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Evening star., 1943-05-21
58o6 OF Small Firms
Have War Contracts
owl Says Most Of Rest
Hoven't Sought Them
Ty he Associated Press.

Ty he Associated Press.
The Office of War Information de-
clares that So per cent of the Ma
tions small manufacturing firms
are engaged directly or indirectly in
war production.
OF the remaining AZ per cent. it
said. one-fourth have been unable
to obtain war contracts; three
fourths not tried to get war work
for various reasons, including enough
civilian business
The figures were reported yester-
officials of single-plant manufacture
ing firms in all parts of the coun-
try. which owl described as a repre-
sentative cross section of $1,000 such
plants.
Brig. Gen. Robert w. johnson,
chairman of the Smaller War Plants
Corp, said the survey showed that
distress is not widespread, but
where it exists. it is acute.
Now that we know the problem
Is management, it makes it possible
to solve it with the cooperation of
the Army Navy. the Maritime Com
mission, War Production Board and
prime contractors. and thus to carry
out the will of Congress-" he added.
The survey covered only firms en-
ploying less than l25 workers.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Mrs. Harvey Thomas
To Sponsor Liberty Ship

Mrs. Harvey Thomas, the former
Dagmar Jensine Nelson, who for
merly lived in Washington. will
sponsor the new 10,50O-ton Liberty
ship. the George Patten, at the
South Portland (MeD yards of the
New England Shipbuilding Corp. to-
morrow.
Mrs. Thomas is the wife of Har-
vey S. Thomas. assistant secretary
of the American Brass Co. in New
York. whose family has lived here
for many years.
The ship she will sponsor is named
for Bath tMeD Shipbuilder who
lived from 1887 to 1869. He was once
the owner of the largest fleet of
square Triggers in the country and
during the War of 1912 was a cap
tain of the militia.
Automatic machines which sup
piled holy water on the insertion of
a coin have been found in ancient
temples in Egypt.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
Antlers Fail on Aoe

CHEYENNE, Wyo. lP).-The num-
ber of points on deer's antlers
isn't always true index to his age
Wyoming has collection of antlers
shed each year by an 8-year-old
buck. He never grew more than five
points.
Evening star., 1943-05-21
No. 73

SiCCIo. " IlllS b"O VI tllIcc klIlOS
can provide
continuous sup 4, -
ply from early No *
summer until
late fall and L---
winter, most gardeners will want
to plant three or four kinds for
variety.
Lettuce is ordinarily planted in
the early spring along with spinach
and parsley. The lettuce and the
spinach, however, may not be de-
pended upon after hot weather ar
rives and other kinds-warm-
weather kinds-should be planted
to take their place However. there
are other spring crops suitable for
salads and greens-upland and gar
den creSS, escaroll and corn salad.
Beet green's and turnip green's are
two of the most nutritious of all
green's and may be grown in the
spring and fall. The trimmings"
most certainly should be used.
For summer greens, Swiss chard
and New Zealand spinach are two
of the most satisfactory. Both are
"cut-and come again crops and so
Evening star., 1943-05-21
GREENS
BY WILBUR H. YOUNGMAN,
The Stars Garden Editor

If the Victory garden is to pro-
vide the health-protecting vitamins
and minerals that it should, then
it will contain one or more of the
greens" While two or three kinds
Evening star., 1943-05-21

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Evening star., 1943-05-21

Clip and SaDe tor your pictory
garden ScrapboOk.
Evening star., 1943-05-21

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continuous sup
p y from early
summer un til
late fall a n d
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17
Could Affect Assembly Line

Or lew hours hat IN instrument plant may throw The
assembly line of great tankproducng factory entirely
OF gear for week.
Neither the official estimate that strikes in indus
tries only amount to onewneh Of per be measured
by It's fractional sound
Onetwentieh Of per cent reduction in the gigantic
production output of industrial America peak
sufficient affect the preaching of the vital point the
enemy line miss the fractional superiority fire power and
offensive weapons which spell the difference between the
victory and defeat thousand times land and and IN
The
few examples follow Of how strikes involving only
small number Of in plant may be responsible for
much lag the effort through stoppages in
the manufacture Of vital parts for other plants
JERSEY CITY-Four-day strike of SO affects two
shipyards supplied by the company.
SAN DIEGO CAL-Tweve striking caulkers held up
construction Of woodenhued sweepers and patrol craft
al two shpyards.
DETRoIT-15oo striking employees held up production
Of crankha bearings company making airpane motors
UNIoNToWN, PA.-Strlke of ZOO truck drivers cut off
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

