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which they were riding struck a
telephone pole on the Baltimore
boulevard near Laurel.
Lloyd Miller of Laurel suffered a
possible fractured skull and frac-
tured right leg. He was taken to St.
Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.
Others injured. all of Laurel. were
Miss Helen Buckland,. who suffered
a fractured right arm; Miss Grace
Mullen, who sustained head injuries;
Miss Renes Day, colored, head cuts.
all OF whom were taken to Univer-
sity Hospital in Baltimore, and Miss
Nettie Brewer, possible fractured
knee, who was taken to St. Agnes
Hospital.
Police said the driver of the car,
whom they identified as Pvt. Wesley
Lowell, colored, suffered slight in
juries and was taken to Fort Meade,
where he is stationed.
State Policeman Ray Huntzberry.
who investigated the accident, said
the five passengers were en- route to
Fort Meade, where they worked.
Four Pedestrians Hurt.
OF four pedestrians injured In
Washington, only one, Miss Mar
jorie Dobbs, rs, Of 207 Maryland
avenue NE, remained in the hos
pital after being treated. Miss
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Naval Inventors Widow
Christens New DESTROYER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEARNY, N. j., Feb. 6-The de-
stroyer Dashiell was launched to-
day at the yard of the Federal Ship
building & Dry Dock Co. with the
special wish of its sponsor that 1t be
nemesis to the Nipponese.
The wish was voiced by Mrs. Rob-
ert Brooke Dashiell of Annapolis
Nd. as the ship slid into the Hack
ensack River at 11:20 am. She is
the mother-in-law of Capt. Thomas
L. Catch, who was wounded when
the American battleship he COM
manded shot down 30 japanese
planes in an air-sea battle off Santa
Cruz Island in the Pacific October
&c. The name of the battleship has
not been announced.
The destroyer was named in honor
of Mrs Dashiell's late husband, a
naval inventor and authority on
dock construction The Dashiell
breech mechanism was named for
him. He was born near Woodville,
Rappahannock County, Va, July %,
1860, and died in Washington March
s, 1899.
Capt Catch was unable to attend
the launching because of an opera
ton made necessary by his wounds
Mrs. Catch and their 17-year-old
son, Thomas L., jr. were witnesses.
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Sa|azar Home, Despite Axis
Rumor Of Franco Par|ey

By the Associated Press.
LISBON, Feb. CDR. Antonio de
Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese premier
remained in his capital today despite
reports from Axis news sources in
dicating he had left for an inspect
fled destination to meet Generals
simo Francisco Franco, Spanish gov
eminent chief
Reuters had quoted a dispatch to
the German controlled Scandina-
Wan telegraph agency from Madrid
saying Franco and Gen. Count
Francisco Gomez, Spanish Foreign
Minister, were leaving for Portu-
gal.
(Reuters also quoted a dispatch
from the same agency from Lis
bon saying Salazar had left Lis
bon Unexpectedly and added that
troops were being sent to the
Spanish border where Some
thing unusual is happening"
Reuters today recorded a Trans
ocean tGerman news agency broad
cast from Madrid saying the Span
ish Foreign Ministry had denied
reports Of an impending meeting
between Franco and Prime Minister
Churchill.
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Mai. Richard {. Cady, IS,
Injured in Africa, Dies

Mai. Richard c. Cady, IS, geolo-
eist and former resident Of Wash
ington, died las a result OF acct
dental injuries on January IS while
engaged in geological surveys for the
Army in Africa. according to word
received from the War Department
by his widow.
Mai. Cady, who formerly lived at
1907 Cobalt road. Woodacres, Md,
had been a member of the Geologi-
cal Survey Division Of the interior
Department since 1890 and at the
time of his death, was locating vel,
sites to develop water supplies FOL
military establishments.
He was native of New York, a
graduate of Colgate University AND
former Harvard University stu
dent. He was member of the
Geological Society of Washington
the American Geophysical Union
the Society of Economic Biologists
and the Sigma Gamma Epsilon and
Phi Gamma Delta fraternities.
He leaves his widow, Beatrice
Cady: two sons, Richard, 8, and
James, S. all of Woodacres; and his
parents, DR.. and Mrs. James D. Cady
of Cortland, N. Y.
He was buried with full military
honors and temporarily inferred at
Asmara, Eritrea.
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New SEC Regulations Covering Stock Proxies,
Issued Between Congresses, Stirs Up Fight

