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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
$4,000 Damage
In Lumber Fire
Times Photo

Damage estimated at $4,000
was caused by a three-alarm fire
that destroyed the large office
building of the Willis-Wade Lum-
Der Co, w. Baltimore and Ham
ilton, early today.
The ffrey Of undetermined orr
gin, destroyed the western half
of the two-story structure, which
housed in addition TO the Offices
quantities of plumbing and cleo
trical equipment.
An unidentified passerby turned
in the first alarm at 2:3O, and at
4 q. m. the blaze was under con-
troll. Albert p. Willis, owner Of
the firm. estimated the damage.
Lumber in the yard proper was
not severely damaged.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
3 CabbieS
Robbed i'm Day

Three taxi bandits who held up
five cab drivers Friday night and
Saturday morning were sought by
police today as the trio that held
up and robbed three others early
today.
Their victims were Paul Clark,
a, Of 1924 McDougall. who lost
81; David Weiss. IS. Of 22l0 w.
Philadelphia. S35, a wrist watch
and two gold rings; and Cecil
Montgomery. a., Of 1927 Frank
who surrendered S23.
In each OF the eight instances
the thugs boarded the cabs as
passengers and then held UP the
driver at the point of a knife.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
Titus, Rushton Aide,
Su((umbs in LANSING

LANSING. Feb. % - Albion
Blame Titus, Sc. assistant attorney
general, died yesterday at a local
hospital following a brief illness.
Titus, a former municipal court
judge at Kalamazoo. was appoint
ed TO the attorney generals staff
in 1871 by Herbert J. Rushton.
He lived at the Hotel Roosevelt.
Surviving are the widow. and one
daughter The body will be taken
70 Kalamazoo for burial.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23

II type III words a minute
while taking dictation from
dictaphone," Mrs. Freed re-
marked as though that were
commonplace. so i felt / had
something to offer.
"Since there were no immedi-
ate openings, / was glad 10 take
this job in the shipping depart
ment which pays we'll and Is
pleasant work while I am wait
ing for the next opening a. a
typist."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
SEALS AIRCRAFT PARTS

Donned In the navy blue slack
uniform which many Ford women
wear Mrs. Freed works al a
bench for two, sealing aircraft
parts for shipping.
Opposite her sits her daughter
in-law, Mrs. Ida Dale. who was
employed the same day AZ Mrs.
Freed, and drives her TO and from
work.
Although she can't distinguish
objects. Mrs. Freed. who has
perception Of light and can tell
one color from another says she s
thankful for that blessing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
VINO Softens
lis Policy for
Hiring Workers

With certain stipulations. the
War Manpower Commission today
agreed TO allow war plants, unions
and other non-government agen-
cies to hire workers who hereto
fore could be directed TO employ
ment only by the u. s. Employ
ment Service.
Under the plan and in compli-
ance with the stipulation. critical
workers may be hired by labor
unions who have hiring facilities
schools, colleges and trade schools
that have a placement service
non-fee employment agencies, and
agencies set up in war plants or
by other employers.
Applicants who wish 10 take adj
vantage Of this relaxation of the
rules must:
Comply with VINO policies: re-
lease any worker found 10 have
been hired in violation of these
policies; seek USES permission if
there is 10 be a transfer out Of the
area; hire at the gate, if the es-
tabhshment is d war plant, only
after an employment ceiling has
been fixed report daily to the
USES on numbers and types of
workers referred 10 Jobs.
Edward l.. CuShman. acting
state director of the VINO, said
that before qualifying for these
hiring privileges applicants must
be approved by both him and a
majority of labor and manage
ment members of the WINGS la
bor-management advisory COM
mitee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
Diphtheria Vaccine
UrQed for Children

An appeal TO Detroit parents TO
have their children given anti
diphtheria treatment was broad
cast today by City Health Com
missioner Douglas.
DR.. Douglas said also that every
child should be Shick-tested six
months later 10 determine the eff
fectiveness of the treatment. These
tests, he added, should be repeated
every two wears.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
Entire Family III
After EATING Pie

Six members of the Bertowski
household, SIT Thirtieth, who
became i'll after eating butter
scotch pie, were treated at Re-
ceiving Hospital early today for
food poisoning and sent home.
Those treated were Pancatius
Bertowski, 35; his wife, Helen,
29; their children, Marion. 5;
Irene, 3, and Anthony. Ia months,
and Mrs. Bertowski's mother, Mrs,
Martha Makowski, 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
MEETS CHALLENGE

