extremely high
wartime labor turnover. but they
d Jared il was considerable.
Moreover, they said. there is a
very great loss of efficiency.
The man who is drafted, Off
Gals pointed out, has 10 stay in
the army. But the man in a ship
yard or other war plant is free
to quit and take another Job.
The requirement that he obtain
a certificate of availability 10
transfer to another job does not
prevent him from quitting and
going elsewhere.
1t is this situation which has
caused some officials 10 insist
that the obligation of workers in
war plants should be placed on
a plane commensurate, at least in
some degree. with the obligation
Of the soldier.
BENEFICIAL RESULTS SEEN
That would mean, they said, a
definite job freeze and probably
also ALLEGATION of labor. so that
urgent war production would not
have 10 go without manpower
now employed for much less es-
sential purposes.
One proposal that has been
made IS that jobs be frozen in
shlpyards and aircraft plants
that Is definitely frozen
There are many reasons. Off
cialS said, for the high labor turn
over rate. They include the high
cost OF living, housing difficulties.
desire for a better Job, higher
wages elsewhere, desire 10 20
back home, etc.
The draft admittedly is partly
responsible for the turnover rate,
since IL sets turnover in motion.
But il would explain only a small
part of the high turnover rate,
officials said.
CASE or WOMEN CITED
I'm aircraft plants there is n
substantial percentage OF women
workers, officials pointed out The
turnover among women, Of course.
occurs for different reasons than
for men.
For one thing, women do not
have the same attitude toward
their jobs as men workers would
have. Their households are a con.
--iaaFatieh- ~itit-thefr1, and -w+rctfrcr
they stick 10 Job often depends
on what their husbands do.
In April, the labor turnover In
shipyardS was nearly IL per cent.
or at rate Of l32 per cent a
year On the Pacific Coast. the
shipyard turnover rate was 1873
per cent In April.
To realize how high these fig
ureS are. officials declared. 10
should be remembered that NE
pcacctime labor turnover usually
IS not more than 10 or T. pcr cent
a year In fact. the turnover rate
IN II leading wal industries IN
September l9il. three months
before the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, was 4 per cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
{. N. Rei(hIinq

Funeral services will be held at
$3.50 a. m. tomorrow from ST. Jo-
scph's Church for Charles ~.
Rcichling. -, a native Detroiter,
who died Tuesday az his New
Baltimore summer home, Burial
viii be In Mt Olivct Cemetery.
Mr. Rcichiing. an auditor, was
a member of the ST. Joscph'S par
ISL board OF trustees; president of
ST. Vincent de Paul conference ;
member of the Knights of Column
bus, Council 305. and Of Com
Ill, Knights of ST. John.
lie is survived by his wife,
Cyrilla; son, Charles A., his
mother, Catharine. and three
brothers. Raymond j., Clarence w.
and George A.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Charles Hyma

Services for Charles Hyma, 81,
of 1853 Fischer, will be held to-
morrow at Cooper Brothers Nor
tuary, 10404 Mack. Burial will
be in Kalamazoo Monday.
Born in Holland in 1879, Mr.,
Hyma was an employe of the
Ford Motor Co. for 30 years.
He was one Of the early mem
bers Of the Mack Avenue Evan
gelical Church and a member OF
Wolverine Masonic Lodge. He is
survived by his wife, Martha, and
two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Lakin
and Mrs, Frances Weeks. ---
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
6, 500 Axis Troops
Killed by Crodts

LONDON. Aug. s GNS) - A
Reuters news agency dispatch
from Cairo said today the first
Croat corps Of YugoSlav partisans
has killed $500 Axis troops IN
western Croatia during the last
six months and wounded 10000
more.
An additional 200 Axis troops
We're said 10 have been capiured.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Mrs. Victoria Esper

Funeral services for Mrs. Vic
toria Esper, 12735 NAlcoy, will be
held at $50 a. m. Monday in the
Weitenberner Funeral Home,
1891 Gratiot.
The funeral mass will be said
at 9 a. m. in the Assumption
Grotto Church, SIX Mile and
Gratioi.
A native Detroiter. Mrs ESper
was educated in Detroit parochial
schools and was active in Catholic
club activities. She is survived
by one son, Frederic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Labor Shift Worries
WIPE as Output Lays
BY FELIX GOTTEN

WASHINGTON, Aug QNS)
War Production Board officials,
faced with increasing production
demands and a diminishing labor
supply, are greatly concerned over
an extraordinarily high labor turn
over rate. il was disclosed today.
The labor turnover Is now run
ming al the rate of eight per cent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06

per month in all manufacturing
establishments, II was learned.
The rate has been at q gro
teSque' level for more than a
year, and apparently has been
little affected by the War Man
power Commissions so-Called
"wage-io Job freeze order" officials
declared.
The extent to which war work
ers are quitting their jobs, and
taking jobs elsewhere, is said TO
be partly responsible, at least, for
recent disappointing war produc-
ton trends.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
War Building Nearly Finished

