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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Score ; Hits
On Warships
Speedy Motor Craft
Rout Des+royers
Trying to Aid Troops

WASHINGTON. Jan. IA QNS).
japanese destroyers apparently
bent on reinforcing isolated garri.
sons on Guadalcanal island were
driven off by speedy American
motor torpedo boats which scored
hits on two and possibly three Of
the Jap warships, the navy an.
nounced today.
The incident occurred the night
of January 1o-11. Two torpedo
hits were scored on one enemy
destroyer, one hit on a second
destroyer and two possible hits on
a third.
"The enemy force retired to
the northwest" the navy said.
GROUND TROOPS ADVANCE
The navy announcement added
that American ground forces on
Guadalcanal supported by planes.
were continuing their advance
against the isolated enemy garri-
son on the island.
This was the third day that the
navy reported advances by Amer
ican troops which apparently are
beginning a large scale offensive
against remaining japanese troops
on the island.
Obviously. the Jap destroyer
force was attempting to move in
reinforcements and supplies to the
enemy troops which have been cut
off from contact with their bases
for more than two months.
80 SHIPS DAMAGED
Also reported in the communioue
was another bombing raid by
American forces against Japanese
bases at Rekata Bay, 135 miles
northwest of Guadalcanal, but re-
suits were not reported.
The torpedo boat attack brought
to SO the number of Japanese
vessels damaged in the Solomons
campaign, In addition, 81 jap
ships have been sunk and Xix
probably sunk.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Senate Unit 10 Pass
On Brown Friday

WASHINGTON. Jan. Ia CUP)
"A hearing will be held tomorrow
by the Senate banking committee
on the appointment of former SEN
ator Prentiss NJ. Brown as OPA
administrator, Chairman Robert +,
Wagner CD of New York an
nounced in the Senate today.
I'VE do not expect any opposi-
tion TO Senator Browns appoint
ment" he told the United Press.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Anaconda Held
On b. Charge!

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA CUP).
ATTY. Gen. Francis Biddle today
announced that a federal grand
jury at Pawtucket, r. l., has re-
turned an indictment charging
that the Anaconda Wire and Cable
Company there sold defective wire
and cable for combat use to the
United States Army Signal Corps
and TO the British War Ministry.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
B Service Doctors
Died in Last Year

CHICAGO. Jan. IA CUPll-
Forty-eight American physicians
died in military service in 1912.
the American Medical Association
reported today.
Eleven died in action, nine lost
their lives in airplane accidents.
three were reported suicides and
the remainder succumbed to physi-
cal ailments, the ANA said.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Spoiled Pork Kills
Wife; II Guests III
$500 Lbs.
Of Meat
Held Here

A Windsor farm wife was dead
and IL of her dinner guests re-
ported i'll from eating wormy. un-
cooked pork today as the Detroit
Health Department impounded
$500 pounds of allegedly tuber-
cular and bootleg pork found in
an East Seven-Mile road butcher
shop.
Edward c. Peck, chief food in
spector, also seized nine carcasses
of beef at the Royal Packing
Company, 1882 East Jefferson
avenue, which he said did not bear
the necessary inspection stamp.
He has ordered the beef examined.
GUESTS NEAR DEATH
Two of the Windsor guests were
given only a slim chance of recov-
ering from the dread trichinosis
disease following the death of Mrs.
David Cornies OF Mersea Township
30 miles southwest Of Windsor
I The other nine were reported
recovering. although physician,
pointed out that patients continue
to carry the trichinella spiralli.
worm in their bodies for the re.
mainder OF their lives. II is non.
communicable.
Health authorities emphasized
there was no connection between
the Windsor affliction and the
tubercular meat confiscated here
DIAGNOSED AS FLU
Although Mrs. Cornies. members
OF her family and three neighbor
women had been i'll since shortly
after partaking of the infected
pork Christmas Day, it was not
until yesterday that physicians
diagnosed the cause.
Doctors first believed the VIC
TINS were suffering from in.
| fluenza.
The diseased pig was killed or
the Cornies farm two weeks be-
fore Christmas, ii was said
smoked and portion made into
l[Conffnued op Next Pee Coi on
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
WAACs Arrive
AT Fort Custer
BY VERA BROWN
Times stan Corrsspondsnt