Requests for proxies for annual
meetings of corporations now ar
irving in the mail of most owners
of stocks have been drawn up I'M
der new Securities and Exchange
Commission regulations regula-
lions which have stirred up quite a
fight.
Representative Wolverton, Re-
publican, of New Jersey had a bill
in the last Congress to head off the
change in regulations, but the
measure died with Congress. Two
days later, on December 10, the
regulations were issued to take ef-
feet January Is. Senator Quincy,
Republican, of South Dakota has
introduced a new bill to nullify
them.
Under the new regulations. re-
quests for proxies must disclose all
compensation paid officers receiving
more than $4,000 a year, including
sums put aside to pension them, and
all compensation paid all directors
Previously this applied only to the
three highest paid officers.
Annual Reports Required.
Annual reports must accompany
or precede proxy requests.
Some years ago SEC enabled any
stakeholder to require the manage
ment to submit proposal to stock
holders by mail to be voted on. Now
such stakeholder can request that
his proposal be accompanied by a
10o-word supporting statement.
Officers of two large District cor
porations with big stakeholder lists
reported their difficulties in comply
ing were very minor If any" but
the secretary of third characterized
revision as 'whiz bang"
Interpretation Difficult.
He said that Interpretation of the
16 pages was difficult, the definitions
subtle that they called for elabor-
ate questionnaires to directors and
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A dollar from you will bring a
holier from the enemy. Buy a stamp
now at the nearest post office.
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Veterans Suggest Medal
For War Correspondents
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Congressional
legislation giving recognition TO
American war correspondents for
distinguished service is urged by
Verdun Chapter No. % of the Dis
abled American Veterans.
Asserting that the services rem
dered by press correspondents are
of estimable value in maintaining
the morale Of our troops at the
front and of the civilian population
at home" the veterans in reSOlu-
ton adopted last night asked Con-
greSs to recognize their "olStln-
guished service" by special ribbon,
medal, or other suitable decoration.
The resolution said that "On every
fighting front in the present global
war, representatives of the Amerl-
can press stand side by side with
our fighting men. sharing their
hardshipS, recording at first hand
the story Of Americas heroic sons.
The resolution also urged the
organizations National Executive
Committee to revise eligibility rules
to open its ranks to members of the
press who are permanently disabled
while serving overseas with the
fighting forces Of our country"
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Bonds or bondaEe-was there ever
an easier choice: Get yours now.
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Cabinet Shifts Stir
Italy, Kept in Dark
On Duce's Motives
Custer Of Son-in-Low,
Count Ciono, Particularly
Puzzline to People
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BERN. Switzerland, Feb. 6.-The
Swiss Telegraph Agency reported
from Rome tonight that Italy's big
gest cabinet shake-up in the 20
year history of Fascism has excited
the Italian people, who have been
given no official hint of the meaning
of Benito Mussolinis custer of
blackshirts considered his most
faithful followers.
The fall of Mussolini's son-in-law
Count Galeazzo Ciano, who served
as foreign minister for six years
and rode the rough criticisms OF the
Italian people during the Greek war
when he. rather than II Duce, bore
the brunt of the ill-conceived cam
paign, was described as especially
puzzling to the populace.
The elevation of Gen. Umberto
Favagrossa from undersecretary for
war manufacturers to the more I'M
port rank of minister of war produc-
ton strengthened the generally &C
to bend all resources and energies OF
the country toward continuance OF
the war
In the first tentative speculation
Of the neutral press, the Geneva
Tribune said that in the face OF the
approaching menace of an Allied
attack in Africa and Russian ad-
vances fascism nov is uniting all its
forces" and that change in the
personnel of the cabinet Is the
logical result"
1t was described as the framework
for total mobilization" which
would see the enrolling of all men
and women from the age of IA up,
not already in the military services
or in war work.
A Rome dispatch to the Tribune
said the fascist press printed the
names OF the new cabinet members
without comment.
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officers. and that while none of the
information sought was improper, it
was difficult to obtain.
A representative of the New York
Stock Exchange, reached by tele-
phone. said industrialists were quite
disturbed by the annual report re-
quirement. Reports they have to file
with the commission are detailed.
Did the requirement mean that
similar lawyers report" would
have to be sent to the stockholders
instead of the understandable
"streamlined" statements of the
past? He thought that an SEC
statement, published yesterday, that
it did not, would do much to dispel
misgivings. However, he said, man.
agement was still worried about the
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II Injured in Traffic
Accidents in Capital
And Nearby Maryland
Six Hurt os Army
Station Wagon Strikes
Pole Near Laurel

