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Evening star., 1943-12-19
VINO. Acts 10 Avert
Crisis
In Moving Industry

Workers in the trucking industry
were assured yesterday they are
necessary" in an effort by the area
War Manpower Commission to avert
a crisis in the moving business.
The area VINO designated truck
ers as locally needed" effective to-
morrow, although each firm will
have to apply individually for pro-
lection under VINO rules.
Truckers reported they are ap-
proximately 80 per cent short Of
help and are losing manpower to
the draft as well as to other in
dustries already classed as essen
tial or locally needed.
Trucks, it was reported, stand idle
for lack Of drivers while freight piles
up in the terminals and war work.
ers shop around for some one to
move their household goods. The
lack Of packers has become so des-
perate, trucking firms said, that
service families and others who must
move out of town have to wait as
long as go days for their goods to
be Grated.
A trucking ofIicial said three COM
Evening star., 1943-12-19
$4,000, 900 Spent So Far
On Mexican Rail Work
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 18-The
United States railway mission aid
ing in the rehabilitation of the Mex
lean railroad system announced to-
day the program had cost S4000,000
of American money since last Feb
ruary.
The commission gave no figures
on how much Mexican money had
been used About II 100000 was
spent on improving the Tehuante-
pee route connecting with Central
American railways; nearly 81 900 900
for paying extra track gangs, and
about $1o00,0O0 for improvements
to the main rail route between
Mexico City and Laredo, Tex.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
in Iron Lung
Beers Normal Buby

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, Dec. 18.-Mrs.
Carolyn Davis Wilson, infantile
paralysis victim confined to an iron
lung for eight weeks, gave birth to-
day to pound 1012 ounce boy.
Doctors said the baby was ror-
NAL and gave it every chance to
live.
The mothers condition was &C.
scribed as fair. She was renc~cd
from tire artificial respirator for TIE
delivery
Her husband, Corpl Marvin Will
son, aided by the Red Cross. flew
here from India on learning of her
illness and she rallied strongly
after mis- arrival.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Former Axis Sympathizers
.0usted by Free French
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, Dec 18.-The French
Committee of National Liberatio
today decreed the dismissal or re-
tirement of all civil administrators
and army and navy officers who are
former members of the various anti
Allied organizations"
The groups mentioned included
Sol, or the BLACK Guard of the
Petain Legion, collaborationist
group; the African Falange, an anti
Bolshevist legion; the Tricolor
legion, composed of veterans of serv-
ice on the Russian front with the
German armies, and the French
Popular Party, Jaques Doriot's pro-
Fascist group.
Several score persons are affected
by the decree.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

cal shortage occupations. Men In
this work cannot change jobs with
out going through the United States
Employment Service.
Although only two Washington
plants are making artificial limbs,
VINO said the work was so impor-
tant and the shortage of help so
widespread that it was necessary to
hold every skilled man on the job.
A survey of USES Offices throughout
the country, VINO reported, dis
closed that no artificial limb me-
chanics are available.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

. RUGS FOURTH FLOOR
Evening star., 1943-12-19

pushing the announced toll Of Army
dead to "a.
Still others may yet be identified,
the department said.
The latest list:
Pvt. Francis White, Bronx, N. Y;
Pvt. Dorenio Calpini, Miami, Fla;
Louis P. Mach, Schenectady, N. Y;
Pvt. Claude G. Powell, Thorough
fare, Va; Pvt. Joseph Novotny, Can
Inonsburg, Pa; Kendall Wilson
IClarksville, Pa.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

There is no such thing as a blood
less victory. Yours, too, is needed
by Blood Donor Center. Call Dis
trict 5000 to make an engagement.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

with the motors running when We
finally stopped, with the Number /
engine jammed right under the
other line" he said, and added:
II understand the other train had
been stopped for 40 minutes. The
absence of fuses or other warning
signals up the track served to give
me no warning, whatsoever.
None of his crew was hurt, he
said
William Myer, engineer on the
other train, could not be reached
for comment.
Only one person was killed in the
derailment of the southbound train.
Several of the passengers reported
that they hastily built bonfires of
newspapers along the tracks in an
attempt to warn the northbound
train.
Fireman Tried in Vain.
In statement at Wilmington
yesterday, c. G. Sibley, vice presi-
dent of the railroad, said his in
formation was that the fireman of
the southbound train went down the
tracks to flag the northbound
streamliner, carrying with him fuse
and a red lantern. The fireman,
however, the statement said, slipped
on the ice and broke his fuse, but
tried to stop the other train with
the lantern.
State highway patrol, Federal
Bureau of Investigation and rail-
road officials expressed the convic-
ton that all bodies were accounted
for. No additional bodies were
found last night or today.
Some Bodies Unidentified.
Military police and wrecking crews
tugged at debris with a winch
equippd truck and opened the
smashed cars. The wreckage was
showed off the tracks, and the line
carrying northbound traffic was
cleared. The other was expected
to be cleared soon.
Meanwhile, efforts went forward to
identify several bodies. This was
difficult, for many were sleeping
in berthS and were clad in night
clothes, with no identifying papers,
purses, etc, on their bodies by which
to achieve this.
Army Identifies 6 More
Killed in Rail Wreck
The War Dana rtmant announced
Evening star., 1943-12-19