WASHINGTON. Aug 6 6TNS)
War Production Board Chair
man Nelson announced today that
The nations mammoth war faClll-
ties program was more than four
fifths completed at the end Of
June.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
l.67l .Daps
Killed at
MuIlda

Continued from Page One)
reached the sea north Of Gurasi,
Just west of the field.
The right flank reached the
western shore of Cape Munda to
the north OF GuraSi, then pushed
south in a pincers movement CO.
erdlnated with a steady Allied ad.
vance along the southern coast
south Of Munda airstrip.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
S+efani's Reporter Dies

LONDON. Aug 6 OUPl
Tho .Vichv radio today reported
tre sudden death boz Paris Of
Gen Arturo Leon. described as
The correspondent Of the Italian
news agency, Stephani.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
Allies CIosiinq
Trap in Sicily
CONTINUED from Page One)


on the roads to Adrano and Ran.
| daZzo north of Mt. Etna.
The Germans were fighting des-
perately, especially against the
Americans near Troina, in an
effort 10 hold back the northern
claw Of the Allied pincers and pre-
| vent closing of the trap.
Resistance was described as the
/ fierCest Of the Sicilian campaign,
units Of the Hermann Goering and
18th panzer divisions putting up
Suicidal opposition.
The enemy appeared to be at
tempting to prepare a new and
much shorter line behind Mt.
Etna, probably stretching from the
Taormina area 10 somewhere
around Naso on the north coast.
(London observers estimated
that $4,000 to 10000 Axis troops
still were fighting in Sicily but
were doomed. They said there
was as yet no evidence of an I'M
pOrtant evacuation movementO
The Allied aerial onslaught
against MeSSina and the Messlna
Straits area was the greatest of
the Slcillan campaign, with Flying
Fortresses, Wellingtons and all
other types Of craft participating
in day and night raids,
BRITISH PUSH NORTH
The British Eighth Army. push
ing up the east coast through cap
tured Catania, was believed al
ready threatening Acireale. eight
miles TO the north and only little
more than 80 miles short of Mes
sina.
Front dispatches indicated that
the British probably were within
artillery range of Acireale.
Other British and Canadian
forces, along with the l.. S.
Seventh Army, were hammering
the Italo-German armies back to-
ward Messina around an arc
reaching the north coast near San
Fratello, about So miles west of
Messina.
Can italian comSnunique
broadcast by the Rome radio
said Axis troops on the central
sector were engaged in "tena-
Cious defensive fighting" The
communique acknowledged the
loss of Catanla)
Armed conflicts have been re-
ported between the Italians and
the Germans.
Evening star., 1943-08-11
A Chance of Front

The economy OF scarcity is on the
ropes. First, Vice President Wallace,
who, as Secretary of Agriculture,
sponsored the AAA. with its pay
ments for curtailing crops, it's
slaughter Of little pigs and its ploW-
ing under Of cotton and other crops,
warned against the adoption of such
policy by industry.
And now Judge Marvin Jones, head
OF the War Food Administration,
makes an even more devastating
attack on the economy of scarcity.
Judge Jones was chairman of the
House Committee on Agriculture
which handled the legislation which
created the AAA, with all of it's regu-
lations and benefit payments to keep
down agricultural production in the
early days of the New Deal.
The 1914 food production program,
Judge Jones said in a radio broad
cast, calls for purely voluntary"
teamwork on the part of the farmers
with minimum of "directives"
from Washington. Listen, as the
judge continues: This country is too
broad, too far flung, too varied in its
production to have the work done
by directives from Washington"
That sounds more like speech by
former Governor ALT Landon Of
Kansas, the Republican presidential
candidate in 1885, than a speech by
man who has always supported the
New Deal Administration.
Judge Jones declaration of policy
should fall with pleasing sound
upon the ears of the American
farmers. No group in the country
has been more irritated with the
regimentation policies of the admin
istration. They registered their dis
like in the national elections of 1910,
and followed 1t up even more en-
phatically in the congressional and
gubernatorial elections of 1912. Nor
have they been pleased with the
efforts to make it appear that the
middle name of the American
farmer is imitation" They have
been unable to understand why this
charge should be leveled against
them when wages and industrial
prices have scared.
1t may be that the approach of
the 1914 presidential campaign has
had something to do with this change
of heart in New Deal circles. Or it
may be that the administration has
finally awakened to the fact that
the economy of scarcity is not suit
able to a Nation that is trying to
feed it's armed forces, its civil popu-
lation and a good part of the rest of
the world.
Evening star., 1943-08-11
For One About to Go
Upon q Journey

Before the leafs shadop
Shall haze reached your face
You pil bt gone.
The fo,0er OF space
Will open petals ,Dtde.
There ,Uul be silence
Walking by my side.
You tOiH be there,
Standing outside the door,
Seeing the dunes that lie
Like ne1O country unerplored,
Washed eleGn OF any trace
By the nigtH-sed.
Here in the shell OF tims
We stand, hearing the same TIM
mutable sea
Spilling its echo on the equal air.
Though here I shall be absent
From the tpind that mopes your
hair,
From the same tranquil sun
That hears me speak your name.
SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-08-11
Surrender-und After

