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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12

Nothing is closer TO the
hearts of the American people
{ h an these basic freedoms
which our forefathers. with all
their wisdom and foresight, in.
corporated into the law Of the
land 152 years ago this week.
WIEN PROCLAIMED
In recognition Of this tribute TO
the dignity Of man, Gov. Kelly
and Mayor Jeffries have pro-
claimed that the week shall be
set aside AS Bui of Rights Week
and tho occasion marked with
suitable ob~erVanccS.
Locally. the Dctrot Times is
sponsoring commemorative activi-
ties Whdc other Hearst newSpa-
pers throughout the country are
planning similar programs
This Sunday rs Freedom of
Worship Day in more than SOC
churches affiliated with the De
trolt Council OF Churches.
Ministers have prepared special
sermons and ceremonies to bring
home 10 their congregations the
meaning of being able 10 worship
Cod as one sees fit
Numerous other organizations
are participating an the week long
observance which VIII be divided
into the following DAYS
sunday Dec. l2--Freedom of
Worship DAY.
Monday, Dec. 1S 49, Govern
ment DAY.
Tuesday, Dec. 14--NTinorities
Day.
Thursday. Dec l6-Freedom
of Opportunity Day.
Friday, Dec. 1.-THE Bill Of
Rights and the Working Man.
Saturday. Dec. lS-T'he Hill
of Rights and the Fighting Man.
COPIES DISTRIBUTED
lleadlinng the patriotic actlv.
ties for the week Is the work OF
the AmcricaniSm committee OF
The Disabled American Veterans
which already has distributed
hundreds at thousands of copies OF
The Bill of Rights no every school
IN the cts as Well as M factories
and churches ard 20 civic and
service organizations
This distribution under The d.
Continued on Page Fve)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12
Forts Shdtter
Navy Bdstion
In Giant Raid
Americans Clear
Skies Of Opponents,
Lose 20 Airplenes

LONDON, Dec. II (INS)
- Hundreds of Flying For
tresses and Liberators ham.
mered the German naval
submarine base of Emden
today and, together with es-
corting fighters, shot down
1873 to 15S Nazi interceptors
in savage battles.
SCATTERING swarns OF rocket
firing and other types of German
fighters, the successive waves OF
American raiders emerged from
the huge assault with 20 of their
planes lost, II four-engined bomb
ers and three accompanying
fighters
An official American announce
ment listed 13S German planes
definitely known to have been
wiped out and another 20 prob
ably" DESTROYED while II others
were damaged for a total of ITO
enemy fighters hit in many violent
dogfightS.
BoMBERs DOWN 1T
The bombers were credited with
downing III To 1877 Nazi intercep-
tors while the American fighters
erased Al least another 81.
Suffering one of the worst de-
feats Of the war in few hours
of combat. the Nszi fighters
dwindled almost 10 the point Of
disappearance as the American
raiders rocked Emden with
mighty explosions and kindled
tremendous fires at that vital
port
The thoroughness Of the Ameri-
can triumph was reflected in the
words of Col. George L. Robinson,
leader Of large Fortress fornna-
ton that participated in the at
tack.
SKY CLEARED OF FOE
''The air over the target was
swept bare of enemy aircraft"
ne declared.
The American airmen eluded
dense curtains Of anti-aircraft
fire 10 smash important naval
and other detectives Al EmdPn
Continued on Page 2. Col ~ .
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12
Judge Hints
.LinSey Out
As Counsel
Plan 10 Select
Lawyer Approved
by Governor Kelly

LANSING. Dec ~ 80 Circuit
Judge Leland W. Carr. con
ductor Of the ore man grand jury
investigation into legislative graft
today issued a cryptic announce
ment which was taken 10 mean
that Atty Gen. Herbert ! Rush
ton would be SuppIantcd in the
role Of chief counsel foB the grand
Jury in favor Of = new attorney
10 be named by Carr.
Judge Carr said the nCW ar
ranGereenf had tho approval Of
GOV Kelly and the assent Of
RuShtnn
Several hour, after his state
mcnt had been made public and
Gov Kelly and RuShton had COM
mented on b. streSSinC harmony
between The executive and atior-
ney general offices and tho grand
Wry. Judge Carr called newspaper
correspondent and wire services
and expressed the hope that moth
nC be had said would be inter
preted as meaning be had Oustcd
fhe attorney general from the
inVCstlCa
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12

c. NJ. McARTHUR. DENTIST
I'LL GriSwold over Kinsefs
Hours SO, Sundays, 10-12.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12

