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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
MILITARY LAW EXTENDED

The reported Badoglio move to-
ward immunizing Rome carried
the tacit implication that he had
decided 10 carry on the war. as
gathering reports had tended To
indicate for several days. Allied
hopes for Italy'S precipitate sur
render appeared 10 have gone
glimmering.
Another frontier report said
the Official Gazette published a
royal decree extending a state
of war 10 the entire Italian
realm Hitherto only certain prov
inces had been so designated.
1t added the communism bug
aboo on which the Axis counts
heavily. saying that Premier Sta
lin had made plain that he wanted
his pound of flesh. and Italians
had learned to fear and hate COM
munlSn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

in military camps. Irrespective
of rank, treatment is bad-Lt.
Gen. Jonathan NJ. Wainwright,
in a Formosan prison camp, lost
80 pounds up to the spring of
1913.
WEIGHED ~ POUNDS
J. B. Powell, the noted Shang-
hal editor weighed u pounds
when taken from his Shanghai
prison cell where 25 others, in
GLIDING four women and five
month-old child. were kept in a
room size 1929 feet.
NO COMMUNICATION IS
PERMITTED THE AMERICANS
IN PRISON CAMPS IN CHINA
AND ALL THEIR FURNITURE.
PERSONAL EFFECTS AND
OTHER POSSESSIONS WERE
AUCTTONED TO JAPANESE
BIDDERS.
Chapel, in Northern Shanghai.
is believed 10 be the living quar-
tiers for 1000 American and Brit
ish civilians. Unmarried men or
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
German General Killed

LONDON. Aug. 7 (INS)-The
death of German General Won
Zorn near Orel was admitted to-
day by the Nazi overseas radio
heard nv Reuters News Agency.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
Sink Biggest Brazil Ship

RIO DE- JANEIRO, Aug Z
CUP) Brazils largest merchant
ship, the Bage, was torpedoed and
sunk in the South Atlantic July
81 with a loss Of SO lives, it was
announced tonight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

RUSSIA Russians threaten 70
take Kharkov. after taking 20
localities in swift campaign.
Page L.
EUROPE-Rome and Berlin re-
ported TO become open cities;
Hitler believed in conferences
with high aides on Axis rela-
tions; Ribbentrop rushes 10
Italy. Page L.
PACHIC-American forces be-
gin developing Munda for
campaign against Japanese
strongholds in S o ] o m n 5.
page y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
WOULD SPARE ROME

More than 500 American bomb
erS attacked Rome on July 10,
wrecking key railway facilities at
the vital bottleneck of traffic 10
southern Italy and the Ciampini
air fields.
Badoghos decision to seek an
open city status for Rome was
understood 10 haye been prompted
in part by Allied warnings that
the bombardment of the Eternal
City would be repeated when
military requirements called for IT,.
Some sources also believed the
reported decision was taken with
a view 10 the possibility of Italy
becoming battlefield and sparing
Rome the fate of Warsaw, Rotter-
dam and Belgrade.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
ECONOMY CRACKING

tNBC reported from London
that word from inside Eurore
indicates the German high com
mand is unable to make plans
for the next year" and that the
Nazi economic structure has be-
gun to show many hopeful
cracks" as result of defeats Il,
Russia, Sicily and North Africa
and Allied air raids.)
A Stockholm dispatch said, =
clique was plotting to
seize power from Hitler and the
Nazi party and affect a sweeping
revision of military and political
strategy.
The clique repeatedly plotting
to seize power from Hitler was
laid to comprise Field MaryhaIs
Erwin Rommel, Erich Won Mann
stein and Gerd Won Rundstedt al
well as Generals Johannes Black.
ovitch and Ernest Witzleben. The
group was reported to have die.
tated' the Nazi retreat from Orel.
overriding Hitler's orders that 4
stand to the death be made.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

from U-boats with orders 10 blast
American war industry.
LanaS was reported IN have
tried TO influence an attractive
model in New York for S450 a
month 10 share his work as q spy
The prisoner will be arraigned
in Washington Monday on a fugi-
tive warrant from New York.
where the Justice department as
serted IL will ask a $4,000 bond
for the Colombian.
G. NJ. McARTHUR. DENTIST.
III GriSwold Over KinSeTs.
Hours 90, Sundays. l0-12.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
May Declare Berlin,
Rome Open Cities
Italy to Continue
AS Belligerent

BERN, Sunday, Aug. 8 CUP)-
An air alarm sounded at Chiasso.
Switzerland. near the Italian
border al II minutes past mid
night and bright glow in the
sky indicated that Milan was UNI
dergoing heavy bombardment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

