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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Ledo Road Gates
Cleared Of Foe
4 Jap Stronepoinfs
Fall in North Burma !.

CHUNGKING. Nov. Is (UP)-
Chinese troops have cleared the
mountain passes leading to the,
Chefang Valley in western China
which is transversed by tho
Burma-Ledo road, and have taken
four more strong-points in Bhamo.
North Burma, with the aid OF
American dive bombers, which
blasted Jap positions only 100
yards ahead of the advancing
Chinese.
Communiques announcing gains
on the Burma-Ledo road men,
toned only patrol activity in the
Ishan area of Kwangsi Province
and said an enemy attack on
Lungsheng. so miles north OF
Kweilin. was repulsed.
(Tokyo broadcasts claimed
advances over so miles west OF
1shan and said japanese troops
were at Nantan, only IL miles
from Kweichow Province.)
CONSOLIDATE FORCES
A Chinese military spokesman
said the japanese were consolidate
ing in the Ishan area and pre-
dicted the japanese drive would
head towards Manning to link up
with forces in French Indo- China.
He said the Japanese were show
ing no signs of further invasion
of western China.
Tokyo broadcasts. heard by
United Press. claimed the cap
ture Of Manning
A communique from Mai. Gen.
Wedemeyer,s headquarters said
Fourteenth u. S. Air Force planes
carried out widespread attacks in
occupied China. destroying Is
planes. damaging a large enemy
freiahter in Annoy Harbor and
destroying IL locomotives.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Double Trouble
z Earthquakes Precede
Raids on Tokyo

PASADENA, Cal. Nov 25
GNS)-The JapS in Tokyo, city
notorious for its many earth
quakes, probably gave their last
two but little thought.
The California Institute OF
Technonogy reported today that
two major earth shocks 5000
miles away in the South Pacific
were recorded on the seismograph
just before American B-29s re-
leased $50 tons of bombs on the
Jap capital.
The shocks were recorded at
1901 and 1912 p. m. Thursday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
ADVANCE IN BURMA

HANDY. Ceylon. Nov. Is tUP)
last African, forces advancing.
on Kalewa through the Myit
River gorge are within 1914 mi!A
of kalewa, in southwest Burma.
southeast Asia command COM
munique reported today.
Another group of East Africans
also continued to advance south
on Kalewa along the Chindwin
River parallel TO the Myitha.
In the Arakan region. West
African troops. with air support,
took an enemy position IN The
Kaladan River valley. while pa
trolls and artillery were active
around Buthidaung.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
MAIN ROAD CUT

In the center of the First
Army'S sector. American troops
fought house TO house in the
streets of Weisweiler, two miles
east OF Eschweiler. while the
"autobahn" super highway run
ming east 10 Duren was cut at
several points west of LANCER
wehe. leaving the Germans in
that area only one narrow escape
gap. That avenue already was
under American gunfre from both
sides.
Announcing that the First Army
alone had buried 1878 Ger
mans since D-Day. headquarters
said there had been a noticeable
increase of German flying bomb
and rocket fire attacks on Hodges
troops following a similar increase
of such blind firing on 1t Gen.
Simpsons Ninth Army
South of Strasbourg, French
tanks of the Seventh Army were
reported bearing down on Colmar
toward a meeting with French
First Army forces coming north
from Mulhouse. A front dispatch
said German units were in CON
fused" retreat from the VoSges
IN an effort to escape across the
Rhine before the French trap
closes.
Patton, meanwhile. was swing
ing the full power OF his Third
Army into and toward the Saar,
Germany'S third richest industrial
basin, after his hopping up units
far to the rear forced NaZi hold
out garriSonS at Forts Sonny and
st. BlaiSe in the Metz area TO
surrender at 3 %. m. SATURDAY..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Custer Soldier Dies

BATTLE CREEK, Nov. %
Sgt James +. Grimes. Fort
Custer headquarters soldier, dice
last night at Percy Jones Fort
Custer Annex Hospital after sew
eral weeks illness. His home is ir
FAYETTEVILLE. n. G.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
4 Detroit Wounded
Arrive at Percy Jones

BATTLE CREEK. Nov p 49,
New arrivals at Percy Jones Hos
pital include four Detroiters and
six men from outstate. DetroiterS
arc Pfc. Dan d. Barber, 2159
Woodale; Pfc. Fred j. Gendron.
1920 Rutherford; Pvt. George
Yank, 1926 Orleans, and Cpl
Stanley F. Wheeler. SOTO Har-
dyckS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
JAW Asks FIN Permits

