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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16
Congress- Digs Out Facts

THE naval affairs committee of the House of Representatives,
the members Of the United States Senate who recently
returned world tour of the fronts be cong1a
uaed for SMOKING OUT the facts about depletion of Amecan
oil reserves
In the face of the revelation that per the oil
used by the United Natonsand much so cent by some
President Roosevelt has tay promised that Brshhed oil
serves will be more fully utilized in the future.
Congress American President
Until the facts concealed by the New Deal We're disclosed to the public
used by the United atoms to be drained from the critically
He was perfectly
enabled be boarded for the urefO the postwar future the British
only Congress amazing and made
and iamey with a promise that it would be remedied.
ENEDY is of course desirable remedy completely
N promptly made will restore the vast quantities of American oil
affairs report
saying:
will a petroleum is
Rep F1ebert Louisiana member of the subcommittee cOmmented
% . s IS ' ssRss1 we" ;so win ,rs VII. 3 .,:
the materials that we are giving so freely"
DECLARING willing idly
come nation dependent on other nations for its supply of petroleum.
Other Allied nations with stakes victory equal to those of America
"Such utilized great
1--WE respectfully call attention to the fact that America today
a burden in the
I'VE consider solemn and patriotic duty the further
utilization of effort
avoid penzng future generations because the hoghedness
support Of this disclosure Mead of New York has returned
from his world that the big Persian Gulf refnees could be
made to increase their output by 40 per
c,ENATOR LODGE Of Massachusetts, tour
81" matter of knOw edge that exhausng
and that all people experiencing
petroleum.
information the United
with less than of the oil putting 60
nj the oil being used to fight this
Since the President has made haste in the light Of these disclosures
that British oil will be the future
will thus proportion the
prospect equitable sharing ar burdens will be mproyed
anything.
the American people Will forget that it the alert and
which imposed the for both his haste and his
promise upon The invaluable public
respect should ha highest credit for from all good
Americans
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16
NEWS
BEHIND
The NEWS
BY Paul
MalIon

WASHINGTON. Oct. l5-1t is
w becoming more and more
difficult 10 report accurately
GA the substance behind the
current BrtiSh-American dis
cussions. A cloud Of political
dust is being swept higher and
higher 10 obscure popular Wis
ion.
OwliSh Mr.. Churchill, for eX-
ample. has characterized the
plea Of the five American Sena-
tors for equal trade opportuni-
ties and defensive island bases
as American fighting among
politicians. HIS British press,
however. has taken up the
British cudgel.
The British papers say their
nation is upset, seriously
alarmed, feels "A body blow to
Anglo-U. 6. collaboration, - sees
an isolationist uprising in the
L. S.
IF THE spinlsterlSh Britannia
press really were alarmed
about the state of Anglo-Ameri-
can relations, they would an
swer the five senators directly.
They would say, for instance,
that the British labels were put
on American canned goods 10
Turkey and elsewhere through
-exuberance of trade instinct
which hereafter will be cor
rected. Or they would say the
large accumulations of British
oil were due to overplanning and
that these now will be released.
Such response really would
cement Anglo-American rela-
tons.
Instead, the irony of the
British position was evident in
the simultaneous London an
nouncement of their acquisition
of invaluable Portuguese bases al
the Azores which they said
they would let us use.
Mr. Roosevelts handling Of
the same matter was bit diff
ferent. While laughing at the
five senators as fellow travellers
presumably of isolationistsl =,
his Mr.. Ickes announced a re-
organization Of the foreign oil
distribution bureau apparently
to correct one phase Of their
complaint.
DEHIND Mr.. RooSeveltS as
- Sumed attitude evidently
is the fear that the senators
report will be used against him
politically.
His men on Capitol Hill
worked on the committeeman
following their return Senator
Mead, closest to the White
House. came at least halfway
around and seemed 10 apologize
for the committee. but made il
clear that, while they had found
many good factors abroad.
they had found more situations
which were displeasing and I'M
satisfactory.
The three Democrats among
the five senator's have been as
insistent in their views as the
Republicans, and all are unanl-
nous upon the basic points -
namely, that we must not let
the British put il over on us In
reselling our goods, that we
must look out for trade, air and
military bases around the world
for pastWaF=
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16

