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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-24
IHoUtorS
4dR4id TO
Red Cross
By CHARLES GENTRY

BN CHARLES GENTRY
To AN industry which uses the
word colossal the way home
folks use table salt, Barney Bala-
ban. president Of Paramount Pic
tunes, addressed a final plea for
the motion picture houses 10 help
reach the tremendous goal for the
present Red Cross drive.
Although only a week is left of
the current effort, the theatcrs,
over 5000 of the. $4,000 in this
country, have pledged an extra
week. April / through April Z, in
which 10 achieve the hopping
up necessary 10 reach the $l25,-
100000 quota
over 20 per cent OF Michigan
theatcrS have already enrolled to
help an this great cause, the pur-
pose of which was summed up by
Mr.. Balahdn IN a coaSt-to-coast
telephone hookup yesterday 10 cX-
hlbltor, distributor and press rep
reSentatIVCS.
The meeting. which was at
tended by r. c. Beatty Michigan
state chairman of the drive. and
Earl J Hudson president of
United Detroit TheatcrS, heard
Baiaban state:
I'm our Red Cross War Fund
Week from April 10 :. We are
asked To follow the general Red
Cross War Iund Campaign in
March and act n final 'mOppers
up i'm bringing them over their
national quota. We are given
another opportunity to do a war
job. The Red Cross is out there
with our fighting men, and to
stay out there they will have to \
have five times the funds they
have ever asked for in peace
time.
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
ITO succeed. we must pledge
every theater to cooperate. |
Even In instances where the /
local quota Is met before the
deadline of March 81, we must
redouble our efforts To make
sure that the national quota of
Sl25,000,00O Is obtained. The
responsibility of all of us Is not
finished until this goal is
reached"
Walter s. Clifford. president Of
\. T. and 7. and national chair
nan of the Red Cross War Fund
rive, spoke 10 the War Activities
committee following Balaban's
Iduress, He pointed out that the
irive'S detectives included not only.
he goal of $125. 100000, but also
the greatest number of
contributors in Red Cross history.
lie congratulated the War ActiVi-
les Committee of the motion pic
urc industry, citing its work as
real contribution to the national
led Cross campaign.
WAYNE L. CONCERT
The martial spirit certainly
the about concert
hich the Wayne University band
! conjunction with several other
'cal organizations staged last
Ight in Masonic Auditorium.
The Wayne bands, a capella \
1oir and chorus. high school band r
nd all-city high school chorus
acked the huge stage, providing II
4 exciting musical spectacle to |
Re large audience which attended :
lis stirring event.
HighliGht was the presence Of
composers who performed as
Jest conductors of their own
orkS slated on the program.
For example, Ferde Grofe d.
cited the high school band in Z
looms Song Of the Bayou and
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Even Cooler Weather
Due for D. {. Tonight

Shaking of the effects Of sum-
mer's most prolonged heat wave,
Washington today settled down to
enjoy a taste of more normal
weather.
The Weather Bureau reported a
peak OF 80 at pm. and promised
cooler weather tonight.
The thermometer registered SO at
am. today, then rose slowly. Yes
terday's high was reached at 2 pm.
when the official temperature was 90,
Cooling showers fell on Washing
ton and the nearby area early last
night, bringing small relief from a
drought that has grown more serious
from early in June. Although light.
the rains lasted the better part of
two hours in most localities, adding
up to .l3 Of an inch.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Five Injured in Fight
Of AFL Pickles, Clio Group
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Aug. ia fight be-
tween 25 AFL Teamsters Union
pickets and an estimated 800 CIO
dairy workers in front Of the john
son Milk Co. plant in suburban
Hamtramck this morning resulted
in injuries to five men. Two men
who received first aid for injuries
were detained for investigation.
AFL and CIO unions have en-
gagged in jurisdictional dispute at
the company headed by George A
johnson. Last week, Mr.. Johnson
signed contract with the CIO
United Dairy Workers, replacing a
previous contract with the AFI
Dairy Workers Local 22l39
Mr. johnson said AFL Transfers
Union pickets had forced his plant
to close yesterday, and that when
they appeared again this morning
the CIO members left their work in
some Is CIO-organized dairies and
chased the pickets away within S
minutes.
How the teamsters' union entered
the dispute was not Immediately ex-
planned. Mr.. Johnson claimed he
recognized two teamsters' union ex-
ecutives In the picket line.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
9 Axis Ships Sunk Off Italy
By British Submarines