NEW YORK.-PLUNGES TO
DEATH-MrS. Grace Fox, ra-
dio singer known as Grace
Morgan, was killed Friday
night in a plunge from the
top of a 20-story apartment
house in which she lived. Her
husband, home at the time,
told police she left his pres
ence complaining that she
was not feeling we'll
"A. P. WirephOtO.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Army Identifies 6 More
Killed in Rail Wreck

The War Department announced
last night the names of six addi-
tional soldiers killed in the train
wreck near Lumberton, N. c.,
Evening star., 1943-12-19
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Evening star., 1943-03-28
Eliot Sees French Colonies
United Soon in War on Axis
Believes 46,5oo,000 Population Will Offer
Good Fighting Force When Trained

liable springboard for an attack on
Europe from the south and controls
a great part of the southern shore
of the Mediterranean Sea. Syria
and Lebanon are key positions in
the control of the Middle East.
Madagascar and Reunion command
the important sea lane around the
Cape of Good Hope, which is now
our main line communications with
the Middle East, India and China
Many of the French Pacific islands,
notably New Caledonia, the New
Hebrides and the Marquesas are Of
great military value as base posi-
tions, or as controlling trans
Pacific sea routes.
AS to the military potential that
is the fighting power of these
French territories, we should not
expect too much Of their 46,5O0, 900
inhabitants, only about 100000 are
French, and only slightly over half
that number are males. Over 80
per cent of this French population
is concentrated in Algeria. The re-
mainder of the people are natives
Evening star., 1943-03-28

opponents and have acquitted them
selves creditably.
But the vast majority Of them
have not yet attained educational
or technical standards equal to those
Of European or North American
peoples. They cannot easily be
trained to perform all of the COM
phcated and delicate tasks required
IN a modern fighting force. It takes
longer to train them and In any
case they will require a cadre Of
French officers, noncommissioned
officers and specialists.
It is, therefore, apparent that
when the existing units of native
troops have been expanded to their
full strength and re-equipped with
American and British weapons, the
further growth Of a French colonial
army will be slow. It will not be
an army of Frenchmen; it will be
an army Of native troops drawn
from these Colonial territories. Of
f1cered by Frenchmen and limited as
to its size by the very small num-
ber OF Frenchmen available to COM
mand it, to provide its specialists
and technicians, and to provide its
aviation.
It will be good fighting army
which we may expect to acquit it.
self well in any task that may be
assigned 1t; it will be we'll COM
manded, we'll organized and, in time,
we may hope well equipped. But
it will not be large army, though
drawn from a population greater
than that of France itself.
(Copyright, 1943, by New York Tribune,)
Evening star., 1943-03-28
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT

!
1t seems reasonably certain that
we are about to see uniflcation of
all the French forces and territories
now engaged in fighting the Axis.
This means, or will certainly come
to mean, the whole of the French
African and colonial empire, with
| the exception of Indo-China, now
occupied by the Japanese. 1t seems
hardly possible that such holdouts
as the French West Indies and the
| French fleet at Alexandria can con-
| tinue to ignore the orders of a uni
fed French authority in which both
Gen. Giraud and Gen. De Gaulle
| take part.
1t may be well, therefore, to ap-
praise the strength and resources
of this new ally. The French ter
ritories involved are very largely in
Africa. They include slightly less
than half the area of that great
continent and for the most part
form single block in North and
West Africa.
The total population of the French
territories thus to be united Is 49,
100000, divided as follows:
Algeria, 100000; Tunisia, 2,7OO,-
900; Morocco, 6,25O,oo0; West Afri-
ca, l5.700,O0o; Equatorial Africa,
5,950,000; Madagascar, 100000:
Syria and Lebanon, 100000, and
others, 100000.
The others include the French
Pacific Islands, the French West
Indies, French Guiana, the small
French enclaves on the coast Of In
Ola, Reunion, the Somali Coast and
st. Pierre and Miquelon.
This makes a formidable total and
the geographical distribution of
these territories gives them great
strategical Importance.
French Africa forms an inval-
Evening star., 1943-03-28