'Tts ridiculous for blind peo-
pie to 20 around being abnor-
NAL" she said Indignantly
Blindness f. q challenge and l
mean TO meet that challenge by
helping myself.
People aren't being kind
when they treat me a. an in
valid. l pride myself on having
furnished my four-room apart
ment at 1850 Santa Rosa, and
maintaining II myself"
Mrs. Freed then started 70 de-
scribe the Eighteenth Century
type Of Furnishings IN her home
when the 800 p. m. whistle blew
and her parting remark was
I'm glad ] got this job on
my own"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
OFFICE NOT NOTIFIED

Admitting that. in nine cases
out OF 10. the international office
of the union IS not notified by
local unions when unauthorized
strikes take place. Thomas said
that the goal of the unions lead
ers was U instill more RESPONSE
biliy in the members by proper
discipline.
In handling disputes. Thomas
urged all local unions 70 exhaust
oil procedure as provided in their
contracts with homogeneous.
IF we follow procedure" he
explained. I'VE Will be i'm bet
ter position 10 put management
In the spot in which IL should
be"
He attributed wartime strikes
10 several causes.
Probably the outstanding one.
he said. was the slowneSS of the
War Labor Board in taking ac-
ton on disputes certified 10 ".
Other causes listed by Thomas
were recent cuibacks IN produc-
ton. which made workers con-
ccrned about their future and
lesscnlng In the hours OF work.
which meant smaller pay checks
despite the eVer-lnCreaSing cost of
living
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
AFL'S Green
Here Monday

William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor,
will address the annual banquet
of the Detroit and Wayne County
Federation of Labor at the Labor
Temple, 81 w. Montcalm. Monday
evening.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
Times Photo

she's happy at her interim job in the stock
Her white wavy hair contrasting with smooth pinkish
complexion Mrs Lorene Freed ST. smiling cheerful despite
being blind today explained how she happened apply Ford
for work thus becoming the first blind hired
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
REASON FOR CRASH

when the car approached a
switch, Revels tried to pull the
lever back to stop the car, but
the passengers were packed 50
tight around him he couldn't
pull IL back. He hit the switch
going too fast, crashed through
and hit an automobile
"Yet the trial board ignored
all these things and suspended
the man. That il why i walked
out. They give no consideration
TO faulty equipment, over
crowded vehicles; only to O
mans negligence"
80 man should have no con-
sideration II he has been negli-
gent" JeffriesF epiied.-
I'VE have neither the motor
man nor the inspector here, so
II is an exparte hearing. Bring
in three or four cases which you
claim haven't received full JUS
tice, and let the DSR commits
sion decide. I think the COM
mission should hear controver-
sial cases OF that kind"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
Mayor Orders
DSR Commission
To Hear Appeals

Charges by union officials that
DSR drivers face a packed jury
when they are brought before the
DSR trial board for violations.
brought an order from Mayor
Jeffries today that the DSR COM
mission shall henceforth be
court of higher appeal for disci-
plined employees.
The accusations were made by
Stephen Singler, business agent OF
Division No. Is of the streetcar
mems union, who stalked out of a
trial board session last Thursday
in protest over what he termed
pre- iudlced decisions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
8 TO l VOTE

1.-THE management has three
votes on the trial board and
the union only has one, mine,"
Singler said "The cards are
stacked against the men. The
DSR should remember that We
have a manpOwer shortage and
some of these men could be
salvaged instead of discharged"
I'VE can't have r manpOwer
shortage 10 the extent that we
allow incompetent men TO drive
our buses and streetcars," JEFF
fries replied. "They are instru-
ments of death as we'll as serv-
ice"
well, take the case of
mOtOrman named Revels who
had a good record for the three
months he had been on the
DSR," Singler replied. "One
day last week he had an inspec-
tor on his car and the car was
full. Revels refused to pick up
any more passengers, but the
inspector made him pack more
In until the car was dangerously
overloaded.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
JAW Swings Bal
In New Drive on
Wildcat Strikes