BERN, Aug. 7 UP)-An
a u t h orita tive source re-
ported from the Italian from
tier tonight that Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglio was
expected to declare Rome an
open city to save it from fur
ther Allied air bombardment.
The sdvices said Badoglio al
ready was organizing the neces-
sary moves preliminary to the
removal from Rome of all mill
tary authorities, key defense min
istries, and industrial centers.
1t was understood without con-
firmation that the Vatican was
acting as intermediary between
the Allies and the new Italian
government which succeeded that
OF the deposed Mussolini.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
War
ProductionUp,
Figures Shou
By SILER FREEMAN

Steadily mounting monthly totals of production the
ndustrys to criticisms from Washington
that tagging Because it not singled out
as the target specifically the industry officially silent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
The War Fronts

SICHY-Americans c apture
Troina after fercest fight
since Tunisia: L. s. forces oc-
cupy Isle of UStica. north of
Palermo; British near Adrano.
page L.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
GUNS DOUBLED

Guns al an annual rate Of S76e.-
600 600, the equivalent of $4,000
machine guns. A year ago pro-
ductlon rate was equal in value 10
about half that number.
Marine equipment at an annual
rate of $6i4 100000 or 1876 PIT
boats against 1880 a year ago.
Ammunition at an annual rate
OF Sl5O.000000 or the equivalent
OF 100000 anti-tank shells. a
year ago the production Of am
munItion by automotive com
panieS was equal 10 2l70O. 900
shells.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
THE JOB PICTURED

To Illustrate what good Job is
being done, the council has broken
down the dollar value OF the war
goods produced into specific prod
ucts BY groups II shows:
Aircraft aircraft engines and
parts AT an annual rate Of S3,22S,-
600 600 or the equivalent Of 64,750
pursuit planes or $3.50 FLYING
FortreSses. A year ago the annual
rate was equal 10 only $3.50 light
planes or 1870 Forts.
Tanks. tank deStroyers and
parts az an annual rate OF $500
600 600 or the equivalent of H.
900 General Sherman tanks. At
the same time last year il was
equal TO only $50 medium tanks.
Military vehicles and parts at
the annual rate of S2,149.0OO. 600
or enough 10 purchase 1890, 600
jeeps. Last year the dollar volume
would have bought only 1880, 900
leepS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
MONTHLY INCREASE

For example. April's delivery of
war goods amounted 70 S672 000.-
600. In May it went up 10 sos. =
100000 and in June it stood AZ
SIPS. 100000. Julys deliveries
have not yet been officially COM
piled by the statisticians but IN
official estimates place them at
$3.50, 900, 900 or at the rate of
SO 1000, 100000 a year.
A year ago comparable figures
were April, S29l 900. 900; May.
1913, 100000; June, 1888, 800, 600,
and July. S427, O0o.0 900.
As shown by these figures, the
rate OF climb has slowed down but
the upward sweep has been steady.
A spokesman for the Automo-
tive Council for War Production,
ruling body Of the industry. de-
plored the criticism from Wash
ington
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

The German fighter
banked away and disappeared.
The crew told the story today
81 saw that Focke-Wulf clos
Ing In and di dat think Of
anything TO do but start heaving
things" Marques said.
II guess that Jerry pilot must
have been as scared as I was
when he saw all that stuff com
ing at him. Anyhow. he took
one good look and then banked
and dlved straight down"
The Whale Tail was pilOted BY
Il Dexter Lisbon Of Newton
vile. Mass.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

But executives Of the larger
companies are seething against
charges that there has been a
letdown in production.
The industry has shown in
creaSes in war output since Pearl
Harbor. in spite OF changed ord
nance schedules, cancellations OF
contracts and reconversion Of
plants in the midst OF production
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CONTINUED on Page I0)

DENTIST. 1T MICHIGAN AVE
Or T ?. Jamison. Hours 2 70 q
CT. i244.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
Fall
Imminent as
Close
Russians Only Is Miles
From City; Bryensk
Just rs Miles Away

