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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
JapCitiesSmdshed
|nAtta(ks byB-29s

NEW YORK. Aug. ii (INS)-The London radio today
reported another air attack the Palembang area OF
Sumara quoting japanese agency reports according
to Chs
Earlier in the day, belated Japanese announcements
of the B-29 Superorress attack on Nagasak had been
enormously interpreted by Reuter- disclosure of second
assault this japanese naval base.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
I'd Sumatra Raid
BdCk-to-Job
Plea Planned
In GIN Strike

Seven thousand striking
UAW-CIO employees of Chew
rolet Gear and Axle Co., to-
night will be urged by Wal
ter Reuther, union vice presi-
dent. to obey a return to
work order issued by the
National War Labor Board
at a hearing in Washington
yesterday.
AS this second strike at five
Chevrolet plants entered its third
day. hating production at one
General Motors plant and threat
ening four others. strikes involv-
ing nearly 5000 workers affected
other Detroit companies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
In the Times TO-DAY

KEYKO MARGARINE-iCs pure,
its creamy, it's dehcious.-Adw
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

.D&C LAKE LINES TO BUF-
FALO every evening at $50: to
Cleveland every night at l1:30.
Lake Ride every Sunday at II
a, m.-Adv,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

ROME, Aug. IL (UP) Allied headquarters an
nounced tonight that Winston Churchill British premier
has arrived in Italy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
armored forces stormed eastward along 8Ome front
gomey declared in stirring order his Allied troops that the bulk

of the German
armies in north
western Europe
face encirclement
and humiliation.
Montgomery, COM
mander of all Allied
ground forces in
France, called upon
his combined forces
for a mighty con-
certed effort to close
the trap around Nazi
Field Marshal Won
IKluge's b altered
troops and destroy.
them.
"The great bulk of
the German forces i'm
northwest Europe are in
a bad way" he said.
1--WE are round behind
them in many places
and it is possible that
some of them will not
get away"
The cOl0rfuI British leader,
in an order addressed to all
his officers and men, praised
the Allied armies In northern
France as a great" fighting
team and declared the mo
mentous days" of the war are
at hand.
YANKS SMASH AHEAD
AS he spoke, American tanks
and infantrymen drove almost 20
miles beyond the enemy's shat
tered Sarthe River line into the
outer defenses of Paris, some IS
miles west Of the capital, and
famed out to the north and
south in an enveloping sweep that
threatened Orleans and the rear
of the German forces in Nor
mandy.
There was every indication that
NaZi communications were falling
to pieces under the lightning
American thrust, and that tho
enemy commanders were uncer-
tain as to where the main attack
was pointed.
LOCATION KEPT SECRET
Allied headquarters Spokesman
refused to reveal the exact Local
ton of the American spearheads.
They limited broadly. however,
that one wing of Bradley's strik-
ing force was wheeling northward
across the lines of communication
of the shattered enemy divisions
holding out in the Mortain-Vire
salient and on the British front
below Caen.
American troops have captured
another 1922 German prisoners,
most of them on the Breton PEN
inSula.
NAZI TANKS BLOWN UP
British and Canadian forces in
n orm andy captured Vimont,
seven miles southwest of Caen in
an advance down the main rail-
way and highway toward Paris.
112 miles to the east. and
launched at least two new thrustS
INTO the enemy flank southwest
of Caen.
One column struck out from
captured Estry toward the high
way and railway junction Of
Conde-sur-Noireau, willis the
other forced a new crossing Of the
Orne River and captured T'hury-
Harcourt il miles south SOUTH
west of Caen.
The Germans threw at least 20
radio-controlled tanks, loaded
Continued on Page 2, COL 81
DIR. J. c. ToOLE, DENTIST, 10
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DIR. J. c. TooLE, DENTIST, 10
w. Lafayette at Mich, Opp. CITY
Hall HourSt go. Tel. CA 66e9.
ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25
Quick Questions

] Turkey controlled the Oar
danellcS ca 1000 years; CD
500 years: Cc) 80 years?
. One part OF Turkey, the An
zac area of Gallpoli is I'M
der Allied flags. How did it
come 10 be so?
3 What man. once a general
in forces that fought II. later
became a general IN the
T. \. Army: ta) Robert +.
Ice. Cbl Andrew Jackson;
CO.. Joseph F. Wheeler; cd
Marquis dc Lafayette?
4 Complete the provcrb: Rain
before fair by "
3 Principal reason for locat-
inc the capital IN Washing
ton was Caj IL was then
geographical center of L. S;
lbl it removed legislators
from possibility Of coercion
hy citizens of Philadelphia
and New York. Co II was
desired 10 locate il on lands
that had belonged 10 Gen.
Washington
6 Match up these tools with
the artisans that use them
J AWE - ImpOS lng-form;
Anvil : Solder Ia
shoemaker thl farrier. co.
printer. cd unSmith.
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

