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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Macarthur
SEXES ! Isles
Timer Photo

ALLIED HQ,. s. w. PACIFIC,
May IS (UP)-Capture of the big
Wakde air base by American in
vasion forces in a l25-mile am
phibious jump from Hollandia
presages the reconquest of all
Dutch New Guinea, whose western
tip lies only $50 miles from the
Philippines. Gen. Macarthur an
nounced jubilantly today.
The inva ders already were
spreading out east and west Of
the Wakde area along the Dutch
New Guinea coast against what
Macarthur described as only
trifling opposition"
American seaborne troops. COW
cred by naval and air lombard
ment, seized Wakde Island, 1850
miles southeast Of the Philippines.
nearby Insoemania Island and the
adjacent Toem area of the north
coast of Dutch New Guinea
Thursday in a surprise landing
that quickly overwhelmed negli-
gible enemy resistance.
Possession of the WAkde air
base will give us adequate air
coverage over all Dutch New
Guinea, and the success of the
operation presages the recon-
quest Of the entire province"
Macarthur said in a COM
munique disclosing the seventh,
eighth and ninth American
leap-frog landings along the
New Guinea coast in the last
month.
Not only will Allied planes be
able to cover all Dutch New
Guinea's $4,000 square miles
from Wakde, but they also will
be within easy bombing range of
the Palau Islands, 695 miles to
the north and the main east de-
Tense outpost of the Philippines.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Dying Baby Offered
In Life Saving Effort

LOS ANGELES, May 19 (UP)
Two frantic parents whose baby
daughter is slowly dying of leu
kemia, rare blood disease for
which there is no known cure,
today offered their child to any
legitimate agency experimenting
with the disease in a last-minute
hope of saving her life.
The tiny victim is Alta Mira
Sorenson, 2-years-old, dark-eyed
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. T. r.
Sorensen.
She was stricken last month
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19

Information furnished by
Switzerland disclosed that some
were shot while resisting arrest
and others during a new attempt
10 escape after being recaptured,
Eden said. OF rs who partici-
pated in the original escape. he
said, Is were recaptured and IA
still were at large.
The mass escape occurred
March 26. but a representative Of
Switzerland. the protecting
power. learned Of the incident
only during a routine visit to
the camp April II. Eden said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
SthuyIkiII' Bus
Drivers on Strike

NORRISTOWN, Pa, May 10
(INS)-An estimated 5000 resi-
dents of central Montgomery
County were left without bus
transportation today when 65
AFL drivers Of the Schuylkill VAL
ley lines staged an unannounced
walkout at 5 a. m.
The drivers are protesting the
company's appeal from WLB
ruling granting them a wage in
crease.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Ford Opposes
JAW Office Unit

The Ford Motor Co. today OBJ.
jected TO purported plan by the
UAW-CIO to organize white col.
lar and technical workers in the
automotive and aircraft indus
tries, including the Ford plants,
A letter signed by Harry II.
Bennett and addressed to r. j.
Thomas, union president, said in
part:
THE present contract be-
tween the Ford Motor Co. and
the JAW excludes employees In
the above categories. The
company expects II tthe con-
tract) to be fully observed,
both In letter and spirit. A
contrary course will seriously
impair the company's confidence
In the good faith of the JAW
Go and the value of its con-
tractual commitments"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Chevrolet Forge
Plants Still Out
Time. stan Correspondents

SAGINAW. May 10 Forge
plants 1 and 2 of the Chevrolet
Transmission Plant here were
shut down today, and production
in the aviation unit was curtailed
as 1900 men remained idle in
continuation of disputes which
riddled war work all week.
The forge plants failed to open
this morning when only handful
of workers appeared, following
yesterdays action by the man.
agement which sent home several
hundred men for violating the
'no-smoking" rule.
ompany spokesman today
blamed leaders of Local 467.
UAW-CIO, for failure. to end the
disputes, claiming no grievances
had been filed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Picard
Scores
Jurors