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 17.-British
submarines have sunk nine enemy
vessels, including large transport,
in recent operations in the waters
around Italy, the Admiralty an
nounced tonight
The transport was torpedoed In
the Adriatic Sea while on the way
to Brindisi, a port on the heel of
the Italian boot A torpedo also
sank large supply ship in the same
area.
Two German transport barges and
an escorting auxiliary vessel were
sunk by gunfire of Corsica and
minelayer in that area was de-
stroyed by a torpedo after being
driven ashore.
In the Ligurian Sea, the British
submarines sank an Italian mine
sweeper and trawler by gunfire and
torpedoed an armed anti-submarine
yacht.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Caribbean-U. 5. Airline
Starts Regular Service
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 17.-KLM. the
Royal Dutch airline, will start regu-
lar passenger and cargo service be-
tween Caribbean points and the
United States today.
The first regularly scheduled plane
Is scheduled to arrive this afternoon
from Curacao, Netherlands West
Indies.
The line has been operating q
charter service from Miami for sew
eral months, but today's fight is the
first under Civil Aeronautics
Board six-month permit authorizing
regular service. .,4
There will be two round-trip
flights week to Miami from Aruba,
Netherlands West Indies. with stops
at Kingston, Jamaica: Camaguel.
Cuba, and Port au Prince, Haiti.
Evening star., 1943-08-17

"a Berlin broadcast today said
all German ano Italian troops
had been withdrawn from Sicily,
but field reports declared Axis
forces bottlec up in a tight pock- /,
ct along the east coast were still
fighting against British 9th Army
troops driving toward Messina
from the south. There was some
fighting in Messina.)
Although the enemy conceded the
end OF the Sicilian campaign, Allied
headquarters at SPIN. % am, East
ern war time) had been waiting for
hours for oficial confirmation that
all enemy resistance had ceased.
The American Sd Division, In
which Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower
once commanded 4 regiment,
reached the outskirts OF Messina
about 8 O'Clock last night, then
stormed into the city this morn
ing simultaneously with the troops
of the American 45th Division. The
Sd Division was the division which
first reached Palermo.
Hand-fo-H Hand Fighting.
American doughboys fought hand
to hand with the enemy through the
bomb-scarred streets Of the sprawl
ing hillside port less than s miles
from Italy.
Already their 155- millimeter
Long Tom" artillery had shelled the
enemy on the italian mainland, said
dispatches from the front.
Meanwhile vanguard of the Brit
ish 9th Army, forced to deal with
greater demolitions and to set back
strong enemy counterattack, had
leap-frogged to point miles south
Of Messina by staging a commando
landing.
The main force, an Allied head
quarters communique said, was at
Santa Teresa di Riva, approximately
20 miles south of Messina.
New Sea- Borne Landing.
The lightning advance of the
Americans, IA miles from Messina
yesterday, also was facilitated by
sea-borne landing. This latest
landing of amphibious troops by the
United States Navy, the fourth such
attack in the last 10 days, was near
Milazzo and was carried out yester-
day morning without great difficulty.
Meanwhile, naval communique
announced that strong Allied naval
forces were blockading the foot of
the Italian Peninsula from the Gulf
of Policastro, $50 miles up the west
coast and halfway to Naples. to
Cape Rizzuto, on the heel of the
boot.
The sea forces have been sweep
ing nightly into Messina Strait, 1t
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Charge Of Theft Lodged
AGAINST Accused Slayer

Already awaiting grand jury ac-
ton on a charge of Staying Thomas
White, 36-year- old Navy Yard en-
ploye, Campbell Burnett. II, COL
ored, was held today under $1.500
bond on a housebreaking charge.
Burnett is being held without bond
on the murder charge.
The defendant is charged with
taking 1888 worth of merchandise
from a Peoples Drug Store, BOG H
street NE, on July %, 13 days after
the death of Mr. White. who was
beaten over the head with a lead
pipe while returning home from
work.
Police said Burnett's arrest two
days after the drug store burglary
led to the solution Of the White
case.
Ebert Ringwood, 18. colored, also
awaits grand jury action in connec-
ton with the murder.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Five Youths Held for Trial
In Detroit Riot Staying
Nv the ASsociotad prase