TT is significant and certainly in
Il terestlng to note that the coun-
tries the President has put foremost
among those to be defended in our
interest and at our expense are NOT
primarily engaged in the Pacific war
which is OUR most important and
most difficult and most menacing
war.
The country which we have thus
defended at the second highest cost,
in fact Soviet Russia-is not even
IN the Pacific war.
The country which we have de-
Tended at the highest cost of all
Great b iitt5atiff-fs primarily occupied
with the European war, and it re-
mains to be seen how effectively
Britain will ultimately participate in
the Pacific war.
BY contrast, our lend lease aid to
China, which has been FIGHTING
Japan for more than six years, totals
only slightly more than ONE FIFTH
of one billion dollars.
Our total lend lease aid to China,
India, Australia and New Zealand
all of which are wholly engaged IN
the Pacific war-has been less than
two billion dollars; roughly HALF
as much as our aid to Soviet Russia,
and a THIRD as much as our aid to
Great Britain.
rs IT not strange that President
Il Roosevelt has deemed" it so
important to defend countries which
are not helping us at present against
our mortal enemy and may not help
us at all, and deems it so unimportant
to defend countries to which Japan
is mortal enemy as much as it is
to us?
1t was wise of Congress to require
the President to report on lend lease
operations.
But would it not have been wiser
Of Congress to have made sure that
the lend lease operations would be
conducted with more regard for
AMERICAN defense, and more~un-
derstanding of American DANGER
and more acceptance and exercise of
American RESPONSIBILITY?
Our information about lend lease
is interesting and significant.
Our still largely unfought and
still largely unprovided for war in
the Pacific is revealed in the light
of that information to be a challenge
and an ACCUSATION.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

TO THE EDITOR:
TT is said, and rightly so,
= fools tread where wise men
dare not" Be that As II may.
| should like To put in my
pcnny's worth in regards to Ed
Brands article on conscientious
DIRECTORS.
Bluntly. 1T seems to me. Con-
scientlous Direction is 4 black
eye 20 Christianity
While thousands of non
Christian men are giving their
life blood that Christian ideals
may continue 10 flourish, there
arc those among olr Christian
leaders and followers who
StrcnuouSly object 10 military
service.
And This in opposition n
Bible teaching, since / Peter
=; 1919 has H..
submit yourselves TO every
ordinance Of man for the Lords
sake: whether II he 10 the king.
n supreme; or unto governors,
as unto them that are sent nv
him for the punishment of evil
doors. and for the praise ~
them that do well. For 80 is
the will pf God. that with we'll
doing We may put In silence the
ignorance of foolish men"
.aRBUJUS VI. BARBER.
6i0 Greenlswn ayenue.
Ypsilantt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25
The HeEaai-AeaSe Report

TN ACCORDANCE with legal re
l. quirement, the President of the
United States transmitted to Con-
gress on March IL Of this year a
report on the operations under the
lend lease act.
This is the fourteenth such report
by the President, and it brings the
information of the people on the
operations up to the end of 1913.
1t is very important information.
The lend lease operations consti-
tute war enterprise for which there
is no precedent in history, and which
no other nation than the United
States iii att the history of the world
could have undertaken, however,
willing or whatever the necessity.
There has been total export of
American goods under the lendleas
act accounting for the expenditure of
more than fifteen billion dollars.
This is roughly the equivalent of
the TOTAL NATIONAL DEBT OF
THE UNITED STATES IN 1880.
But the total of expenditures un-
der lend lease already provided for
is an even more amazing figure.
THERE have been four direct APP
Il preparations for lend-lease, sup
plemented by transfers of funds
authorized from other appropria-
tions, reaching the wholly incompre-
hensible sum of nearly thirty six
billion dollars.
This is greater than the total
national debt of the United States IN
any year of American history prior
to 1887.
We fought the entire first World
War without ever having a national
debt in excess of twenty six billion
dollars.
What are the purposes of this
tremendous expenditure, and partic-
ularly WHO ARE THE BENEFIT
Charles?
The purposes as defined by the
act itself are to Tend, lease, trans
fer or sell, or OTHERWISE DIS
POSE OF" any defense articles to
ANY country Uhose defense the
President deems vital to the defense
of the United States"
The beneficiaries are Of course the
countries which President Roosevelt,
so empowered, has decided should be
defended in our interest and AT
OUR EXPENSE
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TO THE EDITOR
MRS. JOSEPH II. kRAUTH.