After celebrating nine hours.
federal court jury today acquitted
the Bonn Aluminium Co. anc
three of its officials on charges Of
conspiracy 10 defraud the govern,
ment in making aluminium cast
ings.
Immediately after the verdict
was returned Federal Judge Pr
card delivered I saarp lecture 10
both the jury and the defendants.
Frederick N. Eaton of 17545
Stoepel: Paul F. CordeS OF .11013
Whitehall and George w. y-.ng OF
s00S Sarena. 10 the jury he
said:
II am not prepared TO say TO
you / entirely agree with this
jury's report.
"The matter Is for you and
not for me to decide. The court
wanted these people to have a
fair trial and they got IL. 1
want to say that the govern
ment should not be ashamed of
this case. Whether the defend
ants are guilty or not guilty the
case should have been brought
here"
The conspiracy charge grew out
of the manufacture of the cast
ings for the Packard Motor Car
Co.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
L. :. Bags
10000 Planes

WASHINGTON, May 10 (INS)
Gen. Arnold, army air force
chief, announced today that u. S.
Army Air Forces had DESTROYED
more than 10000 enemy planes
since the beginning of the war.
U. S. losses due to enemy action
have amounted to 5.71S combat
planes in aerial combat and 236
on the ground. Arnold said that
enemy planes destroyed included
$3.50 shot down in aerial COM
bat and 1864 destroyed on the
ground. In addition, 1850 enemy
planes are listed as probably de-
stroyed in battle and 347 as
probably destroyed on the ground.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Filipino Denies laps
Are Fanatic Fighters

FORT SUMNER, N. M. May
10 tINS)-The japanese are not
fanatical fighters in spite of the
general belief they are. Mai. Jesus
A. Villamor, a former member of
the Philippine air corps, said
today.
Maj. Villamor. now a member
OF the u. S. Army air forces.
fought the japanese in the skies
over Bataan and later Australia
after he was evacuated from Cor
regidor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
New Date Set
I'm Ward Meet

CHICAGO, May 10 (UP)-
Montgomery Ward and the United
Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Employees union (CIO) to-
day prepared to set a date for a
second bargaining session after
the first meeting last night, failed
to produce agreement on any OF
II union proposals.
Meanwhile, Sewell L. Avery,
Wards chairman, filed suit against
Marshall Field, publisher and
editor of the Chicago Sun, for
100000 d ANA ages, charging
false. scandalous. malicious and
defamatory" stories.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
SHUTS Sees
Early Peace

BIRMINGHAM, England, May
- (UP)-A gigantic three-way
assault on Europe soon will
squeeze Adolf Hitler's fortress and
a final decision in the war against
Nazidom may come earlier than
peSsimists forecast" Field Mar
shall SHUTS, prime minister OF
South Africa, said today.
SHUTS, a confidant of Winston
Churchill. said that a giant tri-
angular attack on Europe from
the east. west and south would
"remorselessly roll on and close
in until nothing remains Of Hit
ler's fortress"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Restrictions Tighten
On Refrigerator Sales

A tightening of the already
rigid restrictions governing distri-
button Of mechanical refrigera-
tors, of which there are only
about 100000 left for all essential
uses. was announced by the WPB
today.
Carsten Tiedeman. director OF
the Detroit regional WPB, de-
clared that hereafter mechanical
refrigerators are TO be provided
only to war housing projects
where ice IS unavailable.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Underground Threats
Sent Nazis in France

LISBON, May 10 (INS)-Leaf-
lets threatening German occupa-
ton forces with death and burial
in the houses they now inhabit
have been distributed throughout
France, it was revealed in Lisbon
today.
The French Maquis, under
ground fighters, distributed leaf
lets last week which asked Ger
man troops TO forsake Hitler and
fight with the French.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
THE WAR FRONTS

TALY-Alles advance four to six miles. page IL
AIR WAR-1500 u s. bombers and fighters raid Berlin
and Brunswick page L. }..,A
PACIFIC-MacArthur announces capture of big Jap air
base Wakde Island. page IL
RUSSIA-Reds capture important height Polish front
page D.
BURMAAmerican and Chinese troops trap Jap garrison
in chief north-Burma base. page %
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
AZ Filters Killed
Escaping Nazis

LONDON, May 10 (UP)-Forty-seven Raj, Dominion
and Allied air officers shot and killed by the Germans
after escape from the Naz prison, Camp Stalag
Luft B, Foreign Secretary Eden told Commons today.
There immediate indication whether any Amer
leans among the officers who escaped who
shot.
Staag Luft is at Sagan 50 miles northeast of Dresden
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Pearson Statement
Denied by Windsor