CHICAGO. Nov. q 1NS)-
The UAW-CIO have applied for
frequency modulation broadcast
ing licenses In II American cities.
President r. J. Thomas disclosed
TODAY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Luce Spent $I0,90I

HARTFORD, Conn. Nov. 25
'UP)-Receipts of S10,93S and ex-
penditures of $1,000 were filed in
the secretary Of states office to-
day by the Clare Boothe Luce for
Congress committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
FOREST FIGHT GOES ON

The breakout to the Cologne
plain did not mean that the entire
Hurtgen forest has been cleared
of Germans, supreme headquar-
tiers stated in a midnight bulletin,
though front dispatches had said
the forest battle was at an end.
Headquarters insisted there was
still considerable fighting" in a
forest strip two miles wide by
four and half miles long.
This uncleared strip lay along
the eastern fringe of the forest
where the town Of Hurtgen was
brought within American artillery
ranpn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
u. s. NOT INVOLVED

WASHINGTON, Nov. IS (UP)
The state department. stressing
this country's traditional policy
of not guaranteeing specific from
tiers in Europe. said today that
this was not an issue in the resig-
nation of Polish Premier Stanis-
law Mikola icZYk.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
u. S. Report Depicts y
Mazi Horror Camps
By FRANCES SPATZ
International News service staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (INS)-The L. S. government
placed its stamp of authenticity today reports that the Nazs
had tortured. murdered and cremated millions of helpless
European civilians in efficiently operated determination factories
1t fact beyond denial" said the War Refugee Board,
that the Germans have deliberately and systematically
millions Of Christians
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
FIiohf Officer Killed

SEYMOUR JOHNSON FIELD,
N. C.. Nov. Is GNS)-Officers OF
this base revealed today that
Flight Officer Gordon r. Sellar.
19. was killed when his fighter
plane crashed yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Jap Convoy
Sunk0ffCebu
$500 Die in Efforts
70 Reinforce Leyte

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HQ-
PHILIPPINES. Nov. 20 sun
day) INS)-DeStruction OF an
other Japanese convoy of four
transports. bound for cmbattled
Leyte Island. heavily laden with
troops and supplies. was an
nounced today by Gen Macarthur.
The convoy, spotted AZ dusk of
the north tip Of Cebu in the
Visayan Sea. was blasted from
minimum altitude by Leyte-baScd
planes of the Fifth Army Air
Force.
"AlI cargo and an estimated
1000 enemy troops were lost
Macarthur reported in his sun
day morning communiquc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
BOMB BY-PASSED BASES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 CUP)
- American land based planes
bombed by-passed Jap bases in
the Pacific in series of raids
Tuesday through Friday, the navy
announced today.
A Pacific fleet communique re-
ported that marine fighters sank
barges and started fires in the
Palau Islands. Army planes twice
struck Chichi JimA in the Bonins
and scored hits on docking facili-
ties at Haha lima.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Yanks on P|d aims
Cologne
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
ated civilians from the Reich fort
rcSS town of Saarburg.
A sudden clearing of the recent
rainy weather permitted hundreds
of American dive bombers to ham,
mer the wavering enemy on the
Rhineland approaches in close
support to the American First and
Ninth armies
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
4TH CONVOY DESTROYED

YIN NONNOI DIS hOt Eb
Three Of the transports were
sunk and the fourth was left hlaz-
ing fiercely with laps still aboard
scramhlinG- over the rails into the
flame-lli sea.
The convoy was the fourth
caught and destroyed IN Philippine
waters by land and carrier-baScd
aircraft since MacArthur'S army
OF liberation landed IN the Philip
pines some FIVE weeks ago. Three
transports and a destroyer were
sunk in the same waters Friday
while trying to reach Beytc.
Sixteen Jap transports aggregat-
ing 5000 tons and Ia escorting
wsrships, mostly destroyerS, have
been blasted into wreckage in
these disastrous enemy efforts 10
reinforce shattered Jap divisions
in Leyte.
10000 JAPS LOST
Total loss Of life has reached an
estimated 10000 enemy soldiers
and sailors 1900 aboard the
transports and approximately
1000 on the destroyers.
In addition, numerous bargeS
filled with Jap troops have been
knocked off in Ormoc Bay by fast
striking PIT boats and patrol
planes on the alert TO counter
nighttime attempts of the enemy
10 make short runs from neighbor-
Ing islands.
Jap casualties in the loss OF the
convoy Friday were estimated at
$500 killed or drowned. Thus the
Japanese have lost $500 men at
sea in two days rs Gen. TemeyAki
Yamashita continues his costly
efforts 10 reinforce his hard
pressed troops in Leytes Ormoc
valley.
Enemy troops sealed in the
Ormos Valley. now feeling the
pinch of dwindling food and=am.
munitlon supplies, were dislodged
from high ground near Hill 1925
by units OF the 32d u. s. Infantry
division. The hill itself was pre-
viously occupied by troops of the
oath division.
Concentrated American artillery
fire eliminated many Jap artillery
batteries in the Ormoc Valley, and
the volume of enemy fire was
sharply reduced as the Americans
advanced down the valley toward
Ormoc.
HALT NIGHT ATTACK
Elements of the Seventh In
fantry division, deployed on the
west coast south OF Ormoc, were
reported in action for the first
time in several days.
Yanks OF the seasoned Seventh,
veterans of the Attu and Kwaja-
lein campaigns. broke up a Jap
night attack at Palanas. IL miles
south of Ormoc, which has been
steadily hammered for days by
long range artillery fire.
On the north tip OF Leyte units
Of the oath division cleansed the
Pinamopoan and Capooan areas
of scattered Jap parties who
fought desperately despite their
l. Il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26