TO THE EDITOR:
/ AM reading your papers reg
= ularly, regardless of the fact
they are about three months old
when | get them.
My subject is voting in the
next election. II the future is
being shaped by the man on the
battlefield, IShould think he is
entitled to\vote for the kind of
government nc thinks is going
10 shape tho lasting peace That
is my Interpretation of real de-
moCracy.
PFC. WILLIAM SCHLEY,
New Guinea.
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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR:

i - 4 IL iaAfA wv
I HAVE become incenSed over
the unforgivable and inexcus-
able number of Chldren's deaths.
caused these past few months
by fire in homes when the chill
dren have been left alone.
Surely there have been enough
deaths 10 cause mothers 10 think
twice before leaving their chill
dren alone FOR even one minute.
Children cannot be trusted
alone Al home. whether ] or -
They love to explore and expert
ment too much. have two
children and know.
MRS. JOSEPH n. kRAUTH
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

I DO not Know, and I cannot
Il find any political authority
here who even pretendS TO.
Senators Green and Lucas
= think fewer soldiers will he able
10 vote If the bill is signed than
if it is vetoed In that case,
public law Ill 1922 viii pre-
vail and it provides some kind
Of federal ballot. But most of
Congress believes the opposite.
Personally, l suspect more de-
ponds on the army and navy
generals than on what kind Of
law applies. II they actively go
out and furnish ballots of any
kind 10 soldiers and collect
these, large numbers will vote;
otherwise, no law will get in
that vote in bulk.
Perhaps the most important
feature OF the bill was an UNI
observed provision. II would
restrict any service officer or
executive official from issuing
campaign speeches to soldiers.
and forbid broadcaStS sponsored
or paid for by the government
concerning political argument
or material
In fact, all news reports Of
political speeches and activity
would have to he divided
evenly between all presidential
candidates entered in SIX states
or more.
The penalty for violations
would be $1,000 fine and a year
in jail. This would certainly
hamper materially the freedom
of fourth term CampaiGnerS in
charge of soldier news diStribu-
ton
Distributed nv King Features synd Inc.
Reproduction In whole or IN part
strictly prohibited
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

gogic appeals to the common man to put his trust
in the government and let it lead him into green
pastures.
THE creation of debts has been the frankly
avoWed purpose of the government since the
bigger the debt, the greater the wealth.
Naturally, the government has hired people to
build up the debts faster and faster -
By 1941 there were over million federal
employees, By 1912 over two million. By 1913 over
three million.
They are scattered all over the United States
In Ohio there are 25,000 STATE employees, and
10000 full-tme FEDERAL employees.
Pennsylvania has $4,000 state employees The
government keeps in Pennsylvania 215,00O FED
ERAL employees.
And so in other states.
When Senator Butler reported their numbers
and their costliness in Spanish America he lons
called liar and a fool-and denounced for spoil.
ing policy of the good neighbor.
IF YOU want to KNOW what our six billions are
really buying, read the March number Of the :
magazine called the Inter-American. WE PAY
HIGH FOR HATRED.
The Inter-Amelican publishes an article by a
Costa Rican engineer describing at length how our
engineers have spent ~ million dollars on so miles
of fragmentary highways, of which, he says:
There is not mile of disable road
Costa Rica has a tragic need of roads, but It's
lett with patches that begin nowhere and end no.
where
The sole result of our meneF-bHFHiHg invasion
has been to wreck the morale Of the natives and
arouse their contempt and in many cases their
hatred for our government and its COLOSSAL
WASTE
The Costa Rican engineer says of our imported
Workmen:
Most OF the f0femen and some of the superin-
tendents came in contact with seemed to have no
greater knowledge of highway construction than
a soda erker.'
The same story could be told Of every Spanish
American country. WHIEE OUR DRAFT
BOARDS AND WAR PLANTS ARE CRYING
FOR MEN, WE HAVE SENT TO SPANISH
AMERICA THOUSANDS OF AGENTS TO
SQUANDER BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BUY
ING DERISION AND FUTILITY.
TN THE Bible there are certain poems that have
l. been called number-SonnetS One Of them is -
this:
"The Horseback hath t,Oo daughters crying,
Glue, giUe. There three things-thdt neUer
satisfied, yea, four things saynot, It's enough:
"The Craze: and the~barren rDon,b; the earth
fats not filled Nth tUater and the fire that saith
not, IL is enough" (ProUerbs 3O;I5, 49,
If the author of that wonderful poem had been
living now he would surely have added fifth that
never says enough"
And that would be whatever the ancient
Hebrew was for bureaucracy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