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Aug. 17.-Five white
youths today were ordered held for
trial in Recorders Court on first
degree murder charges In the killing
of Moses Kiska, 58-year-old colored
man, during the race riots of
June 81.
They are Aldo Trani, 16; Armendo
Mastantuono, 20; Robert Cattone,
II; Anthony Saraceno, 18, and Ralph
Tancredi, 20.
Kiska was killed as he stood in a
traffic safety zone by shot fired
from an automobile. He was one of
Is Negroes and white persons
killed in the rioting.
Juvenile authorities waived juris-
diction in the cases of the minors.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Ship Victor F. Lawson
To Be Launched Tonight
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Calf, August IT,
Named for one of the founders of
the Associated Press. the Liberty
ship Victor F. Lawson will be
launched tonight from the yards of
the California Shipbuilding Corp.
Publisher of the Chicago Daily
News from 1875 until his death in
1928. Mr.. Lawson was associated
with the late Melville E. Stone in
the organization of the Associated
Press and served as its president
from 1894 to 1900. He was men,
ber of its board of directors from
1893 until 1925.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Total Of 2,S61,O0O
To Be in Naval Forces
This Year, Knox Says
No News Good News.
He Replies to Question
On Kisku Island

Secretary Of Navy Knox esti-
mated today that United States
naval forces, including the Coast
Guard and Marine Corps, will
reach a total of 1851 900 by the
end of this year.
At present our naval forces total
2,666,500 officers and enlisted. per-
sonnel, Mr. Knox told a, press con-
ference, and plans call for an addi-
tional 1874, 500 officers and men dur
ing the remainder of this year.
These statistics were made public:
r Present size of the Navy-l50,000
officers, 100000 enlisted men. BY
year end-200,000 officers, 100000
enlisted men.
Marine Corps. present strength
25,000 officers, 335,000 enlisted men.
BY year end-29, 900 officers, 100000
enlisted men.
Coast Guard, present strength
$500 officers, $4,000 enlisted men,
BY wear end-10000 officers, 10000
enlisted men.
These figures. the Secretary said,
(See KNOX. Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Knox Is Confused
| By Announcements
On Drafting Fathers

''It has gotten me sort of con-
fused" Secretary OF Navy Knox
commented today when ques-
toned at his press conference
on the drafting of pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers.
Mr.. Knox was asked by a re-
porter If the Navy was going
to take any prewar fathers. He
replied he did not know.
He said that while he was
out of town he noticed a num-
ber of announcements on this
phase of selective service, then
added his comment on being
confused.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Ortiz Rubio Gets "a Years
For Staying Of Governor

BY the Associated Press.
TOLUCA. Mexico, Aug. 17.-Fer-
nando Ortiz Rubio. son of former
President PaScual Ortiz Ruhio was
sentenced yesterday to IA years in
prison for the killing of Gov. AL
fredo Zarate Albarran of Mexico
State.
The sentence was imposed by Dis
trict Judge Enrique Garrido, who
also ordered Ortiz Rubio to pay
77,160 pesos (about $l5,000) indem-
nifty to the widow.
Ortiz Rubio was convicted Of
shooting the Governor and wound
ing three other persons during a
quarrel at a fiesta in the Casino
Charro here in March, 1912. He
pleaded elf-defense
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Britain Clears Coast
Amid Signs Invasion
OF Europe Is Near
Increased Air Ruids Are
Further-Indieotion Of
Possible New Blows
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. II. - Britain
began clearing all non-residents
from her barricaded coastal
areas today as a conviction
gripped the nation that the hour
is near for a powerful new blow
at Hitler's European fortress.
Invasion talk was heard every
where amid cries in both Britain and
Russia for speedy opening of a sec
ond front.
From every angle. new moves ap-
peared directed at invasion, but
whether in the Mediterranean. the
Balkans or across the English Chan
mel was the Allied war chiefs secret.
Airfields Repeatedly Blasted.
Significant. however, were these
developments:
/. Heavy and repeated American
air raids on Axis airfields in
France-natural targets as a prel-
ude to any new offensive.
2. Reports of declaration of state
of siege in Norway by apparently
jittery German occupation author
tiles.
3. Virtual isolation of Italy by sew
erance of that country's telephone
and telegraphic communications
with Switzerland. giving rise to the
(See INVASION, Page A-14J
Evening star., 1943-08-17
DemoIitions Started
On Mainland as j. S.
Divisions Enter City
Rome Radio Reports Fleet
Of Invasion Vessels
SIGHTED Off Cutuniu
BY RELMAN NORM,
Associated Pres. War CORRESPONDENT.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, August
17An .oical announcement from Allied headquarters
said American troops captured Messna early today and
that the enemy now sheling the city from the Italian
The announcement said the Scilan campaign
was now ended
The American Seventh Eighth Armies which had
been convergng Messina
was no estimate the number Of prisoners captured
The finish Of the 3sday campaign
dramatic development Allied
with large formation rading
time
Istres Tube and Salon. northwest Marse attacked
raids q
Of ut least 1,O00 miles,
"a Rome broadcast, recorded by the Canadian Broad
casting Co. and unconmed any Allied source said
Allied invasion neet had been sighted OF Catana the
coast OF Sicily Invasion barges declared laden with
and tankS)
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Italy Boasts Conquest
Would Toke z Years