alike-all over Europe.
This campaign Of terror and
brutality, which Is unprece-
dented in all history and which
even now continues undated. Is
part Of the German plan 10
subjugate the free peoples of
the world"
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Tent Is Their Home Now
BROTHERSSTILL TOGETHER
IN 20 MONTHS FIGHTING

This OF series Of stories BY Star correspondent
District Maryland and Virginia soldiers
Evening star., 1944-04-14
$4,000 Claims Filed
BY Firms for Rebates
On Excess Profits Tax
By the Associated Press.

~-N~~~N-eNN
Thirty thousand claims by cor
pOrations for refunds of more than
a quarter of all excess profits taxes
paid In the first three years of the
acts existence have been filed with
the Treasury.
Brought under a relief provision
OF the excess profits law, the appli-
cations total approximately S3,OO0,-
10000 for the years 1940- 1912, when
tax collections on war-swollen
profits aggregated slo,5oO, 100000.
While the corporations could re-
cover little more than half the
amounts of their claims because, in
most cases; refunds involve normal
tax assessments on the same in
come, the proportion would remain
the same, according to John L. Sui
livan, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
Issues Are Complex.
Writing in the Pennsylvania Bar
Association Quarterly on ''The Ad-
ministrative Problems of Wartime
Taxation" Mr.. Sullivan confined
his brief mention of the claims to
the task involved.
The most casual thought" he
said, about the nature of the facts
and data required in connection
with each application, the number
and complexity of the issues pre-
sented in each and the inherent
difficulty of the basic question OF
Judgment as to what constitutes
normal profits is sufficient to
frighten one with the staggering
burden of the job"
From other Treasury sources 1t
was learned that many of the
claims probably represent amounts
considerably larger than the cor
porations actually hope to obtain.
treasury economics, borrowed
from other Government agencies,
are compiling statistics on business
cycles and other facts, later to be
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Traffic in Stolen Cos
Coupons Luid to Youths
Bx the Assnciafer, Pre-,

By the Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS. s. OAK, April L.
Investigation by the Once OF
Price Administration tOPA) has re-
vealed trafiic In stolen gasoline cou..
pons among Sioux Fails juveniles,
John r. verschoor, district OPA di-
rector. said yesterday.
A probe begun February Is dis
closed, Mr.. verschcor announced,
that q group Of Juveniles have stolen
coupons from trucks at the stock
yards and from filing stations.
In most instances the coupons
we're taken for the personal use OF
the juveniles In attending dances
and basket ball games. 1t was re-
ported.
During the hunting season, iuve-
niles said, truck and farm gasoline
coupons were being sold openly at
Is cents each, but at present the
had dropped to Is cents.
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Chicago Gaming Boss
Believed Kidnapped;
Was Capone Deputy
Bv the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 1.-THE report
ed kidnapping in suburban Berwyn
yesterday of man police believe
was Jack Guzik, gambling boss and
former aide of AL Capone, remained
somewhat of a mystery today.
Cook County highway police, first
to receive report of the abduction
of man they believe was the for
mer Capone business manager, said
Guzik had not appeared during the
night at any Of his customary hang
outs.
Chief John j. McGinnis said re-
ports of the kidnapping indicated the
victim was Guzik and some police
believed he might have been abduct-
ed for ransom Chief McGinnis said
police continued their search for the
man who had telephoned the report
of the kidnapping.
He said the telephone caller said
a man was pulled out of car by
three masked gunmen, pushed into
their automobile and was driven
away after they had fired two shots
at companion, who fed.
1t. Anton Paulus said two wit
nesses had heard the telephone calls,
a second being made to Chicago
number which police traced to an
apartment occupied by friend of
Guzik.
The Chicago gambling boss had
been in the same general vicinity of
the reported abduction, having ap-
peared in Willow Springs Police
Court, where a charge of disorderly
conduct against him was dismissed.
Guzik, who was No. 10 on the list
OF % public enemies posted In 1890,
often was arrested but served only
one prison sentence--in Federal
prison in 1882 for income tax eva
sion. He was released in 1885 and
although he has maintained home
in Florida he kept a controlling
hand over syndicate operations in
Chicago, police asserted.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