rms IL The Readers Column. No
subjects within good tars are haired.
Names fand addressed must he signed
hut viii he withheld ~ request. and
all letters are subject Ia condensation.
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Back To Sanity. Free Enterprise
Rupert Hughes Tells Why Congress Is Fighting
To Regain lis Rig hts and Duties to Save
US. From bemagogs and Debts


n
assist IN ecta O
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

YOU can read the words quoted in Lawrence
Sullivans new and terrifying book, Bureau
crazy Runs Amuck."
You can read there multitude of other things
that Will explain why, at least, Congress is fight
ing to get back its rights and its duties and why
the election returns show everywhere such COM
plete turn of the tide of public opinion back to
sanity and free enterprise.
THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH THE
GOVERNMENT TREATED THE LEGISLA.
TIVE BODIES WAS FOR so LONG UNRE-
SISTED THAT 1T BECAME A HABIT.
criticism of government recklessness with
money was ignored, or pooh-poohed or justified as
help for the needy taken from the greedy, or as
contributions to winning the love of our neghbors.
And so when some months ago, Senator Hugh
A. Butler of Nebraska toured Spanish America at
his own expense and came back with the state
ment that our government had actually thrown
SIX BILLION DOLLARS into the southern ma
tons, he was greeted with roars Of official laugh
ter and his charges called "grotesquey false"
NELSON ROCKEFELLER and Senator Nickel
~ lar Indignantly announced that the total
amount spent was only the third of one billion.
And, of course, anything less than a whoie
billion does not eUen clink When it is plunked
the counter.
Senator Butler disappeared from view, but he
bobbed up again with the exact figures certified by
public accountants, proving that what we had
spent and what we We're committed to spend made
a total of five billion 733 million dollars NO FUR
THEIR DENIALS WERE ISSUED.
Senator Mcclellan merely whispered that it
was shame to stir up the matter since it was
likely to mar the sweet chimes Of the good neigh
boz policy.
You ought to buy lot of neighbors for six
billion dollars; but hotO good they'd be woud be
question.
AS usual the administration was willing to
drop the whole subject but in the latest issue of
the progressive magazine, the eminent historian,
Charles A. Beard, revives it.
He expresses his amazement, his consterna-
ton at the spectacle of our once republican gov
eminent being reduced to such state that the
Senate could be kept in IGNORANCE of matter
Of six billion dollars
He quotes the Constitutions explicit words:
"No money shall be drawn from the treasury
but in consequence of appropriation made by law;
and a regular statement and account of the re-
cepts and expenditures of all public money shall
be published from time TO time"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25
NEWS
BEHIND
The NEWS
By Paul
MaIIon

WASHINGTON, March "a
Mr. RooSevclts quaint quest for
Soldler-Votc advice among the
state governors tmoStly Repub-
lican outside the South may
have sounded of hand like a
big-hearted attempt 10 be more
than fair about this thing. But
II did not so appear to the gov
CrnOTS.
Frankly, IN the true political
atmosphere of the congressional
CloakroomS, the move also was
recognized as an effort 10 put
the Republican governors on the
SOldier-vote spot, TO make them
shoulder responsibility for what
ever vote the soldiers get,
making Mr.. Roosevelt appear 10
be the champion Of the soldier
against state and congressional
resistance.
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MIR. HUGHES:

IF wealth is to be created by creation of gov
eminent debts, the scope of government enterprise
must be largely increased.
''The government will have to 60 into direct
financing of activities now supposed to be private
and +. :. the government will gradually come to
OWN most of the production plants in the United
States"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