Aside from the gripping effect production from
strikes there other reverberations surtNas:
The injury to the morale of the Armed Forces and the
Home Front.
The antpathy created against the patriotic rankandfe
of labor in the mind of the public.
The inequy of having patriotic aber leaders who have
upheld the nostrke wartime pledge being cassed with those
who have violated it used evasve tactics to violate it
spirit.
Strikes in the United States have taken much larger
proportion of the available working force than in either Canada
Great Britain, according compilation by the National
Association Of Manufacturers.
The time lost in the United States since Pearl Harbor in
strikes is estimated by the NAM from five times
much Britain the basis of adjusted population figures
Many labor stoppages in plants have been the result
of outlaw strikes and jurisdctonal disputes the NAM de-
I'm the former instances the workers strike defiance
of their union leaders, the latter instances the workers strike
when members of rival unions undertake work.
There is not complaint against management; it is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17
Production Hours Reduced

Due TO the efforts of patriotic labor and management the
time for producing big bomber has been reduced from 10000
manhours 23000 man-hour according UnderSecIeary
Of War Robert Patterson.
Likewise the time for producing medium bomber has
been lowered from 10000 manhOus 10 $4,000 manhours
cordng TO Col Lewis Saunders Chief of Unemployment Sec
Service Division.
So that in the As $50 manours idle since Pearl arbor
than 1000 Flying Forresses Lberaors could have
been added TO radng strength if applied plane prQuc
ton.
Henry Kaiser, ship-buildHg wizard estimated before
Congressional committee that it takes only 100000
hours to build a Liberty ship
More than 100 additional vessels represented in
those 4s0s6,ss0 idle man-hours due to strikes.
However, the number Of manhours lost in strikes
though toang eight figures does fully picture the poten
tIal effect production.
y strike "boueneck' from small factory supplying
critical components' may have tremendous effect the
output of vast plant producing planes tanks.
For instance days stoppage in small plant manufactur
ing machine tools may slow up production gigantic bomber
factory for much greater period than represented by the
hours lost in the original strike
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17
BY DAVID sENTNER.

TyTASHINGTON. june Since Pearl Harbor, how much
w have strikes on The American production front saboaged
tie effort
If e sand in Tie hour glass had been cloggcd along
the assembly line ty these work storpages how many thou
sands Of lives or American boys IN Khaki and navy blue could
have been sayedf
How many thousands of tons could have been pro
duced planes, tanks fighting ships merchant vessels eeps
etinS and related Sncws of war;
How much sooner could victory he wont
The may be CLEANED general from strike stats
tics obtained from L. Department of Labor covering the
period from entry into against the Axis through April
the latest figures available.
Despite tie pledge Of the CIO and AF that there would
he strs wartime the Bureau OF Labor Statistics figures
show that from Dec S gf TO May 1913, there 2
strikes in industry involving l.250053 workers
The man-days lost totaed 6,010869
This latter figure based six-dav heHf-tget
In man-hours idle il would total Is 0s6sS0.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

REMEMBER Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
appeal for more and more planes to hurl
against the Japs? Well. if il had not been
for labor tieups-deSpite the no-strike
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

coal supply for half countrys 900 beehive
that producing coke for production blast furnaces
SOUTH EVERETT, MASS-Four-day strike of 800 in two
plants supplying most of New England industries with vital
chemicals affects $50 industries employing 100000 Army
Navy and Lend Lease shipments halted.
PITTSBURGH-Strike by building trades union has
than S100000000 worth of plant construction including
badly needed steel furnace installations for two days
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

merely fight between unions But production stops
The the number of strikes and the parayzng
rise in the loss of manhours if not firmly and fairly checked
by the determined cooperation Of all parties concerned
prove fatal
1T cannot be too strongly urged that Congress take speedy
steps toward establishment of national labor relations policy
that is both exact and fair
1T must lay down the rules for War Labor Board to
follow rather than to leave that board free pursue self
made and changing set of rules"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

pledge-more than 1000 Flying Fortresses
or LiberatOr bOmbers could have been
sent to the various fighting fronts.
All Chart. b. walter BolsnSoAL journal American star. Ar
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

cargo ships could have been built in the
time lost by labor troubles And they
could have moved tons and tons of tanks
guns, ammunition and food supplies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17