NASSAU. May 10 (UP) The
Duke of Windsor today denied
columnist Drew Pearson's asser-
ton that Axel Wenner-Gren,
exiled Swedish munitions maker,
was a "cloSe friend" of his. Wen
ner-Gren. now living in Mexico, is
on the u. S. state department
blacklist.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
5th Pushes
Ahead A|onQ
25-Mi. Front

NAPLES, May 10 (INS)-
The Allied Fifth Army in
Italy, hammering out gains
of four to six miles over a
25-mile front across tortuous
mountain terrain, assaulted
the southern bases Of the
Hitler Line today.
On the northeastern flank of
the battle line, the Eighth Army
which smashed the Nazis from
Casino hurled the Germans back
against the Hitler Notifications in
the Aquino- Piedimonte area.
MONTICELLO FALLS
French and American troops of
the Fifth Army captured the
town of Monticello, two and one
half miles northwest of occupied
Esperia, and took Mount Faggeto.
The Eighth Army. after captur-
ing Casino, struck forward
against the Hitler Line in the
direction of Piedimonte, four miles
northwest of Casino.
Polish troops of the Eighth
Army advanced to within a mile
and one-half of Piedimonte to
attack the outer breastworks of
the northeast flank of the Hitler
Notifications.
Canadian troops in the Liri
Valley famed out and penetrated
south of the Aquino airport. This
advance marked a five-mile pene-
tration from the initial line Of
attack.
YANKS IN KEY TOWN
American troops of the Fifth
Army continued to exert pres
sure against the Germans from
the key town of Formia. on the
Gulf of Gaeta, which fell yester-
day afternoon.
They took Mount San Mario,
on the edge Of the southern Liri
Valley.
Allied naval forces supporting
the Fifth Army drive shelled en-
envy batteries. dumps and roads
west of Gaeta.
The capture Of Mount Faggeto
represented an advance by the
Fifth Army of II miles since the
offensive was launched a week
ago last night.
YANKs CUT ROAD
(U. S. troops have cut the
road north of Itri, town mid
way between occupied Formia
and the foothill town of Fondi,
the British radio said.
(The Germans have ordered
immediate evacuation of civil
ians from Genoa and other
Italian Riviera cities where the
Allies may carry out Often
sive operations" the broadcast
added
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
(See Pictorial Review

The national air show, spon-
sored by The Detroit Times in CO.
operation with the army air
forces. materiel command and the
Aero Club of Michigan, June 2-1S.
began to take shape at the City
Airport today.
Pitched in the strip adjoining
the Conner avenue side of the air
port. which will be the site of
the show, stands a huge tent of
unusual design.
This tent, the first Of a large
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19

motor transportation system.
The AFL Transfers, Union re-
scinded the strike order which
would have affected 5000 drivers
this morning.
Despite the truce, 5000 Chrys-
Ter war workers voted to continue
their stoppage, which was in SYM
pathy with the CIO soda pop con-
troversy with the AFL. The
Chrysler employees are members
of UAW-CIO Local 400.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Mrs. Thomas Case DELAYED

The trial of Mrs. Mildred A..
Thomas, wife of UAW-CIO Presi-
dent r. j. Thomas. on a drunk
driving count. has been postponed
until June, 2 in Crosse Pointe Park
Justice cnlIrt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Build Phone Sets Anew

WASHINGTON. May Is (UP)
The WPB today provided for
manufacture of 100000 civilian
telephone sets a year-the first
since production was halted in
1912.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
Soldiers Get Vote Facts

WASHINGTON, May 19 (UP)
The war department announced
today that information on pri-
mary elections scheduled in 19
states for July and August has
been provided TO soldiers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
First Air Show Tent
Pitched al Airport

number which will ill the two
thirds OF a mile strip between
Whithorn and Portlance avenues,
will house the General Motors ex-
hibit. GIN will flank the main tent
in the show. that showing the
army air forces weapons, equip
ment and supplies.
On the other side. the Ford
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
AFL Heads End Custer STAY

FORT CUSTER, May 19-After
a three-day visit here for CT
training experience, II Chicago
AL leaders returned home today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
BONN ACQUITTED
YankS b|itz Berlin
Transfers
Call Off Strike

