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Evening star., 1944-08-21
Crippled Chicagoan
| Spends $500 Savings
To Attend Convention

His life savings Of $500 from sales
Of newspapers from his wheelchair
in Chicago ever since he was q
small boy were not too much to
spend to attend the American Fed
Grafton of Physically Handicapped
Convention now going on at the Ma
tional Press Club auditorium, So
year-old Davis Arndt said yesterday
"Since last March I've been plan
ming to come to this meeting" Mr..
Arndt declared, observing it was
the longest trip he had ever made
away from home. He first had the
task Of convincing his ration board
to give him additional gasoline cou-
pons for his sisters car.
"A neighbor drove me here" he
said. land we put my wheelchair
in the trunk on the back. Already
we've seen the Capitol and Mount
Vernon and we hope to see more
before leaving Tuesday"
MIR. Arndt is staying at the Ham
ilton Hotel and goes back and forth
to the convention In his whee1chair
Another delegate, Harry p. Fishel
president of the Pittsburgh lodge,
is baseball player and all-around
athlete even though he has only
one leg and one arm. He is also
Scout leader in Pittsburgh.
Representative Ramspeck, Demo-
crat, Of Georgia will address the
concluding session of the fedora
ton at its banquet at $50 O'Clock
tonight at the Continental Hotel
Representative Ramspeck will speak
on the postwar rehabilitation pro-
program for the physically handi-
capped.
More than 200 Federation repre-
Sentatives from Al States attending
the two-day biennial meeting today
will hear speakers outline plans for
improvements in the treatment Of
the 100000 physically handi-
capped persons. Michael j. Shortley
director Of the United States Once
Of Vocational Rehabilitation, and X.
Vernon Banta, principal employ
ment specialist for the handicapped
of the War Manpower Commission,
will address the convention at the
afternoon session. Representative
Voorhis, Democrat. of California
was to speak at the morning gather
ing.
Some Of the goals set forth by the
convention include the establish
ment of a Federal bureau to help
physically handicapped, creation of
revolving fund to supply artificial
aids to those needing them and a
pension fund for the estimated s.
000, 900 unemployables.
Evening star., 1944-08-21
Two Youthful Bandits
Take 500 From Bus Driver

Brandishing 45-caliber pistol
one OF two youthful colored bandits
held up a Capital Transit Co. bus
driver early today and robbed hin,
OF 500 in cash and quantity ol
tokens.
The victim was John F.. Adams
1913 Savannah street Sc, who tolo
police the holdup men boarded his
bus at the end of its run at Branch
avenue and Denver street Sc. Afte,
taking the loot the pair jumped from
the bus and ran into a heavily wood.
ed area nearby, police were told.
Police combed the surroundins
woods, but failed to find the bandits
Evening star., 1944-08-21
Sforzu Believes ItoIy
Should Keep Colonies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 2l.-Count Carlo
Sforza says the Allies should let
Italy keep her colonies after the
war unless the other nations turn
theirs over to an international ad-
ministration.
Sforza, a Minister without port
folio in the Bonomi government.
told a public meeting attended by
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and cabinet
members yesterday he thought
Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somali-
land should be given back to Italy.
But he indicated he did not in
clude Ethiopia or the Dodecanese
Islands.
Evening star., 1944-08-21
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
SPRING MOUNT, Pa, Aug. 2l-
The "one-man army of Anzio" re-
ceived his official welcome home
yesterday and most every one ir
the Perkiomen Valley opined he
never saw anything like it,"
AS for the hero himself, Pfc Altor
w Knappenberger, the 5-foot-4
l20-pound country boy who wor
the Congressional Medal of Honor
for holding off two companies ano
killing 60 Germans on the Italian
beachhead-
This is terrific" he said as he
turned, grinning, to the girl he is
to marry Saturday
The Lower Frederick fire COM
pany of Spring Mount, which spon-
sored the celebration, was proud
too, for more than 300 members OF
q fireflghting units in the valley
turned out with sirens blowing to
lead the parade.
Farmers and villagers poured into
town in shiny cars, battered jalopies,
on foot, and even in buggies to see
"the Army" ride by in a sky-blue
coupe, his arm around his fiancee,
Ruth Eichoff.
On Ruth's third finger, left hand,
sparkled diamond that Pvt.
Evening star., 1944-08-21