Eleven persons were injured in
trafflc accidents in Washington and
nearby Maryland yesterday and las,
night. The condition of two of the
total Of seven hurt in Maryland was
said to be serious.
Alfred Conrad Werner, A, of 9O4
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, one OF
the more seriously injured In the
Maryland accidents, was taken to
Casualty Hospital from the scene
of double accident at Silver Hill
He was said to be suffering from
possible fracture of the spine and
possibly internal injuries.
According to Maryland police, an
automobile in which Mr. Werner
was riding already had been in
volved in an accident and was
standing still lalong the road when
1t was struck by another automobile,
injuring him.
Army Car Hits Pole.
In another Maryland accident, six
persons were injured. one seriously,
when an Army station wagon in
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possibility of being sued on the con-
tents of the 100-Word statement.
Most annoying to management. he
said. was the fact that they had to
study the proposals at this time,
when they were so busy.
Letter Signed by Freeman.
Ganson Purcell, chairman of the
SEC, was in Washington yesterday.
Decentralization has moved the
SEC to Philadelphia He said the
fact that the proposals for revision
had been distributed with a cover
ing letter signed by an SEC lawyer,
Milton V. Freeman, had been used
against them. Mr. Freeman was on
Representative Dies latest list &C
cused as "crackpot bureaucrats.
Mr.. Purcell spoke with some pride
on the way most present-day man.
agement is trying to interest stock
holders in their corporation and give
them all the facts. More than 1000
corporations ask their stockholders
for proxies, he said.
Last changes in regulations were
in 1898. These revisions were sug-
gested by the men who examine
proxy requests and clear them for
the SEC. Their proposals were dis
tributed to industry for criticism in
August. Criticism led the commits
sion to drop the idea of making cor
porations distribute to stockholders
the same annual report they file
with the commission.
AS almost all comments spoke OF
difficulties in accountancy man.
power. and as the commission was
experiencing the same difficulty it
self, the commission simultaneously
issued labor saving regulations on
reporting on which it had been
working for some time.
Criticizes Grace Plan.
AS for pension plans, Mr. Purcell
said he thought, and Everybody
thinks" Eugene Grace Of Bethlehem
"got away with something" when
he put through a pension plan which
will pay big sums in future years
to wealthy management figures as
we'll as protecting the future OF
low-income employees.
The proposals dropped have been
postponed rather than abandoned,
it was indicated in speech before
a business group by SEC Commits
sioner Robert H. OBrien.
Despite the SECS efforts to arm
the stockholder, there have been few
proxy fights since the new plans
inception. The big fights. John D.
Rockefeller, jr versus Col. Robert
Stewart in Standard Oil of Indiana,
and the fight to remove the founder
ment because of his vegetarianism,
occurred before SEC was born.
There is current proxy fight in
United Corp, the Morgan Bonbright
utility holding company.
AS for stockholder meetings, they
will not be as lively this year be-
cause Lewis Gilbert is in the Army
A wealthy young man with not much
else to do, he made 1t a practice to
buy stock in big corporations just to
attend their meetings. High point
in his career was when he called the
law on Myron Taylor, then chairman
of United States Steel. How many
shares do you oWn?' asked Mr..
Taylor, annoyed by his questioning.
Mr.. Gilbert pointed out that the
question was illegal. Mr.. Taylor
apologiZed.
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Duce's Shifts Seen Here
As Window Dressing

Sy the Associated Press.
Count Galeazzo Ciano has lost
none of his stigma as collaboration
with the Germans, State Depart
ment spokesman said yesterday, by
his removal as Foreign Minister OF
Italy in a sweeping cabinet shake
up interpreted here as window dress
ing for the discouraged Italian peo-
pie.
The same applies to Count Dino
Grandi, former Minister of Justice,
and other old guard Fascists who
ostensibly have fallen from grace.
The war will be prosecuted against
the entire Fascist regime, whether
In or out of high Office, said the
spokesman.
The shifts in the cabinet were de-
scribed as an apparent attempt to
bolster Italian morale following the
loss of Libya and the heavy bomb
ings of Italian cities.
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New n. Y. Prison Offered
To j. ). for War Prisoners
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, Feb 6.-New
York's new 100000 Greenhaven
Prison in Duchess County has been
offered to the Federal Government
as possible detention place for
war prisoners, the State Correction
Department said today.
The institution, constructed to
take an overflow from other State
prisons, was scheduled to open last
october. Prison population had de-
Clined to such an extent at that
time, however, due to war jobs and
other causes, a department spokes-
man said, as to make its present
State use unnecessary.
Detention Of prisoners of war was
seen as the only possible Federal
use Of the prison, which would &C
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WAAC Onion PeeIer
DeIuqed by Fan Mail