SAFF DEPOSIT BONES still
available az industrial National
Banks Uptown Office. Woodward
al the Boulevard. ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12
STATUS UNCHANGED

ATTY. Gen. Rushton's status
remains unchanged. hc de-
Cisrcd The appointment of an
attorney Ia assist the grand jury
has NO bearing on his C0nneC-
tion~ with the inquiry
Although RuShton apparently ls
10 be- sidellncd IN tho work of
the grand mry Carr stated that
the attorney general and his staff
would have charge of the prose
BUTTONS resulting from the inveSti-
CATION and might select special
counsel for that work at the
prODcr time
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12
COPIES DISTRIBUTED

tContinued on Pagc 10
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24
BEST SELLER
AICARHlIhlA5
IS The BIBLE
BY JOHN sELBY
Associated Press Arts Editor

NEW YORK - Everybody knows
the Bible is the best seller OF all
time-especially at Christmas-out
not everybody understands that II
is one of the most tinkered-with
books in history. Publishers, schol-
airs. and the laity can't keep their
hands off it.
In 1910, there were e.267'52s
copies of the Bible, New Testament
and Gospels sold in war-drained
China alone, and the American
Bible Society estimates that 25 mil
lion copies Of the Bible, or some
portion of it. were sold throughout
the world last year.
The Bible thinkers are not the
many translators always at work.
either. These take care OF great
languages such as Chinese and
Arabic; of little languages such as
Miskito. which serves only 25,0O0
people on the central American
coast. Nor are they merely laymen
with an itch to express themselves
The Catholic Church now has a
revised New Testament, its first
since Bishop Richard Chaloner's
version two centuries ago And the
Church is at work on the Old Tes-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

Bible" was published in Chicago by
j. M. Gooospeed: last year the
same scholars produced The Short
Bible" in the Modern Library an
abfidgement With the books in
chronological order. and the trans
lations selected from various
sources.
r. F. Weymouth's The New Tes-
lament in Modern Speech" has been
we'll known for 80 years. and John
Strings ''The Bible for Today"
probably will circulate widely.
But the thinkers go much farther.
Robert o. Ballou's THE Bible of
the World" is a condensation of
essential passages from the jew
iSh-C Christian Bible, but also from
seven other of the great world re-
ligions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

around Bethlehem, then came the
NAPLES, oaks, bifches. and hem~.
locks. At last there cfept in 4 tiny
fiji Gree from the frozen nortli'S 1t
was SO small and modest that, none
paid any attention to it until sud-
denly a star dropped from the skies
and twinkled on bough OF the
little tree. then another and an
ether. until the fir tree was spang-
led with celestial lights. M
Decoration idea Old
Many more stories are told about
the Christmas tree. The idea of
decorating trees for festivals is very
old. going back to the Egyptian
pharaohs, whose people dressed
their homes with palm leaves in
mid-winter.
Another story is about Winifred.
an English crusader who happened
upon group of Teutons worship
ping mighty oak in honor of Thor,
heir thunder god. Winifred stopped
them from sacrificing a young boy
to appcase Thors anger then
with his great sword felled the oak
with one stroke In its place there
suddenly appeared a young fir with
a star twinkling on its top branch.
Here said the Christian knight,
lis the living tree. This shall be
the sign of your new worship. Carry
this fir tree into your home and
worship it there
Some historians say the Christ
mas tree originated in Alsace in
1905 when the people brought fir
trees to their homes and decorated
them with paper roses, apples and
waters.
Americas first Christmas tree
was set up in Waaster. Ohio, in
1843, by August Imgard, German
immigrant. The first lighted tree
in a church was at a Cleveland
Lutheran church in I848.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24
LEGENDS TELL
FULL STORY Of
CHRISTMAS IREE

Christmas trees are as old as
Christmas itself, if the story which
has come down to us from the first
Yuletide is true.
The. legend relates that after the
Three Wise Men and the shepherds
who had heard the angels sing
Peace on Earth" and Good Will
to Men" had worshipped Marys
babe, trees began coming to Bethle-
hem to worship the Holy Child;
trees from all parts of the world.
First came the native palms from
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

