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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
u. 5. Armada
Near Luzon

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. %
CUP)-Tokyo radio recorded by
Blue Network said today several
American conveys were attempt
ing to force their way westward
through the Mindanao Sea to the
Sulu Sea in the Philippines.
The broadcast said japanese air
units have been striking HAM
mering blows" at the conveys
since the night of Dec. n.
NEW YORK, Dec. % (UP)-A
japanese communique said today
that 30 American transports with
an escort of 20 or more destroyers
were sailing westward through
the Mindanao Sea in the Philip
pines. possibly TO launch a new
invasion in the archipelago.
The report followed rece I
Japanese speculation that Gen.
Macarthur was about 10 begin
amphibious landing operations
against Luzon. site of the Philip
pine capital of Manila and ulti-
mate American objective in the
islands.
CLAIM 6 SHIPS SUNK
The japanese o m m u n q U e,
recorded by the United Press in
New York, said japanese planes
had sunk six large American
transports and heavily damaged
two others ir attacks yesterday.
Three transports were sunk
Thursday morning and three
others sunk and two damaged
Thursday night. the communique
said.
The latest communique from
Macarthur headquarters al
Leyte in the Philippines indicated
the battle for tie archipelago had
gone into a temporary hull while
he prepared for the next phase OF
the liberation campaign.
The convoy reported by the
japanese appeared to be travelling
the same route as that taken by
amphibiol 6 forces which invaded
Mindoro Dec. Is.
s-MILE CHANNEL
Luzon lies across a nine-mile
wide channel from the northeast
coast of Mindoro.
1t also was possible that the
convoy was bearing reinforce
ments and supplies for American
forces on Mindoro.
Routine mcpping up operations
continued in northwest Leyte,
with 912 additional enemy dead
and Is prisoners counted.
The japanese task fleet which
shelled Mindoro Tuesday failed to
return, apparently having suffered
sufficient damage from American
planes to discourage further at
tacks for the present. Three OF
its six dest- oyers were sunk and
a battleship and a heavy cruiser
damaged.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Man Held for Trial
In Theater HoIdup

Daniel f. Brogan, 80. Of 1859
Lycaste was ordered held for trial
on a charge of robbery unarmed
today by Recorders Judge w
Mckay Skillman after he had
been identified by Miss Doris
Watts, cashier at the Cinderella
Theater, as the man who held her
up on Dec. Is.
Miss Watts, II, GATED police
when she saw Brogan IN a restau-
rant near the theater, a few days
after the holdup.- which etted
him So.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Washington Dinner
For COP Newcomers

NEW YORK. Dec. % QNS)-
A dinner for the newly elected
congressman and sena-
tors will be held Jan. 4 al the
Hotel Statler in Washington, with
Republican followers invited TO
meet the newcomers, Herbert
RrewHeHl j r, national Republican
chairman. has announced.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Japs Hold California,
Their Troops Believe

BOSTON. Dec. % GNS)-The
Japanese admit they have been
defeated in Texas, but they stub
bornly insist we will never dis
lodge them from their strongholds
in California
This fanciful propaganda is the
firm conviction of the few Japa-
nese prisoners captured by Ameri-
can troops in the south Pacific,
according 10 reports received here
today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
l,l67 Ships
I'm Fleet

WASHINGTON, Dec. % tUP)
The u. S. fleet entered its fourth
year OF war with 1.167 fighting
ships and $1,000 planes-but the
navy warned today that opera
tional plans for 1915 were threat
ened by tagging production sched-
ulcs-
The total OF combatant ships is
now more than three times the
number on hand when the war
started three years ago and rs
backed T.. by 59S7S landing craft
and various auxiliary vessels. the
navy revealed in a comprehensive
report on naval production in 1914.
The report estimated the fleets
present tonnage at 1l,707 900, as
compared with 1884, 900 tons Jan
!. l94l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Hotels, Clubs Resume
Private Party Service

leading Detroit hotels and
clubs today resumed the practice
Of serving private parties and
business groups. bert G..
Blunck president Of The Detroit
Hotel Association, said today.
A dispute with tho Cooks
Union AL over working over
time 10 seH parties and luncheon
meetings has been settled. Blunck
said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Barry Lawyer
Pans Chaplin
Likens Hin to Man
in Biblical Story