Of the various territories, vast mix
ture OF races and colors, with Arabs
and Berbers predominating.
The majority. though not all, are
Of the Mohammedan religion. Most
of them make good soldiers when
well trained and led by European
officers; almost all have furnished
units which have fought we'll in
past wars as part of the French
colonial army. Many thousands of
natives from these colonies have
fought in France against European
Evening star., 1943-03-28
Divorce 10 Plead
Self If-Defense in Death
|0f Horsewoman
Hearing Set for "Wednesday
In Shooting Which Rocked
TuIsu Social Circles

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, March 27.-Before
a packed courtroom Mrs. Ella B.
Howard, trim 44-year-old divorce,
pleaded innocent today to a charge
| of murder in the hotel room Staying
of Mrs. T. Karl Simmons, IS, widely
known socialite horsewoman.
Common Pleas Judge Carter
Smith ordered Mrs. Howard held
without bond and set preliminary
hearing Wednesday.
Charles Coakley, her attorney,
said Mrs. Howard would seek her
freedom at the preliminary hearing
on the plea that the Thursday night
shooting, which rocked Tulsa social
circles, was accidental and that Mrs.
Howard was acting in seH-defense.
Mrs. Howard's Version.
Mrs. Howard's version of the fatal
scuff1e in the fashionable Mayo
Hotel, County Attorney M. S. Simms
said, is this:
Mrs. Simmons forced her way
into Mrs. Howard's room and threat
ened to kill her. Mrs. Howard
grabbed the gun, they struggled, the
gun was discharged.
Mrs. Simmons, shot through the
heart, shoulder and hand, died al
most instantly.
Mr.. Simms said Mrs. Howard has
offered no reason why Mrs. SIM
mons should threaten her, but said
he had established Mrs. Simmons as
the owner OF the death pistol.
Mrs Howard, composed and quiet
since the shooting, broke into tears
today when she was told her hus-
band, Louis Howard of Austin, Tex,
from whom she was divorced about
10 years ago, had come to Tulsa
and conferred with Mr.. Simms.
"That's nice" she whispered.
Mr.. Howard, however, did not ask
permission to visit his former wife,
held In the matron's quarters of
the county jail.
Unable to Give Clue.
Neither was he able to help en-
tighten Mr.. Simms on the shoot
ing. Howard told me he had not
seen his ex-wife in five years and
that he did not keep in touch with
her" Mr.. Simms said.
Mr.. Simms said he was trying to
learn how Mrs. Simmons knew Mrs.
Howard was registered at the hotel.
Mrs. Howard has said she came to
Tulsa Wednesday on business, in
tending to return to her Fort Worth
(Texo home that night, but was
unable to get plane reservation
until Thursday night.
Mr.. Simms said he had learned
the nature Of the business that
brought her to Tulsa, adding that
1t was transacted, but would not
elaborate.
Mr.. Simns also has questioned
George Sheehan, an employe OF Mrs.
Simmons husband, a wealthy oil
operator. Mr.. Sheehan was in the
hotel lobby when the shooting oc-
CURED in the ninth floor room. Mr..
Simms said Mr.. Sheehan told him
he was just loafing in the lobby and
that it was coincidence he saw
Mrs. Simmons there before the
shooting. ~
Evening star., 1943-03-28

Who says you cannot eat your
cake and have it, too? War bonds
will help win the war and still be
yours for savings.
Evening star., 1943-03-28

Make a raid on your pocketbook,
so that we can raid the Axis. Get
your War savings bonds or stamps
now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
By ADELE GARRISON