three roommates sleep on aban-
doned Italian bedsteads. They have
built themselves a large table and
have fixed up several chairs, includ-
ing one which used to be in a Ger
man command car.
Have Own Command Car. .
AS a matter of fact they own the
command car. They keep it parked
beside their tent. 1t isn't running
right now but they have hopes that
it will again. They bought it for
$40 from some New Zealanders who
were going home 1t had carried
them 10000 miles loaded down with
their effects. 1t made the long trip
from Bengasi to Tunisia, where it
was put aboard the boat which
brought them to italy.
They make good team, these two
inseparables. Bud, who is 80 years
old and was christened Everts L., is
a corporal. He is outranked by 26-
year-old Bob, who is listed In the
books as Sergt. De Vale r. Horton,
but half the time they wear each
others shirts and nobody-least of
all Bud and Bob-pays much at
tention to the question of which
shirt has the most stripes on the
sleeve.
AS ground radio operators they
have, in the vernacular of their
job, worked each other" a num-
Der of times. The most notable in
stance is when Bud was at Bengasi
and Bob with the units advanced
detail at Enf1daville, each knew
right away who was at the other
end of the line, although no iden-
tifying signals were sent.
I'VE recognized each others fist"
Bob explains, that is to say, we
know each others style of sending"
Plan Mining Careers.
The recent history of the Horton
brothers is history of this bomb
group OF which they have been
members since the day it was acti-
waited at Barksdale Field, La. They
sailed for the Middle East on Bob's
Evening star., 1944-04-14

They have made 1t a pretty good
home but it's not the kind of place
you would choose to live in If it were
a matter of choice. They started
with what they had, canvas, and this
is what they've done.
They have a marble doorstep COM
plete with footscrapers. They don't
want any mud on the wood floor it
took them so long to build. The
place is lighted by American electric
bulbs and heated by captured Ger
man stove. They have running wa
ter. 1t comes from German gaso-
line barrel through a hose, which
was a gas line on a wrecked Italian
ship, to a spigot which they salvaged
from a bombed house in Bengasi.
They have radio. They and their
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Copt. Gentle Leaves
Hospital After Crosh
py tn. Associates oras.

BY the Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE IN ENGLAND, April a..
Capt. Don S. Gentle, top-rankine
American ace in the European the
ater, has been discharged from the
hospital, where he hads sbeen under
going treatment for minor injuries
suffered when forced to crash land
his fighter plane while returning
from a recent mission.
Capt. Gentle is now back in his
own quarters, it was disclosed, and
is feeling very good"
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Ceremony tonight Marks
lincoln Assassination

Ceremonies OBSERVING the 18th
anniversary of the assassination Of
Abraham Lincoln Win be held st 4
O'Clock tonight by. the National
Capital Parks at the Lincoln Mu-
scum.
Stanley w. Mcclure, National
Park Service historian, will give al
Illustrated lecture on the assassina-
ton and Harry B. Fleharty OF thA
Justice Department win speak.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

assembled and used to train internal
revenue agents who will dispose of
the claims.
Problem Called Grave.
Guy I. Helvering, however, in one
of his last acts as internal revenue
commissioner prior to his resigna-
ton last winter to accept q Federal
judgeship, wrote Secretary Morgen-
thau Of the problem presented by
postwar refunds to corporations.
Mentioning unoff1cial estimates
that the rebates might run as high
as SIS, ,000, 900 900 or $30, 900, ,0O0, 600,
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Mr.. Helvering said ut may not be
unreasonable to think" that such
rebates will present a grave prob
lem Of national financing"
All excess profits taxes are subject
to 10 per cent postwar refund,
without regard to relief provisions.
Collections on the profits levy in the
fiscal year ended last June 80 totaled
81, 4,844 600 900. They are estimated
at more than $500, ,000, 900 in the
current fiscal year and at nearly
So, 400, 600 900 in the II months be-
ginning July !.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