FORT CUSTER. Jan. 14.-"This
is the army, Miss Jones, no pri-
vate baths or telephones"
But the WAACs love it. Michi.
gan's first company of the Homen's
army has marched into this fort
to drive trucks, man telephones,
work in offices. do its own KIP
10 release men to the fighting
army.
1t marched a mile in near zero
weather from the train which
brought il from Des Moines "a
Custer. 10 the Spartan barracks
where foot lockers will he home
to the girls and lights will be out
at $50 p. m.
When they started to unpack,
they found the ink in their bar
racks bags frozen, along with
their nose drops and their hand
lotion.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

WASHINGTON. Jan. Ia CUP)
Rep. Clarence j. Brown CR) of
Ohio introduced a bill today which
would make members of Congress
ineligible 10 hold appointive ouices
of the executive and judicial
branches Of the federal govern
ment for two years after expira-
tion Of their terms in the House
or Senate.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Michigan Man Killed
With a in Bomber

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. Ia (UP).-
Five men were killed in Northwest
Florida yesterday when a medium
bomber crashed seven miles west
of Blountstown. MacDill Field
army officials revealed today.
The dead included I'd 1t. San
ford o. Schubert. Belleville. Mich.
co-Dilot
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
War Time Fight Lost
Council Delegates Win Plea for Further Hearing
but Legislatures Verdict Is Ready

fit them an hour. They now 20
to work at 6 a. m. and stand
around until IL. IL IL Is changed
they won't have to stand around
so long. They can get started
quicker"
In answer to Edwards sugges.
tion that farmers get up an hour
later and Start an hour later, Ro-
gell said:
We'll, I don't know. But
that's what they say about It,"
WOULD LOSE 4 HOURS
Van Antwerp pointed out that
Detroit's war production is geared
up with eastern cities and that
the chief contact is by teletype.
IF we go TO work an hour
later and work an hour longer
than they do, that makes two
hours In the day when we are
out of contact. Then figure the
lunch hour and IL comes 10 four
hours out of eight when we
can't operate with them"
Sweeny was to report TO Lam
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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
US. FIiers
Arrive i'm
England

LONDON, Jan. ii (UP).-A
sizable American force and a big
contingent of the New Zealand,
Australian and Canadian feet air
arm and Royal Air Force persons
mel arrived recently at a British
port after an uneventful crossing,
1t was revealed today.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Frances Farmer
Jailed s Months
Carried
To Cell.
Kicking

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. IA (UP).-
Screaming and kicking, screen
actress Frances Farmer was car
ried bodily 10 her cell by two
husky p 'cemen today, one OF
whom was knocked 10 the floor in
the scuffe, after Police Judge
Marshall Hickson sentenced her 10
jail for six months.
Judge Hickson had Just levied
the sentence on the tempestuous
2e-year-old actress for violating
terms Of her prohation-specifi-
cally for failure TO pay tho final
installment Of a $3.50 fine imposed
for conviction on drunk driving
charges and operating a car with
bright headlights in d dimmed-
out area.
Her hair awry. the actress fire.
quenik outshouted Judge Ihck-
son. She said she had been drink
ing all the liquor / coulc get my
hands on
She also shouted that she had
been taking a drug stimulant.
The Judge attempted 20 query
Miss Farmer as 10 the extent OF
her drinking.
Listen" she said. II put
liquor in my milk. l put liquor
In my coffee and In m, orange
juice. What do you want me 20
DO, starye to DEATH"
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Senators Elect Glass

WASHINGTON. Jan. Ia (UP).
Veteran Senator Carter Glass,
who is i'll at his home in Lynch.
ourg, Va, was reelected presi-
dent pro TEN of the Senate TODAY
by a vote of 43 TO %.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
THREE COMMENT ICILY

Especially icy was the reception
given the report by Councilmer
John c. Lodge, Eugene /. Var
Antwerp and George Edwards.
Lodge said sharply:
I'VE are at war We have
had an act OF Congress and a
presidential order on this mat
ter, and whose orders are we
going to follow, the federal gov
ernment or others?"
From Edwards:
II simply can't understand
this attitude. I believe that in
time of war any reasonable re-
quest of the government should
be followed. This IL In ail
senses reasonable request"
BUT ROGELL DOUBTS
T don't think II IL reason
able" Rogell answered. "The
farmers claim there Is dew on
the grass in the morning, and
they can't get any work done
until IL n. m. and then their
hired hands insist on quitting at
5 p. m.
Changing the time will bene-
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

japanese base at Lac in FIVE
raids; torrential rains slow
Sanananda ground operations.
page 2)
RUSSIA-Red army captures
concentration camp deep be-
hind the German lines ard
thrusts through enemy line on
the lower Don; high German
officers reported fleeing
Stalingrad by air as Russiars
penetrate 10 the western out
skirts. page 2D
SLAVE EUROPE-Adolf Hitler
presSuring his satellite states
strongly for more soldiers.
page ~
c. VI. McARTHUR, DENTIST
I'LL Griswold. over Kinsers.
Hours: SO. Sundays 10-12.-Adv
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