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Rome
radio said yesterday in German
Language broadcast recorded by the
Associated Press:
"It would take the Americans more
than two years II they should at
tempt to conquer the Italian main
land In the same tempo In which
they proceeded In Sicily"
The Allies Sicilian campaign Dc
Kar I'VE weeks ago.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Roosevelt Expected,
To Be AthIone's S Guest
In Quebec Tonight
War ToIks Believed
Deliberately Handled
So as to Worry Axis
Secretary OF STATE HULL may
60 to Quebec. Page AT
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL,

ASs0C1Ated freSS StaH WrlteT- -sfr -
QUEBEC, Aug. 1.-THE Earl of
Athlone, Canada's Governor
General, and Princess Alice ar
rived here today from Ottawa for
a one-day stay in the Citadel,
and will entertain tonight at a
dinner at which it was believed
President Roosevelt would be a
guest.
The Quebec war conference en-
tered it's second week today amid
strong indications that the unusual
manner in which it has been ham
died has been designed deliberately
to intensity Axis nervousness over
the major military developments
predicted by President Roosevelt
Meanwhile, Dana Doten, repre-
senting the Office of War Informa-
ton at. the war councils here. de-
scribed the Quebec conference as
lone OF the greatest gatherings of
military experts ever held"
In addition to the highest rank
ing military officials of the United
States and Great Britain, he said
"the officers directly responsible for
the practical planning of major
Allied operations have been brought
together"
Names May Be Kept Secret.
1t has been obvious all along, Mr..
Doten said, that these planners
have been here Probably most of
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Honor Of Capturing Messino
Given to Two u. S. Divisions

erlvelop and take the port, which
has been the chief embarkation port
for Axis forces escaping to the Ital-
ian mainland.
'3nailing forward cautiously under
q bright moon, the boys who fought
victoriously at Bloody Ridge" Santo
Stefano, San Fratello, SAINT AgatA
and half score OF other ridges and
cities where the desperate Nazis
fought, rearguard actionS Travelled
that last few miles to the scene Of
the German Dunkerques as one unit
In the continuous battle up the
coast they have taken successive
cracks at the enemy, leapfrogging
(See HCYLE Page AL
Evening star., 1943-08-17
| Juror Reporting
For Duty Seized
| As EmbezzIer

A prospective grand juror, Hugh
H. Sinclair, Al, was arrested on q
bench warrant in connection with
an embezzlement charge when he
appeared at the Municipal Court
building today preparatory to being
sworn in as a member of special
grand jury to investigate case
being presented by the Department
of Justice
Sinclair's arrest was in connection
with an indictment returned in
June, 1912, charging embezzlement
of $247.50 while he was said to have
been working as clerk for a credit
company. A check on prospective
grand jurors revealed Sinclair was
wanted in the indictment. He lives
In the 500 block Of East Capitol
street.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
WAAC or WAC Same
To Gen. Eisenhower.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 17.-Gen,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, addressing
the WAACS last night before they
made their decision on re-enlisting
in the Army said. "A WAAC often
does the Job of two men. If sim
gle one of you goes home, it's too
many"
Gen. Eisenhower said he consid-
cred 1t only technicality whether
the organization was known as
the Women's Army Corps or as the
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
II am too simple a soldier to see
the difference" he said.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Rickenbocker Sees Fall Of IA
As Earliest Date of Nuzis' End

ence. II am not a fanatic on air
power, but I firmly believe that
Germany must be broken from the
inside out, not from the outside in"
He said anything can happen in
Italy---any day i think 1t will be a
complete blowup'
Capt. Rickenbacker expressed be-
lief that except for air power the
Allies would be unable to capture
Italy and predicted an immediate
,crumblng within italy as a result OF
bombingS.
He said that the Germans might
make a stand at the Pc River. but
lSee RICKENBACKER, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Friedrichshofen
Raid Reported
BY Swiss Radio
Attock on Noxi City
Declared Made by
Flying Fortresses
BULLETIN.