attempt to break through to their
trapped divisions.
1,500 Tanks Wrecked.
The Russian war bulletin said Red
Army troops had wrecked more than
1,500 German tanks during the last
nine days of fighting on the Polish
plains, along the German edge of
East Prussia and in the Baltic re-
publics.
West of Siauliai in Lithuania the
Russians beat off German attacks,
inf1icting heavy losses in men and
material, the bulletin added.
Berlin reported a southern
Red Army had begun a large
scale attack" on both sides of
1asi, key Romanian rail city ITS
miles northeast of the Ploesti
oil wells. Moscow gave no con-
f1rmation)
Evening star., 1944-08-21
1908 PostuIs Arrive

BUTLER, Pa. R. Two pos,
cards have arrived. addressed tt
Henry B. Lenau, box 4l4. The
postmaster doesn't know any Lena,
and nobody has box 4l4. Nor doe.
he know where the cards have beer
the last 36 years. One from Copen.
hagen, the other from Boston, the,
bear 1908 postmarks.
Evening star., 1944-08-21
Nelson
Continued From First Page. }

when he appeared to have won a
round in his fight for resumption
of limited civilian production.
1T looks like a kick in the teeth,
said one of his friends. Mr. Nelson
could not be reached for comment.
On the production front it was
learned that WPB and the War
Manpower Commission are moving
to impose sanctions of the recent
Byrnes directive and force down the
levels of employment in civilian
goods and so-called less essential in
dustries in communities where i'm
portant war programs are tagging
for lack of manpoWer. This move
indicated that efforts to recruit
workers, both regionally and inter-
regionally, for the critical plants,
are failing.
Reports Requested.
WPB, it was learned, has wired
area production urgency committees
to report Immediately as to how far
employment ceilings in less essen
tial industries could be lowered
without seriously impairing produc-
ton and service in support of the
war effort. In the areas where war
production is continuing to fall short
of military needs it was believed Of
flcials are prepared to force less
essential employers to cut down their
staffs.
In this drastic step workers would
be compelled to work in the war
critical plants or not at all. Of
flcials are convinced, it was said
that considerable nonessential work
can be dried up" entirely in the
manpoWer shortage areas to the
benefit of the must" war program
Along this line an official revealed
that manpower men recently per-
mitted a manufacturer of ladies
handbags in a tight labor area to
increase his work force from 100 to
500 The official referred to this
as the type of work that should be
dried up before the more neces-
sary civilian industries are touched
There also are indications OF
wholesale juggling of war contracts
to move as many as possible from
labor shortage areas and help put
critical war programs back on
schedule as President Roosevelt told
Mr.. Wilson to do in their confer
ence Saturday. The recent switch
ing of aircraft contracts was de-
scribed as only first move in that
direction.
Other Problems Arise.
Mr.. Nelson's reconversion pro-
gram was encountering other diff
culties The WIPE Requirements
Committee, which in each quarter OF
the year divides the Nations sup
plies of material among the various
programs, refused to set aside a
reserve of steel to support the Nelson
spot authorization" order issued
last week. The order authorizes
WPB field offices to approve produc-
ton of scores of civilian items where
the manpower is not needed for the
war. This development forces any
manufacturer approved under the
program to use So-called idle and
excess" stocks of steel, the Nation S
total of which is placed at 5000, 600
tons.
Officials said much of this steel
is not usable because it is cut in
various sizes and shapes. No
methods have been set up for dis
tribution of that which can be used
and in most instances there is no
record of its whereabouts. The Re-
ouirements Committee decision,
coupled with war manpower safe
guards written into the Nelson order
on insistence of military officials,
place nearly nsurmountable obsta-
cles before the reconversion pro-
Evening star., 1944-08-21
| AIeutiun Birds
| Initiate Tricks
OF WorpIones
y the Associated Press.

p5 Inc hooOClAtcO EIeSS.
DETROIT, Aug. 2l.-The Aleutian
Islands, says 1t. Col. Floyd Pfeiffer,
home on leave. are a strange and
fascinating country"
For example. there are the ravens
with Widespread exceeding a
mans reach and a penchant fol
initiating airplanes
Before the Americans planes
arrived, Col. Pfeiffer said. the ravens
acted just as you'd expect a biro
to act.
But after watching those planes,
he said. they learned to run for {
take-off. They swooped, buzzed the
field. zoomed around, and looped
the loop"
Evening star., 1944-08-21
Police Recover Body
Of Boy, 8, From River

