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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
How to Submit
Your Problems
To Clinic Experts

Here Is how TO use the
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC:
Write your problem to
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC,
care of The Detroit Times,
Times Square at Cass ave-
nue., Detroit, Mich.
You must sign your name
and give your address, al
though no names will be pub
lished and the information
you seek will be held in the
strictest confidence. There
will be no charge for the
service.
Your problem will be re-
ferred 10 the expert most
familiar with situations such
as yours and best able TO
advise you. Do not hesitate
TO write frankly and fully.
for a helpful answer may
depend on this.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
City to Plow IS Acres for Gardens
Should Soldiers frances Sit at Home?

S5.5I per $1,000 of Insurance II
the beneficiary Is under 80 years
OF age at the time of the death
of the insured. II, at such time,
the beneficiary is 80 or more
years of age, benefits are pay
able In equal monthly INSTALL
ments for 100 months certain,
with such payments continuing
during the remaining lifetime of
such beneficiary.
"In the event that the bene-
ficiary should predecease the In
sured, or should not live TO re-
ceive all of the installments GER
tain. and no contingent benefi-
ciary has been named by the In
sured, provision Is made by law
for payment of the remaining
installments certain within
limited class of beneficiaries."
THE CLINIC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Marriage Now
or When IT'S 0ver7
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC:


/ have been going with a young
man for a year and half. He was
indicted into the army last April
and, since that time, 1 have fol-
lowed him TO every camp. Every
three months he has been trans
ferred and / have had to get job
at each place in order to be near
him.
/ am now at home and / never
go out with any one except his
sisters, and he insists that / wait
for him to return. am really in
love with him.
He has mentioned marrying me
when he returns. But l think if
he really loves me he ought to
suggest we get married now. What
do you think? l am "a and he
is %.
K. L.
Dear X. L.:
Men In the army camps are
going through a new experience,
learning to be fighting men, en-
during new and hard discipline,
facing uncertainty I'm every re-
spect Of their lives. To be n
good soldier becomes the con-
Stunning purpose OF their lives.
IL Is a Spartan existence which
doesn't admit of much time
with sweethearts or wives.
With the uncertainties of war,
some young men cannot yet
face the responsibility Of mar
riage and must wait until other
matters have been cleared:
some Of these young men have
an ideal of what happy and
stable marriage should be and
cannot think that wartime ad-
mits Of starting a sound mar
riage. Pressure upon such
young man only beclouds his
picture more.
II doesn't seem 10 be a matter
of really loving" but rather one
OF degree of maturity, independ-
Ience and standards. Why not
wait for him. meanwhile directing
your interests toward war work /?
There seems to be no reason TO
go out with no one but his sisters.
Why not find yourself satisfying
work and recreation which will
relieve some of your worry and
give you opportunity to live up
to some detectives which wives
and sweethearts must share with
the men at the front?
MISS ELVA M, FORNCROOK.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
The Authorities
Who'll Answer
Your Questions

Authorities on social. eco
nomic and legal problems
make up the Times clinic:
JUDGE JAMES r. CHE
NOT of Wayne County Cir
cult Court.
EDW ARD POKORNY,
Wayne County Friend Of the
Court.
THE REV. JOSEPH A.
FOLEY, s. j., student coun-
selor at the University OF
Detroit.
FRED VI. BUTZEL, promi-
nent Detroit attorney and
civic leader. and member Of
the board Of directors, De-
troit Chapter, American Red
Cross.
DIR. ROBERT G. FOSTER,
In charge Of the family coun-
selling service, Merrill-Palmer
School.
DIR. ALFRED McCLUNG
LEE, head of the sociology
department, Wayne Unlver-
sity.
MRS. FRANCES SAN
DERSON, head of the home
econom mics department,
Wayne University.
MISS ELVA NJ. FORM
CROOK, executive secretary
Of the Consultation Bureau
of Detroit.
JOHN II. WATKIN
prominent Detroit lawyer
and former United States dis
trict attorney. \NN
MRS. IRENE r.. MUIR
PLY, family and child well
fare secretary OF the
Council of Social Agencies.
MISS MARY NJ. O'NEILL,
assistant director Of United
Service Organizations for
Metropolitan Detroit.
WALTER ". r. SCOTT,
vice commander Of the De-
troit District Association,
American Legion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Alimo ny Only
for Divorced Wife