LONDON R.-The Swiss
radio said today that Ameri-
can Flying Fortresses raided
the German city of Fried
riehshafen by daylight and
that violent antiaircraft fire
was seen from the Swiss side
: of Lake Constance. The
broadcast, recorded by the As
Sociated Press, said two OF the
Fortresses made q forced
landing in Switzerland.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 17.-Large for
nations of Allied aircraft-in-
many twin-engined
planes-blasted at
Western Europe by daylight to-
day after the RATS big bombers
had hammered Turin in their
third successive night assault on
Northern Italy.
Reports from the British south
east coast said many squadrons OF
planes headed out across Dover
Strait in mid morning to continue
a great offensive which has been
under way for nearly 48 hours with
only minor Interruptions.
The Berlin radio broadcast DNB
dispatch from Bern saying that two
Flying Fortresses made a forced
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Ships Dodging laps
Told to Get the He'll
In, Get the He'll Out
y the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ABOARD UNITED STATES
NAVY LANDING SHIP TANK,
Aug. 10 (DelayedD The COM
modore of the flotilla of LISTS
supplying food, munitions. and
fuel for our New Georgia in
vasion forces has given, his
shippers these instructions for
navigation in waters In which
they may be attacked by Japa-
nese planes and submarines:
You must duck and dodge
and conceal. You must dance
the dance of the seven wells.
You must get the hell in and
you must get the hell out"
LIST is the designation for
landing ship tank-a craft
which can haul heavy cargo
right onto the beach.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Brazilian War Minister
Arrives in WASHINGTON

Mai Gen. Enrico Gaspar Dutra,
Brazilian Minister of War, arrived
by Army bomber at Boiling Field
from Miami at 3:03 pm. today for
an official visit.
The 58-year -old soldier statesman,
here as the personal representative
of President Getulio Vargas, will
confer with high-ranking civilian
and military authorities on Brazil's
plans to send troops overseas with
United Nations forces.
He also will tour military installa-
tions throughout the country as a
guest of the War Department.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
10000 U. S. Clocks
Arrive in Britain

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. l7-Sixty thousand
alarm clocks an article long un-
purchasable in Britain-have ar
rived here from the United States,
1t was disclosed today.
The Board of Trade. however, still
is undecided how to distribute them
among stores so they can get into
the hands of war workers.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
BY HAROLD v. BOYLE,

Assoclattd Pfess WIT Cofftspohdent.
WITH AN AMERICAN COLUMN
EN- ROUTE TO MESSINA. 1870
AM, Aug. 17.-Military leaders to-
day divided the honor of capturing
Messina, ordering elements OF two
American divisions which had
knocked back the Nazis all Che way
along the northern coast from
Palermo to enter the city sinful
taneously.
Although three American col
umns and one British column closed
In together for the kill, battalions
Of the Sd and 45th Divisions. moving
In from the northwest, we're told to
Evening star., 1943-08-17
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Capt. Ed
die Rickenbacker. home from 55,-
000-mile inspection tour of the war
zones, said today that Italy sis being
bombed out of the war" but that
Germany will not even crack before
the fall of 1914 at the best" at. the
present rate of the wars progress.
Germany still has a vast army.
tons of materials. millions engaged
in slave labor, and she is relieving
men from her own forces for addi-
tional labor, and in addition the
Germans are courageous and intelli-
gent" he said at a press confer
Evening star., 1943-08-17

NEW YORK, Aug. II Rp.-
Stocks mixed; selected rails, in
dustrials higher. Bonds steady;
some rails in demand. Cotton
quiet; hedging balanced by price
fixing.
s CHICAGO.-Wheat closed u
II higher with rye. Rye gained
1ss-lss: short covering. Hogs.
all weights hogs and sows 10
cents higher; top, $14.85.
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Gen. Head in London

LONDON. Aug. II tP).--Maj. Gen.
George Head, chief Of the United
States Army Air Transport Com
mand. has arrived in London, it
was announced today. 4
Evening star., 1943-08-17
Another Merchantmen Sunk

The Navy announced today that a
medium sized United States mer-
chant vessel was torpedoed and sunk
by an enemy submarine in the
South Atlantic late in May Sur
vivors have arrived at Miami, Fla.