FORT DEVENS, Mass-WAAC
Auxiliary Ruth Ballard Of Houston
Tex, has become the Armys most
famous KIP"
She has received more than 200
letters since newspapers throughout
the country pictured her peeling on
ions while doing a turn at kitchen
police-and the letters are still roll
ing in.
There are notes from sympathetic
housewives offering advice on how
to peel onions without shedding
tears. Some come from young wom-
en- who say the photo inspired them
TO join the WAAC. There is the in
evitable batch from lonely males.
And nine are from other women
named Ruth Ballard,
Then, there is cook book, gift Of
. Boston publisher.
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Dobbs suffered head injuries and a
number Of her teeth were knocked
out when hit by Capital Transit
Co. bus at Eleventh and E streets
NV. Police said she was being
treated at Emergency Hospital.
The others injured were Harriet
Fine, 81. OF Takoma Park. Nd. who
was struck by an automobile at
Twenty sixth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV; Lottie Green, q,
colored, of the 200 block of Massa-
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commodate 1000. Housing enemy
aliens in jails is prohibited by the
articles of the Geneva Conference,
and neither the Army nor the Navy
will quarter their personnel in a
prison.
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chusetts avenue NV. and John
Simalton. 81. colored. Of the 1900
block Of Ninth street NV, both OF
whom police said were struck by .
taxicab at New jersey and Massa-
chusetts avenues NV. The three
suffered minor cuts and bruises and
were released after being treated at
hospitals.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24
The OnIooker

I ONION, March - 49, Five
- weeks cf travelling about
England have convinced me that
an invasion is impossible and
that any fears tho English had
earlier In the war Of the Ger
mans ovcrrtlnninC tho country
were completely unfounded.
This conviction is not based
on the vast land. sea and air
preparations tho English have
made against invasion. but on
tho firm belief that no ono but
n person born here can travel
in this country without getting
completely lost and eventually
having 10 appeal 10 the mercy
G. the residents TO keep from
49, wing 10 death
0Vcn II tho Germans battered
down tho deicnseS and sue
CeedCd landing in force. u would
he, only a matter 81 time until
they were so bcwldcrcd by The
twisting. winding roads, by
paths. news. closes. no entry
streets and the like that they
would swap their machincgunS
Crenadcs and tanks for a road
map
Such a map. Of course. would
only add 10 their confusion and
bring utter dscord into their
ranks because tho English road
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24
Victory Orchard KcRora
Concrete-Core Trees
Vex Woodpeckers
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

The termtcs got into my apple trees, which older
than three-cornered hats.
We had TO out the insdes burn sulphur candles
something the hollow trees and then pack them with
After poured enough cement in the trees 10 build
bridge let harden. 1t success. Last autumn
every woodpecker in the vicinity had bent beak.
don't know whether going get apples door
knobs this do know the cherry isn't going to
declare dividends for anybody except the robins. is 100
feet high and branch below the first so feet.
I'm figuring apples, plums and pears this summer if
the Japanese beetles let us eat at the second table
They tell the beetles moving slowly toward Canada
They only you of house and home but they hang
around until you build an ell.
You spray fruit trees three times years but they
tell all that stuff will be ratoned this spring That means
patriot will be able TO step potato bug in 1913 with
somebody tearing Coupon Number 50 of his ration book
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24