From the London Daily Mail.
We have behind us a fine record OF
successes in all three elements. In May
more than 30 U-boats were destroyed.
and as a result of this massacre, says Mr.
Churchill, June was the best month we
have enjoyed. At least IA more subma-
rines were sunk in June, so that so is
somewhere about the minimum to have
been accounted for in two months At
that rate the German sea campaign
would be broken in very short while.
But 1t is not for any of us to indulge in
sanguine predictions There will be
testing times ahead, but nothing now is
more certain than that we shall force
the enemy TO unconditional surrender
And when the war is over we should re-
member what Mr.. Churchill told us re-
cently-that the world can only be re-
built on the basis of Anglo American
partnership. Without that there will
be mo end or measure to the miseries
and confusion which would mark mod
ern civilization"
Evening star., 1943-08-11
Servants Of the Public
From the Quebec lie solsiI.

From the Quebec lie Solel.
Do the millions of readers who read
the newspapers every day to satisfy their
curiosity, considerably increased in war
time, ever stop to think that the vivid
and detailed reports that come from
every front have been edited for them,
that the interesting, instantaneous and
realistic pictures have been gathered for
them and often under the most painful
conditions? In the sands of the North
African desert, in the midst of the
unexplored jungle of Oceania on the
bridge of battleship or plane carrier
as on board bomber, war corre-
spondents must risk their lives each day,
in contrast to those OF 1914-l9l8 who
could venture to the front before and
after the great offensives but who lived
and worked at the rear.
Evening star., 1943-08-11
WEDNESDAY
August IL, 1943
The Sixth Meeting

Historians of this war will find 1t
helpful, perhaps, to arrange their
narrative by chapters built around
the meetings between Prime Minister
Churchill and the President. There
will be more chapters than there
have been meetings thus far. But
there will be more meetings before
the historians get to work:
The Quebec meeting Is the sixth.
Many things have happened since
the first, when they shook hands
aboard the cruiser Atlanta off the
coast of Newfoundland, August 8,
1941, to draft the Atlantic Charter.
They meet again on the second
anniversary of that charter, much
ahead of them still but the worst
berSnd them.
They met for the second time in
Washington, two weeks after the
Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Their third meeting found them
facing together what may have been
one of their darkest hours. For in
June of 1912 Field Marshal Erwin
Rommell seemed to have things
pretty much his own way in Libya.
The Allies were on the defensive
everywhere. The Prime Minister was
asking, and receiving, new equip
ment for his broken forces. General
Marshall was taking that equipment
from his recently-formed divisions,
putting it on ships, speeding it to
the front-stripping our new Army
In a good cause. 1t helped turn the
tide.
The tide had begun to flow the
other way when they met for their
fourth conference at Casablanca,
January IA, 1943. The defense was
behind them. And at their fifth con-
ference here last May they could
look behind them at the first sue
cessful phase of the new offensive,
and to many projected phases of new
offensives on the path to uncondi-
tional surrender.
They meet again in Quebec with
the tide not only turned, but running
strong-.their way. The Axis is
broken, not much stronger than its
weakest link. Everywhere are visible
the shadows cast by momentous
events in the making Some of these
will be shaped, no doubt, at Quebec.
Evening star., 1943-08-11
More Wuqe Pressure

Indications that the railroad op-
orators now are prepared to support
the eight-cent- -an-hour wage in
crease demand Of the incorporating
railroad unions brings the Govern
ment face to face with another seri-
Gus threat to its stabilization pro-
gram at a time when it still is
wrestling with the wage problem
presented by John L. Lewis and his
United Mine Workers
If the operators are going to in
dorse the position of the nonoperat-
ing employeS-and that is suggested
by the statement Saturday that they
have reached an understanding for
the settlement" of the wage requests
it will be more difficult than ever
for Sterilization Director Fred Vim
son to stick by his veto last June of
the proposed raise. which would cost
the carriers COR the public about
S2O4 900, 900 a year.
The unions brought the carriers
into line by the simple expedient of
moving for the distribution of
strike ballot. This automatically
raised q threat of Government seiz-
ure of the roads, and the operators,
presumably in hope of avoiding loss
of their properties, apparently are
willing to come TO terms. Whether
Judge Vinson also can be brought
into line remains to be seen, but
precedent is not lacking If he should
decide to give way.
In the fall of 1941 a fact-fnding
panel brought forward certain wage
recommendation which were not to
the liking of the rail unions. So
they threatened to strike, and the
President reconvened the panel with
instructions to reopen the dispute.
The panel then worked out new pro-
posalS which were substantially in
accord with the demands of the
workers, despite its earlier finding
that the demands were not justified
The threatened strike was called
off. and the smoke soon drifted away
Nothing remained but the precedent
the same precedent which is aris-
ing today to plague Judge Vinson in
his effort to carry out Mr.. Roose-
velt's mandate to hold the line"