"four Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake. Is one OF many
famous features In The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

Councilmen Henry S. Sweeny
and William Rogell made their
report to common council today
on their trip to Lansing to see the
lawmakers about retaining the
present war time for Michigan.
and you could break the icicles
off the comments that followed.
The councilmen went prepared
to sway the legislature to De-
troit's way of thinking-that the
present time should be retained to
help the war effort.
Sweeny and Rogell came back
ready to sway the council in the
other direction, and with a promise
from the lawmakers that the bill
to change the clocks would not be
passed until a further report from
Detroit on Monday.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Ben Aids Other Guy
So Some Get Extra Gas and Wayne County Gets
Break From Legislature
BY FRANK MORRIS
Times stan Corre.pondent

LANSING. Jan 14.-Senator
Ben Carpenter has been selling
gasoline in Harrison County for a
quarter of century and ne says
that when rationing came he knew
he was going TO have a lot of
trouble because most people are
mighty fine people.
"If they need a little gas 90
get back TO the farm, I think
they should have IT," Ben said.
"But this fellow who was up
our way for the government said
we couldn't sell unless first we
got the ration coupons.
II knew exactly what would
happen. And sure enough, lickety
split, right off the bat, II did"
so HE TELLS HIS STORY
Ben told the story when a group
Of senators were chewing and
smoking and talking about this
and that during lull in the legis-
lative machinery. He has been in
the Senate five terms and no
member has more friends. In fact,
he has the enviable reputation OF
not having an enemy at the
Capitol. And he gets things done.
too, In quiet way without max
ing speeches and enjoying his own
voice, as so many members do.
He told the story this way:
HIS FIRST CUSTOMER
The fellow from the government
explained how we couldn't sell
gas without getting coupons and
we got all set. l filled the tank
on my car and the tank on the
service truck. and we were ready.
Into the station that first morn
ing comes the first customer and
ne says he wants II gallons.
We have a rule that you've got
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
The Weather

Ihe sun WIN set at s.7s D. m todsx.
ana rise tomorrow az s;ss a m
Inc moon viii rise At i;5o .. m. today.
ana set tomorrow at 3:s7 a M
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
WINDOWS GO Up

Custer hasn't been the same
since they arrived As the long
column swung down the road, led
by Ann~Hyland, supply and mess
officer, windows of the barracks
went up along the route as the
doughboys watched
Army trucks maftned by hard
boiled sergeants caromed over TO
the side of the road 10 see the
girls pass. All traffic came to a
Standstil. but all in a strategic
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

SANTA MONICA. Cal. Jan. IA
fINS) Frances Farmer. %.
blond stage and screen actress.
was held without bail by police
today after her arrest in a swank
Hollywood hotel for violating
parole from a drunk driving SEN
fnnpr
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
ONLY ANTI-CLIMAX

The arrest. according 10 the
police, was only the anticlimax OF
slambang drama which left ~he
film capital giddy. and included
the following unrehearsed scenes.
Her dismissal from a lead
ing role in new picture irJni-
cally titled mo Escape.
2-IIer one-two punch that
dislocated the jaw Of a studio
hairdreSser.
3-Kicking. pummeling and
scratching a female aircraft
worker who tried 10 soothe her
in an exclusive Hollywood res
taurant.
4-Putting on nude song
and dance recital for an en-
barrassed detective and police
matron who arrested her in the
hotel room.
Police, as critics of the off.
screen drama, were unfavorablc
in their reviews. The action. they
reported, went something like
this:
FOUND IN HER ROOM
Detectives found Miss Farmer
In her room at the HOLLYWOOD
Knickerbocker Hotel early yester-
day morning:
"Come on, Frances, get up,"
they told her. you're going to
Jail"
IT'S too early" replied Miss
Farmer, according to Detective
Earl Reinbold. "Go eat your
breakfast and come back later"
The officers persisted. So. they
said, Miss Farmer opened the door
and stood before them in the nude.
After considerable pleading by the
red-faced officers. she dressed
piece by piece-while singing and
reciting lines from her recent
plays and pictures, they. said.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Would Curb Appointment

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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15

Three Soldiers
Write Letters
To the Editor
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Evening star., 1943-06-06
House Office Air Wardens
To Hear Veteran Of BIitz