Christmas tree candles date back
TO the very earliest times in the
Christian era. The Yule candle. of
goodly size, lighted early Nativity
scenes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

lament. Both of these are drawn
from the Latin Vulgate, distin-
puished Catholic scholar, the Very
Rev. Francis Aloysius Spencer,
t,anslated the New Testament di-
rectly from the Greek and publish
ed his version four years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

Another slightly disconcerting
version is THE New Testament in
Basic English" Basic English is the
simplified vocabulary worked out by
c. K. Agden. and for this trans
lation) expanded by $50 words to a
total OF ,000-however, certain es-
genital words are not in basic Eng
lish. So Take, eat" Matthew
1926 becomes take it" in this
version. and the will of God be-
Genes the pleasure" of God, or
sometimes His purpose.
James Moffatt's translation OF
the complete Bible has been out
six years, although his New Tesla
msnt was published first in 1901
Two years ago THE Complete
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-12-24

There is still another translation
which bases its distinctive quaiity
on its source-a translation from
TIE vernacular, which is TO say,
from Aramaic. 1t is by George M.
Lamsa and is called The New Tes-
lament according to the Eastern
Isxt; it does odd things With our
accepted world pictures, too.
For example, the Aramaic words
for camel and rope are the same,
and the rich mans chance OF en-
tsling heaven is bettered, for here
it is a rope, and not a camel which
must pass through the eye OF the
needle.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Congress Heights Maps
Block Leader Plan

Members of the Congress Heights
Citizens Association last night dis
cussed plans for a new block leader
program under the Civilian War
Services division of the Civilian De-
fense Department.
The Rev. John McCauley was
appointed chairman of committee
to set up a block leader program in
the area.
Joseph D. Kaufman described
the Community War Fund as serv-
ing a three-fold purpose: Making
donations to the USO and kindred
service organizations, giving relief
and providing means of rehabilita-
ton for the Allied Nations and con-
tinuing work in the metropolitan
area as carried on by the
Community Chest organization.
Nominations were made, including
j. Louis Goldman for president, Ben
son Taylor and Raymond Gregory,
for first vice president: Abe Lugen-
beel second vice president: Edna
Dulin, secretary; Loretta Landon
and Lula Taylor, treasurer; Alma
Allen and Charles Fischer, for
financial secretary.
The meeting was held in the audi
torium of the Congress Heights
School,
Evening star., 1943-10-15
King Resigns as Chief
OF 0PA Information:
Dissatisfaction Hinted
BY the Associated Press

A1s ZIG hoooSiutcu TTebS,
James F.. King has resigned as in
formation director of the Office of
Price Administration amid reports
that he felt his authority was cir
cumscribed by former advertising
men now holding key positions in
the agency.
Mr.. King took the job only two
months ago, stepping into the place
OF Lou MaXon, Detroit advertising
executive, who resigned with a pub
llc denunclatiOn of professors. law
yers and slide rule boys" in OPA.
The agency, currently embarked
on campaign to popularize itself,
announced that the information de-
partment would operate temporarily
under James G. Rogers, assistant
general manager of OPA and for
merly general manager of the New
York advertising agency of Benton
& BoWles, Inc.
Mr.. King yesterday had no COM
ment on the resigna tion. Persons
familiar with the developments,
however, said he objected to con-
trolls imposed on his department
from higher up This applied
particularly, the sources said, to the
fact that Mr.. Rogers took a hand
in operations of the information
division. Mr.. Rogers was appointed
to OPA in August by Chester A.
Bowles, OPA general manager and
founder of the Benton and BoWles
agency.
Mr.. King was executive officer of
the Offlce of Censorship when that
agency vas set up in December,
1941. From July, 1912, until last
February he was with the National
Housing Agency.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
0|d-Age Tax Increase
Hit by Vandenberg
AT Senate Hearing
By J. A, OLEARY.

The wartime increase in payrolls
and wage levels has put a lot of
velvet" into the Social Security re-
serve fund for old-age insurance,
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan told the Senate Finance
Committee today.
The committee heard several wit
nesses testify the proposed increase
in the payroll tax for old-age insur-
ance from to 2 per cent each on
employer and employe, slated to take
effect January l. is not necessary.
Senator Vanoenberg said that if
the increase again is postponed, as
it has been since 1910, I'VE will still
collect more in 1914 at | per cent
than was estimated in 1889 would be
collected next year from a per
cent tax"
The witnesses were Paul ].
Daugherty of the Ohio Chamber of
Commerce; R. T. Compton, assistant
director Of the State Manufacturers
Association Division of the National
Industrial Council, and Frank B.
Cliffe, Associated Industries of New
York State.
Mr.. Daugherty urged the tax be
kept at per cent for the time being.
Mr. Compton recommended that
Congress scrap the present formula
for determining a safe level for the
reserve fund, which is based on esti-
mated needs five years in advance.
The formula is that the fund should
be three times the highest estimated
annual outgo for the ensuing five
years.
An adequate margin of safety
could be provided by keeping the
fund at five times the bepefts paid
Evening star., 1943-10-15