walt until Father comes back.
The idea hasn't quite jeIled In
my mind yet"
And as II concerns me-" she
said, you don't want to try 1t
out on me first, becAuse you
know that in I object, 1 won't
say 80 In front of your father.
i know you, my darling, but
don't worry. j have no objection
left In me to anything. Nothing
could be worse than what l have
TO face tomorrow morning."
MEASURES KATHARINE
Don't say that" l told her
sharply, hoping TO shattrr her
morbid mood. MANY things
could be worse and you know IT.
For instance"
Don't say IT," she exclaimed.
"Of course he is" l told her
Jack IL safe at the hideaway,
isn't he's"
"Ofo course he is," I told her.
and we both fell silent as We
heard my father coming through
my bedroom.
II have given instructions TO
the operator" he said. Il must
hurry back, for the Hayes woman
IL still demanding that she he
put back on your line, so tell
me quickly what you have on
your mind"
"Only this" said. "Neither
Katharine nor I could possibly
sleep I'm the next hour or 50.
Would you object II we went
over tn Mary's apartment, send
ing Noel over here 30 that this
apartment will not be left alone
Then Katharine can show me
how 10 keep up the prctense
that Mary's leg il in a cast"
a very good idea" he said
promptly. but he sure that Noel
is In his apartment before YOU
both have left it."
Continued tomorrow
Like sending him n gift every
day. Order The Detroit Times
mailed daily TO your man in the
armed forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18
PITFALLS Q. LOVE

I HEARD a gasp Of astonish'
ment and rage from the other enc
of the line. then Ruth Hayes
turned her venomous attention
TO me.
$50 you're there again, are
you." she said. land living again,
as usual Now you tell that lily
white Katherine of yours that IL
isn't on the free list for her 10
hang up on me. wanted her
word that she'd h. there tomor-
row morning at . o'clock, alone
and I still want ~"
You had it," | returned lCilH
when she spoke 10 YOU the first
time. Now ID viii save YOU time
and energy II YOU stop calling
us. I shall instruct the operator
Immediately not 10 connect you
with us again. -
hung up tho receiver anc
turned 10 my father
MAY 20 into the next suite
and give that instruction 10 the
operator ." I asked him and was
surprised when he hcsltated.
You were Justified In what
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18

you said" he told me finally.
but think I'll amend your Nat.
I shall tell the operator In case
the Hayes woman calls again to
connect her with me I'm the adj
joining suite. should like 10
hear her voice, and what she has
TO say"
CALLED BACK
He had almost reached the cam
door when ! halted him
Father dear" I said. "when
YOU have given that instruction.
will YOU please come back here
for just one minute:"
"Of course" he rejoined, then
hurried out.
Katherine, still pallid from
knowing that within q few hours
,he would have 10 meet the h7teC
wilderness woman" face TO face
.Ooked Curlously at me.
II suppose II isn't cricket 10
inquire what IL on your mind"
she said.
"You know better than that"
/ said, but / shall ask you to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-18

ERE pleasant little game that Will give
day. II numerical puzzle designed to spell out
fortune Count the letters FIRST the number
letters subtract II the number Is less than
add The your number Start at the upper left
and check Of key
numbers left right Then read the the letters under
the checked figures give you. 5-t9
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12
FEMALE HELP WANTED

GENERAL KITCHEN HELPERS = YWcA
Csfsteris. 2&3i East Grand Blvd Mad
ison 73N, between $50 and p. m
GENERAL - No cooking. stay nights
small flat. $40. $3.50 Buens Vista.
Hogarth Ss7i.
GENERAL housework: small fiat small
family; no laundry, no cooking. private
room; SIS. TO. 5-303s.
GENERAL housewofk. no cooking. no
laundry. days. stay 2 or nights
Townsend a-fSzs
GENERAL HoUsEWORK : White, high
wages stay; private room ana bath.
Lenox 6344.
GENERAL HoUsEwoRK- $50. stay som,
nights. UN. 2-427s, is70s Rosslawn
GENERAL housework: no cooking, no
laundry: private room; SIS. UN. 3-ssis.
Woman or girl; nice room
stay, good salary. UN. 3-s7s4
GENERAL. plain cooking four In family
stay; s22. Crosse Pointe Niagara s4s4.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12
Girl for Shipping Office

Vt '''1 Ut , Y tTNN
Young lady for receiving and shipping
Office. interesting work. Good conditions
Apply employment department Ridley
Cleaners. 1901 Hamilton a, Holden
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12

for cafeteria. experience not necessary
IDEAL working conditions No SUNDAYS or
holidays Meal. and uniforms furnished
See Mr. Weber, Metropolitan Building
Cafeteria 80 John r St at Woodward
The Omaha guide., 1943-08-07

the development Of war housing
The Contractor shall include the
foregoing provision in all subcon-
tracts for any part Of the WORK of
this Contract"
The provisions in the FPHA CT
der for the determination of COM
pliance BY the use OF percentages
criteria r not changed. They re-
quire that the proportion Of the
total amounts paid for skilled and
nnskilled labor received by<Ne-
groes and whites working on war
housing projects must approximate
the respective percentages OF Ne
gro and white skilled and unskIIled
laborers living in the locality.
Commissioner Emmerich said
that nor than SIS. 900. 900, com
prising 10 percent Of the total pay
roll for construction labor employ
ed in the development of the war
housing porjects. to which the re-
vised order applies. has been paid
to Negro workers. This sum is
exclusive Of the s23. 600. 900 paid
Negro workers in the construction
Of PWA and FPHA-aided public
housing projects.
The Omaha guide., 1943-08-07
NOW IT'S LIT. COL. LOU SWARZ
OF WDCA