oSSuiicu' VII, yes, anu 'ilCy h'u
1.-TWO drinks"
In great eastern city last year
| sat in court whole morning listen
ing to the accident cases. More than
half of them began when idle women,
seated at bar, decided to ride home
with men who had had "two drinks"
One case was that of a girl of Ia.
She was a gentle little thing, she
looked horribly frightened. Her
mother, seated beside her, cried
steadily. She might well cry.
TT WAS the second time Marian had
l appeared before this Judge. The
mother was working in a defense
plant; she could not watch the girl
continually. America needed the
mother; the mother deserted, needed
her salary; nobody needed Marian.
SO Marian was packed off to re-
form institution for one year, poor
little scared thing!
1T was Penny JOhnson's fault"
Marian burst out in an agony, when
the fatal sentence was pronounced,
and her mother tainted away. "She
took me the other time and she took
me last week to Harry's place. |
never would have gone! She told me
Id like a cocktail"
This didn't change the verdict.
Marian's mother, who was once so
proud of her.-is a lonely, hard
working woman still. Marian is still
in big, roomy, comfortable place
where there is plenty Of food, and
games, and a library-but where
there are barred gates, too.
Well, perhaps it was the other
older girls fault. But | don't believe
it. Fourteen is quite old enough TO
have some sense, some instinct of
self-protection Mothers are quite
justified in claiming that they can't
hold onto the hand of big girls in
their teens, day and night. They
shouldn't be expected to.
Girls of that age should be able
to make their own decisions, and one
of them-frmly inculcated by mother
from the tenth year on, should be:
"YOu never under any conditions
go near a bar, or indulge in any
drinking away from your own
home"
And many mothers might add,
nor at home either"
YOUNG girls don't have to form
l drinking habits any more than
their brothers do. The old idea used
to be that it was inevitable for the
boys, a few years of drink and dissi-
patton, sowing of wild oats" That
kept them safe the rest of their lives.
But nowadays many girl scan
dalizes her brother by her much
more lax behavior, by her speech and
her Jokes and her lack of standards
generally. And many a boy gets
through to manhood without spend
ing 20 hours a week lounging at a
bar.
During the long generations
when that sort Of vice was confined
to the young males, it was women
who were patient and decent; who
held to the code of fineness and
purity, frowning down coarseness
and blasphemy and drunkenness;
waiting for the day when their men
L i
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16

he CONlpldCSiNy vi llltllulCuo VI
L American mothers about their
daughter behavior is strange and
mysterious thing.
Because they don't want to be-
lieve it, and it is humiliating and
troublesome to believe it, they simply
refuse to credit any suspicious of the
girls morals; their girls don't drink
and they don't go to night clubs and
restaurant bars and hotel lounges
and roadhouses. Jean and Marjorie
are just dear old-fashioned daugh-
ters-they don't know anything
about such places.
"The others may have been drink
ing. but our Jean wasn't" say the
mothers, when the scandal breaks, or
the car turns. over, or the whole
young crowd is rounded up in the
police court. 1--WE had two drinks"
the sullen young voices admit, when
the investigation starts.
1t is always just two. Perhaps
even their young audacity doesn't
dare claim that it was only one.
1.-TWO" admits to more than one, and
often stands for seven or eight or
ten.
marjorie went into that bar with
the Davis girl" says Marjorie's
mother. "She had no idea that it was
such rough place: Poor little thing,
she simply wasn't sOphisticate d
enough to realize what was going
on"
WELL, perhaps Marjorie was too
w innocent in heart to get the full
meaning of the whole thing, but
Marjorie's mother isn't an ignorant
adolescent, and it is about time that
she walked up to the fact that good
deal is going on. That public bars
are being thronged with young
women every afternoon and evening,
and that the moral fiber Of the whole
nation is being slowly but systemati-
cally undermined by them.
Your notwithstanding little girl
knows a great deal more than you
think she does. She is laughing at
jokes Of which you couldn't see the
point at all. She is laughing at mat
ters that you have always handled
with seriousness and reticence. She
has vocabulary of brief terms for
the essential facts of life that would
horrify you.
She may have picked some of this
up at school, for young humans are
rather close to the earth, filled with
natural curiosity, and apt to feel that
because certain subjects are not
made material for dinner table con-
versation they must be filled with
fascination and thrills. Also, basic
physical truths are often aWkWardly
impaired to children at home, or
withheld from them entirely as dis
gushing and unnecessary, and their
appetites for them are consequently
sharpened.
DUT it is in after-school hours that
u the night club, bar, lounge, road
house lingering begins, and it is from
these little separate lighthouses of i'm
morality that a nationwide wave Of
vice is starting. This years stats
tics on motor casualties are stagger-
ing; we are actually running more
young bodies on our highways than
L. 1oc,,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16

