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Evening star., 1943-06-30
Dies Group 70 Hear
u. 5. Jap Who Served
Under Sergt. York
Public Investigation Of
Releases From WRA
Comps Storts Tomorrow

Toxic Slocum, a naturalized Jap.
anese-Amerfcan who battled the
Germans in the World War as a
member of the squad headed by the
heroic Sergt. Alvin York, will be the
principal witness before a subcom-
mittee of the Dies Committee when
| it begins a public investigation to.
morrow of the release of Japs from
the 10 relocation centers in which
they were placed after outbreak of
the war. g..
Another witness will be Pvt. JOS
eph Kanasawa, JapaneSe-Ameri
can now in the United States Army
who has been brought to Washing
ton from Camp Shelby, Miss, to
testify as to what he knows about
conditions in the relocation camps.
Until induction into the Army he
was the Eastern representative of
the japanese American Citizens
League.
When the Japanese were evacu-
ated from the West Coast after the
Pearl Harbor attack, Mr.. Slocum
was one of those rounded up and
assigned to the relocation center in
California known as Camp Man.
| Zana. This camp was the scene of a
riot last November during which two
OF the evacuees were killed.
Was Hurt in Fight.
Mr.. Slocum, a leading pro-Ameri-
can in the camp, was said to have
been "roughed up in the fight
Representative Costello, Demo-
crat, Of California, chairman of the
subcommittee. announced the names
Of the two principal witnesses after
a long meeting behind closed doors.
He told newspapermen the hear
| ings probably would run all day.
every day in the week, and predicted
| there would be some interesting
developments"
/ The subcommittee recently re-
turned to Washington after an in
vestigation trip of the relocation
camps which ended with series of
hearings in Los Angeles.
| Records Examined.
| Records seized by the committee
investigators at the Washington Of
! flee of the Japanese-Am Citi-
zens' League June II were examined
/ in executive session today by the
/ subcommittee.
Originally, the subcommittee had
| planned to start public hearings to-
| day, but altered its program in
order to scrutiniZe contents of six
post Office mail bags containing rec
ords and correspondence which was
taken from the leagues Office in the
1900 block of Fourteenth street NV.
Representative Costello, the SUBJ
! committee chairman, said the public
hearings would start at 10 am. to-
morrow.
Meanwhile, Chairman Dies an
nounced that the full committee
soon would begin an investigation
into causes behind racial dis
turbances, such as the recent Detroit
rioting
Committee investigators already in
the field, he said, had turned up
evidence which len him to predict
important developments"
Representative Costello said ef-
forts will be made, he declared, to
find out just how much influence the
Japanese themselves have eXerted
on the policies of the War Reloca-
ton Authority, which has jurisdic-
ton over the relocation camps.
Evening star., 1943-06-30

tics, is TO challenge the self-respect
of a great, sensitive people. That
policy is as shortsighted as it is un-
just
An editorial in the Yorkshire Post
said:
The rather curious statement is
sued by the Associated Press on the
authority of its Washington COM
mentator amounts to a not
over-polite hint to De Gaulle that
he better behave himself or WASH
ington will see that he is put in his
place. =. Nothing would do more
to make Giraud unpopular in Oc-
cupied France than any suggestion
that American influences are aim
ing to thrust him upon the French
people as their leader at De Gaulle's
expense"
Evening star., 1943-06-30
Renews Pledge to Fight
japanese to Finish.

japanese to Finish.
There is no doubt that the svm-
pathy Of the United States for the
cause of freedom and its thorough
detestatlon of the Nazi creed and all
the menace that it bears to Ameri-
can institutions had drawn the
United States near the edge of the
conflict when the foul Jap saw his
chance to make his bid for Asiatic
domination by striking his blow at
Pearl Harbor.
Since then we and the Americans
have waged war, sharing alike, TAX
ing the rough with the smooth. Not
as one people but certainly as
though we were one army, one navy
and one air force So we shall con-
tinue like brothers, cretainly until
unconditional surrender and until
our goals have been achieved and I
trust until after all due measure has
been taken so as to secure our safety
in future years, safety from i'll usage.
Should Hitler's Germany and Mus
solini's Italy collapse under the fail
of Soviet Russia and the not incon-
siderable eXertions of the British
and American armies in the Medi-
terranean and elsewhere and should
the war industries of Germany be
blasted out of existence by British
and American air power; should
this victory be achieved before Japan
has been laid low 1 stand here to
tell you today, as 1 told the Con-
gress of the United States in your
name, every man, every ship and
every airplane in the Kings serv-
ice that can be moved to the Pacific
will be sent and there maintained in
action by the people of the British
Commonwealth and Empire in pri-
critics for as many years as are
needed to make the Japanese in
their turn submit or bite the dust
will turn for the moment on this
Evening star., 1943-06-30
American Flyers Praised
For Precision Bombing,