St outs Aug. 3 amp Appoint
ment Of Lou Swarz, nationally
known lese actress, to 1t. Colonel
in the Women's Defense Corps Of
America was announced recently
by Mrs Nellie Bosworth. national
commander, from the national
headquarters in Chicago. Miss
Swarz also assists in organization
of chapters Of the WDCA. She
was honored in her home town St.
Louis, BY the members naming the
Chapter after her.
The WDCA j. 4 national organiz-
alton with chapters in several cit
les. Its motto j. service to serv-
ice men. 1t also also works with
the treasury department in Chic
ago and is nearing the $4,000. 600
mark in bond sales.
Volunteer war work is not new
to Miss Swarz as she is the vice
Chairman Of the American Red
Cross canteen. a member Of AWVs
and an actress who presents her
one-woman shows at camps month
ly. She viii work with various
Chapters in nearby cities.
The Omaha guide., 1943-08-07
RECOVER BODY OF FLYER
MISSING SINCE JUNE Is

~Selfridge Field. Mich, Aug. .
ANPGThe body of End 1t. Nath-
aniel Milton Hill, missing since
June Is. has been recovered from
Lake Huron near Oscoda. Mich.
according to a statement from Capt
Ramey, public relations officer.
Next Of kin have been notified.
Lit. Hill was plotting a two seat
er training plane when he crashed
into Lake Huron during a routine
flight from the Oscoda army air
field, a sub base of SeIfridge field.
He was accompanied on the flight
by I'd 1t. Luther Linson Blakeney.
a weather officer, whose body was
found June II.
The army air force pilot was the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Hill Of
Washington. DC. His wife, La
verne, resides in the same city.
Both flyers were attached to the
Sand fighter group.
The Omaha guide., 1943-08-07

Somewhere in the Southern Pac-
ific, Aug. 3 amp Bishop John A.
Gregg, prelate Of the AME. church
has held nine meetings with Negro
soldiers in this theatre Of war since
his arrival here nearly a fortnight
ago according TO an announcement
The bishop was accompanied Iy
Major Chaplain) John A. Deveaux,
formerly attached to the 93rd div
ision.
President Roosevelt and the war
department approved the trip BY
the noted churchman as a method
OF bolstering the morale Of service
men far away from home.
The men, except for a bit of
natural homesickness, are doing
fine" reported Bishop Gregg. and
are determined to give their best
1ANIdNCA " liz WL1AluS VI the
war That they are loyal Amer
leans goes without saying"
Servicemen here have greeted
the churchmen with eagernss. it
was learned. and Piled them With
questions about conditions at home
They are reported to also Be CRATE
fuI" to the President for making
the visit possible.
Major DeVeaux and l have botn
been well" stated Bishop Gregg
ard we have not suffered any Ill
effects from this trip, nor have We
missed a need. Pass on the word
to the dear folks at home that we
are gladly giving ourselves to this
task for our forces. that they may
keep up their morale until the war
Is won. making Ire world at home
a. well as abroad. Z better place ill
which to live"
The Omaha guide., 1943-08-07

walked off the job two hours after
they had reported for work, say
ing they did not trust the extra
special police sent to protect"
them.
The local NAACP, Urban league.
and representatives of the FEPC,
War Manpower Commission, and
labor division of the WPB are
working to arrive at a solution.
Union leaders, including Tom Ayd-
lett, colored organizer for local 43
Of the Go Marine Workers Union,
and G. Crossetti, president of local
SO, where the trouble occurred, are
also in the Conferences.
Trouble has been brewing for
many months because Negro work
ers have not been hired in skilled
capacities at the shipyards and
have been forced to start as labor
ers no matter what their previous
training. To add fuel to the ire,
the company has barred Negroes
from the training classes for weld
ing and riveting and has refused
to upgrade them. While local 43
Is said not to be as bad as Local 90
the union has not been as vigor-
cus as it should have been in aid
ing the colored members, accord
ing to stories of the workers.