In man.lours IDLE Il would total IS ,0sG. sS0.#
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
House Awaits
Huge Budget
lo0-BilIion Bill
Expected Monday

! WASHINGTON. Jan. 9 (UP).-
President Roosevelt is expected tc
submit to Congress Monday a wai
budget of at least 500, 000, 900, 00(
only $4,000, 900, 900 short of the
Irecord-breaking expenditures OF
the 10 years since he took office
Members of the House appro-
Ipriations committee warned today
that every item in the budget,
irrespective of amount, will have
to be justified by Competent
persons"
Democrats and Republicans
alike called for a close check of
requested expenditures for the
second war year and Rep. Usher L.
Burdick (R) of North Dakota in
troduced bill TO restore to Con-
gress all purse string controls in
the government.
Since entering office in 1888,
treasury figures show, the admin
istration has directed the spending
of S142,2 09,000, 900. Government
receipts during that time totaled
approximately Sol 500, 100000. in
creaSing the public debt by some
500, 900, 00o, 900.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Red Armies
0verrun 3
More Towns
Break Up Desperate
Nazi Counterattacks
in Drive for Rostov

MOSCOW. Jan. 10 Sunday
(INS).-Soviet armies converging
rapidly on Rostov overran az least
q additional towns and villages
Saturday and routed a large Ger
man communicating force after
a violent battle, it was announced
today.
The Russian tidal wave. which
has thrust one Of four big columns
10 within so miles east of Rostov
main gateway 10 the Caucasus. in
undated u key inhabited places in
the lower Don area. six railway
towns on The Stalingrad- Black Sea
line and five in the north central
Caucasus, the Soviet midnight
commuRique stated.
The latter inclued the station
point OF Observation-Disclosures on
the Baku-Rostov Railway where
the Russians were reported al
ready hammering at the inner
German defenses of Georgievsk. a
vital junction, after driving beyond
ZolSk.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Largest, Fastest Cargo
Plane on Maiden FIiuht

BURBANK. Cal. Jan. 9 INS)
Largest and fastest of any land
based cargo plane, with Saucy
lines that make it look like a
magnified fighter, the new Lock-
heed Constellation winged into the
sky today on its maiden flight.
known as the Csc this most
powerful transport and cargo car
rier' in wartims garb of army
camouflage, came roaring down a
runway at Lockheed Air Terminal
and scared aloft easily. powered
by four 2000-horSepower Wright
engines.
Increased aerodynamic efficiency
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
WLB0ffiCe Here
Believed Sure
Washington Agreeable,
Union Source Says

Efforts TO get a War Labor
Board office here were reported
won Saturday by UAW-CIC
sources.
According TO the union source
the board in Washington voted
last Wednesday to establish an of,
fee here with complete auton.
omy'
A date for the opening was not
set, according 10 the informant.
Labor unrest and strikes here
can be traced to lack Of a local
WLB office and the necessity OF
clearing our cases through the
Cleveland regional office. il has
been charged.
With an office here. cases can
be cleared directly with Washing.
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Cream Price Up 1c to &c,
Diaries Defend Suddenness

Detroit diaries defended them.
selves Saturday for announcing
cream price increases simultane-
ously with the effective date of
the new levels.
Half pints were boosted a cent
to II cents and pints 4 cents 10 a
new figure of rs cents.
In many instances diaries did
not inform customers Of the
change until after deliveries under
the new scale had been made.
The OPA order permitting US
to raise ceilings appeared early
In December" one spokesman
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Continued on Page IO)
DoraisQuitsU.D.
Takes Lions Job
Part Owner and Coach
OF Professional Team

