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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-29

Hereafter, don't call him A. v.
Franchie--call him Baron Van
Francenen. Notice that he is assum-
ing his fathers name and title was
issued during the week by A. "
Franchie, Helena mining engineer,
who will hereafter be known as
Baron A. " Van Francenen. He will
continue TO operate as an engineer.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-29

Women's slacks look all right at
the cuff, but some of them look
kind of funny around the bottomi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Mayor auds
Hearst Award
City's History Students
Eager to Enter
BY JERRY PETIT

\ An endorsement of the William
randolph Hearst National Ameri-
can History Awards. sponsored
locally by The Detroit Times, was
issyed today by Mayor Jeffries,
who said that announcement of
the awards has been received with
enthusiasm by the history stu
dents in high schools of the
nation"
These awards, In previous
years, have proved their worth
In stimulating q careful review
of our country's past" Mayor
Jeffries stated.
HEARTY APPROVAL
"The future of our country Il
In the hands and minds of the
generation eligible for partici-
patton In the Hearst History
Awards. I heartily endorse this
plan which will famlliariZe our
young people with the persons
and events which have made
this nation great"
More than $1,000 in war bond
prizes are being offered local win
ners by the Times. National
awards, including a first prize of
$1,000. total more than $500 in
war bonds.
With the national finals set for
Monday. Dec. 11-approximately
q month away--the awards COM
mittee Is making final arrange
ments for the competition.
MUST PICK COMMITTEE
A committee of judges OF
national caliber also must be Sc
lected to pass on the papers of
the IL champions who will vie
for national honors.
These champions, five from
New York City and three each
from the II other cities. will be
>selected by preliminary tests. The
citywide test in Detroit will be
held Monday, Dec. 4, in Room 21l
OF Wayne Universitys main build
ing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
INDUSTRIAL UNIT FIRST

Again the industrial unit led
with 1857 .599 for total of S.
649 S76 or $50 per cent Of the
quota. Next in line came the vast
metropolitan unit with $3.50 400
for 81 ,259,275 or 50 per cent Of
the quota. Last in the days re-
ports was the commerce and pro-
fessional unit with 1888, 90o for
81 ,996. 799 total or S23 per cent
Of quota
Yesterday was metropolitan unit
day when representatives Of the
army OF 10000 volunteer workers,
who canVasSed Wayne County
and the southern part OF Oakland
County where the trade groups
had not solicited. made their re-
ports.
Four Of the Is divisions showed
better than 100 per cent totals.
Top prize went 10 District !. with
Mrs. Robert Latin as chairman.
reporting 1413 per cent. District
D. Mrs. Ernest T. Wemp. reported
1902 per cent: District +, Mrs.
James Robertson and Mrs. Wi
liam Riley co-chairmen, 1888 per
cent and District II. Mrs Lucille
Robinson, chairman. 1851 per
cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Jury,
Banker Jailed
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, Nov. 10-Accused of
giving contradictory and evasive
answers" to the state grand jury,
Francis p. Slattery, assistant vice
president of the Michigan Ma
tional Bank in Grand Rapids,
today started serving a 60-day
sentence in the Ingham County
Jail for contempt of court.
Sentence was imposed by grand
jury Judge Leland w. Carr late
yesterday after two-hour session
in which Slattery declined to give
direct answers to question by spe-
cial grand jury prosecutor Kim
Sigler, it was announced.
QUESTIONS SECRET
The nature of the questions was
not revealed but il was minated
they were in regard to the grand
jury's investigation of the anti
branch bank bill adopted by the
Legislature in the 194l session.
Slattery is the fourth man to
be jailed for contempt arising out
Of grand jury questioning.
His Imprisonment came less
than "a hours after the charges of
attempted bribery against him had
been dropped.
In his motion for dismissal, Ing
ham County Prosecutor Victor c.
Anderson told the court that "a
trial at this time would not be
eXpedient." There was no further
explanation of the statement.
NAMED AS BRIBER
A warrant was issued against
Slattery last year and he was
held for trial after Rep. George
n. Higgins. Ferndale. identified
him as the man in gray" who
offered him a bride.
1t was the man in gray and
his alleged attempts to bride
Michigan legislators that led to
the grand Jury investigation
started by Atty. Gen. Rushton.
Since then Slgler has been APP
pointed 10 assist Judge Carr in
the inquiry, The special prosecutor
acknowledged last night after
ISlattery's sentence that the tempo
of the investigation has quick
ened."
I During the last few weeks, he
said, there have been a number
of witnesses" before Judge Carr.
Their identities, however, were
not divulged.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Picard Probates
Love Balm SWiindIer