LOS. ANGELES. Dee % GNSl
A demand that Charlie Chaplin
be legally sdjudged the father Of
Joan Barry's ~infant daughter.
Carol Ann, was node TO a superior
court mry/todaS after a third
physician last witness for the de-
iense-haA testified that a blood
test had Moved this impossible.
Il believe we have here before
YOU the man responsible for this
baby's eNistence-and i don't
want 10 let him escape" Joseph
Scott. Miss BarrN's attorney
shouted in his final summation
10 the jury OF seven women and
five men.
Chaplin, Miss Barry and The
baby were not IN court when argu-
ments. unlimited by ruling Of
Judge Henry NJ. Willis, began.
Scott attacked the blood tests
and told the jury they are incon-
elusive under California law.
CLAIMS Personal. INTEREST
Frankly, am pretty much
worked up over this case" the
white-haired attorney declared.
"Tve been before the bar for 80
years but I've never had any
thing affect me like this. !"
Striding up and down before the
Jury box. Scott Numbered:
Chaplin says he lectured her
on spirituality. What does he
know about spirituality: knew
him when he had no seat to his
pants. Now he sports around
with two buffers and n swim
ming pool"
Scott pounded his chest and said
mockihgly;;
'Who does he think he is"
81 want to emphasize" he
went on. "that this unfortunate
woman il not on trial because
she had fallen by the wayside-
by submitting 10 this fellows
embraces.
RECALLS BIBLE STORY
This reminds me OF story
In the Bible when women were
stoned to death for adultery.
Once a grey headed buzzard like
Chaplin came 10 Christ with a
woman and said. She ought TO
be stoned TO death, and with all
those hounds watching him,
Christ spoke these words: Let
he who Is Without sin cast the
first stone, and one by one the
tribe of Chaplins went down
the hill and left the woman
alone"
Scott branded Chaplin as "a
master mechanic at his trade-the
art of seduction.
The attorney, speaking with sar-
casm, described the 55-year-old
comedian as being "as platonic as
q block Of ice" in citing the pistol
packin'" episode of Dec. %. 1912,
when Miss Barry claims the baby
was conceived during two acts of
intimacy with the actor.
1.-THE next morning after
breakfast this stoical icicle of
man went up to survey the
scene, closed the door and
stayed there for two hours"
Scott continued. 81 ask you,
what do you think he was doing
to Miss Barry during those two
hours-d do you think he was
manicuring her toenails or
plucking her eXehrOWs2"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Army Holds 200
For Cigaref Deal

PARIS, Dec. % ms Two
hundred American soldiers. ILL.,
Guiding two officers. are being
held By military authorities on
charges Of making 100000 from
iDega. sale OF cigarets IN Paris.
headquarters disclosed todaA-
Blsck market cigarets. authorities
SAID, sold for s. a pack.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30

during the present Often
sive has BROUGHT massacre Of
American soldiers and
the murder of women. old men
and children in captured towns.
Charles b. HASTE, a Congrega-
tional chaplain of Grand Rapids,
Mich, was stunned and hurled to
the hospital floor by the concus-
sion. He said later that in the
excitement and confusion he for
got 10 pray.
CASUALTIES LIGHT
II lust knew had TO help
those men I could hear scream
ing, from under the wreckage,"
he said.
Capt. Irving Fenberg. Liberty,
~. Y. said the casualties were
light because most of the patients
had been moved TO another hos
pital only a few hours before the
bombing.
The victims included seven
members of the hospital staff, an
adjutant, three patients, two civil
ian employees and three members
of a tank crew who had gone into
the hospital few minutes before
10 get baths.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Wards Tries tO Fire
80 Striking Workers
Continued One)
Continued from Page One)