Alarmed over the recent wave
Of wildcat strikes in the Detroit
area. the international executive
board of the UAW-CIO is pre-
pared to take drastic steps against
members who violate the unions
national no-strike pledge in the
future, il was learned today.
r. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO presi-
dent. asserted that the board had
adopted new policy to deal with
wildcat strikers, but hesitated TO
disclose details of it until later in
the week.
He indicated, however, that the
new policy would be much more
drastic than anything previously
undertaken by the union.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-23
PLANS CRACKDowN

"The international union IN
determined 10 make every effort
TO see that this situation Is inn
proved" Thomas said yesterday
upon his return 70 Detroit after
attending a board meeting in
Los Angeles.
I'VE are going 10 crack down
on our members and we are also
going 10 crack down on man
sgements who are instigating
strikes by falling TO follow es-
tablished collective bargaining
procedure"
Thomas said that Investigations
of several recent strikes already
were being conducted by the
union and that members found
guilty would be disciplined.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Pratt & Whitney
Workers Back on Job
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 3.--Almost
all the midnight shift of workers at
the Navy's Pratt g. Whitney air.
craft engine plant returned to duty
last night, ending a 24-hour work
stoppage.
Thomas F. Lyndon, executive
committeeman for the International
Association of Machinists, AL, an
nounced shortly before midnight the
union membership had accepted q
recommendation OF its Executive
Committee that the workers return
to work, as ordered by the regional
War Labor Board.
The union had demanded that
four foremen and a group leader be
discharged and that q discharged
employe be reinstated.
1. G. Mallet, factory manager
estimated 80 per cent Of the 10000
men and women employees on the
day shift we're not at work yester-
day. Over $4,000 are employed.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
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perfectly willing to tell all he knew
because, he did not want 1t.
Dickins to carry the ball alone"
He corroborated 1t. Dickins' story
that the trouble started when men
who had attended the teamsters'
banquet asked 1t. Dickins and him.
self how they were going to vote.
He said their refusal to commit
themselves led to charges they were
"disloyal" to their Commander in
Chief. He said ne was forced into
one of the lounge chairs on the
mezzanine and later showed across
the corridor and into q telephone
booth.
Then I saw 1t. Dickins trying to
come to my aid" he added.
He said he was showed back into
the booth every time he tried to
rise to help 1t Dickins.
while I was held in the booth, ~
he said, Il removed my officers coat
and insignia. didn't want the
Navy to take the blame.
The fight started as Randy,
trying to push his way to the booth,
started receiving some really rough
treatment. From then on you
couldn't tell who was who"
Comdr. Suddeth Iaughingly pro-
tested one part of 1t. Dickins' story
His version of it," Comdr. Sud-
deth said, had me completely down
throughout the fight. Actually, !
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Strange Letter Probed
|As Murder Trial Of
heiress Continues
sy the Associated Press.

SALINAS, Calf, Oct. 3.-An
anonymous letter, apparently from
q San Francisco girl. who said her
boy friend murdered Jay Lovett, 10,
has produced an investigation con-
current with the trial Of Mrs.
Frances Andrews, 81. heiress to q
Pennsylvania oil fortune, charged
with the youths death.
Defense Attorney Leo Friedman
showed newsmen special delivery
letter addressed to him, blood
spattered notebook and two bloody
receipts he said the letter con-
tanned. The letters author said
these were taken from young
Lovett's body Immediately after he
died.,
The mysterious letter, signed
June" and postmarked San Fran
cisco, said her boy friend, Jack" !"
shot Lovett during a struggle with
a gun.
Receipts for Medical Bills.
The letter identified the receipts
as medical bills paid by the slain
boy and the notebook as memo-
randum Of social engagements with
him.
Mr.. Friedman said he does not
overlook the possibility the letter
may be from a crank, but said all
facts should be investigated. He
said the girls letter sounded "rea-
sonable and its contents plausible"
The district attorneys Office agreed
to study the documents.
Several crank letters have been
received since the trial opened two
weeks ago.
The new development came as
the prosecution prepared to bring
its case to an end, possibly by to-
morrow.
The State, attempting to show
Lovett did not commit suicide as
the defense contends, yesterday
presented testimony of ballistic
experts and pathologists.
Victor McLaglen, Testifies.
Also among witnesses were Screen
Actor Victor McLaglen and Corpl.
Lawrence Tibbett, jr., son Of the
singer, who testified Mrs. Andrews
husband, Frank Andrews, was at
the McLaglen ranch at Clovis,
Calf, 100 miles from Carmel, the
night Lovett was killed.
Ballistic experts David @. Burd,
California Department of Justice,
and Francis x. Latulipe, San Fran
cisco police, told Of experiments on
Mrs. Andrews German made auto
matte pistol, which was found near
Lovett's body.
Mr.. Burd said the gun elected
shells less than feet. Earlier wit
nesses related two empty cartridges
were found is feet from where the
gun lay.
Explaining the reported absence
OF powder burns on the boys head,
DR.. Jess Carr, San Francisco pathol-
ogist, said the gun could not have
been closer than 8 inches from the
head when fired.
Evening star., 1944-10-03