TATE LY silence cruising
y through the museums, in
tune with the Velvety whispers
OF the art lovers
Tiny boats anchored in tho
Hudson. Swaying like tho flame
OF a candle IN the breeze.
Snobnoxlous manners OF the
mink coated brigade not inn
pressing anybody but fellow
Snohs.
iSewsrrci fans relieving head
line headaches, booing and APP
plauding their pets and pet
hates.
Tho midtown picket keeping
up his morale by strolllng up
and down with n portable radio.
playing swing music.
CharWomcn plnchcd with ago
lavlshing on skYscrapers the
care they should give them
selves.
TWILIGHT spreading It's rosy
L glow over the city aS the
bright eyes Of stars startto peep
through The sky.
Stin~tri1y hHSchait gHh starting
10 relieve the dark clouds OF
war talk.
The baby fingers Of spring he
ginning 10 patty-cake the checks
and the spirit
Torch-carrlers in ioynts being
pummeicd -hp the whip III re-
morse. making Cupid seem Like
a Cargoylc.
DO"ageTS running after youth,
while old age catches up with
them
llarTled clerks at the informa-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24

map shows everything else on
earth bat now 10 get from one
place 10 another.
1--WE English road map was
Il originally designed by a
man who had had ID years with
a carnival engraving poems on
tho heads Of pins or on grains
Of rice
firing Of this Tor 50 the
story goes he decided 60 60 in
for engraving even smaller
things
So he did road map Times
have changed since then and so
have the roads. corners and
turns but the map j. the same.
II IL was good enough for our
fathers. say tho British, It Is
good enough for us
T1ilS column Is being written
Il somewhere on the side Of A
road somewhere in England
! am sitting in a iCCp driven
by. Cpl. Joe Catching Of Texas
and as ! write the corporal Is
using a Super-Strong magniiylnG
glass and Is studying the map
20 SEQ II he can find out where
we are.
The corporal is also using
very strong words You may
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24
RunyOn Also
Misses Island

surely no vision ever came I'd
Pvt. Tyler in his dreams meath
the tree, OF a soldier camp in
Texas and the pride Of being as
he says:
THE best rife shooter I'm my
platoon -. 1 Am going to get q
sharpshooter's medal. IL 1 had
made just six more points I
would have been an expert"
4 LONG-DRAWN lugubrious
"A whistle seems TO come to
my ears of the night as 1 write
this, carrying an old tune.
Its a Sin to Tell a Lie"
That would be Horse Thief"
coming down the white road and
whistling because he is slightly
nervous in the dark, Horse
Thief Burke" who Is now Cpl.
Benjamin Captain in the armed
forces.
Boss" I hear him saying.
"you know I wouldn't try tn
tout you. hut I Just met a ginney
from the Wright Stable In Noes
joint over In town and he tells
me that In the third race to-
morrow :"
/ listen more intently and
above the gentle sigh Of the off,
shore breeze in the feathery
trees outside the little white
house / hear the slow. soft
drawl of Pvt. Tyler and see his
dark features and broad blue
gummed smile as he voices my
own thought:
II sure do miss the island"
Copyright, lsi3, by King Features
Distributed by international News ssrvies
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24

Az The man bcbolds The roman,
As the iComan sees the man;
CurioUsly thcB note each other
As each other only can.
Ncrsr can the man dipcst her
OF that 1condrous charm Of
scr;
Erer must she dreaming Of him
That same mystic charm amer.
Bryan Waller Proctor.
C"Plcase quote the poem which
casts doubt on the probability of
there being such thing as pla-
tonic friendship, asks a young
woman Of Boston
The above might be the poem
this subscriber has in mind
E.V.D)
HNJERLE OBERON does not
vi take her title of Lady
Korda seriously" states a con-
temporary.
Maybe not, bat The other day
as a clerk handed a package 10 a
delivery man l heard him say:
Take good care of this, II Is
for Lady korda."
also heard A doorman say:
Call Lady KOrda's ear.
AS TO the origin of chewing
gum. Nina Brown Baker says
James Adams I, ing In
Mexico saw Gen. Santa Anna
chewing chicle and ~as inspired
10 pet some hicle which he
swcetened thus lnyenting chew
ing gum
Nina is quito right except that
the incident didn't happen in
Mexico but on Staten Island,
y. Y, where Santa Anna was
living in exile.
nECEMBER- 1912 hrnke al
~ records in New York City
for babies born in that month.
Look : as If the New York
mothers are going in for birth
planning and deciding the best
b n b e S are born IN the cold
months.
Mosquitoes fastened the sur
render Of Bataan.
These insects caused a malaria
epidemic which our forces did
not have sufficient quinine 10
combat.
There are plenty Of mosquitoes
in the South Pacific and The JapS
control 90 per cent Of the world S
quininc supply.
However, a quinine substitute
has been discovered.
Incidentally, the quinine SUBJ