In addition to this the United
States air fleet in this country, al
ready so powerful and growing with
extreme rapidity, has by precision
daylight bombing inflicted grave in
jury upon the most sensitive nerve
center of the enemy's war produc-
ton and American crews and pilots
are continually performing feats of
arms OF the highest skill with daunt-
less audacity and devotion.
All these facts and tendencies, by
no means unfavorable in their gem
eral character, must stimulate our
Joint exertion In the most intense
Evening star., 1943-06-30
London Paper Replies
To Nozis With List of
CothedroIs Bombed
Nv the AssociatAd Prass

By the AeSoclAted Press.
LONDON, June 3O.-Nazi
sob" propaganda broadcasts
attacking the Allies for the
alleged bombing of the Cologne
Cathedral prompted the Daily
Telegraph to print today on
page l under the head Dam
aged British Cathedrals" a list
Of a few hit by the German
Air Force.
They included st. Pauls and
Westminster Abbey in London,
the cathedrals of Coventry,
Norwich, Exeter. Canterbury
and LANDAU, and the abbey
at Bath-all famed for their
centuries-old architecture.
Evening star., 1943-06-30

ChaIlenge TO Sell -ReSpeCt.
The Guardian continued:
ITO act as if France has forfeited
her right to manage her own affairs,
to push her Committee of National
Liberation on one side, and to talk,
as this message talks, of imposing
American discipline on French poll
Evening star., 1943-06-30
Bonds Of Empire Proved
Stronger Than Steel,

The time came when this loosely
and variously knitted world-spread
association, where so much was left
unwritten and underlined, was con-
tronted with the most searching test
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
HEROIC YANk PILOT IN AFRICA
Lands Bomber Safely Despite Two Bullets in His Chest

nose and watched an ME 100
flash past from underneath but
the next time he tried il | was
ready and gave him 40 rounds"
Beahan said. There was a burst
Of white smoke followed by
black smoke and he went down
out of sight.
They were found by a British
patrol, which had seen the plane
crash. and we're brought to
hospital.
Another bombardier, William
c. Lewis, %, of Birmingham.
Ala, who with 81 operations -
ii in Britain and 26 here - has
been on more Flying Fortress
missions than any other airman
in this theater. told how on this
last mission Major Joseph A.
T h omas of Pomona, Calf,
brought a Fortress with three
motors shot out down TO a safe
crash landing on an advanced
airdrome.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Detroit to Vote
ON Time Issue

DETROIT, Feb. 4-The De-
troit city council decided today
that voters would be given a
chance in connection with the
Feb. Is primary to indicate their
desire TO retain or abandon east
ern war time. and agreed that
the city would not change its
time until after the vote, in any
case.
The state law passed by the
legislature and signed by Gov
crnor Kelly provides that the
states clocks be turned back
one hour on Feb. Is, but a De-
troit ordinance still on the books
sets Eastern war time as the
eitt,s- official time
Council officials pointed out
that the vote of citizens Feb. Is
would merely be advisory.
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Slash Coffee Ration;
Pound Must Last 8 Weeks
Nv Tn. Associated Press

WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 - A
ones sixth reduction in the next
coffee ration was announced
yesterday by the Office of Price
Administrator.
The actit n was made neces-
sary, the agency said, by re-
duced coffee inventories in the
hands of wholesalers and re-
tailers.
Instead of one pound a per-
son for five weeks, the next
stamps. No. 25 in War Ration
Book No. 1, will be good for
one pound for six weeks. Stamps
n the rear of Book No. 1. orig
inally issued for sugar rationing.
now are used for coffee ration
ing.
Stamp No. 25 will become val
id Feb. 8, and will be good for
the purchase of one pound Of
coffee through midnight, March
81. Stamp %, valid since Jan.
4. expires at midnight Feb. z.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
BY IVES GALLAGHER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 3-(De-
layed)-(R-With two machine
gun bullets in his chest, five
other men in his crew wounded
and Nazi fighters slashing at his
crippled ship, 22-year-old pi-
lot crash-landed his Flying Fort
ress on a mountain side in a
great flying feat, his bombardier
said today.
The pilot was Capt. Fred w.
Dallas, %, Houston. Tex. The
bombardier who told the story
was first Lieut.. Kermit X. Bea-
han, "a, also of Houston and a
boyhood friend of Dallas.
1t was the fourth crash land
ing for Beahan, who twice made
forced landings in England and
twice now in North Africa as a
result of enemy actions, both of
the latter with Dallas as pilot.
The tale of how the wounded
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was knocked out and our cleo
trical system was wrecked so
we could not close the bomb
doors"
With the bomb doors open, the
plane lost speed and the rest of
the formation passed overhead.
1T was bad feeling being
all alone" he grinned. 1--WE
knew the fighters woul d be
jumping us-and they did"
Meanwhile the ball turrc {
gunner had been wounded by
flax.
Five ME-109's swarmed on the
crippled ship. which went into
a steep dive to get close TO the
ground and make il more diff
cult for the fighters to attack.
But they darted in from all sides
and soon the two waist gunners
were wounded. The radioman
and tail gunners we're hit but
kept on fighting.
u saw tracers coming by my
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
800 Big Planes
Deal Death 10
Big Nazi City
Is British Plones
Fail to Return
from Sewage Roid

LONDON, Feb. 4 up -
Royal Air Force bombers heav-
lily attacked Hamburg last night
in raid in which Is planes are
missing, it was stated authori-
tatively today.
The north German seaport
previously had been b o m b Q d
only last Saturday night.
The British losses indicated Z
force of upwards Of 800 bombers
on the presumption that they
were on the order of five per
cent.
An authoritative British state
ment said:
Hamburg was heavily attack.
ed by our bombers last night.
Sixteen of our aircraft are miss
ing"
The raid, the 95th on Ham
burg since the start Of the war.
carried on the RATS campaign
against the U-boat by striking
at the sources of Germany's un-
dersea power.
The British said that HAM
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
TRAPPED Nazis Make Frantic Effort To Flee Caucasus
Sentimental?
Perhaps, But Seltridee
Pilot Proves Deadly
Efficiency

A former Selfridge Field pill
OF who married st. Joseph's
hospital nurse the day before he
left for overseas duty today was
awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for extra or d airy
achievement" in the Southwest
Pacific.
The pilot, 1st Lieut.. David E.
Latane. IS, took part in more
than S operational missions
against the Japanese, but today
he was remembered by Mrs.
Norval yelling, IL Yeamans
street, as man mot keen to
60 to war"
His reluctance was easily un-
derstandable, she explained, be-
See HERO-Page 2
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pilot, with blood pouring from
his chest, stayed at the controls.
and how Waist Gunner Elmer
N. Berger. 81. of Temple, Okla.
fought on after having a ma
chine-gun bullet tear a hole in
his thigh as big as a mans fist,
is one of many being written by
American airmen battling daily
for supremacy in the skies over
Tunisia.
"On Jan. % we were over BIZ
zerte at well over 10000 feet"
Beahan said. The clouds we're
bad but there was a hole over
the target and it looked like
piece of cakel
Il released the bombs and
tried to see where they burst,
when there WIS a direct hit on
the nose of the plane from flax.
1T stunned and scared me. /
could hear flax hitting other
parts of the plane.
Our numbet three engine
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Axis Ships
Sent 10 Bottom
Submarine, Air
Forces Score
BY The Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. Ain sea and
air blows paving the way for
heavy land assault in North At
RIGA, the Allies announced today
the ,estr action of 14-perhaps
16-Axis supply ships in the
narrow mid-Mediterranean APP
proaches to Tunisia, where the
German-Italian defense line was
tested anew for weak spots.
British forces captured a
height known as Hill 648 in re-
newal of fighting six miles
Southwest of Bou Arada in the
Jebel Mansour area, midway be-
tween Medjez Ell Bah and Ro-
baa, an Allied communique said.
1t described the gain, however,
as Limited success"
Meanwhile field dispatches re-
ported that the American strik-
ing force which captured Sened
and dug in mile east of the
town on the rail line through
MaknaSsy to the coast had taken
prisoner an Italian general.
BLAST GABES
Allied bombers attacked the
port of Gabes and enemy posi-
tons ear Maknassy, and for one
of the few times since the start
of the fight for Tunisia they lost
more planes than they shot
down. The communique said six
Axis planes were destroyed to
eight Allied planes missing.
Strong German forces ap-
parently still held important
Faid Pass on the Central Tunis-
ian front, inland from Sfax,
where they had held against an
American counterattack.
The British Eighth Army ap-
peared to be missing for its next
attack in a correlated squeeze on
the Axis in Tunisia.
A Cairo communique reported
British patrol activity along the
whole Libyan-Tunisian border
front, and although it mentioned
no specific advances yesterday
the main body of Gen. Sir Bern
ard L. Montgomery's force ap-
See SINkINGS-Page 2
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Hitler Peace
Bid Preditted
Froneo Denies
Spain to Intervene
Nv The Associated Press