Harbor police yesterday recovered
from the Potomac River the body
of Ltnwood Lewis, 8. colored, 93C
North Columbus street, Alexandria
The boy had been missing from
his home since Saturday. His
mother. Mrs. Florence Lewis. told
police she believed the boy had gone
swimming in the river.
Evening star., 1944-08-21
SO Bid CeiIinq Price

PARSONS, Kans. (P. - Sheriff
Fred Crispell, holding an auction of
a 194l model sedan conf1scated as a
liquor carrier, figured there would be
several bids at the ceiling price
$3.50. He prepared so numbers so
the winner could be drawn from a
hat. There were SO bids of $780,
Evening star., 1944-08-21

Extravagant spending Of money at
home results in an extravagant
spending of blood in battle. Buy
extra War Bonds today to keep our
casualties to q minimum. Let's all
back the attack.
Evening star., 1944-08-21
Russiu

Continued From First Page }
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

THE nation gasped when soldiers carried Mr..
l. Sewel Avery of Montgomery Ward out of his
private office and dumped him unceremoniously
into the street. Here was the army of democracy
acting like the German gestapo, acting under the
orders of the New Deal.
But when John L. Lewis defied the New Deals
orders you did not see him carried out of the offices
of the United Mine Workers of America. When
ALL and CLIO unions have struck in war plants
and have refused to return to work at the command
of the administration or it's agencies you have not
seen William Green or Philip Murray .hoisted in
their chairs and dumped out.
The machinists' unions of San Francisco and
Oakland, working on vital ships and munitions,
were in open defiance of the orders of the War
Labor Board-the same body whose orders led to
the manhandling of Mr. Avery despite the fact that
his business had no direct bearing on the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

Yet Messrs. Dillon, Hook and Smith, the
bosses of the machinsts' unions, were not elected
from their offices and the unions were not seized
by the New Deal.
Nor will you ever see union leaders physically
snatched from their headquarters by troops-not
while the New Deal is seeking fourth and per-
haps fifth and sixth term.
New Deal politics being what they are-wit-
ness what the New Deal countenances in Hague's
Jersey City and Crump's Memphis there always
will be ruthless and cynical discrimination in
favor of the boys who can deliver the votes.
The New Deal has cringed abjectedly before
the union gauleters ever since the New Deal began
Brave or at least brazen against the few, the New
Deal is now, always has been and always will be
cowardy in the face of union and political bosses.
This is politics at It's lowest level This is mockery
of democracy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
THIS is to thank you for your
Il wonderful editorial, "A Plea
for Dictatorship"
There is no doubt but that the
President is under a great men,
tai strain, and therefore might
be expected to make harsh,
rash judgments. But there still,
even in the case Of the 'Presi-
dent, should be a reigning and
governing force so that citizens
and private enterprises can eX-
ercise their rights Of recourse
in turning TO our courts for jul
dicial decisions.
If Atty. Gen. Biddle upholds
and approves the arbitrary ac-
tions of President Roosevelt, and
if the courts follow his sugges-
ton and give up their rights,
powers and duties of safeguard
ing the rights of citizens, what
have we but a totalitarian sys-
TEN of government?
Our coming election will be
the time and place 10 express
our feelings and opinions of
these dictatOrial actions.
4 READER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
FAIR ENOUGH

rest Of her household equipment
and there are other painful
ramifications, all tending 10 de-
prive the individual citizen of
values which ordinarily would
be his.
In the case in point, as Mr..
Day explains the situation, the
farmer and his family who were
selling out were people who
have deprived themselves of
most of the pleasures of life and
many of the necessities and
were disposing of the holdings
accumulated in a lifetime of
toll.
The tractors were not bought
up in a time Of scarcity with in
tent 10 exploit the shortage and
the need OF their neighborS for
a profit, but were acquired nor
mally for use on the farm.
4 S AN Offset against the eX-
"a cess price. in this case, other
articles sold for 10 cents or 20
cents on the dollar in proportion
10 their ceiling value. reckoned
by their age. condition and the
price they cost the farmer when
he bought them new.
In the Twin Falls sale, as re-
ported a few days ago. a farmer
bid Sl,050 for a used tractor,
the property of the county,
which was required by law TO
accept only the highest bid and
therefore could not let it go at
the ceiling price of S723.
Tractors and some other
equipment. including household
machinery, are covered by cell
ing prices even n'sales between
individuals, but used furniture
is under price restrictions only
If sold at auction or by a dealer.
Mr.. Day has asked the OPA
some interesting questions TO
which, he reports, he has had no
answer after a lapse Of seven
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
By Westbrook
Pegler