War worker William Doss. 80, of
Pontiac. admitted today he i'm
personated a woman and wrote to
a friends wife demanding S325 as
balm for an unfortunate affair"
with the husband.
Federal Judge Picard accepted
Doss' guilty plea TO using the
mails to defraud, and referred
Doss 10 probation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Voting Machines
In City Unlikely

Little If any chance that even
a few voting machines can be
acquired by Detroit for the spring
primary and election was seen by
City Clerk Thomas d. Leadbetter
today because manufacturers are
unable 10 supply them.
Leadbetter, questioned about a
report that the city is trying to
get machines for an experiment
in eight precincts. said attempts
had been made in the past eight
months and proved futile.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
SPECIAL GUESTS

Returns from various union
locals of the Go and AFL saw
Locals so, 400 500 and 900. JAW
Go, lead with an incomplete re-
turn Of S368.S42.1o.
Special guests AT the meeting
we're Gunner's Mate &c Allen c.
Heyn, Lorraine Rogan, Patty
Thomas and Helen Parrish.
Heyn is one of 10 survivors of
the USS Juneau. the ship on
which the FIVE Sullivan lost their
lives He wears the Purple Heart,
the American and European the
alter ribbons, the Asiatic-P Pacific
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
War Chest is Short
Million ON DeadIine

This is the last day on which
you can. If you haven't already
done so. make your contribution
10 the War Chest.
Tonight al els in the Hotel
Statler. the final report meeting
and dinner will be held
During the final day, workers
must collect 1853 per cent OF the
IS, $4,000 Quota or $l,34i,050 if
the campaign is 10 60 over the
top.
At yesterdays meeting. $751; 994
or 81 per cent Of the quota was
reported bringing the total to
sc. COS. $50
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
.Detroiter Reported
A Prisoner Of War

Pvt. Clayton Alexander Young,
son Of John A. Young, 241 Mar
ston. is a prisoner of war, the
Canadian National Defense head
quarters at Ottawa announced
today.
Another Detroiter serving with
the Canadian army. Cpl. Charles
Alexander Lee. brother of Miss
Lenore Lee, 508S Maplewood, has
been wounded in action.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Arnnisti(eD Day
Parade Set

Veterans OF the present war,
including some who were disabled
and discharged, will feature the
big Armistice Day parade to be
held at 2 p. m. tomorrow, il was
announced today by Warren f.
Bow, Detroit superintendent of
schools. who will be grand
marshal.
A special division. composed-eA-
tirely of World War ii veterans
and unidentified with any organi-
Zation, Will have a prominent
place in the line of march. The
veterans will be led by Capt.
James Howard and 1t. Arthur
DeClerq, veterans of both wars.
1t. DeClerc requested servicemen
to report in front of the post office
on Alfred, east of Woodward.
UNIFORM OR GIVES
They will parade In the uni
forms of their service branches
or in civilian clothes, if they
prefer.
The rest of the parade will be
made up of various army, navy,
marine corps and coast guard
units, including their auxiliaries.
groups of Boy Scouts, Michigan
State Troops. veterans organiza-
tons and auxiliaries and high
school ROTC groups.
The parade will form. as in
years past, at woodward and
Peterboro, marching south on
Woodward past the reviewing
stand in front of the Majestic
Building and then east on Jeffer-
son to Hastings, where it will
disband.
Raj VETS DINE
Also marking the day will be
the tenth annual reunion dinner
of the War Birds, an organization
of ex-officers of the Raj in World
War I, which will be held at the
Detroit-Leland at z p. m.
The next of kin of Is Michigan
Air Force officers and men. in
Guiding IL Detroiters. will re-
ceive decorations in behalf of the
fliers at Selfridge Field Saturday
at $50 p. m.
The medals are being presented
to the relatives since the fiiers
decorated all are listed as killed.
missing in action or prisoners OF
war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
I Sent 10 Prison
In Sc Robbery