who are convalescing. he has had
shore leave" whenever requested.
He denied that any admiral had
talked to him at Shore Patrol head
quarters. He said he was there about
three hours after midnight Satur-
day making a statement. No one
in the Navy told him not to talk
about the incident, he said.
No Action Contemplated.
1t. Dickins said he had been told
by Rear Admiral William Chambers,
commandant of the Naval Medical
Center. that no disciplinary action
against him was contemplated.
Mr.. Duff said he arrived at the
scene OF the scuffle after it was
over. He said he made no remarks
about the Navy, adding II have re-
spect for. the Navy" He pointed
out that his brother, a senior naval
chaplain, died in service and his
father was also in the Navy.
At news conference yesterday,
White House Secretary Stephen T.
Early denied knowledge of the in
cident.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Eastern Air|ines Seeking
o-Caribbean Routes
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Eastern Airlines, Inc, through its
president, Capt. Eddie Rickenback-
er, yesterday asked for permission to
Mexico and the Caribbean as the
only American airline able to give
effective competition to the "in-
trenched monopoly" Of Pan Ameri-
can Airways, Inc.
Capt. Rickenbacker testified at a
Civil Aeronautics Board hearing on
postwar Latin American routes over
spirited protest from Fred j. Knauer,
counsel for several other airlines.
The attorney said Eastern had
changed its proposed routings with
out sufficient notice and that copies
of the Rickenbacker testimony were
not distributed until shortly before
the morning session.
A request by Grace Lines, Inc, for
a temporary adjournment was de-
MED by Hearing Examiner Francis
Brown, who said, however, he
thought 1t most unfortunate that
Eastern had been unable to CO.
operate as fully as most of the other
applicants.
Capt. Rickenbacker testified that
Evening star., 1944-10-03


was only halfway down and I was
doing my almightiest to get back up"
1t. Dickins' story:
"At about 1880 pm. on the 23d
my friend arrived at the Statler with
the intention of going to a naval
officers dance on the mezzanine
floor. We saw several hundred men
congregated outside of the ballroom,
On inquiring, we found that the
dance had been postponed for a
banquet which had been addressed
by the President.
Asked About Political Affiliations.
While We were asking, several of
the group of men accosted us, tell
ing us that they were members of
the Teamsters' Union and that the
President had just made q fine
speech. They asked us what DO
litical party we belonged to and who
we would like to see elected in No
vember.
I'VE retorted that 1t was none of
their business and it wasn't their
affair. They then seemed to get
rather angry over the fact that we
didn't come out and state that we
were for our Commander in Chief.
And we again told them that it was
none Of their business.
During this period we were being
surrounded by an increasing num-
Der OF men, who kept firing ques-
tions at us about whom the men
on the ships Of the Navy were going
to vote for, and we said we did not
know and we reiterated that 1t was
none Of their business.
These gentlemen seemed to be
in quite feverish state OF mind
and several of them accused us Of
being disloyal to the service and to
our Commander in Chief. NY friend
and ! at this time attemptednto
leave and 50 about our busir !.
Evening star., 1944-10-03

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Evening star., 1944-10-03
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Evening star., 1944-10-03
HiIlnlan Says Dewey
Has Chance Only
In Light BalIoting
ny be Associalted Press.