War Problem Clinic:
Can divorced woman whose
husband is in service get an allot-
ment from the government?
My ex-husband and l we're
divorced but we have remained
the best of friends. Until he went
into service, we continued TO see
each other often. Since he has
been in the army we have ex-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

Gu b Casa
n ov - the
first nigh I
club in which
I h ey ev er
have danced
but dancing
Is temporary
with La Bfan-
ca, a rather
boring inter-
Jude between
battles. be-
cause he ex-
is TO be
fighting again
soon. II am
registered for
service in this
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now

Guillermo La Blanca was part
OF the experiment for war. He
was a soldier in the Spanish
Revolution.
He and his partner. black
haired Consuelo Garcia, have
been dancing this week at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

tionsi service life insurance are
as follows:
National Service Life Insur-
ance Is payable only In the event
of the insured TO a. beneficiary
within the relationship of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

insured OF wife, husband, child
(including an adopted child, a
stepchild or illegitimate child),
parent, brother or sister.
Benefits are payable In 240
equal monthly installments Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

stamp li-Valid for los. 10 Mar. IS.
SHOES
stamp lI-Valid for one pair, through
June Is
COFFEE
Zone 10. for each person IA or over.)
stamp 2B--Valjd 20 March 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

Guillermo La Blanca is a good
dancer.
But ! guess he's a born sol
der.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Rationing Timetable

DEADIINES
Inspection Of truck tires-Feb. ~.
A tires, March n: B. Q tires. Feb. 40.
GASOLINE
A-Coupoa Flour gallons 10 Mar. n.
FUEL OIL
Coupon Sill gals. now 10 Feb. ~,
Coupon ell gals. now 10 Apr. ~.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

That Is Spain. As Ia Blanca
says, when the king left, every
body cried-and yet, they put
him OUT"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

For Spain is living contra
diction, although for that mat
ter so is the rest of mankind
The war was horrible. Peace
Is beautiful. La Blanca knows
II. And yet-"there is fun, in
war, too. I was glad when IL
ended. but you know, it's boring
when it's over"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

His bitterness is directe
against the foreign countries
which used Spain as a testing
ground for war-"like a-what
do you call ii in English? Yes.
Spain was a guinea pig for war.
We were an experiment for war.
If they had stayed out, the war
would have been over in three
months"
Evening star., 1943-01-24

Coupon No IL becomes worth
three pounds of sugar on Feb
ruary l and will expire on March
Is.
Coffee-Stamp No. %, in War Ra-
tioning Book No. /, is good for
one pound of coffee through Feb
ruary T. This applies only to
books issued to persons at least
Is years old.
Institutional users may apply for
their February March allotments
through February 5, but pro rata
deductions will be made, depend
ing on how late the applications
are received by the local boards.
Retailers and wholesalers may
have coffee delivered against
purchase warrants only until
midnight tomorrow. AIlotments
will consist of 40 per cent of the
base period and will provide for
coffee to be used during Feb
ruary only.
StOves-All coal-fired and oil burn
ing stoves are subject to rationing
Certificates for the purchase of
these stoves are available for ell
gible persons at the local ration
ing boards.
Observation-Disclosures Of non port
ables manufactured after 1884 are
banned.
Beginning February /, nom port
ables manufactured between 1927
and 1885 may be rented only to
civilians who obtain certificates
from their rationing boards.
Rentals of portables manufac-
tured between 1927 and 1885 may
still be made for not more than
six months. Most portables manu-
factured since 1885 may also be
rented on the same basis,
Mems Rubber Boots and Rubber
Work Shoes-CertiicateS for the
purchase of these items must be
obtained from local rationing
boards,
Evening star., 1943-01-24
D. D. Reminders on Rati0ninQG;