LONDON, Aug, 7 CYPRUS
sian troops tanning out behind
Kharkov--whose fall military OBJ
servers here believed 10 be only
a matter of dayS-Swept forward
six 10 nine miles through more
than 10 towns and villages today,
driving one spesrhead through
Graivoron. AZ miles northwest of
the Ukrainian stronghold. Moscow
reported tonight
On the basis OF the minimum
advance reported by special Red
army communique. Soviet mobile
forces appeared 10 have struck
down 10 within is miles of
Kharkov itself.
NAILS ADMIT SETBACK
The Nazi acknowledgment Of a
new Soviet assault on the APP
proaches 10 Kharkov admitted
that the Russians had broken
through the German lines at sew
erai places and bloody struggles
were in progress.
Plunging westward from the
already cut kharkov BryanSk
Railway, Soviet forces setting the
pace for a great offensive threat
ening German positions from end
to end Of the longest battlefront
in history swept through Bori-
sovka and on II miles to Graz
voron.
4I-MILE ADVANCE
II was the deepest penetration
OF the German Qualifications
northwest Of Kharkov and repre-
sented a 4l-mile westward surge
from Belgorod.
The Berlin radio reported bitter
fighting IN the forests north OF
Karachev, 30 miles southeast of
Bryansk. where IT said strong
Soviet forces were attacking with
artillery and air support.
The NaZi admission OF the
struggle in an area possibly within
3 miles of Bryansk indicated the
Russian offensive on that front
was developing so rapidly that the
Germans might be falling back TO
lines directly before the city.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
PLENTY OF MEAT

Bonkovich said that meat CON
sumption m the United States
last year was about al pounds
per person and that there were
SIS 600. 600 heads Of cattle on The
hoof Jan. l, 1912 He says there
are now 10000 heads Of cattle
on the hoof or enough TO feed Us
and our allies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
FIGHTING % DAYS

Despite the fact many had been
hghtlng steadily for 2S days, the
Americans of Maj. Gen Terry
Aliens famed division kept blast
ing away and finally took The
town which commands roads
leading 20 miles northeast 10
Randazzo. anchor Of the new
AXIS line, and l6 miles southeast
TO Adrano
THE British radio reported
that Italian troops at Blanca
villa. three miles southeast Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
AXIS SITUATION PRECARIOUS

The situation after the fall OF
Troina is as follows:
The Americans smashing
along the northern coast west
Of SAINT Agata di Militello on
the Cornlche road 10 MesSina.
2 British Eighth Army units
moving up the east coast along
the Catanla Messlna coastal
road
2 The center thrust toward
Randazzo pass toward which
the bulk of the enemy is re-
treating. This thrust is being
made by a cosmopolitan army
Americans. French Moroccan
GoumierS. ianS and
British.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
Black Market
On Meat Laid
To 0PA Acts
Dealers Urge Hall
70 All Subsidy Idea,
Ask Livestock Ceiling

charging lndl DldON nloi htts
are fIourishing on OPA hlunderS'
representative meat dealers from
all sections OF the United States
will hold an emergency meeting in
Chicago Monday and Tuesday, il
was announced Saturday.
Martin Bonkovich, president OF
the Detroit Retail Meat Dealers
Association. said that II delegates
from the local organization viii
be in attendance and VIII present
the following program
That all ideas of subsidies be
abandoned and that the OPA or
Congress be compelled 10 place a
cetitng price on ifPesteeh
That ceiling prices both whole
sale and retail be increased from
y 10 Is per cent.
MANY COMPLAIN
MANY complaints have been
lodged against black markets
with the OPA," said Bonko-
vich. "but absolutely no results
were obtained for the simple
reason their hands are tied by
Washington"
Bonkovich said the object Of the
meeting IS 10 kill black markets
for ell time and that PrentisS
Brown. OPA director. has been
invited 10 attend the meeting
when the OPA placed
ceiling on wholesale and retail
prices and failed To place
ceiling on livestock they ere
ated a natural for black mar
kets," Bonkovlch stated
Commenting further on tho
black market situation the head
OF the meat dealers said
"Seventy-five per cent Of the
people are willing 10 pay from
I2 10 IS per cent more for meat
~ they can get the cuts they
desire. They are not only Will
ing 10 pay more hut demand
meat from their dealers.
TOOK ADVANTAGE
with this situation prevail
ing certain individuals who are
hungry for money saw An OPP
portunity 10 get rich quickly
and took advantage OF ".
Finding that hundreds NJ
weIl-meaning meat dealers were
willing 10 pay a penny or NJ n
pound more IL they could get
beef. certain wholesalers began
bidding against each other.
Then the hungry fellows began
charging double what they had
10 pay above the ceiling price.
"If a ceiling were placed on
livestock that would give the
farmer fair profit there would
he n far more equal distribution
Of meat and there would be no
occasion for black market. II
n dealer were then approached
to pay above the ceiling price
with the excuse that he
farmer had 90 have more
money. he would have no hest
fancy In refusing the whole
saler and reporting him"
PLENTY OF MEAT
BonkoviCh said that meat CON
sumption m the United States
last year was about al pounds
per person and that there were
SIS. 100000 heads Of cattle on the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
Nazis Flee Cities;
Strikes Spread
BY LOWELL BENNETT