months. For example, he wanted
TO know if a sale is being held
under bankruptcy or foreclo-
sure, do the OPAS ceiling prices
still apply?
1t is my understanding, upon
local inquiry, that they do, with
out exception, and this could
mean that property Of value
quite sufficient 10 meet the
claims against il would have 10
be sold for less than the judg-
ment.
IN THAT case, who is the
Il loser. the one who is being
sold out or the one who holds
the judgment? And If the de-
PENDANT is the loser, how does
the other person go about col
Letting the balapce?
Can he and must he sue again.
and wouldn't the defendant have
a good defense in the fact that
he had surrendered property Of
ample value but that a third
party, having no standing In the
case. namely. the u. s. govern
ment, had interfered TO abolish
a portion of that value?
Another complication presents
itself in the case OF the sale or
auction OF good property, say a
quantity of confiscated liquor
by the government, itself, acting
under an order of the federal
court. ~,
The marshal, in that case, is
required by law TO realize as
much as he can for the public
treasury, but another agency Of
the government steps in and
stops the bidding at the ceiling
price, far short Of the potential
price, and the taxpayers suffer
a loss while the individual who
buys liquor gets the benefit Of
the restriction.
Copyright, ls4l. BY United Features, syna
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
Should Fighters. lib. Vote?

DO You favor lowering the voting 10 rs TO permit
men who are defending country have in how
IS
50 sgn The petition calling for referendum when the
solicitor calls YOU
SiSn the peuuon only you registered voter If
You nave been registered and have not voted in two years
you VIII have 10 reregister before signing
30 not sign than petition and only a
petition That being circulated your city exclusively
Married women not permitted 10 their husbands
names Signing. they must their Christian
Example Mrs. Mary Jones' Mrs John Jones
All sieners must give their complete home addresses,
including street numbers cities, and dates OF the signing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
TO THE EDITOR:

I(l~ItE EDIlOk:
I WISH to state a complaint
l. concerning bus transporta-
ton on the Livernois coach line
in the vicinity of Livernois and
Otis avenues.
have made complaint to the
d. S. r. but 10 no avail It
seems the drivers of the coaches
do not take US seriously, as they
always pass us defense workers.
l have been late to work twice
this past week. and ! have been
told by my superior, that an
other time l report late l Will
be dismissed.
should think the y. s. r.
could afford TO put extra driv-
crS, during the hours of 3 y. m.
10 $3.50 p m. as this is the time
we always leave for work. They
also should reprimand their driv-
crS The defense workers ought
90 be'pcktd up first
! am hoping whoever is in
chargS Of tho d. S. r Will take
notice Of THIS article and do
something about n.
\ DE SOTO WORKER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
Quick Question

A 9o-second mental test. scSte is
for starred questions, 10 for others
answered within 10 seconds. Average
n weeks scores for rating and try 10
Improve " each week.
Come November. II you adj
here to the original meaning
OF the word vote, you'll do
what?
Whats a votary?
'3-The first American 10 win
the title ace" was killed by
German, May 10, 1918, His
name: Casey Jones. Raoul
Lufbery. Frank Luke, George
Guynemer?
4-Members of one sex are
superior at distinguishing
sounds and colors. while the
other are better at dis
eliminating shape or form.
Which is the superior in
each case?
5-First woman to be elected
10 British parliament was
born in Virginia. Her first
names Nancy. and her last
is7 ,.N.N
6-Right or wrong: There's no
such thing as standard
bushel measure
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