tions and in Agriculture Department
circulars and bulletins. They in
clude research covering resin, tur-
pentine. fertilizers, soils, hides,
feathers, tanning materials, textiles,
paper and many other subjects.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Laura Boyle Veitch; a son, DR..
Fletcher P. Veitch. jr., of the
Georgetown University School Of
Medicine; three daughters, Miss
Helen Veitch of College Park, Mrs.
T. L. Swenson of Albany, Calf, and
Mrs. Theodore Bissell of Griffin, Ga,
and brother, DR.. r. A. Veitch OF
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

of the Allies. and the President eX-
planned that knowing America poll
tically as he did, he believed it was
probable there would be some per-
sons who would want to protect the
synthetic plants, and that he would
not want to see that.
The President said this, of course.
was something that might not come
up, but that anyway the people
should know about it in advance.
A tariff to protect synthetic, the
President said. would mean that
every man in the United States who
owned car would have to pay so
per cent more for his rubber"
Il believe in cheap tires and more
OF them the President continued.
"and the only way to get that is to
use the tires that are made bv
nature, whether it be rubber or
guayule or cryptostegia.
Would Scrap Plants.
There have been previous indica-
tlons from administrative sources
that the administration would op-
pose efforts to protect the synthetic
rubber industry when conditions
once more permit large importa-
tlons of the natural product.
Vice President Wallace has ad-
vocated scrapping most of the svn-
thetic rubber factories after the war
as a means of restoring world trade.
William M. Jeffers. former rubber
administrator, favored giving private
industry an opportunity to purchase
and operate the synthetic plants
after the war.
Mr.. Roosevelt prefaced his rubber
discussion at the dinner last night
by recalling that he had withdrawn
the Marines from Haiti 10 years ago
and while, he said, there were some
doubling Thomases" at that time
as to the feasibility of the move he
is very proud" of the aftermath.
Congratulates Haiti.
Haiti has made good in every
way" he said.
The President said this Nation
wanted to help Haiti become self
sustaining and that the lesson
learned there will help us, because
1T may teach us, some day, to
make Puerto Rico self-sustaining. /"
In response, President Lescot be-
spoke continued amity between
Haiti and the United States and
said "he has no fears in this regard" 3"
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Twins Among Is Men
Reporting Tomorrow

Seventy-six men from the District
now on their induction fur
loughs will report for active duty
in four branches of the armed forces
tomorrow.
Included in the group are Ray
mond A. Toense, ir., and Earl r
Toense, l9-yesr-old twins. going
into the Navy, and Sigurds M. Ekis,
20, son of the late Ludwig Ekis.
financial and economic adviser of
the Latvian Legation in Washing
ton. going into the Army.
The Toense twins, sons of Mr..
and Mrs. RAYMOND A. Toense, sr.,
sos Allison street NV. were de-
ferred twice because of their chem
ical engineering studies at Mary
land University. They refused their
second deferment and appealed to
their board to he classified IA.
They then enlisted in the Navy in
July.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Buck Sank Submarine
Captured As Of Crew
Before Final Voyage
Py the Associated prees

6y the Associated Press.
The Destroyer Buck, listed as sunk
on Salerno, destroyed a submarine
and rescued As members of its crew
sometime earlier in the Mediter-
ranean, the Navy reported last
night.
The story of the sub sinking was
told by 1t. Comdr. Millard j. Klein.
now missing in action, to 1t. q. g.
Joseph r. Samuel, New Orleans.
While escorting convoy late at
night, Comdr. Klein said, the de-
stroyer sighted submarine which
crash dived.
Depth charges ruptured the subs
null, and as it surfaced, round
after round of hot lead and steel
were poured into the coming tow
err" Comdr. Klein's story continued:
I'VE turned for the sub at a fast
clip to ram, but we were too close at
the time, and the ship passed within
80 feet of the sub, as our machine
guns kept up whitening fire on
those exposed sections of the enemy
vessel.
Our big guns opened up and
smashed the coming tower Just
about the time that two torpedces
were reported headed our way. One
was observed passing to starboard
The other must have been a wider
miss.
I'VE could hear men shouting in
the water, and as our gunfire lit up
the scene we could observe others
jumping into the sea from the con-
ming tower. One burst opened a big
hole below the tower and started a
fire.
I'VE continued to pump shells into
the submarine until I was certain
that it was out of the war for keeps.
When last seen, it had turned over.
Our whaleboat was put over and in
three trips picked up As out of a
crew of ST."
Evening star., 1943-10-15