25th birthday. Upon arrival in Au-
gust, 1912, they went Immediately
to Palestine. After the battle of
Ell Alamein in October, they trav-
elled with the heavy oombers in the
wake of the 9Th Army all the way to
Tunisia.
They had always been pretty
much together in washington. In
March of 1941 they enlisted together
and Immediately asked for radio
work. They took a course in radio
operations and mechanics at Scott
Field, Ill. Later, while at McDill
Field, Fla, they were up for stimuli
taneous furloughs when December
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Citizens Group Hears
TuIk on War Security

Miss Isabel Burlingame of the
American Theater Wing War Serv-
ice spoke last night On THE Sc.
curity of Military Information" at a
meeting Of the Park City Citizens
Association.
The meeting was held at Park
View School. Wilbur F. Comings
presided.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Z came along and the furloughs
were cancelled.
"You might add" says Bud, that
We haven't had one since"
Bob was born in Washington and
both of them attended Eastern High
School, from which Bud was grad
uated. They each took two years of
prelaw training at FOrdham Uni
versity, after which Bud went to
the National University Law School,
Before they enlisted they had been
out in California for 81 while doing
a little hydraulic gold mining. They
want to take mining engineering
degrees after the war. Their father
is a mining engineer with the Bu-
reau of Mines.
Evening star., 1944-04-14
Argentine Rebel Sentenced

BUENOS AIRES, April IA (R.--
The Argentine War Ministry an
no,inced yesterday that military
court had sentenced 1t. Col. Tomas
A. Duco, who led an abortive revolt
of his troops In Buenos Aires last
February 20, to two years imprison-
ment and dismissal from the army.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

BOYS FIND CONTEMPLATING PLATES-Samuel Baldwin IL
ef 735 Seventh street SE points spot where he and
Larry Peck 31 Seventh street Sc (center threw
plates for engraving counterfeit gasoline sugar ration
stamps into the Anacostia River The discovered
craving plates under rock nearby Frank Clarke 49,
Buena Vista terrace Sc gh reported the discovery police
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1944-04-14
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr.

AMERICAN BOMBER BASE Italy
homesick
a
they will know for the duration-heir
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Uncle Sam needs your waste bacon
grease, drippinxs, vegetable shorten
ing. Take them to your meat dealer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

A Ii children like to mess around
- making things, from mud pies
on up, and educators encour
age them because il trains their
hands and gives outlet 10 the Gre
alive urge.
But for blind children, exercise in
the plastic arts serves still another
purpose. In their world of darkness,
it is>chiefly through their hands that
they learn what things are like, and
the sooner they learn 10 see" with
their hands, the better.
And so the second graders at the
New York Institute for the Educa-
ton of the Blind, as part OF their reg
ular school program frequent
trips 10 the Children's Zoo, in the
Bronx, to learn al least how the
tanner animals ''look'
They have to. make friends with
the ducks, rabbits, turtles and other
little beasts of convenient size be
fore they can handle them, of course.
They play with the Zoos small fry
until they can hold and stroke them
long enough 10 get the feel Of their
proportions The. taCtile sense of
blind children which is sharpened by
their dependency on il, imprints the
shape of the animal on their minds
so clearly they can 60 back 10 school
and make recognizable reproductions
in the moulding clay they use.
Their animal sculptures, some
shown here, would be creditable if
done by seeing eight-year-olds-if
done by some unhandicapped older
persons for that matter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-06

Delighted and Intrigued, an 8
Year-Oh Blind Boy ReprOduces
His Impression Of Duckling In
Modelling Clay GefD.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-16
Home Made Car
roviding Fun

Children living near Prospect
Park at the end OF Maple ST. have
been enjoying rides in an auto
mobile" that Mark McKenna has
constructed out Of odds and ends
for his sons. Charles and Rich
ard McKenna. The machine"
Is made mostly OF wood. On
wide plank enclosed in a wooden
two by four framework, four feet
long and 20 inches wide. the en-
CINE rests at the front. This was
bought Of an Ann Arbor man who
obtained 1t ten years ago from
Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie
where It had been the generator
for the electric lighting OF sol
diers' tents. It's small tank holds
one half gallon OF gasoline. Back
OF the engine Is the steering wheel,
formerly on an automobile. Its
shaft goes through the floor and
through a large wooden spool, be
ing fastened at the bottom OF the
spool.
A rope runs from the wheels
and is twice wound around the
spool BY this the wheels can be
turned. The small front wheels