Comdr. Francis McNab, Edin-
burgh. Scotland. who is now at
tached to the British Admiralty
Commission in Washington, will re-
count his experiences in de-activat-
ing land mines dropped on London
during the blitz of 1910 at meet
ing of the House Office Building air
lad Wardens at 2 pm. Tuesday in
the Rivers and Harbors Committee
room.
Comdr. McNab is one of three
survivors of the IL men who VOL
unteered for this work during the
London blitz. More than 100 mines
were dropped from German planes
In and around London at that time
IL preparation for the intended in
vaslon of the British Isles.
This address is a part of the
course of instruction arranged bv
Gerard B. Dobben, president of the
Congressional Secretaries Club. and
Horace D, Rouser, Capitol Hill air.
raid warden, for the. House Office
Building Wardens, who have been
taking classes on poison gas. ia
cendiary bombs and high eXplo-
SlVeS
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Senator Reed Rebukes
Union for Demand
Defends Labor, He Soys,
But Defies Leaders
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Reed, Republican, of KAN
sas said yesterday he wants to de-
fend the rights of men who toll
and to promote their welfare, but
asserted their racketeering leaders
= can't tell me what to do
The Senator made the assertion
in telegram replying to a demand
of a Kansas City (Kans.) union
that he vote against the Smith
Connally anti-strike bill and ANY
other anti-labor legislation before
the Senate
Senator Reed made public a tele-
gram he received from Carl L. Stew
ems, president of Local 81, United
Automobile Workers, CIO, stating
that thousands of members and
officers of local building BIS bomb
ers in Kansas City, Kans., demand
that you cast your vote against
the Smith-Connally bill which bans
organized labor and cripples the
War Labor Board"
This bill, if passed" the telegram
continued. will hinder the effective
prosecution of the war and. further,
we demand that you cast your vote
against any other anti-labor legis-
lation that may appear before the
Senate. Your reply in this matter
IS desired"
Asserting that he voted for the
Connally bill when it passed the
Senate, and that he will vote for
Evening star., 1943-06-06

will win two bonds, a S100 one in the
local contest and a S25 one offered
as part OF the 100 or so prizes for
the best gardens in, the Washington
Metropolitan Area. Gardens will
be Judged on the same standards as
in the Metropolitan Area contest.
When it comes to Victory gardens.
Montgomery is in the van of the
5000 or more counties in the United
States. In March. the County Com
missioners offered to plow Victory
gardens at county expense. They
plowed more than 1000 individual
plots at a cost of several thousand
dollars.
Aunt Katie" Neatest Garden.
The terraced gardens that now
aoorn the slope on the left side Of
Beach road just as it approaches
it's terminus at the East West high
way are part of the results of the
county ploWing. Neatest and most
advanced garden among the 60 plots
there bears the sign, Aunt Katie
This is the garden of Otnev w.
Stratton, 609 PickWick lane, Chevy
Chase, Md, chief of recruitment and
placement at the Treasu Mr
Stratton. who did not know much
about gardening, brought along his
70-vear-old aunt MIS-. Katie Hiler
of New Cumberland Pa, near Har-
ri sburg. Other gardeners looked on
with envy as Mrs. Hiler made things
grow. 1t was their idea that she
did most of the work.
MI Stratton took great pride in
the garden and shortly before Mrs.
Hi)er returned to PENNSYLVANIA he
staked a neatly lettered sign in
front of the plot-a modest sign
just one word, "Stratton." When he
arrived the next evening his sign
was covered with another one. On
the covering sign these words ap-
peared-"Aunt Katie
At the Public Health Station
across Wisconsin avenue from the
Naval Medical Center a score of
doctors and more nurses and office
workers are cultiVating gardens in
what formerly was a practice golf
course. The land was turned late
and weeds are giving the gardeners
something to fight in this lastingly
damp earth. But they are winning.
DR.. Gilbert Donahue, in charge
of the foreign quarantine division.
and Mrs. Donahue, were planting
large tomato plants. DR.. R. G.
Windsor, bio-chemist of the Can
Ger Institute and his wife, we're
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Eliot Sees Hint of Invasion
In Marshall Visit to London
Hopes Starving People of Occupied Europe
Won't Be Disappointed by Too Long Delay