Comparative quiet prevailed the strkeridden Detroit
industrial front today with of until
in the AFLCIO clash that threatened city
wide strike by teamsers which would have halted the entire
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
In The Times TO-DAY

sHEDD's OLD STYLE SAUCE
A dressing Of rare flavor. you'll
prefer it to mustard. it's good
Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19

with leukemia. a disease OF the
white corpuscles, complicated by
bone infection.
The baby is kept alive only BY
blood transfusions. Specialists say
she has only so days to live.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
ORDERS 10000 OUT

Hoffa had ordered 10000 truck
ers hauling war material inter-
state and intrastate TO refuse to
move their trucks late yesterday
afternoon when he flared up in the
session before the WLB and &C.
cused the board Of stalling.
Threat of general strike made
by Hoffa and Bert Brennan, an
other transfers business agent,
affecting $4,000 truckers and
warehouse workers, threw the
city into a turmoil.
Hoffa said that every war plant
in the area would be shut down in
AZ hours as none of their mate
rails could be. moved. The strike
would also have shut off all food,
including meat and dairy products
from Detroit stores and homes.
City and government officials
moved rapidly to prepare against
the threatened clash of the two
powerful unions while army and
navy intelligence officers were in
terested observers at the WLB
hearing.
The crux Of the union fight at
fC--Al-A
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19

DIR. J. C.F00LE, DENTIST, 10
w. Lafayette at Mich, Opp. City
Hall. Hours: SO. Tel. CA $3.50.
ADV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-19
HIS APPEAL FUTILE

Joseph N. Rubin, assistant ma
tional JAW Chrysler director,
pleaded with the auto workers in
vain to return to their jobs which
they left when two union stewards
were fired last Tuesday for eject
ing an AFL soda pop driver from
the Highland Park plant.
The teamsters and their rivals,
the Go brewery workers, agreed
to a temporary truce in the dis
pute involving jurisdiction of 10
workers in the Dossin Products
Co. after a heated hearing before
the WLB.
The truce, until next Wednes-
day, was announced by James
Hoffa, business agent for the
teamsters. after the WLB assured
him the National Labor Relations
Board would issue an early ruling
on an election at the Dossin plant
and Go representatives agreed to
remove their picket lines and re-
frain from boycott of stores SELL
ing Pepsi-Cola which Dossin dis
tributes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN
Paramount At Home

because there were unstable and
unusuable surplusese of all the ele-
ments of economic well-being.
This paradox of poverty in the
midst of plenty has become, in the
literal sense of the wore, lntol-
cradle to the modern democratic
conscience-all the more SO be-
cause we have been able to achieve
in two wars that full employment
which we could not achieve in
peace. This war, moreover, has
shown that the American capacity
to produce is beyond any previous
estimate of any responsible econ
omist or industrialist The indus
trial miracle of war time is, there
fore, the promise of great rise in
the well-being of the nation. But
it is also threat that if we do not
conduct our economy better than
we did in the '20s and '30s, the
unemployment, the economic sur.
pluses and the discomfort will be
greater.
There has been as yet little, il
any, candid and Informative dis
cussion of the problem by the
leaders of either party. Neither
platform has anything whatever
to say on the subject, and the de-
bates in Congress on reconversion
and surplus property disposal and
interim placement benefits are
concerned with important but
only with immediate and transient
question. The real problem, which
will almost certainly become para.
mount before the next President
finishes his term, is not how tc
"reconvert' but how to find and
keep volume of employment
greater than any which this coun
try has ever known in time Of
peace.
It may be useful to fix in our
minds an estimate of the size Of
the problem. I believe I am right
in saying that in time of peace the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10
LEGION PREPARES
FOR ANNUAL MEET