Fuel OiICoupon No. 2, good for 10
gallons Of oil, expires at midnight
tomorrow.
Coupon No. is valid for nine GAL
Ions of oil through February 16.
Coupon No. becomes valid
Wednesday, one week ahead Of
schedule. for 9 gallons of oil
This value was set by the OPA
yesterday.
Gasoline-No. 4 "a coupons are
valid for three gallons each
through March 81.
B" and &C" coupons expire &C
cording to the dates indicated
on the individual books and are
good for three gallons each.
Pleasure driving for all classes of
motorists is banned under pen
atty Of revocation of all or part
Of the violator's gasoline rations.
Temporary 1T" rations for COM
mercial vehicles will be issued
by local rationing boards only
through the end of this week.
Beginning February /, IT. ra-
tions will be issued by local
ONCE of Defense Transportation
headquarters only on the basis
of ODT certificates of necessity.
Tires-Inspection deadline for "A"
book drivers has been extended to
March 81; for "B' and &C. book
holders, to February %, In the
District, nevertheless, motorists
are requested to conform to the
previously-arranged schedule of
inspections as follows:
Passenger cars with license num-
bers between l35,40l and 1900
are to report at inspection stations
through Tuesday.
The last group of passenger
cars, with license tags between
l62,00l and 174,600 are to report
between Wednesday and Saturday
Sugar-Coupon No. 10, in War Ra-
tioning Book No. l. good for three
pounds of sugar. expires at mid
night next Sunday.
Evening star., 1943-01-24
1900 Publications
Checked inPost0ffice
Probe Of Sedition
Six Lose Second-CIuss
Privilege; 10 Individual
Pieces Are Barred
BY OLIVER MCKEE.

Since Pearl Harbor, Post Office
Department officials have examined
nearly 1000 books, pamphlets and
single issues of regular publication
to determine if they are mailable
under the wartime Sedition statutes,
1t was revealed yesterday.
Including six publications whose
second-class mailing permits have
been revoked by the Postmaster
General these examinations so far
have resulted in exclusion from the
mails OF approximately TO individual
issues, books or pamphlets held to
contain material that might obstruct
the conduct of the war.
Before revoking a publications
second-class mailing privilege. the
Post ONCE Department, under the
law, is required to hold a hearing
before board of postal officials.
Allegedly seditious publications
deprived of their second class mail
ing privileges so far include three
weeklies, Social Justice. the Phila-
delphia Herold and X-Ray: two
monthlies, the Galilean and Pub
licity, and one bi-weekly. the Boise
Valley Herald. Also pending is a
case against The Militant pub
hshed in New York, on which a
hearing was held at the Post Office
Department last week. II
The procedure by which a single
issue of publication is barred from
the. mails as non-msilsble matter is
different from that followed in rey
voklng second-claSs mail privileges,
for the Post Office Department holds
no public hearing in such cases. The
publication concerned has the right
to appeal to the courts.
In addition to reports from local
postmasters and its own inspectors,
the department receives information
Evening star., 1943-01-24

pressed with the need for unity in
opposing the Axis sufficiently to
shelve any trouble-making differ
ences until victory over the COM
mon enemy is won.
Then the French people can settle
their political problems for them
selves. President Roosevelt made
clear in his statement last Novem-
Der, describing the original North
African arrangement with Admiral
Jean Darlan, since aSsassinated, as
a temporary military expedient, that
this Government is not underWrit-
ing any one as the future political
leader of France.
The future French government, "
ne declared. will be established
not by any individual in metropoli-
tan France or overseas-but by the
French people themselves after they
have been set free by the victory OF
the United Nations"
Evening star., 1943-01-24
20 Pct of 300 Who Signed for Rifle Course
Are 1919 -Yeur-OIds About to Join Army