IT DID not work out that way.
Il The governors apparently
SenScd what WAS afOOt and gave
him replies which left the only
spots of the problem before his
.-e-s.--7--Het--endei- their feet.
In effect, a majority told him
they were going ahead with
plans for State-voting OF sol
dictS if the army and navy
would cooperate in distributing
the ballots, implying that both
he and the congressional bill
were of considerable Importance
10 them.
The depths of his resulting
difficulty IS evident in the
action of his congressional
leaders.
They held back the bill FIVE
days after its final enactment,
sending it 10 the White House
only last Tuesday.
This extended to ID days his
opportunity Of musing over the
governors replies and making
up his miHd To sign or veto.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

DEARl) IS alarmed as everybody ought TO be-
- He says:
There is something fundamentally wrong and
irresponsible in legislative and an executive de-
partment which cannot settle such question on
the basis of positive knowledge within II hours"
Prof. Beard is dumbfounded at such situa-
ton in view of the fact that the American people
have as he says within the past % years wit
messed the destruction of civil liberties and the col
lapse Of popular governments far and wide over
the surface of the earth -.
They have seen great nations =. SURREN-
DER TO DEMAGOGUES prepared TO promise
them peace action and security"
In amazement, Prof. Beard asks:
us il possible that the American people actu-
ally regard themselves as utterly and forever
immune to the calamites which have marked the
march of despOtism in Europe and Asa?"
Prof. Beard thinks our government needs
drastic overhaulng.
1t is at last beginning to get it.
1t is being hauled over the Goals back to con,
stitutonal limitations NA Nvl
The government is resisting every inch of the
way
Its high officials are Wdrning the people OF the
danger of bloody revolution, and making der,o.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

CHAIRMAN HATTIE CARA
y WAY. IN charge of the COM
mittCe diSpatching such bills 10
tho White House. was out of
town and no excuse for the al
most unprecedented delay was
offered.
Now the solitary truth Of All
this backing and pulling IS that
no one actually knows much
about how many soldiers are go
ing 10 vote, or for whom.
From Mr. RooSevelts actions
TO date, you would Judge he eX-
poets them 10 vote for him
l recently saw letter from
an officer in the South Seas who
SAID Is per cent of tho officers
were against Roosevelt, IS per
cent Of the privatcS for him. 1t
may stand something like that,
although the army seems eX-
trenely critical OF labor and
left-WingerS, who are the back
bone of the fourth term move
ment so far.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-25

novelist, historian and humOrlst. IN
tanning style. Now, Rupert Hughes :.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Under the simplification plan ap-
proved by the Ways and Means
Committee yesterday, this is how
the new tax system would apply to
any person-married or single, with
or without children-making less
than $1,000 year.
He would be subject to the new 3
Fper cent normal tax If his income
was more than $555. That is the
point at which the normal tax ex-
emption Of $500 plus 10 per cent
of income would begin to leave some
taxable money. In effect the new
normal tax would serve the func-
tion of the present Victory tax.
AS in the case of the present Vic
tory tax, the personal exemption
for the new normal tax would take
no account of marital or parental
status.
Say his income is $500. He gets
an exemption of $500 and a deduc-
ton lin lieu of interest paid, other
taxes, etc) of 10 per cent of his in
come, of 500 Thus he pays per cent
on $3l0, which amounts to $3.50.
Under the present Victory tax Of
per cent, to be abolished, his ex-
emption is 1924, and his tax 3 per
cent of $276, amounting to 1928.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Girl Asks Injunction to Keep
Mother From 'Mo|estinq' Her
OPA Secretary
Charges She Lost
$500 in Property

Miss Eual Lee Armstrong, 20, an
OPA secretary today filed two suits
against her mother and sister-one
in District Court asking for an in
junction to prevent them from mo-
testing her and the other in Munich
pal Court charging that they had
taken $500 worth Of her personal
property.
The District Court suit says Miss
Armstrong fears her mother, Mrs
Alta M. Armstrong, and her sister
Miss Frances E. Armstrong, %, both
Of 2505 N street Sc, and contends
that unless injunctive relief is
granted the two relatives will not
only do her bodily harm, but will sc
embarrass, humiliate and annoy her
at her place of employment that the
plaintiff will be held up to contempt
and ridicule which may result in her
loss OF employment >"
The suit, filed through Attorney
James J. Laughlin, also contends
that Miss Armstrong is fearful fol
her personal safety and on account
of this fear she has been forced to &c
into seclusion and hiding 80"
In the Municipal Court complaint
Miss Armstrong claims her mother
and sister were withholding from
her $500 In Government bonds, {
diamond ring valued at $3.50, three
ration books and $50 in currency
The case was set for March a..