DONALD DAY Of Edgerton.
~ o., an auctioneer who also
operates a farm and a retail
furniture store, is defendant in
an action by the OPA to. make
him pay $3.50 as a penalty for
having sold at auction three
used farm tractors at a price
S1.1S6 above the ceiling.
His commission on the excess
was only S11.S7 and it is his
contention that, even if such
limitation of the price were fair,
as he does not admit. the farmer
who sold the machinery and not
the auctioneer should have 10
pay the penalty, which is three
times the excess.
Mr.. Days experience appar-
emily is bnly one of several
similar misfortunes. others be-
ing reported from Twin Falls,
Ida, Hllsdale. Mich, Culver,
Ind, and Myerstown. Pa.
He has drawn up petition 10
Congress praying for the revi-
sion of certain of the price re-
strictions and pointing out a
number of complications which
may not have been foreseen
when price control was adopted
as one means of standing off
initiation.
MR.. DAY points out that
WI under this restriction the
wife of a farmer who has died,
leaving used equipment, may not
realize the full. fair value of
their joint estate but must,
in practical effect, present to
the lucky buyer as a cash gift
out of her lawful inheritance
the difference between the cell
ing price and the price that
could he realized in competitive
bidding.
The same applies TO the sale
Of her washing machine, cleo
trio refrigerator and all the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
pERHAPS it has all been just
II plain mistakes in the past.
but II happened again out East
Jefferson when the explosion
took place.
Police Inspector So-and-So
took charge of the rescue work.
The pictures showed fire he'll
NETS. coats and boots on top of
the debris. They are the men
who did most of the cutting,
saving and sweating The po-
lice rushed many of the victims
10 the hospital after the firemen
dug them out. The firemen also
did some rushing TO the hospital.
! happened 10 be there this
time. ! also hang around an en-
CINE house once in a while.
The police have their place at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

disasters. and the firemen many
times would have difficulty
working without their aid, but
for heavens sake let's give the
boys on the fire trucks some
credit for the grand job they
always do.
Too many times the police re-
ceive credit that belongs to the
firemen.
FN-FIREMAN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY


Score one for the hra ave question.
and i've for the last question 9-i0.
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dun.
lone of these queens was
guillotined: ca Mary
Stuart tb) Marie Antoinctte;
Co Catherine OF Russia?
2-One OF these Is a famous
church in Venice Ca S.
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Notre Dame.
3-One Of these songs is Irish
ca Annie Laurie Chi
Sweet and Low . tcl The
Harp That Once in Tara
Halls
4-One OF these colonies Was
founded by Catholics ,al
Maryland tbi New Jersey:
tc) Rhode Island
5-One OF these cities is The
capital Of Belgium DaI
Antwerp; fbl Licce tc1
Brussels
snatch these columns
ca The Hound ni DI Feoe-' Brown
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DamozFt OK Alfred Tcr-l-
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\ READER
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
SINCE the Teheran conference
~ strange things have hap
pened
Josef Stain has taken over
part Of Poland, and he plans
seizure Of Estonia, Lithuania
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

TO THE EDITOR:
I WANT to thank you for the
L Times Kind cooperation in
helping find a cigaret lighter
for my brother-in-law in New
Guinea.
Many thanks to the people
who offered their lighters.
MRS. JOHN DIXON,
20 Doris avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

and perhaps other countries in
Europe.
What farce!
This. of course, is not called
AGGRESSION by pro-commun-
list group who brand the Ameri-
cans pro-Fascist or pro-Nazi,
who oppose communism.
Communism must be swept
from our shores. the same as
all other alien ideologies. They
destroy the very fundamentals
of our own American govern
ment.
EMMA LOLA CABLE,
1882 Lexington avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20

80 Doris avenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
- 80 "a l.1-.l.. An Editorial Told
uoCoWos SuOeTI ISsOH0Ss Mostly In Pictures
Britain LOST.

...Torowo and the Gilbert Isionds 10
fbs Jops immediately otter Pearl Hor.
Dor. isionds hod been British colony
ond profeeforofs since 1892. They were
vifoi TO Poetic defense-defsnss Of
Amorieoi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-20
We Won...

1.-the Gilbert hsionds beck in
the sisontie "hiphibiovs" com.
poisn oimed principally Of Tor.
owe ofoH. where the Joponese
hod set vp tough defea,es, in.
GLIDING British gun, captured
Of Singapore.
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