More than 70 per cent of the 300,
odd applications received through
Yesterday in the rife Workmanship
courses to be given here beginning
the week of February | were sub
mitted by IS and l9-year- -olds who
are about to go into the Army, Of
flcials in charge of the program re-
ported last night.
Washington youths are seeking
immediate instruction in the use of
rifles, and the majority report they
Will be inducted next month. said
officials Of the National Rifle AS
5oclatlOn, which is sponsoring the
program in cooperation with the
War Department and The Star.
Response Beyond Expectations.
Response to the program. part
OF a Nationwide project to make
Americans the best marksmen in
the world, was termed beyond ex-
pectations' by one official, who said
a large number of older men also
have signed up for the 7-week
course.
instruction will begin in four Dis
trlct high schools and two colleges
a week from tomorrow in a program
open to all male persons Is wears
Of age and older, both here and in
nearby Maryland and Virginia.
1t is planned to give each man a
tWo-hour course once a week for
Evening star., 1943-01-24
Fight on Records Ban
Taken 10 Supreme Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Thurman Arnold. Assistant At
torney General. carried to the Su-
preme Court yesterday his attempt
to restrain James c. Petrillo, presi
dent Of the American Federation Of
Musicians, from enforcing a ban
against making recordings. Mr.. Ar
mold sought a review of the dismis-
sal Of his complaint by the Federal
District Court at Chicago.
At the same time, Joseph A. Pad
way federation attorney. asked the
Supreme Court to affirm the deci-
sion of the District Court.
One point involved in the litiga-
ton, Mr. Arnold asserted, was
whether a union may use organized
coercion TO eliminate competing
businesses"
The District Court dismissed the
case on the ground it involved a
labor dispute concerning terms and
conditions of employment. The
court held that an injunction under
such circumstances was barred by
Federal legislation.
Evening star., 1943-01-24

about alleged seditious publications
from agents of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation and from individual
citizens outside the Government.
Foreign Publications Studied.
In reaching their decision on mail
ability of a particular issue of a pub
lication, department officials are
aided by the Special War Policies
Unit of the Justice Department. to
which all complaints are referred
The Justice Department unit keeps
under continuing study many for
eign language and other publica-
tions.
The Department usually follows
the findings of the Justice Depart
ment in deciding on the AVAILABILITY
of alleged seditious matter under
the 1917 Espionage Act Occas-
ionally differences of opinion have
occurred between the two agencies.
In such cases, Justice and Post Of
flee Department officials try to reach
an agreement through personal con-
ferences.
In a memorandum made public
last week, the American Civil Lib
critics Union sharply criticised the
Post Office Department for barring
from the mails books, pamphlets
and single issues of publications
found to be obscene or seditious
without charges, specifications and
hearings.
Hearings Demanded.
AS a remedy for the present
summary procedure" the union
urged the adoption by the depart
ment of rules providing the right to
charges and hearings before board
on all exclusions from the mails of
obscene or seditious matter.
only thus can the public as we'll
as the publishers know the in
terpretations by officials of what
constitutes offenses under the in
elusive terms of sedition and OBJ
scenity," the union declared I'm
wartime particularly, sedition is
too easily construed in terms OF
criticism of the. Government or of
dissents which do not involve in-
tended interference with the con
duct of the war"
Evening star., 1943-01-24
BY HELEN LOMBARD.

Washington is chuckling over The
activities of the censors In connec-
ton with the birth of a, baby daugh-
ter TO Princess Juliaila of The
Netherlanas.-s~4-e =
The infant was promptly named
Margriet FRANCESCA and numerous
godparents were chosen for her
including such powerful protectors
as President Roosevelt and the
Dutch merchant marine.
There was some difficulty, how
ever, in getting congratulatory
messages through to Princess
Juliana because the censor in
Washington, over whose desk the
messages cleared. believed in obey
ing the rules to the letter.
Many of the kilograms, including
long one from Princess Martha OF
Norway, another royal princess In
Evening star., 1943-01-24
Manor Housing u. S. Troops Run
BY Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Old English Mansion
Said to Echo With
GhostIy Walls
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Ctay GtafF rorroSuo,5.,,.