order sales units are not covered
by the National War Labor Board
directives which Wards have con-
tested two and a half years. Byron
pointed out that company Off
Gals, of necessity, would be per-
haitted= continue administering
these unaffected properties.
From Washington. viewer,
came the announcement that
Ward properties in Kansas City
and Trenton, n. j. may also be
seized and WLB Chairman Will
liam II. Davis said disputes over
the union security and mainte-
nance of membership issues are
fast reaching the explosive stage
in company stores at nine other
cities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
BACK PAY ORDERED

Heads of the Go retail clerks
union said in Chicago that they
would begin immediate negotia-
tons with the army for payment,
as ordered by presidential direc-
tive, of back wages awarded by
the WLB.
The army was directed by the
war department TO pay the back
wages tout of the net operating
income of seized plants during the
period of their operation"
Davis said, however, that If
this net income were not suffi-
Gent. the back wages could be
financed through the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation.
Stuart S. Ball, attorney for the
firm, said the action raises the
S64 question-can the government
seize property because its owner
refuses to take advice from one
of the government bureaus He
reiaterated that Wards was doing
business as usual and waiting 10
see what the army does.
CALLED TROUBLE MAKER
The presidential seizure order
of yesterday said Wards record OF
labor relations had been "one of
continuous trouble
I'VE cannot allow MontgOm-
cry Ward & Co.." President
Roosevelt said, "to set aside the
wartime policies OF the U. 5.
government just because Mr..
Sewell Avery does not approve
of the governments procedure
for handling labor disputes"
WLB chairman Davis termed
the dispute in Detroit:
a vastly serious matter"
"Any defiance of the WLB,"
he said, "weakens the labor
industry agreement that all
labor disputes would be settled
by the WLB for the duration OF
the war.
But defiance from large
corporation like Ward i'm a
highly explosive labor situation
like Detroit Is n vastly serious
matter. When that defiance II
coupled with the possibility that
strikes may spread TO war
plants, the nation cannot AFFORD
TO take chance"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
2 Killed
In Wreck
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three other persons were injured.
The engineer was Otto Hay
ward. So, of Sylvania, o.
The force of the crash toppled
the engine, tender and baggage
car and derailed five OF the six
coaches, leaving tn m standing
across the right-of-way at jig-saw
angles.
Throughout his long imprison-
ment, Harmon conversed with the
men who were attempting to
rescue him. They first used snow
shovels, then an acetylene torch
and finally a wrecker in their
rescue efforts.
He lost consciousness once
after being administered mar
cotics by DR.. W. C. Dudeck of
Trenton, who crawled through a
narrow opening Hot coffee and
liquor revived him TO the extent
that he could say:
"T'll be o. X. Only trouble
Is 1 haven't any feeling below
my hips any more"
But as the last barrier of steel
was cut away at $50 a. m. he
died.
THREE INJURED
The three persons injured in
the wreck are Mrs. BERTHE Ralney,
26, of Cleveland; George Frische
of Toledo, and Cosmo Tohazcuk of
Bedford, Mass.
Mrs. Rainey and Frische are in
Riverside General II ospi a |,
Wyandotte, and Tohazcuk in
Wyandotte General Hospital.
Frische is a railroad employe and
the other two were passengers.
Railroad officials and police said
none of those injured is in serious
condition. Frische suffered burns
and shock while the other two
were treated for cuts and shock.
According 10 Trenton police,
the train was speeding through
the snow covered countryside at
the Buffalo crossing, which BIZ
sects seldom used lane, when
it plowed into the automobile
which had stalled only three
minutes before.
The occupants Of the auto. Lee
Ridenour, "A, of Dundee, Mich,
and Robert L. Taylor of Trenton
leaped to safety when they saw
the flier bearing down upon them.
Prosecutor Julian Macintosh
has ordered Ridenour held for
| further investigation. Macintosh
asserted that Ridenour had been
drinking.
81 want to determine to what
extent" the prosecutor said
Taylor was questioned and re-
/ leased.
As the locomotive ground into
the auto, the engine and cars
swerved from the tracks, ripping
UP block long section OF the
rails
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
NAzIS co About