Two convicted hoodlums today
began long prison sentences and a
third was free on two years pro-
baton. They were sentenced by
Recorders Judge John ]. Maher
for assault with intent to rob
while armed.
The three are Leon Heath. 35,
of II Elizabeth, River Rouge, who
was given 10 to IS years; Robert
Balton. %, of 449 Henry. 21a to
ID years. and Albert Grebenz. Is,
Of 2944 Third, two years proba-
ton on condition he join the army.
The men were accused of slug
ging and robbing George Kallas,
a., proprietor of restaurant at
1855 Trumbull, of IS on Sept. Is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Recount Expected
In legislative Race

LANSING, Nov. 10-A recount
was expected today in the Upper
Peninsula Houghton Keweenaw
County legislative district where
Rep. Harry Herman tR) of Calu-
met was defeated for his fourth
term by four votes.
Unofficial tabulation gave him
a close victory over Fred Happier.
CD of Lake Linden but the Of
fetal canvass revealed the latter
as the victor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
Times Photo

ribbon with seven stars and the
submarine combat emblem.
Miss Rogan is a survivor OF the
Lisbon plane crash IN which her
husband and Leslie Howard died.
Miss Thomas is the dancing men,
Der OF the Bob Hope show which
toured the South Pacific, while
Miss Parrish recently returned
from the Alaskan theater of war.
All have been overseas more than
II months.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Following IS a list OF contribu-
ton Of 81 600 or more:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11

CHARGE YOUR PURCHASE PAY JAN. 18TH
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-11
MUST PICK COMMITTEE
BARNES CHAIRMAN

Chairman OF the local commit
tee and director of the Detroit
competition is Charles c. Barnes.
divisional director of the depart
ment OF social studies in the De-
troit public schools.
Local war bond awards are
5000, first; $50. second: 500,
third; $50, fourth. and $50, fifth.
Individual winners in each of De-
troit's 10 participating hig h
schools will be awarded a SIS
bond.
A history volume, selected by
the local committee, will be pre-
sented by the Times 10 each OF
the five top history students in
each of the l9 schools.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Samuel Grafton

I believe that Wendell willkie, for
example. has some notion of this need
for upward progress. He shows it in
his appeal to the younger elments in
the Republican party, in his tentative
overtures to labor, and, above all bv
MS great daring in the field of foreign
policy. Mr. Willkie prefers to be kind
OF over to the right, like; but he wants
70 sit on step at least 10 feet higher
than the one on which Mr.. Hoover
brooded for so long.
The spiral staircase illustration ex.
plains, 1 think, what is in Mr.. Roose.
velt's mind when he says that the time
has come for the win-the-war slogan
to replace the New Deal slogan. To
crop the New Deal slogan is to move To
the right, economically. But we do
nave to win the war, or lose all
nope OF progress. And on a spiral stair
case, you can move up while moving
10 the right. But not on that sillv
penoulum, which is always in a hurry
10 get to where it can't stay.
l will drop the fancy figure now
because II I carry it any further n
Will become sort of Elizabethan. and
my rugged and simple prose style isn't
suited to elaborate conceits. But don't
Jet anybody sell you on that return of
the pendulum to the same place" It,
doesn't return, and if it did, the place
WOULDN'T be the same anymore, anyhow.
Evening star., 1944-01-03

assuming too great a share of ths
burden.
These statesmen are not Williams. L
think they are just men who think,
there is no harm in seeking political.
advantage, because the wars as good as.
won anyway. think the same is true
of the capitalists who are rolling ups
their profits. think the same is true
Of the labor leaders who are threatening.
strikes in order to get higher wages for.
their men. I think the same is true Of
all who are, in one way or another
following courses of selfish advantage
without due regard for the nationals
safety. These are all Americans. They,
would never act in such fashion If they
thought there was any real danger. =
They think the war is won, and they. /.
cannot be convinced that they are en-
dangering the country by what they do.s
We dare not enter this year of grim.
decision in such spirit. Let me quote;
a distinguished British military author
ity, whose words will bear the most
thoughtful and indeed prayerful con-.
sideration by us all:
However brilliant the military genius
Of commanders, they are completely,
dependent on the mental attitude Of,
their officers and soldiers, and they (as..
the Germans know only too welD are.
directly influenced by the atmosphere
In their own homes. If we were to,
enter into a stark, bloody campaign.
in 1914 with British and American
homes lght-heartedly assuming that,
the liberation of Europe was going to.
be a sort Of triumphal procession, that.
vital thing-the will to conquer at any
cost-would wilt and slacken at the
first touch Of bloody adversely, malaise /,
would spread through factories ands
mines into politics, and so to the fight
ing forces. We may fall If we do, that
will be the reason"
(Copyright. 1914. New York Tribune, Inc)
Evening star., 1944-01-03
pivotal German stronghold Of VI