in the preceding year, Mr.. Compton
said.
"As long as the fund is this large"
he continued, there could be no
chance of bankruptcy before Con-
gress could act. In suggesting such
a change, I assume that the present
l per cent tax would be continued
until benefits catch up with tax
receipts and until the funds and
the benefit costs are in the indicat-
ed relationship"
Such change, he said, would end
the annual controversy over tax
rates.
Mr.. Cliffe also supported such a
change in the formula.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Brothers Wed
Sisters, Become
Fathers Together
the Associated Press.

BY tQc ASSOCldteQ PreSS.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.-Its no op-
tical illusion, but the effect is the
same, say attendants at Mercy Hos
pital.
Two sisters, married to brothers,
gave birth to sons this week with
the same doctor attending them.
Both husbands work at the same
place, the couples live in identical
apartments in the same housing de-
velopment, all graduated from the
same high school and have always
attended the same church.
The new fathers passed out iden-
tical cigars.
The mothers are Mrs. Charlotte
johnson Bates and Mrs. Lucille
johnson Bates, the fathers Charles
Henry Bates and William A. Bates,
and the sons Charles Henry Bates,
III, and William A. Bates, jr.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
People Back Ramirez.
Pro-Axis Paper Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 15.-Com-
menting on the resignation of three
cabinet members, the pro-AXis news
paper Ell Pampero declared today
that revolution in Argentina is just
beginning, but added that the entire
nation is behind the Ramirez gov
ernment.
El Pampero's stand is at direct
variance with that of two other
influential newspapers, La Nacion
and La Prensa, which have strongly
criticized the Ramirez government S
adherence to an isolationist foreign
policy.
designations of the cabinet men,
bers were announced yesterday amid
indications that there might be a
change in this policy.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

dustrial utilization of farm products.
In 1891 he began work as an as
sistant at the Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station. He held vari-
GUS important positions in that in
stitution and later became chief of
the Industrial Farm Products Re-
search Division and of the Naval
Stores Research Division. On May
81, 1888, he retired from active duty,
but had been retained as collab-
orator in the bureau until his death.
For A years DR.. Veitch served in
the field of agricultural chemistry.
His service included seven years
with the State of Maryland and 81
years with the Agriculture Depart
ment.
His research activities have been
reported under more than 200 titles
and have appeared in many scien-
tlfic, technical and trade publica-
Evening star., 1943-10-15

OF the Agricul-
ture Department
died today at his
home, 4316 Hart
wick road, Col
lege Park, Md.
Born in Balti-
more, DR.. Veitch
was a graduate
of Maryland and
George WASH
ington Universi-
Ties. he was
widely k n ow n
for his research
in leather and
for his early in
tereSt in the in
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Argentina
Continued From First Page.)


makes it impossible for a group of
human beings to live decently. is
contrary to the political and jurid-
ical systems of America"
A cable from Buenos Aires We'd
nesday said all Jewish newspapers
printed in Yiddish had been sus-
pended. That includes the principal
Jewish newspapers of Argentina.
The dispatch said Jewish newspapers
printed in Spanish had not up to
that time been affected. No reason
was assigned for the suspensions.
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Dr.. Fletcher P. Veitch
Dies al Is; Former
Agriculture Official

DR.. Fletcher Pearre Veitch, 76, re-
tired chief of the Industrial Farm
Products Research Division and of
the Naval Stores Research Division
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Vichy Orders ItoIions
In France to Register

Ey the Associated Press
MADRID, Oct. 15.-Press dis
patches from France said today that
French newspapers had published
an order from Vichy directing that
all Italians resident in France must
report for registration with the au-
thorities
The order apparently was issued
by the Vichy collaborationists as an
answer to the Italian declaration of
war on Germany.