distinct military gains previously de-
scrlbed in these articles.
From the Russian point of view,
aside from such actual diversions of
German troops as might be pro-
duced, it would mark the appear
ence of an Allied army on the
continent and would hold forth
every possible promise for a vic
torious campaign of joint offensives
next year.
Bombing Not Sufficient.
An invasion of Europe there must
be. Not to invade, but to rely on
bombing alone would be not only
a military error but a political blum
der of the first magnitude and of
incalculable consequences.
Remember that Europe has al
most completed its fourth year of
unremitting war. The foundations
of European civilization are begin
ming to crumble under the constant
strain. We have hoisted our signal
in the sky-"hold the fort, for we
are coming Stalingrad and Tunisia
have given fresh hope to those who
had almost abandoned hope-but
1t cannot, it must not continue much
longer to be hope deferred.
tCopyright. 1888, N. Y Tribune Inc)
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Methodists 10 Crusade
For New World Order
BY the Associated Press,

4
CHICAGO. June 5.-Methodists
throughout the Nation will take part
in crusade for a new world
order next fall in which efforts will
be made to inspire the writing of
mlllonS of letters to members of
Congress expressing individual opin-
ions on an enduring peace.
This was announced by Bishop G.
Bromley Oman Of Boston in an
article in the June 10 issue of the
Christian Advocate. official weekly
publication Of Methodism.
The crusade" Bishop Oman
said, lis based upon the assump-
ton that the Methodist people want
Just and enduring peace, that they
are prepared to make the necessary
sacrifices to establish world order.
and call for our leaders to take the
next step up in the evolution of
government. The crusade seeks to
make this opinion known at the
place decision will be made-in the
Congress of the United States, and
in the executive branch of the Gov
ernment"
Nationwide mass meetings in the
Methodist churches between October
10 and November 7, and dav of
conservation during next years lent
will be two principal features of the
crusade.
Tharn q fl,a,,
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Grand Jury |ndicts
80 in Harlan County
After Election Probe
Plot to Stuff Ballots
For Democratic Candidate
For Senate Charged
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, KY, June Selection
officials, political leaders, county
authorities and State employees were
indicted by a district Federal grand
jury here today for alleged law vio-
latlons in the Harlan County gen.
eral election last November. United
States District Attorney John T
Metcalf said the 26 indictments
named 80 individuals.
Included in the list were Harlan
County Sheriff Clinton C. Ball and
two other members Of the County
Election Commission, T. K Watson
and w. Alonzo Jackson. MI. Wat
son, a Democratic leader, also is pro-
baton officer for Harlan and Bell
Counties. Mr.. Jackson is a Re-
publican.
Ballot Stuffing Charged
Mr.. Metcalf, whose Office pre-
sented the evidence to the grand
jury. said one group of indictments
charged that precinct election
officials at one polling place con
spired to stuff the ballot box with
fraudulent and fictitious ballots
marked for the Democratic candi-
date for United States Senator
in order to injure and Cypress Re
publican voters in the exercise of
their right to vote. :. :"
Senator A. B. Happy Chandler.
the Democratic candidate, defeated
his Republican opponent for the
Senate. Richard j. Colbert of Lex.
ington. by an announced count of
11,228 to 1885 votes in Harlan
County.
Two. other indictments, Mr. Met.
calf said, charge two groHps of tabu-
lators and others with conspiring
TO pad the total of Democratic
senatorial votes counted" and to
dilute and destroy the value and
effect Of the Republican votes"
10 Years Maximum Pera!ty.
Mr. Metcalf said the maximum
penalty that may be imposed for
violation Of section 81 of title 18.
Under which the Indictments wers
drawn, was 10 years imprisonment
and a fine Of $4,000, with the loss
OF the right to hold public office.
The indictments charged the un-
lawful "conspiring to injure citi-
zenS in their right secured to them
by the constitution and laws Of the
United States to vote and have an
hGnest count of their vote at an
election for United States Senator"
The defendants were directed bv
caHlaSeS, issued in the clerks Of
hce, to post $1,000 bond each for
ar1algnment here on November %.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

There are more than 20 conven-
lent branch Offices for Star Want
Ads" located throughout the city.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

own garden is l of 80 in the White
hall School property, once the estate
of Senator Walsh Of Colorado. father
of Mrs. sEvalyn Walsh Mclean.
She told how the Victory Garden
movement had swept the county
after Commissioners William H.
Prescott of Bethesda and Lacy
Shaw of Silver Spring had made
the free plowing possible.
Interference Attempted.
There had been attempted inter-
ference, she said. Two women
called at her office. They had OBJ
tanned permission of the owner of
a vacant lot to grow a garden in it
but the woman next door was try
ing to run them off the property,