THE disputed Russian base phase
Il is another matter. Only Sen
ator Lodge (R) estimated 1000
900 American lives would be saved
if Russia would give us air bases
10 attack Japan. The Russian
position is understood here.
Most authorities expect Russia
will declare war on Japan as soon
as the Germans are beaten. The
Russians are natural enemies Of
the Japs
Also Senator Chandler Cd rs
alone among the five in his de-
mand that our war emphasis be
shifted Immediately to the Pacific.
The Churchill and Roosevelt
handling of the senatorial COM
plants, therefore, may play into
the hands of isolationists and
Republicans, by making an issue
out OF what GU q have been
accepted as a wise Recommended
ton for an alteration in American
policy.
No doubt Mr. Roosevelt will
make the change of policy any
way.
Distributed by King Features synd Inc.
Reproduction IN whole or in part
strictly prohibited,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16
DRINKING WOMEN
RV Kathleen Norris

EDITORS NOTE This article By Kathleen Norris noted
The article this M be published
Tuesday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-16

DUT it is in after-school hours that
u the night club, bar, lounge, road
house lingering begins, and it is from
these little separate lighthouses of i'm
morality that a nationwide wave Of
vice is starting. This years stats
tics on motor casualties are stagger-
ing; we are actually running more
young bodies on our highways than
on our battlefronts.
Watch the stories of driving acct
dents in your paper; note what per-
centage of them takes place in the
early evening; note how many of the
victims are youngsters in their teens
or early twenties.
They were at Pete's, the girls
weepingly confess, and these two
boys" talked to them, and one of the
boys said he knew a place where they
could dance. That's all they knew
and all they ever will know of what
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Lie Test Fails,
Missing Wife
Still Mystery

David Brincat 50, Of 1927
Abbott today was subjected 10
further grilhng by police in the
mysterious disappearance of his
40-year-old wife, Mary. after a lie
detector test in Lansing had
proved unsuccessful.
Brincat volunteered 10 take the
test after police had charged sew
eral discrepancies in his story that
his wife left home on a Joy ride
with another man; six weeks ago.
However, according 10 1t. Lester
Chorpenning, who, with 1t. Joseph
kellar. conducted the test. Brin-
cat talked so swiftly and in such
broken English that no definite
conclusion could 0e drawn.
From the investigation,
Chorpenning said, sit looks as II
a crime has been committed.
One blood test positively showed
human blood 10 Oe on the floor
OF the Brincat home. If Brin-
cats wife is dead. our job now
Is TO find the body"
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Held as Wife
OF 2Servi(emen

Pretty 1s-year-old Adeline
Reimer Evert-Doolittle Of S345
Elgin, who police said married a
soldier while she was the wife Of
a former coaStguardSman, faces
examination on bigamy charges
today
She stood mute on arrangement
yesterday before Recorders Judge
GIllis. and was released on 81 600
bond
Police charged that in Novcm-
Der, 1912. she had FIRST married
Frank Evert, 2l, of Napoleon, O.,
while he was in the coast guard.
On his discharge for medical rea-
sons. they became estranged Then
she married PVT Raymond Doc
little. 20. OF 25l7 Canton while ne
was on leave from Fort Benning.
Ga. Informed that his wife was
twice married, Doollttle, accord
lng 10 police, went AWOL and
returned 10 Detroit. lie is now
IN custody Of military authorities
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Clio 0Defends Six
On Double Shifts

Union officials today said they
would intercede for six ambitious
Ford Motor Co. employees dis
charged yesterday because they
were each holding two jobs,
working two eight-hour shifts at
different plants.
The company charged the men,
two Of whom are JAW stewards,
made false applications in obtain
ing the second Jobs az the Lincoln
plant, where they worked the Alp
shift while they were working
the 7-3 shift at the Rouge.
The matter was referred to the
War ManpOwer Commission when
il was claimed that they had OBJ
tanned job releases fraudulently.
Federal law provides punishment
Of year IN prison and 81 900 fine
for such an offenSe.
The workers. il was said.
claimed they were piano tuners
and bus boys in obtaining releases
through the VINO and stated they
held dual jobs TO help the war
effort.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Spy Case
Goes tO
u. y. jury