Football fans learned Saturday
that Charles Gus Dorais had re-
signed as athletic director and
head football coach at University
of Detroit TO become part owner
and coach Of the Detroit Lions oi
the National Professional Football
League.
Dorais was such fixture at u.
OF d. most fans thought he would
never leave there for any other
position. He spent Is seasons as
the athletic leader OF the Titans.
coming here from Gonzaga Univer-
sity of Spokane. Wash, in 1925.
Asked if his new connection
would mean leaving the common
council, Dorais replied:
Il certainly hope not. As
long a. the voting citizens Of
this town want me will re-
main"
(See Complete Stories in Sports
Section.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10

explained. "but IL took a Phila-
delphia and several Detroit law
years to figure out what was
meant.
Thus. when II was finally de-
cided that we had higher cell
ings we were anxious 10 make
them effective as soon IS pos
sibIe."
The increase is designed 10 in.
crease dairy profits. greatly re,
iuced as a result Of boosted raw
materials and operating costs.
No adjustment has been ap.
proved on milk prices.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
MacArthur's Thanks

This raised 10 five enemy trans
ports sunk or damaged and to rs
the total of planes either shot
down or put out of action.
Macarthur. in an order OF the
day citing officers and men of.the
United States and Australian air
forces for bravery and efficiency
in the Papuan campaign. said:
"To God Almighty give
thanks for that guidance which
has brought us TO this success
in our great crusade.
His Is the honor, the power
and the glory forever. Amen"
General Macarthur returned TO
his Australian headquarters after
personally directing the Papuan
campaign in which all but one
small center Of japanese resistance
that at Samantha Point-were
up in the Buna sector.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Take Six More Towns

Both in the lower Don region
and IN the north Caucasus the
Red Army advance continued. In
one sector of the north Caucasus.
me communlque said, Soviet unit
after fierce fighting occupied an
important inhabited locality"
Another powerful Russian army.
meantime. drove farther down the
Stallngrad- Tikhoretsk-B Black Sea
Railway beyond the important
town Of Zimovniki. which was cap
tured Friday after suicide"
German garrison was erased 10 the
last man. A half dozen more towns
along this railway were swept up
IN the Soviet advance Saturday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
.eU OPA Boss
To Take Office
About Jan. Is
Plans to Retain
OPA as Set Up
by Henderson
BY LEE CARSON


WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.--Presi.
dent Roosevelt will formally an
'nounce the appointment of ex-
Senator Prentiss VI. Brown a
director of the Office of Price
Administration early next week, it
was learned tonight.
Under pressure from both the
President and former Justice
James Byrnes, director of eco
nomic sterilization, Brown finally
accepted World War lis number
one d mestic headache late
Wednesday.
On Wednesday next or before,
the nomination OF the former
Democratic statesman from Mich.
igan will be sent to the Senate for
and around January Is
Brown will take over the post
vacated under fire by Leon Hen
derSon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
NdziS Use 100 Tanks

The Midnight bulletin listed
Several district centers" among
the places captured by the Red
Army yesterday.
Defeat of a double pronged Ger
man counter drive of considerable
force designed TO recover Velikie
Luki, recently captured by the
Russians on the Moscow-Riga
Railway also was announced.
But the biggest Of the DAYS
counterattacks was staged
in a sector OF the lower Don.
where the Germans hurled strong
infantry forces, supported by more
than 100 tanks. into a desperate
attempt 10 halt the Russian army
which.has pushed closer TO Rostov
too
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
HOU to LiUe
On Less
Canned Goods

When rationing next
Wonth restricts the family of
four 10 only two IL pound
cans Of procesSed foods Cof
average point value) per
week. what will your house
hold prepare instead of
canned goods?
Prudence Penny, the Times
dietary expert. in tomor-
rows Monday Times begins a
brief series setting forth the
fresh and staple foods that
will be available for substi.
tuition.
Further. she includes sam.
pie menus for an entire week
using canned foods only twice.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Chased Into Horbor
"The dead of Bataan shoulC
rest "a little easier tonight I" n,