j
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., Oct. 81
Sidney Hillman, chairman Of the
CIO Political Action COMMITTEES, said
today that II the vote In the Novem-
ber election rs as heavy as in 1910
about SO, ,000, 900 Gov. Dewey will be
the worst defeated candidate In our
times"
Addressing the national conven-
ton Of the CLOS Industrial Union
Of Marine and Shipbuilding Work
ers, Mr.. Hillman said, I'VE Of or
ganized labor must realize what Is
at stake November 7, not only for
labor and the Nation but for the
world.
"The only way reaction can
triumph is for a small vote to be
cast on November T."
Attempt to Cloud Issues.
PAC. he said, had been called
un-American because we ask peo.
pie to register so they could vote.
The attack on PAC, he said, wa.
designed to cloud the real issues
winning the war and after victory
Discussing the war, Mr.. Hillmar
said "let no one say, as Mr.. Dewey
is trying to make the country be.
lieve, that the war already is won
How soon and at what cost 1t vii
be won will depend on our leader.
ship.
'It would be tragedy if by tbs
default Of our not casting balloti
one who is totally inexperiencec
and totally unprepared should com,
into office"
Predicting that there will be 20,.
600 900 war workers and veterans
seeking jobs when peace comes, Mr.
Hillman said, I'VE haven't hears
from Mr.. Dewey on the subject o
full employment, but we know thos,
who have assured him the nomi
nation. We know what they think
Hoover's 0ormer President Herber
Hoover) record is our only ref
erence."
Unions Require Fair Government -
Mr.. Hillman told the shipbuilder'
"the very existence of your organiza.
ton may be at stake. The labor.
baiters can't smash a union whel
there Is fair government in Wash.
ington."
He told the union not to under.
estimate your opponents. These ex'
ponents of the Hoover philosophy
who kicked Wendell Willkie out o.
the Republican party-want to ge
back in power"
The convention also was addressed
by A. Mcdonald Gordon, Labor At.
tache of the British Embassy IL
Washington, who expressed appre'
citation for the food. weapons ant
ships sent to Britain for the inva.
sion.
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Burton Backs Dewey.
AS Most Helpful 10
u. s. Foreign Policy
By the Associated Press.

By the ASsociAted Press.
Senator Burton, Republican, Of
Ohio, says he had mo hesitancy at
all" in indorsing Gov. Thomas e.
Dewey's presidential candidacy, be-
cause election of the New York Gov
ernor would be helpful to our for.
eign policy"
Senator Ball, Republican, Of Min
nesota announced last week that he
could not at this time campaign for
Gov. Dewey because the Governor
had failed to satisfy him in his po-
sition on foreign affairs.
Senators Burton and Ball were
the Republican half Of the Senate
quartet-the Democrats were Sena-
tors Hill of alabama and Hatch Of
Mexico-which strongly advocated
committing the United States to
participation in q world organiza-
ton to enforce peace.
Whereas Senator Ball said he
would not speak for Gov. Dewey,
Senator Burton said he had offered
all of October to the Republican
National Committee and the Ohio
State Committee and had lined up
quite number" Of addresses.
To reporters who inquired why he
thought Gov. Dewey's election would
strengthen Americas foreign policy,
Senator Burton remarked that the
Senate will be Roosevelt for the
next two years and Republican for
the two ensuing years.
Our greatest problem" he said,
''is going to be to get agreement be-
tween the President and two-thirds
of the Senate. To get fun co-opera-
ton on foreign policy, we need an
anti Roosevelt President 1t will
eliminate personalities, prejudices
and partisanship to greater extent
If we have a Republican President
than If we don't"
Senator Burton said he felt that
the Senate was convinced of the
need for sound, firm, constructive
foreign policy, and actually had de-
clared for one when it adopted the
Connolly foreign policy resolution.
which pledged maintenance Of inter.
national security.
IF we just have sense enough to
keep the Allies together and the
various branches of our own Goy-
eminent together" the Senator de-
clared, we're going to have peace"
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Associated Press Photo.

= -zz0OOCgUtSU 17ESS F7TOLO.
Tobins name, as far as he could
remember, 1t. Dickins said.
The oficer Is 8 foot 2, weighs about
$50 pounds. He played varsity foot
ball for the University OF Miami
In Florida. He commanded q subma-
rine chaser for 13 months and later
was an executive officer on de-
stroyer escort and was at the battle
OF Midway. but was In no other
naval engagement. He arrived ct
the hospital July l8, invaded with
malaria and combat fatigue. Like
other officers at the Naval Hospital
Evening star., 1944-10-03
Corps Photo.

, Pan American, fortified by mo-
nopoly and gorged with opportunity
could not fail to lapse into compla-
cency." Entrance of Eastern into
the international air field, he said
would force Pan American to i'm
prove its service.