The belief that Adolf Hitler
may be preparing another peace
offensive was expressed today
(Wed,) in neutral quarters in
London, indicating that action
might be initiated through
Spain or Sweden or both.
These sources, which insisted
on remaining anonymous, said
there have been strange devel-
opments in Berlin since the Cas-
ablanca conference which sug-
gest an impending move for a
negotiated settlement in spite
of the unsolicited denials from
the Spanish embassies in Argen-
tina and Chile that Generals
simo Franco had been designat-
ed go-between.
DENY STORY
Diplomatic quarters cast about
for the reasons which impelled
the Spanish government to in
struct its embassies in Rio de
Janeiro and Santiago to deny
last night that Hitler had asked
Franco to act as intermediary
ir a peace proposal.
Some observers saw the move
as an indication of apprehension
on the part of Spain lest her
prestige in South America be
compromised by suspicious that
she was ready to serve as Nazi
catspaw.
The statement issued by the
Spanish embassy in Rio de jan
Giro and distributed by the Bra
lillian government news agency
said merely:
"a report that Hitler Is pre-
pairing a peace offer to be made
probably through General Fran
CO having appeared in the press
of various American countries,
the Spanish embassy in Brazil
considers it opportune TO deny
the existence of any PROPOSE
ton made to the Spanish gov
ment to formulate any peace
offer. adding that should such
a proposal be made in the flu
ture Spain will act according
See PEACE?-Page 2
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 - R)
- Like two heavyweight boxers
feeling each other out, flicking
tentative but Furnishing jabs
here and there, United States
and japanese Naval units are
maneuvering in the Southwest
Pacific for a stance from which
to throw a haymaker.
From this corner there was
only work thta air and surface
engagements "are continuing"
but it appeared from the Nays
restraint that a titanic struggle
was shaping up for control of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Close Union
Control Sought
Bill Would Curb
Labor Groups

LANSING, Feb. 4 tP) -
Rep. Charles r. Feenstra,
Grand Rapids Republican, intro
duced bill in the House of Rep
resentatives today to place close
controls over the activities of
labor unions, including re-
quirement that they incorporate.
The bill would require the in
corporated labor unions to file
monthly financial statements
with the State Corporation and
Securities Commission and to
supply each member of the or
ganization with a copy.
The initiation fees of unions
would be limited to SIS and no
union would be allowed to
charge more than Sl2 year in
dues under the bill. Political
contributions by unions would
be outlaWed.
Feenstra proposed to impose
felony penalties upon persons
not members of a recognized
union who agitate strike and
upon any union member or Of
fetal who strikes in violation of
the law or a court injunction, a
contract, or who stages a wild
cat" strike.
Penalties would be doubled
during war time, he proposed.
Other bills introduced would:
Extend the general fishing
rod license to the Great Lakes.
Close the Lake Michigan lake
trout season from October 10 to
November 20.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Titantic Pacific
Sea-Battle Looms
American, Jap Fleets Feint
for XIII off SoIomons