LONDON, Aug. Z (INS)-
The leaders of Germany, In
Guiding Adolf Hitler, faced
with a crisis unprecedented in
the nations four years OF
war, today were reported de-
batting important military
and political moves as the
residents of Berlin trembled
in fear of Allied air attacks
comparable to the blitz Of
Hamburg.
A hint of what one of the I'm.
portant moves may be was given
in an Istanbul dispatch reporting
that the Nazis plan to declare
Berlin an open city and move all
government ministries and serv.
ices to Dresden, Leipsig. Munich
and Prague.
HIGH OFFICIALS MEET
With Berlin said to be in a state
of near panic, Germany's high
ranking officials sat down for
what Nazi propaganda broadcasts
called important discussions of q
military and political character
a, the fuehrer's headquarters"
Strikes in German war plants
were reported spreading through.
out the Reich and the walkouts
affected so many plants, Bern re-
ports said, that Gestapo agents
were forced to take workers
places at the benches to keep the
war factories operating.
(The roads of Germany ara
crowded with refugees stream
ing from bombed areas. accord.
ing to Bern. which said, Der.
lin is not the only city to be
evacuated as a result of Allied
air attacks."D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08
Troiina Taken
By Yanks
Key Of Axis Sicilien
Defense Line Falls

ALLIED no y, Africa Aug
: Weary doughboys Of the
crack United States First Division
have captured the Sicilian noun
tain stronghold of Troina after the
bitterest fighting of the entire
campaign and tonight Axis armies
were reported falling back from
their crumbling Mt. Etna line
toward new positions only 40
miles below MesSina.
The capture of Troins. II was
said. throws The enemy back to
Randazzo pass. between Mt. Etna
and the CaTonie Nebrodie noun
tain range just 10 the north and
northwest of Mt. Etna. II also
meant the Americans were threat
ching the Juncture point OF the
Hermann Goering Division and
the 18th PanZer Division, where
they come together west Of MI.
Etna.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-08

NEW EVENING HOURS
industrial National Bank Down
town office. MONDAYS. s 10 S.
l. UPTOWN Office and Branches
FRIDAYS. f to s.-Adv.
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CONTINUED on Page Six
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WAR NAP

See War Map With Admiral
Woodward's Explanation, Page ?
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

nervous breakdown. fell unconscious to the
floor of my New York apartment lady
friend came TO my rescue was dying and l
was broke. That was when I started 10 get
into debt in a big way. What else was there
to do? How was l going to live ?"
There may be one other factor, besides
Lya's faith in herself, sustaining her in her
present plight. Her earliest ambition-before
she became stage-strucR- 70 be a great
lawyer She dotted on the vision of her future
self making an mpassioned plea before judge
and jury.
So far her various courtroom appearances
have fallen short Of this dream. In obtaining
both her divorces, for example, all she had to
do was make few matter-of-fact statements.
Back in 1941 she was presented with what
looked like a wonderful opportunity 20 play
Portia Kate Moog Busch. the German nurse
whose testimony helped the Government put
lot of Hitler's agents in jail claimed that
Lva's role in Confessions Of Nazi Spy" had
mimickcd her and. that she had been damaged
S75 900 worth.
In this picture, Miss Lys wears my
clothes, my hat and my hair styles" Miss
Moog told the court she walks like me,
talks like me and has my mannerisms"
The case reached dramatic climax when
the Judge ordered the alleged mimicker and
damagee to stand up together side by side
The Jurors looked at Iva and saw a
slender golden blonde, FIVE feet, FIVE inches
tall They looked at Kate and saw a brunette
Bruunhildc towering over six feet They
laughed and, after celebrating for only three
minutes entered a verdict against the latter.
This was all very gratifying TO Lya, in
way but she couldn't help rcgretting that she
had not been called on TO say something.
If her more disgrIntled creditors remain
disgrunted. the current bankruptcy suit
should give her chance az least 70 bc as
impassioned as she appeared in her childhood
vision.
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