CHICAGO, Sept. g. R II
men fighting in World War IL Will
he much in the minds Of veterans
- world War l when they assem-
he here at the American Legion
18th national convention.
The balding doughboys OF yore
nav recall, during cocktail hour
cornaraderie, how t h ey. sloggeo
sho,,t -Belleau Wood and Chateau
Thierry, but the major motif is
business-and a considerable por'
ion of that concerns the Yanks
who recently streaked through
those very parts.
On the list o. proposals for the
sessions Sept. 18, 10 and 70 are
number dealing with steps to
help put the current warriors on
their feet. physically and financial
w. when peace returns.
Coming up for consideration, too
are suggestions to request Con-
gress to amend the Legion's in
CORPORATION act so men now in the
armed forces may be eligible i'm
mediately for membership. Thou
sands who have returned to civil
ian life already are on the organl-
zation's rolls - now at a record
high of 1,412, 574.
Among the TOO resolutions ear,
marked for the hopper are mum
her advocating such specifics as
making postwar credit available to
veterans of the present conflict, Ia
cilitating government sale OF farm
lands to them, and giving them
preference in buying surplus war
agencies for the men now smuggling
Others call upon commercial
firms to reserve sales districts and
agencies for teh men now smuggling
Nazi and Jap, seek to extend the
limit for applications for their old
jobs from 40 to go days, and ask
priorities for those who want to
establis air routes.
On the distaff side-recognizing
that 4OO,oO women may be in I'm
Gle Sans uniforms before the en-
emies are conquered, and thus
would be prospects for member
ships a move to create the post
of national vice commander at
large, and to fill it with a woman.
The agends, in general, reflects
a trend toward thinking ahead to
the problems to come with the end
of the war. The Legion's commits
sion on postwar America has out
lined a program and plans to elab
crate on it on the eve Of the con-
vocation.
The group suggests encourage
ment of individual business enter
prise to aid employment, modified
taxes on individual and corporate
incomes, and abandonment of con-
trolls over commodities, prices and
wages as soon as practicable.
The commission pledges support
in carrying on and developing the
principles of foreign policy repre-.
sented by the Tereran, Moscow
and Cairo declarations and the
Connally and Fulbright resolu-
tions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10

largest number who found en-
ployment was 46,000,00O. We had
that many employed in 1929 and
again in 1910. Because our popu-
lation is increasing and technology
advancing, 46,000,000 jobs in 1929
meant full employment whereas
the same number of jobs in 1910
left US with 100000 unemployed.
Now if at the end of this war, we
provide only the same number OF
jobs as in 1929 and 1910, we shall,
it is estimated, have from l2,OOO-
600 to 100000 unemployed.
This will be due both to the in
crease in the population and to
the chronological progress made
during the war. We must, there
fore, find between 55,0O0,00O and
&C, 900, 900 jobs if there is to be full
employment after the war.
We may then ask ourselves
where the demand is to come from
which will employ that many PEG
pie. During the war year 1913, the
latest for which we have figures,
$186, 600. 100000 were spent, and Of
this sos, 900, 100000 was civilian
demand and $81, 600, 10000 military
demand. Not all, but much the
largest part of the war purchases
will cease when japan has been
defeated. For stable employment
in peace time with shorter hours,
we shall not need nor desire the
full wartime demand. But we may
suppose that we shall want hall
the military demand-say $4,000
900. OOO-to continue in the form OF
civilian demand.
Our problem then is how to gel
that much money wisely invested
and wisely spent. For of we do not
find civilian substitute for about
half our present military expendi'
lures, then it does not seem posi-.
BILE for us to have full employment
How much of that necessary $40,'
900, 900, 900 can free enterprise use
not once, but assuming
ideal conditions, a friendly admin.
| istration, revised tax system, and
the like? And what is to be done
about the portion which free en-.
terprise cannot invest and cannot
spend?
These are quections which Pres
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10

There is not much dispute as to
what is the paramount question on
the home front. It is how to
achieve and then maintain full en-
ployment for all who are able and
willing to work. A public man fitted
for the postwar world might al
most be defined as one who knows
that full employment is in time Of
peace what the national defense is
in time of war: an obligation
which must be met, and no ex-
cuses or explanations for failure
accepted.
Like the national defense, the
problem Of full employment is be-
yond partisanship and we shall
not go far to solve it if the Demo-
Gratis declaim about the Hoover
depression and the Republicans
about the Roosevelt depression.
For at the end of about eight years
of Republican administration the
country fell into the worst de-
preston in its history, and at the
end of eight years of the New Deal
Tin 1940) there were still 8,000,0 900
unemployed. So the pot need not
call the kettle black. We are con-
fronted with national problem.
Neither party has as yet solved it.
Neither has offered a well-consid-
cred proposal for dealing with it.
A non-partisan approach is in.
dispensable because we cannot
even begin to define the real prob
lem unless we think of the twenty
years between the two wars as one
period, in which first the Repub-
licans and then the Democrats
dealt unsuccessfully with the same
question. Throughout this period of
peace the United States had at all
times a greater capacity to pro-
duce food, raw materials and
manufac turers than it knew what
to do with. The country was BAT
fled, and men suffered, not because
! there was famine and scarcity but