The fact the enemy planes tried
twice previously and scored near
misses was viewed by hospital at
taches as definite evidence the
Germans were going about In
ruthless warfare. This type Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30

Order the United States War
Savings Stamps from your De-
troit Times carrier. He'll de-
per them "a your home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
9s MILES FROM VIENNA
TATA REACHED

Moreover by reaching fata
the Soviet legions were only Cd
miles southeast of the Slovak
capital of Bradshaw at the juno
ture Of the Observation-Disclosures
Austrian borders.
Meanwhile the battle for Buda-
pest increased in intensity. and
Red army infantrymen were Off
cially described as tightening the
ring of enlightenment around the
German-Iiungarian garrison.
On the eastern bank OF the
Danube, the Germans were driven
from a dozen more suburbs.
"The enc my Il suffering
enormous losses" declared the \
official communicate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
Reds
Reach
.T'ata

MOSCOW, Dec. 20 tINS)-
Soviet tanks and infantry, COW,
cred by wi'hering artillery barr
RACES, raced over the last ST
miles before the Austrian frontier
today while other Russian forces
battled deener into the western
section of Budapest and overran
y more of the Hungarian CAPT.
tails eastern suburbs.
The Red army's offensive bore
down on the Austrian border on
a broad front west and northwest
Of the encircled Hungarian CAPT.
tai. routing the Nazi garrisons or
several towns in the wooded and
mountainous country.
9S MILES FROM VIENNA
A swift advance, according TO
the official Soviet communique.
carried the Red army spearheads
to Tovaros, just north OF the
stronghold of Tata.
At Tata the Russians were only
81 miles from Austrian territory
and 90 miles southeast of Vienna
itself. In addition. they posed a
threat to the important railway
highway hub of Gyor. which lies
81 miles 10 the west. Gyor is the
last main communications center
lying between the Red army and
Austria
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30

His local Virginia draft board
has refused, however, TO grant
him a 24-hour stay for officially
turning over the controversial
files of the committee to the clerk
of the House.
Under a parliamentary ruling Of
Speaker Sam Rayburn. Jan, 6, has
been set for such transfer and in
the absence of committee chair
man Martin Dies and Vice Chair
man Joe StarneS this duty Is
legally invested i'm Stripping.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
ON 24-HoUR DUTY

record the arrival and departure
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
BLAMES LEFT WINGERS

That Striplings induction is
favored by left wingers, in order
to immobilize his wide knowledge
of subversive activities.
That the refusal of his draft
board to grant him a brief stay
further complexities the disposal
of the files of the committee con-
tanning a million names Of sub
versive groups and individuals.
That the Political Action Com
mittee, which has boasted of de-
feating at the polls three mem
bers of the Dies committee and
forcing its chairman TO withdraw
from politics, is now shooting at
the committee chief investiga-
tor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30
CONTRARY TO POLICY

The drafting of STRIPPING twhc
is 81 and the father of a 5-year.
old daughter) is contrary TO the
selective service policy which has
consistently deferred secretaries
or major employees of congress
sional committees.
And four days after the con-
gressional deferment committee
headed by Senator Burnet r.
Maybank Cd of South Carolina
whose rulings have been tradi-
tionally followed by seiective serv'
ice. recommended deferment for
Stripping, he was ordered indicted
When the circumstances are
brought to the House floor next
week, il will be ehafged::=-
That Political Action Commit
tee forces and certain New Deal
ers have pressed for the imme-
date drafting of STRIPPING in re-
taliation for his work for the COM
.mittee which linked Political Ac-
ton Committee members with
White House aides through tele-
phone calls and listed numerous
Political Action Committee mem
bers as affiliated with Communist
front organizations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-30

official C0n1munique.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23
Arriving Sunday.