pital to the dinner party and had good time
because knew that things could not possibly
get worse. only better.
"As a matter OF fact they began TO get
better right away. A man. whom l shall
always call my Good Angel took me back 10
the hotel We talked a long time and after
that he began 10 help me in ways so con-
sderate and unobtrusive that I was scarcely
aware he was doing IT,
In no time at all, il seemed, I was ready
to stage a comeback in my career. l was
starred in Confessions of Nazi Spy My
luck seemed boundless.
And then l met John Gunnerson A friend
of mine brought him into the Chicago hotel
where I was stopping, on my way back TO
Hollywood. Five minutes after we had met,
he said TO me casually: You are not going
back to the Coast. You are going TO join my
party and be my guest at the Kentucky Derby
Il gave him my most supercilious stare
and said Perfectly ridiculous" Then we
began TO argue and the first thing knew he
had offered to drive me Co the station and 1
had accepted
"On the way, he took as long as possible.
He kept calling me a kiss from Heaven
When l thought that had known this man
less than an hour, / was sure that l was
having a nightmare.
"The train was just about TO leave when
we reached the station. The moment got
away from Gunncrson -w which was no easy
Job, believe me-a swarm Of photographers
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

and reporters swooped down on me. I dashed
for the train and they dashed after me with
flashlight bulbs going poof all over.
II had 10 stand in the vestibule for some
time 10 get my breath and collect myself
Then had the porter show me 20 my drawing
room IIe opened the door and there was
John Gunnerson l yelled at him u get out
Of my room and out Of my life
By way Of reply, he pulled diamond ring
out of his pocket and announced that he
wanted to marry me. I flung the ring back
at him and we began 20 argue again. We
argued all the way TO Kansas City, where l
finally persuaded him TO get off the train and
leave me alone.
Meanwhile, word had somehow spread
that this young Chicago millionaire hcd clopcd
with Lya Lys. It came out in papers all
over the country.
when 1 reached Hollywood there was
regrettable' il said that you do not under
stand the difference between constructive pub
licity and undesirable notoriety'
with that he vanished from my life, and
all my good luck went with him. There I was
at the pinnacle of my career, and yet | couldn't
get a part had heard Of things like that
happening In Hollywood but / had never
believed it could happen 10 me. II all seemed
to be part OF the nightmare
And then I did a strange thing: il was as
though I had said TO myself Very we'll, since
it is going to be a nightmare, l will accept
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

this nightmare and everything that goes
with IT,
John Gunncrson and I were married and
after that, very slowly, I began 20 wake up.
The feeling I had was Of waking TO find
myself living in a strange house with
strange man.
I'm sure John might make somebody else
a good husband but we weren't temperament
tally suited TO each other. And Gunnerson
did not support me. l had 90 80 back into
show business. 1t seemed that he did not
have control Of his own money, at least as
far as supplying the necessities of life was
concerned although he always seemed TO have
enough to send me useless presents and call
me up long distance TO plead and argue. one
day alone he tccphoned me thirty times and
then az last he gave up
Later that month I suffered a complete
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

Moreover as she has proven by her work
in the movie, Confessions Of a Nazi Spy" she
has real acting ability.
Adding the final touch of strangeness to
the situation is the fact that she has just
tossed aside a possession which most girls
would probably consider more valuable than
all the others. 20 wit, a wealthy husband.
This last discarded asset, is John Marshall
Gunnerson, a Chicago playboy. whom Lya
acquired three years ago and whom she
turned loose again last month in Mexico.
And she didn't ask a cent Of alimonyi
Judging from the grounds on which she
obtained her divorce-desertion and non-sup-
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06
Watch Me Soar Again, Saqs
'Lqa Lqs, Grounded Star
After Tossing Aside a Wealthy
Husband. the Movie Aefress's Assets
Included Youth. Beauty. ToIen+ and
PoPuIarify-bu+ No Money-So She
Went opfimis+ieoIIy Into Bankruptcy


N
Y Nago.li ed her al her asse al
O
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

port - she failed TO rea-
lize on Mr.. Gunnerson
while they were married.
But she must have known
that husbands are often
worth more in divorce
than in wedlock. So why
didn't she try 10 get at
least enough out Of him
to spare her the shock Of
bankruptcy?
Without answering this
question directly, she has
supplied a sort of answer
by saying, He was the
worst mistake l ever
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-06

Al AIlt illdib llhi il0l
found me and called
a doctor, i should
have got my wish.
II am glad I had
that @ pcricnCc q.
There is nothing like
facing death TO give
you a proper sense
Of values Even
being broke seems
unimportant after
that. ! went di-
rectly from the hos