Grace Buchanan-Dineen, 81
year-old Canadian-born count
ess," was expected 10 testify to-
day against her three alleged
partners in the largest spy ring
exposed since the start OF the
war as the United States govern
ment began presenting evidence
before the federal grand Jury.
Several witnesses are expected
10 take the stand today. L. s.
Attorney Lehr said he expected
to complete the presentation of
the evidence by the end of the
week.
In addition TO Miss Buchanan
Dlneen, those held on warrants
charging espionage are Or. Fred
William Thomas. a. 463l Audu-
bon: Bertrand S. Hoffman. y.
former sailor stationed at Crosse
lie and member of the Merchant
Marine When arrested IN New
York and Mrs. Theresa Behrens,
~. $3.50 Harvard who is being
held at Receiving Hospital where
she has refused solid food since
her arrest.
Miss =BHehanan-Dineen= was used
as counter-espionage agent
against the other three, the FBI
disclosed earlier.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Mannequin Act Fails.
Couple Seized Inn Store

Amelia CampbelrS mannequin
act failed early today after 65
policemen rrounded and
searched the Crowley Miner g.
Co. department store for 3la
hours before she was discovered
in hiding with a boy friend.
At 1870 last night two women
employees at the store at Gratiot
and Farmer reported they had
seen a prowler in the building.
Forty officers, including a riot
squad, answered the alarm, sur
rounded the store and instituted
a search.
About 3 m, Patrolman Arthur
Desiletes, one of 25 reinforce
ments, headed by Inspector Joseph
McNally. who had joined the man
hunt at midnight, entered a dis
play advertising store-room on
the eighth floor.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09

Seated erect and motionless in
a chair, and surrounded by real
dummies" he found Miss Camp
bell. Her boy friend, William Will
liams was lying on the floor, I'm
der a coat spread on the floor,
police found 80 caliber revolver,
which Williams admitted was his,
police said.
Williams, who is II and lives
at 22l4 Brewster and is employed
at a roller bearing plant, first said
he had met Miss Campbell after
entering the building. Officers
found her picture in his wallet.
The two, police said. apparently
remained in the building when il
was closed for the night.
Amelia, 25, Of 1743 Rivard, and
Williams are held on charges OF
breaking and entering.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
West Side Local
Backs Leonard

Endorsement by the powerful
West Side Local TIA, UAW-CIO.
of Richard Leonard in his fight to
unseat George Adde's, secretary
treasurer of the UAW interna-
tional was announced today after
officers had patched up differences
over organization politics.
Meanwhile, a rift appeared in
the unions largest local, Ford $50.
with announcement of w. G.
Grant, financial secretary, that he
would back Adde's and Richard
Frankensteen, for secretary-treas-
urer and vice president. His
endorsement followed by "a hours
the statement of Percy Llewellyn.
president Of the local. that his
support would go to Leonard and
Reuther.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
big Fees
Supervisors Would Cut
Lineemens Income

The legislative committee of the
board Of supervisors today was on
record as being opposed 10 the
sizable fees collected by County
Clerk Lingeman for marriage
licenses.
The committee instructed its
four cOnSultants 90 formulate a
local act which would either take
the fees away entirely or force
the county clerk 10 pay his license
clerks, now on the county pay
roll. out of fees collected. Last
year these fees, 80 cents a mar
riage. amounted 10 $4,000.
A bill promoted by the COM
mittee last year 10 eliminate the
license fees was defeated IN the
Legislature when the objection
was made that IT would apply 10
all counties in the state.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
j. ). Says SpdIek
Threatened Auditor

Government attorneys continued
today TO pile up evidence in the
war fraud trial Of Adolph Spalek
and William J. Zrenchik, partners
in the Spalek Engineering Co.,
who we're charged yesterday with
Threatening an army ordnance
auditor who tried to examine
their books.
Harold 5. Tobias, the auditor.
said when he called at the plant
10 check records, Spalek threat
ened 70 "throW him out.n
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Elliott Roosevelt
On Secret Mission

LONDON. Sept. 9 CUP)-Col.
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
President and commander of a
Photographic reconnaissance unit
Of the 18th Air Force, has been
assigned secret mission" il
was disclosed today. Roosevelt
directed preparation Of pre-in-
Naslon mans OF SicilY and ItalY.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Col. Co|man Created a Rank,
SerQednt Tells Court Martial
BY GORDON FRIESEN

SELFRIDGE FIELD, Sept. 9-Connued testimony TO
be offered today the courtmara of Col William Coman
the governments efforts to ne used his influence
save the soderson Of Bay City businessman the youth
virtually climbing transport gangpank at point Of
embarkation.
Still the stand under crossexaminaton by the defense
Master Sgt Myron Collins, who sergeant major
Serdge Field drafted the radiograms by which the
cution charges various transfers here accomplished
Collins himself in confinement at the base
ing of the Colman Investigations yesterday testified
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
India Envoy Transferred