Jensen Vow, who is a student at
Mercer University, Macon, Georgia,
is expected to arrive Sunday to
spend the holidays with his parents,
Dr. and Mrs. y. c. Vow, at their
home on Wildwood Drive.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23
Expected from Atlanta.

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. b. Stoke and
baby son, of Atlanta, are expected
to arrive Sunday to spend the aol-
day with DE-. and Mrs. y. c. YoH
at their home on Wildwood Drive.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23
Visiting Parents.

Sgt. and Mr., Percy l.. Gupton. Of
Memphis, Tenn. have arrived to
spend the holidays with Their par
ents, MIR. and Mr.. p, L. Gupton, on
Zcnc street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23
Expected from TcnurSsce

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben ST. clair of
kInSsport, Tennessee, are expected
Monday 10 VISIT Mr., and Nh. II. S.
johnson at their home on GhoIson
avenue.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23
Will Make Home Here.

Mrs. Anicl NJ. Addison, Jr., who
has been making her home in Dur
ham, is now making her home here
with ncr parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
b. DiCkCrSon, on Gary street. Mi.
Addison is stationed in the Hawaii
an Islands.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06

offending the head of c friendly State," AppeaSers everywhere refused to have anything to do with those Germans who wanted to fight Hitler while Hitler was sending fifth eolumnists by the thousands into their own coun- tries.
 News of only one decisive ace ton of sabotage during the last few weeks has yet come out of Germany. This took place on August ie in the munitions fac- tory Haskell near Doeberitz, c suburb of Berlin. Authorities had ordered that the film of the exe- eution of Marshal Von Witzleben Do shown to oil workers of this factory, as well as to oil German war factories, Heinrich Himmler apparently considered 1t worth while to sacrifice millions of work ing hours in order to demonstrate to tho German workers what the fate of saboteurs would be,
 MASS ARRESTS
 In the Haskell factory the pre-. sentation of the film was inter- rupted several times when work CTS used the cover of the darkness
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06

to make Q murmuring noise which made 1t oil but impossible to hear tho propagandh spoken by the nar- rator. Naturally when the lights were turned on, the workers looked thoroughly innocent, and it was impoRsible to find cut who was do' ing the murmuring. Then, when the show was over, and work was eet to begin, 10 of the factory's machines we're discovered to Do useless. The leather driving belts, for instance, had been cut into many pieces; ana there was other such sabotage which held up production for more than 90 hours.
 News of other eases Of sabotage may or may not leak out during, the next few weeks, Even so, they VII Do disconnected eases Of individual sabotage, individual demonstrations of anti-Nazi feeling, As such they can hardly Do compared With the great feats Of the underground movements in Hitler occupied coun. tries which made 1t necessary for Hitler to keep large armies in Rll these countries and still keep the Germans on their toes in spite Of oil bloody attempts ct annihilation, among them shooting Of hostages and wholesale deportation Of work CTS to Germany.
 There Is c possibility, though, that the German underground may become less apathetic during the next few months, Tn fact, some change has already taken place. Just ag the German opposis ton lost most Of it's members durs ing the years which brought one Hitler success after another, the German defeats not only will Btiffs en the morale of those who contin. ued to oppose Hitler, but viii in. crease the ranks Of their followers,
 This contention is borne out by news which has leaked out about mass arrests in Germany during recent weeks, One may write off some of these arrests to the ever. growing nervousness Of the dess tapo and the other German police forces, But many were undoubtedly made to prevent mass assertions, sabotage on c large scale and other s9I izvN eV9 o1 IB0TuItI ssT1IAnov gine,