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND by
MaiD.-A gray. vivacious little
Woman-once prominent Washing
ton hostess-today is the. chate-
lalne Of an ancient haunted manor
within whose twisting, dark, mouldy
corridors and more than 100 rooms
American soldiers by the hundreds,
including many from the District OF
Columbia and nearby Maryland and
Virginia, get nightly mixture Of the
supernatural, American cooking and
the atmosphere of home.
The chatelaine is Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, ir.. wife of the former
Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
who now is serving overseas with the
Army. The manor once was the
seat Of one of Englands greatest
families, whose land holdings COW
cred an area as great as many an
American county.
Mrs. Roosevelt's office now is in
the original structure. From gene
ration to generation, as the wealth
Of the family and the number of
its retainerS grew, rooms were added
according to no discernable archi-
tectural plan until today it is
rambling structure of rooms thrown
together without much symmetry.
Among the 100 rooms are some
which probably no one has entered
since they were built.
Ghosts Wall Heard.
The house happened to be near
an American camp and has proved
almost an ideal club center for the
men-especially with three or four
bona flde ghosts thrown in.
Still quartered at the manor is
a volunteer aide detachment of
British nurses. Several of them
insist that during the past few
months they have heard the wall
ing of an infant echoing through
the grey halls in the dead hours of
the night. The American workers
there have not heard it yet.
The story is that about 200 years
ago betrayed daughter of the
family leaped with her baby in her
arms off the balcony of the domed
hall and that both were dashed to
death on the stone floor below.
The stoTy's origin is lost in an
tiquity, but the living authority
is a local gentleman
who has just passed his Tooth birth
day. When he was little more than
a boy, this man tells the American
workers, he was employed with 200
others of the tenantry in making
extensive renovations of the prop
erty. While digging a trench he
came on the skeletons of an adult
and an infant. They were at once
reburied, but this doesn't prevent
them, the story goes, from still do
Evening star., 1943-01-24
6. W. Medical Society
Hears Talk on Tank
War Casualties
Col. Duniel l.. Borden
Tells How Wounded
Are Cared for

Wounded men. unless unconscious,
will get out Of a blasted tank for
the will to live is paramount" Col.
Daniel L. Borden, Medical Corps,
told the George Washington Uni
versity Medical Society last night
in lecture entitled Casualties and
Medical Problems OF Tank Warfare"
Col Borden, who was on the
faculty of the university's medical
school until Pearl Harbor, is now
at the hospital at Fort Eustis, Va.
He showed lantern slides of the
latest tanks and pointed to the
small man-hole matches through
which 1t is necessary sometimes to
remove unconscious men under fire.
Sometimes" he said. "all you can
do is to get half-hitch on their
feet and haul away, Free use OF
morphine in adequate doses is a
necessity. The British go us one
better. They supply their tanks
with chloroformed pads. The pad
is held over the nose of the wound
ed man until he can be manipulated
without pain and with lessened
shock. Preservation of life is of
paramount Importance and some
vigorous measures to this end are
not only eXcusable but commend
able"
Col. Borden said British expe-
rience in the desert showed that
one-third of tank casualties were
burns and one-third occurred out
side tanks when they we're sur
/ prised or abandoned Troops are
warned not to take shelter behind
disabled tanks as they attract fire
and projectiles ricochet off them
in every direction.
Col, Borden also showed lantern
slides of the Army's new Borden
| General Hospital at ChickaSha,
Okla, a $1,000, 900, 1.500-bed insti-
tuition named after his late father.
1t. Col William Cline Borden, an
| associate Of Walter Reed, who has
been called ''the first to visualize
and to propose plan for an Army
Medical Center" (the Walter Reed
Hospital. Col Borden had Just
returned from its dedication.