pivotal German stronghold Of Vi
tebsk.
Whatever may be the extent Of
these specific operations. one basic
factor becomes progressively clearer.
This is that the Red Army now holds
such decisive initiative that any
large-scale German counteroffen-
sive can be definitely ruled out.
That means an immense advantage
for the Red Army. because the So
Wet high command can throw in the
full weight of its immense pre-
ponderance of manpower and it's
abundant equipment, using them
with calculated prodigality. No
longer is the Red high command re-
quired to hold back large reserves
to guard against German counter
attacks. On the contrary, this is now
what the German commanders must
be doing. thereby handicapping
their depleted front lines in every
sector. Russian prospects are thus
unprecedentedly bright. And high
winter has only just arrived.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Red Winter Victory

High winter now reignS over the
whole eastern front. from the Baltic
to the Black Sea. This has always
been the favorite season for Russian
offensives. and never have the Red
armies been more favored. It is
therefore not surprising that the
Russian counterattack made in the
Kiev area of the upper Ukraine, be-
gun week ago, has broadened into
what looks like an extensive break
through. The deep westward SAL
lent driven by the summer offensive
which retook Kiev. though subse-
quently blunted by the German
counterattack in December, is now
more than restored. An immense
Red concentration of men and ar
NOR. estimated at some 100000, is
pouring simultaneously westward
toward the old Polish border and
southwark toward the Bug River and
the Rumanian frontier. The Bug is
the last natural defense line which
the Germans possess in the Ukraine.
Also, just south of the river runs the
main railway from Southern Russia
to Poland, which has served the
Germans as their chief line of COM
munications. Should that be cut,
the still large German forces in
Southern Russia would be limited to
one or two secondary rail links with
Rumania and the roundabout route
through the Balkans and Hungary.
This Of itself would be logistic dis
aster.
The Red triumph in the Kiev
salient should not obscure other
sectors on the eastern front, where
Russian pressure is being effectively
exerted. The first of these is stra-
logically connected with the Kiev
break-through. It is to the eastward
at the bend of the Dnieper, where
strong Russian forces are striving
to pry the Germans loose from their
stubborn grip on the key points Of
Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. The Sec
ond sector Of Red pressure is far to
the north In White Russia. where a
moose Is being frightened around the
Evening star., 1944-01-03

responsibility that is theirs.
The forces of the United States con-
stitute the last reserve of freedom. Our
Allies have borne and are bearing their
part of the burden nobly. But the Rus
slams and the British are now fully en-
gagged. There is little more that they
can add to their present enormous total
of sacrifice. In great part, it will be
the accumulated weight of American
power, made ready during these past
two years, which must bring Germany
to her knees We must face that fact
and all that it implies-steadily and
resolutely.
We who remain here at home, for
whatever reason, must understand that
we are still as much part of the
fighting power of America as the young
men who are dying, and who being still
living must still die during this year,
on our far-fung battle fronts.
This is something that has been said
so often that it seems scarcely worth
repeating. Yet I venture to repeat it
now, for it is of vital consequence that
we all understand what it implies.
There is an unhealthy glow of opti-
mism throughout the land which seems
to be born of wishful thinking. We
have tended to exaggerate out Of all
proportion the successes we have already
gained over the Germans We have
tended to depreciate out Of all proper
ton the remaining German capacity for
resistance. In November I took trip
around tho country, and everywhere I
Evening star., 1944-01-03
MAJ. George Fielding Eliot.