WASHINGTON. Sept. 9 tUPl
secretary of State Hull yeSter-
day announced that William
Phillips, the Presidents personal
representative at New Delhi.
India. has been ordered 20 Lon
don temporarily for an assign
mcnt connected with the war de-
partment.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Elk Hills Contract Out

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 CUP)
Cancellation of the Elk Hills oil
contract between the navy and
Standard Oil Of California - de-
nounCed as another Teapot Dome
scandal'-has been approved by
President Roosevelt.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
ANOTHER TRANSFER

The alleged transfer of a soldier
named Galloway Is included IN one
Of the charges Col Colman. for
mcr base commander here, faces.
ON March 4 OF this year. after
James GranSe was transferred
here where he still remains and
where he viii be called as Wit
ness tho father came 70 base
headquarters and handed him a
card bearing the name of a sec
ond son Robert. and the notation
of his serial number and that he
was al Fort Sill, Okla, Collins
testified
"He told me the Kid was n
mechanic
ON the basis Of an aircraft
mechanic urgently needed here,
tho second GranSc was transferred
10 Sclfridgc Field
Tho first time he saw James
GranSe was when the youth s
father brought him 10 SeIfridge
and introduced him Collins said.
"Granse said the hoy told him
he was on the gangplank Of a
troop ship when the transfer
came through" Collins teStl-
fed
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
Japs Limit Prison Cards

Writers Of postcards or letters
"a men IN Jap prison camps must
limit themselves 10 "a words and
all messages must he typed or
printed -hlncle-letterS.- -Inhn-C-
Kelley Windsor postmaster an
no1nCed today.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
WILD RAMPAGE

Capt Nathaniel z. Hall. air
corps personnel officer first wit
ness i'm the charge that Col Col
man was drunk and diSorderly the
night or fHSr NpTTf ;, T0fU Tr7F
story Of a wild rampage during
which the then base commander
forced a soldier 10 lie face down
in a grassy plot, where tho latter
remained for two hours.
Cant Hall testified he had
taken Col. Colman and 1t. James
r. Sawyer, who had arrived that
day from the OscOda base, 10 his
quarters, and mixed drinks for
the three Of them.
Following him 10 tho stand, 1t
Sawyer admitted they had had
two drinks each az Capt Halls
quarters.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09
PUNISHED SOLDIER

The soldier. Cpl Frank Spody-
max Of the base garage and driver
Of the car. said that after the
three emerged from Halls quar-
ters, Col Colman handed him a
burning cigaret. which Hall said
the ON m a nding officer had
snatched out Of 1t Sawye RS
mouth, and told him to get rid
of II.
-AS-hn- walked -aNgaN, The soldier
testified. Col Colman called him
back twice. then ordered him 10
lie IN the grass.
"Col. Colman cursed me and
said to Capt. Hall he ought to
shoot SpedYpak- testified
"He was drinking 80 much he
didn't know what he was
doing"
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09

Your Own Horoscope, by
Frances Drake, Is one of many
famous features In The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09

series of messages by which
Sgt. James Granse was allegedly
Snatched from overseas service
and brought 10 the comparative
safety of this air base.
The successful transfer was
made Collins testified, after Col.
Colman and Herman Granse Of
Bay City, the youths father, came
to him at the base headquarters
and Colman ordered him.
Put oil the heat. The Kid Is
at Camp StOneman, Cal, and Is
about 10 be shipped across. We
have 20 get busy before they
Send the kid over
APPEAL FROM son
Collins said Granse handed him
a telegram that had just arrived
from his son. II read
"Have arrived at Camp stone
man. Need your help"
This occurred the latter part OF
August, after a series. of radio
grams asking that Pvt. GranSe
be transferred 10 Selfridgc Field
had followed the youth about the
country. from Chicago 10 Camp
Mcclellan, Ala without success.
The wires represented Pvt.
GranSe as an aerial photographer
urgently needed AZ 5 Selfridg Q
Field.
Collins said he had created the
designation aerial Photographic"
out OF his own mind and denied
he had been prompted by either
GranSc or Col Colman.
THE colonel bawled me out
about the way i handled the
Galloway transfer. where l was
using serious illness In the
family and told me-'use your
bean He told me 10 call him
mechanic"