Guadalcanal Island with its all
important airfield.
Naval spokesman repeated
that both sides have suffered
losses, but one of them empha-
sized that "thG whole thing is a
sparing for position" with the
two major fleet units not yet
joined in an all-out slugfest.
Both sides were swapping aer-
ial blows.
JAP AIR ATTACK
The Japanese, it was revealed
in delayed dispatches from the
U. S. fleet in the South Pacific,
released today. made their first
night bombing attack on Ameri-
can surface vessels in the Quad.
alcanal area alter dusk January
%, but the results were not dis
closed.
Officers of the fleet recalled
that Japanese planes dropped
flares during the night battle off
Savo Island August 8, when
three u. S. cruisers were sunk,
and it was believed the night as
sault last week might indicate d
resumption of japanese aerial
activity which had been strange
ly absent in the Solomons re-
Gently.
The dispatches said the enemy
airmen dropped mysteriously
out of the night sky while unit
of the southwest Pacific fleet
was cruising near Guadalcanal.
The night bombing took place
last Friday, the date on which
the Tokyo radio said japanese
planes had started attacks on
American battleships and CRUZ
sers which resulted in the sink
ing of two battleships and three
cruisers off Kennel Island.
GROSS EXAGGERATIONS
Naval spokesman here said
the japanese claims were gross
ly exaggerated" though it was
known that both sides had suf--
fered losses in the skirmishes in
the Guadalcanal area.
Like angry hornets, the bomb
ers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
command continued to harass
and distract the enemy by raid
ing his bases on New Britain and
Bougainville Islands.
A big four-motored Liberator
bombed a Japanese warship at
Wide Bay, south of Raboul, New
Britain, after driving off an en-
envy fighter. Results were not
observed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
Nation Faces
Steel Shortage
BoreIy Enough for
War Output Apparent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-(P
The Senate war investigating
committee declared today the
United States will produce
barely enough steel this year
"to satisfy the major war neces-
Sites" and listed these three
factors as responsible for "our
current steel shortage"
/. An underestimate by the
armed forces of the amount of
steel needed under war condi-
tions.
2. THE desire of the big steel
companies to prevent any ex-
pansion that might react unfav-
orably against their control of
the steel industry after the war;"
3. Delay by the war produc-
ton board in converting indus
try to a war basis.
The committee declared, in
an interim report, that "the en-
tire steel scrap collection pro-
gram should be revamped."
Steel, always the backbone
of Americas economy, is the
keystone of our war produc-
ton" the report said, but it
has como very close to being the
stumbling block"
Even though the United States
last year came within 5000, 900
tons of producing as much steel
as all the rest of the world, the
report said, a shortage still ex-
lists. 1t added:
after July, 1943, the most ur-
gent demands for steel to be
used in constructing new plants
will have been filled as q result
of the policy of finishing major
plant construction by that date"
Thereafter. primary needs
for steel will be for actual
ornaments, for fighting equip
ment, TO the shipbuilding pro-
gram, and for essential civilian
equipment such as railroads and
farm machinery. There is every
re- son to believe that there will
be sufficient amounts of steel for
military purposes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04
-Four Officials
FACE Charges
Judge, Prosecutor
in Gosebie Named

IRONWOOD, Mich, Feb. -
Gogebic county o3-
ficials face possible removal -
the result of Circuit Judge
Herman Dehnke's oneman grand
jury inquiry into charges OF ir-
regularities.
Judge Dehnke, in q report
sent Governor Kelly, said there
was probable cause for BE-
lieving that the four had been
guilty of misconduct. The origt.
nal disclosure named only two
men. Two more were added yes
terday.
Named by Judge Dehnke
were Probate Judge Michael !.
Nolan, Prosecutor Leonard J.
McManman, City Commissioners
A. w. Goldberg of Wakefield ana
City Commissioner Ray Garvsy
of Ironwood. Goldberg IL chair
man of the Cogebic county
board and Garvey is q member.
Evidence was found, judge
Denke said, that all four had cdr.
cumvented salary restrictions,
mainly by obtaining excessive
mileage allowances. II Wa lekt
to the governors discretion, The
court pointed out, whether ~
moval proceedings should y
begun.
Anderson. Colbere and Co..
very were said to have receives
large sums for expense money 81
members Of county board g
mittees without having ~
itemixed expense GeatGnGuoa Fl
Judge Dehnke ooo1soo4 SoG
was cause to bol1svo ~ -
Nolan had been guilty. c. -
misconduct and TIT ~
"scandalously ond 1I10D09
perverted the whoooUDeDp =
See 0USTxn-knes I. 4