found men and women of real intelli-
gence and wide knowledge who were
convinced that the Germans would "col-
lapse" by Christmas. Even those who
did not hold this view had the feeling,
most of them, that our invasion of
Western Europe would be sort of tri-
umphal march to take over a nation in
which the fires OF resistance were dying
to cold ashes.
This is terrible delusion. It could
easily become fatal delusion. Many
factors have contributed to it. We have,
for example, been told by wishful think
erS that the Germans would be bombed
into submission. So many bombs would
be dropped upon them, we have been
assured, that the invading armies would
merely have to occupy territory and mop
up few scattered snipers. The facts
of recent experience in Tunisia Sicily,
South Italy and the Pacific islands do
not seem to weigh against this happy
conviction. We have been told that the
Russian "steamroller" wss about to
sweep into Poland and Eastern Ger
many, and be in Berlin long before we
could get there. Disappointment after
disappointment to the contrary notwith-
standing, there are still those who seem
to think that this will come true some
how, like little children wishing for red
fire engines on Christmas morning. We
have been told that the German home
front will collapse any day now, though
every day brings us word Of firmer
hold on the civilian morale and the
civilian will by the Gestapo, the party
and the army.
Meanwhile those who would seize
upon any stick with which to beat the
present administration are making dark
prophecies Of evil things to come and
are evidently preparing to charge the
administration with every sort of mur-
derous blunder at the first sign of heavy
battle losses, are only too obviously will
ing to use the deaths of our soldiers
as political ammunition. They quote
with slight variations) the reasonably
established proportion Of fighting power
which we must furnish for the decisive
western theater of war In Europe, as
though somehow the President and his
advisers were, in agreeing to what is
necessary on the very face Of estab-
hshed facts, betrayins the Nation and
Evening star., 1944-01-03

that the British are using our war alli-
ance to secure economic advantages in
various ways. The changes on these
charges are rung in various newspa-
perS, magazines, speeches and broad
casts. Another and worse form is the
assertion that in the scheduled invasion
OF France, the brunt of the battle will
fall on us; that more than 10 per cent
OF the troops will be Americans, less
than 80 per cent British. The insinua-
ton here Is that the British are craftily
shifting the bulk of the burden on US,
and not pulling their weight in the
boat.
All OF these suggestions are as ignoble
as they are unintelligent, as baseless as
they are shameful. Yet, they continue
to be spread and the combined chiefs
OF staff, after Senator Wheeler had
given the percentage business publicity,
issued denial pointing out that per-
centages had not been determined, that
the Germans would love to have that
information but would not get it; that
percentages were unimportant because
Of the great basic fact that we are going
to hit them with everything we have
from every source. This ought to be
enough but it isn't. Thoughtful people,
OF course, did not need that sort of
statement to know the suggestions were
without foundation, but it is the
thoughtless people who ought to be
reached on this and the staff statement
did not reach them.
These stories have in them the seeds
for real harm. If not planted by enemy
agents it is difficult to know their origin
Clearly, they promote distrust and sus-
picion, create friction between ourselves
and our natural, indispensable and most
valued ally and friend Resentment
among the British against such stuff Is
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Sir Edwin |. Lutyens

Sir Edwin L. Lutyens was a great
personality as well as a great archi-
tect. His gifts were so many and
SO rich that is safe to say he might
have been sure of success in any
field of enterprise to which he was
attracted. His choice of architec-
ture, of course, was wise decision.
A designer of buildings sees his
dreams fulfilled as few other men
do, and he was one who wanted
results that were apparent even to
the unframed eye.
Born in London in 1869, Sir
EdWin's career from the start nat
urally was Influenced by Wren.
His autobiographical sketch in
who's Who" speaks of being edu-
Gated privately" The fact is that
he was largely self-prepared. Only
nineteen when he received his first
commission, at no time thereafter
did he rest. His achievements in
cluded the Cenotaph in Whitehall,
the British School of Art in Rome,
the Picture Gallery and the War
Memorial at johannesburg, the
offices of the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company, many institutional
structures, exhibition halls at diff
ferent worlds fairs and consider
able number of private homes.
Though a Protestant, he was Sc
lected to design the Roman Cath
olic cathedral at Liverpool. His
genius as a town planner was rec
ognized when he was asked to Gre
ate the new capital of India at New
Delhi. The group of edif1ces
erected from his drawings there en-
braced the Parliament House, the
Vice Regal Lodge and several pal
aces.
Sir Edwin was known in WASH
ington particularly for the British
Embassy on Massachusetts, avenue.
1t is characteristic of him in that
it is faithful to the aesthetic ira
ditions of his country yet contains
something distinctively his own.
The red brick walls with white trim
and the high slate roofs and tower
ing chimneys are what might have
been expected. but the shielded