"The dead of Bataan should
rest a little easier tonight" he
said
Specially cited among the
ground forces for magnificent
conduct operating under diff
'iculties rarely if ever surpassed
were the Thirty-second and Forty
first United States Army divisions,
in addition 10 the Australian Sixth
and Seventh divisions. Sixth indie
pendent Commando unit and other
elements. and the native Papuan
carriers.
The third is composed largely of
Michigan and Wisconsin men and
the 41St Of Oregon. Washington,
Idaho and NJ tana national
guardsmen.
The three-day battle. which be-
gan Wednesday. ended when the
Allied air forces pursued rem
nantS of the japanese fleet into
Lac Harbor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Allies in Africa
Pool Air Force

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 9 QNS)
Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz. COM
Imander of American air forces in
Europe, has been appointed com
'mander-in-chief of the Allied air
force in North Africa, it was an
nounced today.
Spaatz' appointment rounded out
the picture of complete American
command in this theater of the
war. 1t was also seen as an in
dication of the complete harmony
among British, American and
French military chiefs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Pleads Ill Health

Henderson resigned last month
pleading ill health" as the rea-
son and his abdication from the
price control throne will become
effective Immediately upon con-
gressional approval of Browns APP
pointment.
According to those close to the
soft-spoken. square-hitting Michi-
gan man, Brown hopes to keep
the personnel and much Of the
administrative organization Of
OPA intact.
His longtime personal secre-
tary, Manning Shaw, will serve as
executive secretary to the new
OPA chief and despite the fact
that a dozen or more OPA ad.
illustrators turned in their resig-
nations shortly after Henderson
announced his intention to quit
Washington's hottest seat, John z.
Hamm, OPA deputy director. and
innumerable other ranking off.
Gals stated tonight they would re-
main IF wanted"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Outposts EncircIed

Seizure Of Brach represented an
advance of 200 miles in one day
for LeClerc's forces. II was be-
lieved here, however, that the
Fighting French unit that cap
tured Brach had detached itself
from the main army which cap
tured the Italian outpost at FL
Gatrun. $50 miles south OF Tripoli,
yesterday
A wireless communique from
LeClerc's headquarters said:
THE defeat of the enemy in
Fezzan southwestern Libya) Il
becoming rout. Our advanced
elements have occupied Brach.
Other enemy outposts have been
encircIed by our troops. Opera
lions continue"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10

permits II 10 fly mile on a gallon
of gasoline.
Designed and built for Trans.
continental and Western Air, Inc.
the Constellation will be turned
over to the army for wartime duty
and Lockheed is geared to roll the
huge planes off the assembly line
is~auantity production.
AT top speed. comparable with
the cruising speed of fighting
planes. the CSC cen fly light
tank and its complement of troops
across the ocean.
Faster than the japanese Zero
Continued on Page Six
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
Chinese Demand Help
So They Can Fight On
One in Military Mission Here
Fears Collapse by Exhaustion
BY DAVID CAMELON
Detroit Time. Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-"There
.iS a grave question how long
China can maintain her part in
the war unless the tools OF war
reach her speedily and in ample
quantities"
That statement was made TO
this correspondent today by DIR.
F. S. Ho. official spokesman for
the Chinese military mission in
Washington. in the first compre-
henSive interview granted by any
member Of the mission 10 the
American nrnSs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
WinCheII Back in US.
Awaits Navy Orders

NEW YORK. Jan. 9 (INS).-
Walter Winchell, newspaper col
umnist. today was standing by
for orders after his return to the
United States from a tour of duty
abroad as a lieutenant commander
in the United States Naval Re-
serve. He arrived in Miami. Fla,
by clipper from Brazil.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
No Separate Peace

Doctor Ho was not speaking n
a separate peace" in the com.
monty accepted sense. He wa,
speaking of a nation which facec
utter exhaustion; Of nation
which might be driven out of the
war because flesh and blood alone
could no longer continue 10 fight
against steel He said:
IF China should reach the
point where she could not main
tain the war. II would not be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-10
BROWN ACCEPTS PRICE CAR POST
Allies CetHuge
Toll in Pacific
3 Transports Sunk,
73 Planes Wrecked

UNITED NATIONS HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
Jan. 9 - The fierce sea and air
battle off the coast of New Guinea,
during which Allied planes pounded
a great japanese convoy for three
days. cost the enemy third
transport, damage 10 another and
destruction of at least AZ and pos
sibly "a aircraft, a cosnmunique
from Gen. Douglas Macarthur re-
Nnalnd fndaN.